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" The sympathising concern expressed in yours makes me believe 

 the following particulars of my late worthy uncle's illness will not be 

 altogether uninteresting. [A brief account is then given of the painful 

 disease, with which he was attacked, while on a visit at Lord Petre's, 

 whereupon he immediately returned to town.] Doctors Reeves and 

 Russell, Surgeons Crowell and Adair attended him, but all was in 

 vain. On Thursday last, about 20 minutes before two, he quitted 

 this world. 



" Through the whole of his disorder he expressed the most cheerful 

 patience and humble fortitude. He told me at first that let the event 

 be what it might, he was content : that it was totally indifferent to 

 him whether he was to go then, or to continue four or five years 

 longer.' 'Few men/ he added, 'have enjoyed life more, been more 

 exempt from pain and disease; and now (he subjoined,) it is come so 

 late in life, I am thankful to Providence he has preserved me so 

 long. I cheerfully resign, and am not afraid to die.' No complaint, 

 no murmer was heard. He accepted with the kindest notice all the 

 assistance administered ; told us, he submitted to the various medical 

 and chirurgical operations, both, as being his duty, and to give satis- 

 faction to his family : if success attended, it was well ; if the contrary, 

 it was also well. Thus the good man took leave of all visibles ; he had 

 used them, without abusing them. He had lived pleasantly, usefully, 

 and honourably ; might be justly called a friend to mankind, and an 

 unwearied promoter of knowledge in general, and of Natural History 

 in particular. What can humanity have attained to more desirable ? 

 so to have lived, and thus to have died. Yet though reason almost 

 forbids, still the feelings of nature compel me to weep." 



22d, 1803, in his 77th year, and that he was a man of Intellectual superiority and distinguished 

 worth. " He was not one of the multitude whose passage through life resembles that of an 

 arrow through the air, leaving not a trace behind. In his youth, by passing much of his time 

 with his uncle PETER, he formed an acquaintance with many of the scientific characters of that 

 period; and his mind became impressed with that lore of knowledge, and energy in its pur- 

 suit, which attended him through a long life, and only ceased with his existence." Then after 

 giving an account of his extensive travels, his many accomplishments, his varied and exten- 

 sive knowledge of Nature and Art, and especially of the topography and Structures of Ancient 

 Rome, it is said of him : " His acquaintance with Natural Philosophy was considerable; and to 

 some branches of the mathematics he had attained distinguished eminence. His conversation 

 was uncommonly animated and energetic ; his memory most retentive, bringing forward from 

 its rich treasury the most appropriate illustration of the subject. From his society, few retired 

 without improvement, none without pleasure; his lucid and happy mode of communicating 

 instruction, especially to young people, was a marked feature in his character; while they 

 eagerly listened, and imbibed the streams of knowledge, they felt rather conferring than re- 

 ceiving an obligation, such was the urbanity and fascination of his manners. As an (econo- 

 mist of his time, few equalled, none surpassed him ; its minutest divisions were not suffered to 

 pass away unheeded or unimproved. To this, his constant habit of registering the transactions 

 of each day materially contributed ; and that which was terminated without some advance to 

 learning or science, he considered as lost. These memoranda, regularly entered at the close of 



