tick philosophical, literary, and benevolent institutions. He died, after a few days' illness, while on a journey, at New Bedford, 25 September, 1804. His remains were brought to Cambridge, where his Interment was attended with great respect and many tokens of extensive and undissembled grief. A eulogy prononnced by professor Webber together with the prayer at the funeral by the rev. doctor Lathrop, the sermon delivered on the succeeding sabbath by the rev. doctor Holmes, and a lecture, given by professor Pearson, at a subsequent period, before the students of the university, conimemorative of the worth of this venerable patriarchal character and of many others, who had been distinguished as instructers and benefactors of this ancient seminary, were given to the publick. To these publications the reader is referred for an account of the life, literary labours, virtues, and talents of the late president Willard. The limits of this work preclude the possibility of doing full justice to the memory of this great and good man; besides, there is little occasion for the attempt; a city set upon a hill cannot be hid. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 532. Note. The rev. SAMUEL WEBBER, D.D the fourteenth president of Harvard college, expir ed, suddenly, on the evening of the 17 of July, 1810, in the 51 year of his age. He was a native of Byfield in Massachusetts, where he lived till about ten years of age, when his father removed to Hop kinton in New-Hampshire. Here the rev. Elijah Fletcher, pastor of the church and congregation in that place, became acquainted with the subject of this article, witnessed the bent of his mind for learning, and the early promise of his talents. The benevolence of this worthy minister prompted him to afford every kindly aid to his young friend. He took him under his particular patronage and fitted him for admission into Harvard college. He received the honours of this academick institution in 1784 and 1787. After graduation, he devoted his attention to theology and became a preacher of the gospel. For a short time, he was the preceptor of Dummer academy in his native place. He was then elected one of the tutors of Harvard university, left the academy, returned to his alma mater, and performed the duties of his new office with great ability till 1789, when he was called to the Hollis professorship of mathematicks and natural philosophy. This was a department peculiarly congenial with his taste. He had a thorough and familiar acquaintance with the sciences, which it devolved upon him to teach; a happy talent at communicating his ideas in a perspicuous manner; and no small share of patience, a virtue of the first magnitude in an instucter of youth. On the death of the learned and venerable president Willard, the subject of this memoir, unexpectedly but meritoriously, received the suffrages of the corporation and overseers of Harvard university, as his successor in office. He was inaugurated, in due form, on the 6 of May, 1806. Competent to whatever he undertook, conscientiously punctual and faithful in the discharge of every duty, he presided with dignity and reputation over this ancient school of the prophets, and his sudden exit in the midst of his days and usefulness, was deeply lamented. The rev. Henry Ware, D. D. Hollis professor of divinity, delivered a eulogy at the interment of president Webber, which was respectful to his memory and is before the publick.. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 533. Huic tumulo mandantur exuviæ JOHANNIS WADSWORTH. A. M. Duxburgiæ nati, collegii Harvardini alumni, cujus septem per annos fideliter utilissimeque tutoris officium præstitit, et modo aptissimo, facillimo, gratissimoque, optimis præceptis ac institutis juvenum animos imbuit, moresque ipsorum amice ac sedulo curavit. Hujus temporis tres per annos et ultra senatus academi socii munera perite explevit. Ingenio sagaci et acutissimo literis scientiisque penitus instructo; etiam facilitate mira sententias impertiendi, omnium observantiam in sese attraxit. Amicitia ingenua atque constanti, et consuetudinis suavitate facetiisque, amor ac deliciæ fuit amicorum. Inter alias virtutes pietas erga parentes et affectio fraterna præcipue fuerunt insignes. Viri tam boni ac utilis, omnibusque cari, in ætatem senectam spes vitam produxerat. Ah, spes inanis! Variolis, illo generis humani flagello, correptus, animam efflavit, die Julii 12 mo. anno salutis 1777, ætatisque suæ 37. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 534. THOME MARSH, armigeri, septuaginta annos nati, quorum per viginti quinque, apud collegium Harvardinum, tutoris docti, seduli, et urbani; undecim etiam socii vigilantis partes agebat; qui, officiis publicis diligenter, domesticis peramanter exactis, Septembris vigesimo secundo, 1780, in spe revivendi christiana mortem oppetiit, reliquiæ hoc tumulo reconduntur. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. An honest man's the noblest work of God. 535. GULIELMUS KNEELAND, armiger, M. M. S. S. vir ingenio præditus eximio, artibusque ac scientiis penitus imbutus, in republica literaria locum perinsignem jure obtinuit. In universitate Harvardiana officium tutoris novem per annos exornavit. Exinde in arte medendi magna cum laude erat versatus; atque societatis medicorum Massachusettensis præses bis fuit electus. Sagax ad res hominesque perspiciendos, multos rogantes consilio adjuvit. Officia omnia, tam privata quam publica, fidelitate, ordine, ac puncto temporis constituto præstitit. Amicus fuit sincerus, hospes liberalis, socius jucundus, vir honestus, et pauperum patronus. Talis quum vixisset 56 annos; animus sublimis, die secundo Novembris, 1788, subito effugit; ast, eheu, quantum ingeniii, quantum integritatis, quantum benevolentiæ terris convolavit ! Note.-The subject of the foregoing epitaph, which is attributed to the pen of the rev. Eliphalet Pearson, LL. D. was a native of Boston. Soon after his decease, the following sketch appeared in some of the publick gazettes. "Doctor Kneeland, while a child, discovered a capacity above the common level. Under the care of worthy and pious parents, he received those impressions, which were never obliterated, and which he ever acknowledged with filial gratitude. At school, he outstripped most of his fellows, and was / exceeded by none, While a student in the univer |