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gress go to point out how the happy holders of these
bonds shall be enabled to exchange them for land war-
rants, and how the 'Mexican Gnternment specially hy-
pothecates, in the name of the nation, one mann of
acres of the vacant lands in 'he departments of Cali-
fornia, Chehuahua, New Mexico, Sonoro, ant Texas,
with special guarantee to the siid Consolidated Fund
until the total extinction of the bonds no sales o these
hypotheoated bonds to be made at less rates than ss.
sterling per acre, &c. The period of conversion has
been limited to one year from the authorised publication
of this decree, which is dated the '29th of July last.
This document is attended with some minor arrange-
ments, which at present are of no. importance.
It would app. ar from the seem.", y now offered to tie
creditors of the Mexican republic that this mode of ad-
justing the debt due to them would place them on the
wrong side of the horse. It is indeed, a truly satisfac-
tory adjustment, and very consolatary. If they get lands
for their money they must emigrate to look after them ;
if they adopt the alternative, they must wait for their
princ.pal and interest.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Times of yesterday contains a letter, under the
signature of " Benbow," the sentiments of which it more
than adopts, censuring the appointment of Admiral Sir
Charles Fleming to th Governorship of Greenwich Hos-
pital. A list of names of Admirals is furnished by
" Benbow," who he thinks have prior claims to Admiral
Fleming. But it is well observed by " Justitia," one of
the correspondents whose communication on this subject
we have elsewhere inserted, that several of these Admi-
rals are already in the possession of commands, and re
ceive large sums of money for those sinecures. Other
Admircis are, from age and infirmity, unequal to
to the duties of the Governorship of Greenwich
Hospital ; but indeed, it seems to be taken for granted
by Tories that the last thing to be thought of in
appointing to an office is fitness for the discharge of its
duties. Admiral Sir Charles Fleming. is held in the
greatest regard in the navy as an excellent officer ;
and all who have served with him, or under him, are
loud in his praises as an able, a vigilant, and a humane
officer. Even " 13,:nbow" allows that he is " a friendly
man." With a navy like ours, against which, for a long
period before the close of the last war, no enemy durst
show himself, the number of officers who have had com-
mands in general engagements, and are in a condition
to discharge efficiently the duties of a situation like that
of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, most be few in-
d. ed. It is not true, as " Justitia" remarks, that the
office has always been filled by officers who have been
in such engagements, and he instances Sir John Colpoys.
But the best title of Admiral Fleming is his peculiar
qualification for the office. It is due to him to state that
no man is more liked in the navy, on account of the
care which he has always taken of those under his
charge, and his determination to see that the health
of the seamen should not suffer from the irregular or
inadquate fulfilment of contracts. It is generally al-
lowed that no officer did more for the navy than Earl
St. Vincent, by his vigilance in guarding against abuses.
If Admiral Fleming have earned a reputation for the
determination with which he enforces the faithful per-
formance
of contracts, in order to secure the health and I
comfort of the seamen, this is no slight recommenda-
tion for an office like that of Governor of Greenwich
Hospital. The veterans whn have fought their country's
battles, are entitled to all the care which that country can
bestow on them in their old age ; and the care of them ought
not to be committed to men unfit, from age, infirmities, or
other circumstances, for the effective discharge of the
duties of the office. No man was more alive to the
importance of providing for the adequate support of the
men under his charge than the Duke of Wellington.
With his characteristic modesty he attributed a,: great
deal of his success to his skill and diligence in seeing
that the commissaries did their duty with regard to the
supplies of food. " I think," he says in one of his des-
patches, " that I know how to feed men." There is, as
be well knew, a close connection between feeding and
fighting. The veterans of Greenwich Hospital will
know how to appreciate the merits of an officer who has
distinguished himself by zeal for whatever regards the
comfortable well-being of the sailor. Our Contemporary,
the Globe, has already adverted to a very ill-judged re-
mark of the Standard, that most of our old Admirals are
Tories.
" What that system was (says the Globe) which pre-
vailed at the Admiralty Board in the days of rampant
Toryism, and how it operated upon the service, may be
seen in the memoirs of Nelson, Collingwood, and others
of our bravest naval worthies. The letters to friends, in-
serted in their Memoirs, are filled with complaints against
the Admiralty, of the manner in which the best interests of
the service were sacrificed to the party projects of the Go-
vernment. It was notorious that no officer whose connec-
tions were not of the Tory party could obtain promotion,
whatever might be his merits ; aad that no one needed to
despair, however destitute of every other claim, if his ap-
plication were backed by sufficient Parliamentary influence.
No wonder that few Admirals are at present found among
the Whigs ! The consequences of this injurious system
were manifested in the paucity of officers competent to
command a fleet, even while an interprlsing enemy was
threatening our national existence. Why was Coiling-
wood compelled to remain afloat, notwithstanding his ear-
nest entreaties to be relieved, and was at length sacrificed
to the disease under which he was labouring, and the ra-
vages of which might have been stayed, and his life pre-
served, could he have obtained permission to return home?
The Ministry had no one to take his place ! They had
abundance of candidates ; but corrupt patronage had fur-
nished few competent to command."
The memoirs of Collingwood will always remain a
monument of Tory shame. That brave and honest
officer was engaged in a constant warfare with the Tory
Government, which endeavoured to fill the navy with
persons in all respects unfit for the service, in order that
they might have a title to the public money. The
Duke of Wellington's dispatches bear testimony to the
same prodigality. He is constantly complaining of the
inefficient creatures forced on him, from whom be could
derive no assistance whatever. Again and again he
laments, in his last operations, his hard fate in, being
surrounded with incapables, whose duties he was obliged
to discharge in addition to his other labours. The ob-
jections to Admiral Fleming come with a very bad
grace from the Tories. They no doubt think that the
public will be led by their boldness of attack to overlook
their own misdeeds.
ADMIRAL FLEMING.

