"Lord-love ye, sir, never larnt that there Latish in all my born days.'

"I don't ask you what it means in English."

"Lack a day! good gentleman; you be making a joke o' me; I've no idear as to how you larned folks make out that there Latish, any more than the man in the moon."

"Well, if you

don't read this craft's name, by all the drops of rum ye ever drank, you'll go along with us to the first port, and drink a glass o' rum for every letter of her name; or by Heavens, you'll not—”

"Don't thraten me, sir, and I'll go with you to try to make out the rum; I knows what a quartern o'rum be, but don't know no learning but to hear the Advertiser read by Joe Kedges, the vaterman.'

The remainder of the day was em

ployed in traversing street after street. In the evening they repaired to Charles's inn; and after supper, having called the waiters into the room, his lordship locked the door, and both stripped and set to, and gave all the waiters, who, except one, stood on the defensive, a good thrashing. In the morning, the landlord was going to have his guests up before a magistrate for the assault; but by the interference of his wife, a compromise took place, and Charles and his lordship got off for ten guineas.

: After breakfast the tour of London was recommended; and, after four days' cruising, these voyagers were content to relinquish the enterprise, swearing "the intricacies of London were more complicated and variable than the politics of a Frenchman."

When Charles and his lordship separated, (but it was not till the young nobleman's duty to his purse bent his in

clination homewards) Stuart, strolling in the evening through Leicester-square, saw his old friend and patron the admiral, in tow with a Cyprian, and being anxious to learn the old gentleman's character in Venus's service, dogged the admiral home to her lodgings in St. Martin's lane.

Having ascertained the admiral's retreat, (for it was needless to wait for his egress,) Charles the next day waited on this unfortunate, and from her own lips learned that the admiral supported her; she was his mistress; he wanted much to meet the admiral there, but how to get an interview with him at this girl's apartments, baffled Charles's skill and contrivance; however, by promising her five guineas, she agreed to bring it about at all risks.

The admiral she loved, but she loved him only for his purse; "Charles was young and gay; and if she were cast off

by the one to serve the other, that other would not surely forsake her; at all events she would make trial." Next day the admiral came at his usual time, but what was his consternation to find Lieutenant Stuart in the apartments of his mistress: she begged ten thousand pardons; said the lieutenant had come to implore her intercession, to make up a slight difference between him and a friend of his. The admiral was happy to see Lieutenant Stuart, and congratu lated him on his success at sea, but he did not invite his protegée to his house.

Charles thought little or nothing about his father's misfortunes: gay, young, always changing his company; as prodigal of time as of his money; resolute in the execution of any scheme; the most whimsical being in the navy, he delighted in undertaking nothing on shore but what was in the truly marvellous, or completely out of the usual

mode of living and acting among society; and he did not.mention to the admiral the departure of his brother for India.

The admiral allowed the bait to take very well in her presence; but when in a few days he met Stuart in the Admiralty yard, he questioned him more strictly; and not finding his answers so satisfactory as he could wish, the admiral went straight to his amorata, and swore unless she told him the truth, he would turn her off: the wench told him with tears the truth, and falling on her knees, begged his pardon, and promised never to be guilty of the like again. The admiral went straight to a coffee-house, and wrote the following card.

"Admiral Springfield was greatly surprised to meet in a certain place t'other day Lieutenant Stuart; the explanation of the lieutenant not proving satisfactory, the admiral learned the