Part 58 (2/2)

Wilmot, in his letter to me, did not confine himself to a bare recital of facts Fearful lest they should escape uments which were best calculated to shew, not only what ht impute to me, should this inteinal mistakes, would attack the character of the Bishop, a man whose office, in the eye of the world, implied every virtue And how inity be exaggerated, should it appear precisely at the moment when I knew disease had deprived him of his faculties! had rendered hiht have concealed; or give another face to truth, which I uree I was averse to quit the place before my mother was interred: especially as my reasons for such an abrupt departure could not be made public: but I was still more averse to an action which, in appearance, would involve ly, Iorders that the funeral should be conducted with every decency; and, after a very short conversation with the attorney, who had witnessed the will of Thornby and given me the information I have already mentioned, I travelled back to London with no less speed than I had hurried into the country

I arrived in town on Thursday night; and the pa Monday The advertise purposely written to excite curiosity, repeated the subject of the pamphlet: which asserted my claims to the letters of Themistocles, and to the defence of the thirty-nine articles; the acrie was increased by a personal attack on the Earl of Idford, the Bishop, and their associates

When I cas, I found two notes: one froentleman employed by the Earl; and another fro an interview

Answers not having been returned, these agents had co informed that I was in the country, but was expected in town before the end of the week, they left a pressingan answer the er as I was to ward off the danger that threatened me, I considered the application that was made, especially on the part of the Earl, as fortunate I understood that the onlythe pamphlet would be by an injunction froined the influence of the Earl ht essentially promote: for which reason I ients, and appointed an interview early the nextwas a private rooerness in the business brought me there a few minutes before the time named, Ellis and his coadjutor had arrived before me They acted in concert, and had met to compare notes

I found the purveyor of pews and paradise still the sareeable

The other agent was seated in a dark corner of the roonise him as I entered How much was I surprised when, as he turned to the , I discovered him to be the loquacious Mr Glibly; the lossy, but whose praise was erous than his satire

The civilities that were poured uponIt was like taking leave of a Frenchime_: there was no niche or chink for me to throw in a word; so copious was the volubility of Glibly, and so eager was the zeal of Ellis

Froave of the first, the reader will have perceived that he was a h not of sufficient to make him honest His usual mode, in conversation, was to render the person to whom he addressed hile up sarcasyric in such a manner as to produce confusion in the ry or when to be pleased, and laughter in every body else

At first the most witty and acute would find amusement in his florid irony: but they could not but soon be wearied, by its reat barrenness of invention

In the present instance, he had a case that required e, and an opponent to circumvent He had therefore the art to assu as habit would per to fail of their effect, yet not quite gross enough to offend My person, , my friends and connections, all passed in reviehile his praise was carefully teined very passably appropriate

Hence, it certainly proiven: it opened enerous effusion which rather inclines to cried in its favour

Apt however as he was at detecting vanity in others, he was as open to it hian with a profession of his friendshi+p for the Earl of Idford: in which he assu conferred a favour on that noble lord; and I will not deny that he was right All his acquaintance were friends; and perhaps he had the longest list of any man in London: for the effrontery of his familiar clai to hope or fear, was so extraordinary as to render an escape froy of the _haut ton_, and its arrogant apathy, till the manner was so habitual to him that he was unconscious of his own i on this occasion of the Earl who had deputed him, the only appellation he had for his patron was Idford 'I told Idford what I thought on the subject For I always speak the truth, and never deceive people: unless it be to give theed to me Glibly, said Idford to me, I know you will act in this business without partiality For I must do hiood fellow I do not pretend that he is not sensible of the privileges which rank and fashi+on give hireat orator, a fine writer, a wise senator, and all that I grant it How should it be otherwise? It is very natural He would have been a devilish sensible fellow, if he had not been a lord But that is not to be helped You and I, in his place, should think and act the same We should be as ht Things ood fellow He is, upon eon that has a difficult case will not only ins to probe, lacerate, or cauterize, but will sometimes administer an opiate; to stupefy that sensibility which he apprehends is too keen Glibly pursuedexhausted nearly all his art, till he found he had produced as great a propensity to compliance and conciliation as he could reasonably hope, he proceeded to the business in question

'You no doubt guess, my dear Trevor, why my friend Ellis here and I desired toas I do the soundness of your understanding, the quickness of your conception, and the consequences that must follohich, acute as you are, you could not but foresee, I was aiously surprising, indeed!' added Ellis: eager at every opportunity to throw in such touches as he thought would give effect to the colouring of his friend, and leader

'Why,' said I, 'do you call it my advertisement?'

'I mean of a pamphlet which it see to be published without !

'It is not ive thelad of that!' exclailad, indeed!'

'But you have owned it ritten by you?' continued Glibly

'I know no good that can result fro the truth; and especially in the present instance'

'My dear fellow, truth is a very pretty thing on so truth, as you call it, oh Lord! oh Lord! we should set the whole world to cutting of throats!'