Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-01-10
From The Neu Monthly .NdgG2ine.

From The Aeu Monthly lMga2ine.
DE1IH OF Mr.. CANNING. 1t Is a small, low
chamber al Chiswick, in which Canning died -
He chose it himself; It had formerly, we believe.
been sort of nursery; and the present Duke OF
Devonshire having accidently slept there just DE-
fore Canning took up his residence at the villa. 1t
vas considered more likely to be alred,and Tree
from damp, than any other and costlIer apart
ment 1t has not even cheerful view from the
window, but overIooks wing Of the house, as 1t
were, like tack yard. Nothing can be more
common than the paper of the walls or the furnl-
ture OF the apartment. On one side OF the hre-
place are ranged few books, chiefly OF light
CHARACTERISED as the q" Novellsts' Magazine,
:. Rousseau" (the 4" Heloise." we think) Ca
m ilia," SC. Opposite the foot OF the bed is the
fireplace aud on the low chimney piece stands
small bronze clock. How often to that clock
must have turned the eyes OF that restless and ar
dent being, during his short and painful progress
throu gh disease to death with how bitter mo
notonv must its ticking sound have fallen on his
ear! Nothing on earth is so wearing to the fret
full nerve of sickness as that low, regular, Perpe-
tua voice in which Time speaks ITS warnings
He was justa week i'll. On Wednesday party
of dpomatists dined with the Prime Minister
on Wednesday following
stP4ss'd away
The naughty spirit from that humble c'sj J"
For the last three days he was somewhat re!iev-
ed from the excrutiating pain he had before SUI
fered. Not that IT is true, as was SAID IN the
newspapers at the time, that his cries could be
heard at some considerable distance from the
house-during one day. however, they were
heard by the servants below. He was frequent
ly insensbe; and during that time, the words.
- SpaiR-Purtuga.," were constantly on his
lips. During those six days Of agony and trial
his wife was with him, and, believe, neither
took rest in bed, nor undressed, throughout the
whole time. Her distress and despair, when all
was over, was equal to her devotion during the
struggle. 1t is said that the physicians declared
it necessary for her life, reason, that she should
obtain the relief of tears; for she had not wept
once, either before or after his death-and this
lief came to her when she saw her son. At ote.
ven O'Clock at night, she left that house of mourn
ming and went to the Duke of Portland's, N Ca.
venGish square, never pass that dull and me
lancholy building, known as Harcourt House,
with its dead wall and gloomy court yard, with
out figuring TO myself the scene of that night.
when the heavy gates opened to receive the wi
dow of one whom Genius had so gifted and Am
btion had SO betrayed.
For some time before he died. Canning's conn
tenance had betrayed the sgns of the toll and
exhaustion he had undergone. But after death
these had vanlshed-and that beautiful and elo.
quent countenance seemed IN the coffin unutter-
ably serene and hushed. That house is memora.
BILE for the death of two statesmen. Below, in a
little dark chamber, covered with tapestry,
Charles Fox breatled his last the greatest pu
pill Of his great rival, after tacllIy veerins towards
the main foundations of the same principles Fox
had professed, came to the same roOl to receive
the last lesson Ambition can bestow-
"Mors sola fate!ur
Quantula snt hominum corpuscula!"