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the front door bell. The position is as good as anv in London. 

 The house looks into St. James's Park and is quite open in that 

 direction. ^Vhen sitting at breakfast or dinner nothing is seen 

 but the stately beautiful trees in the Park. Altogether the place 

 is one of the most eligible in London, and is as salubrious as it is 

 otherwise agreeable. 



After lunch we went out to survey the town. Along with Mr 

 M'Culloch and myself were Mrs MTulloch and her two daughters, 

 Miss Christina and Miss Sarah, also the Misses Black, two 

 daughters of Mr Adam Black, bookseller, Edinburgh, nice, 

 amiable young ladies. They had recently come on a visit to Mr 

 and Mrs M'Culloch. \Ve went through St. James's Park bv the- 

 Horse Guards, Charing Cross, Covent Garden Market, Burling- 

 ton Arcade, Regent Street, Oxford Street, St. James's Street, and 

 returnefl by the Mall. The dinner hour is six o'clock except on 

 occasions of comjianx when it is changed to seven. 



We sat down to dinner about six o'clock. Mr Joseph Cau\in 

 had been sent for to join us, l)ut the message had not reached him 

 <vwing to his being out. He came, how'ever, about an hour later 

 We had a joyful evening, and Mr M'Culloch seemed in his glory. 

 I felt supremely happy, and Cauvin a])i)eared as much in the same 

 mood as either <if us. His wife was in Gottingen, of which she 

 Avas a native, her father being one of the professors of that town. 

 She was so absent (jwing to the very severe illnesses of her father 

 and of her only brother. Mr M'Culloch, in his happy sarcastic 

 way, told Cau\in that if his father and brother-in-law should cut 

 (die), he must submit with Christian meekness and resignation, 

 particularly if they should cut up well, say to the tune of £20,000. 

 He added that in such a case Cauvin would be a potentate ; he 

 would belong to the salt of the earth, and would \ery probably 

 cut literature for e\er. This subject afforded a great deal of 

 merriment, but the evening was beguiled with varied discourse. 



The onlv spare bedroom in the house was tenanted b\ the 

 Misses Black, but Mr M'Culloch had engaged Mr Cauvin to 

 secure a dormitory in his near neighbourhood. A most excellent 

 one w'as got at Xo. 30 Queen's Row, opposite the entrance to 

 the Queen's Mews, and less than a quarter of a mile from the 

 Stationery Office. We sallied forth aliout ten o'clock to deposit 

 my trunk there and to take possession but returned to supper. 



Of Joseph Cauvin I shall give a brief account. He was the 



