...ool of men who seemed inspired by the pipes which rested on their lips. His dignity as post he asserted by declining a small annuity offered him; but he accepted one of $200 per annum, conferred by Sir Robert Peel . His last days were spent patiently amid much pain, and he pursed away calmly in his seventy-eighth year, leaving a reputation in an age when reputations are not easily made."