She is indeed a wonderful woman, and I think all her faculties of the mind stronger and more active than I have ever known them....

I shall therefore depart next Friday, but I may possibly reckon without my host, as I have not yet apprised Mrs.G.of the term of my visit, and will certainly not quarrel with her for a short delay." He then went to Althorpe, and it is the last evidence of his touching a book--"exhausted the morning (of the 5th November) among the first editions of Cicero." Then he came to London, and in a few days was seized with the illness which in a little more than two months put an end to his life.
His malady was dropsy, complicated with other disorders.

He had most strangely neglected a very dangerous symptom for upwards of thirty years, not only having failed to take medical advice about it, but even avoiding all allusion to it to bosom friends like Lord Sheffield.
But longer concealment was now impossible.

He sent for the eminent surgeon Farquhar (the same who afterwards attended William Pitt), and he, together with Cline, at once recognised the case as one of the utmost gravity, though they did not say as much to the patient.

On Thursday, the 14th of November, he was tapped and greatly relieved.