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bours, no longer disquiet the minds of the natives. Happy effect of those mild and innocent manners, whence have arisen peace and protection to all the inferior animals." "The people of Cambaia" says Pietro della Valle, 66 are most part gentiles, and here, more than elsewhere, their vain superstitions are observed with rigour; wherefore we caused ourselves to be conducted to see a famous hospital of birds of all sorts, which, for being sick, lame, deprived of their mates, or otherwise needing food and cure, are kept and tended there with diligence the men also, who take care of them, are maintained by the public alms; the Indian gentiles conceiving it no less a work of charity to do good to beasts, than to men. Amongst other curious things I saw, were certain little mice, which being found orphans, without sire or dam to tend them, were put into this hospital, and a venerable old man with a white beard, keeping them in a box among cotton, very diligently tended them with his spectacles on his nose, giving them milk to eat with a bird's feather, because they were so little as yet, they could eat nothing else; and as he told us, he intended, when they were grown up, to let them go free whether they pleased.

"The next morning," continues this intelligent traveller, "going about the city, we saw another hospital of goats, kids, sheep, and wethers, either sick or lame, and there were also some cocks, peacocks, and other animals, needing the same help, and kept together quietly enough in a great court; nor wanted there men and women lodged in little rooms of the same hospital, who had the care of them. In another place, we saw another hospital of cows and calves. A mong the beasts there was also a

Mahometan thief who had both his hands cut off. Moreover, without one of the gates of the city, we saw another great troop of cows, calves, and goats, properly maintained at the public charge

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"In the city of Amedabad, in the province of Guzerate, according to M. Thevenat, was an hospital for birds, wherein the Gentiles lodged all the sick birds they found, and fed them as long as they lived, if they were indisposed. Four-footed beasts had their's also. "I saw in it," says he, "several oxen, camels, horses, and other wounded beasts, who were looked after and well fed. The Bramins and Banians who religiously observe the law, not to kill any thing which has life and sensation, will make the most moving petitions, even in favour of loathsome vermin."

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"Once a year," says Stavorinus, a late writer, in his voyage to the East Indies, "the charitable Banian prepares a set banquet for all the flies that are in his house, and sets down before them, upon the floor or table, large shallow dishes of sweet milk and sugar mixed together, the most delicious fare of that liquorish little creature. other times he extends his liberality to the pismires, and walks with a bag of rice under his arm, two or three miles forward into the country, and stops as he proceeds, at each ant-hill that he meets with, to leave behind him his benevolence, a handful or two of rice, strewed upon the ground, which is the beloved dainty on which the hungry pismires feed, and their best reserve and store in time of need."

Mr. Ritson might have collected accounts still more wonderful, for many persons now living in England, have witnessed the miraculous sight, of men and women lying down naked in the Banian

hospitals,

hospitals, to feast, with their blood, the most hideous swarms of all kinds

pestilent vermin, knats, fleas, lice, bugs, &c. For my part, I can agree with this author, neither in his rejection of animal food, nor the expediency, or even humanity, of prolonging useless animal life. In my ideas, the putting animals out of their pain, or even out of the way, when necessary, by the most easy and unperceived possible mode of death, is all in all, in the view of justice and humanity: and, instead of Ritson, I must continue to agree with Lawrence. However much I admire Mr. Ritson's good intentions and his erudition, there is another circumstance, in which I cannot join him; his new-vamped old orthography proved so tedious to me, that I could not conveniently follow it, even in the above few extracts. I abhor trouble and perplexity unrecompensed by any ad.

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The flowing bowl will lend it's friendly aid, to give celestial health, by invigorating draughts to George the Third, Britannia's King.

The noble brothers of the jovial chace will line the Gothic Hall at the accustomed hour, with their warlike weapons, well sharpened and well burnished, to assist at this solemnity, according to the rites and ceremonies and antient institutions of the well-beloved most loyal and most noble order of Bucks.

I beg leave to remain, your Lordship's Most humble and obedient Servant, J. J. B. Secretary.

March 7, 1893,

March, 1805.

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FEAST OF WIT; OR, SPORTSMAN's HALL.

INIGO JONES, the famous ar-chitect, having been dismissed from a lucrative office which he held, facetiously observed, "It is not In I Go Jones, but Out I Go Jones."

A CLOWNISH servant, of an emiment but parsimonious West India Planter, not far from Bloomsbury, has raised a laugh in the neighbourhood against his master, by saying to those who ask, "I live with a West-stingy merchant."

