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 which if now olfered to the public, will not only meet the 
 approbation of teaoh^trt, and be found uteAil in ichools, 
 but that it will be esteemed a valuable family book. 
 Should these ends bejMfdbmplished, he will consider that 
 the labor and expendvof its publication has not been in 
 Tain. 
 
 The names of authors, or the sources from which selec- 
 tions have been made, are in several instances omitted, 
 on account of tbe uncertainty of theif origin ; but in all 
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 January 1, 1834. 
 
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 Adam a 
 
 A gloric 
 
 ArchbisI 
 
 Amiable 
 
 Algiers, 
 
 Buonapi 
 
 Capture 
 
 Curran's 
 
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 Curiositj 
 
 CrowniE 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 A singular Story, 
 
 Atfectionate Daughters, - . . > - 
 
 A Western Adventure, - . - 
 
 Adam and Andrew Poe, 
 
 A glorious example of Washington, 
 
 Archbishop Sharpe and the Robber, - - 
 
 Amiable Traits in the Character of the Indians, • 
 
 Algiers, - - 
 
 Buonaparte's Travelling Carriage, - - .- 
 Capture of Babylon, by Cyrus, ^ - - - . 
 Curran's Ingenuity, - - - 
 
 Gapt. Van Halen's Escape from the inquisition, 
 
 Curiosity, - - 
 
 Crowning the Wisest, - - . . 
 Choang and Hansi, - • - * 
 
 CatharinaJ^lexowna, - - - - 
 
 Conflagration of Moscow, - - 
 
 Ci|^«. Morrill's Visit to a Slave Ship, 
 Dciscription of Jesus Christ, by Pubiius LentuUui, 
 Destruction of the Tonquin, - 7 - " 
 Execution of Henry Fauntleroy, . - - 
 EstaVan's Escape from the Inquisition, - - 
 JEJiCape of Washington, - ,- - - 
 
 Female Constancy Rewarded, - > , - 
 
 I'ate oCfieury Hudson, 
 
 |^||l^enerosity, - - - , 
 
 inyentioji of Letters by ap Indian, - - - 
 Jifnes V. i& Disguise, - - - - 
 
 jfobn, jDuke of Bedford, - 
 jjondon, - - - - ■ ■ 
 
 1|[iip Choo Islanders, - - 1?%^ - 
 i^ of a Looking Glass, > ^^ - 
 
 llljlniacre at Fort William Henry, 
 Mt Bower's Escape from the Inquisition, 
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 Nfttiirai and Martial Volcanota Compared, ' • 164 
 
 Kolhae, the Jeiuit, t - - - - 111 
 
 Ona Reaaoo for bein; a ChriatiaD, - - - 14 
 
 Fnfiica, -- - 3 
 
 Plague in Florence, ..... 28 
 
 Pfofeaaor of Signa, - - - . - - - 66 
 
 Pnjfadice Rebuked, ~ . . . . 263 
 Kamarkay on the Fundamental Prineiplea of Good 
 
 Reading, 9 
 
 Ridmrd Baxter, --••->- 3D 
 
 JKr JMatthew Hale, ..... 133 
 
 flaperioritj of Talent, - « . - - 321 
 
 *nm Noble Son, . - ^ . ., . 23 
 
 Tli# I^nne Robber, • * - -^ 13 
 
 'thiB two Apotbecariea, - -^ -> 142 
 
 tit Hector againat hie will, > - -^ - 38 
 
 |iil Methodlat, - ^ - . . . 40 
 
 ffttiotterjr Ticket, . . ^ . . 4SI 
 
 ifit pnd Laat Dinner, . « ^ . 68 
 
 Tea Table, ^ - - - - - 113 
 
 Barber'a Ghoat, J^ 118 
 
 ^4tQaconda, - . - - - - '- , . 120 
 
 ileireas, - "128 
 
 ff^tllenoe, - - - - - • 130 
 
 taatLoaf, ... . . - 136 
 
 to of Jeruaalem, - - r - - 140 
 
 Mother of Jeiua, . - - . . 163 
 
 Pioneers, - - - . - - 160 
 
 itLamb, ...--- _.- 177 
 
 ,_,Temorand Notary, - - * , A«, 188 
 
 W4ldGirl, ^ - - . - ^100 
 
 Witch. n - S13 
 
 HTheel of Fortune, - - - - - S|90 
 
 ||b:|le of the Alleganj, - * - - 384 
 
 ^ioMMi of the Chiaet, - - . • - SMI 
 
 ,,g,^*yateriou8 WeiRng, - - - - 380 
 
 le of Human Wiabea, - - - - 367 
 
 KoBcluiko, - - - - - 3pO 
 
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 The Widow, 
 The Hero of the I-tagut, 
 The Book of Nature, - 
 The Whirlpool, 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 I 
 
 REMARKS, 
 
 UN THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF GOOD EEADING. 
 
