Character of the Late 
 Lord Viscount Sackville 
 
 Richard Cumberland
 
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 HOEVER ftands forth as the 
 ^ V advocate of a great man's fame, 
 whilft he is living, will hardly gain credit 
 -" for his motives, be they ever fo fincere ; 
 but it is to be hoped there is no fuch rifque 
 in defcribing the real merits of one, whom 
 death has removed from all fenfe of hu- 
 man kindnefs, and who has left this world 
 with fuch prejudices againft his memory, 
 that the furviving friend who publifhes 
 : thefe truths in his defence, would better 
 
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 $ s confult his own interefts by fupprefling 
 them, 
 
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 As it is an inviolable principle with me; 
 to bring no man's name before the public 
 without committing my own, I have fub- 
 fcribed this paper ; and having fo done, I 
 hope I may claim belief in, the two follow- 
 ing alTertions; firft, that I have in no in- 
 ftance of my life been a party-writer, or 
 ever publifhed one line in defence of Lord 
 Sackville, or 'in praife or difpraife of his 
 or any other man's perfon or politics j 
 fecondly, that in what I now mall fay of 
 him, I have fpoken the truth confcien- 
 tioufly, to the beft of my knowledge and 
 belief, without flattery or difguiffc. 
 
 If malice, which is not apt to fpend its 
 {hafts upon thofe who cannot feel the 
 wound, will fuffer this te&mony to 
 pafs undifputed, thofe who were inclined 
 to think favorably of him will be pleafed 
 to find they had grounds for theur candour; 
 if otherwife, it will not be the firil time 
 that, in the purfuit of truth, I have found 
 myfelf on the unpopular fide of a quef- 
 tion. 
 
 It was Lord Sackville's fate to ad for 
 feveral years in a refponfible office during 
 
 an
 
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 an- unpopular and unprofperous war. In 
 the evil temper of thofe times, it is not to 
 lie wondered at, if a Minifler, at once fo 
 efficient and fo 6ut of favour with the 
 public, had a full ihare of perfonal rancour 
 and animofity from the opponents to his 
 meafures. I think however they did not 
 attack him on the fcore of capacity ; his 
 abilities were probably too well eftablifhed 
 for their purpofe ; but as they could not 
 deny that he was a capable man, they 
 could infinuate that he was a cunning one, 
 and by this mifconftruclion of truth, 
 though they could not remove it out of 
 their own way, they contrived to turn it 
 againft him. 
 
 I need not remark how often opinions 
 of men's characters are taken up upon dif- 
 tant and exterior views only ; and it mufl 
 be confefTed that, in this inflance, appear- 
 ances Were more in favour of the falfe 
 imprefiion than of the truth j for he was 
 of a grave and thoughtful caft, mixed but 
 little with the world at large, and his man- 
 ners and deportment had not the eafy 
 freedom of the pi efent falhion ; he talked 
 B 2 little,
 
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 little, and his opinions, being exprefled 
 without circumlocution or hefitation, 
 flamped an air of forethought and reflec- 
 tion upon what he faid, which might be 
 charged to the account of ftudied prepa- 
 ration and deliberate defign : he gave 
 much matter in few words, and as he fel- 
 dom, if ever, betrayed a heat of temper, a 
 falfe conclufion might be drawn, that be- 
 caufe he controuled his paflions, he dif- 
 guifed his heart : nothing could be more 
 oppofite to his real character : the fact is, 
 fincerity was his nature; referve, con- 
 traded by long exile from fociety, was the 
 refult of his misfortunes. 
 
 He was brought up at Weftminfter 
 fchool, and took his degrees in the Uni- 
 verfity of Dublin; but the early avoca- 
 tions of a military life, and perhaps a want 
 of tafte and difpofition for claffical ftudies, 
 prevented his advances in literature, fo 
 that in fact he was not fo well read as 
 people of his rank and condition ought to 
 be, and indeed generally are j but he knew 
 his weaknefs in this particular, and, tho* 
 a willing hearer when thefe topics were in 
 
