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managed to .accomplish the means of doing all this_,good 

 to his country, and to humanity ? 



The universal acclamations of his fellow-citizen;? 

 answer.for me against such accusations. The last and 

 most solemn .marks of their esteem have terminated a 

 niost .useful career, in a manner most glorious ; perhaps 

 we have even to regret tbat they shortened its ,course. 



Having been nominated a jnember of .the, conserva- 

 tive senate, he was desirous to fulfil his new duties as 

 he . had discharged those of his whole life. He wo,* 

 obliged .to make some, change in his reginoen.. The 

 season was very severe. The .first ijme he attended a 

 meeting of the body who elected him, he, was struck 

 with apoplexy, and fell senseless. into the arms of his 

 alarmed colleagues. The, most prompt assistance- could 

 restore consciousness only for a few minutes, during 

 which he appeared, as he always had been, the trail- 

 quil observer of Nature. He continued to touch with 

 his fingers, which were not deprived of sensation, the 

 different. parts of his body, indicating to his attendants 

 the, progress of the paralysis. .He died, on the 31st 

 December, .1799, at. the age of eighty T four,, without 

 suffering; so, that we may say, that he attained a 

 happiness,, if not attended with the most brilliant 

 .accompaniments, .at least more perfect, and free from 

 .mixture, than we can reasonably expect here. 



His funeral ..was such as .became one of our first 

 .magistrates, one of. our. most "illustrious philosophers, 

 .and one of our most respectable citizens. People g,all 



