stances of this crime, so extraordinary in the motives in which it originated, to be reported to him in the most careful and detailed manner. Here, or no where, he thought himself called on to exercise the god-like privilege of mercy, by commuting the sentence passed on the criminal, into a condemnation to labor, not very severe; and he accordingly sent the young man to the fortress of Dunamunde, at the mouth of the Duna, in the gulf of Riga, there to be confined to labor during his majesty's pleasure.

SUFFERINGS OF DAVID MENZIES, SURGEON, AMONG THE CHEROKEES.

JUST before the breaking out of the Cherokee war, I went, by the desire of colonel Lewis Sinclair, to visit a gang of negroes of his, that were set down on a new plantation, situated on the Oconee river, which is properly a stream of the Altamaha, and joins a branch of the Savannah, called Broad river; the place is about seventy miles above the town of Augusta, and from it to the lowest town of the Cherokee Indians, is near a hundred. The very night after my arrival, we were surrounded by a party of Cherokees, and as we made no resistance, taken all alive. We were driven away before them, laden with pillage into their own country, excepting two negroes, whom, being sick, and unable to keep pace with us, they scalped and left on the path. In proceeding to the town, I understood, (having some knowledge of their language,) that these Cherokees had, in this expedition, lost one of their head warriors, in a skirmish with some of our rangers; and that I was destined to be presented to that chief's mother and family in his room; at which I was overjoyed, as knowing that I thereby stood a chance, not only of being secured from death, and exempted from torture, but even of good usage and caresses. I perceived, however, that I had overrated much my matter of consolation, as soon as I was introduced in form to this mother of heroes. She sat squat on the ground, with a bear's cub in her lap, as nauseous a figure as the accu

mulated infirmities of decrepitude, undisguised by art, could make her, and instead of courteously inviting her captive to replace, by adoption, her lost child, fixed first her haggard, blood-shot eyes upon me, then, riveting them to the ground, gargled out my rejection, and consequent destruction. My head ran on nothing now but stones, sticks, pitch-pine, scalping-knives, tomahawks, and the rest of the instruments of savage cruelty; but I was mistaken in that, too, and reserved, alas! for new and unheard-of torments. These Indians, in one of their late incursions into South Carolina, had met, it seems, with some larded venison, which hit their taste; in consequence whereof, they had carried home some larding-pins, as well as a quantity of bacon; and my cannibal mistress determined by my means, on an application of this discovery to human flesh.

It was evening, and these barbarians brought me stark naked before a large fire, kindled in the midst of the diabolic heroine's hut, around which, the three or four other families who were also inmates of this Indian house, were collected, with great quantities of rum before them, and every other preparation towards a feast; and two young torturers, having fast bound me to a stake, began to experiment on me the culinary operation of larding. After these cooks of hell had larded all my left side, they turned it close to the fire, and proceeded on the other. But as this performance took up much time, on account of the unskilfulness of the operators, and of my struggling, and as I afforded infinite entertainment and laughter to the old hag and her company, for I own, that being one of Sancho's disciples who can't suffer in silence, I squalled and roared most abominably,--(larding being in reality a very painful process to a live creature, the pin not merely going through the insensible epidermis, or scarf-skin, but lacerating the pyramidal papillæ of the true skin, which anatomists agree to be the seat of feeling,) and as the savages in the meanwhile plied their rum impatiently, the whole assembly were by this time asleep, or intoxicated, at least; and my tormentors, who had taken care not to lose their share of the fire-broth, grew languid and drowsy, nor delayed long to follow the exam

ple set them. I did not let this providential opportunity slip, you will believe, but instantly disengaged my right arm, (at the expense of the greater part of the belly of the palmaris brevis muscle, and with the dislocation of the eighth bone of the carpus,) and fell to untying myself with expedition; I then escaped into the town, from whence I dashed precipitately into the woods; having only stayed just long enough to place some of the firebrands in a position that would probably set fire to the cabin, and not having forgotten to lay a small one in the lap of my inhuman she-tyrant. When I found I was not pursued, I looked back, like Lot's wife, and saw with great satisfaction, the Indian town in flames; for the construction of these cities are very susceptible of inflammations, as the British red warriors have since luckily discovered.

