With the dawn of day he arose and proceeded to dress himself.

The excitement of the previous evening and the subsequent sleeplessness of his night had, however, been too much for his feeble and slightly superannuated frame.

Before he had finished his toilet, a stroke of apoplexy stretched him senseless upon the floor.

His servants, when they soon afterwards entered the apartment, found him rigid, and to all appearance dead.

After a few days, however, he recovered his physical senses in part, but his reason remained for a longer time shattered, and was never perhaps fully restored to its original vigor.
This event made it necessary that his place in the council should be supplied.