is still more wonderful, been permitted to
appear at court, and since, in the royal presence, piously introduced to
the whole bench of Bishops?"

"By Jasus, that's true; and I beg belle Harriette's pardon. But, I well
remember, I commanded the cityguard in the old corn-market, Dublin, on
the very night her reputed father, jolly Jack Kinnear, as the rebels
called him, contrived to wish us good morning very suddenly, and took
himself off to the sate of government."

I shall be obliged to entertain the world with a few of her
eccentricities some day or other; the ghost of poor Ralph Wewitzer cries
loudly for revenge. The sapient police knight, when he _secured the box
of letters_ for his patroness, little suspected that they had all been
_previously copied_ by lieutenant Terence O'Farellan of the king's own.
A mighty inquisitive sort of a personage, who will try his art to do her
justice, spite of "leather or prunella."

The party was at this moment increased by the arrival of Lord William,
on whose friendly arm reposed the Berkley Adonis--"_par nobile
fratrum_."

"Give me leave, lieutenant," said his lordship, "to introduce my friend
the colonel." "And give me leave," whispered Optimus, "to withdraw my
friend Hayne, for 'two suns shine not in the same hemisphere.'"

"The man that makes a move in the direction of the door makes me
his enemy," said the lieutenant, loudly. And the whole party were
immediately seated.

Hitherto, my friend Crony and myself had been too pleasantly occupied
with the whim, wit, and anecdote of the lieutenant, to pay much
attention to the individuality of character that surrounded the festive
board; but, having now entered upon our second bottle, the humorist
commenced his satirical sketches.--

"Holding forth to the gaze of this fortunate time The extremes of the
beautiful and the sublime."

~199~~"Suppose I commence with the pea-green count," said Crony. "I know
the boy's ambition is notoriety; and an artist who means to rise in
his profession should always aim at painting first-rate portraits,
well-known characters; because they are sure to excite public inquiry,
thus extending the artist's fame, and securing the good opinion of his
patrons by the gratification of their unlimited vanity. The sketch too
may be otherwise serviceable to the rising generation; the Mr. Greens
and Newcomes of the world of fashion, if they would avoid the sharks who
infest the waters of pleasure, and are alw