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on one elbbw with Chatetat , in a sentimental attitude , playing the guitar and sihging to her—a " poor concern that has sold very well —has some of these French verses appended to it . Ireland happening one day to be in company with the engraver or painter—I forget which—the latter mentioned the subject , and quoted the
lines appended to the print , together with some from the other poemsi expressing his admiration of Chatelat ' refined muse , &c . Whereupon Mr . Ireland , with all the glee of a boy , though about fiveand-forty years of age , cut a caper in the air , and alighting on his feet , and bowing with a delighted look , exclaimed , ' Sir , — -I wrote every line of them T
Mrs . Albion . It is quite clear there was no sense of moral turpitude in his mind or sensation as to the trick . Does not . this let us into the secret of his character ? Mft . Albion . No doubt this gives the key to it to a great extent ; but if all that I have heard against him be true—Mrs . AtfcfoN . Half , dear ; say half .
Mr . Albion . If half that I have heard against him be true , it is clear that he had no sense of moral turpitude on various occasions when he ought to have had it . And yet it is very probable that distress , of circumstances induced actions at which his better nature revolted . Harry of Newmarket . No doubt but it was so . Mrs . Albion . Perhaps he had a family ?
Harry of Newmarket . He had , and something a large one , as commonly happens where means are small . I used frequently to see and converse with him many years ago . He had a cottage a few miles out of town , and as I was installed iu a little shooting-box pretty near , we often met ; for I was much interested in the various circumstances he detailed of his residence
in France during the time of Napoleon . Only two other English families besides his own had remained in Paris , and after the police had ascertained all about them , they were suffered to remain without the slightest molestation . His anecdotes of the Emperor I found interesting , though , upon my soul , sometimes he put , my
credulity to a very hard test . I do not mean that I think he could have invented anything too 6 ne in sterling intellect qt npjble humanity—allow me my private opinion of Napoleon , if you please—for that people-chosen dictator ; but the said anecdotes were often so strange , that they seemed what Ireland himself would
probably have termed them , astonishers !—though he might not have chosen to admit that he had given the finishing touches which produced the effect . Moses . He had had enough of confessing . Father Zodiac . There are a sort of people whose imaginatiop * being unbalanced by a sufficient weight of other powers , fya ^ . aa natural a tendency to hyperbole in speaking df ? a 6 ts , as others wlia are <** & **« in toagWtW' h * + d of tedticffi ? eVe ' ry saftixa ^ C and
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tHt * nth Carlo . 335
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/21/
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