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the cause. The Deceased, with all his amiable and good qualities, was rather too much inclined to be morose, inconsiderate, and of an unfeeling disposition by turns, and his little success in that Quarter, I mean in comparison to former times, was little calculated to soften his natural Habits. This is one of the characteristic frailties of human nature, we often seem to think that we perceive blemishes in others, while our own innumerable failings lay concealed from our observation.

I need not point out to you our uncomfortable and almost unsupportable situation after so much distress and so many enormous atrocities, which we have suffered within a few Years of one another. Indeed, without some strong measures are applied very soon, to recover in some degree our former respectibility, matters must soon terminate in this Department.

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