and depofited in the cells of the comb; from which it is extracted either by spontaneous percolation through a fieve in a warm place, the comb being separated and laid thereon, or by expreffion. That which runs fpontaneoufly is purer than that which is expreffed, a quantity of the wax and other matters being forced out along with it by the preffure. The beft fort of honey is of a thick confiftence, a whitish colour, inclining to yellow, an agreeable smell, and pleasant taste : both the colour and flavour differ in fome degree, according to the plants which the bees collect it from. It is fuppofed that honey is merely the juice of the flower perfpiring, and becoming infpiffated thereon; and that the bee takes it up with its proboscis, and carries it to be depofited in its waxen cells, with which the young bees are to be fed in fummer, and the old ones in winter; but it is certain, that honey can be procured by no other method of collecting this juice than by the bees. The honey of old bees, and that which is forced from the comb by heat or preffure, is yellow from the wax. Honey produced where the air is clear and hot, is better than that where the air is variable and cold. The honey of Narbonne in France, where rofemary abounds, is said to have a very manifest flavour of that plant, and to be imitable by adding to other honey an infusion of rosemary flowers. (3.) HONEY, as a medicine, is a very useful detergent and aperient, powerfully diffolving vifcid juices, and promoting the expectoration of tough phlegm. In fome particular conftitutions it has an inconvenience of griping, or of proving purgative; which is said to be in fome measure prevented by previously boiling the honey. This, however, with all conftitutions, is by no means effec. tual; and the circumftance mentioned has had fo much weight with the Edinburgh college, that they do not now employ it in any preparation, and have entirely rejected the mella medicata, fubftituting fyrups in their place: but honey is, doubtlefs, very useful in giving form to different articles, although there be fome individuals with whom it may difagree. In order, however, to obtain the good effects of the honey itself, it must be used to a confiderable extent, and as an article of diet. The following remarkable inftances of the good effects of honey in fome afthmatic cafes are given by Dr Monro, in his Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry: "The late Dr John Hume, one of the commiffioners of the Sick and Hurt of the Royal Navy, was for many years violently afRicted with the afthma. Having taken many medicines without receiving relief, he at laft refolved to try the effects of honey, having long had a great opinion of its virtues as a pêctoral. For two or three years he ate fome ounces of it daily, and got entirely free of his afthma, and likewife of a gravelly complaint, which he had long been afflicted with. About two years after he had recovered his health, when he was fitting one day in the office for the Sick and Hurt, a perfón labouring under a great difficulty of breathing, who looked as if he could not have many days, came to him, and asked him by what means he had been cured of his afthma? Dr Hume told him the particulars of his own cafe, and mentioned to him the means by which he had found relief. For two years after he heard nothing of this perfon, whe was a ftranger to him, and had feemed fo bad that he did not imagine that he could have lived many days, and therefore had not even asked him who he was; but at the end of that period, a man feemingly in good health, and decently dreffed, came to the Sick and Hurt Office, and returned him thanks for his cure, which he affured him had been entirely brought about by the free use of honey.” *To HONEY. v. n. [from the noun.] To talk fondly. Nay, but to live In the rank fweat of an inceftuous bed, HONEY-BAG. n. f. [honey and bag.] The honey bag is the ftomach, which bees always fill to fatisfy, and to fpare, vomiting up the greater part of the honey to be kept against winter. Grew. HONEY BEE. See BEE, § I. (2.) —(4.) (1.) HONEY-COMB n. f. honey and comb.] The cells of wax in which the bee ftores her honey. All these a milk-white honey-comb surround, Which in the midft the country banquet crown'd. Dryden. (2.) HONEY-COMB. See BEE, § I. 8. HONEY-COMBED. adj [honey and comb.] Spoken of a piece of ordnance flawed with little cavities by being ill caft.-A mariner having dif charged his gun, which was honey-combed, and loading it fuddenly again, the powder took fire. Wiseman. (1.) HONEY-DEW. n. f. [honey and dew.] Sweet dew.