560 " -MEMOIR OF 
intending his workmen in some improvements he was making 
at Woodhouselee, he felt that he had fatigued himself, and he 
was soon sensible of the recurrence of the same unfortunate 
accident which had laid the foundation of so many years of 
suffering. From this period, the remainder of his life was a 
scene of coittinued pain and increasing debility,—borne, in- 
deed, with the most calm and even chearful resignation, and 
relieved by every thing that filial and conjugal tenderness could 
supply, yet too visibly approaching to a period which neither 
tenderness nor magnanimity could avert. 
In the beginning of winter, he was prevailed upon to leave 
his favourite Woodhouselee, and to remove into town; and 
from this time his disease appeared to make a more rapid pro- 
gress. On the 4th of January 1813, he felt himself more than 
usually unwell ; and in the evening, when his family, with their 
usual attentions, were preparing to read to him some work of 
amusement, he requested that they would rather read to him 
the evening service of the Church, and that they might once 
more have the happiness of being united in domestic devotion. 
When this was finished, he spoke to them with firmness, of the 
events for which they must now prepare themselves: He assu- 
red them that to him death had no sorrow but that of leaving 
them: He prayed that Heaven might reward them for the un- 
interrupted happiness which their conduct and their love had 
given to him; and he concluded, by giving to each of them 
his last and solemn blessing. 
After the discharge of this last paternal duty, he retired to 
rest, and slept with more than his usual tranquillity, and in the 
morning, (as the weather was fine,) he ordered his carriage, 
and desired that it might go out on the road towards Wood- 
houselee. He was able to go so far as to come within sight of 
his 
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