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water under the quarter gallery from whence I joined them.The water sobered me in a few minutes, so I returued to thecompany delighted with the experiment.

Mr. Paley, maugre his priestly origin and education, wasdreadfully addicted to drinking. His chief pot companion,was a young man named Grundy. One evening I called onPaley who had been drinking with his friend until, as usual,they fell out, and fell down, also down under the table, whereSteuart and I found them kicking, and cuffing, and vomitingover each other. This Grundy, when one night in hi cups,met with a more troublesome customer than the Archdea-con ’s son. Previously to the city of Naples being lightedo’nights, (as it was by the French in 1806 most splendidlywith argaud lamps, and parabolic reflectors,) it ’ ■’ oeen thecustom for gentlemen retiring home at n'_,nt, to have aservant bearing a large flambeau, and ihe gentleman’sduelling sword (spada di misura), tucked under his arm.Grundy with three or four other Englishmen (I was of theparty) going home after midnight, and he being drunk,perceived a Neapolitan gentleman accompanied by a servantwith a torch and the sword as usual. But having: the fearof neither the one nor the other before his eyes, in virtue ofthe wine and punch he had swallowed, he began caperinground the gentleman, and seizing his hat from off his head,bore it away on the point of his stick. The torch-bearingvalet, was for taking summary vengeance, and drew thesword, but his hatless master very good-naturedly orderedhim to refrain, coolly repeating “Let him alone, let him alone,it is only an Englishman full of rum!” This forbearance waslost on Grundy, so I apologized to the gentleman and ex-postulated with the sot, who now met with his desert—forupon his striking the servant, who attempted to seize him,he was complimented by the flaming torch being pushed intohis face, so that his mouth and chin were covered with a