"Dulce et decórum est, pro patria mori."

Peace be to thy manes, excellent, though ill-fated youth! Thy country mourns in thee, the loss of one of her noblest sons--whilst we, thy brethren of the mystic tie, shed a tear to the memory of thy departed worth! May that " GRAND LODGE above, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens," be the seat of thy everlasting abode!

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EULOGY ON DR. SHIPPEN.-FOR THE PORT FOLIO.

EXTRACTS FROM A EULOGY ON WILLIAM SHIPPEN, M. D. LATE PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, DELIVERED, BY REQUEST, AS AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, TO A MEDICAL CLASS, IN THE AUTUMN OF 1808. GENTLEMEN,

To commemorate the virtues, to celebrate the achievements, and thus perpetuate the fame of the illustrious dead, has been the business of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, and the orator, in every country and in every age. Neither the rigours of a polar, nor the fervours of a tropical sky; neither the rude insensibility of barbarism, nor the busy dissipation of polished life, can deter the mind from this pious employment. The motives by which mankind are induced to engage in it are confessedly liberal and elevated in their nature-in their result they are eminently pleasing and important. In point of universality and force, they are, perhaps, next to those which lead the mind to the worship of a god. In either case, an intermingled sentiment of gratitude and piety constitutes a leading principle of actionin either case, there is manifested a grateful and praiseworthy recollection of benefits received.

VOL. I.

With sentiments and recollections not dissimilar to these, are we now assembled to mingle our sorrows over the ashes of a mortal-with praises such as may become the occasion, and such as truth may not disavow, are we called on to honour the memory of a benefactor.

Previously to my attempting to portray the character, and to unfold to you a view of the labours and achievements of our distinguished countryman, suffer me to premise a single reflection. If many youths have been fired with enthusiasm, and urged to deeds of greatness and glory, by a recital of the lives of the destroyers of nations, how much more does it become you to catch the spark of a generous emulation from the story of him who was one of the benefactors of the human race!

Dr. Shippen was descended, on his mother's side, from a family of wealth and distinction, which had been attached to the person, and had followed the fortunes of the illustrious founder of the state of Pennsylvania. By his father he was connected with those pious and intrepid pilgrims, who, flying from fanaticism and persecution in their native country, had sought an asylum for liberty of conscience and the rights of devotion, in the wilds of Newengland. He was born in October 1733, in the city of Philadelphia, of which, his grandfather, having emigrated from Massachusetts on a special invitation from William, Penn, had been the first mayor.

Of the first years of the life of young Shippen, nothing particular is, at present, recollected. Nor is this circumstance to The history of childhood is

be regarded as a subject of regret. but rarely instructive. It is seldom that the infant gives any well founded presage of the future character of the individual. As the acorn holds buried in its bosom the embryo-oak, destined to be the future pride of the forest, and a still smaller seed encloses the more gigantic adansonia, so, in the early morning of life, the rudiments of human greatness are generally concealed beneath the sportive habits of the child.

Our first acquaintance with our young philosopher commences at the Westnotingham grammar school, then under the direction of the reverend Dr. Findley. That eminent and pious divine, no less distinguished for his talents and learning, than