“ Many witticisms have been fathered upon Selwyn, some of which are probably not authentic. Selwyn's jokes have long since lost their piquancy. The man and the manner made them. One may be cited. When Lord Forley crossed over the Channel to escape his creditors, Selwyn remarked that it was “a passover not much relished by the Jews.” A peculiar trait of the humorist was a passion for witnessing executions of famous criminals. He died in London. Consult: J. H. Jesse, Selwyn and His Contemporaries (London, 1843; new ed., 1882) ; and Roscoe and Clergue, Selwyn, His Letters and His Life (ib., 1899) . ”