THE services of an active life, when private and particular, are entitled to a lasting and grateful recollection; it is the only tribute of respect which we can pay to the manes of our benefactors; and in every sensible mind the gratification arising from this due acknowledgment, will insure their frequent operation on the memory. But when such services have combined for the protection and prosperity of a whole nation, a more general acknowledgment is due, and a public record of them becomes the appropriate medium of its attainment.

The gentleman in respect to whose memory we mean the above observations to apply, has lately terminated an active life in the service of his country, which in a private course of service might have lasted to a more advanced period, with the powers of a vigorous enjoyment. But each in his station must fulfil his destiny—and that well accomplished, the difference of years in the narrow span of human life must be immaterial, when estimated by a calm and rational reflection. To drink of life's cup to its very dregs, is to taste its bitterest portion.—How honorably and usefully he has run his course, it is now our business to show.