the Earl of Trimmerstone and his worthy friend Mr. Singleton Sloper felt most powerfully the effects of the wine. So much did they feel its effects, that they were compelled to leave off play after being considerable losers. The young gentleman, who had not the slightest supposition that any conspiracy had been formed against him, though he, perhaps, might not be reluctant, with his apparent simplicity, to form a conspiracy against another, felt in high spirits, pleased with his winnings, and proud of the honor of an acquaintance with a man of rank. At an early hour in the morning the party separated; but the young gentleman, as his home lay partly in the same direction, accompanied the Earl and his friend Mr. Sloper. By this time all three of them were under the influence of strong drink, and they were disposed to be exceedingly facetious. The Earl and his friend were on very intimate terms with the watchmen of their own immediate neighbourhood; but, to speak again after the manner of Dr. Crack, “the vinous stimulus had obfuscated their geographical apprehension,” so that they roamed beyond their usual precincts, amusing themselves as they went by copiously complying with the exhortation inscribed on many doors--“knock and ring.” This was not unobserved, nor did it pass unrebuked by the trusty guardians of the night. Advice and reproof are seldom very agreeable; and they are more frequently received with nominal than with real thanks. In the present instance they were most uncourteously received, seeing that an hereditary legislator ought certainly to know how to conduct himself without any monitory assistance from a watchman. The consequence of this indisposition to take good advice, terminated in the unpleasant and mortifying catastrophe of sending a noble earl and two illustrious commoners to the watch-house. But this was not effected by the arm of one individual watchman, nor was it accomplished till a great conflict had taken place between the parties; by the exertions of which conflict the already inebriated gentlemen were reduced to a state of nearly unconscious apathy and insensibility.