-There is a boney-dew which hangs upon their leaves, and breeds infects. Mortimer. How honey-deas embalm the fragrant morn, And the fair oak with luscious fweets adorn. Garth. (2.) HONEY-DEW, a fweet faccharine fubitance found on the leaves of certain trees, of which bees' are very fond, by the huibanamen fuppofed to fall from the heavens like common dew. This opinion hath been refuted, and the true origin of this and other saccharine dews fhown, by the abbe Boiffier de Sauvages, in a memoir read before the Society of Sciences at Montpelier." Chance (fays the abbé) afforded me an opportunity of feeing this juice in its primitive form on the leaves of the holm oak: thefe leaves were covered with thousands of fmall round globules or drops, which, without touching one another, feemed to point out the pore from whence each of them had proceeded. My tafte informed me that they were as fweet as honey: the honey-dew on a neighbouring bramble did not resemble the former, the drops having run together; owing either to the moisture of the air which had diluted them, or to the heat which had expanded them, The dew was become more viscous, and lay in large drops covering the leaves; in this form it is usually feen. The oak had at this time two forts of leaves; the old, which were ftrong and firm; and the new, which were tender, and newly come forth. The honey. dew was found only on the old leaves; though these were covered by the new ones, and by that means fheltered from any moifture that could fall Fff from f.om above. I obferved the fame on the old leaves of the bramble, while the new leaves were quite free from it. Another proof that this dew pro ceeds from the leaves is, that other neighbouring trees not furnished with a juice of this kind had no moisture on them; and particularly the mulberry, which is a very particular circumftance, for this juice is a deadly poifon to filk worms. If this juice fell in the form of a dew, mift, or fog, it would wet all the leaves without diftinction, and every part of the leaves, under as well as upper. Heat may have fome share in its production; for, though the common heat promotes only the transpiration of the more volatile and fluid juices, a fultry heat, efecially if reflected by clouds, may fo far dilat the veffels as to produce a more viscous juice, fuch as the honeydew. The ad kind of honey-dew, which is the chief refource of bees after the fpring-flowers and dew by transpiration on leaves are paft, owes its origin to a small infect called a vine-fretter; the excrement ejected with fome force by this infect makes a part of the most delicate honey known in nature. (See APHIS, f 1.) Thefe vine fretters reft during feveral months on the barks of particular trees, and extract their food by piercing that bark, without hurting or deforming the tree. These infects also cause the leaves of fome trees to curl up, and produce galls upon others. They fettle on branches that are a year old. The juice, at first perhaps hard and crabbed, becomes, in the bowels of this infect, equal in sweetness to the honey obtained from the flowers and leaves of vegetables; excepting that the flowers may communicate fome of their effential oil to the honey, and this may give it a peculiar flavour, as happened to myself by planting a hedge of rofemary near my bees at Sauvages: the honey has tafted of it ever fince, that fhrub continuing long in flower. I have ob ferved two fpecies of vine-fretters, which live unfheltered on the bark of young branches: a larger and a leffer. The leffer fpecies is of the colour of the bark upon which it feeds, generally green. It is chiefly diftinguished by 2 horns, or ftraight, immoveable, fleshy fubftances, which rife perpendicularly from the lower fides of the belly, one on each fide. This is the fpecies which live on the young branches of bramble and elder. The larger fpecies is double the fize of the other; it is of a blackish colour; and instead of the horns which diftinguish the other, have in the fame part of the fkin a small button, black and fhining like jet. The buzzing of bees, in a tuft of holm oak, made me fufpect that fomething very interefting brought fo many of them thither. I knew that it was not the feafon for expecting honey-dew, nor was it the place where it is ufually found; and was furprised to find the tuft of leaves and branches covered with drops which the bees collected with a humming noife. The form of the drops drew my attention, and led me to the following difcovery. Inftead of being round like drops which had fallen, each formed a small longifh oval. I foon perceived from whence they proceeded. The leaves covered with thofe drops of honey were fituated beneath a swarm of the larger black vine-fretters; and on observing these infects, I perceived them from time to time raise their bellies, af the extremity of which there then appeared a small drop of an amber colour, which they instantly ejected from them to the diftance of fome inches. I found by tafting some of these drops which I had catched on my hand, that it had the fame flavour with what had before fallen on the leaves. I afterwards faw the smaller fpecies of vine-fretters eject their drops in the same manner. This ejec tion is fo far from being a matter of indifference to thefe infects