142 OUTRAGE. 



back to the verge of popery on the one 

 hand, and from the popular extravagances 

 of the conventicle on the other. 



I cannot help recording a most re- 

 markable instance of a breach of dis- 

 cipline by an under-graduate remarkable 

 in the annals of the University for a 

 gross outrage committed on one of its 

 officers. Of this I was a witness, and 

 also beheld the strange yet painful emo- 

 tions it caused the Parent of the delin- 

 quent, whom I had known from my earliest 

 youth he having lived within a few miles 

 of iny father's residence. 



It was at Hoddesdon one morning, when 

 changing horses, that a gentleman put his 

 head out from the inside of the coach, his 

 white locks streaming in the wind, and asked 

 me if the box-seat were vacant. As one of my 

 best clients, who frequently occupied that 

 seat thus far whose name, with that of 

 his family, will always be held in the 

 highest estimation by men of all parties 



