1805.
"For months past so incessantly employed in official tasks, subscribing, examining, administering oaths, auditing," &c.
April 22, 1804.
"I was reading when I was taken ill, and felt an oppression of my breathing, and convulsive snatching in my stomach and limbs. Mrs. Ireland noticed this laborious breathing."
I would fain request the reader to peruse the poem, entitled
A Tombless Epitaph,