The Death of Pitt....

Napoleon--Austerlitz....

'Decius' in the Enquirer--that's John Randolph of Roanoke....

'Aurelius'-- that letter of 'Aurelius'-- " Rand, at the corner table, had moved his chair so as to face the room.
Letters and papers were spread before him; he had broken the seal of a thin blue sheet and drawn a candle close to the fine, neat, and pointed writing.

The letter interested him, and he apparently took no heed of the rapid disjointed speech around him.