 [Extracted chiefly from Blair^a Leeturet on Mhetorie.'jy 
 
 To read with propriety is a pleating and important attain- 
 ment 'f productive of improvement both to the undlratand- 
 ing and the heart, /it 'w essential to a complete reader, thil 
 he minutely perceive the ideas, and enter into the feel- 
 ings, of the author whose sentiments he professes to repMkw 
 If there were no other benefits resulting from the art m^ 
 reading well, than the necessity it lays us under<oi^|^M- 
 cisely ascertaining the meaning of what we read, it "woiild' 
 be a sufficient eompenstion for the labor ; but the pltliililf . 
 derived to ourselves and others from a clear comiuotolis|'<|. 
 tion of iHeas and feelings, and the strong and durable ifi|# 
 pressions made thereby on the minds of the reader aM ' 
 audience, are considerations which give additional ishpor- 
 taluse to the subject. 
 
 ' 'f^loogh a system of rules for the complete manageiBe|i^ 
 of the voice cannot be given, and though much "^i^-ilill 
 ttrniHk for the living instructor to do, yet $ofM riiiii^/ "^ 
 directions will be found useAil to prevent vicious moilA 
 utterance, to give the young reader 80»ne taste of tile' 
 ject, and assist him in acquiring an accurate mode of de- 
 livery, ^'fc. 
 {rThe first attention of every person, who reads #^^tb- 
 ets, doubtless must be to make himself healNl hfi^ ^ 
 whom he readjf VlBvery person has three pitches % bit 
 
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 PRINCIPLBS OP GOOD RSADIKG. 
 
 voice ; the High, the Middle, and the Low one.^ (The 
 
 high is that, which he uses in calling aloud to son^ per- 
 son at a di^ance./pThe low in when he approaches to a 
 
 whiaperp^nd the middle is that which he employs ii^ 
 comknon conrersation, and which he should generally use 
 in 'reading to others. ) We shall always be able to give 
 the most force of sound to that pitch of voice, to which we 
 are accustomed in conversation. It should be a constant 
 rule never to uttter a greater quantity of voice than we 
 can afford without pain to ourselves and without any ex- 
 traordinary effort* ^ It is also a useful rule to cast our eye 
 on some of the most distant persons in the company . and 
 consider ourselves as reading to them. I By the habit of 
 reading when young in a loud and vehement manner, the 
 voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key, 
 and becomes incapable of variety and true harmony. 
 
 (But to being well and clearly understood, distinctness 
 of artictdation contributes more than mere loudness of 
 sound.y To this, therefore, every reader ought to pay 
 'great attention, t. He must give every ^ound which he ut- 
 ters its due proportion, and make every syllable and let' 
 H^r be beard distinctly.) An accurate knowledge of the 
 aimple, elementary sounds of the language, and a facility 
 in expresiiiig them, are so necessary, that, if a learner is 
 defident, his progress ought to be suspended, till he has 
 IwooQie complete master of them. 
 
 I [im order to express ourselves distinctly moderation is re* 
 «|ttisite wiCh regard to the speed of pronouncing./ Precip- 
 Itaoey of speech confounds all articulation, and nil mean- 
 ittg;) Whiloj on the contrary, a lifeless, drawling manner 
 iof reading, which allows the mind of the hearer to be al- 
 wayt outrunning the spealcer, must render every perform- 
 »]lee insipid and disgusting. But the fault of re^ding^ tod 
 ^, being the more common, and when grown into a 
 Itabity being very difficult to be corrected requires to be 
 moill guarded against. y 
 
 'In the next place the reader must study propriety of pro- 
 fumddfien, or the habit of giving, to every word he at- 
 ters» thjit sound which the best usage of the language 4- 
 propiifttei to it, in opposition to broad, vulgar, or fro»irk- 
 cid prommciatUm, ^f 
 
 
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 voice, I 
 which 1 
 the rigl 
 pronunc 
 not onlj 
 meaning 
 wrong. 
 In order 
 the grea 
 tain a ju 
 ments, ? 
 right is I 
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 too raucli 
 crowd e 
 crowding 
 which, a 
 distihctic 
 flhnes 
 we eraplc 
 ses, but t 
 graphs, a 
 is chiefly 
 ty, and h 
 Pauses 
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 cases, a 
 oessary 
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 loints usJ 
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 PRIKCIPLBB OF GOOD READIMG. 
 
