and felt very lax and flabby.
Symptoms being so dangerous, some incisions were made down to the quick,
some spirituous fomentations made use of, and the whole limb dressed
up with such applications as are most approved in such desperate
circumstances, joined with proper internal medicines. The next day he
seemed much the same; but on March the 1st he was worse, the incisions
discharged a sharp fetid odor (which is generally of the worst
consequence). On the next day, which was Sunday, the symptoms seemed to
be a little more favourable; but, to my great surprise, the very next
day I found his leg not only mortified up to the knee, but the same
began anew in four different parts, viz., under each eye, on the top of
his shoulder, and on one hand; and in about twelve hours after he died.
I shall not presume to say there was anything supernatural in the case;
but, however, it must be confessed, that such cases are rather uncommon
in subjects so young, and of so good a habit as he had always been
previous to his illness.'

On one occasion Justice Maule was about to pass sentence on a prisoner,
who upon being asked to say why judgment should not be pronounced,
'wished that God might strike him dead if he was not innocent of the
crime.' After a pause, the judge said:--'As the Almighty has not thought
proper to comply with your request, the sentence of the court is,' &c.

A SAD REMINDER.

Every Englishman recollects the fate of that unhappy heiress, the
richest of all Europe, married to a man of rank and family, who was
plundered in the course of a few years of the whole of his wealth, in
one of those club houses, and was obliged to surrender himself to a
common prison, and ultimately fly from his country, leaving his wife
with her relations in the greatest despair and despondency.'(23)

(23) Rouge et Noir: the Academicians of 1823.

GEORGE IV. There are few departments of human distinction in which Great
Britain cannot boast a 'celebrity'--genteel or ungenteel. In the matter
of gambling we have been unapproachable--not only in the 'thorough'
determination with which we have exhausted the pursuit--but in the vast,
the fabulous millions which make up the sum total that Englishmen have
'turned over' at the gaming table.

I think that many thousands of millions would be 'within the mark' as
the contribution of England to the insatiate god of gambling.

I have presented to the reader the record of gambling all the world
ov