If I could now present myself before your venerated uncle, it would be my pride to confess my contrition that I suffered my irritation, let the cause be what it might, to use some of those expressions respecting him which, at this moment of my indifference to the ideas of the world, I wish to recall, as being inconsistent with my subsequent conviction.

My life will I hope be sufficiently extended for the recording of my sincere opinion of his virtues and merit, in a style which is not the result of a mind merely debilitated by misfortune, but of that Christian philosophy on which alone I depend for inward tranquillity." * * * * * NOTE--No.

XIII.

_See Page 231._ This place was offered to Mr.Henry, a gentleman of eminent talents, great influence, and commanding eloquence.

He had led the opposition to the constitution in Virginia, but, after its adoption, his hostility had in some measure subsided.