Lady Spencer, who had said, she thought the frequent reflection, that a different treatment might have saved their patients, must embitter the lives of medical men: he told her that the balance was greatly in favour of satisfaction, for he hoped to cure her forty times before he killed her once.

A SAILOR'S RELIGION.

ABOUT a fortnight ago, W. Gibson, aged seventyeight, died in the Gainsborough Union Workhouse; he had fought under Nelson in most of his battles, and was 66 captain of the foretop.' On his deathbed he afforded a striking proof of that fearnought spirit which tenanted the breast of the heroes of the Nile, Trafalgar, &c. Being in extreme pain, he observed to the master of the workhouse that it was "hard lines," after being present in so many engagements, to have to die in so lingering a manner. Mr. Johnson observed, that he thought it was much better to die a natural death, than in battle, as it afforded a man time to repent. "Repent,' exclaimed the old tar, "when a man dies in battle, he goes so quick that he gets to heaven before the devil knows he is dead."

THE changes of fashion often cause great distress among the workmen. In 1765, the peace of the metropolis was disturbed by the peruke-makers, who went in procession to petition the king against the innovation of people wearing their own hair. At the recovery of George III., after his first illness, an immense number of buckles were manufactured; they were spread over the whole kingdom. All the wealth of Walsall was invested in this speculation. The king went to St. Paul's without buckles. Shoe-strings supplied the place

of straps, and Walsall was nearly ruined. The disuse of wigs, leather breeches, buckles, and buttons, is supposed to have affected the industry of 1,000,000 persons.

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RAILWAY CARRIAGES v. CLOUDS.

"THAT there cloud," said a Yankee, pointing to the shadow of which was passing rapidly over the ground, "is trying to go ahead of the engine. I guess it'll be behind us and twenty minutes to spare. We can get a-head of the fastest cloud going now, and give it time to take in water."

A BARRISTER observed to a learned brother in court, that he thought his whiskers very unprofessional." You are right," replied his friend, "a lawyer cannot be too barefaced."

DR. HOLLAND, Regius Professor at Oxford, when he went forth from his college for any considerable time, took this solemn valediction of the Fellows : "I commend you to the love of God, and to the hatred of Popery and superstition."

BEAU BRUMMELL.

IT will be matter of news to many persons to hear that this once celebrated person, the arbiter elegantiarum of the days of George IV. when Prince of Wales, and the "glass in which the youth-that is, the fashionable youth in England, did (in those times) dress themselves," is now in confinement in a place set apart for those who labour under mental derangement, in Caen, in Normandy. Beau Brummel still imagines himself a fine gentleman, and assumes all the airs and importance of his by-gone popularity and good fortune. Amongst other feats he rings the bell of

his solitary apartment continually. The keeper, who, with great humanity humours his insanity, asks what commands? "Order my carriage," says the light of other days; "I must go directly to Carlton House to see the prince."

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

MANY years ago two respectable seafaring men arrived late one evening at an inn in Gravesend, with the intention of going aboard their respective vessels as soon as the tide served on the following morning. Although strangers to each other, their similarity of pursuits and intentions induced them to join each other's company. They supped together, partook of a bowl of punch, and agreed to sleep in the same chamber. In the middle of the night the younger of the two travellers was afflicted with a fit of colic, which obliged him to go down to the common convenience. On his reaching the door of the place he found the string of the latch broken, and he had no alternative but to return to the chamber to fetch his clasp-knife to lift up the latch. There being no light in the room, and the night very dark, he by mistake took a knife from the waistcoat pocket of the elder man, and returned to the place of convenience, where he was detained a very considerable time in acute pain. Early on the following morning the waiter knocked at the chamber-door, and called out that it was time to rise, the tide serving. The younger man got up and dressed himself, somewhat surprised that the elder did not respond to his inquiries, but supposed that he should find him below.

On arriving in the parlour he asked the waiter after his chamber-fellow. The waiter replied that

he best knew, having slept in the same room with him. It being usual for travellers to present the waiter with a trifling douceur, the younger man drew from his waistcoat pocket some loose silver, and a knife with a King William's guinea sticking in the haft. The waiter immediately recognised the guinea as having been in the possession of the missing man when the latter discharged his quota of the supper bill on the preceding night. A suspicion then arose that foul play had taken place, and the man was detained and a constable sent for; an examination followed, when the hands of the younger man and the knife found in his possession were discovered to be smeared with blood. was then accused of having murdered the elder man, and taken before a magistrate, who committed him to Maidstone Jail, and at the ensuing assizes he was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to be hanged and gibbeted.

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The morning of the execution was ushered in by all the terrors of a winter's storm. The place of execution (the accustomed heath), far distant from the jail, was scarcely approached by the procession when the sheriff gave the fatal signal, and left the body, stiffened with cold, to the attentions of his officers, who, following his example, one by one, proceeded home, the blacksmith, who had contracted to put the corpse in chains, with his men, alone remaining, who commenced their operations long before the legal term of suspension expired. In the course of the succeeding night some friends of the fellow cut the gibbet down, disencumbered the body from the chains, and took it to a lone public-house, frequented by smugglers; and whilst they were standing around it one of the friends

discovered the region of the heart yet warm. Friction and cordials were administered, the man recovered, and by the aid of the smugglers before daybreak was placed on board their sloop in the river, which immediately proceeded to Holland, whence he took a berth in a merchant ship to the Indies, which vessel was taken by pirates, who carried him to their rendezvous on an unfrequented island, where amongst many other captives he met with the man for whose supposed murder he had lost his civil rights, and had on his account been hanged and gibbeted.

Explanations on both sides followed. The elder man said, that when sleeping in the same chamber at Gravesend with the younger, he was awakened by his groans, and apprehensive, from his remaining below stairs so long, that he was suffering severely, and that he required assistance, he slightly dressed himself, and proceeded down stairs and through a doorway which opened into a lane. At that moment a press-gang was passing, who, supposing that he was endeavouring to escape from being pressed, took him with them, notwithstanding his representations, and carried him to the receiving-ship, where he was draughted to a frigate, which proceeded to a foreign station, where he found an opportunity to escape; and he then engaged himself on board a merchantman, which was almost immediately taken by the pirates.

The two friends determined to endeavour to effect their escape from the pirates, which, after much difficulty, and experiencing many privations, they effected, and landed in England, where, under legal advice, the younger applied to the Court of King's Bench at Westminster for a reversion of