LIFE OF MYTTON. 27 



a rascally E. O. table, which he demolished to atoms 

 as some satisfaction for his loss ; but his doings 

 at Calais at this period were of a more serious 

 nature. He lost the immense sum of sixteen thou- 

 sand Napoleons to a certain Captain, at billiards, 

 which sum he could not then pay. But the score 

 was wiped off in a more agreeable manner. It 

 being suspected to have been a cross, which no 

 doubt it was, the Colonel of his regiment, the late 

 Marquess of Anglesea, then Earl of Uxbridge, for- 

 bade his paying the money ; and with any other 

 man but John Mytton, such authority would have 

 been conclusive. He, however, afterwards entered 

 into correspondence with his opponent which led 

 to the publication of pamphlets and placards ; but 

 a later transaction, in which that person's conduct 

 was implicated, proved how right Lord Anglesea 

 was in his decision, and how wrong the victim 

 was in ever holding a communication with his 

 destroyer. 



Quitting the army, and in his twenty-third year, 

 he entered for the first time into the marriage 

 state, and his wedding was thus announced in the 

 Shrewsbury papers : — 



"On the 2ist May, 1818, at St. George's, Han- 



