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when the writer of this account found him in his night-cap, howering over a small fire ; and upon enquiring after his helth was immediately informed bu him : " that he was come to see him die ". But he still possessed the same vivacity and the same attention to the affairs of others which he had always done ; the same anxiety for theur distresses ; and made the same efforts to relieve them (of which there were in any remarkable instances) till the day of his release from this transitory life.

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He then makes some benefits of the books, and of the wordly goods he possessed, to his nieces, relations, and friends, among whom his good hostels in not forgotten ; and makes the Abbé Brajeul, who attended him in his last illnes, his executor ; to whom he gives a legacy of some books, and request him to render him his last service (*).


(*) Since this short account was written, the Bishop's funeral sermon was preached the 29th January, by M. l'Abbé Chatelier, one of the French vicars general ; giving together with the notes, a very minute and eloquent History of his Life and Character. It is printed for Dulau and Co. Soho Square.