I continued my journey through the wilderness, chiefly by night, towards the south-east; but was presently aware of the danger I was in from starving, unprovided as I was with fire-arms: yet from this imminent distress was I, almost miraculously, preserved by the cruelty itself of the Indians; nor am I ashamed to confess, that I sustained famished nature by the bacon that was saturated with the juices of my own body. I have read of an English gentleman, who, in the Black-hole of Calcutta, (I think,) appeased his otherwise unalleviated thirst, by imbibing his own sweat, or rather, indeed, by continuing the wonted secretions of the glands, by the action of sucking, as persons do who roll a stone about their mouths.-and who at that time considered another gentleman's milking his shirt clandestinely, as a very unfair proceeding: and I am satisfied that I should have looked on an attempt to have deprived me of my Indian larding, so much in the light of a robbery, as to have punished, even with unlicensed death, any invasion of my dearly acquired property.

I penetrated at last through all difficulties, to Augusta, where I was entertained with great humanity and civility by Justice Ray, and was cured of my wounds, and of the symptomatic fever, their consequence; and so far am I from experiencing any material detriment from this Indian treatment, (for I am above accounting a few eschars on

one cheek such,) that I have even received, I imagine, a momentous benefit; having got rid entirely of a paralytic complaint I had been afflicted with for years, in that left side of mine, that was roasted.

ACCOUNT OF HENRY WELBY, WHO LIVED FORTY-FOUR YEARS THE LIFE OF A HERMIT, IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

THE noble and virtuous Henry Welby was a native of Lincolnshire, and inherited a clear estate of more than £1000 a year. He was regularly bred at the university, -studied for some time in one of the inns of court, and in the course of his travels, spent several years abroad. On his return, this very accomplished gentleman settled on his paternal estate, lived with great hospitality, matched to his liking, and had a beautiful and virtuous daughter, who was married, with his entire approbation, to Sir Christopher Hilliard, in Yorkshire. He had now lived to the age of forty, respected by the rich, prayed for by the poor, honored and beloved by all; when one day a younger brother, with whom he had some difference in opinion, meeting him in the field, snapped a pistol at him, which happily flashed in the pan. Thinking that this was done only to fright him, he coolly disarmed the ruffian, and putting the weapon carelessly into his pocket, thoughtfully returned home: but, on after examination, the discovery of bullets in the pistol, had such an effect upon his mind, that he immediately conceived an extraordinary resolution, of retiring entirely from the world, in which he persisted inflexibly to the end of his life. He took a very good house in the lower end of Grub street, near Cripplegate, and contracting a numerous retinue into a small family, having the house prepared for his purpose, he selected three chambers for himself, one for his diet, the second for his lodging, and the third for his study. As they were one within another, while his diet was set on the table, by an old maid, he retired into his lodging room; and when his bed was making, into his study, still doing so till all was clear.

Out of these chambers, from the time of his first entry into them, he never issued, till he was carried thence, fortyfour years after, on men's shoulders; neither in all that time, did his son-in-law, daughter, or grand-child, brother, sister, or kinsman,-young or old, rich or poor, of what degree or condition soever, look upon his face, save the ancient maid, whose name was Elizabeth. She only made his fire, prepared his bed, provided his diet, and dressed his chambers. She saw him but seldom, never but in cases of extraordinary necessity, and died not above six days before him. In all the time of his retirement, he never tasted fish or flesh; his chief food was oatmeal gruel; now and then, in summer, he had a salad of some choice cool herbs; and for dainties, when he would feast, the yolk of a hen's egg, but no part of the white; what bread he did eat, he cut out of the middle of the loaf, but the crust he never tasted. His constant drink was four shillings beer, and no other, for he never tasted wine or strong liquor. Now and then, when his stomach served, he did eat some kinds of suckets; and now and then drank red cow's milk, which his maid Elizabeth fetched him out of the fields, hot from the cow. Nevertheless he kept a bountiful table for his servants, and sufficient entertainment for any stranger or tenant, who had occasion of business at his house. Every book that was printed was bought for him, and conveyed to him; but such as related to controversy he always laid aside, and never read.

In Christmas holidays, at Easter, and other festivals, he had great cheer provided, with all dishes in season, served into his own chamber, with store of wine, which his maid brought in. Then, after thanks to God for his good benefits, he would pin a clean napkin before him, and putting on a pair of white Holland sleeves, which reached to his elbows, cutting up dish after dish, in order, he would send one to one poor neighbor, the next to another, whether it were brawn, beef, capon, goose, &c. till he had left the table quite empty. When giving thanks again, he laid by his linen, and caused the cloth to be taken away; and this would he do, dinner and supper, upon these days, without tasting one morsel of any thing whatsoever. When any clamored impudently at his gate, they were not therefore