jefuits in Picardy, and, at length, entered the fociety; but being enamoured of a beautiful nun, he made an elopement with her, and profeffed himself a proteftant. He came to Bruffels, where he obtained the protection of M. Kinschot, refident of the States, by whofe means he got fafe to Holland. He now found himfelf immerged in great difficulties, and reduced to extreme want; the generofity of the proteftants fell fhort of his expectations, and his converfion was far from answering his views. Some bookfellers employed him to write for them; but his converted nun was the prin-, cipal fource of fupport. A Saxon count, in his travels through Holland, met with her at the Hague, and taking a fancy to her, carried her with him to Drefden. Maubert was taken notice of on her account, and found a friend and protector in his rival, who recommended him to a Saxon nobleman, to be preceptor to his fons. He foon acquired the eftcem of the family by his wit and agreeable converfation. This nobleman was an inveterate enemy to Count Bruhl, and had engaged with fome of his friends to ruin him. Maubert was pitched on as a proper perfon to draw up a deduction of grievances, and his performance gained him the applaufe and confidence of the antiminifterial party. He was admitted to their conferences, and confulted by them on the means of attaining their aim; and had his advice been taken, it is more than probable Count Bruhl had been depofed, and the prefent war prevented; but fuch was the perplexity and irrefolution of the cabal, they could not agree on the measures, tho' they were determined to frike the He con blow. The confidence of people in their fphere of life, greatly clated Maubert: he conftrued the notice they took of him into friendfhip, and their vifits flattered his ambition. But one morning he received a vifit of an officer of the Saxon guards, who thus addreffed him in a furly tone: "I arreft you in the King's name as a prifoner of ftate." His papers were feized ; he was hurried into a coach, and carried to the caftle of Konigstein, a few miles from Drefden, towards the confines of Bohemia. tinued there twenty-three months, and employed his time in clofe application to ftudy, and made confiderable progrefs in politics. In the mean time, he remarked, that one of his fellow prifoners had the liberty of walking where he pleased, and that he was a prifoner only becaufe he preferred being a prifoner, with a penfion that enabled him to live comfortably, and fmoke tobacco from morning till night, to any fituation in which he would be expofed to the viciffitudes of fortune. This honeft philofopher always wore a greasy night-gown, a wig of a monftrous fize, a remarkable large flouched hat, and flippers. Maubert cultivated a strict intimacy with the philofopher, whom one day in fultry hot weather, he found fast asleep. Maubert improved this circumftance to his advantage; he put on his friend's night-gown, hat, wig, and flippers, and after lighting his pipe, he walked gravely out, without being difcovered, and arrived, in a couple of hours after, at Peterfwalde in Bohemia, where he was in fafety; but his fituation was still difmal; he had little money, and neither shoes nor a coat. Next day he he exchanged his night gown and wig with the priest of Peterfwalde, for an old black coat, and the flippers for a pair of fhoes, and then fet out for Prague. By the affiftance of fome friends, which the oddity of his late adventure had acquired him, he was enabled to go to Francfort on the Maine, and from thence to Berlin, Holland, and England, where he had many adventures, and made many a fhift to liye. From England he was obliged to make a precipitate retreat, being taken for a fpy; and a Dutch fishing boat, that had fold her cargo in the Thames, procured him the means of preferving his liberty. He once more landed in Holland, where the prefent troubles offered him the means of gaining a livelihood by his pen. He was advantageously known by his teftament of C. Alberoni, and by his poli tical history of this age, nphlets, for ed feveral political the King of Pruffia, was intended to blacken the greatest hero of the age. M. Van Hellen demanded fatisfaction of the States in his mafter's name, and he was ordered by a ftate meffenger twice to leave Holland. He paid no regard to the compliment; but a furly scout, with his fatellites, carried him, bon gre mal gre, in a coach to the limits of the States territories, where he was left to meditate on human viciffitudes. He went again to Bruffels, where he was received with open arms; he returned to the bofom of the church, was made a confeiller de Cour by her Apoftolic Majefty, gratified with a penfion of 600 ducats, and probably has received from Rome abfolution for all the lies he he is to tell in the Bruffels Gazette. Singular account of a Mifer. A Varice, of all other paffions is the leaft to be accounted for, as it precludes the mifer from all pleasure except that of hoarding: the Prodigal, the Gamefter, the Ambitious, have fomething to plead by way of palliatives for their inordinate affections to their refpective objects and pursuits; but the mifer gratifies his paffion at the expence of every conveniency, indulgence, or even neceffary of life. He is aptly compared to the magpye, who