way impaired. I have not lost one front tooth and very few others.
I am able to walk or ride 4 or 5 hours together, but I do not ride
fast. My memory is perhaps not so good as it has been. On the
whole I seem to be in a perfect good state of health, thanks be to
God.

1808, Nov. 15th.--This day I completed my 72nd year; and thanks to
God's mercies I find myself in as perfect health as I ever enjoyed
in my life, and the only perceivable difference in any of my senses
that I am aware of is a little degree of deafness in my right ear,
but as the other is perfect, I do pretty well. My left eye I think
has not perfectly recovered the severe inflammation which I had two
or three years ago, but the other being sound, I read and write as
well and as much as ever. My teeth remain perfect in front and
without any additional loss to those which decayed some years ago.

1810, April 5th.--I quitted the Board of Green Cloth, after having
had a place there for 49 years and a half. I was put on the
superannuation list at my request, the Lord Steward having kindly
procured leave for it. He also, unsolicited, gave me leave to
resign my place of Clerk of the Verge to my son.

Nov. 14th.--After dinner, I found a giddiness in my head making me
unable to walk, and a kind of dumb confusion in my head. I wrote
to Mr. Heaviside to come, which he did and ordered immediate
cupping. {108} The next morning my complaint was gone.

1814, May 30th.--Received from Mr. Sydenham Malthus the melancholy
news of my son's death at Exmouth, from the rupture of a blood-
vessel in the lungs.