e was in some respects
a Father to the Kings of the earth, or at least a powerful and
decisive mediator and umpire among them. The eyes of the greatest
princes were turned to him. In these distant parts of his Dominion
we have felt the happy influences of his happy reign. He was the
darling and protection of his people, the great support of the
reformed interest and the arbiter of Europe. George II. is a Prince
of winning countenance and manly aspect, had considerable treasure
of useful learning, and with him a most amiable Princess, the
reigning glory of her sex for beauty, knowledge, wit, discretion,
the sweetest temper, the most cheerful, affable and engaging
countenance and carriage, with every charming virtue; in the bloom
of her youth preferred her chaste religion to all the glories of
the Imperial family, and became the love and admiration of every
protestant.

President Cheney says of Mr. Prince "he may be justly characterized as
one of our great men;" but he deplored that he sometimes devoted so much
attention to minute and trifling circumstances of things, and gave too
great credit to surprising stories. This, no doubt, may at times have
been unnecessary, and would certainly be a failing at the present time,
when writing on all subjects is so universal; but in Mr. Prince's case
it took the form of an advantage to posterity, as this love of detail
caused him to hand down to all generations the most life-like
descriptions of daily life and conversation of his own and remote times.
Although he saw a particular providence in every act, every word, every
wind that blew, and every storm that arose, yet Mr. Sewall said of him,
"that the great truths and doctrines of the Gospel were his chosen
subjects. He spake as the oracles of God, as one that felt the Divine
Excellence. Some of his discourses even have received impressions in
England."

The great tenderness of his nature was particularly prominent in his
family relations. He trained his children in the paths of knowledge, his
well-disciplined mind making him a safe and wise teacher; while, like
him, they were pious from their youth. His only son graduated with honor
from his own college, and had just started on a literary career with
flattering success, when consumption caused his death, in his
twenty-fourth year. Two daughters, also, at the early ages of twenty and
twenty-two, were taken from