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he was In the habit df ufing, painfully at- 
traded and fixed my regards. This acute fen- 
fibility is the inheritance and misfortune of a 
fmall number only of human beings ; where- 
ever it exifts it gives adual life to the mod in- 
animate dbjeds. But what rendered the fcene 
ftill more affliding, was the mournful filence 
of our common friends affembled round the 
one who was leaving us. We accompanied 
him to the boat that was. to tear him from our 
embraces. As he would not fufFer us^ to attend 
him to the fhip, we remained on the fhore 
following him with our eyes. Arrived on 
board, he waved his handkerchief from the 
deck, as the laft, the farewel fignal of ffiend- 
■fhip. 
A perfon equally dear to us both took pity 
on my fufferings, and conduded me to his 
houfe. We fpent the day in enumerating the 
various inftances of benevolence which had 
'honoured the public and private life of the 
beft of men. His name u^as inceffantly in our 
mouths. While we were thus foothingly oc- 
x:upied, our grief was fudderily renewed'by the 
report of the guns from the harbour and the 
j)ort, which announced the departure of the 
H 4 veffel, 
