The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-29

q ssAss. He fek sAey vese under obi gallons to him for all he had done for fashioa.
 But he consinued his vaseful extrava- gance, laying out what he obtained from the generosity of his friends on sapesnsi- sies, articles of dfesS, rare china, costly snuff boxes, washing, etc. Here he dis played his magnificent dressing service. all of silver. aNo gentleman" he said, " could spit into anything except silver. There is something inefably mean in the display of pside under such conditions :; and he afected, even in the bankrupt society of Calais, an assertion of caste Selections from his letters to his old friends reflected the same reckless tone |: I heard of you the other day in waist spack and span from paris, broad stripe, salmon color and cramoisi. Keep it up, my dear fellow don't let them laugh you into . relapse 70 Gothic as that of your fcrmer English simplicity. There is nothing to be seen here but rascAls in rcd coats waiting for embarkation. God speed them to the other side the water. for on this they are most heartily loathed. No ne~s of interss to you, excepting. in- deed, wha, may incense you against Russian indifference to etiquette when betrzyeI at the expense of one of your favorisex At the great dinner given by Wellington al Nalenciennes to the Elm peror Alexander and the king ot Prussia my Lady -, from her rank, was first turn for the autocrat's hand: and. when dinner was announced. the xaid lady stepped forward in the confidence of be ing led in hrst: but Alexander bowed. passed her, and took Lady William Rus sell Beesy Rawdon. ~ho was standing mex; 10 her, which vas remarked by the whole rcom.'
 In iS,} Malor Chambers, when gong abroad. brous ht letters 10 Mir. Rrummcl. then a, Calais, and waited on hum a, his lodgings. leading out of the Grand place to Dessein hotel. He found h,a,. as all found him, very agreeable and ohatty. and arrayed in dressing gown and gor- geous gold laced cap
 Brummel was all this time weaving out his friends at home with applications for a place of consul. and.at last the duke of Wellington was induced to give him the vice-consulship al CAen. The diff eulty was now to get away from Galais where he was deep Tn debt. He owed about oaoI to his landlord and trades men. By a desperate arrangement, money was raised on his future salary of lool a year which left him but Soi a year to live on. The reckless creature SC, of in ,ri- umph for Pans, where he was ie,ed hy his lovlal friends. and ordered new hA& tov ks.y It. ~rs.r.l 1 carnage and four with his servant Tn the rumble.
 Here, being an official. he was enabled to reeommence his old career of eN,rava- gance. In few months he was deeply m debt-his washing b,ll was 4ok lie had found an English agen, who made ! hlm advances. bu, he was already m d helpless state, begging for 4 ie~ hun dred francs before o'clock. iet m this extremity he maintained his old dan dyism, taking hours over his toilet. hay ing his boots blackened all over. lnolud- ing the soles, with other ex,ravaganoes | Al last, to the as,on,shment of all his friends, he suddenly resigned hts post.
 On the day when the news got abroad that he was no longer consul. his debt ors rushed io his house and were con founded 10 md that the English flag was struck. Instantly they all closed m upon him.
 In 1855 gendarmes surrounded his lodgings and the once famous dandy ~as dragged of to the common Jail. Here the fastid,ous Brummel had ,o suffer torures from being shut up Tn slngle room wlth-rommon prisoners, and their ,ruckle beds. d stone floor. and no chairs.
 At last Il vas determined that some thing should be done tor hls ex,rie ation and hls agent. Armstrong, sci of for 1 England to beg supplies from h,s old l trends, the good -natured noblemen and gentlemen who had so often come ,o has aid The principal of these were the duke of Beaufort and the unfailing Lord Al vanly. King William lN gave one hun. dred pounds the others varous handsome sums. and the result was that his ageni returned with a far amount. sufficient to enter into compromise. Lord Palmer ston gave two hundred pounds from the pubic purse.
 On the morning of the :ist Of July A Youf an attorney. came the prison and enotlhed Brummel that his debt to Mir Leveus had beer paid, and that he VA. at liberty to leave when he pleased. Te the astonishn ent of every one. however he received the information without man. ifes'ing the sligh,es, surprise or Joy. ol indeed any emotion whatever, and al o'clock m the afternoon. after an imprs- onmen, of two months and seventeen days, hope and fear alternately predomi- natlng, and having experienced. with ap parent oalmness. many humilia,ions, he Jeff his dungeon with the same forced insouciance, and returned to the ho,e d'Ang e,erre. where he once more settled himself n he same rooms he had occu pied pre.lous 10 his arrest.
 How He Took II.