legs a soreness from the chain which he had

worn.

St. Vincent de Paul established the foundling hospital at Paris: and by a single speech which he made for it, in a moment of distress, he raised an instant subscription of forty thousand French livres. In the war of the league, several thousand German soldiers, who had been seduced by great promises into the army of the league, were placed in Paris and its neighbourhood; and the war proving unsuccessful to those who had engaged them, they were abandoned, and left to perish. St. Vincent stirred up such a general spirit of charity in their behalf, as enabled him to provide for their immediate subsistence, and to send them back clothed and fed, to their own country. The calamities of the same war were terrible in Champagne, Picardy, Lorraine and Artois ; and a year of great scarcity coming on, famine and pestilence ensued: numbers perished of hunger, and their bodies lay unburied. Information of this scene of woe being carried to St. Vincent, he raised a subscription of twelve millions of French money, five hundred thousand pounds sterling, and applied it to the relief of the wretched objects. These and a multitude of other acts of benificence were proved on his canonization by pope Clement

XII; and Bossuet, in his letter of solicitation, dwells on them with great eloquence.

DEAN SWIFT.

A friend came one morning to see Dean Swift in Dublin. The dean requested him to sit down, "No," he replied, "I cannot stay, I must go "immediately to the park, to prevent two gen"tlemen from fighting a duel." "Sit down, sit "down," said the dean, "you must not stir, "let them fight it out, it would be better for the "world that all such men should kill one an"other."

REVEREND P. SKELTON.

While the Rev. Philip Skelton, of facetious memory, was in Dublin, the oakboys, a society of rebels thus denominated in Ireland, seized on Arthur Johnston, Esq. of Enniskillen, a gentleman of a stiff temper, worth five hundred a year. They then ordered him to swear to be true to their cause, and so on; but he refused obstinately; on which they put a rope about his neck, and were on the point of hanging him, when one Simpson, a supernumerary gauger, who afterwards got a commission in the army, bursting in on them with a pistol, rescued him out of their hands. Skelton, on his return,

met Mr. Johnston, in the streets of Enniskillen, and putting his hand in his pocket, took out a shilling, and gave it to him, saying, "here, take "this, I gave a shilling to see a camel in Dublin, "but an honest man is a greater wonder in the "county of Fermanagh."

Te a gentleman, who told him once, he expected to represent that county in parliament he said, "aye, they are all a parcel of rascals, "and a rascal is fittest to represent them."

NORMAN CURATE.

Mrs. Stothard, in her letters from Normandy, gives the following account of the hospitable manners of the Curè of Josselin. "We had no

sooner informed him that we were English "travellers, than the Curé rose from his seat, "and welcomed us with cordial hospitality. "The Cure then informed us that he had passed "ten years in England, during the emigration "of the French, and had returned to his own "parish of Josselin at the short peace. 'You "are English people,' said the old gentleman; "the English shall ever be welcome to rest at my house; I came into their country when I "was driven from my own; I had neither friends,

money, nor their language; for the first three years I eat my daily meal at their cost.

"taught them my tongue, and they regarded

me as a brother: for ten years I was supported "by their notice, and protected by their laws; "gratitude opens my door at the approach of any of their nation.' The venerable man "came forward, seated us close to the fire, and "ordered more faggots to replenish it. He "pressed us to leave the inn, and begged we "would take up our residence at his house. "This we declined, but promised to breakfast " and dine with him the next day, in compliance "with his invitation, given in English, that we "would take with him the luck of the pot. Ac"cordingly, the next morning we presented "ourselves at the door of Monsieur le Curè, "who received us in his state apartment; it "was hung with old tapestry, and decorated "with a few family portraits, languishing in the "full bottomed wigs of Louis the fourteenths "time: the oaken floor was so nicely waxed, "that I nearly slipt down while Monsieur hand"ed me to the great chair at the upper end of “the room, which I found he considered the "most ceremonious seat.

"Monsieur le Curé is a complete character, hospitable and kind. He related to us an "anecdote that evinced both his good nature "aud the extreme simplicity of his character;

"during the late war, a person belonging to an "English ship, induced by motives of curiosity, "landed on the coast of Brittany, without ap"prehending danger; of course he was imme"diately seized on suspicion of being a spy, and "marched up the country. The escort arrived "at Josselin with the prisoner in a most dis "tressed condition, his shoes being actually. "worn off his feet; they brought him before "Monsieur le Curé, who commenced his inter"rogation with, You are an Englishman. "What is your name? My name,' replied the "the prisoner, "is B****. 'B****,' said Mon"sieur, surely I must know that name. Stop "a moment, I will return to you immediately. Away went the Curé to consult the old court "calendar; and there finding Lord B****, Peer "of the Realm, returned back to the ragged "prisoner, convinced of his identity with the "nobleman in question.

"My Lord,' said the old gentleman, Why "do you conceal your rank? Of what use can it "be? What is your motive for doing so? Your

name you say is B****. You are a gentleman; " and I find in my court calendar, Lord B****, "Peer of the Realm. Now, if you are Lord "B****, I will furnish you with money and necessaries, and use the interest I have with