Under these circumstances I feel that they are rightfully his, and that I am restrained from placing them at disposal elsewhere unless and until he renounces his claim upon them.

But though I cannot repeat them at length for public use, I am not precluded from correcting inaccuracies in stories already in circulation, and may therefore say that Mr.Arthur Dalrymple's version of the Yarmouth escapade is wrong in making his brother John a partner in the transaction.

John had quite too much sense for that; the only victims of Borrow's romance were two or three silly boys--mere lackeys of Borrow's commanding will--who helped him to make up a kit for the common knapsack by pilferings out of their fathers' shops.
The Norwich gentleman who fell in with the boys lying in the hedgerow near the half-way inn knew one of them, and wormed out of him the drift of their enterprise, and engaging a postchaise packed them all into it, and in his gig saw them safe home.
It is true that I had to _hoist_ (not 'horse') Borrow for his flogging, but not that there was anything exceptional or capable of leaving permanent scars in the infliction.

Mr.Valpy was not given to excess of that kind.
I have never read _Lavengro_, and cannot give any opinion about the correct spelling of the 'Exul sacerdos' name.
Borrow's romance and William Taylor's love of paradox would doubtless often run together, like a pair of well-matched steeds, and carry them away in the same direction.

But there was a strong--almost wild--_religious_ sentiment in Borrow, of which only faint traces appear in W.T.In Borrow it had always a tendency to pass from a sympathetic to an antipathetic form.
He used to gather about him three or four favourite schoolfellows, after they had learned their class lesson and before the class was called up, and with a sheet of paper and book on his knee, invent and tell a story, making rapid little pictures of each _dramatis persona_ that came upon the stage.
The plot was woven and spread out with much ingenuity, and the characters were various and well discriminated.