vited to repeat them, even out of
it. I never committed a line to paper for two reasons; first, because I
had no paper; and secondly--perhaps I might be excused from going
further; but in truth I was afraid, for my master had already threatened
me, for inadvertently hitching the name of one of his customers into a
rhyme.

(_To be concluded in our next._)

FOOTNOTES:

[A] He had gone with Bamfylde Moore Carew, then an old man.

[B] Her maiden name was Elizabeth Cain. My father's christian name was
Edward.

[C] This was a lot of small houses, which had been thoughtlessly
suffered to fall into decay, and of which the rents had been so long
unclaimed, that they could not now be recovered unless by an expensive
litigation.

[D] Of my brother here introduced for the last time, I must yet say a
few words. He was literally

The child of misery baptized in tears;

and the short passages of his life did not belie the melancholy presage
of his infancy. When he was seven years old, the parish bound him out to
a husbandman of the name of Leman, with whom he endured incredible
hardships, which I had it not in my power to alleviate. At nine years of
age he broke his thigh; and I took that opportunity to teach him to read
and write. When my own situation was improved, I persuaded him to try
the sea; he did so, and was taken on board the Egmont, on condition that
his master should receive his wages. The time was now fast approaching
when I could serve him, but he was doomed to know no favourable change
of fortune: he fell sick, and died at Cork.

[E] My indenture, which now lies before me, is dated the first of
January, 1772.

BIOGRAPHY--FOR THE MIRROR.

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. HODGKINSON.

(_Continued from page 297._)

The regulations of society, and the accidents of life too often thwart
the intentions of nature. Multitudes of human beings are in every age
poured forth from her inexhaustible stores, with inherent powers to rise
to distinction in the highest provinces of art and science, who yet are
condemned by the obstructions which worldly circumstance throws in their
way, to languish in obscurity--to live dejected and to die unknown. Some
whose natural endowments would, under less unpropitious circumstances,
qualify them to reach the summit of fame, are fettered by want of
patronage and pecuniary distress, while others are cramped in their
efforts by a complexional sensibility which they can