commanded by this humane officer. Upon learning this story which was fully corroborated on every hand, the British prisoners unanimously petitioned the French officer to give up the child to them, as its more natural protectors, that they might forward it to England, where its forlorn case would claim for it an asylum from some hu. mane institution. The French officer, however, refused to part with the boy, but promised to take care of him and use him well: and the English, in their own destitute situation, as prisoners of war, had of course for the present no alternative but to submit. On their arriving at Tolosa, in the Pyrenees, an order met them, which directed that the English prisoners should be marched into France, but the Spanish conducted to the fortress of Pampeluna; and the French officer who had taken the child under his protection, being ordered upon the latter duty, the British officers with much regret parted from the little orphan. Not long after a Captain H-, of the 23rd light dragoons, on passing through Tolosa, found the child in the most forlorn condition, forsaken by its foster-father and mother: the former, it appears, had found a difficulty in conveying his prisoners to Pampeluna, as ordered, from the enterprising spirit of the Spanish Guerillas under Espozy Mina; and the Spanish woman dreading their resentment for attaching herself to a Frenchman, had fled. Under such circumstances, Captain H-, had, without hesitation, brought the child with him to Paris, where he now providentially met the very officer who had been the first to identify and interest himself for it, just obtaining his passport for London: it was agreed, therefore, that the poor little boy should go to his native land with him, and Captain H—, wrote letters to the War Office, to He the Duke of York, and also to the Marquess of Huntly, (the colonel of the 42d regiment,) on the subject. Arriving in London with his little orphan, Mr. —> immediately left the letters at the Horse Guards and Richmond House, and that same evening received a note, intimating that the Duke of York would be happy to see him and his little charge on the following morning at ten o'clock; accordingly they went to York House at that hour, and were very graciously received. The Duke of York condescendingly conversed with the child in German and French, both of which languages as well as the Spanish, he had learnt; the first he had acquired from his fosterfather, the second from a Saxon servant, and the last from the Spanish woman. His Royal Highness was altogether so much pleased with the child, and so affected with his interesting story, that he resolved to put him into the Military Asylum, under his own patronage. had about this time resigned the office of commander-inchief, but with that humanity and condescension for which his Royal Highness is distinguished, be wrote to Sir David Dundas, drawing his notice to the circumstance, with a view that the parties might, with the least possible delay, be furnished with the necessary certificates, and pursue their respective interests. At length nothing was wanting for the admission of the child into the school for soldiers' orphans, but a certificate from the Marquess of Huntly; when Mr. --, and the poor little fellow, in proceeding one morning to Richmond House for this document, overtook, near the Horse Guards, a serjeant of the 42d regiment, with a letter in his hand, addressed to the Marquess of Huntly. Under an impression that the man might give him some information which would assist him in his interview with the Marquess, Mr. exclamation of, 'tis my child!" inquired whether he had served in the late campaign in Spain; and being answered in the affirmative, then asked if he knew his comrade, Serjeant M'Cullen, who was killed at Corunna ? The man, evidently much agitated, replied that he knew no comrade of that name killed at Corunna; but begged to know why the gentleman asked the question? "Because," said Mr. this is his orphan child, whom I found in Spain." He was soon interrupted with the simple but emphatic "Bless your honour, sir, I am the man! Then turning to the child, who had still tion of his father, he was deeply affected. of each party may be better imagined than described. It afterwards proved, that the unsealed letter which the soldier was carrying to the Marquess of Huntly, was from Colonel Stirling, commanding the regiment, then lying at Canterbury, informing him that Serjeant M'Cullen was not (as supposed) killed at Corunna, but woundded, and got safe off; and that he had sent the man to London, that he might personally answer any questions which might be put to him. The child was placed in the Military Asylum, faint recollecThe feelings AN EXAMPLE FOR WIDOWS. IN the year 1799, a tenant of Mr. Way's, at Hasketon, in Suffolk, died, leaving a widow with fourteen children, the eldest of whom was a girl under fourteen years of age. He had rented fourteen acres of pasture land, on which he had kept two cows; these cows, with his little furniture and clothing, were all the property he left. The parish of which he had been an inhabitant, was within the district of an incorporated house of industry, where the rule was to receive proper objects within the walls, but not to allow any thing for the out poor, except in peculiar cases. The directors of the establishment offered to relieve the widow, by taking her seven youngest children into the house. When this was proposed to her, she replied in great agitation, that she would rather die in working to maintain her children, than part with any of them; or she would go with all of them into the house, and work for them there; but if her landlord would continue her in the farm, (as she called it) she would undertake to bring up the whole fourteen without any help from the parish. She was a strong woman, about forty-five years old, and of a noble spirit; happily, too, she had to deal with a benevolent man. He told her she should continue his tenant, and hold the land for the first year rent free; and at the same time, unknown to her, he directed his receiver not to call upon her afterwards, thinking with even that indulgence, it would be a great thing if she could maintain so large a family. But this further liberality was not needed. She brought her rent regularly every year after the first; held the land till she had placed twelve of the children in service; and then resigned it to take the employment of a nurse, which would enable her to provide for the remaining two, for the little time longer that they needed support, and which was more suited to her declining years. MANUFACTURING CELERITY. SOME years ago a gentleman made a bet of one thousand guineas, that he would have a coat made in the course of a single day, from the first process of shearing the sheep, to its completion by the tailor. The wager was decided at Newbury, on the 25th of June 1811, by Mr. John Coxeter, of Greenham Mills, near that town. At five o'clock that morning, Sir John Throckmorton, Bart. presented two South-Down wether sheep to Mr. Coxeter. Accordingly the sheep were shorn, the wool spun, the yarn spooled, warped, loomed, and woven; the cloth burred, milled, rowed, died, dried, sheared, and pressed, and put into the hands of the tailors, by four o'clock that afternoon; and at twenty minutes past six, the coat, entirely finished, was presented by Mr. Coxeter, to Sir John Throckmorton, who appeared with it before an assemblage of upwards of 5000 spectators, who rent the air with their acclamations. SCOTTISH AVERSION TO PAROCHIAL A POOR and infirm carter in the stewartry of Kircudbright, had the misfortune to lose his only horse, which took some complaint, and died; a misfortune which was to him the greater, as he had no means of replacing the animal. Being thus thrown out of employment, the neighbours, after the lapse of a week or two, became apprehensive that he might be in want, and ventured to mention his case to the minister. Accordingly, the minister waited on him, and endeavoured, in a general and indirect way, to ascertain his exact circumstances; but his parishioners answers were equally general, and led to no satisfactory explanation. A few days more elapsed, when the minister again waited on the carter, |