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able raconteur till the very last. He was in his seventy- 

 seventh year, when, in the month of February 1866, he 

 died of dropsy, almost the last survivor, I suppose, of 

 that race of intrepid spirits who were bred by the big 

 wars of the eighteenth century, and helped England at a 

 great crisis in her history to hold her own against a world 

 in arms. 



