, and
he would endeavour to swim with him to shore: but, when the danger is so
imminent, and death stands before our eyes, it is no easy matter to be
persuaded to quit the weakest stay; thus the poor wretch hesitated so
long before he would quit his hold of the vessel, that a large sea broke
upon the wreck, and overwhelmed him in the great deep. Mr. Carew was in
no little danger, but, being an excellent swimmer, he with great
difficulty got to shore, though not without hurt, the sea throwing him
with great violence on the beach, whereby one of his arms was wounded. By
this time a great number of spectators were gathered on the strand, who
rejoiced to see Mr. Carew come ashore alive, supposing him to be one of
the poor wretches belonging to the ship. Naked, spent with fatigue, and
wounded, he raised a feeling of pity in all the spectators; for, so
strongly is this tender passion connected with our frame by the
beneficent Author of Nature, to promote the assistance of each other,
that, no sooner does the eye see a deplorable object, than the heart
feels it, and as quickly forces the hand to relieve it; so that those
whom the love of money, for we think that the greatest opposite to pity,
has rendered unfeeling of another's woes, are said to have no hearts, or
hearts of stone; as we naturally conclude no one can be void of that soft
and Godlike passion--pity, but either one who by some cause or other
happens to be made up without a heart, or one in whom continual droppings
of self-love or avarice have quite changed the nature of it; which, by
the most skilful anatomist, is allowed in its natural state to be fleshy,
soft, and tender; but has been found, without exception, upon inspection
into the bodies of several money lovers, to be nothing but a callous
stony substance, from which the chemists, by most intense fires, have
been able to extract nothing but a _caput mortuum_, or an earthy, dry,
useless powder.

Amongst the spectators of Mr. Carew, was the housekeeper of Madam Mohun,
in the parish of Fleet, who had a heart made of the softest substance;
for she immediately, agreeable to the beneficent precepts of the gospel,
pulled off her own cloak to give to him that had none: and, like the good
Samaritan, giving him a handkerchief to bind up his wounds, bid him
follow her, and led him to her mistress's house, where, placing him
before a good fire, she gave him two large glasses of brandy, with loaf
sugar in it; then bri