32 MEMOIR OF, ETC. 



Many years afterwards he lost his only daughter, 

 the wife of his adopted son ; and immediately after 

 this shock, he was hinself seized with the small- 

 pox. In this last illness, almost the only one he 

 had experienced during a life of seventy years, he 

 continued remarkably to exhibit how much amia- 

 bility and unalterable politeness were inherent in 

 his nature. Not a word escaped him to show his 

 sense of danger, though he apprehended death from 

 the first moment of his seizure. He died on the 

 6th of October, 1825. 



On the day of his funeral, the crowd, many 

 of them unfortunate and miserable, who came to 

 weep over his tomb, was the best proof of his 

 liberality and benevolence : and these virtues are 

 not less distinctly proclaimed by the fact, that, after 

 having long filled the most eminent situations, and 

 having enjoyed, for ten years, the especial favour of 

 the great Arbiter of Europe, the fortune which he 

 left was much less than that which he had inherited 

 from his father. 



