coming-for so they termed the first form or class of those boys. Still these sea-boys answered some good purposes in the school. They were the military class among the boys, foremost in athletic exercises, who extended the fame of the prowess of the school far and near; and the apprentices in the vicinage, and sometimes the butchers' boys in the neighbouring market, had sad occasion to attest their valour."

These sketches serve as a key to the leading characteristics of a school which differs from all others of the same extent, principally because the regulations are more strictly enforced, and are less liable to innovation, from the circumstance that no private scholars are admitted who might be enabled, by the extent of their finances, to run into excesses, and are frequently from other considerations exempted from the fate of the offender on the foundation, who is unable to purchase license or protection.

Wales. All his systems were adapted to fit them for the rough element which they were destined to encounter. Frequent and severe punishments, which were expected to be borne with more than Spartan fortitude, came to be considered Jess as inflictions of disgrace than as trials of obdurate endurance. To make his boys hardy, and to give them early sailor habits, seemed to be his only aim; to this every thing was subordinate. Moral obliquities, indeed, were sure of receiving their full recompense, for no occasion of laying on the lash was ever let slip; but the effects expected to be produced from it were something very different from contrition or mortification. There was in William Wales a perpetual fund of humour, a constant glee about him, which, heightened by an inveterate provincialism of north-country dialect, absolutely took away the sting from his severities. His punishments were a game at patience, in which the master was not always worst contented when he found himself at times overcome by his pupil. What success this discipline had, or how the effects WALTER DE LINTOTT; or, THE of it operated upon the after-lives of these King's boys, I cannot say; būt I am sure that, for the time, they were absolute nuisances to the rest of the school. Hardy, brutal, and often wicked, they' were the most graceless lump in the whole mass; older and bigger than the other boys (for by the system of their education they were kept longer at school by two or three years than any others except the Grecians) they were a constant terror to the younger part of the school; and some who may read this, I doubt not, will remember the consternation into which the juvenile fry of us were thrown, when the cry was raised in the cloisters, that the First Order was

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CABIN BOY.

The earliest remembrance of Edmund concentered in the ship "Rover," in which he was a cabin boy. Gentle, friendly, kind and sympathizing, he gained the friendship of the crew. He was beloved by all, save the Captain, who was a morose and solitary being; his crew obeyed him through fearnot one through love. The Rover was a Spanish ship outward-bound, and in consequence of the unsettled state of nations at that time, regarded each sail as an enemy.

The day-light had just began to encroach on the deep shades of night: the wind whistled through the shrouds, and indicated an approaching storm: the waters rose,

maged by the enemy than by the storm; the noise of the cannon seemed as in mockery of the dreadful thunder, and the flashes of the guns as the puny attempts of art, to vie with the resistless omnipotence of nature.

Edmund, upon perceiving the attempt of the enemy to board, summoned all the men in such an imperative tone, and with such seeming confidence, that they left their guns and rushed upon deck. He then bid them be concealed; and scarcely had they concealed themselves about the deck, when the Retribution boarded. Edmund summoned the hidden crew to his assistance, but ere they appeared he was taken prisoner. The old man before spoken of immediately put himself at their head, but was finally obliged to surrender, but not till after an obstinate struggle.

sweeping over the straining bark; sleet rode on the wind; dark and murky clouds concealed the face of heaven. The captain, with a faltering step, paced the deck; impatience and terror were imprinted on his brow; he started: the man at the helm descried an approaching sail. The awful appearance of all around, prevented the orders of the captain being dispatched with the expedition he wished. Onward came the stranger-a death-like stillness prevailed-no one could tell who or what she was: one old man, indeed, who had narrowly watched the preceding events, when asked by the crew his opinion, which they revered and depended upon above that of their captain, shook his head, saying, "Messmates, it is all over, according to"-here the old man's discourse was broken short by the officers commanding every one to his station. The stranger ship had now approached within shot, and immediately poured a most destructive broadside into the Rover, without hailing her; this was returned but with half the destruction by the Rover; and immediately she was re-saluted by another: a heavy and destructive fire then commenced on board both ships. After some time the Rover's fire materially slackened, and, the ship much damaged, her foremast was shot away, and her mizen mast was rendered incapable of further service. The stranger, which was discovered to be the "Retribution," and most admirably adapted for war, was about to board, but the step was rather premature, the Rover's guns immediately repulsed them. Edmund," or by being named after such a although a cabin-boy, had not been idle all this time The storm, which had been raging during the action with indescribable fury, was now abating. The Rover was less da

The old man and Edmund were imprisoned together for want of room, and their disliked captain (who had hidden himself during the action in his cabin) occupied an adjacent cell, with one of his crew. The old man then addressed Edmund, who was silent, and appeared much grieved-" Cheer, son Edmund! cheer up, lad! I must now inform you of a secret which is only known to myself and the captain; your name, i'faith, is not Edmund!" "How!" cried Edmund, "I understood it was Edmund Bewdley, for brother Jean Ifred once heard the captain so call me." "No! no! cried the old man, your lawful name is Walter de Lintott." "Provided that were true, I should be but little profited by that," returned Walter,

noble family." The old man shook his head in a very significant manner, which prompted Edmund's curiosity, and he encouraged him to proceed. "Well, father Seignieur