inquiry and accusation, as is shown in the history of the day; Lind, in his capacity of barrister, was applied to, to defend him, and accordingly did so in a 4to. volume, for which he received, if I misrecollect not, the sum of £1,000. This, I think, was the sum received by Lord Thurlow, when counsel, for the part he took, I do not exactly recollect which, in the great Douglas- Cause. This being a matter of a comparatively private nature, and for which such a rapidity was requisite, as could not admit of any time for revision by a friend, I took no part in it, unless it were in the way of incidental conversation.

While the lady above spoken of was living with him in the house above spoken of, he prevailed upon his sisters, one or both, to make occasional visits there, that she might not be altogether destitute of company of her own sex. In this mode of life her local situation was several times changed, but to the last was not uncomfortable. The nature of her position with him excepted, her conduct was irreproachable; but that circumstance opposed of course an irresistible bar to any female visitors other than such, as she herself would not have consented to receive. By this consideration it was that he was induced to make her his wife: the marriage took place at St. Andrew's, Holborn; name of the officiating clergyman, I believe, Eton; present his eldest

sister Mary and your humble servant, who, in the character of father for the occasion, gave her to him. This you will see is tolerably good evidence, that there be nothing about me to render me either in law incompetent, or in probability incredible. As to the time, the register will shew it : not so much as the year is at present in my remembrance. I question whether since the time of my first seeing her, as above, a twelvemonth had elapsed. Genealogical importance, the ceremony had none of political, it was not altogether destitute. No sooner had the event taken place, than the bridegroom sent advice of it to his Royal Master: the answer was, the grant of a life-annuity of 500 ducats, (the half of his,) in the event of her surviving him, and this annuity, as I had occasion to know, (for I had some trouble with it,) was paid for a number of years. The injured King's finances being in a state less and less flourishing, I had every now and then to turn secretary in her name. Sometimes, I believe, it was to him that the letter was addressed; sometimes, to his above-mentioned nephew, who, if I do not forget, had a few debentures in our Irish Tontines, in which case, it must have been in the first class, bearing date the year 1773. When the King died, the arrear was considerable. Letters, one or more, from the King to her, on the occasion of the news of her husband's death, I

recollect seeing: they, or one of them, were written in English, in a style which could scarcely have been distinguished from an Englishman's. In one of them, speaking of the pension, "I have fixed a pension upon you," was the expression, instead of settled a pension upon you, or, granted a pension to you. During the marriage, she had a sufficient stock of acquaintance of reputable visitors of her own sex to render her situation comfortable: some of them even belonging to persons of distinction. After his death, she took lodgings in Pall-Mall; they followed her there, and the assortment was rather augmented than diminished. At length, resources failing, she quitted that situation, and retired to a creditable boarding-house. But, in the mean time, she had received an assured, though smaller, provision from an annuity left her by a reverend divine, name forgotten, whom I never saw; my communication with her having suffered frequent interruptions by my own travels and other incidents. On her death, her small pecuniary remains fell, I forget how, into the hands of a gentleman of the name of Combe, whom, till then, I had He was, I believe, a man of some fashion. I think I remember hearing him called by the name, a nick-name, of Count Combe. If so, the circumstance is singular enough; for some years before, another man, whom I knew, used,

never seen.

I am certain, to be distinguished by that nickname, a man who published a sort of romance, intitled The Devil upon Two Sticks in London, in imitation of the well-known French novel of that name.

In her husband's lifetime, and during her widowhood, a portrait of the above-mentioned Prince had constantly hung over the drawingroom chimney-piece. Some persons saw in it a resemblance to my brother, men of the same age. Mr. Combe pressed it upon me, and it has since figured over one of my own chimney-pieces.

Amongst her relics of better times, a portrait of the King of Poland on the lid of a gold snuffbox, given by him to her husband. At that time Prince Adam Czartorynski, a near relation of the King, son I believe, or grandson, of the Prince Czartorynski herein above-mentioned, happened to be in England. He was universally regarded as being about to have the management of the affairs of the newly-truncated kingdom of Poland, under the Emperor Alexander. He called upon me for the purpose of requesting my assistance

*[The Devil upon Two Sticks, translated into English, Lond. 1780. 2 vols. 8vo. The Devil upon Two Sticks in England, being a Continuation of Le Diable Boiteaux of Le Sage, Lond. 1790. 4 vols. 12mo. Among the Comedies of the celebrated Samuel Foote is The Devil upon Two Sticks, Lond. 1778. 8vo. E. H. B.]

in the business of codification for that country : I took the opportunity of getting the snuff-box, shewing it him, and asking him whether he knew of

any body, who would be disposed to give for it any thing more than the value of the gold? After keeping it a few days, he returned it to me, saying, that there was nothing very particular either in the likeness, or in the workmanship, and that resemblances, in different forms, of the unfortunate King, were by no means scarce. I returned it to Mr. Combe, and what became either of the snuff-box, or the gentlemen, I have never since heard.

Now as to Mr. Forster: The first time of my seeing him was in the year 1762, or thereabouts. I had at that time been living and keeping terms at Queen's College, Oxford, of which College, while yet at Westminster-School, I was entered, I believe, as early as the summer of 1759. I was removed thither early, I think it was, in the year 1760; for, at the suggestion of my evil genius, paternal authority compelled me to hammer out and send in, as a candidate for admission, into the customary academical collection of half-lamentational, half-congratulational, rythmical commonplaces, the subject of which was the loss of one King and the acquisition of another, a copy in sapphics, the first stanza of which figures in a whole length portrait of me, in my academical