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STEV^ENSON 



subjected themselves to a similar tribunal in others ; 

 some finished their career before the devouring flood 

 arrived ; and one in particular ( — Stevenson, Esq.) who, 

 from necessity, made the profession his choice, after being 

 at the University, and who, amidst all the profaneness of 

 the calling, preserved the character of a gentleman, was 



THE GLORY OF " THE AGE. 



cut short by the hand of death. But the Brighton 

 " Age " still lives in the memory of his friends, and is 

 transmitted to posterity by the pencil of Herring. 



It was at the latter end of the summer of 181 G that I 

 commenced my new vocation. The coach which left 

 every morning at nine o'clock I horsed myself half-way 

 to London, where, at the " White Lion," at Mousehill, a 



