64 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



that " there was only one God and one Charles," 

 surely there never was but one John Mytton. This 

 said John Mytton would never open letters secured 

 by wafers, unless he were acquainted with the hand- 

 writing. Thus were tradesmen's applications un- 

 answered till their patience became exhausted, and 

 law proceedings were, in consequence, resorted to. 

 But he cared no more for writs than he did for 

 anything else, as they, of course, were sent to his 

 solicitor, and all he knew of them, in his prosperity, 

 was, that he paid for them. So popular, however, 

 was he with the lower orders, that, in his prosperous 

 days, I do not think a bailiff in the four surrounding 

 counties would have arrested him, had he been in- 

 structed so to do. 



It is impossible to separate the sort of vis coinica 

 that attached itself to the various acts of imprudence 

 of my, otherwise, truly noble-minded friend ; and 

 perhaps the anecdote of the London game-dealer, 

 and his 1500/. bill, is about as amusing as any. On 

 his arrival at Halston he presented it himself to his 

 debtor ; but it appeared from his subsequent conduct 

 that he little thought it would have been paid zvitliout 

 something like a scncdny itito its merits. Here, how- 

 ever, was John Mytton " sui generis" again. "Give 



