 Both as physician and friend Beattie seems to have been the great stay of the poet's declining years.On hearing of Campbell's illness in 1844, Beattie hastened to his bedside at Boulogne, and never left him until all was over.Campbell's cherished wish to find his last resting-place in Westminster Abbey would probably never have been realised but for Beattie, nor would a statue have been placed in 'Poets' Corner' to his memory had Beattie not collected contributions for it, and made good a considerable deficit out of his own pocket.