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it is the Iv )f.t eTalgente cif its Meridian glory, and
was now damned to see it sinking beneath the ho-
riXon, in right And darkness. lie had net left the
chamber of his pupil, his pttrim, and triend, (or
some days. Mr. Pier, sh ntly after he signed the
papers, expressed a wish to speak with him, and
intimated his desire to receive the Sacrament. It

was accnr,lingly administered to him by die Bishop.
After this solemn rite was performed, Mr. PITI
conversed with his friend; tit the subjedt can only
be matter of conjeaurc to strangers. The conver-
sation. probably, lasted several minutes at all
eveati4 several minutes had elapsed before a third
person was admitted into the room. Tuesday
evening his fen+ had greatly increased. During
the whole of Tuesday night, he obtained only a

hw minutes of troubled sleep. He had taken nn
sustenance since Monday morning. On Wedres-

day merning, a few hours appea►ed all he had to
live. He was completelT exhausted, and life WAS
at its last ebS. He expressed a wish to write a few

lines ; but his weakness and faintness were so great,
he was obliged to abandon his intention. Elis only bro-
ther. the Earl of Cm atm A M. now approached his bed

side, and to ,k his last melancholy and Atrea;onste
fasewell, Ns niece, Lady Mar ta ST ANI4O/ to

whom he was much attached, and who had prin-
cipally resided with him for some time past, and
the Hon..lasits Sr assuomalso performed the same
sad ceremony. in the course of the day. Ex-
cepting the Medical Gentlemen, the Bishop of
tumour was the last person with him. He
aster left his chamber. Mr. Pis r's mind had
hitherto been clear and colleded. Towards mid-
night, his senses began to fail him; hi:eters were
then applied to the soles of his feet—they produced
thesffea of restoring him to his recolletlion, and he
continued clear and composed, till a very short
time befote his d ssolution. which took place with-
out muds additional suffering or struggle, at hslf
past four o'clock yesterday morning, as we have al-
ready stated. Mr. Psi.t was of a delicate constitu-
tion, and had been for a long time complaining.

The illness which he had, in the Summer of 180'2,
shook him very much, and he does not appear to
have afterwards effeftually recovered from it.—
The illness, which was the immediate cause
of his death, originated in extreme debility.
brought on by excessive anxiety, and unwearied at-
tention to business.—By this debility, his whole
nervous system was so deranged, that, for weeks to-
'ether, he was unable to sleep t and this privation
of rest still farther angnsented the cause, so as to
lead to a general breaking up of his constitution, as
we stated yesterday.—An hereditary gout complet-
ed the whole—producing, according to its ordinary
rife& on a debilitated system, water in the chest,
and such a weakness of stomach, that he could nei-
ther admit nor retain any sustenance. 'I he unfor-
tunate issue of the war upon the Continent, no
doubt, also contributed largely to hasten his
death.—The failure of a plan for the deliver-
ance of Europe, which his genius had formed
and matured, must have been to him, the
source of great anxiety and mortification. Thus
died, in his forty-seventh year, the Right lion.
WILLIAM PITT, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
First Lord of the Treasury, Constable of Dover
Castle. Warden of the Cinque Pints, Master of the
Trinity House, Govern'or of the Charter licit"
and High Steward of the University of Cambridge.
At half after six, yesterday mowing, the Hoe.
Mr. Sratistore, and his Private Secretary, gr.
AD ire, arrived from Putney, at his house in Down-
ing-street, and put seals upon his bureau and pa-
pers. A Message from the Treasury to the Go.
wernor and Dire lors of the Bank, communicated, at
a:, early hour in the morning, the death of Mr.
PITT. The seniation was deep and general ; even hit
political enemies sympathised in what is truly con-
sidered a national loss. In consequence of the me-
lancholy intelligence, the Funds felt an almost im-
mediate depression of one-half per cent.
Mr. Pitt and the late lamented Lord NILSON
died at the same age, and mai), at the distance
of three months from each other. In so short a
space of time, and at such a critical period, has the
country been deprived of two of the greatest men
it ever produced, whose talents, though of different
kinds, have given a chat after to the age in which they
lived, and whose memory will survive to the latest pos-
terity. It would be presumption to attempt, at the no-
tice of only a few hours, any account of the charafter
of Mr. PITT, which could pretend to the merit of
a just likeness.—To examine an ohjeft of such mag-
nitude, is a work of some time ; and to form a cor-
reel idea of its component materials, requires no or-
dinary talents. The mind cannot be in the best
state for such an undertaking, at the very moment
when it is fillet with sorrow and surprise. So great
an objeet must be placed at a distance, for the eye to
take in the whole editiee, and accurately estimate
its proportions. To attempt then a charaiter of Mr.
Pim at the present moment, to give, in a few
hours, an adequate picture of a •' combination