qualifications for a counting house, and successively promoted him to the situation of supercargo in one of his vessels, and general manager of his business, till he finally resigned the whole of his mercantile affairs in his favour. As a merchant on his own account he soon rose to great opulence, and became a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. A strange conceit seems to have taken him at this time, and he determined upon an expedition to his native place in the character of a pauper. Having put on his beggarly gabardine, he presented himself before the authorities to claim assistance in his new character, but was rudely repulsed, and referred to Monmouth as his place of settlement. To Monmouth he repaired, and with better success; for his wants were kindly relieved, and he left the place in the same disguise in which he had entered it. This kindness he never forgot, and at his death devised a splendid benefaction, for the building of twenty almshouses and the endowment of a school, which from the judicious investment of the trustees, and the increase in the value of property, will, in process of time, furnish an establishment of the most valuable kind in the kingdom. The good man was forgiving in his disposition, and though he did not forget the treatment he received in his native place, he bequeathed a handsome sum for the same purposes in Newland, though not equal in amount, nor so successfully managed.

The Kymin, about a mile and a half from Monmouth, is a lofty eminence, rising nearly seven hundred feet from the bed of the Wye, surmounted by a monument, in commemoration of the gallant admirals of the British navy; and the "Summer House," a circular embattled tower about thirty feet high, erected by subscription for the social parties of Monmouth, before its harmony was disturbed by political factions. The summit is spread over a beautiful table-land, on which is an avenue of pine and other trees, and the fore