In a little time, however, the matter ceased to cause him the slightest surprise, for he had discovered a key to the mystery.

In the meantime, the man of the spectacles was busy enough; he speculated in commerce, failed, and paid his creditors twenty pennies in the pound; published translations, of which the public at length became heartily tired; having, indeed, got an inkling of the manner in which those translations were got up.

He managed, however, to ride out many a storm, having one trusty sheet-anchor--Radicalism.

This he turned to the best advantage--writing pamphlets and articles in reviews, all in the Radical interest, and for which he was paid out of the Radical fund; which articles and pamphlets, when Toryism seemed to reel on its last legs, exhibited a slight tendency to Whiggism.

Nevertheless, his abhorrence of desertion of principle was so great in the time of the Duke of Wellington's administration, that when S.