themselves, that it seems to have been wifely inftituted to procure cleanliness in each individual, as well as to preferve the whole fwarm from deftruction; for, preffing as they do one upon another, they would otherwise soon be glued together, and rendered incapable of stirring. The drops thus fpurted out fall upon the ground, if not intercepted by leaves or branches; and the fpots they make on stones remain some time, unlefs wathed off by rain. This is the only honeydew that talls: and this never falls from a greater height than a branch where these infects can cluster. It is now eafy to account for a phenomenon which formerly puzzled me greatly. Walking under a lime-tree in the king's garden at Paris, I felt my hand wetted with little drops, which I at firft took for small rain. The tree indeed should have sheltered me from the rain, but I escaped it by going from under the tree. A feat placed near the tree fhone with thefe drops. And being then unacquainted with any thing of this kind, except the honey-dew found on the leaves of fome particular trees, I was at a lofs to conceive how fo glutinous a fubftance could fall from the trees in such fmall drops: for I knew that rain could not overcome its natural attraction to the leaves till it became pretty large drops; but I have fince found, that the lime-tree is very fubject to these vine-fretters. Bees are not the only infects that feaft upon this honey; ants are equally fond of it. Led into this opinion by what naturalifts have faid, I at firft believed, that the horns in the leffer fpecies of thefe vine-fretters had in their extremity a liquor which the ants went in search of; but I foon difcovered that what drew the ants after them came from elsewhere, both in the larger and leffer fpecies, and that no liquor is discharged by the horns. There are two fpecies of ants which fearch for these infects. The large black ants follow thofe which live on the oak and chefnut: the leffer ants attend thofe on the elder. But as the ants are not, like the bees, provided with the means of fucking up fluids, they place themselves near the vine-fretters, in order to feize the drop the moment they fee it appear upon the anus; and as the drop remains fome time at the fmall vine-fretters before they can caft it off, the ants have leisure to catch it, and thereby prevent the bees from having any fhare: but the vine-fretters of the oak and chefnut being ftronger, and perhaps more plentifully supplied with juice, dart the drop inftantly, fo that the larger ants get very little of it. The vine fretters, finding the greateft plenty of juice in trees about the middle of fummer, afford also at that time the greateft quantity of honey: and this lef fens as the feason advances, so that in the autuma the bees prefer it to the flowers then in feafon. Though these infects pierce the tree to the fap in a thousand places, yet the trees do not feem to fuffer at all from them, nor do the leaves lose the leaft of their verdure. The husbandman therefore acts injudiciously when he deftroys them." (1.)* HONEY-FLOWFR. n. f. [melanthus, Lat.] A plant. It hath a perennial root, and the appearance of a shrub. This plant produces large fpikes of chocolate-coloured flowers in May, in each of which is contained a large quantity of black sweet liquor, from whence it is supposed to derive its name. Miller. (2.) HONEY-FLOWER. See MELIANTHUS. * HONEY-GNAT. n. f. [mellio, Latin; honey and gnat.] An infect. Ainsworth. HONEY-GUIDE. See CUCULUS, N° 6. * HONEYLESS. adj. [from honey.] Being without honey.— See GLEDITSIA. But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them boneglefs. Shak. HONEY-LOCUST * HONEY-MOON. n.f. honey and moon.] The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure.-A man fhould keep his finery for the latter feafon of marriage, and not begin to dress till the honey-moon is over. Addison. (1.) * HONEY-SUCKLE. n. f. [caprifolium, Lat.] Woodbine. It hath a climbing stalk, which twifts itself about whatsoever tree ftands near it: the flowers are tubulous and oblong, confifting of one leaf, which opens towards the top, and is divided into two lips; the uppermost of which is fubdivided into two, and the lowermoft is cut in to many fegments; the tube of the flowers is bent, fomewhat refembling a huntfman's horn. They are produced in clufters, and are very fweet. Miller enumerates ten fpecies, of which three grow wild in our hedges. Bid her fteal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the fun, Forbid the fun to enter; like to favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against the power that bred it. Shak. Watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. Milton. Then melfoil beat, and honeysuckle pound; With thefe alluring favours ftrew the ground. Dryden, (2.) HONEY-SUCKLE. See LONICERA. (3.HONEY-SUCKLE, AFRICAN FLY. See HAL LERIA. (4.) HONEY-BUCKLE, AMERICAN UPRIGHT. See AZALEA. (5.) HONEY-SUCKLE, FRENCH. See HEDY SA RUM. (6.) HONEY-SUCKLE GRASS. See TRIFO LIUM. (1.) * HONEY-WORT. n. f. [cerintke, Latin.] A plant. (2.)