We have heard enough lately of the consequences of the Navigation Act to this country.

They may take my person; but if sixpence would save me from a prosecution, I would not give it." It was his great ambition at this time to possess a pony; and having resolved to purchase one, he went to a fair for that purpose.

During his absence two men abruptly entered the parsonage and inquired for him: they then asked for Mrs.Nelson; and after they had made her repeatedly declare that she was really and truly the captain's wife, presented her with a writ, or notification, on the part of the American captains, who now laid their damages at L20,000, and they charged her to give it to her husband on his return.

Nelson, having bought his pony, came home with it in high spirits.

He called out his wife to admire the purchase and listen to all its excellences: nor was it till his glee had in some measure subsided that the paper could be presented to him.