be interred in the family vault at Fulham on
Monday morning at ten o'clock.

"I continued," said Colman, "at Fulham Lodge, which is nearer in a
direct line to the church than to the Bishop's Palace and the 'old
avenue.' On Monday the adjacent steeple gave early notice of the
approaching funeral; religion and sorrow mingled within me while the
slow and mournful tolling of the bell smote upon my heart. Selfish
feelings, too, though secondary, might now and then obtrude, for they
are implanted in our nature. My departed friend was about my own
age: we had entered the field nearly at the same time; we had fought,
indeed, our chief battles asunder, but in our younger days he had
been my comrade, close to me in the ranks: he had fallen, and my own
turn might speedily follow."

These are the ideas which George Colman the younger records as having
passed through his mind while an inmate of Fulham Lodge:--

"My walk next morning," he says, "was to the sepulchre of the Lowths,
to indulge in the mournful satisfaction of viewing the depository of
my poor friend's remains. It stands in the churchyard, a few paces
from the eastern end of the ancient church at Fulham. The
surrounding earth, trampled by recent footsteps, and a slab of marble
which had been evidently taken out and replaced in the side of the
tomb, too plainly presented traces of those rites, which had been
performed on the previous day. For several mornings I repeated my
walk thither, and no summer has since glided away, except the last,
when my sojournment at Fulham was suspended, without my visiting the
spot and heaving a sigh to the memory of Robert Lowth."

Theodore Hook's manuscript Diary contains the following entries with
reference to visits made by him at Fulham Lodge:--

"2nd January, 1826.--Called. Mrs. Carey's luncheon.

"Thursday, 5th January.--Drove over to Fulham. Mrs. Carey's din.
Colman, Harris, Mrs. G. Good hits. Mrs. Coutts, 'Julius Caesar,'
&c. Stayed very late, and walked home."

Fulham Park Road is now where Fulham Lodge stood, and the ground is
partly built on, the rest is to be let for building.

This walk is exactly three miles and a half from Hyde Park Corner; and
what an Irishman would call the iron mile-stone stood exactly opposite to
Ivy Lodge, until placed against the brick wall immediately beyond the
railings.

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