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 w one.yiTlw 
 to soine per- 
 )roacheB to a 
 B employs in, 
 generally use; 
 able to give 
 >, to which we 
 be a constant 
 roice than we 
 ;hout any ex- 
 > cast our eye 
 company, and 
 the habit ot 
 it manner, th« 
 nnatural key, 
 harmony, 
 d, distinctness 
 •e loudness of 
 ought to pay 
 i which he ut- 
 ilaUe and let' 
 •wledge of the 
 , and a facility 
 if a learner is 
 id, till he has 
 
 oderalion is re* 
 
 icing.f Precip- 
 
 , acd vill mean- 
 
 iwling manner 
 
 tiearer to be al - 
 
 every peirfo«n- 
 
 of re^dingr tod 
 
 grown iftto a 
 
 requures to be 
 
 propriety of pro- 
 y woid he «t^ 
 le language 4~ 
 gar, or provifkr 
 
 I By emphasis is meant a stronger and fuller sound of 
 Toice, by which we distinguish some word or words to 
 which we wish to attach' a particular importance.llOn 
 the right management of emphasis depends the life of 
 pronunciation.^ If no emphasis is placed on any words, 
 not only is discourse rendered heavy and lifeless, but the 
 meaning left often ambiguous. If the emphasis is placed 
 wrong, we pervert and confound the meaning wholly. 
 In order to acquire the proper management of emphasis, 
 the great rule to be given is, that the reader study to at- 
 tain a just conception of the force and spirit of the senti 
 ments, which he is to pronounce. To lay the emphasis 
 right is a constant exercise of good taste and judgment. 
 But care must be taken not to multiply emphatical 'words 
 too much, and to use the emphasis indiscriminately. To 
 crowd every sentence with emphatical words, is like 
 crowding all the pages of a book with italic characters; 
 which, as to the effect, is just the same as to use no such^ 
 distinctions at all. 
 
 flhnes consist in the notes or variational of sound which 
 we employ^ Emphasis affects particular words and phra- 
 ses, but tones, peculiarly so called, affect sentences, para- 
 ^aphs, and sometimes even the whole of a discourse. \It 
 is ehiefly in the proper use of tones, that the spirit, beau- 
 ty, and harm jny of delivery consist J 
 
 Pauses or rests, in speaking or reading, are a total eei- 
 sation of the voice, during a perceptible, and, in many 
 cases, almeasurable space of time. They are equally ne,- 
 oessary to th^ speaker and hearer;— to the speaker, that 
 |he may take breath, without which he cannot proceed 6u'. 
 delivery ; and to the hearer, that the ear may be rt- 
 
 ieved frou) the fatigue, which it would otherwise endure 
 Tom a contihuity of sound, and that he may have soffi- 
 
 ient time to mark the distinction and meaning of senten- 
 . {.Pauses in reading must generally be formed up<m 
 
 e manner in which we utter ourselves in ordinary 999^^ 
 
 Me conversation.! It is not sufficient to attend to tbe 
 ints used in priming — because these are far from mark- 
 
 g all the pauses, wnich ought to he made in reading, 
 
 ^d because a mechanical attention to these resting pla- 
 has been one of the principal causes of monotony. 
 
 
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 (BJi^smmtJi^ mis^maim^ 
 
 IMPORTANCE OF GOOD INSTRUCTERS. 
 
 Of the many useful occupations among men, there is 
 perhaps no one more important than that of teaching chil- 
 dren ; and this work ought to be regarded not only ^im- 
 portant, but truly honorable. 
 
 ,, When instructers are well qualified for their emplcf - 
 mjitkti and arc faithful in the discharge of tlieir duty, it 
 tt^y be reasonably expected that they will be instruments 
 or promotiog the welfare of their pupils, both for this world 
 and the world to come. 
 
