speakable satisfaction of seeing all obstacles subdued, and the great and glorious cause gained, of a total and immediate abolition of the Slave-trade.

Judge of his sensations at this happy moment: gratitude to the great Giver of all Good; a delightful sympathy with those who were delivered from the dread of whips and chains; and a consciousness of having been enabled to have been a powerful instrument to produce these happy effects. Such feelings must have been a reward superior to the wealth of worlds. Young reader! imitate his unwearied perseverance in doing good, and the palm of peace will be thine.

DISGUISES.

STRANGE instances have occurred, in all ages, of persons who have affected the dispositions and employments of the opposite sex; thus we read of females who have wielded the sceptre, headed armies, and forgotten the delicacy of their frame and the innate modesty of their nature, in the field of battle. Some have indulged this propensity so far, as to assume the habit and character of the contrary sex; and have carried on the imposture with such address, as to completely conceal their secret to the end of their lives. Where choice only has been the motive, one would almost conclude, that

the mind and body had been mismatched, and by some mishap had been discordantly united.

In others, no doubt, it has arisen from some unusual train of circumstances, that has led to this unnatural disguise, and offers the best apology that can be made for it. It is a folly that seems principally confined to low life; for I remember but few examples of such a depravity of taste, amongst those who rise to eminence of station.

One of these, nevertheless, is recorded on a monument in Chelsea church, commemorating the masculine courage of Ann Chamberlayne, only daughter of Edward Chamberlayne, doctor of laws. She seems to have caught the ardour of a naval spirit from her brothers, who had distinguished themselves as sea officers, for she put on the habit of a sailor, and entered on board a fireship commanded by one of them, and fought bravely against the French for six hours. This sounds very heroical; but it is unamiable, and would ill-qualify her for the endearing offices of wife and mother.

In the burial ground of Chelsea College was inte: red, with military honours, another female warrior, called Christian Daries, alias Mother Ross; she had served in several campaigns under king William and the duke of Marlborough.

Hannah Snell was, about the year 1750, actually put upon the out-pensioner's list at Chelsea, on account of the wounds she received at the siege of Pondicherry. Her singular story excited a considerable share of the public attention, and she was engaged to sing, and perform the military exercises, at various places of public entertainment.

A lady of fortune who admired the heroism and excentricity of her conduct, became god-mother to her son, and contributed liberally to his education. Her pension was augmented, by a special grant, to a shilling a day, and paid regularly to the time of her death. In the latter part of her life she discovered symptoms of insanity, and died at the age of 69, in Bedlam.

The two latter, spending their lives in a camp and being of an animated turn of mind, caught a sympathetic spirit from their companions, and misapplied a courage and fortitude, that would have been more characteristic if they had been exerted in giving assistance to the wounded and the dying.

The disguise of Mary East, a publican at Poplar, is more unaccountable. She supported the character of landlord of the White Horse Inn in that parish thirty-six years, and during that time served the office of headborough and overseer of the poor; and when accident obliged her to discover her sex, she was in nomination for Churchwarden.

The death of a woman who had lived with her in the character of her wife, unravelled the secret; for feeling the approaches of dissolution, it became necessary to divide the property acquired by their partnership, and to bequeath her moiety to her relations.

Mrs. East, upon this eclaircissement, resumed the female dress, and soon afterwards prosecuted William Barwick, for having extorted considerable sums of money from her at various times for concealing her sex. He was tried at Hicks's hall, on the 21st of October, 1766, and sentenced to stand three times on the pillory, and to suffer four years imprisonment. Mrs. East being a very ignorant woman, he, and a few others who were privy to the circumstances, terrified her by the assurance that she was liable to be hanged for the imposture she had practised. After the matter became public, she quitted business, and lived comfortably upon the fruits of her industry. The deception put upon the public by her and her supposed wife, was attributed to disappointments in love that had befallen them both; in order, therefore, to avoid all further addresses, they determined to pass for a married couple.

A most romantic sketch of the life and adventures of a person named Russel, who was buried at Streatham, is given by Mr. Lysons, who seems to have been at some trouble to collect an authentic account of him. He liv ed to so great an age, that he declared himself to be 108,

and had the address to conceal his sex for so long a period, that, although born in the parish, none was able to detect the imposition. It is supposed that he assumed the name of a sister, who either died whilst young, or probably settled in some remote part of the country. Under the name of Elizabeth, therefore, he applied, in the year 1770, for a certificate of his baptism, nor was there any suspicion but that he was a female till his death. He attached himself early in life to the gypsies, and being of a rambling disposition, visited most parts of the continent as a stroller or vagabond. In many of his rambles he was the companion of the celebrated Bamfylde Moore Carew, who preferred the uncertain, disgraceful, wandering life of these people, to one of order and respectability, to which his birth entitled him. Perhaps our hero, Russel, admired the singularity of his taste, and was stimulated by the spirit of adventure which had misled Carew into such a bye path, to think there was merit in imitating him. It is likely that in some of their exploits, the necessity of concealment, in order to avoid the hands of justice, might first induce him to assume the garb of a woman; but there seems no clue to discover the motive that influenced him to continue it.

When advanced in years, he settled at Chipsted in Kent, where he kept a large shop. Sometimes he travelled the country with goods, in the character of a married woman, having changed his maiden name for that of his husband, who carried the pack; and to his death was his reputed widow, being known by the familiar ap

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