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Avarice, says the author of Re1igjo Me-

 d'ci' seems to me not so much a vice. as

 depiora ble piece of madness: and if hs

 had added incurable, his definition would

 nave been perfect; for an avaricious man

 IS never to be cured unless by the same

 medicine which perhaps may cure mad dog. The argument of reason, philoso phy, Or religion, will have little effect upon him; he is born and framed to a sordid love of money, which first appears when he is very young, grows up with him, and increases in middle age, and when he is old, and all his passions have suosided, wholly expresses him. The greatest endowments of mlnd, the gre, f. est abilities in profession, and even the quiet possession of an immense treasure, will never prevail against avarice. My Lord Hardwck, the Lord ChancelloT, who is said to be worth E362,OOO, sets the same value on half crown now as he did when he was only worth GIOO. That great captain, the Duke of Marl. borough, when he was in the last sta ge of life, and very infirm, would walk from the public room in Bath to his Tod gings, in cold, dark night, to save slxpence in chair hire. If the duke, who left at his death more than a mill ion and half sterling, could have fore- seen that all his wealth and honours were 10 be inherited by grandson of Lord Trevor'S, who had been one of his enemies, would he have been SO careful to save siXpence for the sake of his heir? Not for the sake his heir; but he would always have saved the sispence. Sir James Lowther, after changing a piece of silver in Georges coffee house, and paying two pence for his dish of coffee, was helped into his chariot, (for he was then very lame and intirm,) and went home; short time after, he re- turned to the same coffee-house on pur- pose 10 acquaint the woman who kept it that she had given him bad half penny, and demanded another in exchange for it. Sir William Smyth, of Bedfordshire who was my kinsman, when he was near seventy, was wholly deprived ofhis sight, he was persuaded 10 be couched by Fay Tor. the oculist, who, by agreement, was to have sixty guineas if he restored his patient to any degree of sight. Taylor succeeded in his operation, and Sir Will jam was able to read and write without the use of spectacles during the rest of his life; but as soon as the operation was performed, and Sir William per. ceived the good effects of being overioy- ed. as any other person would have been, he began to lament the loss Gas he called iD of his sixty guineas. His con- trivance. therefore, now was, how to cheat the oculist he pretended that he had only glimmering. and could sec nothing perfectly for that reason the bandage on his eye was continued a month longer than the usual time. By this r,nn,.e hn -Ii:c~I T'-y io. to compound the bargain, and accept of twenty gui- meas; for a cove,ous man thinks no method dishonest in which he may legally practice to save his money. Sir Will jam was an old bachelor, and at the time Taylor couched him, had a fair estate in land, large sum of money in stocks, and not less than Gl50O or GI6O0 in his house.-Dr. King.