Died lately, aged 85, Mr. William Anthony de Luc. His passion for
music was so predominant, in his latter days, that a piano forte was
placed by his bedside, on which his daughter played a great part of the
day. The evening of his death, seeing her father ready to sink into
a slumber, she asked him, “Shall I play any more?”—“Keep playing,”
said he, “keep playing!”—He slept, but awoke no more! Mr. W. A. de Luc
had explored many volcanic countries, whence he had brought choice
specimens of their productions, in which his cabinet was, perhaps, the
richest in Europe.