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peasant's family belongs: woe be it now to her who presumes to hunt in another's preserve of charity; for personal hostility would surely break in upon the work of peace. I am no political economist, and remain happily ignorant alike of the dogmas of Malthus and Godwin; but it cannot fail to strike even a quiet observer like myself, that the labouring classes are deteriorated by a constant habit of dependence upon public, and more particularly private, bounty; and that indiscriminate charity is undermining the foundations of that honest pride in our peasantry which has made the country what it is. Let the hand and the heart never be wanting to succour struggling industry, and to support the afflictions of the poor under sickness; but it would surely be well to remember the adage, “est modus in rebus," and to raise our earnest protest against the system which would render charity the mere resource of the idle to kill time, or the pernicious means of indulgence in a criminal vanity.

THE ART OF RISING.

"He

Must serve who fain would sway-and soothe—and sue— And watch all time-and pry into all place

And be a living lie-who would become

A mighty thing among the mean."

BYRON.

C C

THE ART OF RISING.

I ATTRIBUTE it, in some measure, to the influence of the same malignant destiny which thwarted my poor mother's purpose of making me a bishop, that, after a service of seven and thirty years in all quarters of the globe, I have received no higher reward to grace my retirement than the humble title of Major, and the companionship of the Bath. But reflection has convinced me that by far the most powerful obstacle to my elevation had its origin in a widely different cause, my ignorance of the art of rising. To this defect in my professional acquirements may it be ascribed, that I lay like a log on the ocean, for every

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