specimens of its contents; and may perhaps be tempted to promote the benevolent designs of the brothers, by similar notices of its successors!

SWIFT.

"Dean Swift standing one morning at the window of his study, observed a decent old woman offer a paper to one of his servants, which the fellow at first refused, in an insolent and surly manner. The woman however pressed her suit with all the energy of distress, and in the end prevailed. The Dean, whose very soul was compassion, saw, felt, and was determined to alleviate her misery. He waited first accordingly for the_servant to bring the paper, but to his surprise and indignation, an hour elapsed, and the man did not present it. The Dean again looked out; the day was cold and wet, and the wretched petitioner still retained her situation, with many an eloquent and anxious look at the house. The benevolent divine lost all patience, and was going to ring the bell, when he observed the servant cross the street, and return the paper, with the utmost sang froid and indifference. The Dean could bear no longer; he threw up the sash, and loudly demanded what the paper contained. It is a petition, please your reverence,' replied the woman. "Bring it up, rascal,' cried the enraged Dean. The servant, surprised and petrified, obeyed. With Swift, to know distress was to pity it; to pity, to relieve. The poor woman was instantly made happy, and the servant almost as instantly turned out of doors, with the following written testimonial of his conduct. "The bearer lived two years in my service, in which time he was frequently drunk and negligent of his duty; which, conceiving him to be honest, I excused; but at last detecting him in a flagrant instance of cruelty, I discharged him.' Such were the consequences of his paper, that for seven years the fellow was an itinerant beggar; after which the Dean forgave him; and in consequence of another paper equally singular, he was hired by Mr. Pope, with whom he lived till death removed him."

CARDINAL DU BOIS.

"M. Boudon, an eminent surgeon, was one day sent for by the Cardinal Du Bois, prime minister of France, to perform a very serious operation upon him. The Cardinal, on seeing him enter the room, said to him, “You must not expect to treat me in the same rough manner as you treat your poor miserable wretches at your hospital of the Hotel Dieu.” "My Lord," replied M. Boudon, with great dignity, “ every one of those miserable wretches, as your eminence is pleased to call them, is a prime minister in my eyes.

COLONEL HILL.

"In the summer of 1819, the yellow fever committed dreadful havoc among the British troops in Jamaica, particularly among some regiments recently arrived. The contagion, like that at Malta, was so virulent, that nobody could attend on the sick without becoming infected by it; and great numbers fell victims solely to their humanity, in administering to the wants of their afflicted comrades. The soldiers, at length appalled at the inevitable destiny which awaited every man who entered the hospital as an assistant, refused in a body to supply the services of the sick any longer. Their officers represented to them, in moving terms, the claims which every soldier in affliction has on his brothers in arms. After a short pause, four privates of the grenadiers stepped forward and offered their services. Two of them in a short time fell under the pestilence, and the other two instantly withdrew their assistance. In this hopeless state of things, Colonel Hill, of

the 50th Regiment, heroically exclaimed, Then, my men, we must change our coats; since I cannot find a man in my regiment to attend a sick soldier, I must do it myself.' Many days had not elapsed ere this nobly minded officer was himself attacked with the malady, and added one more to the number of its victims. Colonel Hill was the oldest officer in the corps, and had served for forty-seven years."

QUEEN CAROLINE.

"Queen Caroline, consort of George II. being informed that her eldest daughter (afterwards Princess of Orange) was accustomed, at going to bed, to employ one of the ladies of the court in reading aloud to her till she should drop asleep; and that, on one occasion, the princess suffered the lady, who was indisposed, to continue the fatiguing duty until she fell down in a swoon, determined to inculcate on her daughter a lesson of humanity. The next night the queen, when in bed, sent for the princess, and commanded her to read aloud. After some time, her royal highness began to be tired of standing, and paused, in hopes of receiving an order to be seated. 'Proceed,' said her majesty. In a short time a second pause seemed to plead for rest. 'Read on,' said the queen again. The princess again stopped, and again received an order to proceed; till, at last, faint and breathless, she was forced to complain. Then,' said this excellent parent, if you thus feel the pain of this exercise for one evening only, what must your attendants feel who do it every night? Hence learn, my daughter, never to indulge your own ease, while you suffer your attendants to endure unnecessary fatigue."

"WEEPING AT A PLAY.

"Ir is a prevailing folly to be ashamed to shed a tear at any part of a tragedy, however affecting. The reason,' says the Spectator, is, that persons think it makes them look ridiculous by betraying the weakness of their nature.' But why may not nature show itself in tragedy, as well as in comedy or farce? We see persons not ashamed to laugh loudly at the humour of a Falstaff, or the tricks of a harlequin: and why should not the tear be equally allowed to flow for the misfortunes of a Juliet, or the forlornness of an Ophelia? Sir Richard Steele records on this subject a saying of Mr. Wilks, the actor, as just as it was polite. Being told in the green-room, that there was a general in the boxes weeping for Juliana, he observed, with a smile, ' And I warrant you, Sir, he'll fight ne'er the worse for that.

"CAPTAIN CORAM.

"WHEN Dr. Brocklesby used his interest with his friends, and in conjunction with that benevolent Jew, Samson Gideon, procured a subscription to the amount of L.100 a-year, for the support of old Captain Coram, who had originated the Foundling Hospital, he applied to the good old man to know if he would accept it. He received this noble answer : 'I have not wasted the little wealth of which I was formerly possessed in self-indulgence or vain expenses; and am not ashamed to confess, that in this my old age, I am poor.

"MISPLACED CLEMENCY.

