5SS ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



of faith, of hope, of love, of re- 

 signation, of union with God, and 

 of confornnity to Jesus Christ, 

 which were inculcated in those 

 texts. He made us frequently 

 repeat the words which the church 

 has applied to St. Martin, and has 

 attributed to that eminent bishop 

 of the Gallician church : — ' Lord, 

 if I am yet needful to thy people, 

 I will not shrink from the labour ; 

 thy will be done. Oh, man, 

 whom we cannot praise too 

 much ! He was unwearied in la- 

 bour ; he was unconquered even 

 by death ; he feared not to live, 

 and he refused not to die.' The 

 archbishop of Cambrai seemed to 

 be full of the same holy and devout 

 submission to the will of God. 

 On that occasion, and in imitation 

 of the disciples of St. Martin, I 

 ventured to ask him, • But why 

 do you leave us ? In this state of 

 desolation, to whom will you con- 

 fide us? Perhaps the ravening 

 wolves may come, and lay your 

 flock waste.' He replied only 

 with sighs. 



" Though he had confessed 

 himself on Christmas eve, before 

 chaunting the midnight mass, hs 

 confessed himself again on the 

 second day of his illness. On the 

 third day, in the morning, he de- 

 sired me to administer the sacra- 

 ment to him ; in an hour after- 

 wards he asked me if every thing 

 was ready for that ceremony. 

 When I told him, that I thought 

 his danger was not so great as to 

 require it, he replied. ' In my 

 present condition, there ia nothing 

 more important to me. 



" He immediately caused him- 

 self to be carried from the small 

 chamber which he usually occu- 

 pied, into his lar^e room. He de^ 



sired that all the members of his 

 chapter might be present at that 

 act of religion. Before receiving 

 the sacrament, he addressed some 

 pious conversation to each of the 

 assistants, which I could not hear 

 but confusedly, as I was too far 

 from the bed. 



*' In the afternoon of the fourth 

 day, the abbe de Beaumont and 

 the marquis of Fenelon, his two 

 nephews, arrived post from Paris. 

 He felt evident joy at seeing them ; 

 he inquired who had acquainted 

 them with his danger; their grief 

 prevented them from replying a 

 single word : they merely pointed 

 to the abbe de Fenelon, who was 

 at Cambrai when the illness first 

 manifested itself. 



" Though he had shewn the 

 most tender grief at the death of 

 the abbe de Langeron, his inti- 

 mate friend, and at that of the 

 duke of Burgundy, his pupil, yet 

 he beheld unmoved, in his last 

 moments, the sorrow and the 

 tears of all those whom he most 

 affectionately loved. 



" The abbe de Beaumont and 

 the marquis of Fenelon had pru- 

 dently brought with them, from 

 Paris, the celebrated Chirac, the 

 principal physician of Louis XIV, 

 who immediately held a consul- 

 tation with the chief medical men 

 of the place who had attended 

 Fenelon and prescribed for his dis- 

 ease. They agreed that he should 

 be bled a second time, and to give 

 him an emetic : the effect was im- 

 mediate, and he seemed to be re- 

 lieved ; some hopes, indeed, of his 

 recovery began to be entertained: 

 but it soon appeared that the 

 disease was more powerful than 

 the remedies. It was the will 

 of God to take to biioself one 



