period they have held them so firm, that they have never escaped from their grasp."

Had Mc. Adam, or any of the Mc. Adamites lived in the time of the primitive apostles, instead of turnpike gates, and other means to keep the roads in repair, they would have been paid from the tithes ; and had that good old fashion continued, the coffers of the public Treasury would have been amply supplied from that source alone, to meet all emergencies, and the national debt in this country would never have existed.

Lord Byron once made a strong but feeling remark on the destiny of the House of Stuart: "that ill-fated family," said he, "lost their just rights through obstinacy and bigotry; some have given it the softer term of a rigid adherence to the religion of their ancestors, which they wished to preserve to posterity: there is no doubt as to their lineal right to the throne of these

realms, had the rightful heir only temporised his religious ardour, and complied with the sine qua non.— A kingdom's a kingdom, Nathan !”

I called upon Lord Byron one morning in the Albany, when Jackson the pugilist was about to leave, this brought up a conversation on the merits of pugilism. Lord Byron observed, "that he was fond of keeping up that which was truly national, and took lessons by way of exercise, without anticipating its being of practical utility: but however, Nathan," said he, "should I at any time be compelled to diverge from the strict punctillio of gentlemanly conduct, and be obliged to set-to, the art of self-defence is essential; that is to say, if necessity obliges a man to be a blackguard, he may as well be scientific."

It is well known, that Lord Byron held attorneys, of whatever class, in the utmost horror and detestation.

Being one evening at his Lordship's house in Piccadilly, when an attorney entered with a subpoena, who by way of doing the noble Lord more than common honor, served this formidable document personally, instead of deputing one of his clerks. Lord Byron could scarcely conceal his indignation, at the nonchalance of the would-be gentleman, armed with petty authority, and gave him one of his particular looks of contempt. The attorney finding himself in the enemy's camp, and being no mean judge of physiognomy, made an honourable, but precipitate retreat, upon which Lord Byron made the following remarks.

"Those harpies are the bane of all civilized society, they of all the human race are devoid of feeling: the common bonds which cement every other class, are by those demons entirely disregarded. Only place yourself within their iron grasp, and the merciless fiends will never quit you till you have just cause to repent having rushed upon danger in open day, and placed yourself in the fangs of such monsters."

The manner in which Lord Byron assigned his copyright was by a kind of hieroglyphic, uniformly made up of four indescribable dots; to what they had a reference is not known, but they served as a signature to each page to which they were appended.

Faç simile of the dots

The following pages contain a fac simile of Lord Byron's hand-writing.