to be gone through, official seals and signatures
affixed to the papers he had obtained, in order to leave no doubt of
their authenticity. Cold men of office could not be brought to
comprehend or sympathize with his impetuous eagerness, and five whole
days elapsed before he was able to quit the French capital.

FOOTNOTES:

[E] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by G. P. R.
James, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New-York.

HORACE WALPOLE'S OPINIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

The correspondence of the Earl of Orford and the Rev. William Mason, the
friend and biographer of Gray, has just been published, and the critics
seem to regard it as more entertaining than any previous collection of
the letters of the noble and celebrated author. The _Examiner_ says they
bring out with marked prominence his abhorrence of the Scotch, his
bitter dislike of Johnson, and the men of genius connected with him, his
uneasy contempt for Chesterfield and Lyttleton, his impatience of
Garrick's popularity, and his better founded scorn of Cumberland and his
clique. We do not mention his studied injustice to Chatterton, because
in this there was not a little natural resentment of as great an
injustice to himself on the part of poor Chatterton's upholders; but
perhaps nothing is more painfully impressed on all the letters than his
monstrous persistence in the refusal of all merit to the most
distinguished writers of his time who did not happen to belong to his
set. Let the reader remember that within a few years before these
letters, and during their continuance, all the writings of Sterne had
been produced, and all the writings of Goldsmith; that Johnson had
published _Rasselas_ and the _Idler_, the edition of _Shakspeare_, the
_Dictionary_, and the _Lives of the Poets_; that Smollett had given _Sir
Lancelot Greaves_ and _Humphrey Clinker_ to the world; that the first
publication of Lady Mary Wortley Montague's letters had taken place;
that Percy had published his _Reliques_, Reid his _Inquiry_, and Hume
his immortal _History_; that the most important portion of the _Decline
and Fall_ had appeared, and that the theatres could boast of the farces
of Foote and the comedies of Goldsmith, Colman, and Sheridan. Yet here
is all that Walpole can say of it!

"What a figure will this our Augustan age make! Garrick's
prologues, epilogues, and verses, Sir W