the third year he received ninety pounds, and gave away sixty-two; the fourth year he received a hundred and twenty pounds, still he lived on twentyeight, and gave to the poor ninety-two; and so on to the end of the chapter of this worthy man's benevolence. On a moderate calculation, he gave away in about fifty years, twenty or thirty thousand pounds!

ABBE GAGLIANI.

This singular character, who distinguished himself when he was in France by writing the celebrated dialógue on the free commerce of corn, sent from Vesuvius to Pope Benedict XIV. a box containing specimens of its lava, thus inscribed, "Da ut lapides isti panem fiunt." The good humoured pontiff replied, by sending him an order for a pension on the apostolic charter for four hundred ducats, with a letter, in which he told him, that as he had never doubted the infallibility of the Pope, he should give him a new proof of it. "It is," added he," my province to explain texts of scripture, and I assure you that I never explained one wtih more pleasure than that which you sent me."

LOUIS XVI. WHEN DAUPHIN.

In the crowd that took place to see the fire works represented at Paris on the marriage of this prince with Maria Antoinette, three hundred persons were stifled, and left dead upon the spot. One entire family perished. There was scarce a house in Paris that did not lose a relation or a friend. The dauphin on this

melancholy occasion wrote thus to M. de Serpre, lieutenant of the police:

"Sir, I have heard of the sad calamity that has happened at Paris on my account; I am petrified at the account of it. I have received from the king my quarter's allowance for my amusements. It is all that I can with justice dispose of. I send it to you by the bearer, to dispose of in the way that you shall think best suited to those who have suffered on the occasion, and remain, sir, your obedient servant,

"LOUIS."

HOSPITABLE BRAZILIAN.

In the year 1645, a Portuguese, whose ship had been taken at Angola, was landed at Recipe, in Brazil, with scarcely any clothes to cover him. After soliciting in vain the charity of Gaspar Dias Ferreira, the richest Jew in the province, he went with the melancholy story to Fray Manoel de Salvador, who advised him to apply to Joan Fernandes. The applicant found him in the act of mounting his horse, and received this answer: "I am putting foot in the stirrup to return to my house, which is nearly two leagues off; and therefore, sir, I have no leisure now to relieve you: but if you will take the trouble to follow me there, you shall find support as long as my means hold out; if they fail, and there should be nothing else to eat, I will cut off a leg, and we will feed upon it together. If you cannot walk, I will send a horse for you." his word.

Fernandes was as good as

THE SKELETON OF THE WRECK. While Sir Michael Seymour was in the command of the Amethyst frigate, and was cruizing in the Bay of Biscay, the wreck of a merchant ship drove past. Her deck was just above water; her lower mast alone standing. Not a soul could be seen on board; but there was a cubhouse on deck, which had the appearance of having been recently patched with old canvas and tarpauling, as if to afford shelter to some forlorn remnant of the crew. It blew at this time a strong gale; but Sir Michael, listening only to the dictates of humanity, ordered the ship to be put about, and sent off a boat with instructions to board the wreck, and ascertain whether there was any being still surviving, whom the help of his fellow man might save from the grasp of death. The boat rowed towards the drifting mass; and while struggling with the difficulty of getting through a high running sea close alongside, the crew shouting all the time as loud as they could, an object resembling in appearance a bundle of clothes was observed to roll out of the cubhouse against the lee shrouds of the mast. With the end of a boathook they managed to get hold of it, and hawled it into the boat, when it proved to be the trunk of a man, bent head and knees together, and so wasted away, as scarce to be felt within the ample clothes which had once fitted it in a state of life and strength. The boat's crew hastened back to the Amethyst with this miserable remnant of mortality; and so small was it in bulk, that a lad of fourteen years of age was able with his own hands to lift it into the ship. When

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placed on deck, it shewed for the first time, to the astonishment of all, signs of remaining life; it tried to move, and next moment muttered in a hollow sepulchral tone, "there is another man." The instant these words were heard, Sir Michael ordered the boat to shove off again for the wreck. The sea having now become somewhat smoother, they succeeded this time in boarding the wreck; and on looking into the cubhouse, they found two other human bodies, wasted like the one they had saved to the very bones, but without the least spark of life remaining. They were sitting in a shrunk-up posture, a hand of one resting on a tin pot, in which there was about a gill of water; and a hand of the other reaching to the deck, as if to regain a bit of raw salt beef of the size of a walnut, which had dropped from its nerveless grasp. Unfortunate men! They had starved on their scanty store till they had not strength remaining to lift the last morsel to their mouths! The boat's crew having completed their melancholy survey, returned on board, where they found the attention of the ship's company engrossed by the efforts made to preserve the generous skeleton, who seemed to have had just life enough left to breathe the remembrance that there was still "another man," his companion in suffering, to be saved. Captain S. committed him to the special charge of the surgeon, who spared no means which humanity or skill could suggest, to achieve the noble object of creating anew, as it were, a fellow creature, whom famine had stripped of almost every living energy. For three weeks he scarcely ever left his patient, giving him nourishment with his own hand every five or ten minutes, and at the end of three weeks more, the "skeleton of the wreck"

was seen walking on the deck of the Amethyst; and, to the surprise of all who recollected that he had been lifted into the ship by a cabin boy, presented the stately figure of a man nearly six feet high !

UNGRATEFUL GUEST.

A Macedonian soldier, who had often distinguished himself by his valour, and received marks of Philip's favour and approbation, was once wrecked by a violent storm, and cast on shore, helpless, naked, and scarcely with the appearance of life. In this condition he was found by a stranger residing near the coast, who, with the utmost humanity and concern, flew to his relief, bore him to his house, laid him on his own bed, revived, cherished, and for forty days supplied him freely with all the necessaries and conveniences which his languishing condition could require. The soldier rescued from death, was incessant in his professions of gratitude; and being furnished with a sum of money to pursue his journey, he left his benevolent host; but no sooner did the wretch return to court, than he obtained from Philip a grant of the land of his benefactor, whom he immediately drove from his settlement. The poor man, stung with such an instance of base ingratitude, addressed a letter to Philip, representing his own and the soldier's conduct in a lively and affecting manner. The king was fired with indignation; he ordered that justice should be instantly done, that the poor man's possessions should be restored; and having seized the soldier, caused his forehead to be branded, "The Ungrateful Guest;" a character infamous in