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    pur acquaintance make me ready to assert , amidst all the chfcrgti that can be brought or proved against him , that he was » uia ¥ good heart and real humanity , though his conduct and ahwMitir were flawed and stained by freaks both of nature and curcum » ta * fK <

    Half his sins were in his own defence ; all of them were on a petty scale ; and on the balance being drawn , I think he was * mote sinned against than sinning . ' Mrs . Albion . Very fair , Harry ; very fair . Harry of Newmarket . He had formed a pretty extensive acquaintance in France , and with many noted characters of the period . Several of these frequently visited at his cottage during the time I knew him . I often used to meet Count de Rure there : a very extraordinary personage . His huge forehead had quite

    the Elgin-marble character , as to the wear-and-tear appearance of antiquity ; while the lower part of his face resembled that of a battered eagle . As to his age , he looked a thousand . Hi * me * mory and personal recollections , as in the romance of Melmoth , were sometimes appalling , from their immense sweep backward Nor was his prodigious information confined to political eveijts and characters : literature , sciences , arts , languages , and manufactures , he seemed to have been at their rise , and never to have lost

    sight of any link in their progress . He went away somewhere all of a sudden , and I never heard any more of him . I should think he was still living , for he always gave me the idea of a being who had contrived , by some occult knowledge added to his practical , to smuggle himself through that period when a very old man has nothing else to do but die .

    Mrs . Albion . How I should like to have seen him I perhaps he was a resuscitation of the Magus Zoroaster ? Father Zodiac . I have not tne least doubt of it . Syrius { lifting up his head from Vie grass , and singing . ) But you smiled , Father Zodiac , —why did you snail *?

    Twas the dawn of a long-vista'd doubt , For you know , dear grey Zodiac , when a man once Is grave ~ lock'd , he can ' t well get out . Sing * oh ! for the stars , That creep as they ' re bid , And peep down the flaws Of the solemn pyramid ! Moses . That old eagle had not lived to know so much for nothing * A rare rich fellow , I warrant . I wonder if he ' s in

    England just now ? Mr . Albion ( laughing ) . Do you really think that you could get to the blind side of such a mau ? Mrs . Albion . Go on with your reminiscences , Harry ; you seetn to be in good sketching humour . < > Hajuu ? of Nkwu \ RK £ T . I occasionall y nr ^ et 11 $ Clements Inn , where Ireland had chamber * for Ktexurjf DusiA&fc tne Maquis de

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/23/