could not be in the right: they are great men; but I killed a solitary man, I'm a little fellow. The king of Spain takes our ships, plunders our merchants, kills and tortures our men; but what of all that? What he does is good; he's a great man; he is clothed in purple; his instruments of murder are bright and shining, mine was but a rusty gun; and so much for comparison. Now I would fain know what authority there is in scripture, for a rich man to murder, to plunder, to torture, and ravage whole countries; and what law it is that condemns a poor man to death for killing a solitary man, or for stealing a solitary sheep to feed his family. But bring the matter closer to our own country: what is the difference between running in a poor man's debt, and by the power of gold, or any other privilege, preventing him from obtaining his right, and clapping a pistol to a man's breast, and taking from him his purse? yet the one shall thereby obtain a coach, and honors, and titles, &c., the other-what? a cart and a rope. From what I have said, my brethren, you may, perhaps, imagine I am hardened; but believe me, I am fully convinced of my follies, and acknowledge the just judgment of God has overtaken me. I have no hopes but from the merits of my Redeemer, who I hope will have mercy on me, as he knows that murder was far from my heart, and what I did was through rage and passion, being provoked thereto by the deceased

Take warning, my dear comrades: think! O think!-What would I now give that I had lived another life!"

HON. WILLIAM MONTAGUE.

WAS the second son of Edward Richard, Viscount Hinchinbrooke, who was eldest son to Edward, third earl of Sandwich. Having betaken himself to the sea service, he was appointed a lieutenant in the navy, under Captain Long. This gentleman observing in him a too gallant spirit, which at times rose to an appearance rather romantic for a moderate and prudent man to display, distinguished him on all occasions by the familiar appellation of his dragon. He was successively promoted to be captain of the Mermaid, the Prince Edward, and the Bristol. Hitherto he does not appear to have had any opportunity of manifesting that natural intrepidity which all who knew him admit him to have possessed; but in the following year he commanded the Bristol, as indeed he continued to do during the remainder of the war. He was present with Mr. Anson at the defeat and capture of De la Jonquire's squadron, and contributed all that was possible for him towards the glorious success then obtained. He after

wards, on the 27th of February, 1747, captured a very valuable French register ship, having on board 360,000 dollars, beside a valuable cargo of cochineal, cocoa, and other commodities. He was snatched from the service at a very early period of his life, on the 10th of February, 1757. The whimsical eccentricities which pervaded the general conduct of this gentleman, procured him, both in and out of service, the familiar appellation of Mad Montague. Some of these anecdotes are almost too extravagant for belief, one or two of which we shall venture to relate. In coming up the Channel, during the time he commanded the Bristol, he fell in with a very numerous fleet of outward bound Dutch merchantmen: he fired at several, in order to compel them to bring to, a measure authorized by custom and his general instructions. The Dutch, aided by a fair wind, hoped by its assistance to escape the disagreeable delay of being searched or overhauled, and held on their way. Captain Montague pursued, but, on overtaking them, took no other satisfaction, than that of manning and sending out his two cutters, with a carpenter's mate in each, ordering them to cut off twelve of the ugliest heads they could find in the whole fleet, from among those with which they are accustomed to ornament the extremity of their rudders. When these were brought on board, he caused them to be disposed on brackets round his cabin, contrasting them in the most

Iudicrous manner his vein of humor could invent, and writing under them the names of the twelve Cæsars. Another anecdote is, that being once at Lisbon, and having got into a night affray with the people on shore, he received in the scuffle what is usually termed a black eye. On the following day, previous to his going on shore, he compelled each of his boats' crew to black, with cork, one of their eyes, so as to resemble a natural injury; the starboard rowers the right eye, the larboard rowers the left, and the cockswain both the whimsical effect may be easily conceived. When under the orders of Sir Edward Hawke, in 1755, he solicited permission to repair to town. The admiral informed him, that "the complexion of affairs was so serious, that he could not grant him leave to go farther from h's ship than his barge could carry him." Mr. Montague is said to have immediately repaired to Portsmouth, where he gave orders for the construction of a carriage on trucks, to be drawn with horses, on which he meant to row his barge, having previously stored it with provisions and necessaries requisite for three days, to proceed to London. Having lashed it to the carriage, the crew was instructed to imitate the action of rowing with the same solemnity as if they had actually been coming into the harbor from Spithead. Sir Edward, it is said, received intelligence of his intention soon after the boat and its contents were landed, and immediately sent

him his permission to proceed to London in whatever manner he thought proper. A variety of well authenticated anecdotes equally ludicrous might be adduced, but the foregoing specimen may perhaps be deemed sufficient.

JOHN OVERS.

BEFORE there was any bridge built over the Thames, the conveyance was by a ferry, which used to carry passengers, &c. from Southwark to the city by boats; which ferry was rented of the city by John Overs, who enjoyed it for many years. This man, though he kept many servants, was of so covetous a mind, that he would not, even in his old age, spare his owr weak body, nor abate any thing of his unnecessary labor, only to save expenses. From his first increase of wealth, he always put his money out to use, which in time grew to such a mighty increase, that it was almost equal to the first nobleman's in the land; notwithstanding, in his habit, housekeeping, and expenses, he expressed nothing so much as miserable poverty. This Charon had one daughter, both pious and beautiful; and he took care enough to see her liberally educated; but when she grew up and fit for marriage, he would suffer