The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-10-27 00:00:00

THE LATE DUKE OF RICHMOND.

An official dispatch from Charles Cambridge,
E►q. addressed to Earl Bathurst, contains the fol•
lowing melancholy detail* of particulars attendant
upon the death of this lamented Nobleman
After mentioning the tour which his Grace bad
taken for the purpose of investigating the actual
state of the province*, stud other particulars, the
latter proceeds thus :
w when his Grace parted with his family at Kingston, be
proceeded, accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Cockbura„
and Major Bowles sad two domestics, to visit the Easters
Township, where already the population bad been consider-
ably benefited by the excellent policy of the atiminishation.
On the 23d August the Duke doted with a detachment of
officers stationed at Perth, anti it was only on the 2rsth that
the first symptoms of that crut I disorder presented them-
selves, which only three days afterwards terminated in death.
Early ou that morning his valet found his Grace alarmed at
the appearance of some trees which were arse a window
where he slept, and which he insisted were people looking is;
and slimily afterwards, when a basin of water was pmented
to him, he exhibited evident abhorrence at the sight of
it, and on several other occasions on that day, and on the
leth, the same symptoms were but too obvious whenever
■ny liquid was presented, and which it now appeared his
Grace partook of with extreme reluctance. On ibis day, at
dinner, he had requested Lieutenant-Colonel Cockburn to
take stme with him, lost hi■ Grace had no sootier lifted the
liquid to his lip., than, unable to control the violence of his
disease, he replaced the glass on the table, observing—
Now is not this excessively ridiculous—well, I'll take it
n I don't think of it." The same evening au Assistant-
Surgeon, the only one in the vicinity, was sent for, who bled
him, sod his Excellency apparently found so much relief
from the operal ion, that he arose early the next morning and
proposed walking through Richmond Wood, to the stew set-
'lenient of that name, which bad recently received its ap-
pellation from its illustrious Wunder, who was sow about
to immortalize it by the catastrophe of his death. He
hail, its his poems through the wood, slatted off at
hearing a dog bark, and was with difficulty overtakes, and
tin the party's arrival at the skirts of the wood, at the sight
of some magmata water, his Grace hastily leaped over
a fence, mid rushed into an adjoining barn, whither his
dismayed companions eazerly follosted him. The pa-
roxysm of his disorder was now at its height. It was
almost a miracle that Isis Grace did not die in the barn

He was with difficulty removed to a miserable hovel iu the
neighbourhood. and early iu the morning of the fatal 28th
the Duke of Richmond expired iu the arms of a faithfu:
Swiss, who had never quilted his beloved master for a mi-
meo.. Whilst in this miserable log hut reason occasionally
resumed her empire, and his Grace accordingly availed him-
self of these lucid intervals to eddiesa a letter to Lady Mary
Lennox, in which be reminded her that a favourite dog be.
longing to the household, being in a room at the Castle of
St. Louis, at • time (five mouths before) when the Duke,
shaving, cut his call., the dug was lifted up, in order to
lick the wound, when the animal bit his Grace's chin. The
recolleciim of Ibis circumstance gave his Grace but too
sure a presentiment (the dog having subsequently run mad)
of his approaching fate, and his Grace therefore, in his letter
to Lady Mary, expressed his conviction (which indeed ap.
pears as irreitstible cooc!usion) that his disorder was hydro-
phobia. His Grace recommended the line of conduct to be
observed by his children in the painful situation in which
they would be placed at his death; and, it is said, requested
to be buried its Quebec oo the ramparts, like a soldier, there
to remain.

" His Grace's remains arrived in Montreal the night of the
30th Au:ust (the very day on which the levee was to have
been held), in a state which I shall not outrage your Lord-
ship's feelings by detailing ; far less csu I attempt to depict
the sensations of the young ladies of his Grace's family,
when so unexpectedly the fatal news had reached them on
the 30th, at Montreal.
a His Grace's sufferings were extreme, yet his mind soared
above his agony. He directed ColunelCuckburn riot to at-
tend to his orders any longer—' Fur yule see, said this great
may ' the state I am reduced to' and during a paroxysm of
'lain, he exclaimed—' For shame, Richmond, shame Charles
Lennox, bear your sufferings like a maw.' The Duke, the
brat man of his rank perhaps who ever died an the Ameri-
can Continent, will ever be regretted by all.elasees of his
Majesty's provincial subjects. The awful termination of
his Grace's illustrious career must excite universal sym-
pathy."

A CAUTION TO CRURCHWARDENN.—SeveraI N•
crilegious robberies have been committed in Mon-
mouthshire, by a gang who seem to be directing
their course towards the principality. On the I lth
or 12th iu.t. at night, the church of St. Arms's,
near Chepstow, was broken into, end all the commu-
nion !date and rirveral bottles of wine stolen. The.
Name night the church at Shireoewtoo was rubbed
of the pulpit and communion clothe:: the plate.
fortunately. was not to the church. It is reported
that several other churches in the interior of the
county Wee also been plundered.