get the better of my gratitude." The doctor eyed the purse, counted the days of his attendance in a moment; and then extending his hand by a kind of professional mechanical motion, replied: "Well, I can hold out no longer; single I could have refused the guineas; but all together, they are irresistible."

He could never be brought to pay bills without much importunity. A paviour, after long and fruitless attempts, caught him just getting out of his chariot at his own door in Bloomsbury square, and set upon him: "Why, you rascal," said the doctor, "do you ptetend to be paid for such a piece of work? why, you have spoiled my pavement, and then covered it over with earth to hide your bad work.”"Doctor," said the paviour, "mine is not the only bad work that the earth hides." You dog," said the doctor, are you a wit? You must then be poor, so come in:" and he paid him.

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Amongst the many facetia related of Dr. Radcliffe, it has been noticed, that when he was in a convivial party he was very unwilling to leave it, even though sent for by persons of the highest distinction. Whilst he was thus deeply engaged at a tavern, a person called in order to induce the doctor to visit his wife, who was dangerously ill; but no entreaties could prevail on the disciple of Æsculapius to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus. Enraged at the doctor's obstinacy, the man, who was very strong, took him up in his arms, and carried him off in spite of his resistance. Radcliffe was at first much enraged, particularly as the circumstance excited much laughter amongst the spectators. Having cooled a little, however, before he was set down, he listened to the apology of the husband, who excused himself for his rudeness by the extreme illness

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Dr. Radcliffe used to threaten some of his brethren of the faculty, "That he would leave the whole mystery of physic behind him, written on half a sheet of paper."

FRANCIS REGNIER,

An elegant French poet and translator, of the seventeenth century. He was a man of such inflexible integrity of character, that he was called the abbè Pertinax. Upon a particular occasion, a person high in office, from whom he had some expectations, pressed him to stretch a point so far as to tell an untruth. If you do not comply with my request," said the great man, in an angry tone," you will rue the consequences, for I am resolved to quarrel with you." "Whatever the consequences may be," replied Regnier, cooly, "I had much rather you should quarrel with me for my refusal of your request, than that I should quarrel with myself for complying with it."

CARDINAL RICHELIEU.

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An officious informer came to tell cardinal Rich elieu of certain free expressions that some persons had used in speaking of him. Why how now!" said the cardinal; "do you dare to come and call me all these names to my face, under pretence of their having been said by honest gentlemen ?" and,

ringing his bell, said to the page in waiting, "Kick that fellow down stairs.'

Demetrius, the son of Antigonus the Great, asked his father on what day he intended to give the enemy battle. "Are you afraid," said he, “ my son, that you will not hear the sound of the trumpet ?"

In the war of the French revolution, in 1794, the king of Prussia, the duke of Brunswick, and general Clairfait, made a conbined, and, as they thought, a most unexpected attack upon the republican army; but, to their great surprise, they found their enemies were fully prepared for them, ranged in regular order of battle, and gave them such a warm reception that they were obliged to retreat with a considerable loss At a council of war held immediately afterwards, in which the above-mentioned persons were present, General Clairfait, fixing his eyes steadily on the king of Prussia, said, "one of us three is a traitor." "How so?" said the king, looking confused. "I repeat," said the general, "that one of us three is a traitor, or our well-concerted plan could not possibly have failed of suc"I can assure you," said the king of Prussia, "that I never whispered a word upon the subject to any human being, except to madame de R****” "What a faithless counsellor, or rather what a perfect novice in the ways of the world, you must be !" exclaimed the enraged general Clairfait. "Could you possibly have taken a more effcctual method to sacrifice us to the French army, than by blabbing our secret to a French woman ?"

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"How does your new-purchased horse answer?" said the late duke of Cumberland to George Selwyn. "I really don't know," replied George," for I never asked him a question."

LORD SHAFTESBURY.

The Life of this nobleman, in the Biographia Britannica, is a kind of panegyric, rather than a history of him. Fear of his sovereign did not damp the treedom of his wit. Charles II. said to him, "Shaftesbury, I believe thou art the wickedest man in England. He bowed, and replied, "For a subject, sir, perhaps I am."

SOLYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT.

When Solyman the Magnificent marched to the conquest of Belgrade, in 1521, a woman of the common sort approached him, and complained bitterly, that while she was sleeping, soldiers had carried off her cattle, and this was all the property she had. "You must have been buried in very deep sleep," said the emperor, "not to hear the noise the robbers made." Such, sire, was indeed the case," replied the woman: " for I slept in full confidence that your highness was watching over the public safety." As Solyman was delighted with this answer, it is almost needless to add, that he ordered full amends to be made for her loss.

THE SPARTANS.

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A dancer said to a Spartan, "You cannot stand so long on one leg as I can. Perhaps not," said the Spartan," but any goose can."

Some Spartans as they travelled met a person, who told them they were fortunate, for a gang of robbers had just left that place. "No," answered one of them," the robbers were fortunate."

A beggar asking alms of a Spartan, he answered, "If I grant what you crave, I shall make you a more confirmed beggar; he who first gave you money, taught you laziness"

A traveller, observing the respect paid to age in Sparta, said, Here alone it is a pleasure to grow old."

A Spartan mother, after the first news of a battle, went out of the city to obtain more intelligence. A messenger came and informed her, that both her sons were among the slain. "Wretch !" said she, “I did not inquire the fate of my sons, but that of my country." When told that Sparta was victorious, she exclaimed, "Then I rejoice in the death of my sons.'

A spartan mother presented a shield to her son going to battle, with these words, "Son, either this, or upon this."

LORD STANLEY.

The antipathy which Dr. Johnson bore to Scotland was not singular or unprecedented. Lord Stanley cane plainly dressed to request a private audience of king James I. A gaily dressed Scotchman refused him admittance into the king's closet. The king hearing an altercation between the two, came out, and inquired the cause. My liege," said Lord Stanley, "this gay countryman of yours has refused

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