_Death of Pitt_ (Vol. iv., p. 232.).--MR. NATHANIEL ELLISON will find in
the _Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope_, vol. iii. p. 141., a passage
which pretty nearly confirms the account of _the desertion of Pitt's
death-bed_. She said that James, a servant, was the only person present
with Pitt when he died, and that she herself was the last person who saw
him alive except James. She also stated that Dr. Pretyman, who seems to
have been in the house, was fast asleep at the time; and that Sir Walter
Farquhar, the physician, was absent. The account of Pitt's last moments
in Gifford's life of him, where a prayer for forgiveness, &c. is put
into his mouth, she pronounced to be _all a lie_.