Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-01-09
Richmond, tuesday, Jaa. %,
MELANCHOLY EVENT.

1t is our painful office to state The very sudden and
affecting death of L. V. SrARnAwK, Esq, who is SO
we'll known to the readers Of this paper, by the full and
faithful Reports, which he has made for several sessions,
If the Proceedings Of the Virginia Legislature. The
feeble state Of Mr.. S S health compelled him to decline
the engagement for the present winter-but he was so
ohliging rs to perfurm the Office during the last week.
On Saturday last. he sunk suddenly in the arms Of death.
He had read to his family for two hours on Friday night,
aud had risen OH Saturday morning in better spirits than
usual, and apparently in better health. But when he
passed the threshold Of his own house, II was des.
tined that he should never return to it alive. We saw
him in the course of The fnTenoon-and he was uncom-
monty cheerful. We saw him enter and depart from the
Hall of the House Of Delegates. a few minutes before
their adjournment. Soon after he LETT the Capitol, and
was passing through the Square to the Eastern Gate,
when lie was suddenly seized with n hGmorrlage OF the
lungs, to which he had been subject-He addressed him
self 10 Judge Nicholas, who happened to De passing nj
The moment-he called for Salt, Salt, !" which he had
previously used to mitigate the symptoms Of such an
nltack-but his last agonies had come. He fell upon The
Earth-and though he was borne up by the several per.
sons. who few 10 his relief, yet the attack bafl'd all
relief. In n few fleeing moments, he breathed his
last, without uttering another articulate syllable: lie
was conveyed upon a blanket to the Powha,an House.
II is impossible to paint the agonies OF his wife and her
mother, who few 10 The sccne-and found him in the
arms of death. lie was borne back to Mrs. WarrclTs
This mother-in. aw's) house, to receive the last Of.
fees of humsn ty. Ga Sunday evening, he was cnn.
vpyed 10 The cemetery Of the dead-lhe Rev. Bishop
Moore having delivered a most touching and eloquent
address upon the cccasion-and a crowd ofcilizens and
members of the Legislature attended to pay their last
respects to the memory OF the deceased.
MIR. Sparhawk has left by his first wife three fine sons.
He had been parried only a few months to his second
devoted wife He was but IS years ofage-Mr. S. was
an accomplished Reporter-But he was more. He was
a gentleman Of fine Literary taste and accomplishments
He was n poet; and an excellent prose writer.-Hc had
recently become Editor Of the Petersburg !ntenigenccr-
and the citizens of that town have much reason to regret
the loss of one, who would have graced lis society, and
conducted an able journal. Ee has been for several
winters the Clerk of the Committee OF Agriculture and
Manufactures, of the House Of Delegates.-Mr. S. was
q gentleman Of some (iue moral qualities-an excellent
companion, an obligins friend, and exemplary in all his
domestic relations. The amiable qualities OF this gentle
man have conspired with the suddenness OF his death,
and the bereavement of his family, to excite a deep sym.
pa,hy among the citizens of Richmond and the members
Of the Legislature.