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to Mr. Faden, which he had borrowed of his father, and a larger one to Mr. Hamilton. But the question will recur, why were these debts fo long fuffered to remain? for we cannot fuppofe that his mind was fuddenly enlightened, and his memory renovated.

During his fleepless nights, also, he amufed himself by tranflating into Latin verfe, from the Greek, many of the Epigrams in the Anthologia.

The fenfe of his fituation predominated, and "his affection for his departed relations," fays Mr. Bofwell, feemed to grow

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warmer, as he approached nearer to the time when he might hope to see them again." In a letter to Mr. Green, at Litchfield, 2d December 1784, he enclosed the Epitaph on his father, mother, and brother, and ordered it to be engraved on a ftone, deep, maffy, and hard," and laid on "the

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exact place of interment," in the middle

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mer he laid a stone with a Latin Epitaph over his wife in the chapel of Bromley, in Kent.

During his illnefs, he experienced the fteady and kind attachment of his numerous friends. Nobody was more attentive to him than Mr. Langton, to whom he tenderly faid, Te teneam moriens, deficiente manu. Dr. Heberden, Dr. Brocklesby, Dr. Warren, Dr. Butter, and Mr. Cruikshank, generously attended him without accepting any fees; and all that could be done from profeffional skill and ability, was done, to prolong a life fo truly valuable. But his conftitution was decayed beyond the`restorative of the medical art. powers Unfortunately for him, he himself had a fmattering of the medical fcience; and imagining that the dropfical collection of water which oppreffed him, might be drawn off, by mak

ing incifions in the calves of his legs, with his usual defiance of pain, cut deep, when he thought Mr. Cruikshank had done it too tenderly. An effufion of blood followed, which brought on a dozing. Previous to his diffolution, he burnt indifcriminateand among others,

ly large maffes of paper, and

two quarto volumes, "containing a full and moft particular Account of his own Life," the lofs of which is much to be regretted. The last days of this great man's existence appear to have been unclouded by the gloomy apprehenfions which he had formerly entertained. Full of refignation, ftrengthened in faith, and joyful in hope, on the 13th of December, in the evening, being in the 75th year of his age, he resigned his breath with fo much compofure, that his death was only known by the ceafing of his respiration, which had been rendered difficult by debility and asthma. He was buried in Westminster-Abbey, near the

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foot of Shakspeare's monument, and close to the coffin of his friend Garrick. funeral was attended by a refpectable number of his friends; particularly by many of the members of the LITERARY CLUB, who were then in town, and several of the` reverend Chapter of Westminster. school-fellow and friend, Dr. Taylor, read the funeral fervice. Agreeable to his own request, a large blue flag-ftone was placed over his grave, with this infcription:

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A monument for Johnson, in the Cathedral church of St. Paul's, in conjunction with the illuftrious Howard, was refolved upon, with the approbation of the Dean and Chapter, in 1789, and has been fup

ported by a most respectable contribution. It is in fuch forwardnefs, that it is expected to be opened in October 1795.

Having no near relations, he left the bulk of his property, amounting to 1500l. to his faithful fervant, Francis Barber, whom he looked upon as particularly under his protection, and whom he had all along treated as an humble friend. He appointed Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir John Hawkins, and Dr. (now Sir) William Scott, his

executors.

His death attracted the public attention in an uncommon degree, and was followed by an unprecedented accumulation of literary honours, in the various forms of Sermons, Elegies, Memoirs, Lives, Eflays, and Anecdotes. A fermon on that event was preached before the Univerfity of Oxford, by Mr. Augutter; and Dr. Fordyce, in his "Addreffes to the Deity," 12mo, 1785, and an "Epitaph" printed in the “Gen

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