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to be entombed there, may be deposited. And it is my express desire, that my corpse may be interred in a private manner, without parade or funeral oration.

"Lastly, I constitute and appoint my dearly beloved wife, Martha Washington, my nephews, William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, George Steptoe Washington, Samuel Washington, and Lawrence Lewis, and my ward, George Washington Park Curtis, (when he shall have arrived at the age of twenty years,) executrix and exexecutors of this will and testament."

Washington was tall, erect, and well made, but thin. His eyes eyes were light blue, his nose rather long, and his countenance was expressive of extreme sensibility. His demeanor was dignified and modest. He was affable, generous and conscientious. His valuable library, and his correspondence with eminent men, furnished him with a rich fund of knowledge, and the productions of his pen are perspicuous and sensible. He was an affectionate husband, a disinterested friend, a benign master, and a benefactor to the indigent. He practised the social virtues not merely because they were enjoined by religion, but from his innate love of rectitude.

The similarity between his public virtues and those of Alfred the Great, is admirable.

These extraordinary men were both celebrated for their love of justice, their fortitude, patriotism, and piety. When Alfred exchanged the military garb for that of the peasant, he suffered a greater reverse of fortune than ever befel Washington, and when in disguise he explored the camp of the Danes, and lulled suspicion by the melody of his harp, he evinced a more enterprising ge nius than that of the American. The capture of the Hessians at Trenton, however, reminds us of the achievements of Alfred, who, by surprising the Danish camp, revived the hopes of his country. Washington founded a republic; he was instrumental to the establishment of its polity, and retired "with all his blushing honours thick upon him;" obedient to the will of his country he again assumed the command of her armies, and died as he had lived, a true patriot. Alfred, by the subjugation of his country's enemies, secured her liberties and peace; he was "her voice in council, in the field her sword." As a legislator, he immortalised his name by the institution of a trial by jury; as a magistrate, he presided with unparalleled wisdom; the sceptre of power was consecrated by his hand, and he was beloved, revered, nay, almost deified by his countrymen. Washington, in some instances, seems to have been

undecided; Alfred was energetic and determined in every emergency. Though their virtues were homogeneal, Alfred claims the palm for ardour and brilliancy of genius.Washington excelled him in discretion; he weighed the consequences of every step, and his prudence triumphed over opposition. In short, ALFRED the Great was like the rising sun, which breaking through a dark cloud, illumines and beautifies the creation. His. superior mind shone with an effulgence that dissipated the gloom of superstition and ignorance which surrounded him, and, like the Vicegerent of Heaven, he promoted the happiness of the human species. WASHINGTON. the Great, was like the declining sun that adorns the face of nature with the mildest radiance; his actions, though not so brilliant. as those of Alfred, were more imitable, and the virtuous American will be esteemed by. posterity as worthy to stand in the same rank with the more illustrious Englishman.

Perhaps the only instance in which the public conduct of Washington was censurable, was his condemnation of the unfortunate Andre. It must be owned, that he was a slave holder, and his exemplary kindness to his dependants, cannot reconcile us to that inconsistency in a man who was so strenuous and successful an asserter of liberty.

But these errors of the American hero were concealed by the dazzling lustre of his virtues. Our admiration is excited when we contemplate the series of his actions. When we behold him at the head of the army, then President of the United States, and afterwards breathing the pure air of his fields in the shade of retirement, we confess that the venerable philosopher has attained what may be called the sublime of human nature. Just as Aristides, we behold him set his seal to that solemn engagement, by which he emancipates those slaves who were deprived of their liberties by the avarice of his ancestors; and actuated by the purest beneficence, he endows seminaries for the promotion of knowledge.

In his comprehensive mind were united the disinterestedness of Cincinnatus; the munificence of Cyrus the Great; and the piety of Marcus Aurelius. We may say of him as Augustus did of Cicero," he was an honest man and loved his country.'

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He was the brightest luminary of liberty in the American hemisphere. May his countrymen imitate that prudence which exalted them to a dignified place among the nations; may they practice those public and private virtues which irrádiate the fair fame of WASH

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