72 MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 



his reception, and his life ; to amend the errors of 

 which statements, I must have heen writing one at 

 the very hour of his death ; for I had not time to 

 stop its insertion in one of the Shrewsbury papers, 

 when I received a short, hut most affectionate and 

 affecting letter from his son, informing me, ' as his 

 father's most valued friend,' that he expired, in full 

 possession of his fine and powerful mental faculties, 

 in quiet and cheerful resignation, on the 8th of 

 November, 1828. On the morning of his death, he 

 had the satisfaction of seeing the first proof-impres- 

 sion of a series of large wood-engravings he had 

 undertaken, in a superior style, for the walls of 

 farm-houses, inns, and cottages, with a view to 

 abate cruelty, mitigate pain, and imbue the mind 

 and heart with tenderness and humanity ; and this 

 he called his last legacy to suffering and insulted 

 Nature." 