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THERE is a poor girl in the county of Norfolk, whose Christian name is Virtue, and who has had two natural children, by a man of the name of Bonus-It is to be lamented that the names and actions to these persons do not correspond.

MOODY the player, went to Robins's auction room, a few mornings since, to purchase a share of Drury Lane theatre; but being very deaf, he discovered, when the lot was knocked down to him, that, instead of the share of the theatre, he had purchased the lease of a barber's shop in the Strand.

A RIDICULOUS story is in circulation relative to a certain reverend lord, who was lately pestered for alms by a very importunate begVOL. XXI. No. 126.

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REPARTEEA gentleman, from the southern division of this island, was lately detained for some hours, at a small inn, or alehouse, in Scotland, by a shower of rain.During the interval, which, to a man who wished to get forward on his journey, could not be a pleasant one, he endeavoured to amuse himself by making frequent, ill-tempered remarks on the country; and, at length, in a very peevish tone, said to his host-Does it always rain here?"

-To which the cottage landlord replied, with the utmost composure “No, Sir; it sometimes snows— it does in England.”

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THE late learned Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, formerly fellow of Jesus, College, being once asked his opi nion of the poetry of Mr. Pye, the Laureat, replied, that he had read some of Mr. Pye's poems, of which he thought very handsomely. being still further urged to give his opinion of an ode that had just appeared in the public prints, he de sired a friend to read it to him. The introduction contained something about the singing of birds: Wake field abruptly stopped his friend, and gave his opinion as follows, in allusion to the Poet Laureat's name:

And when the Pye was opened,

The birds began to sing;
And was not this a dainty dish,
To set before the King?

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ORIGIN OF THE WORD.DUNSome have derived this word from the French word donnez, signifying give, implying a demand of something due; and others, amongst whom is the celebrated Dr. Johnclamour. Both are wrong. The son, from the Saxon word dunon to origin of the word, as related in a periodical work, published in London nearly a century ago, is simply this-In the reign of Henry VII. a famous bailiff, named Joe Dun, lived in the city of Lincoln. This man was so extremely dexterous in his rough business, that it was usual, when a person refused to pay debts, to say,why don't you Dun him? That is, why don't you send Dun to arrest him? and hence the custom of calling a person, who presses another for the payment of money,

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A GENTLEMAN,

A GENTLEMAN, who not long since advertised for an accomplished wife, with a moderate fortune, was received in due form by a very accomplished female adventurer, at the elegant house of a fashionable family now absent from England, no doubt through a connection with those who had the care of it, and passed as an heiress to a considerable fortune. After receiving a few rich presents, suitable to the occasion, the lady appointed a time for fulfilling her promise of running away, as she was under age, which she did before the expected time; not, however, by running off with the gentleman, but with the jewels!

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ENGLISH SOLDIER.

Prince Maurice, in an engagement with the Spaniards, took twentyfour prisoners, one of whom was George Haslewood, an Englishman. The prince ordered eight of them to be hanged, to retaliate a like sentence passed by Archduke Albert upon the same number of Hollanders. The late of the unhappy victims was to be determined by drawing lots. The Englishman, who had the good fortune to escape, seeing a Spaniard express the strongest horror when it came to his turn to put his hand into the helmet, of

fered for twelve crowns to stand his chance. The offer was accepted, and he was so fortunate, as to escape a second time. Upon being called fool-hardy, for so presumptuously tempting his fate, he said he thought he acted very prudently; for as he daily hazarded his life for six-pence, he must have made a good bargain in venturing it for twelve crowns!

A FEW days ago the following singular incident happened in Glasgow. About dusk in the evening, a man, with a face black as midnight, and an old red coat, went into a house, made up to a servant' girl in the kitchen, and held to her breast a drawn knife, saying, "this will do for you-this will do for you." She immediately screamed out," murder! murder!", Her mistress, and another servant girl, flew to her assistance. The man held out the knife to them, and made use of the same sort of lan

guage. The girl ran off, also cryng out murder! but the mistress sistance of the two servants, who laid hold of him, and with the asreturned upon seeing the man se

cured, tumbled him down stairs. In the evening, the mistress, reflecting that she had bespoke a knife from a travelling cutler, inquired of the girls whether they thought that the man who made the disturbance in the house was the person; when they both declared that they thought so; and this actually turned out to be the case. The disappointment of the poor cutler may be more easily judged of than expressed. Instead of procuring, as he no doubt expected, a glass extraordinary for his superiorly executed knife, he received nothing but kicks and cuffs for the whole. He has not made his appearance since. SPORTING

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