 converfation,
 
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 converfation, never ventured beyond his 
 knowledge. In the modern hiftory of na- 
 tions, and particularly of his own, he was 
 uncommonly correct ; of the memoirs of 
 illuftrious perfons, interesting anecdotes 
 and events, he had a fertile flock in me- 
 mory, and with lingular precifion of facts 
 and dates - y of many confiderable affairs 
 within his own time he had perfonal know- 
 ledge, many others (and feveral of a curious 
 and fecret nature) he had collected from 
 the beft authorities : he had a happy ta- 
 lent for relating, and having always been 
 given to enquiry and refearch, pofTeffing 
 withal a very retentive memory, he may 
 fairly be accounted one of the very beft 
 companions of the age, though he had nei- 
 ther the advantages of literature, the bril- 
 liancy of wit, nor any fuperior pretenfions 
 to a fine tafte in the elegant arts : it is 
 therefore much to be lamented, that thefe 
 pleafant and engaging qualifications for 
 fociety were fo fparingly difplayed; and 
 that habit had fo contracted his circle, that 
 he could not afterwards, without violence 
 to his nature, extend and enlarge it. 
 
 12 This
 
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 This was conftant matter of regret to 
 me through the whole courfe of my inti- 
 macy with him; and I lamented that any 
 man, porTerTing fuch a fund of information, 
 with a benevolence of foul that compre- 
 hended all mankind, a temper mod placid, 
 and a heart moft focial, fhould fufFer in 
 the workTs opinion by that obfcurity, to 
 which his ill fortune, not his natural dif- 
 pofition, had reduced him ; for I am verily 
 perfuaded that his bittereft defamers, even 
 the anonymous flanderers that raked into 
 the very dregs of infamy and pollution to 
 afperfe his character, would have repented 
 had they known him. 
 
 He was fo little ufed to receive juftiee 
 from mankind, that perhaps he was over- 
 grateful for common approbation , and 
 praife, if by chance he ever met it> feemed 
 to take his fenfes by furprife : if there has 
 been any man therefore, who for felfifh 
 purpofes aflailed his temper by flattery, it 
 was a bafe and cowardly at; becaufe when 
 we attack a man upon that weak quarter 
 - which his misfortunes have left undefend- 
 ed, it is aiming out- blows at a wound, 
 
 when
 
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 when we cannot conquer by fair fighting. 
 I ftate this not fo much for the purpofc 
 of applying the obfervation to him, as in 
 general mitigation for human weaknefs, 
 when a perfecuted character has been too 
 rigidly condemned for taking fhelter in the 
 foothing flattery of a favorite. 
 
 He had enough of that good-natured 
 companionable vanity, which delights in 
 doing what it does well, to be very fuffi- 
 crently communicative of what he knew; 
 but he was incapable of laying traps for 
 difcourfe, or putting other people's cbn- 
 verfation afide to make room for his own j 
 as he never obtruded, fo he never tired : he 
 pofTefied to admiration that rare faculty of 
 always faying enough, and not too much, 
 on a fubjecl: -, his obfervation was fo quick, 
 and his feelings fo fenfitive, that he could 
 nicely difcriminate between the pleafure 
 and the politenefs of his company, and he 
 never failed to flop before the former was 
 exhaufled. 
 
 In argumentation no man went fooner 
 to the truth, or fubmitted to conviction 
 with a better grace : though he had the 
 
 gift
 
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 gift of feeing through a queftion almoft at 
 a glance, yet he never fuffered his difcern- 
 ment to anticipate another's explanation, 
 or interrupted his argument, how tedious 
 foever : If any one fpoke with heat in 
 difpute, or raifed his voice above its natu- 
 ral pitch, or if more than one fpeaker 
 talked at a time, it gave him great pain ; 
 thefe are defects in temper and manners 
 too commonly met with in the world, but 
 to which he never gave occafion, by pufh- 
 ing an advantage too hard upon any one : 
 a fmgle word, or even an offer at inter- 
 ruption, flopt him in a moment, though 
 in the middle of a fentence ; and this I have 
 fcen him bear repeatedly, and in very many 
 different inftances, without a fymptom of 
 peevifhnefs, taking up his thoughts in the 
 very place where he had left them, and re- 
 fuming his difcourfe with perfect compla- 
 cency. To fift out the truth by difcuflion 
 feemed his only object for contesting any 
 opinion ; and whether that was attained 
 by the refult of his own or another's rea- 
 foning, was a difcovery he had fo little de- 
 fire to abrogate to his own fagacity, that 
 
 he
 
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 he was very ingenious in fbifting it from 
 himfelf to any other he converfed with ; 
 for he was an adept in that art, which 
 tejids to put others in humour with 
 themfelves, and which I take to be of the 
 true fpecies of politenefs, not laying out 
 for admiration by difplay. 
 
