4.22 MEMOIRS OP 



claffical partiality for patriotifm, and be- 

 come juft to the exalted merits of the 

 Englifh Poets ? To that fmcere and ardent 

 patriotifm the author of thefe memoirs 

 hopes will be remitted her tributary digref- 

 fion to the fame of Gray. 



Sunday, the eighteenth of April, 1803, 

 deprived Derby and it's vicinity, and the 

 encircling counties, of Dr. Darwin ; the 

 lettered world of his genius. During a 

 few preceding years he had been fubjecl: to 

 fudden and alarming diforders of the cheft, 

 in which he always applied the lancet in- 

 ftantly and freely ; he had repeatedly rifen 

 in the night and bled himfelf. It was faid 

 that he fufpeclcd angina pe^ons to be the 

 caufe of thofe his fudden paroxyfms, and 

 that it would produce fudden death. The 

 converfation which he held with Mrs. Dar- 

 win and her friend, the night before he 

 died, gave colour to the report. In the 

 preceding year he had a very dangerous 



