waters of the great western and northern lakes with the Atlantic ocean.

In 1811, Mr Clinton was again chosen mayor, which office he continued to hold until 1815. In 1811, he was also chosen lieutenant-governor of the state of New York.

In March, 1817, he was chosen governor of the state, almost without opposition.

He was president of the literary and philosophical society of New York, and of the New York historical society. He was a member of the American philosophical society, and of all the principal scientific associations in this country, and of several in Europe. In 1812, he received the honorary degree of LL. D.

Governor Clinton's personal appearance was dignified and commanding, rather above the middle size, large and well proportioned, and a countenance highly expressive. In private life and domestic duties, he was amiable and exemplary, exhibiting the picture of a great man, an elegant and profound scholar, and practical citizen; a man of letters and the world, and a character of active worth to the present generation, and of solid and permanent advantage to posterity.

In the autumn of 1827, he was attacked with

a catarrhal affection of the throat and chest ; as is generally the case with those of a vigorous constitution, and who have long enjoyed uninterrupted health, he was impatient of the restraints which sickness imposes, and to a degree disregarded his disease. The result was a congestion of the heart and lungs, which ended in an effusion into the cavities of the viscera, attended with a corresponding deposit in the cellular membrane of the lower extremities.

On the Monday following the 11th of February, he performed his ordinary duties at the capital-rode a few miles into the country with his family-returned to town; met some friends at dinner, and afterwards, as was his habit, retired to his study for the transaction of official business and his accustomed literary pursuits.

While sitting in his library, he was suddenly seized with a sense of oppression and structure across the chest; he spoke to his son sitting near him, and described to him the distressful, and as he feared, fatal sensation he experienced. Medical aid was instantly called for. He walked in the hall, but soon returned to his chair in the library;-the hand

of death was upon him—his head fell upon his breast. A physician arrived, but too late-all efforts, though unremittingly continued for some hours, to recall his parting spirit, proved unavailing, -sense-consciousness-intelligence, had fled forever-Clinton was no more!

If the possession of strong native powers of mind, and those highly cvltivated by extensive attainments in the different departments of human knowledge-if an innate spirit of patriotism, quickened and directed by an acquaintance with the various interests of his country, and a life devoted to the unceasing performance of public duty, and expended in the service of his native state, entitled their possessor to respectful notice, Clinton presents the strongest claims, not only to the affections of his countrymen, but to a distinguished place among the sages, statesmen, and benefactors of the American republic. It is in the intellectual, as in the natural world, although the expanse above is studded with an infinity of bodies, shedding and diffusing their portion of light, a certain number of greater magnitudes and brilliancy, command the more exclusive vision of the beholder, and are so

many suns communicating their effulgence and influence to other, and distant worlds. In like manner there are some intellectual luminaries much more distinguished than are the ordinary sources of light and knowledge. The Grecian and Roman republics had their constellations of illustrious men; England had her Lockes and her Newtons, her Chathams and her Cannings. And young as our own republic yet is, her galaxy is already brightened with illustrious names: it were injustice not to assign a like elevation to the transcendent mind of Clinton, whose name, associated with those of Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, Rittenhouse, Jefferson, Fulton, and other American worthies, will ever be identified with the existence of his country, and transmitted with increasing lustre to the latest posterity.

THE MOWERS.

[Original.]

THE Mowers went into the ripened field
To cut the rich green grass,

And it fell, it fell, as man must yield,
When the reaper Death doth pass.

And I saw as they went, the little bird fly
From its mossy nest on the ground,
And I heard her lament, in a mournful cry,
And the woods re-echoed the sound.

For the mowers destroyed her precious young,
Their feathers were strewed in the air,
And the mate that rocked on the bush, and sung,
Was caught in a cruel snare.

And thus do the lovely of earth go sad

When their beautiful ones are taken,

And never again are their hearts made glad,
For they seem to be all forsaken.