" Non tali auxilio—nec defensoribus istis
Tempus eget."
It is therefore that, feeling the necessity of a frank,
manly, and intrepid declaration of sentiment by Pro-
testants at the present crisis, in regard to the Popish
policy of the Government, we cannot but approve of
the plain, energetic, and straightforward language of the
following declaration :—" That it ought never to be for-
gotten that the crown was placed on the head of the
Sovereign of this empire under a solemn oath that the
Protestant religion shall be faithfully upheld, and every
British heart must be filled with the deepest anxiety as
to the difficulties attending the maintet.ance of that
solemn compact, if Popish Councillors are those who
are to be placed around her Majesty's Throne—a thing
unknown till now since the days of William 111., of
glorious memory."

--....--
(PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.)

(From the Globe)

The Standard quotes against the Government an
admission we advisedly made in referring to the ap-
pointment of Admiral Fleming to the Governorship of
Greenwich Hospital, viz., that comparatively "few Ad-
mirals hold Whig principles." The fact, we apprehend,
is notorious ; its cause far more discreditable to the Stan-
dard's party than to the Government to which it is op-
posed. The shameful system ofconfining appointmentsand
promotion in the service to their own adherents, which
prevailed during the long reign of Toryism, compelled
an abandonment of their political principles, or in-
duced the younger, branches of the Whig families to
decline serving their country under an Administration
which would not fail to regard them with suspicion, and
throw every impediment in the way of their success.
This will account for the fact, that few old Admirals
(they must have entered the service during the period
we have referred to, in order to be now on the list) are
of Whig politics. What that system was which prevailed
at the Admiralty Board in the days of rampant Toryism,
and how it operated upon the service, may be seen in
the memoirs of Nelson, Collingwood, and others of
our bravest naval worthies. Their letters to friends,
inserted in their memoirs, are filled with complained
against the Admiralty of the manner in which the
best interests of the service were sacrified to the
party projects of the Government. It was notorious
that no officer whose connections were not of the Tory
party could obtain promotion, whatever may be his
merits ; and that no one needed to despair, however des-
titute of every other claim, if his application were backed
by sufficient Parliamentary influence. No wonder that
few Admirals are at present found among the Whigs !
The consequences of this injurious system were mani-
fested in the paucity of officers competent to coin-
mend a fleet, even while an enterprising enemy was
threatening our national existence. Why was Col-
lingwood
compelled to remain afloat, notwith-
standing his earnest entreaties to be relieved,
and was at length sacrificed to the disease under which
he was labouring, and the ravages of which might have
been stayed, and his life preserved, could he have ob-
tained permission to return home ? The Ministry had
no one to take his place ! They had abundance of can-
didates ; but corrupt patronage had furnished few com-
petent to command.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " MORNING CHRONICLE."
SIR,—I observed in the Times of this day a letter
signed " Benbow," reflecting on the appointment of the
Honourable Admiral Fleming to Greenwich Hospital, and
stating, amongst other disqualifications, he was never in a
general naval engagement. It appears this was not con-
sidered an objection, for the truly respected Admiral Col.
goys, when placed at the head of Greenwich Hospital,
was similarly situated, and had previously held various very
, good situations—commands in the Channel fleets, a Lord-
ship of the Admiralty, command at Plymouth, &c.
" Betibow gives a list of a number of the full Admirals
of the Navy, never considering that many he mentions
are, from age and infirmity, totally unfit for the (-Zee.
Admiral Sir George Martin is Vice- Admiral of the United
Kingdom, and has bad command ; Sir R. Stopford is Rear-
Admiral of ditto, and has and is boiling a command.
