pay the deficiency!" Her defire was initantly complied with; and filling up a glais, he took it in her hand, and addreffed her fon in the following magnanimous words; wherein the yearnings of nature are fo blended with the characteristical evidences of a great foul, that, in her, one hardly knows which most to admire, the affectionate parent or the loyal matron. "Johnny," fays fhe, "you are my only child; I confefs I could have wished you to have ftaid at home until you had laid my grey hairs in the grave; but fince it has fo happened, I am refigned. May God blefs and prof per you; and remember to tick clofe to the profeffion you have embraced, until you are regularly dif charged; when, if I am alive, come home in whatever condition you may, you fhall meet with a hearty welcome but if ever you return in a clandeftine manner, depend upon it, I fhall be the fit to give the neceflary information in order to your being apprehended and brought to condign punishment." She then drank his majesty's health, and withing them all fuccefs, returned

home.

It would be unpardonable to conceal the noble peer's conduct upon the occafion. When informed of the above, he fent for the young man, and finding a tolerable flrare of education had been bestowed upon him, immediately prefented him with a halbert; he likewife fettled an annuity upon his mother, which The enjoyed until her death: nor did this happen before the faw her fon honourably return; and, as the reward of his fidelity, receive a comfortable fituation in his lordship's family, which he still enjoys.

་ KING JOHN AND THE JEW. [Tranfmitted by our Correspondent L.] KING John being once at Brif tol, made a demand on a Jew (who

was fuppofed to be the richest man. in the king's dominions, and therefore the fittest bird to begin pluck ing) of a free gift of ten thousand marks; which in thofe days, was an enormous fum. The Ifraelite refufing, John ordered one of his teeth to be drawn every day, till he fhould confent. The Jew loft eleven of his teeth, and then paid the fum required of him; which was only to fupport the king's obnoxious favourites.

ANECDOTES. [Selected by T. W,]

I.

CANDOUR.

GEORGE I. being at a masked ball, fell into converfation with a lady whom he did not know through her difguife. She propofed a re freshment at the fide-board; the king confented; and some wine being poured out, "To the health of the pretender!" faid the lady: "With all my heart!" anfwered that truly generous monarch; "I drink fincerely to the health of unfortunate princes!"

II.

A Young divine, of great merit and profound learning, but without employ, preached one day in the cathedral of Worcester in prefence of the bishop, Dr. Hough; and made an excellent difcourfe, in which he discovered extraordinary talents. The prelate, curious to know fomething further of the preacher, sent the church-beadle with orders to ask his name, if he had a benefice, and where he lived. "Prefent my refpects to the bishop!" anfwered the divine, "and tell him my name is Lewis, that I have no benefice, and that I ftay in the province of Wales, where I don't live, but as it were die of want." The bishop did not fatisfy himself with bare pity; he immediately placed this young but deferving

J THE fenators of Rome had or ned, that, during their confultas in the fenate-house, each feor fhould be permitted to bring fon with him, who was to det, if occafion required; but this our was not general, being reEted only to the fons of noblen; who in those days were tued from their infancy in the vire of fecrefy, and thereby qualified heir riper years, to discharge the ft important offices of government th fidelity and wifdom. About is time it happened that the fetors met on a very important cafe, d the affair requiring mature deliration, they were detained longer an ufual in the fenate-house, and e conclufion of their determinaons adjourned to the following y; each member engaging, in the can time, to keep fecret the tranf tions of the meeting. Among her noblemen's fons who attended the occafion, was the fon of the ave Papyrus; a family of great nown and splendour. This youth as no lefs remarkable for the extent his genius, than for the prudence his deportment. On his return ome, his mother, anxious to know hat important cafe had been deted in the fenate that day, which ad detained the fenators fo long eyond their ufual hour, intreated im to relate the particulars. The oble and virtuous youth told her, was a business not in his power to eveal, he being folemnly enjoined o filence. On hearing this. her

being determined that force fhould extort, what lenity could not effect. The youth finding his mother's menaces to be very harfh, but her ftripes more fevere, lays her and her fond conceit in one fcale; his father, his own honour, and the folemn injunctions to fecrefy in the other fcale; and finding the latter greatly. preponderate, with a noble and he roic fpirit, preferved his honour, at the risk of his mother's difpleasure, and thus endeavoured to relieve her anxiety: "Madam, you may wellblame the fenate for their long fitting, at least for their prefuming to call in queftion a cafe fo truly im pertinent; except the wives of the fenators are allowed to confult on it, there can be no hope of a conclufion. I fpeak this only from my, own opinion; I know their gravity will easily confound my juvenile apprehenfions; yet whether nature or duty inftructs me to do fo, I cannot tell. It feems neceffary to them for the increase of people, and the public good, that every fenator fhould be allowed two wives; or otherwife their wives two hufbands. I fhall hardly incline to call under one roof, two men by the name of father. I had rather with cheerfulness falute two women by the name of mother. This is the quef. tion, madam, and to-morrow it is to be determined." His mother hearing this, and he feeming unwilling to reveal it, fhe took it for an infallible truth. Her blood was quickly fired, and rage enfued. Without enquiring any further into the merits of the.

