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      THE following biographical sketches of these celebrated men are taken from a New York paper . Thomas Jefferson

      was born on the 2 d of April , 1743 , in the county of Albemarle , at Shadwell , a country seat which now belongs to his grandson , within a short distance of Monticello , and within half a mile of bis Rivannah mills . He was of

      course in the 84 th year of his age . He received the highest honours at the college of William and Mary , and studied law under the celebrated George Wythe , late Chancellor of Virginia . Before he attained his 25 th year , he was a distinguished member

      of the Virginia Legislature , and took an active part in all the measures which they adopted in opposition to the usurpations of Great Britain . In 1775 , lie is said to have been the author of the protest against the propositions of Lord North . He was

      subsequently transferred to the General Congress of Philadelphia , where he distinguished himself by the firmness of his sentiments and the energy of his compositions . Of these qualifications no other evidence could be

      required than the imperishable document which declared us * free , sovereign , and independent States /' From 1777 to 1779 ( for certain portions of those years ) he was occupied with Wythe and Pendleton in

      revising the laws of Virginia . In 1779 , he succeeded Patrick Henry as Governor ° f the State . In 17 SI , he composed his Notes on Virginia ; than which no work of equal dimensions has ever

      attained to greater reputation . In the summer of 1782 , be was in Congress ut the moment when the Virginia Legislat ure were framing a State Constitution . The draught of the instrument , which he transmitted on that

      occasion , was not received till the ^ y when the committee were to re-Port the result of their labours . They were s 0 nme j 1 pleased with his prea mble , that they adopted it as a part

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      of their report ; so that it is now well understood , our Bill of Reports and the Constitution were from the pen of George Mason ; the Preamble was Thomas Jefferson ' s .

      In 1784 , he left the United States , being associated in a plenipotentiary commission with Franklin and Adams , addressed to the several Powers of Europe , for the purpose of concludingtreaties of commerce . In October , 1789 , he obtained leave to return

      home ; and on his arrival was made the first Secretary of State under General Washington . His correspondence with the French and English , ministers is a proud monument of his genius ; he alternately rebuked the

      cold cunning of Liston , and the rash ardour of Genet . His reports on money , and weights and measures , on the fisheries , and on the restrictions of commerce , are ample attestations of the enlarged views of the philosopher and the financier .

      In 1797 , he was elected Vice-President , and four years after President of the United States . For eight years he conducted the Government with a strength of talent , a purity of purpose , a respect to Constitutional

      principles , which might serve as ct model to his successors . His acquisition of Louisiana alone now calls down the loudest praises from every one . But what is deficient in the preceding narrative must be made up from a curious and authentic memoir now

      lying before us , in the hand-writing of Mr . Jefferson . He was called 011 by a particular occasion to state some of the circumstances and services of his life—and from this curious document , for which we are indebted to the

      kindness of a friend , we lay the following extract before our readers . It furnishes some information , in that touching style for which the author was so remarkable , which , now that the great man has descended to his tomb , it may not be improper to lay before the public : — " I came of age in 17 ^ 4 , and was

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      " "IsTcToCLI . ] NOVEMBER , 1826 . [ Vol . XXI .

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      Jefferson And Adams.

      JEFFERSON and ADAMS .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/1/