MISCELLANEOUS.

From the Inverness Courier. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
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 The following interesting little narrative, strikingly illustrates the remark of Lord Byron, that " Truth is sometimes stronger than fic,ion." The circumstance is very beautifully alluded to in one of Mr.. Hax- liu's Essays; but the following is minute and, we may add, authentic statement. drawn up by gentleman who knew the parties, and was long connected to the noble family to which it relates

 When the Earl of Exeter was in his minority he hurried lady of the name and family of Vernon, of Hanbury, Wor- cestershire, from whom he was afterwards divorced. After the separation had taken place, Lord Exeter, his uncle, advised him (then the honorable MT. CeciD to retire into the country for some time, and pass for private gentleman. He complied with the request ,and took his course into retired part of Shropshire. There fixing his residence for short time at an inn in | the small village of Hodnet, he became liberal to an unexampled degree to all about him. Some people in the neighbor- hood formed suspicious notions of him surmising that he was rogue in disguise, and accordingly summed his company. Others took him for an Indian Nabob, or some eminent person in disguise, and fre- quently he heard the rusticks exclaim there goes the gentleman" Taking a dislike to his situation, he looked out for board at some farm house but here again was a difficulty. Few families cared to take him because he was so fine gentle- man. At last, in consideration of the lib- eral offers he made, farmer agreed to fit up room. Here he continued under the name ofJones for about two years, ap- parently contented with his retirement. He used occasionally to go to London, for a short time, for the purpose, as the country people supposed, of collecting bis rents, but in reality to resume the dignity and society of his station.

 During this recluso life, time frequently hung heavy on his hands, and he purchas- cd some land with view of building up- on 1t. The workmen were at first averse to undertake 1t, and he did not choose to oppose or expostulate with them, us i, might tend to discovery. But on hi, lordship's offering to pay a certain sum r advance, it was agreed that his design should be executed. About this time, 100 he took the snperintendence of the roads the management of the poor's rates, Isc, allof which offices he filled with so much skill and discernmeut as surprised and as- tonished the neiehbdrhood.

 He ven,nred also to pay his addresse. toa young woman, a farmers daughter but was not attended to from motives o caution, not being known sufficiently to bt trusted. The person at whose house he lived being less scrupulous than the rest permitted him to pay his addresses to hi daughter whose rustic beauty and modesty he admired. And although the maideI was placed in humble lot his lordshil soon discovered that her virtues would ons day shed a lustre on more exalted sta tion, On the farmers return from his la. Dor in the field, the Hon. Mir. Cecil, (a, Mr. Jones) made proposals of marriage and craved the consent of the female'. parents. " What !" exclaimed Mrs. Hig. gins, the farmers wife, ''marry our daugh. kster to fine gentleman stranger N,