action as a free man, is to take your hand, my master! press it between mine, and lay it on my heart, where the attachment and gratitude of James will not cease, until that ceases to beat; and until that moment, be assured, that no labourer in the county of Kent will be more industrious, than he who henceforth shall be called FAITHFUL JAMES."

An Anecdote communicated to D. B. Smith and Stacy B. Collins, on the way from Charleston to Savannah, by a fellow passenger in the stage.

A slave belonging to his grandmother, was carried off when a boy by the British, in the time of the revolutionary war, to Nova Scotia, where he lived several years; but he could not forget his old home and friends, and returned to his mistress, giving himself up as a slave. She not having employment for him, talked of selling him. He told her if she did, he was determined to destroy himself; for that it was nothing but his attachment to the family that brought him back. He was then suffered to work out, paying a certain part of his wages to

his owner.

The family soon after became embarrassed;

and one of the grandsons was sent to the West Indies to a relation. Just as he was embarking, the faithful Black put into his hand a purse, containing all his little earnings, and insisted upon his young master's taking it; saying he had no use for the money himself, and his master might want it in a strange country, away from his friends. The Black still living in Charleston, was suffered to work for himself; and has had repeated offers of his liberty, but prefers living in the family that brought him up.

THE COLOURED FOUNDLING.

An old black man, who resided in Philadelphia, of the name of Hector-poor, but honest and respectable, lived with his wife on the scanty earnings of their own hands, in a very small cottage. One evening at a late hour, a woman of their own colour, with an infant, stopped at their dwelling and asked for a night's lodging, to which his wife answered: "We can't lodge you, we got but one bed." "O!" said the old man, seeing her a stranger, and in difficulty, "let her tag, [stay,] she sleep in de bed with you, I go make a bed on de floor-must not turn her out a doors."

The woman accordingly stayed: and in the

night, Hector was awakened by the cries of the child; when, rising to see what the cause was, he found the mother was gone; on which he roused his wife, saying: "Well, Suky, you see de woman has gone off, and left de child for you." "Oh!" said his wife, "what shall we do now? she never come again." "Well," returned Hector, "then you must take care of him who knows God Almighty send him here for something-may be to take care of us in our old age-must not turn him out of doors.”

So they fed and nourished him with milk from the market, the old man going regularly to procure it. No one appearing, the child became. their adopted. When he had attained the age of eight or nine years, proving an active lad, they put him to a chimney-sweeper, as the most likely way for him to become early useful; and he soon contributed a little to his guardians' subsistence.

They at length grew quite infirm, and the wife died. After which the neighbours, thinking it too much for the lad to have the whole care of the old man, prevailed on him to go to the Bettering House. When here, the boy did not forsake, but frequently visited him, and continued to add to his support until he died; a few days after which the lad died also, haying grown up beloved and respected.

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LOUIS DESROULEAUX.

The anecdote of Louis Desrouleaux, a Negro pastry-cook, of Nantes, is little known. After he left Nantes, he lived at the Cape, where he had been a slave of Pinsum, of Bayonne, a captain in the slave trade, who came with great riches to France, where he lost it all, and returned to St. Domingo. Those who, when he was rich, called themselves his friends, now took very little notice of him.

Louis, who had acquired a fortune by his industry and prudence, supplied their place. He learned the situation of his old master, hastened to find him, gave him lodging and nourishment, and also proposed that he should live in France, where his feelings would not be mortified by the sight of ungrateful men. "But I cannot find a subsistence in France," said Pinsum. "Will an annual revenue of fifteen thousand francs be sufficient?" At this proposal, Pinsum wept for joy. The contract was signed, and the pension regularly paid, until the death of Louis Desrouleaux, which happened in 1774.

THE GRATEFUL NEGRO.

Some years since, a gentleman who had been possessed of considerable property, from various causes became embarrassed in his circumstances, and was arrested by his creditors, and confined in the King's Bench, from whence there was no probability of his being liberated, unless some law proceedings (upon his succeeding in which the recovery of great part of his property depended) were decided in his favour.

Thus situated, he called a Negro who had for many years served him with the greatest faithfulness, and said: "Robert, you have lived with me many years, but I am now unable to maintain you any longer; you must leave me, and endeavour to find another master."

The poor Negro, well remembering his master's kindness, replied: "No, Masser! me no leave you, you maintain me many years, me now try what I can do for you." Robert then went and procured employment as a day-labourer, and regularly brought his earnings to his master; on which, although small, they managed to subsist for some time, until the lawsuit was decided in the master's favour, and he thereby regained possession of a very considerable property.

Mindful of his faithful Negro, one of his first acts was to settle an annuity upon him for the