Her understanding was ready, and at his death, which happened, luckily for her, before satiety had extinguished appetite, she was left with an annuity of twelve hundred pounds--improved beauty--superficial accomplishments--and an immoderate share of caprice, insolence, and vanity.

As a proof of this, I must tell you that at an elegant entertainment lately given by this dashing cyprian, she demolished a desert service of glass and china that cost five hundred guineas, in a fit of passionate ill-humour; and when her paramour intreated her to be more composed, she became indignant--called for her writing-desk in a rage--committed a settlement of four hundred a year, which he had made but a short time previously, to the flames, and asked him, with, a self-important air, whether he dared to suppose that _paltry_ parchment gave him an authority to direct her actions ?" "And what said the lover to this severe remonstrance ?" "Say,--why he very sensibly made her a low bow, thanked her for her kindness, in releasing him from his bond, and took his leave of her, determined to return no more." 22~~"Turn to the right," says Tom, "and yonder you will see on horseback, that staunch patriot, and friend of the people, Sir----, of whom you must have heard so much." "He has just come out of the K----B----, having completed last week the term of imprisonment, to which he was sentenced for a libel on Government, contained in his address to his constituents on the subject of the memorable Manchester Meeting." "Ah! indeed, and is that the red-hot patriot ?--well, I must say I have often regretted he should have gone to such extremes in one or two instances, although I ever admired his general character for firmness, manly intrepidity, and disinterested conduct." "You are right, Bob, perfectly right; but you know, 'to err is human, to forgive divine,' and however he may err, he does so from principle.
In his private character, as father, husband, friend, and polished gentleman, he has very few equals--no superior.
"He is a branch of one of the most ancient families in the kingdom, and can trace his ancestors without interruption, from the days of William the Conqueror.

His political career has been eventful, and perhaps has cost him more, both in pocket and person, than any Member of Parliament now existing.

He took his seat in the House of Commons at an early age, and first rendered himself popular by his strenuous opposition to a bill purporting to regulate the publication of newspapers.
"The next object of his determined reprehension, was the Cold-Bath-Fields Prison, and the treatment of the unfortunates therein confined.

The uniformly bold and energetic language made use of by the honourable Baronet upon that occasion, breathed the true spirit of British liberty.