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the Leicestershire Burtons, who first figured as a fashionable guardsman, and then sank step by step into abjoct poverty and degradation, until at length he was transported for theft. Some lines written by this quondam wit are a fitting epit iph for the graves of spendthrift scions of nobility. '* And I felt how the pure, intellectual fire In luxury los*® its heavenly ray; How !>oon in the lavi-thing cup of d-'sire, The pearl of the soul may be melted aw iy." But undoubtedly the most amazing exiinple of hair-brained extravagance and dissipation is to be found in the career of that individual who has earned the distinction of bein? termed " the Spendthrift Squire of Halston." John —or, as he was familiarly called by his neighbours, in spite of his worth lesmess, Jack—Mytton, during the last fifteen years of his life spent over half a million sterling, and sold timber —" the old oaks of Halston" —to the amount of eighty thousand pounds. When but a mere child John Mytton was allowed by his parents t) have a pack of harriers, and at the age of ten is said to have been a "confirmed scapegrace." He gave an indication of his uncurbed will early in life by bein? expelled from two public schools Westminster and Harrow then entered the 7ch Hussars and joined his regiment in France, where he carried things with a high hand. Both at gaming and racing he was a heavy loser, and set at naught the counsels of all advisers. t) Eigland, he gave himself up to yet wilder extravagauce, spending a rent-roll of ten thousand a year in less than three months. When heavy liabilities had been already incurred, but previous to the disposal of large properties to meet pressing demands, Myiton's agent assured him that if he would content himseif for the next six years on six thousand a year, his fine old Shrewsbury estate — the earliest patrimony of his ancestors —might be saved. Besought to accede to these reasonable demands, Mytton replied : 44 No, no ; I would not give a straw for life if it was to be passed on six thousand a year." The result confirmed the agent's apprehensions. Tue first acre alienated led to the dismemberment of the whole estate. 