"Esquire" and "Gentleman."

The amusing article in No. 27., on the title of "Esquire," recalled to my memory the resolution passed by the corporation of Stratford-on-Avon, when they presented the freedom of that town to Garrick. It runs something like this:— "Through love and regard to the memory of the immortal *Mr.* William Shakspeare, and being fully sensible of the extraordinary merits of his most judicious representative, David Garrick, *Esquire*." Had David a better right to the title than the great poet? Shakespeare, in the latter part of his life, was no doubt *Master Shakspeare*, a title so common as even to be…