* HONEY-WORT. See CERINTHE, and SiSON, 3. HONFALISE, a town of France in the dep. of Forets, and ci-devant duchy of Luxemburg, on a fmall river which runs into the Ourte, with an ancient castle: 25 miles NNW. of Luxemburg, and 30 S. of Liege. HONFLEUR, a confiderable fea-port of France, in the dep. of Calvados and late prov. of Normandy. It has a very capacious and safe harbour, at the mouth of the Séine; and its principal trade is in lace. It is 8 miles N. of Point l'Eveque, and 110 NW.of Paris. Lon. o. 15. E. Lat 49.25. N. HONGIE, a town of Poland, in Red Ruffia. HONG-TCHEOU, a town of Corea. * HONIED. adj. [from honey.] 1. Covered with honey The bee with bonied thigh, That at her flow'ry work doth fing. 2. Sweet; luscious. When he speaks, Milton. The air, a charter'd libertine, is still; HONITON, a borough of Devonshire, with a market on Saturday, and a fair in Ju'y. A dreadful fire happened there in July 1747, which confumed three parts of the town, and the damage was computed at 43,000l. It has one church, half a mile from the town, with a chapel within it; and a large manufactory of bonelace. Just before the entrance into the town from London, is a hill, which commands one of the most beautiful profpects in the kingdom. Honiton has fent 2 members to parliament fince the 28th of Edward I. It is feated on the Otter, 16 miles E. of Exeter, and 156 WSW. of London. Lon. 3. 12. W. Lat. 50.45. N. HONNIKI, a town of Poland, in Red Ruffia. HONNINGEN, a town of Germany, in the archbishopric of Treves, 15 miles NNW. of Coblentz. (1.) * HONORARY, adj. [honorarius, Lat.] 1. Done in honour; made in honour.-There was probably fome diftinction made among the Romans between fuch bonorary arches erected to emperors, and those tnat were raised to them on the account of a victory, which are properly triumphal arches. Addin on Italy. This monument is only bonorary; for the afhes of the emperor lie elsewhere. Addifon on Italy. 2. Conferring honour without gain.-The Romans abounded with little honorary rewards, that, without conferring wealth and riches, gave only place and diftinction to the perfon who received them. Addifon. (2.) HONORARY is often applied to perfons who bear fome title, or office merely for the name's fake, without performing any of its functions, or receiving any advantage from it; fuch as honora ry counsellors, honorary fellows, &c. Honorary is also used for a lawyer's fee, or a falary given to public profeffors in any art or fcience. HONORIACI, in antiquity, an order of foldiery in the eastern empire, who introduced the Goths, Vandals, Alani, Suevi, &c. into Spain. Didymus and Verinianus, two brothers, had, with great vigilance and valour, defended the paffages of the Pyreneans against the Barbarians for fome time, at their own expense; but being at length killed, the emperor emperor Conftantius appointed the honoriaci to defend those paffages, who, after laying them open to all the nations of the north then ravaging the Gauls, joined them themselves. (1.) HONORIUS, the 2d fon of Theodofius, the Great, was affociated in the empire with his brother Arcadius, A. D. 395. See ROME. He died at Ravenna, A. D. 423, aged 39. (2-5.) HONORIUS, the name of 4 Popes, in the 7th, 12th, and 13th centuries. (1.) * HONOUR, n. j. [boneur, French; honor, Latin.] 1. Dignity; high rank. 2. Reputation; fame. A man is an ill husband of his honour, that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. Bacon. 3. The title of a man of rank. Not now used. Think that the cleareft gods, who make them bonours Cf man's impoffibilities, have preferv'd thee. Shakespeare. 5. Nobleness of mind; fcorn of meanneis: magnanimity. Now fhall I fee thy love; what motive may Be ftronger with thee than the name of wife? -That which upholdeth him, that thee upholds, His bonour. Oh, thine bonour, Lewis; thine bonour. Shakespeare. -If by honour is meant any thing diftinct from confcience, 'tis no more than a regard to the cenfure and efteem of the world. Rogers. 6. Reverence; due veneration. To do honour is to treat with reverence. They take thee for their mother, And every day do honour to thy grave. Shakefp. His Grace of Canterbury, Who holds his ftate at door, 'mongst purfuivants. -Ha! 'tis he indeed! Is this the bonour they do one another? Shak. -This is a duty in the fifth commandment, required towards our prince and our parent, under the name of honour: a refpect which, in the notion of it, implies a mixture of love and fear, and in the object, equally fuppofes goodness and ppw. cr. Rogers. 7. Chastity. Be the honour flaw'd, I have three daughters, the eldest is eleven; If this prove true, they'll pay for't. Shakefp. -She dwells fo fecurely on the excellency of her honour, that the folly of my foul dares not prefent itfelf: the is too bright to be looked againft. Shak. 8. Dignity of mein. Two of far nobler fhape, erect and tall, Godlike erect! with native honour clad, In naked majesty, feem'd lords of all. Milton. ➜. Glory ; boast.