Squire, or even his jockey, of any unfair proceeding. There is, however, a slime attached to such connections, which cannot fail of bedaubing all who are ever so distantly connected with them, and which should have been indignantly repelled by one of the Squire's rank. A certain prince, who held those matters in a truly magnanimous view, being asked, by one of his courtiers, why he did not contend in the Olympic games: "So I would," replied he, "if kings were the competitors, and the contest was for crowns !!"

Reader. This was thinking as a prince should think; but could the Squire again place himself in the situation or probability of being mistaken for a black-leg?

Author. His return to Newmarket was joyfully hailed, but, we believe that, he rather made it a recreation than an occupation.

It has been justly observed, that, after a full indulgence of any one sense, the man of pleasure, finding languor in all, is placed in a chasm between past and expected enjoyment, in which he perceives an interval that must be filled up. But were there no other more honourable, and,

we will add, indispensably necessary employments? Were there no duties attendant on the high station, to which he was looking forward, to be learnt? Were there no professors of those arts and sciences which are, at once, the ornament and the benefit of society, to be encouraged? Were there no poor bending under the pressure of unexpected and unmerited misfortune? Were the whole body of the tenants compelled to observe such economy and selfdenial, that they stood in need of no example to encourage them in it, or to incite them to it? Yes, yes, there was plenty of room for all these necessary, useful, dignified, and proper employments, sufficient to have filled up the time of the most indefatigable man; but they were not to the Squire's taste.

The instant that Brush, and the rest of the Squire's party, as they were styled, had jumped into power, it was imagined that he would have plenty of money, or, what is equivalent, places at his command; and all those gaping, hungry Cerberuses, from whom he had formerly stooped to receive favours, which were only lent with a view to be repaid with enormous interest, began

to expect a sop for their half-famished jaws. These expectations gave rise to a most ludicrous disclosure of some of the Squire's private concerns. One JEFFERY DUNSTAN, a silversmith, with great depth of enterprize, as he himself styled it, but, as every other person judged it to be, without the least depth of understanding, had, several years before, opened an account with the Squire at the very moment when his former silversmith had thought prudent to close his account, and to desire to have the balance. In the course of Dunstan's concerns with the Squire, he had once lent him a considerable sum (about 1,900 livres) to pay a debt for which Mrs. Fitzwaddle had been threatened with an arrest. The money, however, was repaid to Dunstan at the time appointed; but whether with or without interest, he forgot, or did not think proper to

say. He had also advanced to the Squire another considerable sum, at a time when Mrs. Villars was with him; but he does not say whether it was for her use, although he seems to hint at it. Besides jewels to an immense amount, with which Dunstan had supplied the Squire for his private purposes, he was ordered to furnish

the articles of jewelry which were to be presented to his bride and family on his marriage. Dunstan brought in his whole bill to the trustees appointed to liquidate the Squire's debts; the articles which he had furnished were valued, according to the rule of the trade, by persons on both sides, and Dunstan was paid according to the valuation, allowing him 30 per cent. profit; but there was still a deduction made from his bill. Any moderate man would have thought this a handsome profit; but it would not do for Dunstan. He became a bankrupt some time afterwards for more than six times the amount of the deduction, and yet he had the impudence to attach his ruin to the non-payment of the whole of his bill. The fact was, that Dunstan being a man of very weak intellects, although possessed of a great share of that low cunning which never fails to attend ignorant and selfish people, had no sooner formed a connection, as he terms it, with the Squire, than, in hopes of being provided for, whether it rained, snowed, or blew, he set up for an esquire himself, lived away at a most extravagant rate, and neglected his business, which, in return, forsook him. When

Brush had got into power, Dunstan lost no time in putting the Squire in mind that he had it now in his power to return former favours, and that he stood greatly in need of them. Most unfortunately for Dunstan, although he had spent his money as profusely, we cannot say as genteelly, as any gentleman could have done; yet he was totally unacquainted with the manners and étiquette of one. The familiar style in which he rather demanded a return of favours, than solicited a grant of them, was deemed an insult by the Squire; for it may be remarked that, among great folks, it is considered that an inferior cannot, by any means, confer an obligation on his supcrior. Dunstan's applications were treated with silent contempt, and finding no probability of success from that mode, he at length threatened to publish a review of the Squire's conduct towards himself. As the Squire despised this insolent and contemptible menace, with more propriety and dignity than he had evinced in making himself subject to it, Dunstan put it into execution by means of a pamphlet. The result was, that the efforts of his pen convinced the rational part of the tenants, that he was a fool,