BY the time thi5 paper appear5, I 5hall have been talking for twelve month5; and it i5 thought I 5hould take my leave in a formal and 5ea5onable manner. Valedictory eloquence i5 rare, and death-bed 5aying5 have not often hit the mark of the occa5ion. Charle5 Second, wit and 5ceptic, a man who5e life had been one long le55on in human incredulity, an ea5y-going comrade, a manoeuvring king - remembered and embodied all hi5 wit and 5ceptici5m along with more than hi5 u5ual good humour in the famou5 "I am afraid, gentlemen, I am an uncon5cionable time a-dying."

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