I met with him once in a house situated on the very confines of _Beef and Law_; on the line of demarcation between the theatres and Lincoln's Inn; a sort of _debateable_ ground between the spouters and ranters of the stage, and the eaters of commons, by either of which party it was frequented. Around a large table in the parlour sat a motley group. There were ragged wits, well-dressed students, new-fledged actors, a hackney writer or so, an Irish barrister named Shuter, a Scotch reporter, and a hodge-podge of most discordant materials congregated under the amalgamating power of Suett, who seemed, by the incongruity of his dress and diversified manner, to have studied the various tastes of those he swayed, and to be the comprehensive representative of each of the strange beings he looked upon, with all of whom he would occasionally identify himself with so much ease, that it were hard to say whether it was the result of labour or of tact, of calculation, or the mere impulse of mother-wit. The _ropes of his face_, when drawn _taught_, peculiarly commanded the attention of the Caledonian, while the sly and humorous glance of his half-shut eye was acknowledged by the Hibernian to whom it was addressed; the _snow drift_ of powder which lay in patches on his long, straight hair, agreed with the taste of his dramatic nursling; the far-extended cambric of white frill imposed upon the students, while the unseemly rents in his coat at once compensated to the wits for what there might be of gaudy or gay in his outward man. We were received with equal courtesy and ceremony by the president; and were just seated, when a ballet-dancer of Drury-lane entered. As he was a Frenchman, it became a question of _national_ politeness: and Dicky _chestered_ him to his dexter! and, as was befitting, condescended to address him. "I am proud, sir," said Suett, with the formality of _Black Rod_ himself, "to do the honours of my _country_ to the _representative_ of a nation which held my _master_ Garrick in peculiar respect. He was a great actor, sir; a wonderful man! Your Lekain, or any other _Cain_, could not come up to him, for he was _Able_, Pardon the pun. Oh, la!--but he was vain, sir; vain as a peacock; it could not be of his person. Had he been, as Richard has it, _'a marvellous proper man'_ like myself, one might have said something. He used to say, I was too _lean_ for _Suett_. Oh, dear. _A votre santé, Monsieur,_ happy to see you on this side the Channel. Never been to France yet, although in the _Straits_ great part of my life, and not unfrequently _half seas over_.--Well, sir, to return to Garrick. There was that man 'frae the north,' who wrote the History of England and Roderick Random,--the latter a true story, they say;--he who challenged Campbell the barrister, for calling him _names_, _To bias_ the cause. Well, sir, Davy refused one of his farces; but the wily Caledonian _pocketed_ the affront, in coolly observing, 'that he had nearly completed another