STATUES TO WATT. 449 
It was not permitted to our associate to see the end of 
this eighty-third year. From the very beginning of the 
summer of 1819, some alarming symptoms defied all the 
powers of medicine. Watt himself was not deceived. 
He said to the numerous friends who visited him—* I 
am moved by the attachment that you show me, I hasten 
to thank you for it, as you see me arrived at my last ill- 
ness.” His son did not appear to him sufficiently re- 
signed ; whereupon he each day sought a new reason by 
which to point out to him with gentleness and tenderness, 
“all the motives of consolation that he might derive from 
the cireumstances under which the inevitable event was 
about to occur.” This sad event did in fact take place 
on the 25th of August, 1819. 
Watt was buried by the side of the parish church of 
Heathfield, near Birmingham, in the county of Stafford. 
Mr. James Watt, whose distinguished talents, and whose 
noble sentiments delighted his father’s heart for nearly 
twenty-five years, erected a splendid Gothic monument 
to him, and it now greatly adorns Handsworth Church.* 
In the centre there stands an admirable statue by 
Chantrey, the exact representation of the old man’s 
noble features. 
A second statue, also of marble, from the hands of the 
same sculptor, has been placed by filial piety in one of 
the halls of the brilliant university where, during his 
youth, the then unknown artist, though harassed by the 
corporation, received such flattering and well-deserved 
encouragement. Nor has Greenock forgotten that Watt 
* To a general reader this paragraph might convey an ambiguity; 
Watt died in his house at Heathfield, at the age of eighty-three years 
and seven months; and his remains are deposited in the chancel of 
the adjoining parochial church of Handsworth, near those of his ex- 
cellent friend Miss Boulton.— Translator. 
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