that he had contracted a large debt unknown
to her, and by that means involved himself in
difficulties which he could not easily
surmount; and for some days she lived in
continual apprehension of demands from creditors,
of seizures and executions. But nothing
of this kind happened; on the contrary, he
did not only leave his estate quite free and
unencumbered, but he paid the bills of every
tradesman with whom he had any dealings; and,
upon examining his papers in due time after
he was gone, proper receipts and discharges
were found from all persons, whether tradesmen
or others, with whom he had any manner
of transactions, or money concerns. Mrs.
Howe, after the death of her children, thought
proper to lessen her family of servants and
the expenses of her housekeeping, and therefore
removed from her house in Jermyn Street
a little house in Brewer Street, near Golden
Square. Just over against her lived one Salt,
a corn-chandler. About ten years after his
disappearance, Mr. Howe contrived to make
acquaintance with Salt; and at length acquired
such a degree of intimacy with him, that he
usually dined with Salt once or twice a-week.
From the room in which they ate, it was not
difficult to look into Mrs. Howe's dining room,
where she generally sat and received her
company; and Salt (who believed Howe to be a
bachelor) frequently recommended his own
wife to him as a suitable match. During
the last seven years of Howe's absence,
he went every Sunday to St. James's Church,
and used to sit in Mr. Salt's seat, where he
had a view of his wife, but could not easily be
seen by her.

After he returned home, he never would
confess, even to his most intimate friends,
what was the real cause of such a singular
conduct. Apparently there was none; but
whatever it was, he was certainly ashamed
to own it. Dr. Rose has often said to me that
he believed his brother Howe would never
have returned to his wife, if the money he
took with him, which was supposed to have
been one or two thousand pounds, had not
been all spent; and he must have been a good
economist, and frugal in his manner of living,
otherwise his money would scarcely have held
out; or I imagine he had his whole fortune
by him (I mean what he carried away with
him), in money or bank bills, and daily took
out of his bag, like the Spaniard in Gil
Blas, what was sufficient for his expenses.
Yet I have seen him, after his return,
addressing his wife in the language of a bridegroom.
And I have been assured by some of
his most intimate friends that he treated her,
during the rest of their lives, with the greatest
kindness and affection.

Dr. King adds in a note that he was well
acquainted with Dr. Rose, and also with Salt;
that he often met them at King's Coffee-house,
near Golden Square (Dr. King was an active
Jacobite and Rose was of French connexions);
and that they frequently entertained him with
this remarkable story: relating these and
many other particulars which had escaped his
memory.

A MARVELLOUS JOURNEY WITH
THE OLD GEOGRAPHER.

WE recently performed a journey over a
large part of Europe, in company with Master
Peter Heylyn, clerk, of the reigns of Charles
the First and Second. We parted company
with that worthy gentleman on the
inhospitable shores of the great North Sea; but,
being aware of his intention of travelling over
Asia, Africa, and America, we hereby rejoin
him, in a sort of aërial flight, and shall take
the opportunity of dropping down upon any
province, town, mountain, valley, or desert,
which we may desire to inspect. So,
away over the Bosphorus into the oriental
lands!

Of Asia in general, Peter tells us, among
other note-worthy things, that it "is the common
mother of us all, from whence, as from
the Trojan horse, innumerable troops of men
issued to people the other parts of the
uninhabited world." The lively and opposite
character of this similitude gives us an
admirable idea of that great scattering of nations,
by which the waste places of the earth are
supposed to have been filled: the total
absence of bathos, and the exact equality in
the magnitude and probability of the two
facts compared, are worthy of observation.
In a little time, travelling eastward, we arrive
over the region of this same Troy; and here
Peter bids us take notice that the beauty of
that famous city " may be (as some write) yet
seene in the ruines which, with a kind of
majestie entertaine the beholder: the wals of
large circuit, consisting of a black hard stone,
cut four-square; some remnants of the turrets
which stood on the wals; and the fragments
of great marble tombes and monuments of
curious workmanship." In the like manner,
laborious inquirers have discovered in Wales
gigantic evidences of King Arthur's City,
"towered Camelotte;"—" great stones, and
marvellous works of iron lying under the
ground, and royal vaults, which divers now
have seen," as Caxton, in his prologue to the
old romance of " King Arthur," affirmeth.
But Heylyn is sceptical as regards the Trojan
relics, which he says are " certainly not the
ruines of that Ilium which was destroyed by
the Grecians, but another of the same name,
built some four miles from the situation of
the old, by Lysimachus, one of Alexander's
Captaines, who peopled it from the
neighbouring cities." It is worthy of remark
(though Peter does not allude to it) that
Julius Cæsar contemplated making this
comparatively insignificant town the capital of
the Roman Empire, because of the supposed
descent of the Romans from the people of
Troy.

Passing over Phrygia Major, Peter takes
occasion to remind us of Midas, who, for