health. Mr. Sharp now clothed him, and procured him comfortable employment in the service of a lady. Two years had elapsed, and the story and name of the poor negro had almost escaped the memory of his benefactor, when Mr. Sharp received a letter from a person, signing himself Somerset, confined in the Poultry Compter, entreating his interference, to save him from a greater calamity even than the death from which he had before rescued him. Mr. Sharp instantly went to the prison, and found the negro, who in sickness and misery had been discarded by his master, sent to prison as a runaway slave. The excellent patriot went immediately to the Lord Mayor, Nash, who caused the parties to be brought before him; when, after a long hearing, the upright magistrate decided, that the master had no property in the person of the negro in this country, and gave the The master instantly collared him in negro his liberty. Mr. the presence of Mr. Sharp and the Lord Mayor, and insisted on his right to keep him as his property. Sharp now claimed the protection of the superior tribunals; caused the master to be arrested; and exhibited articles of the peace against him for an assault and battery. After various legal proceedings supported by him with the most undaunted spirit, the twelve judges unanimously concurred in opinion, that the master had acted criminally. Thus did Mr. Sharp emancipate for ever the race of blacks from a state of slavery while on British ground. 66 Among the heroes and sages of British glory,” says an eminent review, "we can think of few whom we should feel a greater glow of honest pride in claiming as an ancestor, than the man to whom we owe our power of repeating with truth. 1 "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs QUEEN CHARLOTTE. MANY unostentatious acts of humanity and benevolence are related of her late Majesty, whose truly laudable and praiseworthy ambition was to "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame!" It is an undoubted fact, that her Majesty distributed large sums of money in the service of private charity. One of the first acts of her humanity, was the forming. an establishment for the daughters of decayed gentlemen and for orphans. A house and grounds were purchased in Bedfordshire, and a lady of high attainments placed there, with a salary of five hundred pounds per annum, to instruct the pupils. The institution formed at Bailbrook Lodge, near Bath, was also indebted to her Majesty. It is a fact also well known, that the queen took charge of, and educated, the orphan child of an officer who died in the West Indies. The child was brought to England by the serjeant of the regiment. Her Majesty's notice was attracted by an advertisement in the public papers from the serjeant. The queen also took under her protection the widow of an officer killed at Bunker's Hill, and educated the son. Majesty established a school for the At Windsor, her children of poor parents, who were clothed and educated at her expense, and provided with situations when they were old enough. On the recovery of his Majesty from his first illlness, in 1789, she founded another school on the same plan. On the failure of the Windsor Bank, her Majesty hearing that many of the inhabitants were distressed in consequence, ordered her deputy treasurer to provide four hundred pounds in small Bank of England notes, and immediately to exchange all the Windsor notes for them. On another occasion, a female presented a memorial to her Majesty, stating that she was the widow of an officer left with twelve children. The queen, on making enquiries into the character of the applicant, who was an entire stranger, took the whole of the children and sent them to school: and when the Rev. Francis Roper, one of the conductors of Eton College, died, and left a wife and ten children, her Majesty commenced a subscription with five hundred pounds, which amounted to two thousand pounds the same day, for the family, provided for the daughter, and begged the Prince Regent to do the same for the sons. JONAS HANWAY. "This was the friend and father of the poor." Epitaph on Mr. Hanway's tomb in Westminister Abbey In the year 1764, a time of great public scarcity, a letter appeared from the benevolent Jonas Hanway, pointing out to the poor how cheaply they might live well. "When I was at school," he says, "at an obscure village in Hampshire, at a charge not more than double the value of three pints of porter a day for maintainance and education, I remember a person who had eight young children, and he maintained them all for less than one shilling and three-pence a day, in prime health and spirits. I once," he remarks farther on, " fed on rice and parched peas for forty-eight days, and did not consume a penny each day; and yet I was travelling, and in health, strength, and spirits. Do not imagine," he observes in conclusion, "that I am insensible of the wants of others. I neither insult a hungry belly, nor flatter a full one. I wish to see with all my heart parks of deer converted into grazing grounds for oxen; and lands on which horses are only fed, into fields of wheat for the food of men. If there were fewer buckskin breeches for jockies to ride horses for pleasure, we should be provided so much the cheaper with shoes. If there are fewer venison feasts, there will be greater plenty of good beef for our support, and tallow for candles to work by. If we draw in less money for horses for foreign use, and kill fewer by driving them wantonly to an end, we shall save more money in the price of the bread we eat, as well as keep our national riches in gold and silver at home for the great emergencies of war, which are now draining off for corn.' The final words of this letter deserves to be written in letters of gold: "Let us indulge the noble passion of doing the most good to mankind with the least mixture of evil. We cannot long remain a free people without a larger portion of virtue; or continue to be rich and happy without freedom," THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. "A soul more spotless never claim'd a tear; 66 Belov'd, lamented, and without a foe. "How prized in life, say ye who knew her well; "How wept in death, a nation's tears may tell." Epitaph on H. R. H. Princess Charlotte. DURING the last illness of an old female attendant, formerly nurse to the Princess Charlotte, she visited her every day, sat by her bed side, and with her own hand administered the medicine prescribed; and when death had closed her eyes, instead of flying in haste from an object so appalling to the young and gay in general, she remained and gave utterence to the compassion she felt on viewing the remains in that state from which majesty itself cannot be exempt. A friend of the deceased seeing the princess much affected, said, "if your Royal Highness would condescend to touch her, perhaps you would not dream of her." "Touch her!" replied the amiable princess; "yes, poor thing, and kiss her too, almost the only one I ever kissed, except my mother!" Then bending her graceful head over the coffin of her humble friend, she pressed her warm lips to the clay-cold cheek, while tears of sensibility flowed from her eyes. When on the marriage of the princess she retired with her consort to Claremont, she found a poor old woman, |