Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-11-19
OGuVIE,S ESCAYS

We have received, Ivy a private hand
from Philadelphia, a copy of the Essays,
Just ublished. They fill about 600 pa
scs, vo. and comprze the following
Contents Preface -Introduction-Es-
say |. On the Study of Mathematical Sci
ence-.tSsay II. On the Nature, Extent,
and Limits of Human Knowledgc-Es-
say III. On the Modern Abuse Of Moral
Fiction-Additional Notes-Suppiemen
tary Narrative-Address to the Candid
Observation-Disclosures, now, very
little leisure for reading, we have merely
dipt INTO the Volume, and therefore feel
ourselves incompetent TO give a. systema-
nc view, oran opinion on its merits-The
Essays we have not even touched-The
supplementary Narrative first caught our
attention, and amply rewarded it.-For
the present, therefore, we must content
ourselves with giving Sketches from it
The following, for instance, is from a
Note TO the Supplementary Narrative-it
Is tribute TO the memory of DIR. Waller
Jones admirably drawn, and richly de-
served. I've k''e,0 him scell-and there is
not line an tie character to which we do
not most cordially subscribe:
There was one, and but one. execution
with the late DIR. Walter Jones ofVirginia, the
narrator mad thehappiness and honor to become
from his native country, Scotland, to that state
lhls eminent person with whom Ire had main
tanned from the first hour oftheiracquaintance
an uninterrupted friendship, and regular e.
pistolary correspondence till his death, J when
apprized OF his oratorical enterprise, approved
OF II, predicted its success and encouraged the
narrator to perscvere
During the whole progress of his eycursi-
OH, ne received letters from this beloved and
venerated friend, containing the most affecti-
onate and ludiciOus counsel Alas, he can re-
ceive no more. Alas, he can never have the
pleasure to thank him in person for friend
snip as di,nterested and noble as was ever
manifested for services as solid and precious
| as were ever rendered by one human being to
| another.
"He was fondly feasting the best feelinrs of
his heart with The anticipation of reyisitin1
| oncemore his aged and faithful friend when a
| Gazette, announcing his sudden death, acciden-
! tally fell into his hands
1t may be obtrusive, it may be improper in
narrative of this sort, 10 give vent to feelines
| with which the narrator can expect no lively
| sympathy from great majority of his read
! ers.
But, when the coolest and most fastidious
| reader is appraised that these feelings are ava
| kcDed blythe recent and premature death of a
man, VINO as patriot, gentleman as n
triend-as afrlend tolitcrature, liberalty and
| liberty, was conf2ssedly pre-eminent: That he
| was the delight and lumnary of every social
| circle which he honored- witt. his presence I:
nat noone ever conversed with him, or listen
| Gu 70 MS conversation, tor half an hour who
| could not recollect, and could never forget.
| whilst he remembered any thing, some novelty
| of Thought or expression from his lips at least
| equal in solidity and brillancy to any thing
| on the same subject, which lie had ever before
| heard or read: That he was master Of every
| sort of cOlloquial eloquence, and would have
| been admired even in the company of Swift Ar
| buthnot and Bolingbroke: That he was at once
| themost liberal and indulgent friend, and the
mostjudicious adviser of youth whom the nara
tor has ever KNOXVILLE will forgive if he
| does not approve, this involuntary tribute to
the memory of his benetact0r, by man who
feels and knows that he was so deeply Indebted
to his friendship, and has no other mode of in
dulging and relieving his feelings, but by vain
expressions of grief, gratitude, reverence and
love.
The tears mingle with his ink; he dips his
pen IN the very blood that warns his heart
while he calls to mind the virtues, the accom-
plishments, the kindness, the services. of a
friend and beDefactor, whom he can never meet
again; whose spirits fled up to the stars from
whence II came, aud whose warm heart with
all its generous and open vessels, is compressed
into clod OF the valley"
To the feelings and in the estimation of the
narrator, and to the feelings and in the esti-
nation OF ali who knew him as the narrator
knee him. the death of this amiable man made
a desert tor leagues around his grave"
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