whom he was indebted for much valuable inftruction. After acquiring the language, and adopting the habits of the Turks, he took advantage of the extreme deficiency of the Ottoman troops in the art of gunnery, and propofed feveral improve ments. His propofals were received, and fo well relished, that the grand vizir fent for our adventurer, and made him a very handsome present. This encouragement roufed his latent ambition; and, to remove every obftacle which might impede the gratification of it, he publicly renounced Chriftianity, and embraced the Mohammedan religion. Being now, in the material fenfe of the word, a Turk, he was complimented with a commilion in the artillery, and paffed through the feveral gradations to the prefent rank he maintains in the Ottoman court.He is in fuch favour with the principal officers of the grand fignor, that his opinion is confulted on almost every military fubject; and as in the laft, fo in the approaching war between Ruflia and the Turks, his rank and influence will be confiderable. It should not be omitted, that the indulgencies allowed by Mohammed to his difciples are plentifully enjoyed by our countryman, for he keeps a haram of wives.-He is about fiftyfeven years of age, vigorous in conftitution, and in full poffeffion of health and faculties. His English name is Benjamin Swinburne; but he has fome time exchanged it for the Ottoman title he now enjoys, of THE MUSTAPHA.

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N Indian, who had not met with his ufual fuccefs in hunt. ing, wandered down to a plantation among the back fet tlements in Virginia, and feeing a planter at his door, afked for a morfel of bread, for he was very hungry.-The planter bid him be gone, for he would give him none. Will you give me then a cup of your beer?" faid the Indian." No, you fhall have none here," replied the planter." But I am very fain," faid the Indian: "Will you give me only a draught of cold water ?"" Get you gone, you Indian dog, you shall have nothing here," faid the planter.

It happened, fome months after, that the planter went on a fhooting party up into the woods; where, intent upon his game, he miffed his company, and loft his way; and night coming on, he wandered through the foreft, 'till he efpied an Indian wigwam. He approached the favage's habitation, and asked him to fhew him the way to a plantation on that fide the country." It is too late for you to go there this evening, Sir," faid the In

dian; but if you will accept of my homely fare, you are welcome."-He then offered him fome venifon, and fuch other refreshment as his ftore afforded; and having laid fome bear fkins for his bed, he defired that he would repofe himself for the night, and he would awake him early in the morning, and conduct him on his way. Accordingly, in the morning they fet off, and the Indian led him out of the foreft, and put him in the road he was to go; but just as they were taking leave, he stepped before the planter, and, turning round, ftaring full in his face, bid him fay, whether he recollected his features.-The planter was now ftruck with fhame and horror, when he beheld, in his kind protector, the Indian whom he had fo harshly treated.-He confeffed that he knew him, and was full of excuíes for his brutal behaviour: to which the Indian only replied, “When you fee poor Indian fainting for a cup of cold water, don't fay again, Get you gone you Indian dog "The Indian then wished him well on his journey, and left him.It is not difficult to fay which of these two had the best claim to the name of Chrif tian.

ANECDOTE of the PRINCE of WALES..

IS royal highnefs being fupplied with money by a certain hour on fuch a day, and in fo unufual a manner, that the gentleman who furnished the fupply had fome curiofity to know for what purpose it was obtained. Upon enquiry, he was informed that the moment the money arrived, the prince drew on a pair of boots, pulled off his coat and waistcoat, and flipped on another quite plain morning frock, without a ftar, and turning his hair to the crown of his head, under a comb, put on a flouched hat, and, thus equipped, walked out. This intelligence raised fill greater curiofity; he was marked; and, with fome trouble, the gentleman difcovered the object of his bufinefs.-An officer of the army was just arrived from America, with a wife and fix children, in fuch low circumitances, that, to fatisfy fome clamourous creditors, he was on the point of felling his commiffion, to the utter ruin of his family.The prince, by accident, overheard an account of the cafe. To prevent a worthy foldier's fuffering, he procured the money, and, that no mistake might happen, carried it himfelt. On afking at an obfcure houfe, in a court near Covent-Garden, for the lodger, he was fhewn up to his room, and there found the whole family in the atmoft indigence. Shocked at the fight, he not only prefented

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the money, but told the officer to apply to colonel Lake, living in fuch a street, and give fome account of himself in future. Saying which, he departed, without the family's knowing to whom they were obliged.-Diffipation is not a wonderful trait in the feature of youth; but the heart that can feel for the diftreffes of others, and diftrefs himself to relieve them, has a foundation on which noble edifices may be erected!

