ented than
complained of. Nor must it be supposed that this preference was the
effect of indolence. On the contrary, he was, in his way, a laborious
man, and it may be that the leisure of his latter years may have been
productive of important fruits in literature and science to those who
have survived him.

We will not, and need not, dwell upon the private relations of Mr.
Tazewell, in all of which he had no superior; and although for many
years he has been a stranger upon our streets, yet we feel that even in
a social point of view we have sustained a loss which cannot be
repaired. There is great sadness in our city, which pervades all its
ranks, and which even those who never saw him deeply feel. We add no
more than to offer our unaffected sympathy to his family.

DESCRIPTION OF MR. TAZEWELL, BY THE LATE WILLIAM WIRT, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES.

This sketch of Mr. Tazewell is taken from the twenty-fourth number of
the OLD BACHELOR, a name given to a series of papers written in
imitation of The Spectator, The Rambler, and their successors, and
designed to improve the morals and elevate the taste of the community.
They appeared in the Richmond Enquirer during the years 1813-14, and
were republished in duodecimo in the latter year. Mr. Tazewell is
represented as a youth of twenty-two, under the name of Sidney; Gen.
Taylor under that of Herbert; the late Judge Parker under that of
Alfred; the late Francis W. Gilmer under that of Galen I believe; and I
suspect Mr. Wirt himself is the Old Bachelor of the piece. But, for
various reasons, I shall only present Mr. Tazewell as he appears in the
character of Sidney. As Mr. Wirt was Clerk of the House of Delegates for
three years of the time during which Mr. Tazewell was a member of the
body, he must have known personally Mr. Tazewell in his twenty-second or
third year; and although the sketch was written fourteen or fifteen
years later, it may have been drawn from actual life.

"On the night of the arrival of the young friends mentioned in my former
number, Alfred, whose signal had drawn them to the parlor, where they
were first met by Rosalie and myself, performed the part of master of
ceremonies by giving us a mutual introduction, which he did in the
following terms:

"'My friends, this is Dr. Cecil, the benevolent censor of the age; and
this is my sister Rosalie. This, sir,' addressing me, 'is the son of a
man whom I have often heard you admire, Mr. Sidney