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any additional hands, as his crew was fully adequate to discharge the cargo. The young man urged the captain to suffer him to work only for his meat, as he was literally starving for want of food. Commiserating the youth's unhappy situation, the captain complied, and the young man went cheerfully to work in the hold, among the crew. Observing, on the second day, the eager assiduity of the stranger to discharge his duty, the captain asked him of what place he was a native? "Lerwick," he replied. "Lerwick-Lerwick! and what is your name?" "James Work." "Have you a brother?" "I had," said he, "but it is a long time since I saw him." "What is his name?" "Laurence "Then you must have had letters from your brother?" "Oh yes, sir." "Come, come along with me," said the captain, hastily, and immediately hurried him into the cabin.

Work."

An ecclaircissement ensued; when each exclaimed, "Brother!" Instantaneously they rushed into each other's arms, and for several minutes their feelings were so overpowered with the warmth of their affections, that neither of them could speak, till tears came to their relief.

GALLANT DAUGHTER.

Sir John Cochrane, who was engaged in Argyle's rebellion against James the Second, was taken prisoner, after a desperate resistance, and condemned to be hanged. His daughter, having notice that the death warrant was expected from London, attired herself in men's clothes, and twice attacked and robbed the mails between Belfor and Berwick. The execution was by this means delayed, till Sir John Cochrane's father, the Earl of Dundonald, succeeded in making interest with Father Peter, a Jesuit, King James's confessor, who, for the sum of five thousand pounds, intereeded with his royal master, in favor of Sir John Cochrane, and procured his pardon.

HUMBLE HEIRESS.

A French soldier, of the name of Hensis, who was a blacksmith by trade, married at Lemburgh, in Poland, a young woman, who cautiously concealed from him, her name and family. She accompanied him to France, where they lived happily, but in poverty, for some years; when she received a letter, which, she said, required that she should leave her husband for a few days. She had, by the death of a relation, become heiress to a large fortune, consisting of several estates; two castles, two market towns, and seven villages, with their dependencies; as well as to the title of Baroness of the Empire. Uncontaminated by such a change of fortune, the lady returned to her husband and young family, to share with them the blessings of ease and plenty.

SAVING FROM FIRE.

In 1813, a wealthy farmer, residing near Tuam, who was left a widower, with three helpless

children, on his return home about midnight, from the fair of Clare, found his house all in a blaze. His first exclamation was, "Where are my children? I must relieve them, or we must perish together." He ran to the yard, where fortunately there happened to be a ladder, which he applied to the wall, rushed into the flames, and succeeded in penetrating into the room where the little children were in bed; he had already taken two of them in his arms, when a third, the youngest, a beautiful girl, cried out, "Sure, father, you will not leave your own little Hannah in the fire." The distracted parent took up the little innocent, wrapped in her night clothes, in his teeth, and providentially escaped without any material injury to himself or to his precious burden. The house, with all the furni ture, fell a prey to the flames.

DAUGHTER'S CHOICE.

Among the families who fell victims to popu lar fury, in the revolt of the Cossack, Pugatchef, was an old man, his wife, and daughters. The servants endeavored to protect the youngest, aged only seventeen years, and who was universally beloved for the sweetness of her disposition, from the assassins. They disguised her in the dress of a peasant, and she might have escaped with the greatest ease; but being deeply affected by the cruelties she saw committed on her father and mother, she would not survive them. She tore herself from the arms of the domestics, and in the fulness of her despair, threw herself on the bodies of her unfortunate parents, her eyes streaming with tears, and her hands raised to heaven, fervently imploring God to put an end to her suffering. The murderers were for an instant softened by her youth and beauty. "Go, go," said they to her, "we will not kill you; but her grief was so poignant, that she did not listen to them. She exclaimed, "I cannot survive these horrors! Can I forsake my dear relatives? Let me die with them. I seek not to exist longer, since you have robbed me of all that attached me to life!" and again she bent over them, imploring the divine mercy. One of the monsters then struck her on the head with a club; but she was not entirely stunned. Raising her clasped hands, she prayed to God to have pity on her family. She was instantly desp hed; and thus terminated a life of innocence.

UNFORTUNATE SCHOOLMASTER. In the year 1800, a native schoolmaster, accompanied by twenty of his scholars, was passing a branch of the Pallar river, not far from Wallajahbad in the East Indies. The bed of the river was nearly dry, and they consequently expected to pass it without the smallest danger; the heavy rains, however, had accumulated into a large and extensive body of water above the pass, which suddenly breaking through its embankment, rushed impetuously down, and overwhelmed the unsuspecting schoolmaster, and the objects of his care, with instant destruction

Two boys, with their master, alone reached the opposite bank of the river; but one of them was so exhausted, that he died in a few minutes after he had reached the shore.

