He deplored her as he was bound to do, and feelingly regrets and blames himself for not having written to her as often as he might have done since their last parting.

Then came the irreparable loss of Deyverdun.

Shortly, an old Lausanne friend, M.de Severy, to whom he was much attached, died after a long illness.

Lastly and suddenly, came the death of Lady Sheffield, the wife of his friend Holroyd, with whom he had long lived on such intimate terms that he was in the habit of calling her his sister.

The Sheffields, father and mother and two daughters, had spent the summer of 1791 with him at Lausanne.