A Caution to PROTESTANTS, travelling into Popish Countries. OT long fince, a party of English gentlemen and ladies went into one of the principal churches at Liege, during the time of high mafs; when one of the ladies finding fome thing elevated at the high altar, which put the whole congregation into a different pofition, and being near-fighted, the put her glafs to her eye, not knowing it was the elevation of the holt. This imaginary infult fo exafperated the lower order of the pes ple, that they crouded after the ftrangers, joftled them as they went out of church, and fo alarmed them, that they ran into the nearest shop for protection: but the mob encreafing to fome hundreds, the offence was announced; and though they got two Dutch officers of their acquaintance, who luckily were pa fing by, to explain their innocence, it was with much difficuly the Catholic officers, and good people who had kindly received them, could protect their perfons from violence; and even t laft, they were obliged to get away under the protection of an officer's guard.-The beft way, therefore, for a Proteftant, is ne ver to go into the churches abroad during mafs, or always to do as they do at Rome.-There are fome ceremonies in every religion which may appear ridiculous to thofe of other perfunfions.

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Man who had unfortunately married a fcolding wife, happening one day to meet the parfon of the parish, complained much of the bargain he had made, and afked advice how to relieve his fituation. The clergyman talked to him ferioufly on the business, and told him the neceffity of accommodating tempers on both fides, as a man and his wife were one. "One! doctor, (exclaimed the other,) one! By the Lord, if you were to hear us in the height of our altercations, you would certainly (wear we were twenty."

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DESCRIPTION of the GEORGIUM SIDUS, lately discovered by Mr. HERSCHEL.

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HIS planet is found to be four and a half times the diameter of the earth, and its real distance near one thousand eight hundred millions of miles. Mr. Herschel firft perceived it on the 13th of March, 1781, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock at night, as he was examining the fmall ftars near the feet of Gemini. The magnifying power he was then using was 227, which he increafed to 2010! and with which he ascertained it, agreeable to the account given in the Philofophical Tranfac tions for 1781. Some of this gentleman's reflecting telescopes are made to bear magnifying powers of an almoft incredible fize-not less than between fix and feven thousand times! The effect which these very large magnifying powers had on the fixed ftars, in fhewing many to be double, triple, and even quadruple, (which were before thought to be fingle ftars), fuggefted to him the idea of attempting to difcover the parallex of the fixed ftars by their means;-and it was in pursuit of this object that the difcovery was made of the planet above mentioned.

M. de la Land, of Paris; M. Bode, of Berlin; M. de Sivry, of Cybele; and Mr. Profperin, of Upfal; have published memoirs on this planet, which is diftinguished by all the foreign aftronomers by the appellation of The Planet of Herfchel, which appellation fome philofophers at home (poffeffed of lefs generofity than their foreign brethren) have conftrued into a meaning of its being a planet of Mr. Herschel's own creation, though the teftimony of the greatest characters in Europe is as strongly in favour of the discovery, as their plainest demonstrations can make it.

SENSIBLE REPARTEE of a LUNATIC.

A Gentleman of the name refided

and had a place in the custom-houfe, having conftantly finished his bufinefs at two o'clock, used generally to go home then to dinner in his walk he frequently met a gentleman who lived in that neighbourhood, who was known to be difordered in this intellects, but whofe conduct had always been inoffenfive. It happened one day that the crazy man met him on the causeway, and having a large flick in his hand, when he came up oppofite to Mr. Man, he made a fudden ftop, and ftriking one end of the flick on the ground whilft he held it with both his hands, VOL. II. 38.

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he fternly pronounced," Who are you, Sir?" The other, not at all alarmed, and willing to foothe his affailant with a pun, replied, "Why, fir, I am a double man; I am Man by name, and man by nature."" Are you fo (faid the infane gentleman), why then I am a man befide myfelf, and we two will fight you two." Immediately upon which he knocked Mr. Man into the ditch, and deliberately walked off.

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ANECDOTE of a BLACK SERVANT.

Black fervant to a gigantic agent, remarkable for futtering, having made free with his master's two damsels, on one of them appearing with child, he was called on to marry her. The black hefitated, and would not confent; but on being preffed by the mafter, he said, he could not marry both the maids, who, on enquiry, were found to be in the fame fituation. AL this the agent jumped up in a violent paffion, and began, "Yo, yo, yo, you, Go, Go, Go, God, da, da, da, dam, bla, bla, bla, bla, black ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, raf, raf, rascal, have yo, you, go, go, go, got, bo, bo, bo, bo, both the, he, he, he, ma, ma, ma, maids we, we, we child ?" The black scratched his woolly head, and faid, "I don't know, maffe, but the maids fay that you and I have done it between us, and if you marry one, I will marry toder."

ANECDOTE of CARDINAL CAMPEJA.

HE cardinal, who was at variance with a French noble

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of his behaviour; among other remarks, the nobleman told him that he feemed to forget that his father was no better than a cowkeeper The prieft bore the taunt with great compofure, and replied, "Had your father, my lord, been in the fame fituation, your lordfhip would have kept cows to the prefent hour."

ANECDOTE of Mr. F O.O T E.

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OOTE, one day following a perfon whom he thought he knew, flapped him pretty hard upon the fhoulder, which the ftranger retenting, Foote apologized for the mistake, declaring he took him for a very honeft gentleman. "An honef gentleman (faid the other), well, and fo I am." "O then (faid Foote), I find I am miftaken again."

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