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by one of the magistrates, who informed his brethren of the fact. They unanimously agreed in condemning the boy to punishment. He was imprisoned till the following market day; then, in the presence of the people, he was conducted to the place of execution by an officer of justice, who read to him his sentence, "Inhuman young man! because you did not assist the animal that implored your aid by its cries, and who derived its being from the same God who gave you life; because you added to the torments of the agonizing beast, and murdered it, the council of this city has sentenced you to wear on your breast the name which you deserve, and to receive fifty stripes." He then hung a black board about his neck with this inscription: "A savage and inhuman young man!" And after inflicting on him twenty-five stripes, he proceeded: " Inhuman young man! you have now felt a very small degree of the pain with which you tortured a helpless animal in its hour of death. As you wish for mercy from that God who created all that live, learn humanity for the future." He then executed the remainder of the sentence.

DISAPPOINTED COMPASSION.

IN the year 1783, a poor woman in Dungannon, Ireland, went to a house where oatmeal was sold, and offered to pledge an essential article of female dress for some oatmeal for herself and children, of which she had four, one of them at her breast. The shop-keeper was not at home, and his wife refused to let the poor woman have any; but at night, and when in bed, told her

husband of the circumstance, adding, that she feared the family was in a distressed situation. The husband got out of bed instantly, and hastened to the poor woman with a bowl of oatmeal; but it was too late. The unfortunate woman was dead in her wretched cabin, the infant lying by her side, and the other children crying around her!

NEGRO BEGGAR.

EXTRACT of a letter from a lady in Jamaica, dated June 14, 1765.

"I cannot help relating to you, on account of its singularity, a circumstance which happened to me not long ago in the midst of my distress, which affected me greatly at the time, nor do I think I shall soon forget it.

"One morning taking an airing along the piazzas leading from Kingston to the fields, an old negro who was sitting there dressing his sores begged alms of me. I passed him by without taking any notice of him; but immediately reflecting on the poor fellow's situation, I turned back and gave him a bit, telling him at the same time, that I had got but a few more remaining to myself.

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"Some days afterwards having occasion to walk the same way, I again saw the same negro. As I was passing him, he called after me, and begged earnestly to speak Curious to hear what the man had to say, I turned back, when he delivered himself to the following effect. That as soon as I had left him the other day, he concluded from what I had said when I relieved him, that I was myself in distress; it grieved him much to see a lady in want, nor could he have been happy without

seeing me again. He then pulled out a purse, containing, as he said, twenty-eight doubloons, and begged me to take it, telling me that he collected this by begging, and that he could beg more to make him live; but that a lady could not beg, but must die for want of yam yam, if she had no money. I thanked the poor fellow for his generosity, and told him that I had got more money since I saw him, and that I did not want it. I then asked him how his master suffered him to beg, seeing be was old? He told me, that now he could work no more, his master had turned him out of doors to beg or starve ; that he had been a slave from his infancy, and that his sores had been occasioned by constant, hard labour. After giving him another bit, and cautioning him not to discover his money to any body, lest he might be robbed of it, I left him,"

IMPROBABLE, YET TRUE.

In the reign of Charles the Second, a French refugee of the name of Du Moulin, was tried for coining, and never perhaps was evidence from circumstances more copclusive of a man's guilt. It was proved beyond all doubt, that he had been often detected in uttering false gold; and that he had even made a practice of returning counterfeit coins to persons from whom he had received money, pretending that they were among the pieces which had been paid him. When the officers of justice went to arrest him and search his premises, they found a great number of counterfeit coins in a drawer by themselves; others packed along with good money in different parcels;

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some aqua-fortis, several files, a pair of moulds, and many other implements for coining.

Du Moulin solemnly denied the charge. The bad money, he said, "which was found in a heap, he had thrown together, because he could not trace the person from whom he had received it; the other parcels of money he kept separate, in order that he might know to whom to apply, should any of it prove bad; as to the implements of coining, he knew nothing of them, and could not possibly account for their being found where they were." A likely story truly! So thought the jury, and so whispered every person who heard it. Du Moulin was found guilty, and received sentence of death.

A few days before Du Moulin was to be executed, a person of the name of Williams, a seal engraver, met with his death by an accident; his wife miscarried from the fright, and sensible she should not live, she sent for the wife of Du Moulin, and revealed to her that Williams, her husband, had been one of four whom she named, who had for many years lived by counterfeiting gold coin; that one of these persons had hired himself as a servant to Du Moulin; and being provided by the gang with false keys, had disposed of very considerable sums of bad money, by opening his master's escrutoire, and leaving the pieces there instead of an equal number of good ones which he took out. The wife of Williams appeared in great agony of mind while she gave the account, and as soon as it was finished, fell into convulsions and expired.

The parties she had named, were, on the information of Madame Du Moulin, instantly apprehended, and after a short time one of them turned king's evidence. The one who had been servant to Du Moulin persisted in

asserting his innocence, until some corroborating circumstances were produced, so unexpected and decisive, that he burst into tears, and acknowledged his guilt. On being asked how the instruments for coining came into his master's escrutoire? he replied, "that when the offi cers came to apprehend his master, he was terrified lest they should be found in his (the servant's) possession, and hastened to his box in which they were deposited, opened the escrutoire with his false key, and had just time to shut it before the officers entered the apartment."

Du Moulin was of course pardoned, and the servant and his associates most deservedly suffered in his stead.

GRANVILLE SHARP.

THIS distinguished philosopher, and friend to the liberties of mankind, first became known to the public in the case of a poor and friendless negro of the name of Somerset. This person had been brought from the West Indies to England by a master, whose name we would, if in our power, gladly hand down to the execration of posterity; and falling into bad health, was abandoned by him as a useless article of property, and turned into the streets, either to die, or to gain a miserable support by precarious charity. In this destitute state, almost, it is said, on the point of expiring on the pavement of one of the public streets of London, Mr. Sharp chanced to see him. He instantly had the poor creature removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, attended to his wants, and in a short time had the happiness to see him restored to

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