ey think it is Durham
who has got hold of Easthope, and persuades him to take this
course. He declares he is so beset with applications, advice, and
threats, that he has no alternative, and must take the line he
does, or ruin the sale of his paper.

Newmarket, March 29th, 1839 {p.180}

Poor De Ros[8] expired last night soon after twelve, after a
confinement of two or three months from the time he returned to
England. His end was enviably tranquil, and he bore his
protracted sufferings (more from oppression and annoyance than
acute pain) with astonishing fortitude and composure. Nothing
ruffled his temper or disturbed his serenity. His faculties were
unclouded, his memory retentive, his perceptions clear to the
last; no murmur of impatience ever escaped him, no querulous
word, no ebullition of anger or peevishness; he was uniformly
patient, mild, indulgent, deeply sensible of kindness and
attention, exacting nothing, considerate of others and apparently
regardless of self, overflowing with affection and kindness of
manner and language to all around him, and exerting all his moral
and intellectual energies with a spirit and resolution that never
flagged till within a few hours of his dissolution, when nature
gave way and he sank into a tranquil unconsciousness in which
life gently ebbed away. Whatever may have been the error of his
life, he closed the scene with a philosophical dignity not
unworthy of a sage, and with a serenity and sweetness of
disposition of which Christianity itself could afford no more
shining or delightful example. In him I have lost (half lost
before) the last and greatest of the friends of my youth, and I
am left a more solitary and a sadder man.

[8] [Henry William, 19th Baron de Ros, born 12th June 1792;
died 29th March 1839.]

London, April 6th, 1839 {p.180}

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I saw X. at Newmarket, and had a long conversation with him, in
which he gave me an account of the state of affairs. The
Government is at its last gasp; the result of the debate next
week may possibly prolong its existence, as a cordial does that
of a dying man, but it cannot go on. They are disunited,
dissatisfied, and disgusted in the Cabinet--Lord John himself
deeply so--considerably alarmed at the state of affairs,
resolutely bent upon making no further concessions to Radicalism,
and no sacrifices for mere party purposes. There is a violent
faction in the Cabinet