 Self government is^mong the first requisites for a teach- 
 er. / He who has not acquired the art of governing him- 
 self, is unworthy to be intrusted with the government of 
 others. 
 
 A school should be governed by the laws of kindness 
 and reason, and not by the laws of cruelty and despotism. 
 When reproof or correction is necessary, it should be ad- 
 ministered in such a manner, and with such a spirit, as to 
 evince a sincere regard to the best interests of the child. 
 
 One of the first 'objects of a schoolmaster should be to, 
 gain the love and confidence of his |)upils, by eonvi^cing 
 them that he has a sincere desire to render them respecta' 
 ble, useful and happy. \ 
 
 The more evidence he giv^s that such is his real dispo 
 sition, the less occasion he will find for severity in govern 
 ing his school ; and the more useful and happy be wjll 
 in biv oocupatipn. 
 
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 of t\ieir duty, it 
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 Its of the child. I 
 Lter should be tol 
 Is, by conviJ^cingl 
 Ir them respecta-f 
 
 Ls his real dispc 
 
 Verity in goyernj 
 
 Ihappybe w,ill^ 
 
 In 1747, (says an English paper,) a man was bioken 
 alive on the wheel at Orleans, for highway robbery. Not 
 having friends to bury his body, the executioner gave him 
 to a surgeon for dissection. The thighs, legs and arms of 
 the unhappy wretch had been broken, yet on being exam- 
 ined by the surgeon, be was found surviving, and by the 
 proper application of cordfals, he was soon capable of 
 speaking. The surgeon and his pupils, moved by the suf- 
 ^ferings and solicitations of the robber, determined on at- 
 tempting his cure ; but he was so mangled, that hn two 
 thighs, and one of his arms were amputated. Kplii^- 
 standing this mutilation, and the loss of blood, ho reoOT- 
 ered, and in this situation the surgeon by his own c|«Ni|iin0„ 
 had him conveyed in a cart fifty leagues^ ftom Oillpiii; 
 where, as he said, he intended to gam his liveliboodl^ 
 begging. His situation wimi on the wtA iido, ^lowlbjy.ii^ 
 'W^, and his deplorable condition exciti^i''com[^||^^~wi|i 
 all who saw him. fat hit yoiitli he had serVetf ta^ 
 and he now passed for a soldier who had lost hi 
 a camon^ shot. 
 
 A drover, returning horn markot, was aoliclfed Bj 
 robber for charity, and being moFed hy 6ompaaiioi>» ' 
 him a piece of silver. "1 cannot readi il^r-yiMri 
 neither arms nor leg^, (for he )iad coneealed^ii^ ^ 
 had been preserved^ behind hie back) il»t!@»i^^ 
 heaven, put your charitable donation into my'] 
 tke Lord bless you.", The drover approached, 
 at he Btboped, to pick up the money, the sui 
 Saw m shadow on the ground, which caused hinr^ 
 up, #Mn he perceived the arm of the btgi^r ole^ 
 o^er mit head, and his hand grasping a short iron b^'..J 
 amlikl the blow in its descent, and ieiniiDf th#' 
 eftrtied MiT tb \U car|, into wfaidi havtHg ilhi^ 
 he dioinsoffto ^e next to«iii which was ivOar,aiia^ 
 h^riioner before a magiitfate. 
 
 1(^ aeatchiiig hiili a w&iitle was found in' hief#«k«t| 
 wiiidb fiafturally itadnoed a eiilpicion that he W jKOtoHf* 
 p|l^ in the wood. The magistrate, therefore, 
 l/ied a guard to the phice where the robber 
 B 
 
 Wt&:-C 
 
 m:^'M 
 
 M 
 
 'V>- 
 
 
 
>.A60n FOB BEIITG A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 
 ■eized, and they arrived within half an hour after tho at- 
 tempted murder. iThe guard having concealed themselves 
 hind different trees, the whistle was blown, the sound of 
 which was remarkably shrill and luud : auotlier whistle 
 was heard under ground, three men at the same instant 
 rose over the midst of abushy clump of brambles and oth- 
 fir dwarf shrubs. The soldiers tired on them, and they 
 fell. The bushes were searched, and a descent disrovi^red 
 in a cave. Here were three ^oung girls and a boy. The 
 girls were kept for servants; the boy, scarcely 12 years 
 of age, was a son to one of the robbers. 
 
