THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 

 A STAGE COACHMAN 



CHAPTER I 



THE BOX 



Modern Philosophy — Sir Eobert Walpole — A Eailway Director — 

 Coach Passengers — A Birmingham Man — The St. Leger — The 

 Post-Horse Duty — A Strange Bet — Self-approbation — A 

 Warwickshire Grazier (Culloden) — A Lace Buyer — Female 

 Accomplishment — R. W. Elliston — Don Juan — A Dashing 

 Military Officer — A Pleasant tete-a-tete — The Retreat to 

 Corunna — General Lefevre Desnouettes — Sergeant Bunn, of 

 the 18th Hussars — The Emperor Napoleon I. — A Cartel — A 

 Sad Finale — A Good Character. 



" The proper study of mankind is man," is a maxim as 

 durable, nay, as imperishable, as is the fame of the man 

 who wrote it — an author whose poetic works adorn our 

 literature, and whose name Avill ever be held in that 

 veneration and esteem liis writings are calculated to 

 inspire, and to justify the verdict pronounced on both, 

 by contemporaries and posterity. Nevertheless, worthy 

 as his words are of all acceptation, they are caj^able of 

 two constructions — Man in relation to his God ; man in 

 relation to his fellow-man. 



Man, the sublime image of his Maker : man, the 



VOL. II. B 



