GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN 91 



Portman Square and its vicinity. Probably Lord 

 March found his friend ' Skinflint's ' habitations un- 

 desirable, though these were close to his lordship's 

 residence in Seymour Place. 



This year commences a correspondence with one 

 with whom his lordship enjoyed a long and strange 

 friendship — George Augustus Selwyn, whose careful 

 keeping of his letters has permitted me to judge 

 him by his own actions and words. However, 

 I must disclaim the privilege of first making this 

 singular correspondence public; as that pertains to 

 the late J. H. Jesse, who, over fifty years ago, edited 

 Selwyn's correspondence in a work entitled George 

 Selwyn and his Contemporaries, in which many 

 of Lord March's letters are found. To place these 

 together in an Appendix, in conjunction with my 

 own research and explanation, has been my task; 

 one which sheds a considerable light on his lord- 

 ship's sayings and doings, stripped from all error, 

 miscalculation, or judgment of reporters or chro- 

 niclers. At this point I purpose to enlighten the 

 reader, not versed in biographies, as to who George 

 Augustus Selwyn was. 



This eighteenth -century wit was senior to Lord 

 March by six years : he was born at Matson, Glou- 

 cester, on the 11th of August 1719; the second son 