hides gold which he can make no use of. which he was paid by the very fame Count Bruhl, who had profecuted him fome years before. Ephraim juftified is a falfe reprefentation of the fituation of Saxony, under the Pruffians: the affair of the coinage, the levies of recruits, and the raifing of contributions, are painted in odious and falfe colours; erroneous calculations, and facts that never exifted but in his brain, ferve to illuftrate this performance. Count Bruhl and Count Kaunitz's penfions M. Vandille was the most reto him were but fcanty, which ob- markable man in Paris, both on acliged him to make an offer of his count of his immense riches, and pen to defend the British cause in his extreme avarice. He lodged as polemic writings. His propofals high up as the roof would admit were rejected: piqued at fuch a him, to avoid noise or vifits, mainmark of indifference, he fwore re- tained one poor old woman to atA letter which he wrote in venge. tend him in his garret, allowed her the name of the late prince royal to only feven fous per week, or a penny penny per diem. His ufual diet was bread and milk, and for indulgence, fome poor four wine on Sunday, on which day he conftantly gave one farthing to the poor, being one fhilliug and a penny per ann. which he caft up,and after his death, his extenfive charity amounted to forty-three fhillings and four-pence. This prudent economist had been a magiftrate, or officer, at Boulogne, from which obfcurity he was promoted to Paris, for the reputation of his wealth, which he lent upon undeniable fecurity to the public funds, nor caring to truft individuals with his life and foul. While a magiftrate at Boulogne, he maintained himself by taking upon him to be milktafter-general at the market, and from one to another filled his belly and washed down his bread at no expence of his own, nor, doubtless, from any other principle than that of ferving the public in regulating the goodness of milk. When he had a call to Paris, knowing that flage vehicles were expenfive, he determined to go thither on foot; and to avoid being robbed, he took care to export with himself neither more nor less than the confiderable fum of three-pence fterling to carry him one hundred and thirty miles; and with the greater facility to execute his plan of operation, he went in the quality of a poor priest or mendicant, and no doubt gathered fome few pence on the road from fuch pious and welldifpofed perfons of the country who were ftrangers to him. The great value a mifer annexes to a farthing, will make us lefs furprifed at the infinite attachment he must have to a guinea, of which it is the feed, growing by gentle gradations, into pence, thillings, pounds, thousands, and ten thoufands, which made this worthy con noiffeur fay, take care of the farthings, and the pence, and fhillings will take care of themfelves; thefe femina of wealth may be compared to feconds of time, which generate years, centuries, and even eternity itself. When he became extenfive rich, being in the year 1735 worth feven or eight hundred thousand pounds, which he begot or multiplied on the body of a fingle fhilling, from the age of fixteen to the age of feventy-two: one day he heard a woodman going by in fummer, at which feafon they stock themselves with fewel for the winter; he agreed with him at the lowest rate poffible, but ftole from the poor man feveral logs, with which he loaded himfelf to his fecret hiding-hole, and thus contracted, in that hot season, a fever; he then fent, for the first time, for a furgeon to bleed him, who afking half a livre for the operation, was difmiffed; he then fent for an apothecary, but he was as high in his demand; he then fent for a poor barber, who undertook to open a vein for three-pence a time; but, fays. this worthy economift, friend, how often will it be requifite to bleed? three times, faid he: and what quantity of blood do you intend to take? about eight ounces each time, anfwered the barber. That will be, nine-pence--too much, too much, fays the old mifer, I have determined to go a cheaper way to work; take the whole quantity you defiga to take at three times, at one time, and that will fave me fix-pence; which being infifted on, he loft twenty-four ounces of blood, and died in a few days, leaving all his vaft treasures to the King, whom he he made his fole heir. Thus he contracted his disorder by pilfering, and his death by an unprecedented piece of parfimony. Copy of the will of the late Lieutenant I General Henry Hawley. Being perfectly well, both in body and mind, know that I am writing this my laft will, by which I do hereby give, order, and difpofe of what is mine, both real and perfonal, that there may be no difputes after I am gone Therefore as I began the world with nothing, and as all I have is of my own acquiring, I can difpofe of it as I please. But first, I direct and order (that as there is now a peace, and I may die the common way) my carcafe may be put any where; tis equal to me; but I will have no more expence or ridiculous thew, than if a poor foldier (who is as good a man) was to be buried in the hofpital. The priest, I conclude, will have his fee: let the puppy have it. Pay the carpenter for the carcafe box. Debts I have none at this time; fome very fmall