But I forgot that I need not speak.

The great and good Dr.Johnson has settled that question.

You remember what he said to Mr.Boswell about Fielding ?" "And yet Gibbon praises him, Colonel," said the Colonel's interlocutor, "and that is no small praise.

He says that Mr.Fielding was of the family that drew its origin from the Counts of Hapsburg; but----" "Gibbon! Gibbon was an infidel, and I would not give the end of this cigar for such a man's opinion.

If Mr.Fielding was a gentleman by birth, he ought to have known better; and so much the worse for him that he did not.