ice! In his morals, I
believe, he was free from those defilements which are too often
known to tarnish the reputation of those in his profession, and
to which they are so peculiarly liable: In his religious
sentiments, if I am not mistaken, he was a candid believer in
divine revelation: As a lover of his country, he was ardent and
ever eager, when summoned by her call, to be foremost in her
defence; and as an officer he was active, faithful, skilful,
and courageous. In the engagement that terminated his naval
career, he occupied a post most pregnant with danger, and
though mortally wounded in the early part of it, he still
animated his valiant tars, while the life-blood was fast ebbing
from its seat, to persevere till the victory was gained. By
these encomiums, however, it is not intended that he was
exempted from a participation in that polution of our nature
which is common to every individual of the human family. Though
he was possessed of excellencies which _we_ may be allowed to
admire and applaud; in the sight of infinite purity, like every
other human being, he was a ruined sinner,

"Sprung from the man whose guilty fall,
"Corrupts our arce and taints us all."

But neither the personal excellencies which so strongly
endeared him to those who knew him, the affections of his
numerous friends, nor the wants of his country, could render
him impervious to the shaft of death. No, his generous spirit
is fled. Though brave, he has fallen a victim to the king of
terrors, who conquers all. A band of piratical marauders, whose
iniquitous occupation is the plunder of the seas, and whose
perfidies and cruelties, which are audaciously committed on the
broad highway of nations, are continually augmenting, and in
our opinion, loudly call for the interfering arm of national
government, to extirpate, if possible, these freebooters, from
the face of the earth; a horde of these unprincipled
miscreants, who are the stigma of the human kind, have deprived
his country of his valuable services. He has lain down and will
rise not. 'Till the heavens be no more he shall not awake, nor
be raised out of sleep. His mangled remains are deposited in a
land of strangers, and far from his family and his home. He
will no more return to alleviate, b