I have all night had a fever, which is very little abated this morning; my mind carries me beyond my strength, and will do me up; but such is my nature.

I require nursing like a child." That he was far from well is as unquestionable as that his distemper proceeded largely from his mind, if it did not originate there.

"Our separation is terrible," he writes to Lady Hamilton; "my heart is ready to flow out of my eyes.

I am not unwell, but I am very low.

I can only account for it by my absence from all I hold dear in this world." From the first he had told St.Vincent that he could not stay longer than September 14th, that it was beyond his strength to stand the equinoctial weather.