acter is given in the Biog. Dict. of which mr. John Kingston of Baltimore is the author, whose iabours have superseded the necessity of introducing sundry articles, especially from the southern states, into this Collection. The author of this work, however, with much pleasure, introduces the following paragraphs with the hope, that his patrons will be induced, from this specimen, to procure and peruse the valuable production, from which he quotes the subsequent passages in reference to the distinguished subject of this notice. "Chancellor Wythe was indeed an extraordinary man. With all his great qualities he possessed a soul replete with benevolence, and his private life is full of anecdotes, which prove, that it is seldom that a kinder and a warmer heart throbs in the breast of a human being. He was of a social and affectionate disposition. From the time when he was emancipated from the follies of youth, he sustained an unspotted reputation. His integrity was never even suspected. While he practised at the bar, when offers of an extraordinary but well merited compensation were made to him by clients, whose causes he had gained, he would say, that the labourer was indeed worthy of his hire, but the law. ful fee was all he had a right to demand, and as to presents he did not want and would not accept them from any man. This grandeur of mind he uniformly preserved to the end of his life. His manner of living was plain and abstemious. He found the means of suppressing the desire of wealth, by limi ting the number of his wants. An ardent desire to promote the happiness of his fellow men by supporting the cause of justice, and maintaining and establishing their rights, appears to have been his ruling passion. "As a judge, he was remarkable for his impartiality and sincere attachment to the principles of equity, for his vast and various learning, and for his strict and unwearied attention to business. Superior to popular prejudice and every corrupting influence, nothing could induce him to swerve from truth and right. In his decisions he seemed to be a pure intelligence, untouched by human passions, and settling the disputes of nien according to the dictates of eternal and immutable justice. Other judges have surpassed him in genius, and certain facility in despatching causes, but while the vigour of his faculties remained unimpaired, he was seldom surpassed in learning, industry, and judgment. "From a man, entrusted with such high concerns, and whose time was occupied by so many difficult and perplexing avocations, it could scarcely have been expected that he should have employed a part of it in the toilsome and generally unpleasant task of the education of youth. Yet even to this he was prompted by his genuine patriotism and philanthropy, which induced him for many years to take great delight in educating such young persons as showed an inclination for improvement. Harassed as he was with business, and enveloped with papers belonging to intricate suits in chancery, he yet found time to keep a private school for the instruc tion of a few scholars, always with very little compensation and often demanding none. Several living ornaments of their country received their greatest lights from his sublime example and instruction Such was the upright and venerable Wythe." NORFOLK, VIRG. 864. Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM PLUME, who departed this life, the 22 day of Feb. 1807, in the 61 year of his age. He was a native of Ireland and, for many years, a useful and respectable resident of this borough; where he has left the most incontestible evidence and worthy example, to his surviving friends and fellow citizens, how much may be done by combining a steady course of active industry with benevolence, hospitality, and the most strict integrity; in the practice of which virtues he was eminently distinguished. NORFOLK, VIRG. 865. Louis ETIENE DUHAIL, vice consul de la Republique Française, ne au Mens en 1757, decede a Norfolk, le 4 Oct. 1797. Les Francais, ses citoyens, residants a Norfolk et Portsmouth, rendant homage a ses talens et virtus, ont erige ce monument a son memoire. NORFOLK, VIRG. 866. This vault contains the body of ISABELLA K. M'GUIRE, who departed this life, 27 Sept. 1807, aged 45 years; as also of MAURICE FITZGERALD, a learned and pious son of Erin, who departed this life, 101 October, 1802, aged 42 years. NORFOLK, VIRG. 867. Sacred to the memory of LEWIS HARVIE, of Richmond, who died in this borough, on the 14 of April, 1807, in the 25 year of his age. Ah, why dear youth, in all the blooming prime Each native worth, each manly virtue lay; Why wert thou ravish'd from our hope so soon? Which stung thy fervent breast, that treasur'd store Of knowledge, early gained; that eager zeal Note. The foregoing inscription is from an ele gant marble slab supported by six pillars and empaled with fron. NORFOLK, VIRG. 868 JOSIAH HODGES, jun. born, 12 Nov. 1774 died, 10 May, 1799. Here rests a youth, whose heart, while life was there, Glow'd with fraternal love and filial care. A sun-bright ray, from truth's clear mirror thrown, NORFOLK, VIRG. 869. CARY H. HANSFORD, M. D. ob. 29 Oct. 1801, ætat. 42. |