Feelings of this kind are excited by the narrative of the early death
of Prince Le Boo, a youthful native of the Pelew Islands, who was
brought over to this country in July, 1784, and who, in the
spring-time of life, after little more than five months' stay in
England, fell a victim, to the small pox. In the memoir of that young
prince, who died at Rotherhithe, and was buried in the church-yard
there, in December, 1784, there are some points of resemblance to the
case under our notice. The natural and unforced politeness of the
youth, his aptness at conforming, in all proper things, to the habits
and customs of those to whose hospitality he was intrusted; his warm
and single-hearted affection for such persons, in whatever station,
as showed him kind offices, his desire for mental improvement; his
resignation and submission in his last illness to the will of God,
these are features which remind us of the subject of our present
memoir. Many are the tears which have fallen over the story of the
young and amiable Prince Le Boo.