at my letter, which began with a song,
should thus conclude with a sermon. It is a very long letter, and I
wish I could advise you to defer the reading of it till our friend the
Vicar comes again to dine at the Hall. I would get you to read the
first half to him, and ask him to declaim the remainder to you; but I
know you would fall into your inveterate failing of shutting your eyes
to meditate, and going into a sound sleep at the most interesting
point of the discourse. Yours, &c.

_To Godfrey Godfrey, Esq., &c. &c. &c._

FOOTNOTES:

[2] _N. A. Review_, vol. lvi. p. 227.

[3] _N. A. Review_, vol. xlviii. p. 257.

[4] Vol. iv. 2354.

[5] _Lieber's Political Ethics_, vol. i. p. 132.

[6] Vol. lvi., p. 227.

[7] _North American Review_, vol. liv., p. 355.

[8] Vol. iv., p. 300.

[9] Speech on Conciliation with America.

EVENINGS AT SEA.--NO. II.

Our next narrator was a retired officer of the army, who had become a
settler in South America, after many years unprofitable service at
home and abroad. He had rapidly advanced in worldly wealth in the
country of his adoption, but memory seemed ever to do him a kindness,
when it bore him back to the days when he first entered on life's
journey; his sword, and a hopeful heart, his sole possessions. When
the subjects of our discourse chanced to awaken any of these
recollections, he would usually hold forth with such an energy of
prosiness, that we were fain to submit with as good a grace as
possible, where there was no escape, and endeavour to interest
ourselves in the adventures he had met with, and the fates and
fortunes of the companions of his youth. The story I give here, was
one he told us of a young officer, who had served in the regiment with
him.

HENRY MEYNELL.

In the _Gazette_, dated "War Office, 14th June, 1828," was contained
the following announcement:--"Henry Wardlaw Meynell, gentleman, to be
ensign"--the regiment does not matter, but its mess-room was honoured
by the presence of the above-named military aspirant one day, about
two months after the date of his commission. He was introduced to his
brother officers, examined by them from head to foot, shown into a
bare uncomfortable garret--of which he was installed proprietor,
allotted a tough old grenadier as his valet-de-chambre, and then left
to his own devices till dinner-time.

While the iron-fingered veteran was extracting the smart new uniform
from the travelling ches