immediately after the
congratulations were ended. I heard, however, previously to leaving the
region, which was within a month of the marriage, that the noble pair
kept separate establishments, on account of some disagreement about an
incompatibility of temper--or a young officer of the guards--I never
knew exactly which; but as the estates suited each other so well, there
is little doubt that, on the whole, the match was as happy as could be
expected.

The archbishop received me with a great deal of professional
benevolence, the conversation dropping very naturally into a comparison
of the respective religious systems of Great Britain and Leaphigh. He
was delighted when he found we had an establishment; and I believe I was
indebted to his knowledge of this fact for his treating me more as an
equal than he might otherwise have done, considering the difference in
species. I was much relieved by this; for, at the commencement of the
conversation, he had sounded me a little on doctrine, at which I am far
from being expert, never having taken an interest in the church, and
I thought he looked frowning at some of my answers; but, when he heard
that we really had a national religion, he seemed to think all safe,
nor did he once, after that, inquire whether we were pagans or
Presbyterians. But when I told him we had actually a hierarchy,
I thought the good old prelate would have shaken my hand off, and
beatified me on the spot!

"We shall meet in heaven some day!" he exclaimed, with holy delight;
"men or monikins, it can make no great difference, after all. We shall
meet in heaven; and that, too, in the upper mansions!"

The reader will suppose that, an alien, and otherwise unknown, I was
much elated by this distinction. To go to heaven in company with the
Archbishop of Leaphigh was in itself no small favor; but to be thus
noticed by him at court was really enough to upset the philosophy of
a stranger. I was sorely afraid, all the while, he would descend to
particulars, and that he might have found some essential points
of difference to nip his new-born admiration. Had he asked me, for
instance, how many caudae our bishops wear, I should have been badgered;
for, as near as I could recollect, their personal illustration was of
another character. The venerable prelate, however, soon gave me his
blessing, pressed me warmly to come to his palace before I sailed,
promised to send some tracts by me to England, and then hurried a