 To his own ideas he was little attached, 
 to words not at all ; and in delivering his 
 thoughts generally chofe the plaineft and 
 cpmmoneft expreffions, that could convey 
 their meaning; in this particular he 
 fomctimes fell below the dignity of the 
 1 abject lie was fpeaking upon -, for it was 
 a point with- him on all occafions, to take 
 the flraitefl roatl to his object, .rather than 
 a circuitous one,, though ever fo flowery, 
 I believe he was never guilty, either in 
 public or private, of fpeaking for fame, or 
 letting off a difcourfe that means nothing 
 with an- air of pomp and myftery ; he had 
 3 dry way of dripping fuch declamations 
 to fearch for facts, and would aflert that 
 fine words were not meant to be under- 
 flood; but was particularly pleafed when 
 merchants or men of bufmefs explained 
 C naturally
 
 naturally to his comprehenfion ; and when 
 itate-meafures were to be communicated to 
 any fuch for their guidance and inftruc- 
 tibn, he exprefied llimfelf in the fame natu- 
 ral manner, openly and fairly, without af- 
 fe"6lation, ambitious only to be thoroughly 
 underftood as to what would be done, 
 arid what would not be done, fo that they 
 might thereupon' determine what was moft 
 advifeable for their own interefts and con- 
 cerns. In perfpicuity he has never been 
 excelled, in proof of which I believe it is 
 hot remembered in Parliament (and pro- 
 bably not in Council), that he was ever 
 called Upon a fecond tiriie to explain what 
 he had left obfcure and imperfect > his 
 errors* on the contrary, were the errors of 
 fmcerity j and I dare fay there have been 
 moments, xvhcn his colleagues in office 
 could have forgiven him, if he had been 
 lefs direct and explicit ill I'eply ; but if he 
 was not to be ftiled a fine fpcaker, he was 
 a very ready firm debater, and though he 
 never dealt in flowery periods, made no 
 attack upon the paffions, no fludied decla- 
 mations, yet he had great judgment and 
 
 method
 
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 method in his argument, faw the ftrong 
 and the feeble' of a queftion with much t k 
 
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 penetration, knew what he ought to preis, 
 and where he ought to give way; and in 
 giving meafures a facility, by the choice 
 of the beft moment for their introduction 
 or profecution, no man had more ikill and 
 addrefs. 
 
 He was generally reprefented as a proud 
 and diftant man, but in facl he had no 
 more pride at heart, than every man of 
 honour carries about him, and which 
 ferves to repel every thing that inclines 
 towards meannefs with becoming indig- 
 nation; upon firft approaches he had cer- 
 tainly an air of referve, tempered however 
 with much politenefs, for he was a high- 
 bred gentleman, or would have been fo ef- 
 teemed at leaft in any age but the prefent,-^ 
 for his manners, it muft be owned, were not C/ 
 the manners of the reigning fafliion; his ^ 
 referve however, which was more of a ' 
 pen five than proud complexion, foon 
 cff in converfation, and he was 
 difpofed, from the opennefs of his owh>J r 2^/ / 
 heart, to credit others for the fmcerity of 
 C 2 theirs
 
 theirs : He was fo far from a cunning 
 man, that, confidering the danger of late 
 times, and the delicacy of the affairs he 
 was engaged in, I doubt if he was always 
 fufficientiy cautious ; if he had not had a 
 quick innght into characters, he was natu^ 
 turally more direct than would have beesi 
 fafe with refpect to himfelf, or confident 
 with his fituation, 
 
 He had all the requifites of a great ml- 
 nifter, unlefs popularity and good luck are 
 to be numbered amongft them : In punc- 
 tuality, precifion, difpatch and integrity, 
 he was not to be furpafied ; he was fitted 
 both by habit and temper for bufmefs ; no 
 man could have fewer avocations, whether 
 jnatural or artificial, for he was (lave to no 
 paffion or excefs, indulged no humour, un- 
 lefs that of regularity may be called a hu- 
 mour, which he bbferved to a fcrupulous 
 minutenefs ; and as for his domeftic affairs, 
 they were in fuch a train of order and 
 ceconomy, that they demanded little of his 
 attention : He had (ludied the finances 
 of the nation, and her refources both in 
 war and peace ; had taken uncommon 
 
