Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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With the ministry of Mr Addington, Lord St Vincent retired from publiclife. He was now old, and the hardships of long service had partiallyexhausted his original vigour of frame. He retired to his seat, Rochetts in Essex, and there led the delightful life of a man who hadgained opulence and distinction by pre-eminent services, and whose oldage was surrounded by love, honour, and troops of friends. He appearedfrom time to time in the House of Lords, where, however, he spoke butseldom, but where ...he always spoke with dignity and effect. In the month of March 1823, Lord St Vincent was seized with a generalfeeling of infirmity which portended his speedy dissolution. He had aviolent and convulsive cough; yet his intellects were strongly turnedupon public events, and he expressed an anxiety to know all that couldbe known of events in France, which was then disturbed; of the Spanishrevolution, which then threatened to involve Europe; and even of theaffairs of Greece. In the course of the evening of the 13th, while hisphysician and family were round him, his strength suddenly gave way, and at half past eight he died, at the age of eighty-eight, and wasburied at Stone in Staffordshire.
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