know that? no one has before seen that bone. I bought the leg, and cleaned it myself; but it is unique, and I have not ventured to show it before, because I could not assign that conformation to any determinate class. But it is, as you say, the bone of an assassin who was executed for the murder of his master."

When I had satisfied my curiosity with all that was ancient and wonderful about Rome, 'I went to Leghorn, for the purpose of taking a passage to Corsica to see my friends, before espousing my fortune at Naples; but the vessel was captured by an English cruiser off Sicily, and carried to Malta, where I was set ́at liberty last week, being a Sardinian subject. Since then nothing particular has occurred to me; but I think, ladies and gentlemen, I have told you enough, to prove that the mind hath other avenues of intelligence besides the five vulgar senses; and those who doubt the fact, I ask to explain, in what consists the dif

ference between the 'musician's ear and the

painter's eye from the organs of sight and hearing in the eyes and ears of other men?

When the Sard had finished his story, and the applause which he had so deservedly won subsided, a debate arose between two Edinburgh lawyers, who chanced to be of the party, respecting the theories he had propounded. One of them was clearly of opinion, that the Sard had made out his case; indeed so much so, that he could not imagine how any person possessed of common sense could deny the existence of the seven senses. The other was no less strenuous in maintaining, that none, but those who were destitute of that particular sense, would admit of any such thing. This controversy they continued so long and so virulently, to the discomfort of all around them, that it was unanimously resolved they should remove to a corner by themselves, and

abate the nuisance of their personalities. The one was a whig and the other a tory,- -both highly respectable of their kind, and also as men, but each somewhat deficient in the sixth sense, upon which their argument so epigrammatically turned.

The two Scots, being thus for a time got rid of, were arguing, tooth and nail, as long as it was light, no one heeding them, till a sickish and peevish gentlewoman, under whose window they were vexing the silence of the night, discharged upon them, from a roundeared vessel, a shower of perfumes, not Arabian, by which she ended their debate, and obtained tranquillity.

In the meantime it had been agreed to defer the second drawing of the lottery till the following morning. Accordingly the different companies retired to their respective vessels and apartments; but immediately after breakfast next day they again assembled, and

story with cleverness and effect. Whether it was a fiction or a true romance, the means to determine are not accessible, but, nevertheless, it served its purpose; and if it does as much in the repetition here, it will not be the worst part of these volumes.

WHITHER I was brought into this world by the usual human helps and means, or was a special creation, might admit of some controversy, as I have never known the name of parent or of kindred. All the presumptive evidence in favour of my being of Adam's family, rests on the singular circumstance of my childhood having been spent in the house of an excellent lady, Signora Delbosco, who, on account of her remarkable piety, was particularly honoured with the frequent visits of