The poor schoolmaster stood upon the bank of the river, gazing upon his dying pupils, in all the agonies of despair. "And who," said he, "shall tell this dreadful tale to the fathers and to the mothers of these children? I never can." After this pathetic exclamation, he stood a few moments, a speechless figure of unutterable grief, then plunged into the flood, and instantly perished.

The surviving boy soon recovered, and carried the afflicting tale to the house of the schoolmaster; when his wife, with that desperation which sometimes marks the otherwise mild character of the Asiatic, threw herself into a deep well, and was drowned before any assistance could be given.

MARRIAGE PORTIONS.

It was one of the laws of Lycurgus, that no portions should be given with young women in marriage. When this great lawgiver was called upon to justify this enactment, he observed, "that in the choice of a wife, merit only should be considered; and that the law was made to prevent young women being chosen for their riches, or neglected for their poverty."

SERVANTS.

The celebrated Earl of Chesterfield left, by his will, legacies to all his menial servants, equal to two years wages each, considering them "as his unfortunate friends, equal by birth, and only inferior by fortune."

The venerable and godly John Claude, when on his dying bed, thus addressed his son, who, with an old servant, was kneeling before him: "Be mindful of this domestic; as you value my blessing, take care that she want nothing as long as she lives."

SPIRITED BRIDE.

A couple were going to be married, and had proceeded as far as the church door; the gentleman then stopped his intended bride, and thus unexpectedly addressed her: "My dear Eliza, during our courtship I have told you most of my mind, but I have not told you the whole; when we are married, I shall insist upon three things." "What are they?" asked the lady. "In the first place," said the bridegroom, "I shall sleep alone, I shall eat alone, and find fault when there is no occasion; can you submit to these conditions ?" "O yes, sir, very easily," was the reply, "for if you sleep alone, I shall not; if you eat alone, I shall eat first; and as to your finding fault without occasion, that I think may be prevented, for I will take care you shall never want occasion." The conditions being thus adjusted, they proceeded to the altar, and the ceremony was performed.

OLD HABITS.

The Duke de Nivernois was acquainted with the Countess de Rochefort, and never omitted going to see her a single evening. As she was a widow, and he a widower, one of his friends observed to him, it would be more convenient for him to marry that lady. "I have often thought so," said he, "but one thing prevents me; in that case, where should I spend my evenings ?"

GEORGE THE THIRD.

The following anecdote was introduced by a very popular Scottish minister on a Sunday, near the end of his discourse, whilst inculcating the duty of masters to their servants: it was communicated to him, as he said, from a near relation of one of the parties mentioned. His majesty having observed one of his domestic servants to be unusually dejected for some time, one day said to him, "Thomas, what is the matter with you; I have observed you very melancholy of late? Are you happy in my family, or has anything occurred to vex you?" To all these questions he answered, that he was pleased with his service, and lived at peace with all his fellow servants. His majesty desisted for the present; but some days afterwards, still observing him dejected, he said to him, "Thomas, it is the state of your soul that troubles you!" The man acknowledged that it was a deep sense of sin on his conscience, which grieved him. His majesty then said, "Can you find no comfort from the gospel in St. George's (the Chapel at Windsor) ? " The man answered, that he could find no comfort in what he heard there. His majesty then feelingly advised him to attend a worthy Independent minister in Datchett (a small village on the other side of the Thames), observing, "that he would not be angry if he never saw him at Chapel (St George's) again."

INFANT ADMIRATION.

A boy of three years of age, hearing a visitor of his father's make use of the popular saying, that "an honest man is the noblest work of God; " made this innocent annotation upon it: "No, sir, my mamma is the noblest work of God!"

ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

Olympias, the mother of Alexander, was of so unhappy a disposition, that he would never allow her to have any concern in the affairs of government. Olympias used frequently to make very severe complaints on this account, but Alexander submitted to her ill humor with great mildness and patience. Antipater, one of his friends, having one day written a long letter against her to the king, the monarch, on reading it, said, " Antipater does not know that one single tear shed by a mother, will obliterate ten thousand such letters as this."

