The end of a misspent life was fast drawing near, and he could only keep
it up by broth with eggs beaten up in it. He lost the use of his limbs,
but not of his gaiety. In the mountains of Catalonia he met with a
mineral spring which did him some good; so much, in fact, that he was
able to rejoin his regiment for a time. A fresh attack sent him back to
the waters; but on his way he was so violently attacked that he was
forced to stop at a little village. Here he found himself without the
means of going farther, and in the worst state of health. The monks of a
Bernardine convent took pity on him and received him into their house.
He grew worse and worse; and in a week died on the 31st of May, without
a friend to pity or attend him, among strangers, and at the early age of
thirty-two.
Thus ended the life of one of the cleverest fools that ever disgraced
our peerage.
LORD HERVEY.
George II. arriving from Hanover.--His Meeting with the
Queen.--Lady Suffolk.--Queen Caroline.--Sir Robert
Walpole.--Lord Hervey.--A set of Fine Gentlemen.--An Eccentric
Race.--Carr, Lord Hervey.--A Fragile Boy.--Description of
George II.'s Family.
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