Brough told me to get some boots and pumps, and silk stockings for evenings; so that when the time came for me to go down to Fulham, I appeared as handsome as any young nobleman, and Gus said that "I looked, by Jingo, like a regular tip-top swell." In the meantime the following letter had been sent down to Hodge and Smithers:-- "RAM ALLEY, CORNHILL, LONDON: _July_ 1822.
"DEAR SIRS, * * * * * [This part being on private affairs relative to the cases of Dixon v.
Haggerstony, Snodgrass v.

Rubbidge and another, I am not permitted to extract.] * * * * * "Likewise we beg to hand you a few more prospectuses of the Independent West Diddlesex Fire and Life Insurance Company, of which we have the honour to be the solicitors in London.

We wrote to you last year, requesting you to accept the Slopperton and Somerset agency for the same, and have been expecting for some time back that either shares or assurances should be effected by you.
"The capital of the Company, as you know, is five millions sterling (say 5,000,000_l_.), and we are in a situation to offer more than the usual commission to our agents of the legal profession.

We shall be happy to give a premium of 6 per cent.

for shares to the amount of 1,000_l_., 6.5 per cent.