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ney he felt himfelf a good deal indifpofed, but returned to Account of lord 



Edinburgh, reflored, as he faid, to his ufual health, though 

 his altered looks and appearance ftrongly excited the apprehen- 

 fions of his friends. Thole apprehenlions were but too foon 

 verified. He was attacked in fummer 1 795 with a breaft-com- 

 plaint, attended with dangerous fymptoms, for which, after 

 fome palliative means, to which his diforder never at all yield- 

 ed, he was advifed to try the milder climate of Exmouth in De- 

 vonlhire, a voyage to the Continent being, in the prefent iitiia^ 

 tion of public affairs, difficult to accompliih, and particularly 

 difagreeable to his inclinations. He was accompanied in this 

 journey by his nephew, the eldeft fon of Iiis brother Sir Ralph 

 Abe u CROW BY, who watched tlie lafl days of his uncle with 

 that tender affiduity which, though the world can neither fee 

 its merit nor feel its fufferings, is one of the moft important 

 and moft difinterefted of all the domeftic duties. On the road to 

 Exmouth, he was feized with ftill more violent fymptoms than 

 any his diforder had hitherto exhibited ; and though he expe- 

 rienced, during the fpace of about two months, fome tempo- 

 rary relief, he never gained any material advantage, and the 

 difeafe made progreffive advances, till at laft it carried him off 

 on the 17th day of November 1795. He bore its fufferings 

 with the greateft patience and fortitude ; and though for fome 

 time he entertained hopes which his phyficians and friends faw 

 to be but too ill founded, he met its conclufiou with perfeA 

 compofure and refignation. 



The diforder which terminated fb fatally was perhaps only 

 the effedl of a gradually debilitated conftitution, not of any 

 determinate and immediate caufe. Yet fome of his friends, 

 with an anxiety natural in f\ich a circumftance, have traced it 

 to various fources. An accidental fall into the uninclofed foun- 

 dation of a houfe in the New Town of Edinburgh, was by 

 » fome. 



Abej-cromby. 



