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 proviion. That great tateman, who was "poor amidt a nation's wealth," whoe ambition was patriotim, whoe expence and whoe economy were only for the public, died in honourable poverty. That circumtance certainly conveys no reproach upon his memory; but when he had leiure to attend to his private concerns, it ditreed him eriouly to reflect that he had debts, without the means of paying them, which he could not have avoided incurring, except from a parimony which would have been called meannes, or by accepting a remuneration from the public, which his enemies would have called rapacity; for he had no expence of any ort that was not indipenably neceary, except in improvements in his country reidence, where his houe was hardly equal to the accommodation of the mot private gentleman on