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Mr. SMITH

 The decease of MT. DANIEL SHELDON junior, an.

 nounced in your paper of the 9th instan is an event.

 which may well excite many and deep regrets, in the minds of all, who knew him, either personally by reputation. In the death of this gentleman, his friends and the public have sustained no common loss. The instance rare, indeed, in which any individual leaves the world, with higher claims to an affectonate and honorable remembrance, among those, who survive him.

 It is not my intention, however, to attempt regu-

 lar biography, even formal deineaton of the char acter, of this excellent and much lamented But

 justice to his memory, and to the public, we'll as the respect, due to the afflicted survivors of his family, seems to require, at least, slight and general pub

 lie memorial ofhis worth.

 Mir. Sheldon was one of those, to whose memory it

 is impossible to do imperfect justice, without em- ployng what is apt to be regarded by the world at large, the language of undeserved eul0gy. But have entire confidence, that, to those, who intimately knew him. nothing expressed of him, in this brief mo- tice will appear to partake of that character.

 In describing personal qualities superiatives are, in most cases ncorrect But there can be no danger of e%aggeration, in affirming, that Mr. Sheldons mind was east in of; Natures finest and most perfect moulds. The intellectual and moral elements of his character were so happily blended and proportoned, that it might justly be said of him, (ifn were not Zoo much to be said of any an) that nothing was Iet to be desired, in the constitution of his mind. The re- markabIe and uniform mildness,an refnement ofhis manners-he perfect amlabeness of his disposition the purity and bamelessness of his Ifehs extraor- dnary intellectual endowments-and his very exten- sive attanments, in the various departments of all b era and useful Knowledge, distinguished him. in the sphere, in, which he moved, and would have dstin- gaished him, in any sphere of the accom- pLisied, and most estimabIe of the age. No sub ect, worthy of Investigation in science, letters es- capped his attention; nor was there any branch of learning, either useful, ornamental, which he had not successfully cultivated and lamarized Not on- y was he Ca schslar, and d ripe and good one;' but in the language of Mir. Burke respecting his lament ed, and only son, he was "a FINISHED man."

 Mir. Sheldon, had scarcely passed the years o infan- cy when he entered upon of liberal studies, which he prosecuted. with extraordinary success and in which he displayed an early maturity of mind, al- most unexampled. And hese studies, mind, like his, could never, amidst all it's subsequent pursu sconsent to abandon. At the age of Sireen, he examined, candidate for adm ssion to the bar of this state; and though legally inadmissb!e being under " full age" he received from the court, ceru fcate, declaring his proficiency in legal science, be sufficient for the practice of the aw and emitting him to admission. without further examination, when he l should attain the age of twenyone years. But be- !