The death of Opie, which took place rather unexpectedly, in 1807, after he had delivered only four lectures at the Royal Academy, in which he availed himself of several remarks of Fuseli in his unpublished discourses, caused a vacancy in the Professorship, which was filled by the election of Mr. Tresham. This appointment he held until the early part of the year 1810, and then tendered his resignation, declining to lecture under the plea of indisposition. The Academicians met for the purpose of electing a Professor of Painting; but no one offering himself, all being aware of the great talents of Fuseli in this particular, they came to a resolution, that a law which forbids the same person to hold two situations, should be dormant in his case; he was therefore re-elected Professor of Painting on the 10th of February, 1810, and was allowed to retain the joint offices of Keeper of the Academy and Professor of Painting during the remainder of his life. A higher compliment than this could not have been paid to any man, and it marked in an extraordinary manner the estimation in which his talents were held. CHAPTER XI. Fuseli's prefatory Address to his resumed Lectures.--His second Edition of Pilkington.--He suffers from a nervous fever, and visits Hastings in company with the Biographer.--His Picture of Marcus Curius, and Letter relative to it.--Letter from Mr. Roscoe.--Canova's Intercourse with Fuseli.--Anecdotes of Fuseli and Harlow.--Letters from Fuseli to the Biographer.--Republication of his Lectures, with additions.--Death of Professor Bonnycastle, and Anecdote concerning him.--Death of Fuseli's friend and patron, Mr. Coutts.--An agreeable party at Fuseli's house. On the 26th of February 1810, Fuseli resumed his course of lectures, and prefaced them by the following address:-- "Mr. President, and Gentlemen,