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Rh hand of injured innocence, he might have lingered ome time longer in life, had he kept within the bounds of moderation, by retraining the impetuoity of his unruly paions. But his career was pleaure, to which he gave uch a looe, that his recent wound opened, and bleeding afreh, reduced him to a tate of debility that terminated in his death. On account of his elevated rank in human life, his obequies were conducted with great pomp and ceremony and his funeral formed a pageant proceion, in which his officers and oldiers walked in olemn pace, to the founds of penive muic. After his interment, the women who compoed his feraglio, laid aide their