106 GROUSE. 



Crown took place that I exulted in the 

 first act of King William the Fourth, 

 which restored to rank, honours, and 

 emoluments one who had deserved so 

 well of his country, as Sir Robert Thomas 

 Wilson. 



Another anecdote I must relate of my 

 kind friend, the member for Coventry. 

 When speaking of game, I once inad- 

 vertently stated, about grouse-shooting 

 time, that I had not, from living so 

 much in the south, ever tasted this 

 bird he, after assuring me that I should 

 not be long without doing so, on the 

 following day forwarded two brace, with 

 his initials on the direction. 



About this time a very questionable 

 production made its appearance, pur- 

 porting to be the memoirs of a " cele- 

 brated courtezan, " which at the time 

 made a great noise beyond the mere 

 literary world. The publisher of this 

 shameless expose of the weakness of our 



