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 RFcotFEr sf PEoPkkrY.-- .--rhe following cir. eumstance is as true as il is singular: few years ago, two gentlemen who had been leli executors to the will of friend, examining the property found scrap of paper, which was written "Seyen Hundred Pounds in Till" This they look in the li- ieral sense, and examined all the apartments care fully, hui m vain They sold his collection Of books to bookseller, and paid Ihe egacies in proportion.

 The singuariiy of the circumstance accustomed them frequently about ii, and they recolected among the books sold (which had taken place up- wards of seven weeks Lsiore) there was folio edi- tiOn of Tillotson's Sermons. The probability Of ths being what was alluded to by the word "TIll," |" on the piece of paper. made one of them immediate ly wat upon the bookseller who had purchased the books. and ask hlm if he had the edition of T,ot- son, which had been among the books sold 10 him; on his replying in the affirmative, and the volumes being handed down, the gentleman immediately pur- chased them; and, carefully examining the leaves, found bank notes, snply dispersed m various places in the volumes. tl the amount of seven hundred pounds! But what IS perhaps no less remarkable than the preceding, the bookseller informed him tha. gentleman at Cambridge, reading in his catalogue of this edition to be sold, had written to him, and desired thai il might be sent to Cambridge, which accordingly done; but the books not answer ing the gentleman's expectation, they have been in the bookseer's shop tII the period of this very sin gular discovery.