MR. HARE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SLR,—The story of the two brothers and the corpse is quoted in " The Annals of the Warwickshire Hunt," by the late Sir C. Mordaunt and the Hon. and Rev. W. Verney. The names are not given, but the brothers were always considered to have been two of the Mr. Finches,—brothers to the fifth Earl of Aylesford (Heneage), who was born in 1786. They were renowned for their taciturnity; and I can recollect howpleased my father was some thirty-five years back at the survivor, Mr. Daniel Finch, complimenting him on my appearance when a little girl as bridesmaid at some family wedding. It was so unusual for " Old Dan," as he was called, to volunteer any- thing, that the remark was obviously sincere.—I am, Sir, &c., M. L. M.
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