must be thrust into one. If the Green Cloth will not make a project for this, some other must do it. If ye cannot find them out, I must only remember two things, the time must no more be lost, and that there are twenty ways of abatement besides the house, if they be well looked into, and so farewell.

" JAMES R."

ANECDOTE.

At the siege of Tortona, in Italy, the commander of the army that lay before the town, ordered Carew, an Irish officer in the service of Naples, to advance with a detachment to a particular post. Having given his orders, he whispered to Carew, 66 Sir, I know you to be a gallant man, I have therefore put you upon this duty, it is certain death for you all, I place you there to make the enemy spring a mine below you." Carew made a bow to the General, and led on his men in silence to the dreadful post, he there stood

with an undaunted courage; and having called to a soldier for a glass of wine, now said he, "I drink to all those who bravely fall in battle," fortunately at this instant the town capitulated, and Carew escaped.

EPITAPH ON A MISER.

Here, crumbling lies, beneath this moid,
A man whose sole delight was gold;
Content was never once his guest

Tho' thrice ten thousand fill'd his chest,
For he, poor man, with all his store,
Died in great want-the want of more.

ANECDOTE.

During the summer of the year 1777, at a general meeting of the noblemen and gentlemen of the county of Buckingham, Lord Verney's presence being necessary, he attended, though he could scarce stir hand or foot with the rheumatism and gout.

After the meeting was over, it was likewise highly necessary his Lordship should sign the minutes of the proceedings, but how to do it, in the condition he was in, was the question. At last his Lordship,

with a pleasantry peculiar to himself, observed he must be under the necessity of doing, what many an honest man had done before, which was to set his mark, and accordingly drew a cross at the bottom of the paper, which was filled up by one of the gentlemen present, Verney his mark, and which future antiquarians, perhaps, may bring as an undoubted proof of the barbarity of the times, that an Earl so late as the 18th century, could not write his own name.

AN ANECDOTE FOR ANTIQUARIANS.

A Mr. Pine, an Engraver and Herald, who was a very sensible man, used to relate a fact, which shewed Doctor Stukely's character as an Antiquarian.

As the Doctor and some other curious persons, among whom was Mr. Pine, were visiting certain antiquities in Hertfordshire, they came to a place called Ceaser's Stile, situated on the brow of an eminence. sooner was the place named, than the

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Doctor stopped all of a sudden, and after an attentive survey of the neighbouring ground, pronounced it to be directly the scite of a fortified pass, which Cæsar had left behind him in his march from Coveystakes to Verulam. Some of the company demurring that as to opinion, a debate arose, and an aged labouring man coming up, the Doctor asked him with great confidence, "Whether that was not called Cæsar's Stile?" Aye, Master," said the old man, “that it is, I have good reason to know it, for many a day did I work upon it for old Bob Ceaser, rest his soul, he lived in yonder farm, and a sad road it was before he made this stile.

ANECDOTE.

An officer in a very gallant manner obliged Louis the XIVth to do him justice.

An ancient officer, whose distinguished merit and services had escaped the attention of Louis the XIVth in a promotion

of officers, went and most respectfully addressed him, saying "I had expected no other than to die in the service of your Majesty; but I did not think it would be with grief." The King, truly equitable and grateful, took the first opportunity of rewarding him with a promotion, equal to his spirit and gallantry.

ANECDOTE OF THE LATE KING OF
PRUSSIA.

A Prussian lieutenant-colonel, whose regiment had been disbanded at the end of the war of 1756, was constantly soliciting his Majesty to be again put upon the establishment, and became so troublesome that he was forbidden the court.

Soon after, a libel appeared against his Majesty; and Frederick, however indulgent he was to transgressions of this kind, was so much offended with the audacity of this, that he offered a reward of fifty gold Fre dericks, to any person who would discover

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