The sofa was then taken up and borne out of the Hall into the Rotunda, where it was set down, and the members of both Houses, and strangers, who were fast crowding around, were with some difficulty repressed, and an open space cleared in its immediate vicinity; but a medical gentleman, a member of the House, (who was prompt, active, and self-possessed throughout the whole painful scene,) advised that he be removed to the door of the Rotunda opening on the east portico, where a fresh wind was blowing.

This was done; but the air being chilly and loaded with vapor, the sofa was, at the suggestion of Mr.Winthrop, once more taken up and removed to the Speaker's apartment, the doors of which were forthwith closed to all but professional gentlemen and particular friends." The features of the dying patriarch were almost as rigid as though in death: but there was a serenity in his countenance which betokened an absence of pain.

There were five physicians, members of the House, present, viz.:--Drs.

Newell, Fries, Edwards, Jones of Georgia, and Lord.
These gentlemen were unremitting in their attentions.Drs.Lindsley and Thomas, of the city, were also immediately called in.

Under the advice of the medical gentlemen present, he was cupped, and mustard plasters were applied, which seemed to afford some relief.