 The girls, in giving ovide.'ce, deposed that they had* 
 Myed. near three years in the cave, had been kept^there by 
 fofoe from the^ time of their captivity, that dead bodies 
 l^eire frequently carried into the cave, stripped and buried; 
 tadihat the old soldier was carried out every day, and sat 
 hf-the road sid(^ for two or three hours. On this evidence 
 tibie nmrdering mendicant was condemned to suffer a eec- 
 (Omd^xecutionon the wheel. As hut one arm remained, 
 li 11^ broken by several strokes, in several places, and 
 k J6t0ip de ^ race being denied, he li ve^ in tortures for near 
 4tr|s4iys. When dead his body was burned to ashes and 
 itii^ed before the winds. 
 
 ^; J^HE REASON FOR BEING A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 :r ' ■ . ■ ■ ■ - 
 
 >' I wfu 9. Christian, because the intrinsic excelleney of 
 C^lHristmnity points it out as a system'^orthy of my belief; 
 ^iftljlilio the laws which it prescribes, j4vo spirit wbicluft 
 jbil^llhes, and the discoveries which it makes, are so »d- 
 asM»l; suited to the constitution and circupistapces of 
 l«j^ (hat 1 cannot reject it. 
 .j^hiMOeptiye part of Christianity has been jrery gen- 
 j^prpved., lAnd how.is it possible, that anyone 
 priously' object to laws, which teqd to correet the 
 ti^'Cfllbrm the vipes of human nature ; and to^ez- 
 iil|t;;^<^,«aei«r?jiii man to the higliesi stage of mors! per- 
 
 ^^^ttift ivril|i|f||^ Ihe Evfingelists and Apostl«s> poar cftjp* 
 
 tempt 
 
 cribo 
 
 Th 
 
 to lov 
 
 resigr 
 
 rejoic( 
 
 The 
 
 hensio 
 
 nite w 
 
 nite g 
 
 * The 
 
 give h 
 
 mities, 
 
 distress 
 
 tance,- 
 
 sonabtc 
 
 Thej 
 
 as to a! 
 
 kindne 
 
 Thej 
 
 be chas 
 
 hie, to I 
 
 assembi 
 
 They 
 
 ents; a 
 
 'Ohildrer 
 
 fulness. 
 
 They 
 
 and'the 
 
 amiable 
 
 liage ut 
 
 They 
 
 pufolio 
 
 honor ai 
 
 just ado 
 
 In a 
 th0 affln 
 duty in 
 ttre such 
 j(>roVe. 
 l*hete| 
 
 ■1 
 
 r < 
 
 
ONE RKASOir FOR BBING A CHRIBTIAIT. 
 
 15 
 
 ia«g, poor c»9- 
 
 tempt upon all superstitious practices ; and lead us to iM- 
 cribe no value to any works, but those of piety and virtue. 
 
 They teach us to worship God in spirit and in trutb *• 
 to love him supremely ; to be grateful for his favors, and 
 resigned to his dispensations; to trust to his mercy, aod 
 rejoice in his government. 
 
 They teach us to dismiss all anxious cares and apprS' 
 hensions ; and, having employed the means vrhich infi- 
 nite wisdom has appointed, to leave the event with infi- 
 nite goodness. 
 
 They teach us to love our neighbor as ourselves ; to for- 
 give him when he has Injured us ; to bear with his infir- 
 mities, and to excuse his follies ; to weep with him in his 
 distresses ; — when he is in want, to afford him our assis- 
 tance,— and to do to him as we should think it fit and rea- 
 sonable that he should do to us. Ifjif 
 
 They teach us to love even our enemies, so faraf ieut> 
 as to abstain from revenge, and to render them officcf jdf 
 kindness when their circumstances call for commiseratii^. 
 
 They teach us to govern our appetites and passiooi, lio 
 be cbastis, humble, (enlperate, pure, and as much as'^jjpi*^- 
 ble, to be like our father in Beaven, whose character is in 
 assemblage of every natural tttt^iiyairal perfection. 
 
 They teach children to reverence and obey their Mtr- 
 ents; and parents to love, instruct; and provide for wAf 
 children. They teach masters lenity, and servant! liif|^ 
 fulness. 
 