 painf
 
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 pains to obtain authentic and early intel- 
 ligence of the councils and operations of 
 foreign ftates, and readily difcerned how 
 the interefts of this country were affected 
 thereby. He was of an active indefatiga- 
 ble mind : intemperance never diflurbed 
 his faculties ; neither avarice nor ambi- 
 tion corrupted them; eafy in his private 
 circumftances, and totally void of every 
 wifh to accumulate, his zeal for his coun- 
 try, and his application to bufmefs, were 
 not fubje<5l to be diverted from their pro- 
 per exertions : A fcene of activity was what 
 he delighted in, for he was full of operation 
 and project, and of a fpirit-fo incapable of 
 defpondency, that difficulties and dangers, 
 which would have deprefled fame men, 
 ferved to animate him. 
 
 In the interchange of confidence with 
 him it was neceflary to have no referve o-r 
 holding back of circumftances, for he had 
 fuch power of feeing into the heart of hy- 
 pocrify, and his own was fo free from du- 
 plicity, that on fuch occafions you rauft 
 impart the whole or nothing ; when this 
 was fairly done, -he was your own to all 
 
 honefr
 
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 honeft intents, and (humanly fpeaking) 
 to all time ; for he was a fteady faithful 
 friend : His mind was fo ftrong, that it 
 could not eafily be overburthened by the 
 weight of affairs, fo clear that the variety 
 of them was not apt to perplex it : He 
 could fhift his attention from one thing to 
 its oppofite with fingular facility; he wiilied 
 to do bufmefs, not to dwell upon it ; and 
 as his punctuality, as I before obferved, 
 went with the hand of the clock to the 
 very point of the minute, he was plea- 
 fant to all who ierved with him, or were 
 dependant on his motions, and their hours 
 of relaxation were hours of fecurity. 
 
 The eftablifhment of his houfehold and 
 domeftics was upon a noble fcale, in fact 
 it was the model of a liberal ceconomy : 
 He was a friend and father to his fer- 
 vants; their health, their exercifes and 
 even their amufements, were objects of his 
 attention, and a more orderly and happy 
 family did not exift. When I fpeak of 
 his bounty and humanity to his poor 
 neighbours and dependants in the coun- 
 ties where he refided, it is with pleafure 
 
 I infift
 
 1 mfift oft fo meritorious a part of his 
 character. Charity was in him no lefs the 
 exercife of the judgment than of the 
 heart, for he gave his relief to the real 
 wants, not to the mere importunities of 
 the needy : money was feldom the vehicle 
 he employed to convey that relief; a con- 
 ftant refource in ficknefs, cafualty, or mis- 
 fortune, was to be found with him, and it- 
 was part of his family eftablifhment to be. 
 always provided for fuch occafions : As 
 his eye was ever upon the poor, all their 
 comforts, their induftry, and even their mo- 
 rals, parTed under his infpection, and were- 
 influenced by it; his chanty was without 
 oftentatiosi, and the extent of his good 
 deeds could only be computed by the la-- 
 mentations and number of thofe who fol- 
 lowed his body to the grave. 
 
 The fame Providence, that gave him 
 ftrength to endure, laid afflictions upon 
 him to put that ftrength to the trial : I am 
 warranted in faying they neither hardened 
 his heart, deprefled his fpirit, nor foured 
 his temper : It was his countenance, not 
 jiis tongue, that ever uttered a complaint ; 
 
 his
 
 his friends were welcomed with tha fame 
 hofpitable fmile, and his family enjoyed 
 the fame unchangeable ferenity under all 
 events; if perfecution and unkindnefs had 
 been capable of relenting, his patience 
 would have moved them to it. 
 
 The cry of the world is not always the 
 omnion of the world, at leait not of the 
 wifeft part of it ; the records are in hand, 
 and the facts cannot be perverted or evaded, 
 by which future times muft decide, whe- 
 ther he, who was fo chief an actor in thofe 
 unhappy fcenes, and bore fuch a propor- 
 tion of the public odium during the war 
 of the Colonies, fhall receive the praife or 
 cenfure of posterity : He will not enter 
 upon his (hare In that unfortunate hif~ 
 tory, till the*whole was in action and haf- 
 tening to its cataftrophe j in the antectf- 
 dent meafures, which have fuch connexion 
 with the oauies and precipitation of the 
 revolt, he has no concern -, he properly 
 fhares the refponfibility of that Cabinet of 
 which he was a member; and if there was 
 any negligence or error, any want of pro- 
 per difpatch and. exertion, any corruption^ 
 1 1 ignorance,
 
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 Ignorance, or abufe, within his particular 
 department, for all fuch (if any there 
 were) he is fingly anfwerable; hitherto 
 we have heard little but the language of 
 prejudice j a fliort time will bring the 
 queftion fairly into judgment, and when 
 the heat of paflion has fubfided, truth will 
 flate, and reafon will decide. 
 
