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XI. page 57
It has been suggested that this was writing his own epitaph, and
it would appear so from the notices of the man in most of the
biographies; but nothing could be further from the fact. Caleb
Colton managed to _KEEP_ his gambling fortune, and what is
more, devoted it to a worthy purpose. Part of his wealth he
employed in forming a picture-gallery; and he printed at Paris,
for private distribution, an ode on the death of Lord Byron. He
certainly committed suicide, but the act was not the gamester's
martyrdom. He was afflicted by a disease which necessitated some
painful surgical operation, and rather than submit to it, he blew
out his brains, at the house of a friend, at Fontainebleau, in
1832.[130]
[130] Gent. Mag. New Month. Mag. Gorton's Gen. Biograph. Dict.
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