A Loyalist.—­The Earl of St. Alban’s was, like many other staunch loyalists, little remembered by Charles II.  He was, however, an attendant at court, and one of his majesty’s companions in his gay hours.  On one such occasion, a stranger came with an importunate suit, for an office of great value, just vacant.  The king, by way of joke, comsired the earl to personate him, and demanded the petitioner to be admitted.  The gentleman addressing himself to the supposed monarch, enumerated his services to the royal family, and hoped the grant of the place would not be deemed too great a reward.  “By no means,” answered the earl, “and I am only sorry that as soon as I heard of the vacancy, I conferred it on my faithful friend, the Earl of St. Alban’s,” pointing to the king, “who constantly followed the fortunes, both of my father and myself, and has hitherto gone unrewarded.”  Charles granted, for this joke, what the utmost real services looked for in vain.

T. GILL.

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