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 and thoughtless deportment, but profound erudition of a Porson.

Our hero, encouraged by the high praises bestowed upon his literary essays, determined to bring forward a work of some magnitude and importance.

Hamilton, one afternoon, having been in the neighbourhood of Pancras, where Miss Collings now resided, and returning through Gray's Inn Lane, observing a literary acquaintance in the Burton ale-*house, entered that mansion, where, after they had been about a quarter of an hour, a gentleman came in, and accosting our hero's acquaintance, joined the conversation. Hamilton was astonished at the brilliancy and strength of this gentleman's observations, the extent and depth of his metaphysical, moral, and political science. He soon found that this was William Strongbrain, a gentleman very highly prized in the republic of letters,