They have both salaries (see new Naval List by an Old
Commander) tor those sinecures, and have stars, &c. As
Greenwich Hospital is situated, it should never become a
sinecure ; and a reference to the Naval and Military
Gazette, page 561, Ist of August last, will show that an
active officer is required, and even Admiral Fleming's ene-
mies must allow that on that score the selection is justifi-
able. No officer in his various employments ever sacri-
ficed more to the study to enforce the public contracts for
victualling his crews, &c. One thing is certain, that strict
justice will be enforced in every way in which the interests
of Greenwich Hospital are concerned ; and though the Ad-
miral had never the good fortune to be in command in a
general engagement, for which no blame can attach to him,
'nem is not a person who knows him or ever sailed with
him but is fully confident that zeal and activity will be
tully exerted, and that his manifold duties will be most
abir, most faithfully, and most honourably discharged.
Oct. 10. JUSTITIA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHONICLE.
SIR—In the Thundirer of to-day a storm has beer
showered upon the heads of Lord Minto and Sir Charles
Fleming, because the latter was appointed Governor-
of
Greenwich Hospital. This pop-guii explosion is. after
all, nothing but smoke, being doubtless the work of some
iisappointed Tory factiorist, whose angry indignation may
be naturally accounted for; and whe, to prevent;susoieion,
mentions the names of a few old naval officers, differing
from himself in politics, as preferable to the " busy pant-
-an " for the successor of the late Sir Thomas Hardy.
This is human nature.
If the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital be held up
as a special reward for those who have been fortunate
enough to witness a variety of engagements, escaping from
each without the loss of a limb--without even a bruise or a
scratch !—then, perhaps, there are some who have a bet.er
claim for that appointment than had Sir Charles Fleming
Ministers must patronize those who patronize them. Such
was always the case under each Administration; Whigs,
Radicals, or Conservatives have all done the same, and,
therefore, what is fair in one case is equally fair in another.
Lord Minto has selected an old officer, universally re-
spected and beloved by his immediate friends and. the naval
one who has ever evinced. the
profession generally;
Galled to slo so • whose ser-
on. ,
to serve his country whets
greatest zeal in the welfare of the navy, ready and willing
gain nothing in the hands of
•old " Benbov; " but who is nevertheless allowed
growling . ,
vices, great or small, will
to be just as well worthy
of the honour conferred on him
as any other Admiral of t;ie present
day.
Yours, Mr. Elitor,
London, Oct, 10, 1839. TOM BOWLING.
(Prow the Morning Post.)
The spirit of the peok. of England (it is no party I
ORIGIN OF SURNAMES.—UntiI the time of
spirit) revolt at this moment against the oppression of a li
the Normans, persons were generally called by one
t:negfhosnhd
monster whose hoofs have been forged in the infernal
as
Richard, Edwin, Harold, &c. The names, Robert,
good-for-nothing Court. This
is
the.i, which the , Henry, and William, were introduced by the
"WI of Irish Popery, and whose head is decked with 1
monster
r • • Normans, and, for a long time,
finery of a giddy and name,
have to oppose This 4 the offensive
pfea'Yop7e s acid.
'rictic9ll4"
by 'the lower' , , down , singly orders. People took their surname
thing Which they must 44wn lest it Pat at•4"l' •event in their lives, With toe 14 : of ,
put ,',^ urn, , - , • trom an
earang (sod, the vi t "di Pe uP°n °PT
C ory . ~ , ther person, r FR.
side. Though we iso • &e. The possession of
!I of the Tor- aVe a
Prouder banner still to fight under, the
, party -we a fari,,l tarnished other names, is Preston, Ely, Grantham ;
banner of Eng-
land's national faith and national' feeling—,. others from occupations and trades, as Monk, Abbot,
. ' * * 4. the good old
Njason, Carpenter ; and others from occupations now
cause,
f * our peace, our fearful innocence, tii.cootinued, as Falconer, Fletcher, Archer, &c.—
And pure religion breathing household laws." Ince's Outline; of English History.

