, gives the following particulars of Grotius's last
moments:

"You are desirous of hearing from me, how that Phoenix of
Literature, Hugo Grotius, behaved in his last moments, and I am
going to tell you. He embarked at Stockholm for Luebec, and after
having been tossed for the three days, by a violent tempest, he was
shipwrecked, and got to shore on the coast of Pomerania, from
whence he came to our town of Rostock, distant above sixty miles,
in an open wagon through wind and rain. He lodged with Balleman;
and sent for M. Stochman, the physician, who observing that he was
extremely weakened by years, by what he suffered at sea, and by the
inconveniences attending the journey, judged that he could not live
long. The second day after Grotius's arrival in this town, that is,
on the 18th of August, O.S. he sent for me, about nine at night, I
went, and found him almost at the point of death: I said, 'There
was nothing I desired more, than to have seen him in health, that I
might have the pleasure of his conversation.' He answered, 'God had
ordered it otherwise.' I desired him: to prepare himself for a
happier life, to acknowledge that he was a sinner, and to repent of
his faults: and, happening to mention the publican, who
acknowledged that he was a sinner, and asked God's mercy; he
answered, '_I am that publican_.' I went on, and told him that he
must have recourse to Jesus Christ, without whom there is no
salvation.'

"He replied, '_I place all my hope in Jesus Christ_.'

[Sidenote: The Death of Grotius.]

"I began to repeat aloud in German, the prayer which begins _Herr
Jesu:_[078] he followed me in a very low voice; with his hands
clasped. When I had done, I asked him, 'if he understood me.' He
answered, '_I understand you very well_.' I continued to repeat to
him those passages of the word of God, which are commonly offered
to the remembrance of dying persons; and asking him, 'if he
understood me,' he answered, '_I heard your voice, but I did not
understand what you said._'

"These were his last words; soon afterwards he expired; just at
midnight. His body was delivered to the physicians, who took out
his bowels. I easily obtained leave to bury them in our principal
church, which is dedicated to the Virgin."

His corpse, was afterwards carried to Delft, and deposited in the to