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his own grounds ; and then raising himself in the carriage, his 

 eye was observed to kindle as he looked once more upon the 

 hills, which he felt he was so soon to leave, " and which he 

 " had loved so well." There was an influence in the scene 

 which seemed to renew his strength, and he returned to town, 

 and walked up the stair of his house with more vigour than he 

 had shewn for some time ; but the excitement was momen- 

 tary, and he had scarcely entered his study, before he sunk 

 down upon the floor, without a sigh or a groan. Medical as- 

 sistance was immediately procured, but it was soon found that 

 all assistance was vain ; and Dr Gregory arrived in time only 

 to close his eyes, and thus to give the final testimony of a- 

 friendship which, in the last words that he wrote for the press, 

 Lord Woodhouselee had gratefully commemorated as having 

 borne the test of nearly half a century. 



His remains were interred in the family burial-place in the 

 Grayfriars Church-yard, beside those of his father and mother, 

 to whose memory it was then found, that his filial piety had 

 so exclusively dedicated it, that their epitaph occupied the 

 whole of the tablet, and no room was left for any inscription 

 to himself. 



I have very ill executed the melancholy task I have under- 

 taken, if it is now necessary for me to conclude this account 

 with any laboured delineation of the character of Lord Wood- 

 houselee. I am speaking to some, in whose memories his vir- 

 tues are written in better characters than those of words j and 

 I am too conscious of the partiality of friendship, to trust my- 

 self to any other representation than that which his own life 



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