( From the Courier.)

So many communications have reached us condemn•

hie the appointment of Admiral Fleming to the post
of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, to the exclusion of
veteran officers who have far hither claims, on the
double ground of length of service and of experience in
their profession, that we are compelled to bring this
individual instance of the unjust preference of the Go-
vernment before the notice of our readers. The Gover-
norship of Greenwich Hospital has always been consi-
dered one of the prizes of the navy ; to be obtained
only by long service, great experience, and conspi-
cuous knowledge of the profession. Not one of these
uuolic claims can Adm;rvl Fleming bring forward ;
of service he has seen little, of experience he has
less, and as that conspicuous and undoubted knowledge
of naval affairs which can be obtained only by active
service and long experience, no naval man would ven-
ture to assign it to him. To what circumstance, then,
are we to look for his appointment to so distinguished a
post as that of Governor of Greenwich Hospital? In
our difficulty, we are irresistibly led to surmise that the
accidental circumstance of his relationship with the
dispenser of naval patronage is the principal if not the
only recommendation. It is with much reluctance and
regret that we are compelled to adopt this solution of
what would otherwise be an impenetrable mystery.-
(From the Standard.)
In the letter of Mr. Macaulay from Windsor Castle,
addressed to his Edinburgh constituents, that gentleman
declares, with much pomposity, that " office, at this mo-
ment, has for him few of the ordinary attractions '•" but
that a, "selfish caution would ill become him," he has ac-
cepted it, believing that" the weakness with which her Ma-
jesty's present Ministers are taunted is attributable solely
to adverse circumstances, to " popular delusions, faint-
hearted and unreasonable friends, and unscrupulous ene-
mies." Mr. Macaulay does not define what these " ad-
verse circumstances are. Neither does he inform us how
long be has become a convert to the beliefthat the" popular
" opinion" is a " popUlar delusion." If, however,
his friends are really labouring under so dreadful a
complication of affliction a 5 he has described, their dis-
sulution cannot be far off. If, as we infer from this
cautious and reluctant admission, they are hated by the
people, despised or neglected by their false-hearted
unreasonable friends, and exposed to the attacks of
bitter and " unscrupulous enemies," their disorder
must have arrived at a crisis calculated to
fill their admirers and dependents with equal
grief and alarm. Taking their case from Mr.
Macaulay's own graphic description of its symp-
tom:, it is really a very melancholy one, and too
mach credit cannot be given to the Learned Secretary
at war fur allowing- himself to become the tintinabula y
appendage to the tail of such a Government—the
claquer en chef to such an establishment.