 They teach the husband conjugal fidelity and aflbeti^ ; 
 and* the wife, the peculiar duties of her station, 
 amiable virtues which adorn the Sex, and Sless 
 riage' union. 
 
 They teach rulers to exercise their authority 
 publio good ; and persons in private life not to j 
 honor and submission from those, under whose ' 
 just administration they lead quiet and pisaceabl* 
 
 In a word, the affluent and the poor, the pro9| 
 the afflicted, the aged and the young, mky all 
 ^oty in the sacred bpoks; andthe duties, there '«] 
 are such as tKe enlightened reason of every, man muii 
 
 :|i;roye. "7"'^.'" ' '■' " 
 
 iThese tiibiime lessons of morality a^ fbt^ in ▼ 
 
16 
 
 ORS BBABOR VOR BBIITG A OHKISTIAV. 
 
 1 
 
 ¥> > 
 
 parts of the New Testament. They enrich the divine ser- 
 mon on the mount. They are contained in the excellent 
 parables delivered by Jesus Christ. I also find them in 
 the discourses of the Apostles, and in their pastoral letters. 
 
 I may say, wherever I open the Christian volume, I find 
 some direction, which, if properly observed, would render 
 me a good neighbor, a good member of society, a good 
 friend, and a good man ! Is^ it then possible for me to 
 doubt the divine original of a system, which furnishes 
 such rules ; and contemplates so glorious an object 1 
 
 If the prohibitions of Jesus Christ were universally re* - 
 garded, and his laws obeyed, what blessings would pour 
 in on society ! There would be no wars among the nations 
 of the earth. There would be no oppression. There 
 irould be neither tyrants nor slaves. 
 
 Every ruler would be just, every citizen would be hon- 
 est ; every pari^t would be faithful to his charge ; eveiy 
 child would be dutiful : the purest affection would recom* 
 domestic life; and neighbors would be mutual 
 lings. 
 
 tfnder the dominion of Christianity, envy, pride, and 
 jiealouty, would give way to the most enlarged |>ene¥0- 
 lenee. Human nature would recover its dignity; and 
 eTf ry man would reap the present reward of his own vir- 
 
 /.fhe doctrines of the Christian religion furnish an addi^ 
 m^l argument in its favor. They are such as appear 
 worthy of God, and answerable to the natural expecta- 
 tioBs of men, ^ ' 
 
 The perfections of the Deity, his agency in the creation 
 and government of the world, the conditions of his appot^- 
 ^the consequences, and a future state of existence, , 
 Siints, respecting which every reasonable being would 
 for information. And it is a &ct, that the New 
 Teittment throws divine light on all these articles. 
 
 Combining the doctrines and precepts of Christianity, 
 I am led, then, tq infer from them, the truth of the sys^ 
 ten. Because the former are so important, and the lat* 
 ter 80 beoieficial ; because j£# doctrines of Christ tend tj> 
 fludidui to wise, and his laws so good, I am, in a manner, 
 eovp^led to recenre them ai divine. Such is Ok^ sn* 
 
CAPTURB or BABTLOH. 
 
 17 
 
 preme excellence, that I must ascend to Heaven foran ad- 
 equate cause. — Rev. J. Clarke, 
 
 CAPTURE OP BABYLON BY CYRUS. 
 
 Among the events occurring in the history of this gr«at 
 kingdom, there are none more replete with interest and 
 instruction than the circumstances which attended the death 
 of Belshazzar. We are particularly struck with the man- 
 ner in which this event is foretold in scripture, atitf the 
 simple language, in which its accomplishment ianafiated. 
 Daniel relates so much of the history of the awA»l nighk 
 whiph closed the reign and the life of Belshazzan a^ is im- 
 mediately connected with this subject, joas^^g by the 
 events which an uninspired historian wow have siezed 
 upon as best suited to excite the interest f^ his readew,-- 
 And we may remark in passing, that th»*is a characterils 
 tic of all the sacred historians. They >«ver manifest anx- 
 iety to explain away apparent incons^tencies or to adducp 
 extrinsic testimony to the faithfuli)/^ of their narrative*. 
 The sacred history stands forth yi the simple majestj of 
 truth, disdaining all human support, and reposing immovf' 
 ably in the might of her owA inherent tfutb. Science, 
 and history have done her hi^tnage, as they have pactl^l^ 
 unrolled the book of knowledge, (open to her view iNun 
 the beg;iniiing,) and developed from age to age new •vi<r 
 dence^i^f ler instiiiration. 
 
