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f the part of Sir Lucius O' Trigger, by Mr. Lee; but when another actor was substituted, the piece was at once successful, and acted with overflowing houses all over the country. Elected a member of Dr. Jonson's famous and still-existing Literary Club, at the age of twenty-eight, he became acquainted, in the following year, with that able, unprincipled profligate, Charles James Fox. We learn that "Fox, after his first interview with him, affirmed that he had always thought Hare and Charles Townsend the wittiest men he had ever met, but that Sheridan surpassed them both. " The meeting was at Brookes' Club-- a great drinking and gambling resort of the looser Whigs, eighty years ago. "The tables were for stakes of twenty or fifty guineas, but soon ran up to hundreds. What did it matter to Charles James Fox, to the Man of the People, whether he lost five, seven, or ten thousand of a night, when the one-half came out of his father's, the other out of Hebrew pockets --the sleek, thick-