sitions, as thus:--

The love that ruins round the charms it shines,
Gilds while it trifles oft;

Or,

The charm that gilds around the love it ruins,
Oft trifles while it shines;

Or,

The ruins that love gilds and shines around,
Oft trifles where it charms;

Or,

Love, while it charms, shines round, and ruins oft,
The trifles that it gilds;

Or,

The love that trifles, gilds and ruins oft,
While round the charms it shines.

All which are as sensable as the fust passidge.

And with this I'll alow my friend Smith, who has been silent all this
time, to say a few words. He has not written near so much as me (being
an infearor genus, betwigst ourselves), but he says he never had such
mortial difficklty with anything as with the dixcripshn of the plott of
your pease. Here his letter:--

To CH-RL-S F-TZR-Y PL-NT-G-N-T Y-LL-WPL-SH, ESQ., &c. &c.

30th Nov. 1839.

MY DEAR AND HONORED SIR,--I have the pleasure of laying before you the
following description of the plot, and a few remarks upon the style of
the piece called "The Sea Captain."

Five-and-twenty years back, a certain Lord Arundel had a daughter,
heiress of his estates and property; a poor cousin, Sir Maurice Beevor
(being next in succession); and a page, Arthur Le Mesnil by name.

The daughter took a fancy for the page, and the young persons were
married unknown to his lordship.

Three days before her confinement (thinking, no doubt, that period
favorable for travelling), the young couple had agreed to run away
together, and had reached a chapel near on the sea-coast, from which
they were to embark, when Lord Arundel abruptly put a stop to their
proceedings by causing one Gaussen, a pirate, to murder the page.

His daughter was carried back to Arundel House, and, in three days, gave
birth to a son. Whether his lordship knew of this birth I cannot say;
the infant, however, was never acknowledged, but carried by Sir Maurice
Beevor to a priest, Onslow by name, who educated the lad and kept him
for twelve years in profound ignorance of his birth. The boy went by the
name of Norman.

Lady Arundel meanwhile married again, again became a widow, but had a
second son, who was the acknowledged heir, and called Lord Ashdale. Old
Lord Arundel died, and her ladyship became countess in her own right.

When Norman was about twelve years of age, his mother, who wished to
"WAFT young Arthur to a distant land," had him se