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    contracted an affectionate intimacy , never interrupted through a period of more than twenty years , and destined to know but one termination . Another and most valuable connexion which she soon af ^ er formed , was with the family of R . Smirkie , Esq ., R . A ., in whose accomplished daughter she found a friend whose offices of love followed her with out remission to the last .

    Many other names , amongst which that of Mrs . Joanna Baillie must not be forgotten , might be added to the list of those who delighted in her society , and took an interest in her happiness . Her circle of acquaintance extended with her fame , and she was often able to assemble round her humble tea-table , names whose celebrity would have attracted attention in the proudest saloons of the metropolis .

    Early in her literary career , Miss Benger was induced to fix her hopes of fame upon the drama , for which her genius appeared in many respects peculiarly adapted ; but after ample experience of the anxieties , delays and disappointments , which in this age sicken the heart of almost every candidate for celebrity in this department , she tried her

    powers in other attempts , and produced first her poem on the Abolition of the Slave Trade , and afterwards two novels published anonymously . All these productions had great merit , but wanted something of regular and finished excellence ; and her success was not decided till she embarked in biography , and produced in succession her Memoirs of Mrs . Elizabeth Hamilton , Memoirs of John Tobin , and Notices of Klopstock

    and his Friends , prefixed to a translation of their Letters from the German ; and finally rising to the department of history , her Life of Anne Boleyn , and Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots and of the Queen of Bohemia . All these works attained deserved popularity ; and she would probably have added to her reputation by the Memoirs of Henry IV , of France , had longer life been lent her for their completion .

    But to those who knew her and enjoyed her friendship , her writings , eloquent and beautiful as they are , were the smallest part of her merit and her attraction . To the warmest , most affectionate , and grateful of human hearts , she united the utmost delicacy and nobleness of sentiment , active benevolence

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    which knew no limits but the furthest extent of her ability , and a boundless enthusiasm for the good and fair wherever she discovered them . Her lively imagination lent an inexpressible charm to her conversation , which was heightened by an intuitive discernment of character , rare in itself , and still more so

    in . combination with such activity of fancy and ardency of feeling . As a companion , whether for the graver or the gayer hour , she had few equals ; and her perfect kindness of heart and universal sympathy rendered her the favourite of both sexes , and all classes and ages . With so much to admire and love , she had every thing to esteem . Of envy or jealousy the * e was not a trace in

    her composition ; her probity , veracity and honour , derived , as she gratefully acknowledged , from the early precepts of an excellent and meritorious mother , were perfect . Though free from pride , her sense of dignity was such , that no one could fix upon her the slightest obligation capable of lowering her in any eyes ; and her generous propensity to seek those most who needed her

    friendship , rendered her in the intercourses of society oftener the obliger than the party obliged . No one was more just to the characters of others ; no one more candid ; no one more worthy of confidence of every kind . Lamented as she must long and painfully be by all who truly knew her excellencies , they cannot but admit that their regrets are selfish . To her the

    pains of sensibility were dealt in even larger measure than its joys ;—she was tried by cares , privations and disappointments , and not seldom by unfeeling slights and thankless neglect . The in-, firmity of her constitution rendered life to her a long disease . Old age would have found her solitary and unprovided ; now she has taken the wings of the dove , to flee away and be at rest . —Lite " rary Gazette ,

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    June 9 , at Newhaven , in Connecticut , U . S ., the Rev . Jedediah Morse , D . D . LL . D . ; the author of the American Geography , and of many other valuable geographical works , and for many years pastor of the first Church in Charlestown , aged 65 .

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    Obituary . —Rev . J . Morse , D . D . 127

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    Rev . Jedediah Morse , D . \) .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/47/