MAGNANIMOUS HUSBAND. Philip, surnamed the Good, the founder of that greatness to which the House of Burgundy latterly attained, was, at an early age, married to the Princess Michelea, sister to Charles the Dauphin. The father of Philip was afterwards slain through the villany and perfidiousness of Charles; and on the news being brought to Philip, full of grief and anger, he rushed into the chamber of his wife. "Alas!" said he, "my Michelea, thy brother has murdered my father." The Princess, who loved her husband most tenderly, broke out into the most affecting cries and lamentations; and fearful lest this accident should lose her the affections of her spouse, refused all comfort. Philip, the good Philip, however, assured her that she should not be the less dear to him on that account; that the deed was her brother's and none of her's. "Take courage, my life," said he, "and seek comfort in a husband that will be faithful and constant to thee forever." Michelea was revived by these tender assurances; nor during the three years longer which she lived, had she occasion to suspect the smallest diminution of Philip's affection and respect.

JOSHUA BARNES.

A lady, who was a great admirer of Joshua Barnes, the Professor of Greek at Cambridge, requested leave to settle an hundred a year upon him, after her death. The professor, however, politely declined the offer, unless she would condescend to make him happy in her person, which was none of the most engaging. The lady replied, that she "could refuse nothing to Joshua, for whom the sun stood still:" and they were accordingly soon after married.

STEELE AMONG HIS CHILDREN.

It is a common remark, that literary men make but indifferent fathers of families. We see few Melancthons among them, who will rock the cradle, and write, or read, at the same time; few, indeed, who can bear to have anything to do with nursery cares, or frolics, in their hours of study, or contemplation. A letter which is extant of Sir Richard Steele's to his wife, shows him to have been, in this respect, a splendid exception to his class. Seldom have parental affection and good nature, been more pleasingly exemplified, than in the family picture which he here presents to us: "Your son," says he, " at the present writing, is mighty well employed, in tumbling on the floor in the room, and sweeping the sand with a feather. He grows a most delightful child, and very full of play and spirit; he is also a very great scholar; he can read his primer, and I have brought down my Virgil; he makes more shrewd remarks upon the pictures. We are very intimate friends and play-fellows. My dear wife, preserve yourself for him that sincerely loves you, and to be an example to your little ones, of religion and virtue. Your daughter Bess gives her duty to you, and says she will be your comfort; but she is very sorry you are

afflicted with the gout. The brats, my girls, stand on each side the table; and Molly says, that what I am writing now, is about the new coat. Bess is with me, till she has new clothes. Miss Moll has taken upon her to hold the sandbox, and is so impertinent in her office, that I cannot write more.". -What a subject for a Wilkie!

FORCE OF HABIT.

"The most extraordinary instance of the force of habit, I ever witnessed," says Mr. Curwen, M. P., " was about forty years ago, on a visit to the Isle of Man. On stopping at the Calf of Man, a small islet on its south-western extremity, I found that the warrener's cot, the only human abode on the islet, was kept by his sister. For several months in the year, these two persons were completely isolated; and never even heard the sound of a third human voice, unless when the intervals of the raging storm conveyed the unavailing cries of the shipwrecked mariner. To support such an existence, seemed to require, in a rational being, nerves of supernatural strength, or the influence of habit from the earliest period of life. Curious to ascertain how she could endure so desolate a life, and such complete banishment from all human intercourse, I enquired if she were not very miserable-if she had always been accustomed to dwell in that dreary abode? To the first, I was answered in the negative; to the last, my surprise was converted into perfect astonishment, when I understood that, in the outset of her life, she had passed six-and-twenty years in St. James's-street. This communication excited still more my wonder, and made what I then saw and heard, incomprehensible."

GENEROUS MASTER.

A young man, who was clerk to Mr. Cuthbert, a merchant in the East Indies, being taken very ill, became unusually thoughtful and melancholy. Mr. Cuthbert enquired the cause of his uneasiness: the young man replied, that he was not afraid to die; but he had a mother, and two sisters, in England, to whom he had been accustomed to send £100 every year; and his only regret at dying, was, that they would be left destitute. Mr. Cuthbert begged him to make his mind perfectly easy on that account, as he would take care of his mother and sisters. He was as good as his word, for he instantly went to his at torney, and executed a deed, granting an annuity of £100 a year, in favor of the mother and her two daughters, during their joint lives; and with the benefit of survivorship. He then sent the bond to his clerk, who, clasping it in his hands, exclaimed, "Now I can die in peace; my mother and sisters are saved;" and almost instantly expired.

SHARP WORK.

