were
not derived from the profits of literature."

During the last year of Arthur Murphy's life he possessed a certain
income of 500 pounds, and added to this was 150 pounds for the copyright
of his Tacitus, which, however, was less than half the sum he had been
frequently offered for it. The translation of Sallust, which Murphy left
unfinished, was completed by Thomas Moore, and published in 1807.

Murphy appears to have perfectly reconciled his mind to the stroke of
death. He made his will thirteen days previous to it, and dictated and
signed plain and accurate orders respecting his funeral. He directed his
library of books and all his pictures to be sold by auction, and the
money arising therefrom, together with what money he might have at his
bankers or in his strong box, he bequeathed to his executor, Mr. Jesse
Foot, of Dean Street, Soho. To Mrs. Mangeon (his landlady) he gave "all
his prints in the room one pair of stairs and whatever articles of
furniture" he had in her house, "the bookcase excepted." And to his
servant, Anne Dunn, "twenty guineas, with all his linen and wearing
apparel." After the completion of this will, Murphy observed, "I have
been preparing for my journey to another region, and now do not care how
soon I take my departure." And on the day of his death (18th June, 1805)
he frequently repeated the lines of Pope:--

"Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay,
To welcome death and calmly pass away."

All that we can further glean respecting the interior of Murphy's
apartment is, that in it "there was a portrait of Dunning (Lord
Ashburton), a very striking likeness, painted in crayons by Ozias
Humphrey."

Humphrey, who was portrait-painter in crayons to George III., and in 1790
was elected member of the Royal Academy, resided, in 1792 and 1793, at
No. 19 Queen's Buildings, _Knightsbridge_; but whether this was the fifth
house beyond Nattes', or the No. 19 Queen's Buildings, now called
_Brompton Road_ (Mitchell's, a linen-draper's shop), I am unable, after
many inquiries, to determine. It will be remembered that Dr. Walcott
(Peter Pindar) introduced Opie to the patronage of Humphrey, and there
are many allusions to "honest Ozias," as he was called in the
contemporary literature.

"But Humphrey, by whom shall your labours be told,
How your colours enliven the young and the old?"

is the comment of Owen Cambridge; and Hayley says,

"Thy graces, Humphrey, and thy co