Mr. Scarlett.
WVe copy the following from rr evening paper "Atccounts 1aVe Teachid town of the ileath of Mr. ScarIett, the King's Counsel, and Mlember ot parliarhent for Peterbor6ugh. He died at York, on Taursday morning, where he was attending his professional duties. He bad been previously indis&osed, but not so nuch so as to create any apprehensions for his life. ' The public wil learn with feelings of sorrow the un- expected death of this very eminent Barrister. For our- selves, when we reflect upon the great space which his eloquent pleadings constantly occupied in our columns, and think, that from henceforth we shall see his name no more in the proceedings of the courts, we cannot but be deeply affected by the sudden change. In how many con- cerns of private life, in how many affairs connected with the public weal, was this gentleman but lately engaged; and nov he is at once and for ever separated from this world and its business. Such an event as this should teach men the vanity of excessive esertioin in all human pursuits. Yet, if we inight be allowed to view Mr. SCARLETT at this momonit of public feeling as he will be viewed by persons yet to come, and by those to whom he wvas only remotely 'known, and -who therefure car. take no lively interest in his fate, we should say that his lot in life has not been an unhappy one. He was, we believe, born in a state of affluence. He might have remained content with the goods which fortune bestowed on hiin at his birth: ambition spurred hilm on to a more active course; he chose a life of labour; but in the hopes of attaining those ho- nours which are usually showered down on the more in- dustrious adventurers in his profcssion, he sacrificed no principle, he betrayed no political attachment; and he has, therefore, died with an untitled name. But say, ye Lawyers, wllo have made wreck of faitlh-have violated every professioni and engagement-lhave even turned the wvhole course of your previous lives, and transferred your regard to those of wlhom you had before spoken with lha- tre(i and contempt, whether the distinctions which you have thus attained afford you unmingled satisfaction? iMfr. SCARIETT also died in the course of nature: the professional toils to which he subjected himself may have impaired his constitution, but they did not disturb his un- derstanding; and what more can be desired of human life, than that we should pass through it with an untarnished reputation, and quit it without violence? Its duration imports but little to those who consider to how many weaknesses it is subjected, more particularly in its decline; and how small a proportion, eveni when prolonged to the utmost extent, it bears to that state to which we are transferred. MAR. SCA.RLETT.