The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-27 00:00:00

THE LATE DUKE OP RICHMONI".

An official dispatch Irons CFIARLPS CAMBRIDGO,
Esq. addressed to 'Earl BATHURST, contains the
following melancholy details of pilrf iculars atten-
dant upon the death of this lamented Nobleman.
Atter mentioning the four which his Grace had
taken for the purpose of investigat(pg the.actual
sta'e of the provinces, and other particulars, the
letter proceeds thus :
When his Grace parted with his family at
Kingston, he proceeded, accompaisie4 by Lieu.
tenant• Colonel Cockburn, and Major Bowles,
and two domestics, to sisit Eastern
Township, where. already the poolda;inn lead been
considerably benefited by the excellent policy of
the administration. On the 23d of August the
Duke dined with a detachmeut of officers sta-
tioned at Perth, and it was only on the 2.5111 that
the fitst symptoms of that cruel disorder presented
themselves, woich only three days afters, arils ter-
minated in dearli.. Early on that worniug his
valet found his Grace alarmed at the appearance
of some trees which were near a window,whe re
lie slept, and which he insisted-avere people look-
ing in ; and sloirtly afterwards, a basin of
water was presented to him-, he, Orbit:med evident
ahhortence at the sight of it, and on several other
occasions on that day, and on the 26,11, the same
symptOins were hat too obvious whenever any
liquid was presented, and wLich it now appeared
his Grace partook of with evr, me reloctance. On
this day, at dinner, he had reilnested Lieutenant-
C•olOnel Cockburn to take wine W 4111.14,1, hut his
Grace had no sooner lifted the lipid. to his Ups,
than, unable to contro'tl the violence of his disease,
he replaced the glass on the table, observing, " Now
is not this exc,ssively ridiculous—well, I'll take it
whets I don't think of it." The same evening an
Asaistato-Sargeon, the only one in the
was sent for, who bled him, and his Excellency
apparently found so much relief from the opera-
tion, that lie arose early the next morning and
proposed walking through Richmond Wood, to the
new settlement of, that mole, which had recently
received its appellation from its illustrious founder,
who was now about to immortalise it by the ca-
tastrophe of his death. Ile had, in his progress
through the is ood, started off at hearing a dog bark.
Had was with difficulty overtaken, tend ont he party's
arrival at the skirts of the wood, at the sight olsome
stagnant, water, his Grace hastily leaped over a
fence, and rushed into an adjoining barn, whither
his dismayed companionseagerly followed hits. The
paroxysm of his disorder was now at its height.
It was almost a miracle that his Grace did not die
in the barn.—lle was with difficulty removed to
a miserable hovel in the neighbourhood, and
early in the morning of the fatal 28th, the Dyke
of Richmond expired. in the arms of a faithful
Swiss, who had never quitted his beloved master
for a moment. Whilst in this miserable log-hist rea•
son occasionally resumed her empire, and his Grace
accordingly availed himself of these lucid intervals
to address a letter to Lady Mary Lennox', its which
he reminded her that a favourite dog belonging to
the household, being 'in a room at the Castle of
St. Louis, at a time (five months before) when
the Duke, shaving, cut his chits, the dog was lifted
up, in order to lick the wound, when the animal
hit his Grace's chin. The recollection of this
circumstance gave his Grace but too sure a pre-
sentiment (the dog having subsequently run mad)
of his approaching fete, and his Grace therefore,
in his letter io Lady Mary, expressed his convic-
tion (which indeed appears an irresistible con-
clusion) that his disorder was hydrophobia. His
Grace recommended the line of conduct to be ob-
served by his childreu in the painful situation in
which they would be placed at his death ; and,
it is said, requested to be buried its Quebec.on the
ramparts, like a soldier, there to remain.

" His Grace's ren►aius arrived in Montreal the
night c:t the 30th August (the very day on which
the levee was to have been held), in a state which
I shall not outrage your Lordship's feelings by
detailing ; far less can I attempt to depict the
sensations of the young Ladies of his Grace's fa-
mily, when so unexpectedly the fatal news had
reached them on the 30th, at Montreal.

" His Grace's sufferings were extreme, yet his
mind soared above his agony. He directed Colo-
nel Cockburn not to attend to his orders any
longer—' For you see,' said this g►eat man. the
state I am !educed to,' and during a paroxysm of
pin, he exclaimed—' For sha►ue, Richmond,
shame Charles Lennox, bear your sufferings like
a matt.' The Duke, the first !►ran of his rank per-
haps who ever died on the American Continent,
eviii ever be regretted by all classes of his Ma-
jesty's provincial subjects. The awful termina-
tion of his Grace's illustrious career must excite
universal sympathy."

Mr. CHARLES K ESIBLF. has, it Seems, withdrawn
himself from Covent Garden Theatre, at let for
the prksent, in consequence ot the late fracas RI
the rehear*al of Lore in a Village,
MIL Lis port
the Masque of Arthur and Emmeline, ►evived last
night, was immediately put into the buds ul
MC. AguorT.--(illortting Herald.)

POET It Y.
GOD BLESS THE OLD KING !
Zatmg at the Celettratiox of the Jubike iit Dubtis,

Ociobet 25, I $O9.

WRITTEN BY EDMUND L. SWIFT,

GOD bless the Old King !—'Tis the heart-cbeeriog voice,

l'hat affection and duty inspire :
.I',nis day in the years of our King we rejoice,

Our Guardian, oat tittle-honoured Site.
To Him let us hallow this festival day;
.The tribiste of love and of gratitude pay;
d teach from their cradles our children to say—
Goo bless 'Hiutt—GOD bless the Old King: