560 MEMOIR OF 



intending his workmen in some improvements he was making 

 at Woodhouselee, he felt that he had fatigued himself, and he 

 was soon sensible of the recurrence of the same unfortunate 

 accident which had laid the foundation of so many years of 

 suffering. From this period, the remainder of his life was a 

 scene of continued pain and increasing debility, — borne, in- 

 deed, with the most calm and even chearful resignation, and 

 relieved by everything that filial and conjugal tenderness could 

 supply, yet too visibly approaching to a period which neither 

 tenderness nor magnanimity could avert 



In the beginning of winter, he was prevailed upon to leave 

 his favourite Woodhouselee, and to remove into town ; and 

 from this time his disease appeared to make a more rapid pro- 

 gress. On the 4th of January 1813, he felt himself more than 

 usually unwell ; and in the evening, when his family, with their 

 usual attentions, were preparing to read to him some work of 

 .amusement, he requested that they would rather read to him 

 the evening service of the Church, and that they might once 

 more have the happiness of being united in domestic devotion. 

 When this was finished, he spoke to them with firmness, of the 

 events for which they must now prepare themselves : He assu- 

 red them that to him death had no sorrow but that of leaving 

 them : He prayed that Heaven might reward them for the un- 

 interrupted happiness which their conduct and their love had 

 given to him ; and he concluded, by giving to each of them 

 his last and solemn blessing. 



After the discharge of this last paternal duty, he retired to 

 rest, and slept with more than his usual tranquillity, and in the 

 morning, (as the weather was fine,) he ordered his carriage, 

 and desired that it might go out on the road towards Wood- 

 houselee. He was able to go so far as to come within sight of 



his 



