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perature of the atmosphere of that 

 country. Previously to his intend- 

 ed departure, he visited his favour- 

 ite castle at Southampton, and find- 

 ing himself daily getting better, he 

 abandoned his intention of going 

 to Portugal. His disorder was a 

 liver complaint, to which he had 

 for many years been subject. His 

 lordship had a presentiment of his 

 approaching end. It was only three 

 days before his death that he ob- 

 served to a favourite domestic, 

 *' Happy is that man who closes 

 his earthly career when in sleep." 

 It was a singular circumstance that 

 he should depart this life in a way 

 most agreeable to his own wishes : 

 his lordship died without a groan, 

 at a time when his servant was sit- 

 ting near the head of the bed, and 

 imagined his master to have been 

 still asleep. It was not until half 

 an hour afterwards that he was dis- 

 covered to be dead. He was a man 

 of the most unassuming and conci- 

 liatory manners : in his domestic 

 habits he was beloved by all his 

 household. A few months since, as 

 he passed the church-yard at Pad- 

 dington, commenting on the dis- 

 play of a pompous funeral proces- 

 sion, when extended frequently a 

 hundred miles into the country, he 

 ridiculed the idea, and added, 

 *' When I die, pray let my remains 

 be deposited here." In consequence 

 of that request being lately repeat- 

 ed, the body will be deposited there 

 in a vault, over which a plain mau- 

 soleum will be erected to his me- 

 mory. 



At his house, in Seymour place, 

 lord Monson, 23. He succeeded 

 his father in 1805; the following 

 year married lady Sarah Saville, 

 and has left one son, to whom the 

 title devolves. 



In Pail-Mall, Sir Frederick Mor- 

 ton Eden, bart. He was a man of 

 distinguished knowledge, particu- 

 larly on political and commercial 

 subjects. He was also a man of 

 speculation, and was chiefly instru- 

 mental in founding the Globe In- 

 surance Company, About a year 

 ago he was deprived of a most 

 amiable and accomplished wife, to 

 the regret of a wide circle of friends. 

 — Sir Frederick has left a large 

 and valuable library, among which 

 are many rare and curious manu- 

 scripts. 



At St. George's hospital, Tho- 

 mas Soaper, a carpenter, whose 

 death was occasioned by the bite 

 of a rattlesnake. He was at work 

 at an exhibition-shop of beasts and 

 reptiles, in Piccadilly, where there 

 is a rattlesnake in a close cage. He 

 must needs tease and provoke the 

 creature with his rule, which he un- 

 luckily dropped in the cage ; and in 

 taking it out, the snake bit him be- 

 tween the thumb and finger. In a 

 few minutes, the hand was terribly 

 swoln, and in a few hours the poor 

 sufferer was deprived of his reason. 

 Every possible attention was paid 

 to him at the hospital, without 

 effect. 



At Whitton, Edmund Hill, esq. 

 76. He has left property to the 

 enormous amount of 800,000/. To 

 Mr. Fish, of Greville-street, Hat- 

 ton-garden, and to another gentle- 

 man, he has left 360,000/. each; 

 to the rev. Mr. Taylor, his nearest 

 relative, who was offered 100,000/. 

 some time ago, for the chance of 

 his legacy, he has bequeathed 

 36,000/. He has left nothing to 

 his relatives in Somersetshire, whom 

 he had placed on a valuable estate 

 in that county, which he had bought 

 for 75,000/. and which he had as- 

 sured 