"THE Duke de Montausier, preceptor to the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV. is said to have been the only one of that monarch's courtiers who had the courage to speak the truth to him. When Louis one day told him that he had pardoned a man who had killed nineteen persons, after having been pardoned for the first murder he committed. No, Sire,' said Monsieur,

he killed but one, your Majesty killed the nineteen.' "Montausier was the first projector of the Delphin edition of the classics.

The character of the Misanthrope of Moliere is said to have been taken from him."

"WHEN the revolution of France made exiles of all the clergy of the country who did not perish on the scaffold, some thousands of them found refuge in England. A private subscription of L.33,775, 15s. 91d. was im mediately made for them. When it was exhausted, a second was collected under the auspices of the King, which amounted to L.41,304, 12s. 6d; nor is it too much to say, that the beneficence of individuals, whose charities on this occasion were known only to God, raised for the sufferers a sum much exceeding the amount of the larger of the two subscriptions. When at length the wants of the sufferers exceeded the measure of private charity, government took them under its protection; and though engaged in a contest exceeding all former wars in expense, appropriated, with the approbation of the whole kingdom, a monthly allowance of about L.8000 for their support; an instance of splendid munificence and systematic liberality, of which the annals of the world do not furnish another example."

"ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON.

"IN 1685, Archbishop Tillotson avowed himself a warm advocate for affording charitable relief to the French refugees. On the repeal of the edict of Nantes, Dr. Beveridge, the prebendary of Canterbury, having objected to reading a brief for this purpose, as contrary to the rubric, the Archbishop observed to him roughly, Doctor, doctor, charity is above all

rubrics.'

"While this truly great man was in a private station, he always laid aside two-tenths of his income for charitable uses; and after his clevation to the mitre, he so constantly expended all that he could spare of his yearly income in acts of beneficence, that the only legacy which he was able to leave to his family consisted of two volumes of sermons, the value of which, however, was such, that the copy-right of thein brought no less a sum than L.2500,'

THE SKELETON OF THE WRECK.

"While Sir Michael Seymour was in the command of the Amethyst frigate, and was cruizing in the Bay of Biscay, the wreck of a merchant ship drove past. Her deck was just above water; her lower mast alone standing. Not a soul could be seen on board; but there was a cub-house on deck, which had the appearance of having been recently patched with old canvass and tarpauling, as if to afford shelter to some forlorn remnant of the crew. It blew at this time a strong gale; but Sir Michael, listening only to the dictates of humanity, ordered the ship to be put about, and sent off a boat, with instructions to board the wreck, and ascertain whether there was any being still surviving, whom the help of his fellow man might save from the grasp of death. The boat rowed towards the drifting mass, and while struggling with the difficulty of getting through a high running sea close alongside, the crew shouting all the time as loud as they could, an object, resembling in appearance a bundle of clothes, was observed to roll out of the cub-house against the shrouds of the mast. With the end of a boat-hook they managed to get hold of it, and hauled it into the boat, when it proved to be the trunk of a man, bent head and knees together, and so wasted away as scarce to be felt within the ample clothes which had once fitted it in a state of life and strength. The boat's crew hastened back to the Amethyst with this miserable remnant of mortality; and so small was it in bulk that a lad of fourteen years of age was able, with his own hands, to lift it into the ship. When placed on deck, it shewed, for the first time, to the

astonishment of all, signs of remaining life; it tried to move, and next moment uttered in a hollow sepulchral tone, There is another man.' The instant these words were heard, Sir Michael ordered the boat to shove off again for the wreck. The sea having now become smoother, they succeeded this time in boarding the wreck; and on looking into the cub-house, they found two other human bodies, wasted, like the one they had saved, to the very bones, but without the least spark of life remaining. They were sitting in a shrunk-up posture, a hand of one resting on a tin pot, in which there was about a gill of water; and a hand of the other reaching to the deck, as if to regain a bit of raw salt beef, of the size of a walnut, which had dropped from its nerveless grasp. Unfortunate men! they had starved on their scanty store till they had not strength remaining to lift the last morsel to their mouths! The boat's crew having completed their melancholy survey, returned on board, where they found the attention of the ship's company engrossed by the efforts made to preserve the generous skeleton, who seems to have had just life enough left to breathe the remembrance that there was still another man,' his companion in suffering, to be saved. Captain S. committed him to the special charge of the surgeon, who spared no means which humanity or skill could suggest, to achieve the noble object of creating anew, as it were, a fellow-creature, whom famine had stripped of almost every living energy. For three weeks he scarcely ever left his patient, giving him nourishment with his own hand, every five or ten minutes, and at the end of three weeks more, the skeleton of the wreck' was seen walking on the deck of the Amethyst; and to the surprise of all who recollected that he had been lifted into the ship by a cabin boy, presented the stately figure of a man nearly six feet high!'

LIVE AND LET LIVE.

"Dr. Wilson, the late worthy Bishop of Sodor and Man, sent once for his tailor to make him a cloak, and desired it might have only one loop and button. The tailor submitted to his venerable customer, that if that fashion should become general, the button-makers would starve. Do you say so, John?' replies the Bishop, whose revenues did not exceed £300 ayear, then button it all over."

BECCARIA.

"This philosopher of humanity having in one of the later editions of his work On Crimes and Punishments, in that part which relates to fraudulent bankruptcy, qualified some sentiments which he had formerly expressed, but which on reflection appeared to himself too severe, he adds in a note, I am ashamed of what I formerly wrote on this subject. I have been accused of irreligion without deserving it; I have been accused of disaffection to the government, and deserved it as little; I was guilty of a real attack upon the rights of humanity, and I have been reproached by nobody."

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