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 POURQUOI with; but when he persisted in some questions, and feeling myself hurt, just as I was going to answer, Sir Vicary Gibbs, who was counsel on the other side, and who sat near, said something aside to him, then smiling and addressing me, " Mr. Angelo, I remember you many years ago, at Eton, we were old school-fellows." Soon after, no longer subjected to be cross-examined, and opposed in my replies, I was released from my umpleasant situation, and much to my pride and satisfaction the notice conferred on me so many years after by such a high legal character. In referring to a list I have by me of those who were at Eton in the year 1767, I find the name of Gibbs in the fifth form, a few boys above the present Rev. Dr. Randolf, the late Dr. R. Rennell, of the Temple, and the late John Reeves, Parliament Place, all collegers on the foundation, and must have been about seventeen, when I was at the lower part of the school PourQUO1. If the recollection of many years ago, anecdotes of my younger days and since, the various situations my pursuits have placed me in these last fifty years, so well known sur le pavé, my entré free to all public places, received at the tables of my superiors, the notice of the many, including those authors, artists, &c, who have distinguished themselves by their superior abilities, my "Reminiscences" have derived material information; and, after the approbation bestowed on my second volume, I flatter myself my scribbling efforts again may not be unacceptable, at least to thosc I am known to, either as a professional man, or an old acquaintance; and when late in life to have recourse to memory, recording those