man, whose situation obliges him to silence; I therefore expect you will join me in acknowledging the wrong I have inconsiderately done him: for, my brother, let us remember, that however high our stations, as it exempt us not from doing evil, so it ought not to exempt us repairing evil, when we forget ourselves and commit it."

A few days afterwards, an appointment to serve the Prince's household with turneryware, was sent to the footman, signed by the Queen, at the earnest solicitation of his Royal Highness.

Such were the exalted sentiments which so early displayed themselves in the breast of his Royal Highness, whose affability and goodness of heart have since been so conspicuous, and which do him so much ho

nour.

ANECDOTE OF GENERAL SCOTT.

Having, one night, lost a large sum of money to a gentleman, he appointed to go

with him into the city for the purpose of selling out stock to pay him: he accordingly breakfasted with him, set cut in the gentleman's carriage, but coming towards Temple Bar, there was such a train of coaches, that they were obliged to draw up a considerable time. In this idle interval, the gentleman proposed throwing for a hundred pounds; the general accepted the challenge, the blinds were drawn up, and before the coachman could disengage himself, the general had not only won his own money back, but all the money the gentleman had in his pocket, together with his coach and horses.

This sudden change of fortune, would have been to some people a mortifying blow, but so little did it discompose the gentleman, (who, by the by, was a man of good fortune) that he very good-humouredly put his head out of the coach window, and desired the coachman to turn about and drive home to his master's, General Scott's.

He then got into a hackney coach, and drove to Hanover Square.

ANECDOTE (THE GOOD EFFECT OF WINE.)

A young gentleman of distinction, having lost a considerable sum of money at a faro bank, was so much affected by it, that he determined upon an act of suicide, in order to relieve him from his distress.

Filled with this idea, he put a case of pistols into his pockets, and proceeding to a house of fashionable resort in St. James's street, to which he was a subscriber, he ordered a room and a bottle of claret, with pen, ink, and paper. He then wrote a letter to an intimate friend, describing his unhappy state, which he declared himself unable any longer to bear, told him, that by the time the letter reached him, he should be out of his misery, and concluded with some request, as a last proof of his friendship.

Having dispatched this letter, he laid his pistols on the table, and being exceedingly

thirsty, and seeing wine standing before him, he very naturally drank a glass: the refreshment this afforded him, tempted him to repeat it; he took a second and a third, and in brief, four or five glasses gave such a happy -turn to his thoughts, that he deferred his rash purpose until his friend burst into the room with the utmost anxiety; when, instead of finding the letter-writer weltering in his blood, he saw him sitting at the table, musing with great composure.

He instantly removed the pistols; they finished the bottle together, and the despairing man went home, reconciled to himself, and to that life which he had so recently determined to renounce.

Extraordinary relation of the Behaviour and Death of a Deserter from the King of Prussia's Army.

"George Grochantry, a Polander, who had enlisted as a soldier in the service of the King of Prussia, deserted during the last war. A small party was sent in pursuit of him,

and, when he least expected it, they surprised him singing and dancing among a company of peasants who were got together in an inn, and were making merry.

This event, so sudden and unforeseen, and at the same time so dreadful in its consequences, struck him in such a manner, that, giving a great cry, he became all at once stupid and insensible, and suffered himself to be seized without the smallest resistance.

They carried him away to Golcan, where he was brought before the council of war, and received sentence as a deserter: he allowed himself to be disposed of, at the will of those about him, without uttering a word, or giving the least sign that he knew what had happened, or was likely to happen to him.

He remained as immoveable as a statue wherever he was placed, and was wholly passive with respect to all that was done to him or about him. During all the time that he was in custody, he neither eat, drank, or slept some of his comrades were sent to