morning one of the party waited upon him to acquaint him of his
loss--(L20,000 or L30,000), and brought bonds for his signature
to that amount!

HEAVY LIABILITIES TO BEGIN WITH.

In the year 1799, when the Marquis of Donegal succeeded to the
title on his father's death, his debts, principally to gamblers
and money-lenders, amounted to two hundred and fifty thousand
pounds sterling!

A GENTLEMAN TURNED BARBER.

In an old magazine I find the following curious statement:--

'There is now living in Barnaby Street, Carnaby Market, a man
who, although exercising the menial office of penny barber, was
in his younger days in possession of estates and personal
property to a large amount, and is the only lineal descendant
remaining of the very ancient family of the H--s of Bristol.

'His relations dying when he was young, he was placed under
proper guardians, and received a liberal education, first at
Westminster, and afterwards at Cambridge, suitable to his rank
and fortune. When of age he converted his estates into money,
and retired to Dublin, where he remained some time. He then made
the tour of Europe, and returned to Ireland, where he went
through all the scenes of dissipation to which young men are so
much addicted, till at last he was beset by those harpies the
gamblers, and stripped of his immense fortune in one single