Star.
London, England, 1830-02-04 00:00:00

Newton, Bacon, or Locke; rind, as far as he saw, no judgment
was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by
flivention or Imagination, but sure io conclusion. Hence the com-
mon remark of his Mere of the advantage he derived from
Councils of War, where, bearing all suggestions, he selected what-
ever was best ; and certainly no General ever planned his battles
more judiciously. Bat if deranged during the course of the action
—if any member of his plan was dislocated bj sudden circum-
' stances, he was slow in re-adjustment. The consepsence was that
be often failed in the field, and rarely against an enemy in station,
as at Beaton and York. He was incapable of fur, meeting per-
sonal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest
feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every cir.
emustance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining
if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his
purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most
purr, his justice the most iflexible I have ever known ; no motives
of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able
to hiss his decision. He was indeed, in every sense of the
words, a wise, a good, and a great man. His temper was na-
turally irritable sod high-toned; but reflection and resolu-
tion bad obtained • firm and habitual ascendancy over it. If
"Veer. however, it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in his
wrath. In his expenses he was honourable, but exact; liberal in
contributions to whatever promised utility, but frowning and un-
yielding on all visionary projects, and all unworthy calls on his
charity. His heart was not warm in its affections, but he exactly
calculated every man's value, and gave him a solid esteem propor-
tioned to it. His person was hne, his stature exactly what one
would wish, his deportment easy, erect, and noble ; the best
horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be
seen on horseback. Although in the circle °Chia friends, where he
might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in converse.
don, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing
neither copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when
called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and em.
barrassed. Yet be wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and
correct style. This be had acquired by conversation with the
world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and com-
mon arithmetic, to which be added surveying at a later day. His
time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only
on agriculture and Roiled) history. His correspondence became
necessarily extensive, sod, with journalizing Isis agricultural pro-
ceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors. Oo the
whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect—in nothing bad, in
km points indifferent; sod it may truly be said, that never did as.
tote and fortune combine more perfectly to make • man great, and
to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies
have merited from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was
the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country
successfully through an arduous war, ice the establishment of its
independence; of conducting its councils through the birth of a
Government, new in its forms and principles, until it bad settled
down into a quiet and orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying
*flaws through the whole of his career, civil and military—of
which the history of the world furnishes no other example.