to cry, "Vive le Roi!-Long live the king!" From that time fuccefs attended every one of that monarch's enterprizes; and, after having fubdued his enemies, and rendered himself master of the capital, he fent for Madame le Clerc one day when the court was very brilliant and full: in presenting her to the nobility, "You fee this lady," fays he, "a true friend of mine: to her I owe all the fuccefs of my laft campaigns; it was the who lent me confiderable fums of money to carry on the war, even at a time when the troops threatened to abandon me. She shall be reimbursed with more than lawful intereft, and letters patent of nobility fhall forthwith be iffued in her favour." "Ah Sire," interrupted Madame le Clerc, "do you reckon as nothing the infinite pleasure I then felt, and have ever fince felt, in contributing to the happinefs and fuccefs of my fovereign? that is the only interest that belongs to me, and the only reward my ambition aims at." The lady accepted the title, but refused the offered intereft. The family of Le Clerc, who have fince diftinguished themfelves in civil and military capacities still .exist. J. C.

The following whimfical Lines are taken from the Original Deed of Gift of William the Firf, to the Family of Rawdon, when they first fettled in England, Part of which Eftate is fill in the Poffeffion of the faid Family, now Earl of Moira.

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I WILLIAM, king, the thurd yare of my reign,
Give to Paulyn Roydon, Hope, and Hope towne,
With all the bounds, bothe up and downę,
From hevin to yerthe, from yerthe to hel,

For the and thyn, there to dwel;

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EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNT OF A BEAR.
As truly as this king ryght is myn; -
For a croffe bowe and a arrowe,
When I fal come to hunt an yarrow,
And in token that this thing is foothe,
I bit the whyt wax with my toothe;
Before Meg, Maud, and Margery,
And my thurd fonne Henry.

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Vide Weaver's Funeral Monuments.

Singular AFFECTION of a BEAR..

THE following is an extraordinary inftance in a favage

animal, to which feveral of the gentlemen and feamen belonging to the Carcafs frigate, which went out to make discoveries towards the north pole, were eye-witneffes.

While the Carcafs was locked in the ice, early one morning the man at the mast-head gave notice that three bears were making their way very faft over the frozen ocean, and were directing their course towards the fhip. They had, no doubt, been invited by the fcent of fome blubber of a fea-horse the crew had killed fome days before, which had been set on fire, and was burning on the ice at the time of their approach. They proved to be a fhe bear and her two cubs, but the cubs were nearly as large as the dam. They ran eagerly to the fire, and drew out from the flames part of the flesh of the fea-horfe that remained unconfumed, and eat it voraciously. The crew from the ship threw great lumps of the flesh of the fea-horse which they had still left, upon the ice, which the old bear fetched away fingly, laid every lump before her cubs as the brought it, and dividing it, gave each a share, referving but a small partion for herself. As fhe was fetching away the last piece, they levelled their mufkets at the cubs, and shot them both dead, and in her retreat, they wounded the dam, though not mortally. It would have drawn tears of pity VOL. I. No. 12.

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from any but unfeeling minds to have marked the affectionate concern expressed by this poor beast in the dying moments of her expiring young.

Though he was forely wounded, and could but just crawl to the place where they lay, the carried the lump of flesh she had fetched away, as the had done others before, tore it in pieces, and laid it down before them; and, when she saw that they refused to eat, fhe laid her paws first upon one and then upon the other, and endeavoured to raise them up; all this while it was pitiful to hear her moan; when the found fhe could not ftir them, fhe went off, and when she had got at some distance, she looked back and moaned, and that not availing to entice them, fhe returned, and smelling round them, began to lick their wounds ; she went off a second time as before, and having crawled a few paces, looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning, but ftill her cubs not rifing to follow her, she returned to them again, and with figns of inexpreffible fondness went round one and round the other, pawing them and moaning. Finding at last that they were cold and lifeless, the raised her head towards the fhip, and growled a curfe upon the murderers, which they returned with a volley of musket-balls; she fell between her cubs, and died licking their wounds!

J. C.

A Singular Account of JOHN ANDREAS, a famous Canonift of the fourteenth Century.

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OHN ANDREAS was born at Mugello, near Florence. We are told wonderful things concerning the austerity of his life, that he macerated his body with prayer and fasting, and lay upon the bare grouud for 20 years together, covered only with a bear-fkin: and this is attefted by very good authority. Andreas had a very beautiful daughter, named Novella, whom he loved extremely; and he is faid

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