AT a Foot-Sergeant of our 30th or 33d Regiment happened to be left alone on the Ground from which his Companions had retreated. He was attacked by five Ruffians, one of whom he shot, another he bayoneted; the other other three got him down, gave him five Wounds, and would foon have dispatched him, when he fuddenly heard the Sound of a Horfe's Hoof close behind his Head. The next Moment, he found himself dragged up on the Horse, and carried off from his Affailants about two hundred Yards to the Rear. When thus in Safety, the French GeneralOfficer who had fnatched him from Destruction, took hold of the Sergeant's Hand and kiffed it, then left him and returned to the Front. And will the great Captain of our Salvation look on, an uninterested terested Spectator, while his poor bleeding People, affailed by the fiery Affaults of the Evil One, are bravely fighting in the thickest of the Fray? I tell you, He will avenge them speedily! He will fnatch them from the very Brink of Deftruction, and bear them away in His ftrong, tender Arms, as a Father carries his little Son, and will fet them in a Place of Safety, and fay, "Well done, thou good and faithful Isaiah Servant! I have made, and I Mal. iii. 17. xlvi. 4. will bear, even I will carry and deliver you!" SURMOUNTED SURMOUNTED PAIN, T is related of Marini, the IT Italian Poet, that while he was intensely engaged in revising his Adonis, he placed his Leg over the Fire, where it burned for fome Time, without his being aware of it. The Author from whom I gather gather this, also mentions a modern Aftronomer, who paffed an entire Night in the fame Posture, being fo intently engaged in observing a Phenomenon in the Sky, as to be infenfible either of Weariness or of the Lapse of Time. When one of his Family accofted him in the Morning, he exclaimed, "It must be growing late!" quite unconscious that the whole Night had paffed. Now, if the Human Mind could thus exert its Power of withdrawing itself from Senfation, merely in the Purfuit of Literature or Science, may it not by |