-A late eminent perfon, the bonour of his profeflion for integrity and learning. Burnet's Theory. 10. Public mark of refpect. He faw his friends, who whelm'd beneath the waves, Their fun'ral bonours claim'd, and ask'd their quiet graves. Dryden's Ea. -Such difcourfes, on fuch mournful occafions as thefe, were inftituted not fo much in honour of the dead, as for the use of the living. Atterbury. -Numbers engage their lives and labours, fome to heap together a little dirt that shall bury them in the end; others to gain an honour, that, at best, can be celebrated but by an inconfiderable part of the world, and is envied and calumniated by more than 'tis truly given. Wake's Preparation for Death. II. Privileges of rank or birth. Henry the Seventh, truly pitying My father's lofs, like a moft royal prince, Reftored to me my honours; and, from ruins, Made my name once more noble. Shak. Honours were conferred upon Antonine by Hadrian in his infancy. Wotton's Rom. Hift. 12. Civilities paid. Then here a flave, or if you will a lord, To do the bonours and to give the word. Pope. 13. Ornament; decoration. The fire then fhook the honours of his head, Dryden. 14. Honour or on my honour, is a form of protef tation used by the lords in judicial decifions. My hand to thee, my honour on my promise. Shak. (2.) HONOUR ( 1, def. 6.) is ufed for a mark of efteem or fubmiflion, expreffed by words, actions, and exterior behaviour, by which we make known the refpect we entertain for a perfon on account of his dignity or merit. The word is used in general for the efteem due to virtue, glory, and reputation. It is also used for virtue and probity them. felves, and for an exactnefs in performing whatever we have promised; and in this laft fense we ute the term a man of honour. But boncur is more particularly applied to two kinds of virtue; bravery in men, and chastity in women.-Virtue and Honour were deified among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and had a joint temple confecrated to them at Rome: but afterwards each of them had separate temples, which were fo placed, that no one could enter the temple of Honour without paffing through that of Virtue; by which the Romans were continually put in mind, that virtue is the only direct path to true glory. Plutarch tells us, that the Romans, contrary to their usual cuftom, facrificed to Honour uncovered; perhaps to denote, that wherever honour is, it wants no covering, but fhows itself openly to the world. (3.) HONOUR, in the beau monde, has a meaning materially different from the above, and which it is easier to illuftrate than define. It is, however, subject to a fyftem of rules, called the lasuS of honour, conftructed by people of fashion, calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose. Confequently nothing is confidered as inconfiftent with honour. but what tends to incommode its intercourse. Hence, as Mr Paley states the matter, profanenefs, neglect of public worship or private devotion, cruelty to fervants, rigorous treatment of tenants or other dependents, want of charity to the poor, injuries done to tradefmen by infolvency or delay of payment, with numberless exam ples of the fame kind, are accounted no breaches of honour; becaufe a man is not a lefs agreeable companion for thefe vices nor the worse to deal with with in thofe concerns which are usually transacted between one gentleman and another.-Again, the law of honour being conftituted by men occupied in the purfuit of pleasure, and for the mutual convenience of fuch men, will be found, as might be expected from the character and design of the law-makers, to be, in moft inftances, favourable to the licentious indulgence of the natural paffions. Thus it allows of fornication, adultery, drunkenness, prodigality, duelling, and revenge in the extreme; and lays no stress upon the oppofite virtues. (4.) HONOUR OF RANK; § 1, def. 11. The degrees of honour observed in Britain may be comprehended under nobiles majores and nobiles minores. Those included under the first rank are, archbishops, dukes, marquifes, earls, viscounts, barons, and bishops; which are all diftinguished by the respective ornaments of their efcutcheons; and thofe of the laft are baronets, knights, efquires, and gentlemen. Some authors will have baronets to be laft under the first rank, because their honour is hereditary, and by patent, like that of the nobility. See COMMONALTY, § 2; and NOBILITY. (5.) HONOUR is particularly applied in the Englifh cuftoms to the more noble kind of feignories or lordships, whereof other inferior lordships or manors hold or depend. As a MANOR confifts of feveral tenements, fervices, cuftoms, &c. fo an honour contains divers manors, knights fees, &c. It was alfo formerly called beneficium, or royal fee, being always