meffengers to all the other ladies and matrons of Rome, to acquaint them of the weighty affair now under deliberation in the fenate, in which the peace and welfare of their whole lives were fo nearly concerned. The melancholy news foon fpread a general alarm; and a thousand conjectures were formed. The ladies being refolved to give their affistance in the decifion of this weighty point, immediately affembled. Headed by young Papyris's mother, on the next morning, they proceeded to the fenate-houfe. Though it is remarked, that a parliament of women are feldom governed by one fpeaker, yet the affair being urgent, the hafte pertinent, and the cafe (on their behalf) of the utmost confequence, the revealing woman must fpeak for all the reft. It was agreed that the fhould infift on the neceffity of the concurrence of the fenators wives to the determination of a law, in which they were fo particularly interested. When they came to the door of the fenate-house, fuch a noife was made for admiffion to fit with their husbands in this grand confultation, that all Rome feemed to be in an uproar. Their bufinefs, however, must be known before they could gain an audience. This being complied with, and their admiffion granted, fuch an elaborate oration was made by the female fpeaker on the occafion, in behalf of her fex, as aftonished the whole fenators. She requested that the matter might not be haftily determined, but be ferioufly canvaffed according to juftice and equity; and expreffed the determined refolutions of herself and her fifters, to oppose a measure fo unconstitutional as that of permitting one hufband to have two wives. She propofed, in the name of her fifters, as the most effectual way of peopling the ftate, that if

any alteration were to be made in the established cuftom of Rome, women might be permitted to have two hufbands. The fenators being informed of Papyrus's fcheme to preferve his reputation, and the riddle being publicly folved, the ladies were greatly confounded, and departed with blushing cheeks, while the noble youth who had thus proved himself worthy of his truft, was highly commended for his fidelity. To avoid a like tumult in future, it was refolved, that the cuftom of introducing the fons of fenators should be abolished. Papyrus, however, on account of his attachment to his word, and his difcreet policy, was excepted from this restriction, and afterwards freely admitted into the fenate-houfe, where many honours were justly conferred upon

him.

ANECDOTES. [Tranfmitted by A. Z.]

I.

FLATTERY.

AS Canute the Great, king of England, was walking on the feafhore at Southampton, accompanied by his courtiers, who offered him the groffeft flattery, comparing his fituation to the greatest heroes of antiquity, and afferting that his power was more than human, he ordered a chair to be placed on the beach, while the tide was coming in; and, fitting down with a majeftic air, he thus addreffed himself to the fea: "Thou fea, that art a part of my dominions, and the land whereon I fit is mine; no one ever broke my commands with impunity; I therefore charge thee to come no farther upon my land, and not to presume to wet either my feet or my robe, who am thy fovereign." But the fea rolled on as before, and not only wet the skirts of his robe,

but

elephant's attention upon the horse, the footman behind gives him a drawn ftroke juft above the heel, or what in man is called the tendon of Achilles. This is the critical moment; the horseman immediately wheels round, and takes his companion up behind him, and rides off full fpeed after the rest of the herd, if they have started more than one; and fometimes an expert Agageer will kill three out of one herd. If the fword is good, and the man not afraid, the tendon is commonly entirely feparated; and if it is not cut through, it is generally fo far divided, that the animal, with the ftrefs he puts upon it, breaks the remaining part afunder. In either cafe, he remains incapable of advancing a step, till the horfeman returning, or his companions coming up, pierce him through with javelins and lances; he then falls to the ground, and expires with the lofs

of blood.

Mr. Bruce, having arrived at Tcherkin, in his courfe from Gondar, engaged in a great hunt at that place; the latter part of which furnishes a inoft extraordinary inftance of affection discovered by a young elephant; for the truth of this circumftance our author vouches in a particular manner.

"There now remained but two elephants of thofe that had been discovered, which were a fhe one with a calf. The Agageer would willingly have let thefe alone, as the teeth of the female are very fmall, and the

young one is of no fort of value, even for food, its flefh fhrinking much upon drying. But the hunters would not be limited in their fport. The people having obferved the place of her retreat, thither we eagerly followed. She was very foon found, and as foon lamed by the Agageers; but when they came to wound her with the darts, as every

one did in their turn, to our very great furprife, the young one, which had been suffered to escape unheeded and unpurfued, came out from the thicket apparently in great anger, running upon the horfes and men with all the violence it was master of. I was amazed; and as much as ever I was, upon fuch an occafion, afflicted, at feeing the great affection of the little animal defending its wounded mother, heedlefs of its own life or fafety. I therefore cried to them, for God's fake to fpare the mother, though it was then too late; and the calf had made feveral rude attacks upon me, which I avoided without difficulty; but I am happy, to this day, in the reflection that I did not strike it. At laft, making one of its attacks upon Ayto Engedan, it hurt him a little on the leg; upon which he thrust it through with his lance, as others did after, and it then fell dead before its wounded mother, whom it had fo affectionately defended. It was about the fize of an ass, but round, big-bellied, and heavily made; and was fo furious, and unruly, that it would eafily have broken the leg either of man or horfe, could it have overtaken them, and jostled against them properly.

"Here is an example of a beaft (a young one too) poffeffing abstracted fentiments to a very high degree. By its flight on the first appearance of the hunters, it is plain it appres hended danger to itself, it alfo re flected upon that of its mother, which was the cause of its return to her affittance. This affection or duty, or let us call it any thing we please, except inftinct, was stronger than the fear of danger; and it must have conquered that fear by reflection before it returned, when it resolved to make its best and last efforts, for it never attempted to fly after. wards."