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 having spent some minutes in the arms of his weeping mother, and venerable grand-father, the physician apprized his patient of his son's arrival. "Do, dear doctor," he said, "bring him to my embrace, he will do me more good than all your prescriptions." William was introduced, and eagerly pressed by his languid father. He desired they might be left alone, and had signified to his son his highest approbation of his abilities, character, and conduct; when feeling himself exhausted, he said, he hoped he would by-and-by be able to go on. The physician now returning, his patient observed, he felt a disposition to sleep; "That," said the other, "must be by all means encouraged." The colonel soon fell into a slumber, which lasted several hours, and he awoke free from pain, and very much refreshed. The physician was now confirmed in his hopes, that