same benevolence, the same charity, the same hospitality, flowed through his veins; and while he had time, he was resolved to do good unto all men. Nor could he enjoy the comforts of life in his prosperous days, without making every one happy around him, and sharing his superfluities with his needy brethren, in whatever way they might require them. Regardless of the perishable harvest, that a wise economy might have amassed, for the season of rest on earth, he trusted that, “ he was laying up for himself treasures in Heaven;" when this sublunary world and all that it inherits shall be dissolved. Pursuant to the precepts of our Saviour, he clothed the naked, fed the hungry, and visited those who were sick and in prison. In fine, he had that compassionate feeling for the miseries of mankind, which transferred by sympathy, to his own breast, another's woe. To administer comfort to his fellow-creatures, in every station of life, was his constant practice. He piously might have exclaimed with Job, "I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him, and I caused the widow's heart to sing with joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame, I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.-The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller." For thus he relieved the necessities of one, shared the griefs of another, and

freely entertained a third. The poor received his alms, the rich partook of his hospitality, and the unfortunate were cheered with his consolation. To turn from the sight of distress, having the power to relieve, was an omission, that the most slanderous among the censorious could not lay to his charge; for his heart expanded with Christian benevolence, and he never gave his pity to objects of commiseration, without the succour their sufferings required.

That sensibility, which can melt into tears when listening to a pathetic tale, and can behold, without attempting to alleviate them, the more affecting miseries of unhappy mortals, "is a feeling," says the moralist, "that does little honor to the person who possesses it; but where compassion touches the heart, and real benevolence becomes the spring of action; then it is, and then only, that it may be pronounced a Christian virtue." Such was the sensibility of Humanicus :-and the official situation he filled, together with his private means, furnished him with daily opportunities of exercising his Christian virtues. Now a letter of credit from a friend-then a complaint of persecution from a stranger and next a tale of woe from some afflicted mortal craving his notice.— All were in their turn attended to, as their necessities required. But, alas! in an evil hour, this worthy man, not having suffered sufficiently by the fortune of war, was doomed to encounter fresh

hardships, under a Government he had served with diligence, zeal, and ability for many years; and was deprived, at once, of exercising those noble qualities, that not only rendered him conspicuous in society, as well as amiable to all classes of men; but reflected honor on the department to which he was attached. In fine, past services were buried in oblivion, and the provision that was made for the son of a Nobleman, as a reward for the fidelity with which he had served the country for upwards of forty years, was in one luckless moment snatched from him, and handed over to a stranger. But this was one of those extraordinary events that will happen, now and then, in the best regulated States; and, is a reflection on the individuals then at the head of affairs, rather than on a Government proverbial for its generosity.

In consequence of a severe, though not very tedious illness, a gentleman was appointed" to take upon him the duties of the office during his indisposition," and however incredible it may appear, the person thus appointed, was from that moment fixed in the situation; without a fault being attached, or a single reproof given to the invalid.

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Justice, however, is due unto all men. inflicter of evils, as well as to the inflicted. A report had been industriously circulated, that the sufferer could not long escape the grim tyrant's grasp. Application was made for the post still

occupied by the person who had held it for many years, with equal honor to himself, and satisfaction to his patrons and the public; and though the hasty applicant was not successful, a successor was in consequence nominated-who, as stated above," was to take upon him the duties of office, during the indisposition of the Invalid." To call in question the reasonableness of such an arrangement, would be absurd; but when the person thus nominated was permitted, by the higher powers, to remain in quiet possession, to the prejudice of the Individual, who, on his recovery, in vain sought to be reinstated; then, indeed, it must be pronounced a most egregious and unjustifiable exercise of power; and censure cannot but fall on the Minister who permitted it. Whether the interloper came from York or Liverpool for support, it matters not; he ought not to have been suffered to retain the provision, which being purloined from his neighbour, reduced the latter almost to a state of starvation, while the former feasted at his expense.

Every circumstance, Humanicus, on his recovery, fully represented to those who could, and ought in justice, to have redressed his grievances. Still, year after year rolled on in fruitless expectation and anxiety. Time after time the unhappy victim was assured that his case was under consideration. But, alas! he was doomed to a retrogade motion, from the moment he reverted to the injuries he had sustained.

He wrote to the minister-received no answer; petitioned the next great man—a petulant Secretary, whose peevish disposition little inclined him to pay attention to a statement replete with hardships and injustice. Misrepresentations had created a strong prejudice against the sufferer; and he had but one friend, who possessed the virtue to espouse his cause, among the many who saw and condemned the iniquity that was practised on him. This friend to justice and humanity, as often as he approached the mighty man in power, was as frequently repulsed with hard unkindness, and unfeeling petulance; so that the injured individual was obliged at last to yield to his unhappy fate, and to retire from the world for ever, on a scanty pittance, scarcely sufficient to supply the necessaries, much less the common comforts of life. For circumstances should be taken into consideration, and it should be recollected that what would be superfluity to one man, would be barely sufficient for the support of another. And had not a noble Lord, who was aware of his claims and listened to his complaints; whose love of justice has been corroborated through life by his upright and impartial conduct, succeeded to the head of affairs, and taken his case into consideration, even this pittance would have been withheld. But these are shocks, to which the honest and virtuous are constantly liable, from indiscriminate negligence, and upstarts in power! Humanicus was sacrificed to