what the world had hardly feen before, a list of errors of nineteen pages.

But to politicks and literature there must be an end. Lord Lyttelton had never the appearance of a strong or of a healthy man; he had a flender uncompacted frame, and a meagre face: he lafted however fixty years, and then was seized with his laft illness. Of his death a very affecting and inftructive account has been given by his phyfician, which will fpare me the task of his moral character.

"On Sunday evening the fymptoms "of his lordship's diforder, which for " a week past had alarmed us, put on "a fatal appearance, and his lordship "believed himself to be a dying man. "From

"From this time he fuffered by reftleff"nefs rather than pain; and though his "nerves were apparently much flut"tered, his mental faculties never "feemed ftronger, when he was tho"roughly awake.

"His lordship's bilious and hepatic "complaints feemed alone not equal to "the expected mournful event; his "long want of fleep, whether the con

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fequence of the irritation in the

"bowels, or, which is more probable, "of caufes of different kind, accounts "for his lofs of ftrength, and for his "death very fufficiently.

Though his lordship wifhed his "approaching diffolution not to be lin"gering, he waited for it with refigna❝tion.

❝tion. He faid, "It is a folly, a "keeping me in mifery, now to attempt "to prolong life;" yet he was eafily "perfuaded, for the fatisfaction of "others, to do or take any thing "thought proper for him. On Satur"day he had been remarkably better, "and we were not without fome hopes "of his recovery.

"On Sunday, about eleven in the "forenoon, his lordship fent for me, "and faid he felt a great hurry, and "wifhed to have a little converfation "with me in order to divert it. He "then proceeded to open the fountain "of that heart, from whence goodness "had fo long flowed as from a copious Doctor," said he, " you

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"fhall be my confeffor: when I first set "out in the world, I had friends who "endeavoured to fhake my belief in the "Christian religion. I faw difficulties "which staggered me; but I kept my "mind open to conviction. The evi"dences and doctrines of Christianity, "ftudied with attention, made me a "moft firm and perfuaded believer of "the Chriftian religion. I have made "it the rule of my life, and it is the

ground of my future hopes. I have "erred and finned; but have repented, "and never indulged any vicious habit. "In politicks, and publick life, I have "made publick good the rule of my "conduct. I never gave counfels which "I did not at the time think the best.

"I have

"I have feen that I was fometimes in

"the wrong, but I did not err defigned

"ly. I have endeavoured, in private

"life, to do all the good in my power, "and never for a moment could in"dulge malicious or unjuft defigns upon any perfon whatsoever."

"At another time he faid, "I muft "leave my foul in the fame ftate it was "in before this illness; I find this a very "inconvenient time for folicitude about any thing."

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"On the evening, when the fymp"toms of death came on, he faid, "I "fhall die; but it will not be your "fault." When lord and lady Valentia "came to fee his lordship, he gave "them his folemn benediction, and