Obiuary.

possessed , and , for their sakes more than for his own , regretting that , during so long a political life , he had so seldom borne any share in power , which he considered only as an instrument of more diffusive good . In his domestic relations he was worthy ( and ' more than worthy he could not be )

of the eminent felicity which for many years he enjoyed ; an husband of ex . emplary tenderness and lideliy ; a father fond to excess ; lhe most affectionate of brothers ; the kindest master ; and , on his part , he has been often heard to declare , that , in the most anxious moments of his public life

, every care vanished when he entered his own roof . One , who long and intimately knew him , to divert his own sorrow , has paid this very inadequate tribu ' e to his memory . Nothing which relates to such a man can be uninteresting or uninsirucfive to the public , to . whom he trulbelonged . Few indeed

y , whom the Divine goodness has largelygifted , are capable of profiting bv the imitation of his genius and learning ; but all mankind may grow better by the study of his virtues . The following additional article is

translated from the French of M . Le Peltier . ' On Sunday , the 9 th of July , 1 797 , died at his house at Beaconsfield , with that simple dignity , that unostentatious . magnanimity , so consonant to the tenors of his life and actions , the Right Hon . Edmund Burke . There never was a more beautiful

alliance between virtue and talents . All his conceplions were grand , all his sentiments generous . The great leading trait of his character , and what gave it all its energy and its colour , was that strong hatred of vice , which is no other than the passionate love of virtue . It breathes in all his writings ;

it was the guide of all his actions . Biit even the force of his eloquence was insufficient to transfuse it into the weak and perverse minds of his contemporaries . This caused all the miseries of Europe ; this rendered of no effect towards her salvation the subliniest talentsthe greatest and rarest virtues

, , that the beneficence of Providence ever concentred in a single character for the benefit of mankind . But Mr . Burke was too superior to the age in which he lived . His prophetic genius only astonished the nation which it ought

to have governed . ' Mr . Fox said of . Mr . Burke , and in saying it ihe whole House wept , ' that , if all the information from men and books were put in one scale , and the information he had acquired from his honourable friend in the other , the latter would greatly preponderate . '

In lhe course of his usual walk betwixt his seais of Stevenstone and Hudscott , co . Devon , in a fit of Ihe angina pectoris ( a disorder he had long been subject to ) . aged 72 , Denys Rolle , E ^ q . late of East-Titherley , in Hampshire , father of Lord Rolle , and descended from an ancient and very

honourable family in that county , and to whose many public and pri-ate virtues Ihose who knew him well will bear ample testimony . The esteem and affection which Mr . Rolle had universally inspired ,, rendered the acquisition of rank to him of no moment ; and for this cause during his own life-time ,

the honours of the British peerage were conferred on his son . Mr . R . was supposed to he the greatest land-owner in Devonshire , and possessed , also , large eslatesin Oxfordshire and Hampshire . His rent-roll is said to have amounted to 40 , 000 ! . per annum , though he never raised the rent of an old

tenant . He was the general patron of merit and talents , and was everyway worthy of his great fortune , 2000 I . of which he appropriated to charitable uses , though it was known that his disbursements under this head very far exceeded that sum . In his public conductas a member of the House of

, Commons , he was biassed by no prejudices , and attached to no party . Influenced by no private or selfish views , he preferred the good of his country to everyotherconsideration ; discharged the sacred trust reposed in him with fidelity and honour ; and preserved , with unshaken firmness and inflexible

integrity , those honest and independent principles which he had laid down for the rule of his conduct . The same probity influenced and guided him in every transaction of private life , which was distinguished also by an exemplary piety and a diffusive charity . He was a liberal subscriber to many societies

instituted for the purposes of promoting religion , and advancing the glory of God ; and he contributed largely to many useful undertakings and benevo-