daughter of the late general P. Flack, of Ballyflack, in the Kingdom of
Ireland of the Counts Flack of the H. R. Empire. Sir Alured has issue,
Alured Caradoc, born 1819, Marian, 1811, Blanche Adeliza, Emily Doria,
Adelaide Obleans, Katinka Rostopchin, Patrick Flack, died 1809.

'Arms--a mullion garbled, gules on a saltire reversed of the second.
Crest--a tom-tit rampant regardant. Motto--UNG ROY UNG MOGYNS.'

It was long before Lady de Mogyns shone as a star in the fashionable
world. At first, poor Muggins was the in the hands of the Flacks, the
Clancys, the Tooles, the Shanahans, his wife's Irish relations; and
whilst he was yet but heir-apparent, his house overflowed with claret
and the national nectar, for the benefit of Hibernian relatives. Tom
Tufto absolutely left the street in which they lived in London, because
he said 'it was infected with such a confounded smell of whisky from the
house of those IWISH people.'

It was abroad that they learned to be genteel. They pushed into all
foreign courts, and elbowed their way into the halls of Ambassadors.
They pounced upon the stray nobility, and seized young lords travelling
with their bear-leaders. They gave parties at Naples, Rome, and Paris.
They got a Royal Prince to attend their SOIREES at the latter place, and
it was here that they first appeared under the name of De Mogyns, which
they bear with such splendour to this day.

All sorts of stories are told of the desperate efforts made by the
indomitable Lady de Mogyns to gain the place she now occupies, and those
of my beloved readers who live in middle life, and are unacquainted
with the frantic struggles, the wicked feuds, the intrigues, cabals,
and disappointments which, as I am given to understand, reign in the