ast assault on Jenkins; clutched the
bloody slit ear of him; tore it mercilessly off; flung it in his face,
'Carry that to your King, and tell him of it!' Then went their way;
taking Jenkins's tallow candles, and the best of his sextants with
them; so that he could hardly work his passage home again, for want of
latitudes;--and has lost in goods 112 pounds, not to speak of his ear.
Strictly true all this; ship's company, if required, will testify on
their oath." [Daily Journal (and the other London Newspapers), 12th-17th
June (o.s.), 1731. Coxe's _Walpole,_ i. 579, 560 (indistinct, and
needing correction).]

These surely are singular facts; calculated to awaken a maritime public
careful of its honor. Which they did,--after about eight years, as
the reader will see! For the present, there are growlings in the
coffee-houses; and, "THURSDAY, 28th JUNE," say the Newspapers, "This day
Captain Jenkins with his Owners," ear in his pocket, I hope, "went
out to Hampton Court to lay the matter before his Grace of Newcastle:"
"Please your Grace, it is hardly three months since the illustrious
Treaty of Vienna was signed; Dutch and we leading in the Termagant of
Spain, and nothing but halcyon weather to be looked for on that side!"
Grace of Newcastle, anxious to avoid trouble with Spain, answers I can
only fancy what; and nothing was done upon Jenkins and his ear;

["The Spaniards own they did a witty thing,
Who cropt our ears, and sent them to the King."
--POPE (date not given me).]

--may "keep it in cotton," if he like; shall have "a better ship"
for some solacement. This is the first emergence of Jenkins and his
ear upon negligent mankind. He and it will marvellously re-emerge, one
day!--

BABY CARLOS GETS HIS APANAGE.

But in regard to that Treaty of Vienna, seventh and last of the
travail-throes for Baby Carlos's Apanage, let the too oblivious reader
accept the following Extract, to keep him on a level with Public
"Events," as they are pleased to denominate themselves:--

"By that dreadful Treaty of Seville, Cardinal Fleury and the Spaniards
should have joined with England, and coerced the Kaiser VI ET ARMIS to
admit Spanish Garrisons [instead of neutral] into Parma and Piacenza,
and so secure Baby Carlos his heritage there, which all Nature was
in travail till he got. 'War in Italy to a certainty!' said all the
Newspapers, after Seville: and Crown-Prince Friedrich, we saw, was
run