Fighting under this flag we hope to conquer, but,
whether we do or not, we diall still remain satisfied
that we have taken the right course, Whether we
win the goal or not, " the race is glorious to rum"
We are contending for the weal, the principles, and
the wishes of Great Britain, as expressed by a majority
of her representatives in the House of Commons, as
well. as by an immense majority of her nobility in the
Lipper House. These majorities are thwarted, and the
most serious feelings of the people trampled upon,
through the abused favour of the Court to the present
Ministry, and through the co-operation of the Irish Ro-
tnanists. The frivolous and reckless Ministers seem to see
no indecency in this; but cannot even they see the danger?
Do they suppose that such a state of things can continue
to be submitted to ? Can they make no calculation of
human pati, nce ? Do they not perceive the moral
necessity of some mode being devised whereby a people
so bold and manly as the British may relieve themselves
of a policy which they detest, and of Ministers whom
they despise ? Let the Ministers beware. This people
will not allow their institutions to he polluted by a dirty
flood of Irish Popery ; and when the hour of action
comes—when the cup of indignation has been filled to
the brim and begins to overflow—they who opened the
door to this filthy flood, and invited its approach, will not
he forgotten. " Oh," but say some people, who have
but very little depth of sound feeling, or of sober
principle. beneath the smooth surface of their man-
tiers, though this partnership with Popery is very bad,
and you are very right to exclaim and protest against
it, would it not be better to spare the Court ?" We
say most emphatically " NO ," the state of the Court is
a very serious mischief—a national mischief, and such a
mischief as ought not to continue. We are as loyal as.,
any courtier that ever fawned or flattered, but our loy-
alty is to the Monarchy as well as to the Monarch, and
we hate and despise that bastard loyalty that would sa-
crifice the former for the temporary gratification of the
latter. It is absurd as well as wrong. It is utterly un-
worthy of serious men who have duties beyond the
fashioning of a dress or the ordering an entertainment.
Ministerial puppyism comes waltzing or quadrilling it
away from the chambers of the Palace, to prate in
public of the necessity of " reform)." It is very true.
We know where " reform" is wanting. It is at Court.

CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR IN

SPAIN.

We have great pleasure in announcing that two
couriers have left Bourges for the head-quarters of
Cabrera and of the Count D'Espagne, conveying to
these two chiefs a positive order from Don Carlos to
dismiss their followers, and to desist from all further
enterprises against the established Government of the
Qu.en of Spain.

This decisive, and it is to be hoped conclusive, step,
we are informed, was not taken by Don Carlos until he
had acquired the conviction that it was the intention of
the French Government to detain him in captivity at
Bourgee as long as his partizans kept the fi,ld in Spain.
A few days before this event, Don Carlos received a
communication from the Count D'Espagne, acquainting
him that dissensions had broken out among his foi-
lowers, and that it was no longer safe to lead them
against the enemy ; and requesting to know what course
he was to pursue under such circumstances. Carlos
replied that, even were there no prospect of success, it
behoved a faithful servant to shed his blood for his master
rather than yield to his enemies. At this time Don
Carlos had not given up all hope of being shortly set at
liberty by the French Government.
We therefore cordially congratulate our readers on
the prospect of the immediate and total cessation of the
civil war in the Peninsula.

