Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1802-11-15

niethcr fla,nbeaux nor lights around
my coffin, il being to be cloied as foon
as it thsll be ready and put into it, not
whiting to fay a moment longer above
the earth than is nscedIry to aicerrain
my death,
a Jingle perfon lhall gaurd my
ecrPfe, to keep the cats and dogs from
II. | do not with to torment people af-
ser my deeeafe, to fit up with an mani
mate creature; no cords, no fringe, eth
er ia or upon my colfia. The day Of
intsrnlent being fixed, il fhall have place
at noon, if in the winter, if in the fun
mer ar four or Ave O'Clock: without
any other pomP, my donaeliics ihall
carry my corp!c down the fairs, and
through the falcon of yellow marble, to
the reildence of my difolation, which
is not far off as foon as the coffin is
put in there, the tombaone, which |
have had engraved, (hall be placed at
the entrance by the Architect R-inert /;
and dis having occurred allis done. |
belong no more then 10 the kingdom
OF the living.
" | befcech the Count De Ia Roche
Aymon, TO funmon together the gen.
tlemen who ihAll have attended me TO
my death, with the private Secretary
lie Beauld, and the Architect keinert,
IN an apartment Of the Cattle, after my
nterment Firf, | profels my acknow
Judgments 10 the Count De Ia Roche
Aymon, for his tender attachment TO
me AL he time had the hapPinels of
his company. l requeit him 70 tell
'hoie Gentlemen, that ! die grateful /:
that pray them 70 proted each other
during their lives /; this being the g eat
eli evidence they can give the world,
that my memory has not elcaped Them.
4" alfo with The Count De IA Roche
Aymon TO call together al my cham
berlains, cooks, muiicains aud lacqIeys,
and 70 have The Politenels TO thank
them IN my name, for the lerviles
which they have rendered me, telling
them all, from the f i to the lat, that
have made Will, by which | have
oequsathed remembrance 10 money or
effects that each, when the King has
opened il iha!l know what my frien5lhip
or gratitude bequeaths but thar it IS
natural, without dfreipea to any one,
tor me TO climate thofe who in my opin.
on,havs been lincere and open, and mott
truly attached to ne and therefore
BY favoring the one more than the other,
| have only followei he impulfe If my
heart. That |, moreover, being only
abe to dlpole Of a par Of ny property
have not bad It in my power 10 do
more than it will be fond have done I;
but that requeted every one TO be
atisfed an J the property hat he GOT,
TO conh1-r as the property HAT [ with
10 all dying ii the hope, that there can
TO greater proof Of attachment be given
10 my sfh=s, than that DO one murmurs at
the little or the much Of the diliribution.
Moreover, | have recommended thofe
who have f.ryed m, u the king and
my heirs, not doubling but that al Of
my l4a teItament viii be executed.
" The fword which wore in he few
en- years war, (hall be Delivered to the
Count De Ia Roche and I reqp;a him,
after my interment, to repair to the king,
and to allure him Of my lat wilhes for
him and the Gate at the fame time
handing my fword to him, with the
prsye3in 10Y name TO have il preie, v
ed, il memory Of TIE taithfulnefs with
which | have ierved, my country.
Thus is the lat act OF my lie terminal.
ed EternalIy farewell /"