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in the queen's livery, entered the box."Madam," said he to her, " you may have perceived how attentively the queen has surveyed those magnificent bracelets, which, though so precious and costly, still receive a greater lustre from the dazzling beauty of the arm that bears them I am commissioned by her to request you will lend me one of them, that her majesty may have a nearer view of the unparelleled jewel." Melted by the flattering compliment, and, as the sharpers trick would have it, the queen having kept her eyes during the time in a strait direction to her box, she did not hesitate, and delivered one of the bracelets. Alas, she soon repented her blind confidence, and heard nothing more of the bracelet until the next morning, when an exempt from the police begged to be admitted, chid her politely for trusting so valuable a trinket in the hands of a person who was a stranger; "But, madam," added he, "make yourself easy, the rogue is taken up, and here is a letter from the lieutenant de police, which will explain the whole." The

letter was indeed signed de Crone, and contained a request that the lady would repair, at twelve o'clock, to the office, and in the mean time deliver to the exempt, he sent, the other bracelet, that it might be compared with the first, then in his hand, that he might have sufficient preof to commit the sharper. So much attention from the chief magistrate, called up all her gratitude, which she expressed in the liveliest terms, bestowing the greatest praise on the watchfulness of the police, which was in no country so well administred as in Paris. In fine, after ordering up a dish of chocolate, for the exempt, she put the other bracelet in his hands, and they parted; but it was for ever. This pretended exempt, proving neither more nor less, than the worthy associate of the queen's bold messenger.

GOOD SIGNS AND TOKENS.

"Pray, sir, how do you find yourself?" says a doctor to his patient, "Why," says the patient, "I have had a most violent sweat."

"The very best sign in the world,” quoth the doctor: "And how do you find your body?" "Why, I have had a most terrible fit of shaking;""So much the better, it shews great strength of constitution: and pray how are your lower parts?" Why, I am swelled as if I had the dropsy." "The best of all signs," said the doctor, and took his leave.

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One of the sick man's friends came in soon after, and began the same string of questions, how he felt himself? &c.

Why, I am so very well," replied the patient, "that I am almost ready to die, I have such a vast many good signs and tokens."

CURIOUS OCCURRENCE.

Mrs. Joanna Pitt of St. Stephen's, near St. Albans, who died there the 20th of June, 1777, was the daughter of John Pitt, who was aid de camp to the great Duke of Marlborough; she bequeathed to her family, amongst other lagacies, a piece of gold, of

which she left the following account in writing.

The small Danish piece of gold, mentioned in my will, which I desire may be kept in my family, was acquired as follows: "My father, John Pitt, was aid de camp to His Grace John Duke of Marlborough, at the siege of Doway; the army was very sickly, and duty being very hard upon the officers, they petitioned his grace that the aid de camps might do duty in the trenches(an unprecedented request), however, his grace, being very humane, consented to it. It was soon my father's turn of duty.

"His grace's quarters were a large mansion. One day, it being rainy and dirty weather, my father went to receive his last orders; the post allotted to him was a very dangerous one, where none had escaped without loss of blood, limb, or life. As he was going, he espied in the yard, where hundreds had been before that morning, a small piece of gold with this motto, God will provide for you.'

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"It pleased God that my father escaped,. and lived to quit the army and retire with a comfortable fortune. When a villian, after that, stript him of all his money and estate, again, the same good God raised him up a friend in his Majesty King George the Second, to make him governor of Bermudas, preserved him by sea, and at that place above nine years, brought him safe home, and he lived in comfort to the eighty-ninth year of his age, after all hope was nearly vanished that he should escape. This prophetic piece being so amply fulfilled, makes me anxious to have it kept in my dear father's posterity, as a piece of great good fortune to whoever. may have it.

"Joanna Pitt."

INVOCATION TO POVERTY.

By C. Fox.

Oh poverty! of pale consumptive hue,

If thou delight'st to haunt me still in view,
If still thy presence must my steps attend,

At least continue, as thou art, my friend;

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