(From the Morning Herald.)
At the recent meeting of the heritors and commis-
sioners of supply of the county of Berwick, we observe
that the language of some of the resolutions carried, in
reference to the Popish tendencies and appointments of
the Government was very strong, but not too strong for
the occasion. The time has arrived for the friends of
the reformed 'religion and Protestant constitution to
speak out. The late batch of Popish appointments by
the Melbourne Ministry unequivocally attest the con-
tinuing and increasing influence of a spirit hostile to the
principles of the Reformation in the Cabinet of Great
Britain. Either that evil influence must be driven
from the councils of the Sovereign, or the principles
which seated the august family of our youthful Mo-
narch on the throne of these realms be banished from
the Court and Commonwealth. For which of these
alternatives are the Protestants of Great Britain pre-
cared ? They must have one or the other. In the
conflict of great principles which a Romish faction, with
O'Connell for its political chief, and the Whig Ministers
for its servile tools, have forced upon us, neutrality is
despicable—compromise impossible. Protestants who
preach a cold prudence and practice a timid reserve
while the ramparts of our Protestant Constitution are
assailed by the enemy, and its bulwarks undermined, are
not such Protestants as won for England the manifold
blessings of the Reformation, or retrieved the liberties
of the country, and rescued its threatened religion at the
glorious era of 1688.

FROM THE MEMOIRS OF

MATHEWS.

" An Irishman at the house of a friend of mine,
the author of The Spy,' and The Pioneers,'
discovered a part of the wood work of a chimney.
piece on fire, that endangered the whole house.
He rushed up to his master and announced the
alarming intelligence. Down he rushed with him ;
a large kettle of boiling water was on the fire.
Well, why don't you put out the fire ?' ' I can't
sur: Why, you fool I pour the water upon it.,
Sure it's hot water, sur.'—Fact
During some severe weather, Mr. Mathews
had hired a hackney coach to take him to the
theatre where he had to act. Something had hap-
pened several times to derange the harness, and
the driver, a steady old Scotchman, had been
obliged to descend from his box to put it
in order ; but a third occasion put an end to
my husband's patience, besides giving him
some alarm lest he should not arrive in time to
dress. He looked out of the coach window, and
perceiving the man very deliberately tying some rope
together, to effect the necessary repair, somewhat
angrily called out that such delays were very pro-
voking ; and being unable to induce the man to
hasten his operations, he exclaimed in a sharp tone,
Be pleased to remember how much time I am
losing.' Vary weel, Sir,' answered the 'Han,
quietly and slowly, and you will be pleased to re-
inember that I'm losing just as much time as yoursel:
" Like Goldsmith, his behaviour with children
was that of the most simple child. He generally ad-
dressed them in the tones and manner of childhood,
always making himself of the age of those to whom
he talked. At first, the little creatures would look
surprised, sometimes frightened ; but this effect
soon wore off as he persevered, and it always ended
in his being accepted as a playmate. The first
wonder over, ever after he was considered by them
as a boy, for such was his voice and manner.
" I remember our travelling into Suffolk once,
with Mrs. Richard Wilson, on a Christmas visit,
and stopping at a village inn for refreshment, while
her horses baited. Soon after, we saw my hus-
band near the door, with half a dozen boys of about
eight years old, playing at marbles, bawling and
wrangling about the game, in their childish and
rude manner, and every one of his companions as
grave and earnest with him as if they were all of
the same age, and had been used to him all their
ives. There he was squabbling. You Bill At-
kins ! I say you have no right to that taw.'—' I
Crave, said I say, you haven't I say I
have.—' Ali I you cheat ! I wo'nt play with you
no more.' And thus eventually he picked a quar-
rel with one of them, and taking off his coat, offered
to fight. He was met with spirit by the boy in
question, and, finding this, he resumed his good-
humour, and made a present to his adversary of the
marbles he had won, and left them all pleased with
the large boy.
" We inquired how he became so regularly in-
stalled amongst these urchins in so short a time.
He told us, that he went up to them as they were
playing, and assuming the tone and words suited
to their age and the occasion, asked if he might
play with them ? They all looked up with some-
.ring like alarm mixed with wonder, and stared at
him in silence for a minute. He reiterated his wish
to join them, and they all looked gravely and
Theepishly at each other. He still urged them, till
it last, after some demur, the smallest of the party
boldly cried, ' Let him play; what harm Very
well,' said another, encouraged by his friend's
example ; ' very well ; but has he got any marbles ?'
No,' said the new comer; but I've a penny:—
. Well, then, let him buy some of yours, Tom; you've
rot plenty to sell.' The bargain was completed,
and he knuckled down, soon learned several o
heir names, and thus we found him with them

