l hundred, the payment of 'brother Martin's' old score,
of long standing, for bed and board at Madame's house of business,
little St. Martin's-~317~~street. The public have been amused with the
ridiculous story of the mock marriage; but whatever were his faults
or follies, and he is since called to his account, his l--ds--p stands
guiltless of this. 'Tis true, her 'ladyship' asserted, nay, we believe,
swore as much; but she is known to possess such boundless imaginative
faculties, that her nearest and dearest friends have never yet been
able to detect her in the weakness of uttering a palpable truth. The
assumption of the name and title arose out of a circumstance so strange,
so ridiculous, and so unsavoury, that, with all our 'gusto' for fun, we
must omit it: suffice it to say, that it originated in--what?--gentle
reader--in a dose of physic!!! For further particulars, apply to Mrs.
C----l, of the C--s--le S--t--h--ll. After this strange event, which
imparted to her ladyship all the honours of the coronet, Mrs. C----i
was to be seen in the park, from day to day; the envy of every less
fortunate Dolly, and the horror of the few friends which folly left her
lordly dupe. In this state of doubtful felicity her ladyship rolled on
(for she almost lived in her carriage) for three years; when, alas! by
some cruel caprice of love, or some detected intrigue, or from the
holy scruples of his lordship's Reverend adviser, Padre Ambrosio, this
connexion was suddenly dissolved at Paris; when Mrs. C----, no longer
acknowledged as my lady, was at an hour's notice packed off in the Dilly
for Dover, and her jewels, in half the time, packed up in their casket
and despatched to Lafitte's, in order to raise the ways and means for
the peer and his ghostly confessor!

"Her ladyship's next attempt at notoriety was her grand masked ball at
the Argyll rooms in 1818; an entertainment which, for elegant display
and superior arrangement, did great credit to her taste, or to that of
her broad-shouldered Milesian friend, to whom it is said the management
of the whole was committed. The expense of this act of folly has been
variously ~318~~estimated; and the honour of defraying it gratuitously
allotted to an illustrious commander, whose former weakness and
culpability has been amply redeemed by years of truly r----l benevolence
and public service. We can state, however, that neither the purse or
person of the royal D----contributed to the _eclat_ of th