y Before Dinner. 



A Biographical Sketch. 



lost that youthfulness which is the only excuse for folly. His 

 capacity for drink seems to have been Gargantuan, if we may believe 

 a schedule in which he set down the items of one day's carouse. 

 This interesting document is as follows : — 



G. MORLANT'S BUB FOR ONE DAY AT PADDINGTON 



(Having notiiing to do). 



Holland's Gin \ _ . „ i r ^ 



\ Before Breakfast. 



Rum and Milk ) 



Coffee Breakfast, 



Hollands \ 



Porter 



Shrub 



Ale 



Hollands and Water 



Port Wine with Ginger 



Bottled Porter 



Port Wine — At Dinner and after. 



Porter 



Bottled ditto 



Punch 



Porter 



Ale 



Opium and Water 



Port Wine (at Supper). 



Gin and Water 



Shrub 



Rum on going to bed. 



Underneath this amazing inventory is a sketch of a tombstone, 

 with a death's-head and crossbones, with this epitaph : 



" Here lies a Drunken Dog." 



One's admiration for the genius of the man is strained by such 

 a proof of debauchery. Yet if there are any extenuating circum- 

 stances for such bestiality they may be found in the habits of 

 the age, when it was not an unusual thing for gentlemen of 

 high rank and intellectual culture to be carried to bed in their boots, 

 or to be found after an evening's carouse under their dining-room 

 table. 



Morland's period of financial reformation at Charlotte Street 

 was of brief duration, and, putting on one side all his promises and 



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