An eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq : late president of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others, in North America ; the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; the Agricultural Society ; the Society for the Advice of Immigrants ; the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; and the National Bank in Boston ; who died at Boston, April 8, 1796 ; delivered, May 4, 1796, before the several societies to which he belonged / by John Warren.

  • Warren, John, 1753-1815.
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MDCCXCVI [1796]
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Credit: An eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq : late president of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others, in North America ; the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; the Agricultural Society ; the Society for the Advice of Immigrants ; the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; and the National Bank in Boston ; who died at Boston, April 8, 1796 ; delivered, May 4, 1796, before the several societies to which he belonged / by John Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >6 ] flates of America in the trade to Ruffia ; and in the 1 India commerce alfo, he was largely concerned. His example was, doubtlefs, a great encouragement to fhofe branches of trade : and though, from the fimilaiitv of the articles fiuniihed by the former, to thofe of our own country, it may never, perhaps, become very extenfive, or profitable ; yet the latter has already proved, in a high degree, beneficial. difcordant regulations of the different flates on the fubjeclof commerce, under the old confederation, and the inefficiency of the government to cftablifh a coercive fyftem, were heavily experienced by the mercantile pa;t (I the community : mr. russell, however, pcricveied in bufmefs, until the adoption of the flew conftituticn gave energy to the laws, and a new impulfe to the progrefs of commerce. the wealth which he had acquired at the commence- ment of the prefent war in Europe, by a long and induf- tnous application to bufmefs, induced him to determine on contracting the compafs of it ; but, finding himfelf in . poffcfiion of an immenfe capital, and the neutrality adopt- ed by our government affording, as he himfelf declared, lo