Excerpt from The Life of the Most Noble the Marquis Cornwallis: That Great Friend to His Country, Who Has Been Engaged in the Service of It Ever Since the Year 1776, Up to 1805, in the American Indian War, Who Has Proved Himself, a Bold and Valiant Warrior A Peace-Maker A Good Statesman, a Man for the People; A
Before we proceed on the early part of his life, to lead the reader step by step to his high preferments, which is immediately intended; it will be proper first to give a short account of his death, and the great grief of the commanders and governors in India, on account of the loss of so able and distinguished a character.
The Marquis"s health was visibly on the decline before he left the ship in which he took his passage out, and before he had been many days ashore, his appetite failed him, and he grew progressively worse to the time of his dissolution.
He was perfectly aware of his approaching fate some time before its taking place, and employing his declining strength in forming arrangements for the guidance of Sir Robert Barlow, until the arrival of a successor, regularly appointed by government.
Though he had complained some days of the loss of appetite, and gradual decay of strength, his attendants were by no means prepared to expect that these symptoms would have terminated so fatally in so short a period. On the evening of the 4th of October, no change had occurred in the (rare of his health, which could indicate his so fast approaching catastrophe; on the contrary, he conversed with his usual cheerfulness, attended to various details of business, and made arrangements for continuing his journey on the very day on which he resigned his valuable life, which was on the 5th.
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