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    be appended to a future volume , together with a fac-simile pf his Land-writing . The chief mourners' of the distinguished defunct , were his late

    secretary * J ^ « Stivers , Esq . and the editor of these his papers , in regard to which nothing very interesting remains untold , excepting this one anecdote . Finding , at the decline of life , that he could not probably

    much surpass the efforts of his predecessors in the classical land of Italy , he devolved his own glory on his humbler friends , and , it appears , would have patronized rather than have appropriated the two volumes ., After many erasures

    in the title-page , which is usually the most difficult part of a book , and the thread upon which hang its destinies , we finclj fairly written and standing forth triumphantly what is now printed in it , of which he himself is certainly the author .

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    n MR STIVERS TO LADY C . rMsf Lady—In Paris , as I told you , the houses are all roof ; in Genoa one can discover neither tile nor chimney . They are higher than our

    church-towers , and , the gentry live at the verv top . You may imagine it to be a melancholy thing to have no other view tUah of heaven * But the sky abtore thecity of Genoa looks

    like the fair and cheerful mother of i the lusty mountains which are ** $ blue as so many bhuerrbeards ; and tlie sea itself at some distance from the shore ifr J ust- W if v ^ ou hfit 4 idipped

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    your pen . in it after a scrawl , it being of so dark a complexion . In England , the clearest sky is between a hedge-sparrow ' s egg and a basin of starch : here

    you might recover soiled silk stockings with it , if you could get at it . And I never saw a Coventry garter of a deeper blue than the face of old ocean , ( as Dibdin in his whimsical way used to call it ) , where he has

    those big blustering Alps to keep him in countenance . And although he swells with burly pride as he elbows and jostles the ship , he very good-naturedly the next moment shews you a specimen of his stock ,

    his dolphins , that look like so many sunset heavens , and those other queer fish , like my lord ' s good stories , Deing without head or tail , rolling round and round eternally , and tumbling in the manner of tumbler pigeons , but as huge as a wherry ,

    and yet as active and lightsome as a boarding-school Miss at her holiday ' s ball or a buxom and blithe young widow , just come to that title , unfolding her glossy handkerchief , ready to hear the condolence ( I think they call it ) of her dear kind friends .

    Happy creatures ! Salt water is the element of both until they are taken , and then the fish is the first to change colour . ,

    I remain , , ^ ( A word to the wise ) KF ^ y ^ arLaa M y ^^ > otodfe SiWfl $ 0 old servant , Jack Jeremy Stivers .

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    92 tUgh and Low Life in Italy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/20/