How many delightful recollections are awakened by this name, and how many happy hours have I spent in the house and in the society of this accomplished gentleman and princely merchant. The author of his own fortunes, Mr. Lawrence makes the wisest and most liberal use of his wealth; his purse is ever open to aid in supporting public charities and improvements; in promoting objects of national usefulness and honour, and in adorning the metropolis of New England, the Corinthian pillar of the State, with institutions for the increase alike of her beauty and of her prosperity. Nor are his private benefactions on a less liberal scale; they are equally honourable to his heart, and becoming the position of so distinguished and influential a citizen of the Republic; he is as earnest to pour the oil and wine upon the wounded stranger by the way side, as he is to raise up enduring and useful monuments to science. The residence of Mr. Lawrence is adorned with finished taste; no vulgar display of overloaded magnificence, but that subdued elegance and exquisite attention to comfort which the most refined of French authors describes as the chief attractions of luxury; books and sculpture are here the constant every day companions of the dwellers in those pleasant halls: and every domestic arrangement is faultless.