"fited by the experience of others, or his 66 own? When you read my Memoirs, you "will learn the evils, moral and physical, "of true dissipation. I assure you my "life is very entertaining, and very in"structive." I said, 66 I suppose, when you left England, you were a Childe Harold, and at Venice a Don Giovanni, and Fletcher your Leporello." He laughed at the remark. I asked him, in what way his life would prove a good lesson? and he gave me several anecdotes of himself, which I have thrown into a sort of narrative. "Almost all the friends of my youth "are dead; either shot in duels, ruined, "or in the galleys:" (mentioning the names of several.) 66 66 Among those I lost in the early part " of my career, was Lord Falkland,-poor fellow! our fathers' fathers were friends. "He lost his life for a joke, and one "too he did not make himself. The pre"“sent race is more steady than the last. They have less constitution and not so "much money-that accounts for the change in their morals. 66 66 66 66 I am now tamed; but before I mar ried, shewed some of the blood of my ancestors. It is ridiculous to say "that we do not inherit our passions, 66 as well as the gout, or any other dis "order. "I was not so young when my father "died, but that I perfectly remember 66 66 him; and had very early a horror of matrimony, from the sight of domestic "broils this feeling came over me very strongly at my wedding. Something 66 whispered me that I was sealing my own "death-warrant. I am a great believer 66 no fiction. "in presentiments. Socrates' dæmon was Monk Lewis had his mo"nitor, and Napoleon many warnings. "At the last moment I would have re treated, if I could have done so. I called to mind a friend of mine, who had married a young, beautiful, and "rich girl, and yet was miserable. He "had strongly urged me against putting 66 my neck in the same yoke: and to "shew you how firmly I was resolved to "attend to his advice, I betted Hay 66 fifty guineas to one, that I should always "remain single. Six years afterwards I "sent him the money. The day before 66 "I proposed to Lady Byron, I had no "idea of doing so." 66 After this digression he continued: "I lost my father when I was only six years of age. My mother, when "she was in a rage with me, (and I gave "her cause enough,) used to say, 'Ah, "you little dog, you are a Byron all over; you are as bad as your father!' "It was very different from Mrs. Mal 66 66 66 66 66 aprop's saying, 'Ah! good dear Mr. Malaprop, I never loved him till he was dead.' But, in fact, my father was, in his youth, any thing but a 'Cælebs "in search of a wife.' He would have "made a bad hero for Hannah More. "He ran out three fortunes, and mar"ried or ran away with three women, "and once wanted a guinea, that he "wrote for; I have the note. He seem"ed born for his own ruin, and that of "the other sex. He began by seducing 66 66 66 Lady Carmarthen, and spent for her 4000l. a-year; and not content with one adventure of this kind, afterwards eloped with Miss Gordon. His marriage "was not destined to be a very fortunate one either, and I don't wonder at her 66 is differing from Sheridan's widow in the 66 play. They certainly could not have "claimed the flitch. "The phrenologists tell me that other "lines besides that of thought" (the middle of three horizontal lines on his |