This was sufficiently acute, and was aggravated by the belief that his offence was incapable of expiation.

No one could contemplate the agonies which he seemed to suffer without the deepest compassion.

Time, instead of lightening the burthen, appeared to add to it.

At length he hinted to his wife, that his end was near.

His imagination did not prefigure the mode or the time of his decease, but was fraught with an incurable persuasion that his death was at hand.