mansion-house and premises at his decease--and bequeathed the same
(except his wine and spirituous liquors) to his friends, the said J.C.
Hobhouse, S.B. Davies, and Francis Hodgson, their executors, &c., to be
equally divided between them for their own use;--and he bequeathed his
wine and spirituous liquors, which should be in the cellars and premises
at Newstead, unto his friend, the said J. Becher, for his own use, and
requested the said J.C. Hobhouse, S.B. Davies, F. Hodgson, and J.
Becher, respectively, to accept the bequest therein contained, to them
respectively, as a token of his friendship."

The following letters, written while his late losses were fresh in his
mind, will be read with painful interest:--

LETTER 59. TO MR. DALLAS.

"Newstead Abbey, Notts., August 12. 1811.

"Peace be with the dead! Regret cannot wake them. With a sigh to
the departed, let us resume the dull business of life, in the
certainty that we also shall have our repose. Besides her who gave
me being, I have lost more than one who made that being
tolerable--The best friend of my friend Hobhouse, Matthews, a man
of the first talents, and also not the worst of my narrow circle,
has perished miserably in the muddy waves of the Cam, always fatal
to genius:--my poor school-fellow, Wingfield, at Coimbra--within a
month; and whilst I had heard from _all three_, but not seen _one_.
Matthews wrote to me the very day before his death; and though I
feel for his fate, I am still more anxious for Hobhouse, who, I
very much fear, will hardly retain his senses: his letters to me
since the event have been most incoherent. But let this pass; we