396 HIS LAST LETTER. 



been my reward from the public ; but should this be all, I shall 

 be satisfied by the great secret pleasure and laudable pride that 

 I feel in my own breast from having been the instrument of 

 bringing forward and maturing new principles and new arrange- 

 ments of boundless value to my country. However much I 

 may be straitened in pecuniary circumstances, the great honour 

 of being a useful subject can never be taken from me, which to 

 me far exceeds riches." 