was most diverting to observe how completely the
')oys had ceased to regard him as anything but
what he represented ; no giggling, no suspicion, but
thorough confidence at last in the reality of his
'icing a child, though of larger growth' than
themselves. As he quitted them, he said he must
to to his ' Ma,' and joined us ; the boys looking
after him and at us with curiosity, for a moment,
lut immediately resuming their play, seemingly
without any further reflection upon the incident."
s' The commonest purchase puzzled him, and he
would come lime after any attempt to supply him-
self with a pair of gloves, shoes, hat, or other
trifling article, and convulse me with laughter by
his serious account of the difficulties he had gone
through in obtaining what he had bought ; and the
bad quality and fit of his purchase was equally
laughable. He gave the drollest description of the
tradesmen, who always accused him of being
different in his proportions from other people—
nothing would fit him that was made upon general
principles ; neither hat, shoe, glove, neckcloth, nor
stock, nothing did for him that was suited
to other men of similar height.' This was,
In fact, true ; for if the collar of a shirt fitted
for instance, the wrists were wrong, and vice versa.
His hands and feet were so small that neitherstock-

;ngs, shoes, nor gloves, could be obtained ready-
made but what were too large for them. Sir,' a
shoemaker would say, as if reproaching him, you
:Are not made like other gentlemen; your feet are
too short for your height.' This would excuse a

pair of boots brought home two or three inches too
long, although he had been measured for them.
Sir,' said the haberdasher, your throat is larger
than that of other gentlemen. If he asked for a
hat, the hatter would shake his head—.-No, Sir,

your head is smaller than any ready-made hat;
you must be measured.' All this used to fret
him for the moment ; and he once asked a
4iend, if he thought his hatter knew him ; for he

.vished to try to obtai►► a hat of so►nehody who
would not twit him with his peculiar make.' His
friend encouraged him to drive to a hatter's in

Bond-street. I waited for him at the door, and
watched the process of putting on and taking off a
great many hats. At last he hastily re-entered the
carriage, and ordered it to drive home, observing to
tile impatiently, with a half sigh, " Ali I it is of
no use ; I was found out. No hat to fit my head
Hatter very much ofFend.xl at my expecting such a
thing.. In fact, it appears that I am very much to
Maine. They're all angry with me when Igo to
buy anything ; and I feel as if I ought to apologise
for my mal-proportions.'

