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he lingered on till the autumn of 1858, when he died rather 

 suddenly at Vaenol, on the 9th of September, after a second 

 attack attended with the same symptoms which had shaken 

 him so severely in 1856. He had only a few weeks pre- 

 viously to this event completed his eighty-second year. He 

 bequeathed to his widow the whole of his vast possessions. 

 No other person was named in his will, which was found 

 written on half a sheet of writing paper, except a few old 

 servants, to whom he bequeathed legacies. Mrs. Smith 

 inherited the estates both in England and Wales, to do 

 exactly as she pleased with them, without any direction, 

 recommendation, or suggestion of a wish on his part as to 

 their ultimate disposition. The funeral took place at Ted- 

 worth, and his remains were interred in the village church- 

 yard ; the mausoleum in the grounds intended for both 

 husband and wife, and also for Mrs. Smith's mother, 

 Mrs. Webber, who had died a short time previously, not 

 being then finished. There had never been any issue of his 

 marriage. 



The following minute account of his illness in 1856 has 

 been furnished by an eye-witness and very old friend, 

 who has also kindly communicated the particulars of 

 Mr. Smith's last attack, received from the wife who so 

 devotedly attended him. 



" When Dr. Stokes arrived from Dublin, in September, 

 1856, he gave little hope to those about Mr. Smith that he 

 would last long, but strongly advised a free use of stimu- 

 lants, which Mr. Smith firmly resisted for some time, iyaj- 

 ing he had always been a very temperate man, to which he 

 believed he owed his vigorous constitution. However, he 

 yielded to the solicitation of his friends, and when appa- 

 rently at the last gasp, found relief from half a wine-glass of 

 brandy. During this autumn, his kind neighbour and highly 

 esteemed friend. Colonel Douglas Pennant, two or three 

 times sent his pack of beagles for Mr. Smith's amusement. 

 Even the sight of them turning into the gate appeared to 