 A comparison of the prophecies relating to tha«P9B^ 
 which forms our present subject, with history both 
 and profane, would be interesting. This, howeii 
 not our purpose to make, but simply to adduce ai 
 ing passage from Herodotus, a recent perusal of ^ 
 occasioned these remarks. 
 
 For a minute acco'int of the awful scenes which 
 red: in the palace of Belshazzar, on tha night of hi 
 strui^on, we refer our readers t(^ the fifth d^aptw of 
 The profligate monarch, sectf re in the pfotf^ctj^ bflUfi 
 m^ive walls, gave himself up on this bcca||C|i\.to |^* 
 boiiaded revelry. A thousand of hi| lords, hit wivet and 
 B 2 
 
 
 ^f>- •, 
 
18 
 
 CAPTURS OF BABYLON. 
 
 concubines, united in the scene of dissipation, and railed 
 their hands in sacrilege against the Lord of hosts. The 
 terrific vision which silenced their intemperate and pro- 
 fane merriment ; the awful sentence written against Bel- 
 •hazzai^ upon the walls of his own palace, and its speedy 
 execution, are circumstances upon which it is unnecessary 
 to dilate. Let the reader examine them in the narrative 
 of Daniel, and observe how well it accords with the ac- 
 cpunt of Herodotus. 
 
 The writer informs us that Cyrus, having encountered 
 the Babylonians in his march towards their city, defeated 
 and chased them within its walls. He laid siege to it 
 but th« inhabitants anticipating this event had collected 
 provisi^s and other necessaries for many years support, so 
 that they sustained the siege without concern. Cyru« 
 continued V for a great length of time, without making 
 the least prWrtps, or obtaining the slightest prospect of 
 •uccesB. Thik baffled in his designs by the strength of 
 the city, and thel^resight of its inhabitants, he was brought 
 into a state of gre^ perplexity. 
 
 'Whilst in this f^te of anxiety,* Hei*odotus infoms us, 
 ' he adopted the foUo^g expedient, either from the sug- 
 gestion of others, or frd\n the deliberation of his own judg- 
 ihent. Ho placed one de^chment of his forces where the 
 river first enters the city, i|id another where it leaves it, 
 dtreeting^them to enter the channel, and attack the town 
 ifl^hilnever a passage could be effifccted. After this disposi- 
 tion of his men, he withdrew With the less effective of hit 
 troops to the marshy ground vrhich we have before de- 
 fended. Here he pursued in every respect the example 
 6l to^ Babylonian princes ; he pierced the banks, and jn- 
 U^^didntted the river into the lake, by which means the bed 
 6f ttMt^up^i^t^ became sufficiently shallow for the object 
 ''ibainview. The Persians in their station watched 
 ^Mytteper opportunity, and when the stream had so far 
 reUft^ not to be higher than their thighs, entiered Bab- 
 ylon without difficulty. If th6 besieged had either been 
 ftWifiVDf the designs of Cyrus, or had* discovered the pro- 
 jtiet iMfore its aetnal aecompl^hment, they might have ef^ 
 H^Cited ti^ loltil destruction of these troops. , They had oa^ 
 1/ 1 ^i»%^| W i ^e little gates which led to the river, ac^d to 
 
 might hav 
 tbey nevei 
 taken by i 
 that, as th 
 
 in the exti 
 was eomm 
 of festivitj 
 gaged in c 
 first time, 
 Xenopfaf 
 tiiat two d 
 •ian army i 
 King was, 
 but they si 
 terminatioi 
 of the disj] 
 
 A farme 
 KMsket, toe 
 >f the land 
 foving oc4 
 ^ine host i 
 be oouiQtr: 
 laite sure i 
 >y the asto 
 8G<Alection 
 BerlnipUe 
 rie&d)" sai 
 od tell hit 
 Dpney witi 
 nd lodge i| 
 riettdii amj 
 teit GomiDiii 
 itsueK ad V 
 y^ofjOiewfl 
 
 »• 
 
 It 
 
cubban'» uroKauiTY. 
 
