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Hamilton's open of manner. She showed me the h Nelson had cn,when he died: of d not help looking at it with extreme i... and she threw her arms round my neck and

dine. She was latterly in great want; and Load Stowell never rested till he procured for her a small pens on from government.

Parson Este was well acquainted with Mrs. Robinson (the once celebrated Perdita), and said that Fox Jed the greatest difficulty in persuading the Prince of Wales to lend be sure assistance when, towar la the close of Lic, she was in vry straitened circub. to US. Iste raw ber funeral, which was attended by a single mournin, eracht

• See pp. 58, 60.

† Poor Perdit: had some

: and it was acknow "As late on Skiddaw's

ledged by Colerid, whose Y -- to her, mount I lay supine, &c., are at to be found in the recent collections of his poena. See, stp xlviii. of the Tributary Poems prefixed to Mrs. Robinson's Portical Works, 3 volɛ., “ A Stranger Minstrel. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq., written a few weeks before her death," and dated " Nov., 1800,"-ED.

A person once asserted that in a particular country the bees were as large as sheep. He was asked "How big, then, are the hives?"-"Oh," he replied, "the usual size."

I knew Jane Duchess of Gordon intimately, and many pleasant hours have I passed in her society. She used to say, "I have been acquainted with David Hume and William Pitt, and therefore I am not afraid to converse with any body."

The Duchess told the following anecdote to Lord Stowell, who told it to Lord Dunmore, who told it to me. "The son of Lord Cornwallis [Lord Brome] fell in love with my daughter Louisa; and she liked him much. They were to be married; but the intended match was broken off by Lord C., whose only objection to it sprung from his belief that there was madness in my husband's family. Upon this I contrived to have a tête-à-tête with Lord C., and said to him, I know your reason for disapproving of your son's marriage with my daughter: now, I will tell you one thing plainly, there is not a drop of the Gordon blood in Louisa's body.' With this

statement Lord C. was quite satisfied, and the marriage took place." The Duchess prided herself greatly on the success of this manœuvre, though it had forced her to slander her own character so cruelly and so unjustly! In fact, manœuvring was her delight.

One morning I was about to mount my horse to ride into London to the banking-house, when, to my astonishment, I read in the newspapers that a summons had been issued to bring me before the Privy-Council. I immediately proceeded to Downing Street, and asked to see Mr. Dundas. I was admitted; and I told him that I had come to inquire the cause of the summons which I had seen announced in the newspapers. He said, "Have you a carriage here?" I replied, "A hackney-coach." Into it we got; and there was I sitting familiarly with Dundas, whom I had never before set eyes on. We drove to the Home-Office; and I learned that I had been summoned to give evidence in the case of William Stone, accused of high treason.-Long before this, I had met Stone in the Strand, when he told me among other things, that a person had arrived