7/57 On the 23rd of December his appetite began to fail him. He observed to me that it was a very bad sign _with him_ when he could not eat his breakfast, which he had done at all times very heartily; and this seems to have been the strongest expression of apprehension that he was ever observed to utter." He soon became too ill to remain beyond the reach of the highest medical advice. On the 7th of January, 1794, he left a houseful of company and friends for his lodgings in St. On arriving he sent the following note to Lord Sheffield, the last lines he ever wrote:-- "ST. JAMES'S, FOUR O'CLOCK, TUESDAY. |