trifles of course there may be let them be paid; there is wherewith to do it. Firft, then, to my only fifter Anne Hawley, if the furvives me, I give and bequeath 5000l. fterling out of the 7500l. which I have at this time in bank annuities of 1748. Be that altered or not, I ftill give her 50001. out of what I die worth, to difpofe of as he pleafes; and this to be made over to her, or paid, as foon as poffible, after I am dead; a month at moft. As to any other relations, I have none who want, and as I never was married, have no heirs: I therefore : have long fince taken it into my head to adopt one heir, and son, after the manner of the Romans, who I hereafter name. But first, there's one Mrs. Eliz. Toovey, widow, mother of this aforefaid adopted fon, who has been for many years my friend and companion, and often my careful nurfe, and in my absence a faithful fteward: fhe is the perfon I think myfelf bound in honour and gratitude to provide for, as well as I can, during her life. I do therefore give and bequeath to the said Eliz. Toovey, widow, all that my freehold eftate, houfes, out-houses, &c. and all the land thereto belonging, fituate at the upper end of Weft-green, in the parish of Hartley Wintny, and county of Southampton, which I bought of William Shipway: I likewife give to the faid Elizabeth Toovey the lands or farm commonly called Exall's farm, which join to the aforefaid lands bought of William Shipway, and which I bought of Lord Caftlemain. I also give her the field adjoining thereto, which I bought of farmer Hellhoufe, called the Paddock. I likewife give to the faid Elizabeth Toovey, my farm-house, other houfe, and all out-houses, &c. and all the lands thereto belonging, fituate at the bottom of Weftgreen, parish and county aforefaid, which farm, lands, &c. I bought of farmer Hellhoufe. I likewife give and bequeath to the faid Elizabeth Toovey, the great meadow, which I bought of Thomas Ellis, carpenter, or wright. which is commonly called Tiligany; and I give her alfo the little meadow overagainst the great one, part of the purchase made of farmer Hellhoufe to her. And I also give give to the faid Elizabeth Toovey a little barn and farm I lately purchafed, called Birchen Reeds, upon Hafty-heath, in the parish of Mattlingly, or Hetzfield. I likewife give and bequeath to the faid Elizabeth Toovey, my house, ftables, out-houses, and all the ground thereto belonging, which I purchafed lately of the widow Rooke, fituate in the parish of St. George's near Hyde Park-gate, in the county of Middlesex, fhe to hold and pof fefs these several houfes and eftates during her natural life; and then after her decease, I give and bequeath them to her fecond fon Captain William Toovey, my adopt ed fon and heir (at prefent a captain in the regiment of Royal Dragoons under my command) then when his mother dies, and not before, the whole which I have and do give to her, to come to him, and to be his and his heirs for ever. And I do direct and require the faid Captain William Toovey, that as foon as I am dead, he fhall forthwith take upon him both my names, and fign them, by act of parliament, or otherwife, as fhall be needful. I do order and appoint that the aforefaid Elizabeth Toovey, fhall have the ufe of all my goods, plate, &c. during her life, as alfo the ufe and interest of all the fums of money I die poffeffed of in present, as alfo what fhall be due to me from the government, during her natural life, excepting always the 5000l. which I give my fifter, and what legacies hereafter follow, and debts paid, and my horfes and arms exclufive. I do appoint Captain William Toovey my fole executor and truftee, to fee this my will executed punctually, and to act in behalf of my fifter, his mother, brother, and himself, and to state my accounts with my agent for the time being, and all others concerned. As to his brother Lieutenant Colonel John Toovey, I give and be queath to him roool. out of the money the government owes me, when paid. I alfo give him all my horfes and arms. I alfo give him up the writings and money, which his brother Captain William Toovey owes me, lent him for his feveral preferments in the regiment. I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Burkett, fpinfter, one hundred pounds, as a legacy, the having been a useful agreeable handmaid to me; but upon this condition, that fhe never marries Lieutenant Colonel John Toovey, if she does I give her nothing. Likewife if Lieutenant Colonel John Toovey fhould be fool enough to marry her, Elizabeth Burkett, I difannul whatever relates to him and her, and I give nothing either to Lieutenant Colonel John Toovey or her. And if after all this they should be both fools and marry, I do hereby give (what I had given to them) I fay, I give it to my fifter Anne Hawley, and her heirs; and order her or them to fue for the fame. I once more appoint Captain William Toovey my executor and truftee; and I order him to adminifter; there's no debts wilk trouble him, or his mother; what there is fhe, will pay; and that he immediately wait on my fifter with a copy of this will, if the furvives ine; if not, what I give her is his. In cafe I have not time to make another will, my houfe in the Mews, which leafe is almost out, my fifter has already by my gift. My |