Let us take his memory then gladly, and with true homage, rejoicing that its record of happiness appears as stainless as its history of honour, and well satisfied to find one picture in which something of the sunshine of high gallantry seems caught, and for all time.
Dr.Johnson wrote thirty lines of eulogy of him, with the nicety and distinction of phrase which one would expect.

Perhaps the simple ending of it is most impressive of all; so let us make it our own for the occasion: _"...

But the ALMIGHTY, Whom alone he feared, and whose gracious protection He had often experienced, Was pleased to remove him from a place of Honour, To an eternity of happiness, On the 29th day of July, 1752, In the 49th year of his age."_.