A true honest Man. and procured him the countenance and protection of men of high rank, which they held both as noblemen and officers. This knowledge increased his revenues with his rapid promotion, and employed Lim in a department which, though it required great military talents, was extremely lucrative. Having got into a confirmed habit of hoarding, he was soon enabled to realize a considerable share of wealth. His integrity was however unequalled, and has ever continued so; he pays his tradesmen not only with punctuality, but with the most ready cheerfulness; and though every opportunity was, and is still given him, of making money, he scorns to do it at the expence of Government, or by the least unfair dealing with any one indi-y vidual. He has for many years been Lieutenant Refined Economy. Governor of one of our most important garrisons; round which he often walks in a coat and boots which excite many a smile and proverbial witticism from the younger officers, who all love him nevertheless to almost a degree of adoration; so remarkably sweet, so polite and conciliating are his manners to all classes of people, to the poor as well as the rich, to the young and the old. But the love of money still preponderates in his mind. Sir Marmaduke is so rich, that he scarce knows himself the extent of his wealth. With age the close vice of avarice increases, and though they keep a great establishment, and live in all the apparent luxury of ease, yet Lady Brooks takes special care that nothing shall be lost, even to the little feather that may chance to fly from the bed. Sir Marmaduke denies himself many Avarice chills the Heart. superfluities of life, which to the rich are really necessary comforts, and to purchase which the money expended from his immense revenues would hardly be missed. For whom do they thus accumulate riches? Their only child is married; and married where gold flows in abun dance. When this cold and repellant quality takes root in an elegant mind like Sir Marmaduke's, it is particularly to be deplored Perfection is not, nor ever will be, the lot of erring humanity; but as 46 every one has his fault," we could almost wish a man like the above character, had some other vice though perhaps it might be even of greater magnitude; because the vice of avarice shuts up all the avenues of the heart, and hardens it, like the metal it is so fond of, Conclusion. till it becomes impenetrable to that divine feeling, which makes the misfortunes of another its own. Without any consideration of the increased expences of the times, he will express his astonishment at the pecuniary embarrassments of a man, who perhaps has one shilling where Sir Marmaduke has a thousand pounds; and he will wonder at the Lieutenant who has nothing but his pay, that cannot support himself and his wife with credit, and the gentility his profession unavoidably requires of him, on the scanty pittance of five shillings and eight pence per day. This parsimony is a spot in a good man's character: It is more: It is a stain! The love of money is justly said to be the root of all evil; it binds a man down, however religious, to the perishable riches of this earth, seeking the golden mine deep buried in her bosom, sooner than |