slavery to which he now submitted with reluctance; and he longed for the moment in which he should be free; instead of telling his story and cracking his joke for the entertainment of his customers, he received them with indifference, was observed to be silent and sullen, and amused himself by going three or four times a day, to search the register of fortune for the success of his ticket.

In this disposition Ned was sitting one morning in the corner of a bench by the fire-side, wholly abstracted in the contemplation of his future fortune; indulging this moment the hope of a mere possibility, and the next shuddering with the dread of losing the felicity which his fancy had combined with the possession of ten thousand pounds. A man well dressed entered hastily, and enquired for him of his guests, who many times called him alond by his name, and curst him for his deafness and stupidity, before Ned started up as from a dream, and asked with a fretful impatience what they wanted. An affected confidence of being well received, and an air of forced jocularity in the stranger gave Ned some offence; but the next moment he catched him in his arms, in a transport of joy, upon receiving his congratulation as a proprietor of the fortunate ticket, which had that morning been drawn a prize of the first class.

It was not, however, long, before Ned discovered that ten thousand pounds did not bring the felicity which he expected; a discovery which generally produces the dissipation of sudden affluence by prodigality. Ned drank and whored, and hired fiddlers and bought fine clothes; he bred riots at Vauxhall, treated Hatterers, and damned plays. But something was still wanting; and he resolved to strike a bold stroke, and attempted to double the remainder of his prize at play, that he might live in a palace and

keep an equipage; but in the execution of this proeject, he lost the whole produce of his lottery-ticket, except five hundred pounds in bank notes, which, when he would have staked, he could not find. This sum was more than that which had established him in the trade he had left; and yet, with the power of returning to a station that was once the utmost of his ambition, and of renewing that pursuit which alone had made him happy, such was the pungency of his regret, that, in the despair of recovering the money which he knew had produced nothing but riot, disease and vexation, he threw himself from the bridge into the Thames.

Antigonus, king of Syria, hearing two of his soldiers reviling him behind his tent; Gentlemen,' said he, opening the curtain, remove to a greater distance, •for your king hears you.'

An old man and a boy were driving an ass before them to the next market for sale. Have you no

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more wit,' says a passenger, than to trudge it a-foot, when you have an ass to ride on?' The old man took the hint, and set the boy upon the ass. Says another to the boy, You lazy rogue you, must you ⚫ride, and let your aged father go a-foot?' The man took down his boy, and got up himself. Do you 'see,' says a third, how the lazy old knave rides, 'while the little child has much ado to creep poor 'after him.' The man took up his son behind him. The next they met, asked the old man, whether the ass were his own?' He said 'yes.' 'Troth 'there's little sign of it,' says the other, by your loading him thus.' Well,' says the man to himself, * what am I to do now ? Nothing new occurD

red to him, but to bind the ass's legs together with a cord, and to carry him to market with a poll upon their shoulders. This he attempted, and became truly ridiculous.

Marshal Turenne, in his campaign 1656, dispatched a body of men to escort some loaded waggons that were coming from Arras, and gave the command to the Count de Grandpre. The young count being engaged in a love-adventure, suffered the convoy to march, commanded by the major of his regiment. A Spanish party that attacked the convoy being repulsed, the provisions were brought Safe to the camp. The marshal being informed of Grandpre's neglect of duty, said to the officers that were about him. The Count will be very angry with me for employing him another way, and 'disappointing him of this opportunity to show his 'bravery. These words being reported to the count he ran to his general's tent, threw himself at his feet, and expressed his repentance with tears full of gratitude and affection. The marshal reproved him with a paternal severity; and the reproof made such an impression, that, during the rest of the campaign, this young officer signalized himself by the bravest actions, and ecame at length one of the ablest comnanders o. the age.

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Cyrus one day being reproached by Crœsus for his profusion, a calculation was made to know how much his treasure might have amounted to, had he been more sparing of it. To justify his liberality, Cyrus sent dispatches to every person he had particularly obliged, requesting them to supply him with as much money as they could, for a pressing occasion, and send him

a note of what every one could advance. When all these notes came to Cyrus, it appeared that the sumtotal far surpassed the calculation made by Cross. 'I am not' said he, les 18 love with riches than ' other princes; but a better manager of them. You see at how low a price i nave acquired many 'friends, an invaluable treasure. My nioney, at the same time, in the hands of these friends, is not less ' at my command, than in my treasury,'

The prince of Wales, named the Black Prince, who distinguished himself by his conduct and bravery in the battle of Poictiers, was not less admired, after the victory, for his modest and generous behaviour to his prisoner king John. The evening after the battle, the prince refused to sit down with the king at supper, but attended him to entertain him with discourse. As the king's thoughts were wholly employed about his present misfortune, the prince said to him, in a modest unaffected manner, That his majesty had one great reason to be comforted; which was, that the battle was not lost by his fault: that the English, to their cost, had experi enced him to be the bravest of princes; and that "God alone had disposed of the victory. And,' continued he, if fortune has been your adversary, you may at least rest secure that an inviolable re'gard shall be preserved for your person; and that 'you shall experience in me a very respectful relation, if I may glory in that title.' The king upon this, recovering himself, turned to the prince, and said with an air of satisfaction, That since it was his destiny to be vanquished and taken in an ac'tion wherein he had done nothing unbecoming his 'character, he found great comfort in falling into

'the hands of the most valiant and generous prince alive.' It is said that when king Edward, father to the prince, received the news of this battle, he declared that his satisfaction at so glorious a victory, was not comparable to what he had from the generous behaviour of his son.

Mr. Temple Stanyan borrowed a sum of money of Addison, with whom he lived in habits of friendship, conversing on all subjects with equal freedom; but from this time, Mr. Stanyan agreed implicitly to every thing Addison advanced, and never, as formerly, disputed his positions. This change of behaviour did not long escape the notice of so acute an observer, to whom it was by no means agreeable. It happened one day, that a subject was started, on which they had before warmly controverted each other's notions, but now Mr. Stanyan entirely acquiesced in Addison's opinion, without offering one word in defence of his own. Addison was displeased, and said with considerable emotion, 'Sir, either contradict me, or pay me my money.

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.

In less than a year he overran the greatest part of Germany, and surmounted every obstacle opposed to his arms. When he was besieging Ingolstadt his horse was killed under him by a cannon ball. To an officer who ran to remount him, he cooly said, 'I have had a narrow escape--but perhaps the pear is not yet ripe.'

Upon a similar occasion, his chancellor entreated him not to risk his life so often. Gustavus said to