ing them, but much greater in not being elated with them. The patriotifm of our departed friend was of the moft ardent kind, and without alloy. He was very different from those noify patriots, who, with love of country in their mouths and with hell in their hearts, lay their schemes for aggrandizing themselves at every hazard; but he was one of thofe, who love their country in fincerity, and who hold themfelves bound to confecrate all their talents to its fervice.. Numerous were the difficulties with which he had to contend. Great were the dangers he had to encounter. Various were the toils and fervices in which he had to share. But to all difficulties and dangers he rofe fuperior; to all toils and fervices he cheerfully fubmitted for his country's good. Poffeffing an ample, unencumbered fortune; happy at home, in the most pleasing domeftic connexions; what but love of country could have induced him to accept the command of the American army in 1775? Could it be hatred of Great-Britain? He then ardently loved her, and panted for a reconciliation with her. Could it be partiality for a military life? He was then in the forty-fourth year of his age, when a fondness for camps generally abates. Could it be love of fame? The whole tenor of his life forbids us to believe, that he ever was under the undue influence of this paffion. Fame followed him, but he never pursued it. Could it have been the love of power? They who best knew the undiffembled wifhes of his heart, will all tell you with what reluctance he was dragged from a private station, and with what ineffable delight he returned to it. Had he not voluntarily declined it, he would have died your Prefident. Others have refigned high stations from difguft; but he retired at rather an early period of old age, while his faculties were ftrong, and his health not much impaired, and when the great body of the people fincerely loved him, and ardently wifhed for his re-election, Could it have been the love of money that induced him to accept the command of the American army? No fuch thing. When he was appointed Commander in Chief, Congrefs made him a handfome allowance; but in his acceptance of the command, he declared, "that as no pecuniary confideration could have tempted him to accept the arduous employment, at the expense of his domestic ease and happiness, he did not wifh to make any profit from it." "I will keep,' faid he, "an exact account of my expenses; these, I doubt not, you will discharge, and that is all I defire." At the clofe of the war, he produced his accounts for the eight years it had lafted, all in his own hand writing, and with the fame exactness that was required of commiffaries and contractors. The whole amounted to £.14,479 18s. 9d. fterling. Of this fum, about one feventh was for fecret fervices. The amount paid, the time when, and the occafions on which monies were advanced for fecret fervices, were all carefully noticed; but for obvious reafons, no receipts were produced. For For every other item of the account, the most regular vouchers were exhibited. The whole, at the request of General WASHINGTON, was minutely examined by the proper accounting officers, and regularly paffed. A tin box, containing these accounts, remains in one of the offices of the United States. It is a monument of the difinterestedness of General WASHINGTON. Bring your children and your children's children to examine its contents. Shew them the hand-writing of the father of their country; teach them thereon leffons of economy, of order and method in expenses; teach them to love their country, and to ferve it on liberal terms. I call upon antiquity, upon modern Europe, and especially on the recent republic of France, to produce one of their heroes or ftatefmen, that can furpafs, or even equal, our difinterested patriot. Had I a voice that would reach across the Atlantic, I would addrefs the nations at war, and propofe to their emperors, their kings, their directors, their generals, and their statesmen, the example of our WASHINGTON for their imitation; and call upon them, if not too much abashed by the splendour of his virtues, to learn from him to put far away avarice and ambition; and, like him, to purfue nought but their country's good. If they would thus copy after the great example of our American hero, they would foon sheath their fwords, and let the world have peace. But chiefly do I call on my fellow-citizens, to cherifh the remembrance of the virtues of the dear deceased. To learn from him to be all eye, all ear, all heart and hand in the fervice of your country; to think no facrifice too great, no labour too hard, which public good requires at your hands. Rehearse to your children, and inftruct them to rehearse to theirs, the noble deeds of your common father, and inspire them with a holy resolution to go and do likewife. His great example, thus improved, will be a germ of virtuous actions through fucceeding generations, till time fhall be no more. But to return. The fame reasoning will apply, with still greater force, to General WASHINGTON'S acceptance of the office of Prefident of the United States. No motives, but those of the pureft kind, could have induced him, loaded with honours, and poffeffed of a reputation, that had carried his name to the remoteft corners of the globe, to quit his beloved retirement for the second time, and embark on the perilous fea of civil life. Where fhall we find words fufficient to do justice to his felf-denying acceptance of his recent appointment to the fupreme command of the army that is now raifing? View him in the poffeffion of all that his heart could wish; in the fixty-feventh year of his age, when repose and retirement must have been not only defirable, but even neceffary. View him, under all thofe circumftances, pledging himself to take the field, whenever the fituation of his country required it. How ardent must have been his patriotifm! How great is the lofs which we have fuftained! In lofing him, our people have loft their guide; our country has loft its father-its fword and fhieldits greatest benefactor and ornament. Rome, with all her heroes; Greece, with all her patriots, could not produce his equal. Not one, who trod the stage of life with equal dignity, and who departed from it in old age with a reputation fo brilliant, and at the fame time so spotless. His His virtues and example are an invaluable legacy to his country, to Europe, to the world. His counfels are engraven on the table of our hearts; his deeds are written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond. His fame is a fea without a fhore. counfels, his deeds, and his fame, will live forever. But, alas! thofe eyes, which have watched fo many nights for the fafety of the United States, are now closed in death; that tongue, and those hands, which have so often, fo long, and fo fuccessfully been exerted for our benefit, are now mouldering in the duft. No more will he enlighten our councils by his wif dom-No more will he lead our armies to victoryNo longer will his name prove a bulwark of defence, by giving us one mind and one heart, and by striking terror into our enemies. For these things, our hearts are faint; our eyes are dim and run down with water. This day is a day of trouble and distress; a day of darkness and gloominefs; a day of clouds and thick darkness-But I check myself-WASHINGTON'S worth, and our forrows, exceed all fpeech. I am therefore filent, that we may mufe on his merits, and iudulge our grief. A Masonic Eulogy ON THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS BROTHER GEORGE WASHINGTON, Pronounced before the Brethren of St. JOHN's LODGE, on the Evening of the 4th of February, 5800. AT THEIR PARTICULAR REQUEST. BY BROTHER GEORGE BLAKE. "Description cannot fuit itself in words, Shakespeare. LABOUR, be at reft! Mirth, let not thy voice be heard! Joy, our once fweet vifitant, we have now no place for thee here! Our Lodge has become the abode of melancholy and forrow. Grief, O, Grief! moft fincerely do we welcome thee to the hall of this fraternity; thou dull, difmal meffenger of wo, it is thy privilege to rule our Lodge this night; from heaven's high arch art thou commiffioned, by the weeping genius of Mafonry, to take charge of this her terreftrial habitation. We acknowledge thy credentials-they are witneffed by the fignature of Death; we bow to thy authority-we yield to thy commands. Come, then, Grief! dark and gloomy fpirit; we are now thy brothers. At this moment we are ready to induct thee to office-to inveft thee with the black fymbols of ftately promotion. In the East, where gay light once had dominion, there fhalt thou fit enthroned on clouds and darknefs: In the West, thy faithful Wardens are Sadness and Sympathy; and as the fun fetteth in the Weft, to clofe the day, fo do they fit there to draw thy cloudy mantle over this Lodge. Dreffed in thy most dismal attire, we hail thee, Grief, N |