110 bachelor's hall. 



Dibdin's health was next given, with high eulo- 

 giums as to the effect of his animating effusions on 

 the loyalty, valour, and patriotism which at that 

 time blazed so intensely in the bosom of the British 

 tar. 



Dibdin, in acknowledging the toast, related inci- 

 dents he had himself several times witnessed at sea ; 

 and how deeply indebted he felt to men like Incledon 

 and others, adding that the inspiration which moved 

 him was strongly in his mind from his earliest 

 remembrance. It lay, he said, a quiet hidden spark 

 which, for a time, found nothing hard enough to 

 vivify it ; but which, coming in contact with proper 

 materials, expanded. 



" Tell Dibdin of Old Tinker,'* cried ChHde, of 

 Kinlet. 



The tale of Old Tinker was given, the last bit of 

 court scandal discussed, and some tales told of the 

 King, with whom Mr. Forester was on terms of 

 friendship, and the festivities of the evening had 

 extended into the small hours of the morning, when, 

 during a brief pause in the general mirth, a tremen- 

 dous crash was heard, and the Squire rushing out to 

 see what was the matter, met one of the servants, 

 who said the sound came from the larder, whither 



