who, under the auspices of ----, used to rouse Lord Mansel (late Bishop of Bristol) from his slumbers in the Lodge of Trinity (College;) and when he appeared at the window, foaming with wrath, and crying out, "I know you, gentlemen; I know you!" were wont to reply, "We beseech thee to hear us, good _Lort_!--Good _Lort_ deliver us!" (_Lort_ was his Christian name.) And his lordship might have added, the pun was the more poignant, as the Bishop was either a _Welshman_ himself, or had a Welsh sponsor, in the person of the late Greek Professor, Dr. _Lort_. Punning upon sacred subjects, however, is decidedly in bad taste; yet, in the reign of the Stuarts, neither king nor nobles were above it. Our illustrious Cantab, Bacon, writing to Prince, afterwards Charles the First, in the midst of his disastrous _poverty_, says, he hopes, "as the father was his _Creator_, the son will be his _Redeemer_." Yet this great man DID NOT THE LESS REVERENCE RELIGION, But said, towards the close of his chequered life, that "a little smattering in philosophy would lead a man to Atheism, but a thorough insight into it will lead a man back to a First Cause; and that the first principle of religion is right reason; and seriously professed, all his studies and inquisitions, he durst not die with any other thoughts than those religion taught, as it is professed among the Christians." These incidents remind me that THE MEMORY OF JEMMY GORDON, "Who, to save from rustication, Crammed the dunce with declamation,"