into Italy. The prize-fighter advanced with great violence and firmness; while the other contented himself by calmly parrying his passes, and suffering him to exhaust his vigour by his own fury. Then Crichton became the assailant; and pressed upon him with such force and agility, that he thrust him thrice through the body, and saw him expire at his feet. He divided the prize which he had won the widows whose husbands had been killed among by his opponent. The death of this wonderful man I should be willing to conceal, did I not know that every reader will enquire curiously after that fatal hour which is common to all human beings, however distinguished from each other by nature or by fortune. The duke of Mantua, having received so many proofs of his various merits, made him tutor to his son Don Vincentio de Gonzago, a prince of loose manners and turbulent disposition. On this occasion it was that he composed the comedy in which he exhibited so many different characters with exact propriety. But this honour was of short continuance; for as he was one night, in the time of the carnival, rambling about the streets with his guitar in his hand, he was attacked by six men masked. Neither his courage nor his skill in this exigence deserted him: he opposed them with such dexterity and spirit, that he soon dispersed them, and disarmed their leader; who throwing off his mask, discovered himself to be the prince, his pupil. Crichton, falling on his knees, took his own sword by the point, and presented it to the prince: who immediately seized it, and-instigated, as some say, by jealousy; according to others, only by drunken fury and brutal resentment, plunged it in his heart! "Thus was the admirable Crichton brought into that state in which he could excel the meanest of mankind by only a few empty honours paid to his memory. The court of Mantua testified their esteem for him by a public mourning; the cotemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums; and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures representing him on horse-back, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other." SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A MURDER. The gods take aim before they strike the blow; MARTIN LUTHER used to relate the following story: A traveller fell among thieves, who ferociously resolved to murder him. Whilst they were putting into execution their horrid resolutions, the unfortunate man lifting up his eyes to Heaven, observed a flock of crows which hovered over his head. "Revenge my death" exclaimed the unhappy traveller, ye birds of luckless omen!" A few days after this inhuman transaction, the thieves entered a house in an adjoining town, when one of the party, who ob served a large collection of crows gathering round, said sarcastically, "Here they are come to revenge the death of the traveller whom we slaughtered some few days since." The servants of the house hearing these words, related them to the master, and he to the magistrate, and the villains soon suffered a punishment adequate to their crime. SIMILITUDE OF GREAT MEN. of be I FLATTER myself I shall ere long be in the way coming a great man, for have I not headachs, like Pope? vertigo, like Swift? grey hairs, like Homer? do I not wear large shoes, (for fear of corns) like Virgil? and sometimes complain of sore eyes, (though not of lippitude) like Horace? am I not at this present writing, invested with a garment, not less raged than that of Socrates? Like Joseph the patriarch, I am a mighty dreamer of dreams; like Nimrod the hunter, I am an eminent builder of castles (in the air). I procrastinate, like Julius Cæsar; and very lately, in imitation of Don Quixotte, I rode a horse, lean, old, and lazy, like Rosinante. Sometimes, like Cicero, I write bad verses; and sometimes bad prose, like Virgil. This last instance I have on the authority of Seneca. I am of small stature, like Alexander the Great; I am somewhat inclinable to fatness, like Dr. Arbuthnot and Aristotle; and I drink brandy and water, like Mr. Boyd. I might com I once had some thoughts pare myself, in relation to many other infirmities, to many other great men; but if fortune is not influenced in my favour by the particulars already enumerated, I shall despair of ever recommending myself to her good graces. of soliciting her patronage on the score of my resembling great men in their good qualities, but I had so little to say on that subject, that I could not. for my life furnish matter for one well-rounded period; and you know a short ill-turned speech is very improper to be used in an address to a female deity. GEORGINA'S BIRTH-DAY. [To introduce the subsequent story to our readers, we must inform them that Lord Abberville, for reasons which cannot be be stated in our brief limits, passes under the name of Forester, and. is considered as a private gentleman. He has been for twelve years on the continent, when he sees an advertisement in a London paper, promising to make to Lord Abberville a disclosure of the utmost importance to his happiness: he therefore resolves to return to England, and gives to a friend, in whose house he resides in Germany, the following recital of his interesting history:] After a pause, during which Mr. Leuwitzer reperused the advertisement contained in the newspaper, Lord Abberville, for as such we must henceforward know him, began his recital in the following words: Those events from which the most afflicting situations of life arise, are usually of a simple nature, unattended by the marvellous; such you will find my Listory. I am the only son of the late Lord Abberville: at seventeen I had the misfortune to be an orphan. My guardianship devolved upon an uncle of my mother's, who executed the trust reposed in him by my deceased parents with fidelity. In less than a year after the death of my father I was placed at Oxford. During the period of my residence at college, my life was passed much in the common routine of university students, that is, in a great deal of pleasure, and very little application to study. I was, however, I believe rather more partial to my books than most young men of my age, situated as I was, would have been; and infinitely less puffed up by the vanities of my wealth and title than was to be expected from a human being, basking, like myself, in the sunshine of fortune. When.I was approaching towards the completion of my twenty-first year, I was informed that it would be deemed a necessary compliment to the county in which I was going to reside, to solemnize the joyful event by giving an entertainment to the neighbouring families. I accordingly issued invitations for a ball and supper, to all families of condition within twenty miles of my estate; deputing may steward to publish to the inferior ranks of society, that a feast would be prepared for them upon the lawn in the front of my mansion, where they should be plentecusly regaled under tents erected for their accom |