MATHEWS AND THE IRISHMAN.
Mr. Mathews' dislike to being encumbered with
money exposed him when from home to many em-
barrassments; such a, stoppages at turnpikes, and
want of funds to answer claims for charity,
when they touched his feelings during his rides.
One of these inconveniences occurred to him at this
time, on his return to Briton Ferry, and was the
occasion of rather an interesting result. The
whole party staying there had passed over in the
passage-boat, with carriages and horses, early in
the morning, on a visit to Swansea. At the close
of the day, on our return, Mr. Mathews rode for-
ward ; and arriving first at the ferry, recollected
that he must wait for the coming up of his
party, as he was without the means of pay-
inn.l' his passage over. He therefore walked
his horse about until the expected arrival of his
friends. Just at this moment an Irish beggar, in
the most miserable plight, came up, and poured
forth all that lamentable cant of alleged destitu-
tion, which it is their vocation to impress upon the
tender-hearted, and which seldom fails to draw forth
sparks of compassion. My husband, however, as-
sured the applicant (who declared he was ' making
his way back to ould Ireland without bit or sup for
days together,' and that a halfpenny itself would
be a treasure to him ') that he had not even a
farthing to offer him. It was in vain ; the wretched,
almost naked creature still importuned him. At
last he was told by him he supplicated, with some
impatience at the tiresome and senseless perse-
verance, after this explanation, that so far from
being able to bestow alms, he was himself at that
moment in a situation to require assistance ; actu-
ally, cold and damp as it was (November), com-
pelled to remain at the water's edge till some friend
came up who would frank him across the ferry.
The man's quick bright eye surveyed the speaker
for a second ; but upon a reiteration of Mr. Ma-
thews' assurance, that he was detained against his
will for want of a shilling, adding, that he was lame
and unable to walk home from the other side of the
ferry, or otherwise he might leave his horse behind
him as security—the beggar's face brightened up,
and he exclaimed, ' Then, your honour, I'll lend
you money What, you! you who have
been telling me of your poverty and misery for want
of money I'-..' It's all true,' eagerly interrupted the
man ; it's all true; I'm as poor as I said I was,
—divil the lie 's in it. I'm begging my way
hack to my country, where I've friends; and
there's a vessel ready, I'm tould, that sails from

Swansea to-night. I've got some money,
but I want more to pay my passage
before I go, and I'm starving myself for that raison;
but is it for me to see another worse off than myself,
and deny him relafe? Your honour's lame ; now,
I've got my legs, anyhow, and that's a comfort,
sure Then taking a dirty rag out of his pocket,
and showing about two shillings' worth of cop-
pers, he counted out twelve pence, and proffered
them to Mr. Mathews, who willing to put the
man's sincerity of intention to the proof, hi ld out
his hand for the money, at the same time inquiring,
How, if I borrow this, shall I be able to return it?
My house is some miles on the other side of the
ferry, and you say you are in haste to proceed. I
shall not be able to send a messenger back here for se-
veral hours, and you will then have sailed ?---4 Oh, thin
niver mind, your honour; niver mind ; I shall do
without it, sure,' and was walking on. Mr. Ma-
thews stopped him by saying, Well, then, after
all, I suppose you have plenty left, and you de-
ceived me when you begged Oh, divil the
farthing more, your honour, than what you saw.'
Well, then, how can I reconcile to myself to take
so much from you ?' Your honour's welcome
to every farthing. sure some good-hearted crarhur
will give me more.' But indeed I cannot think
of borrowing what I cannot return.' Oh, thin,
may be when your honour meets another of my
poor distrist countrymen you'll pay him the twelve-
penny ; sure its the same in the end.'

_
" Mr. Mathews was affected at the poor fellow's
evident sincerity ; but, desirous to put the matter
to the fullest test, he thanked his ragged benefactor,
and wished him a safe journey back to his country.
The man, smiling with the most benevolent expres-
sion of countenance, cheerfully turned away, with
a Long life to your honour '.' and proceeded
at a quick pace across the burroughs, and was soon
out of sight. Mr. Mathews, however, suffered
him to go no farther towards Swansea than it was
easy for him, with his horse, to overtake him ; and
when he did, he saw him trudging along upon his
poor naked feet, whistling with the greatest uncon-
cern. But when he was overtaken, and told
that the person he had so generously as-
sisted could not prevail upon himself to
use his gift, the poor fellow seemed really
hurt, and in the most positive manner refused
to take the money back again ; and had not
the obliged been on horseback, he would have been

fairly distanced by the good-hearted Irishman. How-
ever at this moment one of the expected Briton Ferry
party rode up to them, and, had this not happened,
it was the firm resolve of Mr. Mathews to go on
with the beggar till he met some of his friends.
The gentleman lent my husband what he required,
with which he not only overpowered the man's loud
refusal of the principal, but convinced him that he
might with a safe conscience receive an interest,
which made him independent of further charity on
his journey, and take him back to Ould Ireland'
much richer, probably, than hen he left it."