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shooting, or that his associations were even 

 of the very highest order; altogether, he 

 might be set down as a fair specimen 

 of the followers of the court of the 

 Regent.* 



It is not my province to pass judg- 

 ment upon persons I met, as it were 

 by accident; but it was my fortune to 

 fall in company with many distinguished 

 individuals, and it was my inclination, 

 also, to know something of them. I am 

 thus able to pass in review a great 

 number of characters, who have rendered 

 themselves more or less conspicuous on 

 the world's wide stage. 



After having made choice of my avo- 

 cation it naturally followed that I should, 

 now and then, mix in company with 

 some of its long-standing professors, nay, 

 it was impossible to avoid, as it were, 

 .becoming one of them ; but, as I had 



* Colonel Leigh. 