Mr. Jeremy White, one of Oliver Cromwell's domestic chaplains, was so ambitious as to make his addresses to Cromwell's youngest daughter,

the Lady Frances. The young lady did not discourage him; but in so religious a court, this gallantry could not he carried on without being discovered. The Protector was told of it, and was much concerned thereat; he ordered the person who told him, to keep a strict look-out, promising, if he could give him any positive proofs, he should be well rewarded. The spy followed his business so closely, that in a little time he dogged Jerry White (as he was generally called) to the lady's chamber, and run immediately to the Protector, to acquaint him that they were together. Oliver, in a rage, repaired to the chamber; and, going in hastily, found Jerry on his knees, either kissing the lady's hand, or having kissed it. Cromwell in a fury asked what was the meaning of that posture before his danghter Frances? White, with great presence of mind, said, " May it please your highness, I have a long time courted that young gentlewoman, my lady's woman, and cannot prevail; I was therefore praying her ladyship to intercede for me." The Protector, turning to the young woman, exclaimed, "What is the meaning of this, hussy? why do you refuse Mr. White the honor he would do you? he is my friend, and I expect you would treat him as such." My lady's woman, with a very low curtsey, replied, "If Mr. White intends me that honor, I shall not be against him." "Say'st thou so, my lass?" cried Cromwell. "Call Goodwin; this business shall be done before I go out of the room." Mr. White had gone too far to retract: his brother parson came; and Jerry and the lady's woman were married in the presence of the Protector, who gave her £500; which, with the money she had saved, made Mr. White easy in his circumstances, except that he never loved his wife, nor she him, although they lived together nearly fifty years.

FILIAL DEVOTION.

A woman of Japan was left a widow with three sons, and with no other wealth than what could be procured by their joint labor. Work became scarce, and the sons saw their mother ready to perish. With the most ardent attachment to their mother, and unable to relieve her, they formed a desperate resolution. An edict had a short time before been issued, promising a large recompense for whoever apprehended a thief, and brought him to justice. The three brothers determined to draw lots, which of them should personate a thief, and be brought before a magistrate, in order that the others might obtain the reward. The lot fell upon the youngest, who confessed to a fact of which he was not guilty; and his brothers received the money. The anxiety visible in their countenances, and the tears which involuntarily forced themselves into their eyes, struck the magistrate, who ordered his servant to follow and watch them. They returned to their mother, and threw the money into her lap: when she learnt how it had been obtained, she refused to touch this "price of blood." This being told the judge, he sent

for the prisoner, and again interrogated him concerning the supposed robbery; but he still persisted that he was guilty. Struck with filial affection and fortitude of the youth, the magistrate laid the case before his sovereign, who sent for the three brothers, and their mother, loaded them with favors, and gave an annuity of five hundred crowns to the eldest two, and fifteen hundred to the youngest.

HAPPY TEMPER.

Firmin Abauzit, who lived to the advanced age of eightyseven years, was a person of such a serene disposition, that he was not known to have been out of temper during the whole of his long life. Some persons doubting the possibility of such a meek disposition, applied to a female who had kept his house for thirty years, to try to provoke him, on the promise of money if she succeeded. Knowing that her master was very fond of having his bed comfortably made, she neglected it. Next morning, Abauzit reminded her of the neglect. She said, she had forgotten it; and nothing more was said. The ensuing night, the bed was again unmade; and the woman being reminded of it, made some frivolous excuse. At length, on the third morning, her master said, You have not yet made my bed; it is evident you are determined not to do it; well, I suppose you find the job troublesome; but it is of little consequence, for I begin to be used to it already." Moved by such kindness, and goodness of temper, the servant discontinued the experiment she had been prevailed upon to make, and was again forgiven.

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GEORGE THE SECOND. Notwithstanding the publicity, and at one time the apparent truth, of the accusations against Sophia of Zell, the repudiated wife of George the First, her son, afterwards George the Second, was fully convinced of her innocence, and posterity has confirmed the correctness of his judgment. This prince once made an attempt to see his mother, and even crossed the Aller on horseback, opposite to the castle of Alden, where she was confined; but was prevented from having an interview with her by the Baron de Bulow, to whose care the elector, her husband, had committed her. Had she survived his accession, he intended to restore her to liberty, and to acknowledge her as queen dowager. Her memory was so dear to him, that he secretly kept her por trait in his possession; and the morning after the news of the death of George the First had reached London, Mrs. Howard observed (in the antechamber of the king's apartment) a picture of a woman in the electoral robes, which proved to be that of Sophia.

FAITHFUL AMAZON.

