ently encouraged hopes. Need
I say that I felt myself incapable of destroying them--indeed I was
not altogether without hope myself. The principal danger was from
hemorrhage upon the separation of the sloughs, and my fears were
fatally verified, for on the 25th, at noon, it commenced and
increased internally, until his lungs could no longer perform their
functions, and he died at about three o'clock on the morning of the
26th. During the whole time he was resigned, evincing the greatest
strength of mind. As it was with unfeigned sorrow that I saw a fine
and gallant young man fall a victim to such a cause, so it was with
admiration that I witnessed his heroic bearing when the excitement
was past, and hope itself was almost fled. I have seen many support
their firmness amidst danger and death, but it belongs to few to
sustain it during protracted suffering, which is indeed a trial
often too severe for the bravest, but through which your lamented
brother came with a spirit and resignation which reflected lustre
upon himself and family, and endeared him to all his shipmates."

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 164: Eldest son of N. Gosselin, Esq., jurat, one of the clerks
of the council to Queen Elizabeth, by his wife, a daughter of Lewis
Lempriere, Esq., bailiff of Jersey--and grandson of Hilary Gosselin,
bailiff of Guernsey in four reigns, Henry the Eighth to Elizabeth.]

[Footnote 165: Viz. two sons--Daniel, married Catherine, daughter of
John Tupper, Esq., jurat; and John, married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Brock, Esq.--and three daughters, Emilia, wife of Sir P. De Havilland,
bailiff; Elizabeth, wife of W. Le Marchant, Esq.; and Margaret, wife of
I. Carey, Esq.]

[Footnote 166: Major Tupper succeeded to the command of the marines, of
whom there were two battalions at Bunker's Hill, after the fall of the
gallant Major Pitcairn, and was honorably mentioned in the general
orders of the day.]

[Footnote 167: The Primrose, while this young officer was serving in
her, was actively employed during the war, and in one engagement had
fifteen officers and men killed and wounded. In 1815, he accompanied
Captain Phillott in the boat expedition up the river St. Mary, in the
United States, in which that officer was wounded.]

[Footnote 168: The same officer whose letters have been given in this
volume.]

[Footnote 169: See _United Service Journal_, March, 1841, pp. 332-3.]

[Footnote 170: By a s