heir. They exchanged a paper of their agreement; and Hyppolite quitted the head-quarters of the regiment for his station, where he was fortunate enough to procure a lucrative staff appointment, and to amass a considerable sum of money.

Meanwhile the mortality increased among the troops; they daily perished in numbers: the hospitals became overcharged with the miserable sufferers, and the different cantonments were one scene of raging disease and maddening despair. The banquet and the couch of death were scarcely divided by the walls of the same house: there was revelry in one chamber, and the groans of dissolution in the next; and when the friends met again, they had been hardened by the constant presence of suffering and death, almost to a change of their nature. Hyppolite was then attacked by the fever, and four-and-twenty hours placed him on the verge of eternity. So familiar, and such a thing of nought was death become, that Florian, though he paid him the

offices of friendship, could not shut out the recollection that the decease of his friend, whose recovery was now hopeless, would make him master of the independence which the other had acquired; and he felt a momentary satisfaction that it would enable him to fly from the charnel-house. But when he saw poor Hyppolite awaiting his last hour, ́and heard himself styled by him the brother of his adoption, all the better feelings of his breast, which had been lost in the dreadful scenes around him, returned with their full force. He rushed out of the room in an agony of self-reproach, brought with him the cursed paper which he had formerly exchanged with Hyppolite, and tore it into a thousand scraps. "Great God! what a

wretch have I become, that I could for a moment recollect that horrid agreement," was his exclamation. His friend raised himself from his pillow, and beckoning to his servant, said, in a firmer tone than seemed possible for his situation," Remember, François, what I

now tell

you,

that all that I leave belongs to my friend. To whom else could it belong, than to the only being who has given me a place in his heart since we left our unfortu nate country?"

But the friends were not severed. It is pleasing to add, that Hyppolite recovered, where recovery was rarely known, and that Florian, who is now the respected father of an English family, when he related these circumstances, told me that he had passed a happy month two years ago with Hyppolite, who is a superior officer in the Garde du Corps of the French king.

ANGLO-EAST-INDIANS.

"Let it appear that he doth not change his country manners for those of foreign parts; but only prick in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country."

BACON.