The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-05 00:00:00

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Yesterday, at a quarter after twelve o'clock%
died, at his house in. Pall Malt, the 123 g year 01
his age, the Rigba Llonottrabla Vt. Wisonag,
L.L.1).• a Governor of the Charter liunse, and
Representative for Higher° Ferterif is the prerieso
Parliament. Mr. Wtswits was without paha for
the last twenty.four houts,'llatk aspired with. tlyp
swum .compusure. As soon as his 'Surgeoiks
had informed hint of tile danpr that Would
probably attend the operation, his reply *wrist
" I will immediaoy make preparations' fur al
46 cum:qv:ices." He directly sent 'for
licitur, made some new arrangements im his 1-
will., and went the day after (iainday), and re.
ccived the sacrament in the Charter-house Chapel.
The next morning, Messrs. Cum:, Home, and
l'tt.r.trsatn, attended him to perform the opera- I
tiun, who proposed' that their patient should be I
bound, f.or fear of any incidental interruption;
to which Mr. W. objected, remarking that they j
utillitt safely Mist to his giving them'tio tiottlde or
iiientiVettience on that account. He immediately
took off his clothes, and placed himself across a I
table, submitting to the operation, for nearly two
ltikurs, without stirring, or uttering a word. To-
'wards the elosl of it, the Surgeons, on finding a
cancerous adherence to
.the hipbone, were tin_
der the necessity of extracting it, by slowly
4lrawing, instead of cutting it.7---In the course
of this most painful operation, ho only et.
claimed, " Now, indeed, you feel fur me !"
:Being put to bed, he sent for his nephew, an
Officer in the Navy, and his supposed lieir‘ and
said, 66 W hen am gone, pqy particular atten-
tion to that drawer, (pointing to one in an escru.
tuire) yea will find something there to amuse
you." There were but little hopes of his reco-
yeritt with the Faculty, from the day after the
orration, on account of a total inertness in the
gosh, which prevented suppuration. He ' bore
this long and torturing illness with a fortitude
that was one of his principal characTeristics, con.
Nersing upon his disastrous states and impending
tli,soliitinn, with a complacency scarcely tecon,
eiloable to the severity of his endurance.
Dlr. WI Nun am was, it must be acknowledged,
a very singular, but yet a very estimable man, :
there was a certain tortuousuess in his political
4.:curse, which absolutely prevented any one else
from running paralkl with him,' for any long
apace, in his public career : yet no one ever doubt.
vd of his virtue or integrity, or suspected that the
nintives by which lie was actuateil were other than
honourable. His eloquence, therefore, derived
greater weight from the acknowledged purity of •
the speaker, thin from the general acceptance
of his e.piuiaus with any party of men, or oven
from their own eansistency (so far as it was Un-
derstood) with each other ; yet was 4r.'Wittei-
ata4t undoubtedly a man of too enlarged a mind
to Le oleviiil'of•s)stvet, though the links there-
of were nut often apparent ; or to take up
opinions in Oa detail amid upon emergency,
though the conduct he might adopt, upon any spe-
cific occasion, could not easily be divined frees an•
tecedent passages in his public life. In speaking,
be was free, prompt, and graceful. His genius
was so fertile, and his acquirements so extensive,
that there was uo subject upon Which he could not
instruct, amuse, and, to a degree, convince. In'
fact, there was nothing that' could become the
subject of debate, in which he had not read or
heard every thing that preceding statesmen had
%written or spoken ; and such was the natural
strength of his mind, that he could bend their
ideas at will to his own particular .purpose. Ile
was at Once amusing and abstruse, drawing his
images and illustrations promiscuouly from tile
familiar images isf life, and the reeneditp parts of
science, and it was not unsual to hear hint, thripigti
three adjoining sentences, in the fiest witty, in the
nest metaphysical, and in the last scholastic. lie
bad moved with, and was a 6t compapioo fne, such
men as Mr. Boaxx, Dr. Jonssom, and the other
celebrated personages of' that day.; and his:wits,
like them, a trite Christian and a good Man.
Whatever may have been his poKticalec,centripi.:
ties, upon all trying Occasions Mr. Wrantta
ewer manifested himself a true Patriot, as in pri-
irate life he invariably demonstrated himself a con..
scientious and Irononrable man. He was a ground.
Sehot a eta, id a math;ician, said

ed „olar as a classic, anL, ..emat
has not ranked below the third Greci'ar. since the
death of Professor PottioN. In perional intrepi.
dity hg had no superior. Such a character coin.
mantled a respedtability which no party prejUdice
could materially impair ; his lass, therefore, will.
naturally be deplored by al! those who can alive.
cite ' public talents, or duly estimate private
north !

Mr. IVINDII 51 was tniirriet/ about 6ftecn years
ago to Miss' t:ottuEsrrit, of Lady of
small fortune, but of a must amiable character,
and with a mind, congenial in knowledge and at-
taiinnents with his own. Nothing could be more
ba:)py and harmonious than his domestic life;
and therefore, it may naturally be conceived, that
the logs of such a man must by deeply affecting.
It is said that he had a strong presentiment that his
death AV Quid happen yesterday. pe declared this
opinion immediately after the operation was. per.
fooled, and repeated it on Sunday, observing to
his medical attendant's, that that sas the last time
be should trouble them' as he should certisiolidie
the next day. . . . .

A gentleman of the name of 'Wcs.roAi. btei
V' no an extra Ordinary match against time. Ho
u as to drive a favourite trotting horse, in ttarnesas
100 miles in tuelye hours. He started on flail
Newmarket road at 6 o'clock on Saturday even.,
Ng, and by the same hour nest morning he finish.
ed the distance, haring a full half hour to spare,
bating a minute and a accond. .
The greatest reward ever offered is now pre-
sented to the Public, and to obtain it no waste of
time, no personal denser need be incurred—ir
being only moired of those who seek it, to sein
old Time by the forelock, and clasp the Goddess
43! Fortune to their arms. Her favourite Temple
h CARTEIt'S, No. I, Charing.eross, whure all ate
earnestly and respectfully invited.