survived her adored husband two years, and expired of a broken heart. Mr. and Mrs. Day left no issue.

The reader will not be displeased to find a few further particulars relative to the fortune of Sabrina, subjoined to this account of her patron. We left her at school at Sutton Coldfield, in Warwickshire. There Sabrina remained three years, grew elegant and amiable, and gained the esteem of her instructress. On her leaving school Mr. Day allowed her fifty pounds per annum. She resided some years near Birmingham, and afterwards at Newport in Shropshire, securing herself friends by the strict propriety of her conduct and her virtues. In her twenty-sixth year, two years after Mr. Day's marriage, his friend, Mr. Bicknel, offered his hand to Sabrina. She accepted his addresses, rather from motives of prudence than of passion, but became one of the best and most affectionate of wives. her asking Mr. Day's consent to this match, his reply was, "I do not refuse my consent to your marrying Mr. Bicknel; but remember you have not asked my advice." Faithful to his promise, he gave her on this occasion a portion of five hundred pounds.

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The issue of this marriage was two boys, the eldest of whom was five years old when Mr. Bicknel was removed from his family by the hand of death. As he had no patrimonial fortune, and had always lived up to his income,

his widow was left without any provision for herself and her infants. In this situation Mr. Day allowed her thirty pounds a year, in aid, as he said, of the efforts he expected her to make for the maintenance of her children. A subscription was made among the gentlemen of the bar, and the sum of 8001. was raised for the use of Mrs. Bicknel and her sons. This excellent woman has lived many years with Dr. Burney of Greenwich, as his housekeeper and assistant in the cares of his academy, where she is treated with every mark of esteem and respect that is due to her virtues. Mrs. Day continued the allowance made by her husband to Mrs. Bicknel, and bequeathed its continuance from her own fortune during the life of the latter.

JOSEPH CAPPUR

No place can afford a fairer field for the exertion of talents, or honest industry, than the capital of the British empire. How many instances might be adduced of persons there raising themselves by those recommendations from the most abject indigence to prosperity and wealth! Of many of these, however, it is to be regretted that so little is known. "It

would be amusing," says the Rev. Mr. Granger, "to trace the progress of a lord mayor from the loom or the fish-monger's stall to the chair of the chief magistrate; to be informed with what difficulty he got the first hundred pounds, with how much less he made it a thousand, and with what care he rounded his plumb." Mr. Cappur, though he did not attain to such honors or such opulence, affords, however, an example of the truth of these observations.

He was born in Cheshire, of humble parents his family being numerous, he came to London at an early age, to shift for himself, as he used to say, and was bound apprentice to a grocer. Mr. Cappur soon manifested great quickness and industry, and proved a most valuable servant to his master. It was one of the chief boasts of his life, that he had gained the confidence of his employer, and never betrayed it.

Being of an enterprising spirit, Mr. Cappur commenced business, as soon as he was out of his apprenticeship, in the neighborhood of Rosemary Lane. His old master was his only friend, and recommended him so strongly to the dealers in his line, that credit to a very large amount was given him. In proportion as he became successful, he embarked in various speculations, but in none was so fortunate as in the funds. He at length amassed a sum sufficient to decline all business whatever.

Mr. Cappur, therefore, resolved to retire

from the bustle of life. This best suited his disposition; for, although he possessed many amiable qualities, yet he was the most tyrannical and overbearing man living, and never seemed so happy as when placed by the side of a churlish companion. For several days he walked about the vicinity of London, searching for lodgings, without being able to please himself. Being one day much fatigued, he called at the Horns at Kensington, took a chop, and spent the day, and asked for a bed, in his usual blunt manner, when he was answered in the same churlish style by the landlord, that he could not have one. Mr. Cappur was resolved to stop, if he could, all his life, to plague the growling fellow, and refused to retire. After some altercation, however, he was accommodated with a bed, and never slept out of it for twenty-five years. During that time he made no agreement for lodging or eating, but wished to be considered a customer only for the day. For many years he talked about quitting this residence the next day.

His manner of living was so methodical, that he would not drink his tea out of any other than a favorite cup. He was equally particular with respect to his knives and forks, plates, &c. In winter and summer he rose at the same hour, and, when the mornings were dark, he was so accustomed to the house, that he walked about the apartments without the assistance of any light. At breakfast he ar

ranged, in a peculiar way, the paraphernalia of the tea-table, but first of all he would read the newspapers. At dinner he also observed a general rule, and invariably drank his pint of wine. His supper was uniformly a gill of rum, with sugar, lemon-peel, and porter, mixed together; the latter he saved from the pint he had at dinner. From this economical plan he never deviated.

He called himself the Champion of Government, and his greatest glory was, certainly, his country and king. He joined in all subscriptions which tended to the aid of government. He was exceedingly choleric, and nothing raised his anger so soon as declaiming against the British constitution. In the parlor he kept his favorite chair, and he would often amuse himself with satirizing the customers, or the landlord, if he could make his jokes tell better. It was his maxim never to join in general conversation, but to interrupt it whenever he could say any thing ill-natured. Mr. Cappur's conduct to his relations was exceedingly capricious; he never would see any of them. As they were chiefly in indigent circumstances, he had frequent applications from them to borrow money. "Are they industrious?" he would inquire; when answered in the affirmative, he would add, "Tell them I have been deceived already, and never will advance a sixpence by way of loan, but I will give them the sum they want; and if ever I