ured head.

With nineteen shillings and threepence in my pocket, but with my
reputation lost, my health ruined, alone and a cripple, whom no
"Prisoners' Aid Society" would assist, I was expected to begin anew the
battle of life!

While I write these lines the bitterness of my new punishment has
already visited me. Repulsed from every door where I seek employment,
waiting patiently for the replies to my applications for advertised
situations, which never come, the brand of the convict has indeed
become the very mark of Cain, and I feel as if my fellowmen shrink from
me as they pass. Fortunately I found at the post-office a few pounds
sent to me from my brother, which, with slight additions, have enabled
me to procure a mechanical leg, and to live till I have completed this
narrative. But what is the fate of the many so situated, with no
friends to help them, save the workhouse or the prison once again? A
dreary life amongst paupers, or a short life of pleasure and crime, and
long years of bondage to atone for it. Do you wonder if some choose the
latter?... May you, gentle reader, never know what it is to lose your
limb, your liberty, your character, or your home. May my history prove
a beacon to warn you from the quicksands of ambition, on which so many
human souls are wrecked, and may your little barque, wafted by gentle
sunny gales, be safely steered across the great ocean of life, and at
last be securely moored in that haven where blessedness and peace for
ever reign!

APPENDIX.

_Consultat General de France en Angleterre._

Londres, le 1^er September, 1863.

Le Consul General de France a Londres a l'honneur de transmettre a
Monsieur ----, avec priere de vouloir bien lui en accuser reception,
une lettre et une medaille qui lui sont destinees.

Monsieur ----, _Negociant_.

_Ministere de l'Agriculture du Commerce, et des Travaux
Public--Secretarian General, Medaille._

Paris, le 22 Juin, 1863.

Monsieur a la suite du traite de commerce conclu le 23 Janvier, 1860,
entre la France et la Grande Bretagne, le Gouvernement de Sa Majeste
l'Empereur a du proceder a une enquete dont les resultats devaient le
mettre a meme de determiner les Tarifs des droit d'importation en
France des produits fabriques en Angleterre. Pour Consacrer le Souvenir
de cette enquete, l'une des plus importantes de ce genre qui aient ete
faites en France, le Gouvernement a fait frapper une medaille
commemorative et il a decid