procured recommendations for some trifling preferment abroad, and went over to Jamaica, which was then newly settled by the English. In Jamaica, from a very small beginning, he obtained, by the success of his industry, a considerable plantation, and lived in that island nearly twenty years; at the end of which time, he felt desirous to revisit England, and settle near his mother, who was still alive, and impatient to see him-Having sold his plantation, and freighted a ship with his effects, he put himself and his family on board of her, and sailed for Bristol; and had arrived at the Land's-end, off Cornwall, when the ship, in a storm in the night, unfortunately split upon a rock, and not any thing of her cargo was saved, and with much difficulty, some few of the passengers, among whom was Mr. Stanley, thus restored to his country, in a condition, more miserable than he left it. He found means, however, to reach his mother, who received him with that mixture of sorrow

and joy, which is natural on the occasion; and when her first emotions were over, and her passions grew calm enough, to hear him give an account of his shipwreck, and the particulars of his loss by it; she answered, with a sigh, that "she had feared some misfortune would befal him wherever he was, because, a few days before, an unusual high wind, had blown down above a hundred of those oaks which she had cherished for his sake, and which he might remember, when a boy, he had planted, from the acorns all around the estate; but she rejoiced, that there were yet, many left standing, which she hoped was a good omen, that he would yet overcome his misfortune." "A good omen, indeed," said Mr. Stanley," if, in near thirty year's growth, they are as large as I wish them-As a few days ago, in the city of Bristol, I met with a person, who was commissioned to purchase a quantity of young oak timber-Upon looking over the estate, he found upwards of seven

teen hundred, such oaks as sold for forty shillings each, with which Mr. Stanley again commenced trade, and became as considerable a merchant as any in the kingdom. To commemorate this fortunate event, he preserved from the axe, above twenty of the trees which grew nearest the house; which trees, though the estate has now fallen to another family, are known by the name of "Save all Remnant." This example of a gentleman, saved from ruin in the middle of his life, by the innocent and unmeaning amusement of his childhood, together with what is told us by the famous Sir Richard Weston, of a merchant of his acquaintance, who planted with his own hand, so muchwood, that he sold it in his life-time, for sixty thousand pounds sterling-These examples are sufficient, to excite our country gentlemen to improve upon the hint, and ease their estates of a burthen which often oppresses, and sometimes destroys them; for instance-where a gentleman leaves.

many daughters, for whose fortune the estate is the fund, and stands mortgaged to provide for; how easily would this inconvenience be prevented? if at the birth of a daughter, only ten acres of land were set out from the estate, and after being enclosed, were well planted with timberSuppose, for example, they were fir-trees, which are found to thrive well in all parts of England; four thousand such trees, would grow in twenty years, to be worth, at the end of that term, twenty shillings each, and would answer for small masts of vessels, and many other purposes; so that without much expence, there would be a fortune of four thousand pounds provided. for the young lady, and her father's estate not burthened with it-The same thing being done, only changing the kind of tree, planted at the birth of every son or daughter, would effectually provide for them, as they grow up; like a plough, kept at work for their benefit, even while they were sleeping-There is, we will

hope no elder brother in England, who will dislike this particular part of this essay, whatever his opinion may be of the other.

Anecdote of Sir Anthony Malone.

Lord Mansfield used to remark that a lawyer could do nothing without his fee; this is proved by the following fact:

Sir Anthony Malone, some years ago, Attorney General of Ireland, was a man of abilities in his profession, and so well skilled in the practice of conveyancing, that no person ever entertained the least doubt of the validity of a title that had undergone his inspection-on which account he was generally applied to by men of property in transactions of this nature: It is, however, no less singular than true, that such was the carelessness and inattention observable in this great lawyer in matters of this sort that related to himself, that he made two bad bargains, for want only of the same attentive examination of the writings, for which he was celebrated— in one of which he lost property to the