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anxiety, and, as if waking from a troubled dream,
again hurry into bed, and ſeem unconſcious of what
had happened.---- At other times, when perfectly
awake, he would walk to the ſpot where he had
hidden his money, to ſee if it was ſafe.
In the autumn of 1789, his memory was gone
entirely; his perception of things was decreaſing
very rapidly; and as the mind became unſettled,
guſts of the moſt violent paſſion uſurped the place
of his former command of temper.---- For ſix weeks
previous to his death, he would go to reſt in his
clothes, as perfectly dreſſed as during the day.
He was one morning found faſt aſleep betwixt the
ſheets, with his ſhoes on his feet, his ſtick in his hand,
and an old torn hat upon his head!
Mr. Elwes, on the 18tb of November, 1789
diſcovered ſigns of that utter and total weakneſs
which carried him to his grave in eight days----
On the evening of the firſt day, he was conveyed
to bed; from which he roſe no more.----His appetite
was gone.---- He had but a faint recollection of anything
about him; and his laſt coherent words were
addreſſed to his ſon, Mr. John Elwes, in hoping
"he had left him what he wiſhed."----On the morning
of the 26th of November he expired without
a ſigh!
Thus died Mr Elwes, the moſt perfect model
of human penury which has been preſented to the
public for a long ſeries of years.
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