 There are other unfortunate events in. 
 his life, which mult be referred to the fame 
 diftant teft and examination. They, who 
 have ferved with him in the war preced- 
 ing the laft, are beft able to fpeak of his 
 military anecdotes : he ferved with great 
 reputation under the Dukes of Cumber- 
 land and Marlborough, in Germany, Scot- 
 land, and France; there are pafTages enough 
 in his campaigns, which put his courage 
 out of all difpute ; I think it is unnecefTa- 
 ry to produce them merely for the object 
 of confuting a flanderous infmuation, 
 which none but vulgar minds could adopt, 
 and which was never echoed for any pur- 
 pofes but of temporary defamation. He 
 was mot in the bread at the head of Bar- 
 rel's regiment in the memorable battle of 
 D Fontenoy,
 
 Fontenoy, and faw that brave regiment 
 almoft totally cut to pieces; if I am 
 rightly informed, only three officers 
 marched un wounded off the field : at the 
 battle of Minden, he was marked by im- 
 plication in the public orders of Prince 
 Ferdinand of Brunfwick ; he appealed to a 
 court-martial, was tried, fentenced, and 
 difgraced. I have no further concern with 
 this or any other event of his life, but as 
 it may involve ibme good or evil quality of 
 his mind, and affecl his private chara&er ; 
 in this light I prefume it is not improper 
 to compare his fituation in the two actions 
 above mentioned, efpecially where a crime 
 has been fuggefted againft him, very foreign 
 from his nature, and very different from 
 the reafons upon which he fuffered fen- 
 tence ; tin's, and this only, is the point to 
 which I addrefs myfelf ; not to his rightful 
 judges, for that would be the heighth of 
 indecency, but to thofe who, without 
 right to judge, condemned without rea- 
 fon ; and to fuch I may be allowed to fay, 
 that the fituation of Lord Sackville, com- 
 panding a fmgle regiment at Fontenoy,
 
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 under an Englifh prince and general, was 
 very different from his fituation at Min- 
 den, commanding the Britiili forces under 
 a foreign prince and general : in the former 
 cafe his duty was only that of an officer ; 
 it was fimply to fight, and to obey, and that 
 duty he performed ; in the latter his duty 
 was that of a general, accountable to his 
 country for fomething more than his con- 
 duct in the hour of battle, for his counfels 
 and opinions, and many other compli- 
 cated and delicate affairs, in all which a 
 man, whofe zeal for the peculiar interefls 
 of his own country exceeded any confide - 
 rations that refpecled himfelf only, muft 
 be fubjefted to dangers that need not be 
 pointed out j in fuch circumftances a fub- 
 ordinate general, though of the fame na- 
 tion with his fuperior, has not always 
 thought in harmony with him, and I be- 
 lieve the confequences have generally 
 proved fatal to one party or the other. 
 
 I have feen him in moments of immi- 
 nent danger, both perfonal and political, 
 and never had occafion to doubt of the 
 firmnefs of his nifrid; I know not how 
 D 2 elfe
 
 ( 20 ) 
 
 elfe he could have fupported himfelf againft 
 fuch continued perfecution : I think this 
 circumftance alone would mark his forti- 
 tude to the conviction of every confiderate 
 man, for his deportment was exactly fuch 
 as innocence and a clear confcience will 
 infpire; there was no infolence, no fero- 
 city in it, fuch as detected characters can 
 afTume, when they have caft away fhame, 
 and hardened themfelves againft infamy ;, 
 his ferenity, on the contrary, accompanied 
 him through life, and was particularly 
 confpicuous at the clofe of it. 
 
