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which it may perhaps be unsafe for me to commit to 

 paper ; to my mind they were conclusive. 



I shall take but a bird's-eye view of his career in 

 England ; but, carrying on the allegory, we may 

 compare his situation to that of small birds pursued 

 by hawks. Every bailiff in London was on the look- 

 out for him ; and, above all places in the world, he 

 went to Halston to avoid them ! Oh ! what must 

 have been his feelings on the first view of his deserted 

 hall — the scene of all his former splendour ? They 

 must have somewhat resembled those of " The Last 

 Man," when viewing the capitals of the world, and 

 himself alone left to mourn over them ; but as they 

 are incommunicable by words, I leave them to the 

 imagination, and likewise to the sympathy of the 

 reader, 



" Such a house broke ! 

 So noble a master fallen ! All gone ! and not 

 One friend to take his fortune by the arm. 

 And go along with him." 



Let US hope, however, that he was neither sober 

 nor in his senses — at all events, that some respite was 

 in mercy granted to his intellectual faculties, as a 

 guard to his heart, from the assaults of sufferings that 

 might otherwise have been beyond man's nature to 

 endure ! But his stay here was short ; he was hurried 



