Dr. Dibdin, in his _Reminiscences_, relates:--"Sir John Stoddart married the sister of Lord Moncrieff, by whom he has a goodly race of representatives; but, before his marriage, _he was the man who wrote up the Times newspaper_ to its admitted pitch of distinction and superiority over every other contemporary journal. Mark, gentle reader, I speak of the _Times_ newspaper during the eventful and appalling crisis of Bonaparte's invasion of Spain and destruction of Moscow. My friend fought with his _pen_ as Wellington fought with his _sword_: but nothing like a tithe of the remuneration which was justly meted out to the hero of Waterloo befel the editor of the _Times_. Of course, I speak of remuneration in degree, and not in kind. The peace followed. Public curiosity lulled, and all great and stirring events having subsided, it was thought that a writer of less commanding talent, (certainly not the _present Editor_,) and therefore procurable at a less premium, would answer the current purposes of the day; and the retirement of Dr. Stoddart, (for he was at this time a civilian, and particularly noticed and patronised by Lord Stowell,) from the old _Times_, and his establishment of the _New Times_ newspaper, followed in consequence. But the latter, from various causes, had only a short-lived existence. Sir John Stoddart had been his Majesty's advocate, or Attorney-General, at Malta, before he retired thither a _second_ time, to assume the office of Judge." * * * * * RELICS OF THE BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP. The portal of the Boar's Head was originally decorated with carved oak figures of Falstaff and Prince Henry; and in 1834, the former figure was in the possession of a brazier, of Great Eastcheap, whose ancestors had lived in the shop he then occupied since the great fire. The last grand Shakspearean dinner-party took place at the Boar's Head about 1784. A boar's head, with silver tusks, which had been suspended in some room in the house, perhaps the Half Moon or Pomegranate, (see _Henry IV._, Act. ii., scene 3,) at the great fire, fell down with the ruins of the houses, little injured, and was conveyed to Whitechapel Mount, where it was identified and recovered about thirty years ago. * * * * * ORIGIN OF "THE EDINBURGH REVIEW."