Sir Charles Metcalfe is dying. It is useless to conceal
this deplorable in. telligence, much as it will grieve all whom it reaches. It is well known, that Sir Charles suffered for many years from some cancer-like tumour in his face; and that one object of his return from Jamaica was to undergo an operation. A second operation, we believe, was performed in Canada; but the insidious advance of the malady has not been checked. It has recently destroyed the sight of one eye. Nevertheless, so complete is the sufferer's mastery over himself—such his greatness of mind, and thorough devotion to public duties—that the fact of his danger is not known in Canada. We' wish our information were of a kind to be doubted; but we understand that the inevitable result must be death, and that Sir Charles Metcalfe's friends dare not wish delay to that relief.
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