Note 61 — NO. XII.—SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1807.

An amusing verification of the fidelity of the character of Tom Straddle, to the type of the Brummagem tourist, is afforded in an anecdote related in a Memoir of Irving, prefixed to the Paris edition of his works. “Some years ago,” it reads, “a man who was prosecuted in Jamaica, for a libelous publication, produced a volume of Salmagundi on his trial. This publication, it appeared, had been copied literally, word for word, from the character of Tom Straddle, printed, sold, sent abroad, mischievously enough, to be sure, while one of those English travellers, whom Irving had so delightfully hit off, was in Jamaica, exploring and astonishing the natives.”