 He underwent an irkfome oppofition, 
 when the favour of his fovereign promoted 
 him to a feat in the Houfe of Peers : it 
 was one of the laft and moil painful trials 
 of his life : the tranfaction is fo recent, 
 that I may be excufed from any further 
 mention of it. He did not long enjoy his 
 hard-earned honours. He fupported the 
 king's minifters in all public meafures, 
 except thofe relative to the Irifli propofi- 
 tions, in which he took a part, not of pur- 
 pofed oppofition, but of fair and delibe- 
 rate opinion -, he had given his beft and 
 10 fulleft
 
 ( 21 ) 
 
 fulleft attention to the fubjecl in all its 
 branches, and expected its ifTue with the 
 utmoft anxiety. Some time before the 
 conclufion of the feffion he was feized with 
 the fymptoms of his laft illnefs, in which 
 ftage of his complaint, if he could have 
 been perfuaded to retire from his duty in 
 parliament, he might probably have found 
 a remedy in the air and retirement of the 
 country ; but he perfifted fo long in his 
 attendance upon this important bufmels, 
 that his complaint gathered upon him, 
 and his pains grew fo troublefome, that 
 when he came at laft into the country, he 
 did not experience that relief which was 
 hoped for; notwithstanding this, although 
 repofe was fo neceflary for his condition, 
 his zeal carried him again to town in a 
 very unfit flate for the undertaking : he 
 fpoke upon the queftion with greater agi- 
 tation of mind, and more at length, than 
 was common with him, and the houfe be- 
 ing hot and crowded, he found himfelf fo 
 exhaufted at the conclufion of his fpeech, 
 that it was with difficulty he was faved 
 from fainting on the fjpot : the fitting was 
 
 very
 
 ( 32 ) 
 
 very long, and he returned to his family 
 very materially altered in his health for 
 the worfe. 
 
 From this period he confidered his cafe 
 as without cure, feeling thofe fymptoms 
 of internal decay which he was fatisfied 
 were beyond the reach of medicine j in 
 this perfuafion, he even apologized to his 
 phyfician for the fruitlefs trouble he was 
 giving him : he endured a fucceflion of 
 wearifome pains with iingular ferenity and 
 compofure of mind ; his fenfes were firm 
 and unimpaired to the laft ; and he was 
 occupied almoft without intermiflion in 
 fulfilling the duties of a father, a friend, 
 and a Chriftian* : it fhould feem as if all 
 
 the 
 
 * I was prefent whilft the Holy Sacrament was ad- 
 miniftered to him, two days before his death : he cauf- 
 ed his windows and bed-curtains to be thrown open, 
 and exerted himfelf to the utmoft on that awful occa- 
 flon ; he received the Elements with a devotion and 
 fervor, exprefiive of fuch inward peace and even glad- 
 nefs of heart, as are the ftrongeft of all human evi- 
 dences of an eafy conference and a well-prepared 
 mind. His laft words to me are a further indication 
 of this, and, as nearly as I can repeat them, were as 
 follow " You fee me now in thofe moments, when 
 
 "no
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 the preceding forrows of his life were re- 
 paid to him by that extraordinary fupport 
 and comfort which Providence vouchfafed 
 to him in his laft days. It is not in my 
 remembrance, through the courfe of my 
 acquaintance with him, ever to have heard 
 a word from his lips that could give offence 
 to decency or religion ; but in this latter 
 period, of which I am fpeaking, and 
 throughout which I conftantly attended 
 him, his fentiments were of that exalted 
 and fuperior kind, as to render the fpec- 
 tacle of his death one of the mofl edify- 
 ing contemplations of my life. 
 
 I have now the pleafmg fatisfaclion to 
 know, that it was not without reafon I 
 thought well of one, whom too many con- 
 fpired to traduce. Having furvived my 
 friend, I now enjoy the only reward which 
 
 a difin- 
 
 *^ no difguife will fcrve, and when the fpirit of a man 
 " muft be proved j I have a mind perfe<5tly reiigned, 
 " and at per.ce within itfelf : I have no more to do 
 f* with this world, and what I have done in it, I have 
 " done for the beft ; I hope and truft I am prepared 
 " for the next. Tell not me of all that pafles in health 
 " and pride of heart, thefe are the moments in which 
 " a man muft be fearched; and remember, that I die, 
 f as you fee me, happy and content." 
 
 348208 

 
 a difmterefted attachment can look to 
 the reward of finding the opinion I had 
 conceived of ^ his virtues juflified to my 
 own conviction ; and of being confcious 
 that I am flrictly fulfilling the duties of an 
 honeft man, when I lay before the public 
 this fmall but fmcere tribute to his me- 
 mory. 
 
 RICHARD CUMBERLAND.
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 AT 
 
 LOS ANGELES 
 LIBRARY
 
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