written, in large characters, the following infcrip. tion:

"Beneath this mofs-grown roof, within this cell,
"Truth, Liberty, Content, and Virtue dwell.

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Say, you who dare this happy place difdain,

"What Palace can difplay fo fair a train?"

He lived to a good old age, and died honoured and lamented.

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ANECDOTE

OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.

N a large heath, called Shag's Heath, about a mile and a half from Woodlands, in Horton parish, Dorsetshire, is an afh tree, under which the unfortunate Duke was apprehended..

The tradition of the neighbourhood is, that after the defeat at Sedgemoor, the Duke and Lord Lumley quitted their horfes at Woodyeat's; whence the former, difguifed as a peafant, wandered hither. He dropped his gold fnuff box in a pea field, where it was afterwards found full of gold pieces, and brought to Mrs. Uvedale, of Horton. One of the finders had fifteen pounds for half the contents or value of it. The Duke went on to the ifland, as it is called, a clufter of

fmall

fmall farms, in the middle of the heath, and there concealed himself in a deep ditch, under the ash.

When the purfuers came up, a woman, who lived in a neighbouring cot, gave information of his being fomewhere in the island, which was immediately furrounded by foldiers, who paffed the night there, and threatened to fire the neighbouring cots. As they were going away next morning, one of them efpied the brown skirt of the Duke's coat, and seized him. The foldier no fooner knew him, than he burst into tears, and reproached himself for the unhappy discovery.

The family of the woman who first gave the information, are faid to have fallen into decay, and never thriven afterwards.

The Duke was carried before Anthony Ettrick, of Holt, a Justice of Peace, who ordered him to London. Being asked what he would do if fet at liberty? he answered, if his horse and arms were reftored, he only defired to ride through the army, and he defied them all to take him again.Farmer Kerley's grandmother, lately dead, faw him, and defcribed him as a black, genteel, tall man, with a dejected countenance.

The

The clofe where he concealed himself is called Monmouth Clofe, and is the extremeft N. E. field of the island. The tree ftands in a hedge, on a fteep bank, and is covered with initials of the names of perfons who have been to fee it.

ANECDOTE OF THE LATE KING.

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IS Majefty generally, after dinner, made it a rule to vifit the Countess of Yarmouth.In paffing through the chambers to her apartments one evening, only preceded by a single page, a fmall canvas bag of guineas, which he held in his hand, accidentally dropped, when one of them rolled in under a clofet, where wood was generally kept for the use of the bedchamber. After the King had very deliberately picked up the money, he found himself deficient of a guinea, and, judging where it went,-" Come," fays he to the page, "we must find this guinea; here, help me to throw out this wood." The page and he accordingly fell to work, and in a little time found it. "Well," fays the King, " you have wrought hard, there's the guinea for your labour, but I would have nothing loft.",

No bad example in the high departments of State.

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AN ANECDOTE.

HE Earl of St. Albans, Secretary to Queen

TH

Henrietta Maria, in all her misfortunes, found himself at the Reftoration but in an indifferent condition. Being one day with Charles the Second, when all diftinctions were laid afide, a ftranger came with an importunate fuit for an employment of great value, which was just vacant. The King ordered him to be admitted, and bid the Earl perfonate himself. The gentleman addreffed himself accordingly, enumerated his fervices to the Royal Family, and hoped the grant of the place would not be deemed too great a reward. "By no means, (replied the Earl) and I am only forry that, as foon as I heard of the vacancy, I conferred it on my faithful friend there, the Earl of St. Albans, (pointing to the King) who has conftantly followed the fortunes both of my father and myself, and has hitherto gone ungratified: but when any thing of this kind happens again, worthy your acceptance, pray, let me fee you."-The Gentleman withdrew.-The King smiled at the jeft, and confirmed the grant to the Earl.

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ANECDOTE

OF THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS.

HERE was at Rome, in the time of the

Emperor Auguftus, a poor Greek poet, who, from time to time, when the Emperor went out of his palace, prefented him with a Greek epigram; and though the Emperor took it, he never gave him any thing; on the contrary, having a mind one day to ridicule him, and shake it off, as foon as he faw him coming to present him with his verses, the Emperor fent him a Greek epigram of his own compofing, and writ with his own hand. The poet received it with joy; and, as he was reading it, he shewed by his face and gestures that he was mightily pleafed with it. After he had read it, he pulled out his purfe, and, coming up to Auguftus, gave him fome few pence, faying, "Take this money, Cæfar; I give it you, not according to the merit of the verses, but to my poor ability had I more, my liberality would be greater." The whole company fell a laughing, and the Emperor more than the reft, who ordered him a hundred thousand crowns.

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