54 RECORDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



a rude bed of clean straw was hastily prepared for 

 him. From this moment it was visible that death 

 was at hand, and the Duke himself was conscious 

 of the fact.* Perfectly calm and collected, he gave his 

 old friend Major Bowles his parting instructions, and, 

 after a few hours of intense agony, this revered noble- 

 man breathed his last. His body was removed to 

 Quebec, and, after lying in state in the chateau, was 

 buried beneath the communion-table of the cathedral. 

 My authority for this account of the sad end of the 

 Duke is the late Lord William Pitt Lennox, and a friend 

 who was with his father at the time, and wrote it 

 to contradict the various erroneous assertions made 

 upon the matter — some, no doubt, from unfriendly 

 motives, as witness the following: "The late Duke 

 of Eichmond was Irish all over — frank, benevolent, 

 sanguine, expensive, a lover of sporting men and an 

 occasional carouse, bound hand and foot to the narrow 

 policy of the Castlereagh ministry. The Duke died 

 of hydrophobia, very distressingly, in the backwoods 

 of the Piver Ottawa." 



* " In his moments of delirium he never uttered a sentence or 

 expression which his best friends would wish to have concealed. 

 He dwelt particularly on the comfort he felt on leaving the world 

 in perfect charity with all mankind, and most earnestly begged 

 Colonel Cockburn and myself (Major Bowles) to forgive all the 

 world as sincerely as he did, if we wished to die as happily as he 

 did. He preserved his affection for his little spaniel to the last 

 moment of his recollection, and in the midst of violent pain would 

 sometimes call out to him in his natural tone and voice." 



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