BOOK VIII

The Literary Fund--My garret in Holborn--Decline in health--Visit to the doctors--Emigrants in London--Peltier--Literary labours--My friendship with Hingant--Our excursions--A night in Westminster Abbey--Distress--Unexpected succour--Lodging overlooking a cemetery--New companions in misfortune--Our pleasures--My cousin de La Boüétardais--A sumptuous rout--I come to the end of my forty crowns--Renewed distress--Table d'hôte--Bishops-Dinner at the London Tavern--The Camden Manuscripts--My work in the country--Death of my brother--Misfortunes of my family--Two Frances--Letters from Hingant--Charlotte--I return to London--An extraordinary meeting--A defect in my character--The _Essai historique sur les révolutions_--Its effect--Letter from Lemierre, nephew to the poet--Fontanes--Cléry