Branoro, a warrior of Parma, in the fifteenth century, chancing to see a young woman of the name of Bonna, in the most humble state of rus

ticity, was so smitten with her noble countenance, and gigantic form, that he determined to marry her. Motives of policy required that she should conceal her sex; and, therefore, dressed in the habit of a man, she accompanied him everywhere; she soon became an accomplished politician, and gained such an ascendancy over the nobles of Venice, that they appointed her husband, Brunoro, general of their troops, with a large salary. Sincerely attached to her husband, and thinking it her duty to share with him the dangers to which she had introduced him, in obtaining for him the command of the Venetian troops, she fought by his side at their head, stormed the strongest fortresses, and seconded him with vigor and success in the defence of Negropont against the Mahommedans. This heroine died in 1446, leaving behind her a reputation as distinguished for conjugal affection, as it was for bravery.

FEMALE INFLUENCE.

A remarkable instance of the influence of the female sex over minds little likely to be swayed by it, occurred in the case of John Banier, an éleve of the great Gustavus Adolphus, and one of the greatest generals Europe ever produced. This brave man owed much of his glory to his first wife, and tarnished it by his second. While the wife whom he brought from Sweden lived, he was successful in every undertaking; she accompanied him in every campaign, and was always found to console and cheer him in every danger and difficulty, and to urge him onward wherever glory was to be gained. After her death, Banier became smitten with a lovely young German princess, whom he married; this circumstance proved the grave of all his military fame, for she soon rendered him as effeminate as herself; and six weeks after his marriage, he died of grief at having tarnished his fame as a general, by a gross neglect of his military duties.

THE HAPPY SON.

Mr. Brown, a merchant of Cork, intending that his son should follow the same profession, sent him to Holland, at an early age, to qualify himself in such branches of commerce as he could not acquire in his native country. When he had remained in the Netherlands about three or four years, his father sent for him home, for the double purpose of settling him in marriage and in business. Arriving at Cork on a Sunday morning, at the time when the congregation was coming out of Christ Church, and suspecting, from the time he had been absent, that he would not be recognized, he placed himself near the path that led from the church. He beheld the various groupes that passed by, with indifference, until he saw one, "whose fairy form was ne'er to be forgot." He followed her, and ascertained her residence, determining that as soon as he had paid his respects to his parents, he would declare himself to the young lady.

The next morning his father bade him prepare himself to visit a lady upon, whom he had fixed for his bride. He obeyed reluctantly, and was conducted by his father to the same house where he had traced the fair object on the preceding day. He hoped, and yet scarcely dared to hope, that his father's choice was his; and when he found that such was really the case, that the young lady on whom his heart had centered, was really to be his bride, he was almost speechless with joy and astonishment. In a few weeks the parties were married; and the first fruit of this happy union, was the amiable Dr. Jemmet Brown, afterwards Bishop of Cork.

FAMILY SYMPATHY.

In the reign of James the First, and when the Earl of Huntingdon was Lieutenant of the county of Leicester, a laborer's son was pressed to serve in the army destined to go into Bohemia with Count Mansfield. The poor father waited on the earl, requesting that his son might be discharged, as being the only staff of his age, who, by his own industry, maintained both his parents. The earl enquired his name, which the old man was long before he would confess, fearing that it might be deemed presumptuous to avow the same name as the nobleman he addressed; at length he said his name was Hastings. "Cousin Hastings!" said the earl, "we cannot all be top branches of the tree, though we all spring from the same root. Your son, my kinsman, shall not be pressed."

EAGLE AND CHILD.

A servant maid at Munich, being in a garden with a child nine months old, set it down on the ground, when suddenly an eagle darted from the air, to seize upon it as a prey. The servant, who was fortunately close by, with the greatest courage, and presence of mind, threw a shawl at the bird, which covering his eyes, not only prevented him from seizing the infant, but even from escaping. She boldly caught hold of the robber, and in spite of his struggles, held him fast till some person came to her assistance. His majesty amply rewarded the heroine, who received some wounds in the contest, and sent the prisoner to the menagerie at Nymphenburg.

FAMILY MAN'S ANSWER TO A

CHALLENGE.

Two friends happening to quarrel at a tavern, one of them, a man of hasty disposition, insisted on the other's fighting him the next morning. The challenge was accepted, on condition that they should breakfast together previous to their going to the field, at the house of the person challenged. When the challenger arrived next morning, according to appointment, he found every preparation made for breakfast, and his friend, his wife and children, all ready to receive him. Their repast being over, and the family with

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