Lord James Stuart, M.P.; Vice Admiral Sir Graham Moore, K.C.B.; The Hon.
Colonel Howard, M.P.; Sir E. Antrobus, Bart.; The Very Reverend Dr.
Charles Symmons; William Lock; Samuel Cartwright; Samuel Rogers; Henry
Rogers; William Young Ottley; William Roscoe, Jun.; Henry Roscoe; M.
Haughton; T. G. Wainewright, and R. B. Haydon, Esqrs.
The procession was closed by the private carriages of the following
persons, the intimate friends of the deceased. Mrs. Coutts (now Duchess
of St. Alban's), Marquis of Bute, Countess of Guilford; each drawn by
four horses, with the servants in state liveries. Lord Rivers; Lord
James Stuart; Honorable Colonel Howard; Sir Edmond Antrobus, Bart.; Rear
Admiral Sir Graham Moore; Sir Thomas Lawrence; Dr. Symmons; Mr. Lock;
Mr. Richard Cartwright; Mr. Smirke, and Mr. Wyatville.
The body was deposited in a small vault formed for the purpose, in the
crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, between those which contain the remains
of his friends, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Opie.
On our return to the Royal Academy, the will was opened, with the
contents of which I was previously acquainted, as Fuseli consulted me
when he made it; and the following is a copy:--
"I, Henry Fuseli, Keeper of the Royal Academy, of London, being in
health and of sound mind, do make this my last will and testament.
I do hereby leave and bequeath unto my wife, Sophia Fuseli, all
money and every other description of property that I may be
possessed of at the time of my decease, to be for her own and sole
use. And I do hereby constitute and I appoint, John Knowles of the
Navy Office, and Robert Balmanno, of Mornington Place, Hampstead
Road, Esquires, as Executors to this my last Will and Testament,
revoking all other Wills and Testaments. Given under my hand and
seal, this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
"Henry Fuseli," (L.S.)
"James Jones, }
William Church, } Witnesses."
In carrying this Will into execution, a difference of opinion arose
between Mr. Balmanno and myself respecting the propriety of disposing of
some of the property by private contract; and the matter was accordingly
referred to Mrs. Fuseli. As this lady gave her assent to the view which
I had taken of the affair, Mr. Balmanno, in consequence, renounced the
trust. The Will was therefore proved by me, solely, in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, on the 7th September 1825.
CHAPTER XIII.
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