By the end of next week we shall be very near the termination of our labours.

Heavy labours they have been.
So Wilberforce is gone! We talk of burying him in Westminster Abbey; and many eminent men, both Whigs and Tories, are desirous to join in paying him this honour.

There is, however, a story about a promise given to old Stephen that they should both lie in the same grave.

Wilberforce kept his faculties, and, except when he was actually in fits, his spirits, to the very last.

He was cheerful and full of anecdote only last Saturday.
He owned that he enjoyed life much, and that he had a great desire to live longer.