and the securities.  The moment I can it is assuredly my intention to pay my debts.  This person’s case may be a hard one; but, under all circumstances, what is mine?  I could not foresee that the purchaser of my estate was to demur in paying for it.

     “I am glad it happens to be in my power so far to accommodate my
     Israelite, and only wish I could do as much for the rest of the
     Twelve Tribes.

     “Ever yours, dear R., BN.”

[Footnote 61: 

    “Tis said that persons living on annuities
      Are longer lived than others,—­God knows why,
    Unless to plague the grantors,—­yet so true it is,
      That some, I really think, do never die. 
    Of any creditors, the worst a Jew it is;
      And that’s their mode of furnishing supply: 
    In my young days they lent me cash that way,
      Which I found very troublesome to pay.” 
    DON JUAN, Canto II
]

* * * * *

At the beginning of this year, Mr. Murray having it in contemplation to publish an edition of the two Cantos of Childe Harold with engravings, the noble author entered with much zeal into his plan; and, in a note on the subject to Mr. Murray, says,—­“Westall has, I believe, agreed to illustrate your book, and I fancy one of the engravings will be from the pretty little girl you saw the other day[62], though without her name, and merely as a model for some sketch connected with the subject.  I would also have the portrait (which you saw to-day) of the friend who is mentioned in the text at the close of Canto 1st, and in the notes,—­which are subjects sufficient to authorise that addition.”

Early in the spring he brought out, anonymously, his poem on Waltzing, which, though full of very lively satire, fell so far short of what was now expected from him by the public, that the disavowal of it, which, as we see by the following letter, he thought right to put forth, found ready credence:—­

LETTER 120.  TO MR. MURRAY.

     “April 21. 1813.

“I shall be in town by Sunday next, and will call and have some conversation on the subject of Westall’s designs.  I am to sit to him for a picture at the request of a friend of mine, and as Sanders’s is not a good one, you will probably prefer the other.  I wish you to have Sanders’s taken down and sent to my lodgings immediately—­before my arrival.  I hear that a certain malicious publication on Waltzing is attributed to me.  This report, I suppose, you will take care to contradict, as the author, I am sure, will not like that I should wear his cap and bells.  Mr. Hobhouse’s quarto will be out immediately; pray send to the author for an early copy, which I wish to take abroad with me.

“P.S.—­I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week.