at  Yc'rv's,  or  have  your  box  at  Les  Italiens,
without  being  dunned  by  your  tailor  ai
the  one,  or  confronted  by  your  washer-
woman at  the  other. Perhaps  I  have
written  all  this  in  the  spite  and  malice  of
a,  man  who  feels  that  his  sovereign  only
goes  half  as  far  now  as  hertofore,  and
attributes  all  his  diminished  enjoyments
and  restricted  luxuries  to  the  unceasing
current  of  his  countrymen,  whom  fate,
and  the  law  of  imprisonment  for  debt,  im-
pel hither. Whether  1  am  so  far  guilty  or
not  is  not  now  the  question  ;  suffice  it  to
say,  that  Harry  Lorrequer,  for  reasons  best
known  to  himself,  lives  abroad,  where  he
will  be  most  happy  to  see  any  of  his  old
and  former  friends  who  take  his  quarters
en  route  ;  and  in  the  words  of  a  bellicose
brother  of  the  pen,  but  in  a  far  different
spirit,  he  would  add,  "that  any  person
who  feels  himself  here  alluded  to  may
learn  the  author's  address  at  his  pub-
lisher's." "  Now  let  us  go  back  to  our
mutton's,"  as  Barney  Coyle  used  to  say  in
the  Dublin  Library  formerly — for  Barney
was  fond  of  French  allusions,  which  oc-
casionally, too,  he  gave  in  their  own
tongue,  as  once  describing  an  interview
with  Lord  Cloncurry,  in  which  he  broke
off  suddenly  the  conference,  adding,  "  I
told  him  I  could  never  consent  to  such  a
proposition,  and  putting  my  chateau  (cha-
peau)  on  my  head,  I  left  the  house  at  once."

It  was  nearly  three  o'clock  in  the  morn-
ing as,  accompanied  by  the  waiter,  who,
like  others  of  his  tribe,  had  become  a  kind
of  somnambulist  ex-officio,  I  wended  my
way  up  one  flight  of  stairs,  and  down  an-
other, along  a  narrow  corridor,  down  two
steps,  through  an  ante-chamber,  and  into
another  corridor,  to  No. 82,  my  habitation
for  the  night. Why  I  should  have  been  so
far  conducted  from  the  habitable  portion
of  the  house  I  had  spent  my  evening  in,
I  leave  the  learned  in  such  matters  to  ex-
plain ;  as  for  me,  I  have  ever  remarked  it,
while  asking  for  a  chamber  in  a  large,
roomy  hotel,  the  singular  pride  with  which
you  are  ushered  up  grand  stair-cases,  down
passages,  through  corridors,  and  up  nar-
row back  nights,  till  the  blue  sky  is  seen
through  the  skylight,  to  No. 