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said the character of the man is very clearly 

 developed. 



The first public notice of his decease that reached 

 this country was contained in a very neatly written 

 paragraph in the " Globe," in which the following 

 short but just character was given him : — " His princely 

 magnificence and eccentric gaieties obtained him great 

 notoriety in the sporting and gay circles, both in Eng- 

 land and on the Continent. His failings, which leaned 

 to virtue's side, greatly reduced him, and he has left 

 numerous friends to lament the melancholy fact of his 

 dying in a prison, which, contrasted with his former 

 splendour, furnishes a striking illustration of the 

 mutability of mundane affairs." This account went the 

 round of the papers, with the exception of " Bell's Life 

 in London," which inadvertently stated that he had 

 spent the fortunes of two wives, but which the Editor 

 immediately contradicted on my authority. That of 

 his first, which was ten thousand pounds, was settled 

 on his only daughter by her; what his second wife's 

 fortune was, I never heard, but whatever it might 

 have been, I have reason to believe it remained for the 

 benefit of his younger children. 



It is too much the practice of the world, at least so 

 says the satire, to adore the rising sun, and to con- 



