what follows. "This morning, with your letter, I duly received your four petitions, which I shall be very glad to present. Our London Meeting on the Education Question was magnificent." In fact, he continued, notwithstanding the remonstrances of his friends, to attend in his place in Parliament till nearly the middle of June, when he paired off with Lord Arundel for the rest of the session. This step he was at length induced to take by the advice of Dr. Paris, to whom his case had been referred. On the 17th of June he was removed to Sudbury Grove, a villa in the neighbourhood of Harrow, kindly placed at his disposal by a friend. But it was too late to hope even for a partial restoration. He grew rapidly worse, and his return to London was not accomplished without difficulty. He entered into his rest on the 15th of July, 1839, at his own house in Chester Square, and was interred, on the 23rd of the same month, in the cemetery at Kensal Green, his funeral being attended by his widow, his two brothers, and a considerable number of his relations and private friends; and among these, by the writer of the present sketch, who had also the melancholy but valued privilege of attending him in his last hours. He left two daughters, Helen Adeline Mackworth, and Elizabeth Lillian Mackworth, under whose authority the present collection of their father's poems is given to the public. A monumental Tablet at Kensal Green bears the following inscription from the pen of the Reverend James Hildyard :— JUXTA HOC MARMOR CONDITUM EST QUICQUID MORTALE FUIT EGREGII VIRI ET SENATORIS, COLL. SS. TRIN. CANTAB. OLIM SOCII: EJUSDEMQUE ACADEMIÆ PROSENESCALLI RARO SIMUL CONJUNCTÆ SUNT TOT NATURÆ DOTES, TAM DOCTRINE ARTIUMQUE LIBERALIUM SUBSIDIIS EXCULTÆ: RARISSIME TAM GENERIS HUMANI UTILITATI TAM CHRISTI HONORI SUBJECTÆ. IMMATURA EHEU MORTE CORREPTUS TRISTE SUI AMICIS DESIDERIUM, AH QUANTO TRISTIUS CONJUGI DILECTISSIMÆ AMANTISSIMÆ RELIQUIT. ILLA SICUT HOC TESTIMONIO DEFLETAM MEMORIAM PIE PROSECUTA EST, ITA GRATO TAMEN ANIMO DEUM DATOREM, SUBMISSO ADEMPTOREM VENERATUR. Beneath a marble bust in the possession of his widow were engraved the following lines by the Rev. John Moultrie, a last tribute paid by his valued friend and brother-poet to the memory of Winthrop Mackworth Praed. Not that in him, whom these poor praises wrong, In him the Bard and Statesman breathed and felt ; Not that his nature, graciously endued Not for this only we lament his loss,— Not for this chiefly we account him blest; But that all this he cast beneath the Cross, Content for Christ to live, in Christ to rest. |