While I write these lines the bitterness of my new punishment has already visited me. Repulsed from every door where I seek employment, waiting patiently for the replies to my applications for advertised situations, which never come, the brand of the convict has indeed become the very mark of Cain, and I feel as if my fellowmen shrink from me as they pass. Fortunately I found at the post-office a few pounds sent to me from my brother, which, with slight additions, have enabled me to procure a mechanical leg, and to live till I have completed this narrative. But what is the fate of the many so situated, with no friends to help them, save the workhouse or the prison once again? A dreary life amongst paupers, or a short life of pleasure and crime, and long years of bondage to atone for it. Do you wonder if some choose the latter?... May you, gentle reader, never know what it is to lose your limb, your liberty, your character, or your home. May my history prove a beacon to warn you from the quicksands of ambition, on which so many human souls are wrecked, and may your little barque, wafted by gentle sunny gales, be safely steered across the great ocean of life, and at last be securely moored in that haven where blessedness and peace for ever reign! APPENDIX. _Consultat General de France en Angleterre._ Londres, le 1^er September, 1863. Le Consul General de France a Londres a l'honneur de transmettre a Monsieur ----, avec priere de vouloir bien lui en accuser reception, une lettre et une medaille qui lui sont destinees. Monsieur ----, _Negociant_. _Ministere de l'Agriculture du Commerce, et des Travaux Public--Secretarian General, Medaille._ Paris, le 22 Juin, 1863. Monsieur a la suite du traite de commerce conclu le 23 Janvier, 1860, entre la France et la Grande Bretagne, le Gouvernement de Sa Majeste l'Empereur a du proceder a une enquete dont les resultats devaient le mettre a meme de determiner les Tarifs des droit d'importation en France des produits fabriques en Angleterre. Pour Consacrer le Souvenir de cette enquete, l'une des plus importantes de ce genre qui aient ete faites en France, le Gouvernement a fait frapper une medaille commemorative et il a decide qu'un exemplaire en bronze de cette medaille serait mis a la disposition des Industriels qui ont depose dans l'enquete. J'ai l'honneur, Monsieur, de vous adresser a ce titre l'exemplaire qui vous est destine. Recevez, Monsieur, l'assurance de ma consideration tres distinguee. Le Ministre de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Travaux Public, G. ROUHER. Monsieur ----, _Negociant_. [It is requested that any further communication on the subject be addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Trade, Whitehall, London, S.W.] _Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade_, Whitehall, 9th May, 1861. SIR,