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 ¬comfort. — Thinking this a most favourable oc- casion for trying the effect of human laws in seconding divine precepts, I carried him into the stable, where I had been told one of the poor animals that had brought us was at the point of death : when he saw him in that con- dition, and was told that the master was just set up in business and had a large family, he said he was truly sorry for him, and desiring the driver to follow us into our apartment, he im- mediately gave him an order for the value as he called it of his master's property ; but I could not perceive that the cold sweat and excruciating pangs of the unhappy dying animal had made the least impression upon him. I cannot, how- ever, conclude this interesting subject, without acquainting my readers with the victory of na- ture and virtue — whilst his feelings were thus so strongly excited by human sufferings, and so striking an analogy was within my view to ex- tend them, I opened my whole battery upon his ingenuous mind — the breach was soon practi- cable, and humanity entered in triumph — my ¬companion ¬