HE MATCHED A TRICK OF THE DEVIL. Like the more celebrated scholars and divines, Clarke, Paley, Markland, &c., he would join an evening party at cards, always preferring the old English game of whist, and resolutely adhering to his early determination of never playing for more than a nominal stake. Being once, however, induced to break through it, and play with the late learned Bishop of Llandaff, Dr. Watson, for a _shilling_, which he won, after pushing it carefully to the bottom of his pocket and placing his hand upon it, with a kind of mock solemnity, he said, "There, my lord Bishop, this is a trick of the devil; but I'll match him; so now, if you please, we will play for a _penny_," and this was ever after the amount of his stake, though he was not the less ardent in pursuit of success, or less joyous on winning his rubber. Like our great moralist, Johnson, he had an aversion to _punning_, saying, it exposed the _poverty_ of a language. Yet he perpetrated the following THREE CLASSICAL PUNS: One day reaching a book from a shelf in his library, two others came tumbling down, including a volume of Hume, upon which fell a critical work of Lambert Bos: "See what has happened," exclaimed the Doctor, "_procumbit humi bos_." At another time, too strong a current of air being let into the room where he was sitting, suffering under the effects of a slight cold, "Stop! stop!" said he, "this is too much; at present I am only _par levibus ventis_." When he was solicited to subscribe to Dr. Busby's translation of Lucretius, published at _a high price_, he declined doing so, by observing, at the proposed cost it would indeed be "Lucretius _carus_." HIS LAW ACT AT CAMBRIDGE.