oraciousness of the most luxurious dishes; he has, in Cockburn's
opinion, a very mean assemblage of features with something fearfully
black and vicious about the brows and eyes. His manners are coarse
and repulsive. Did you ever in a litter yard come suddenly on a lady
in the straw that starts up on her fore legs and, dropping fourteen
infant pigs from her teats, salutes you with a fierce jumble of
barking, grunting, and hissing? In exactly such a sound is this
amiable man represented to me to have always replied to every address
of Bertrand, Mouthoulon, and the others, who are his fools and
followers to St. Helena. Sometimes he neglected all restraint on his
nature, and gave the same ferocious and inarticulate answers to the
English officers. He played chess so badly, that Bertrand and
Mouthoulon, who had too much discretion to excel their patron, had, at
times, great difficulty to lose the game to him; after trying for many
nights he could not attain the rudiments of whist, and went back to
vingt-un; but this is the man who has been described to us all as ALL-
INTELLECT. The newspapers, too, said I remember, that at whist he
left all instruction behind him, and soon played so well, that he had
won very large sums of the Admiral by his superior play, even while he
was only a Tyro. I can tell you no more now; but the Admiral has had
the goodness to lend me a journal of his conversation with Buonaparte
on the passage out, and when I have the pleasure of seeing you in the
sessions week, I will give you some extracts from my memory. I am, I
believe, a little better, but the disorder in the upper part of my
stomach still continues and oppresses me. It is now inveterate, the
complaint commenced last March, a twelvemonth past. If I cannot rid
myself of it, it will kill me in time. My best duty to my father,
love to William and 'aliis,'

I am, dear Madam,
Yours very faithfully,
HENRY COOPER.

P.S.--I write in a great hurry for I am making up my parcel for
Bermudas. I should not write to you at all, but I do not like so long
to delay my due thanks to your kindness."

This letter is dated,

2, _Lamb's Buildings_,
27_th_ _January_, 1817.

To the same,--

I am scarcely warm in my place in London before I have to thank you
for your present to me; you hardly give me time, in the short
intervals of th