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THE CHAMPION.
Mr.Caryll was well and handsomely housed, as became the man of fashion, in the lodging he had taken in Old Palace Yard.

Knowing him from abroad, it was not impossible that the government--fearful of sedition since the disturbance caused by the South Sea distress, and aware of an undercurrent of Jacobitism--might for a time, at least, keep an eye upon him.

It behooved him, therefore, to appear neither more nor less than a lounger, a gentleman of pleasure who had come to London in quest of diversion.

To support this appearance, Mr.Caryll had sought out some friends of his in town.