held of the king in capite. (6.) HONOUR, COURT OF. See CHIVALRY, § 6. (7.) HONOUR, EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCES OF. The Spanish hiftorians relate a memorable inftance of honour and regard to truth. A Spanish cavalier in a fudden quarrel flew a Moorish gentleman, and fled. His purfuers foon loft fight of him, for he had unperceived leaped over a garden wall. The owner, a Moor, happening to be in his garden, was addreffed by the Spaniard on his knees, who acquainted him with his cafe, and implored concealment. "Eat this," said the Moor (giving him half a peach)," you now know that you may confide in my protection." He then locked him up in his garden, telling him, as foon as it was night he would provide for his escape to a place of greater fafety. The Moor then went into his houfe, where he had but juft feated himself, when a great crowd, with loud lamentations, came to his gate, bringing the corpfe of his fon, who had juft been killed by a Spaniard. When the firft fhock of furprise was a little over, he learned, from the defcription given, that the fatal deed was done by the very person then in his power. He mentioned this to no one; but, as soon as it was dark, retired to his garden, as if to- grieve alone, giving orders that none fhould follow him. Then accofting the Spaniard, he faid, "Chriftian, the perfon you have killed is my fon, his body is now in my house. You ought to fuffer; but you have eaten with me, and I have given ou my faith, which must not be broken." He then led the aftonished Spaniard to his ftables, mounted him on one of his fleeteft horses, and faid, "Fly far while the night can cover you; you will be fafe in the mornings. You are indeed guilty of my fon's blood; but God is just and good; and I thank him I am innocent of yours, and that my faith given is preserved." This point of honour is most religiously observed by the Arabs and Saracens, from whom it was adopted by the Moors of Africa, and by them was brought into Spain. The following inftance of Spanish honour may ftill be in the memory of many living, and deserves to be handed down to the latest posterity. In 1746, when Britain was at war with Spain, the Elizabeth of London, captain William Edwards, coming through the gulph from Jamaica, richly laden, met with a moft violent storm, in which the ship sprung a leak, that obliged them to run into the Havannah, a Spanish port, to save their lives. The captain went on fhore, and directly waited on the governor, told the occafion of his putting in, and that he furrendered the fhip as a prize, and himself and his men as prifoners of war, only requefting good quarter. "No, Sir," replied the Spanish governor," if we had taken you in fair war at sea, or approaching our coaft with hoftile intentions, your ship would then have been a prize, and your people prisoners; but when, diftreffed by a tempest, you come into our ports for the fafety of your lives, we, the enemies, being men, are bound, as fuch, by the laws of humanity, to afford relief to distressed men who afk it of us. We cannot even against our enemies take advantage of an act of God. You have leave therefore to unload your fhip, if that be neceffary, and to ftop the leak; you may refit her here, and traffic so far as shall be neceffary to pay the charges; you may then depart, and I will give you a pass to be in force till you are beyond Bermuda: if after that you are taken, you will then be a lawful prize; but now you are only a ftranger, and have a stranger's right to fafety and protection." The fhip accordingly departed, and arrived fafe in London. A remarkable inftance of honour is alfo recorded of an African negro in Captain Snelgrave's account of his voyage to Guinea. A New England floop, trading there in 1752, left a fecond mate, William Murray, fick on thore, and failed without him. Murray was at the houfe of a black, named Cudjoe, with whom he had contracted an acquaintance during their trade. He recovered; and the floop being gone, he continued with his black friend till fome other opportunity should offer of his getting home. In the mean time a Dutch fhip came into the road, and fome of the blacks coming on board her, were treacherously seized and carried off as flaves. The relations and friends, transported with fudden rage, ran to the house of Cudjoe, to take revenge by killing Murray. Cudjoe stopped them at the door, and demanded what they wanted. "The white men," said they," have carried away our brothers and fons, and we will kill all white men. Give us the white man you have in your house, for we will kill him." "Nay," said Cudjoe, "the white men that carried away your relations are bad men, kill them when you can take them; but this white man is a good man, and you must not kill him."-" But he is a white man," they cried; " and the white men are all bad men, we will kill them all." "Nay," says he, “you must not kill a man that has done no harm, |