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When Gualtier returned with the archi-
episcopal answer, he was refused admis-
sion to the dying man. The arch-conspi-
rators trembled at the apostacy of their
hero; and, dreading the ridicule which
would fall upon themselves, it was deter
mined not to allow any minister Of reli-
gion thenceforth to visit him. Finding
himself thus cut of from the consultations
of religion, Voltaire became infuriated-
no reproach. no curse being deemed bad
enough for the. D. 'Alembefts and Diderots
who guarded him. "Begone," he said ;
lit is you who have brought me to my
present state. Begone! I could have
done without you all; but you could not
have existed without me-and what .
wretched glory have you procured me r.
And then praying, and next blaspheming
now saying. 20 Christ" and next, Il
am abandoned by God and man, he vast
ed away his life. ceasing to curse and
blaspheme and live on the Both May,
|1778. These facts were made public BY
Mons. Tronchin, Protestant physician
from Geneva, who attended him almost to
the last. Horrifed at what he had wit
messed. be declared that ''to see all the
furies of Orestes, one had only to be pre-
sent at the death Of Voltaire" ("Pour
voir toutes les furies d Oreste. il ny avoit
qua Sc trouvcr la mort de Voltaire. ~
such q spectacle" be adds, would BEN
eft the young, who are in danger Of los
ing the precious helps Of religion" " The
Mareschal de Richelieu. too. was.so terri
fed at what he saw, that he left the bed
side Of Voltaire, declaring that the sight
was too awful for endurance.
Villette, the friend of Voltaire, and Of
course his COPPER Monke. denied these
statements, just as the friends Of Caesar
denied the resurrection Of our divine
Lord but the great philosopher Mons. de
Luc. whose learning, integrity and posi-
ton were of the highest. honestly repeat
ed and confirmed what had been publicly
and truthfully stated about the terrors Of
death which had haunted Voltaire. Twill
trauscribe portion of his letter, dated
Windsor, Oct. %, 1897. being at Paris
in 1781"-De Luc was then in his fifty
first year-.'I was often in company with
Mons. Tronchin. He was an old acquain-
tance of Voltaire's at Geneva, whence he
came to Paris. in quality of first physician
to the father Of the late Duke of Orleans.
He was called in during Voltsire's last
illness, aud I have heard him repeat all
those circumstances about which Paris and
the whole world were at that time speaking.
respecting the horrid state Of this impious
mans soul at the approach Of desth.-|
Mons Tronchin did everything in his pow
er to calm him; for the agitation be was in
was SO violent that no remedies could take
effect. But be could not succeed. aud
unable to endure the horror he felt at the
peculiar nature Of his frantic rage. he a.
bandoned him. Mons. Tronchin inme-
diately published in all companies the real
facts. This he did to furnish dreadful
lesson to those who calculate on being a.
bic in dcath-bed to investigate the dis.
positions most proper to appear in before
the judgment seat of God. At that Pc
riod, not only the state of the body. b b.t
the condition Of the soul. may Illustrate
their hopes Of making so awful an iuvesti-
cation, for justice and sanctity. as we'll
as goodness, are attributes of God; and
He sometimes, as a wholesome adnsonition
to mankind, permits the pnnishnaents de-
nounced against the imapious man to begin
euen IN has life, by the tortures Of frensorse. !"
Such are the facts relative to the wretch
ed end of Voltaire-facts evidenced by
Tronchin and Richelieu, and believed in.
as De Luc assures us, by the whole Of
Paris. and spoken Of throughout the entire
world. w. r.