At the beginning of 1805, he experienced a sudden and general failure of his bodily faculties, and a correspondent depressure of mind. The little confidence he placed in the power of medicine made him reluctantly comply with the wishes of his friends, that he should take the opinion of Doctor Haygarth. Yet he was not without hope of alleviation to his complaints from change of air; and, therefore, removed from Bath to the house of his son-in-law, Mr. Bosanquet, in Wiltshire. Here having at first revived a little, he soon relapsed, and declining gradually, expired in the eighty-first year of his age, without apparent suffering, in the possession of his intellectual powers, and, according to the tender wish of Pindar for one of his patrons-- [Greek: huion, psaumi, paristamenon,] in the midst of his children. He was buried in the parish church of Walcot, in the city of Bath, in the same vault with his fourth daughter the wife of Rear-Admiral Sotheby, and her two infant children. A cenotaph has been erected to his memory among the poets of his country in Westminster Abbey, by his eldest son, the Rev. Christopher Anstey, with the following inscription:-- M.S. Christopheri Anstey, Arm. Alumni Etonensis, Et Collegii Regalis apud Cantabrigienses olim Socii, Poetae, Literis elegantioribus adprime ornati, Et inter principes Poetarum, Qui in eodem genere floruerunt, Sedem eximiam tenentis. Ille annum circiter MDCCLXX. Rus suum in agro Cantabrigiensi Mutavit Bathonia, Quem locum ei praeter omne dudum arrisisse Testis est, celeberrimum illud Poema, Titulo inde ducto insignitum: Ibi deinceps sex et triginta annos commoratus, Obiit A.D. MDCCCV. Et aetatis suae Octogesimo primo. To this there is an encomium added, which its prolixity hinders me from inserting.