for the East Indies in a vessel, which, at this day, would scarcely be
deemed suitable for a coasting craft, uncoppered, without the improved
nautical instruments and science which now universally prevail,
trusting only to his dead reckoning, his eyes, and his head, not
one on board having attained to the age of his majority. He served
successively as representative in our State Legislature, as member of
Congress for six years, as State Senator, over which body he presided,
and as Senator in Congress, for nine years, with honor to himself, and
satisfaction to his constituents. In all commercial questions which
presented themselves to the consideration of Congress, while a member
of both houses, no man's opinion was more sought for and more justly
respected.

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SEVERAL FAMOUS FRENCHMEN have left the world within a few weeks.
Quatremere de Quincy, who was in the first rank of archæology and
æsthetics, died at the age of ninety-five; Count Mollien, the famous
financier--often a minister--at eighty-seven; Baron Meneval, so long
the private, confidential, all-trusted private secretary of Napoleon,
between seventy and eighty; Count Berenger, one of the Emperor's
Councillors and Peers, conspicuous for the independence of his spirit,
as well as administrative qualifications, was four-score and upward.
The obsequies of these personages were grand ceremonials. President
Napoleon sent his carriages and orderly officers to honor the remains
of the old servants of his uncle. This class might be thought to
have found an elixir of life, in their devotion to the Emperor or
his memory. A few of them survive, like Marshal Soult, wonders of
comfortable longevity.