 19 
 
 ij and raised 
 hosto. The 
 ite and pro- 
 against Bel' 
 ad its speedy 
 I unnecessary 
 he narrative 
 with the ac- 
 
 ; encountered 
 city, defeated 
 1 siege to it 
 had coUected 
 Lfs support, so 
 cern. Cyru» 
 hout making 
 it prospect of 
 e strength of 
 e was brought 
 
 tus infoms us, 
 from the sug- 
 his own judg- 
 :es where the 
 re it leaves it, 
 tack the town 
 ir this disposi- 
 iffective of hi« 
 ave before de- 
 ; the example 
 lanks, and io- 
 neans the ht^ 
 7 for the object 
 ation watched 
 earn had so far 
 , entiered Bab- 
 id. either been 
 vered the pro- 
 night have ef- 
 They had on- 
 e river, aLd to 
 
 I have manned the embankments on either side, and thtj 
 
 might ha^e enclosed the Persians in a net from which 
 
 they never^|0«uld have escaped : as it happened, they were 
 
 I taken by surprise ; and such is the extent of the city, 
 
 that, as the inhabitants themselves affirm, they who lived 
 
 in the extremities were made prisoners, before any aliarm 
 
 Iwai communicated to the centre of the place. It was a day 
 
 lof festivity among them, and whilst the citizens were eO'- 
 
 I gaged in dancing and merriment, Babylon was, for the 
 
 |first time, thus taken.' 
 
 Xenophon, in the 7th book of his Cyropcsdia, statea 
 Ithat two desetters, Gadata and Gobryas, led on the Per- 
 liian army to the palace. They entered the ro6m where the 
 ■King was, and found him standing in a posture of defence ; 
 Ibut they soon despatched him and his associates. What a 
 ■termination to a royal feast ! How awful a manifestation, 
 of the displeasute of God against revelry an^ profanity ! 
 ^ JEpiscopal JRecordert 
 
 CURUAN'S INGENUlTir. 
 
 A farmer, attending a fair with a hundred pounds in itiif 
 
 sket, took the precaution of depositing it in the^hplli 
 
 the landlord of the publioi house at which he st^^jplj^^ 
 laving occasion for it shortly afterwards, he resortal to 
 line host fur the bailment ; but the landlord, too deep fer 
 Ibe oouititryman, wondered what was meant, and wmi 
 quite surei no such sum had ever been lodged in hia baitdi 
 by the astonished rustic. After ineffectual appeals to the 
 (lection, and finally to the honor of Bardolph, the far* 
 
 Br applied to Curran for advice : " Have patience, m^ 
 
 riendy*' said the counsel ; " speak to the landlord civiUy. 
 
 id tell him you are convinced you must have left your 
 
 >ney with^ some other person. Take a friotd with fum 
 ^nd lodge with him another hundred io the presence of 5^oii|' 
 
 md, and then come to me.'' We must imagine and 
 
 commH to papery the vociferations of the lioi^ildiipe» 
 
 \itnoh advice; however, moved by therhf tOi^^o^Miliiflti- 
 
 of 1^ worthy counsel, he foliowf || hie advice, anil fttim^ 
 
 I 
 
 4^ 
 
 I * 
 
rUMALH OlDIfRllOIITY. 
 
 m^ 
 
 •4 to hii legal friond. " And now, lir, I don't mo •• I'alnhtM th< 
 to bt belloruflfror thin, if I got my Rocond hundred ■)|;ain,l,||o|y0| 
 Viit how is thut to bo donoV " Go nnd (i«k him fbf l|||4 ihgy^ 
 U when lio it iilonn," miid tiic coiinnul. " Ayo, sir, bull||« throi 
 atklng won't do, I'zo alVnid, without my witnoM at nnyliMuaintti 
 rate." *' Never mind, tnkn my ndvice," miid thecouniel;l||0 would 
 *'do M I ttid you and return lo me." Tlie fnrmer ccturnedl^urQii Qf 
 with hit hundred -' at any rate to find thiU aafo in hlilun the da 
 pOMOiion. " Ni it I NuppoRo I nuiit bo content : butm* the an 
 I don't Hco (tM l*in much better on." " Well," then, ■ai<)l|f§re ileei 
 the couriBcl, " now take your friend witli you.nndnak tlitl^n^ of the 
 landlord for the hundred pound* your friend ((aw you loavil^miiddQ^ 
 with him." Wo need not ndd, tliat the wily landiordlprgaQt^f.^ ^ 
 fbund ho had been tnken ofl* bin guard, wlrilo our honeitlgi^i^ f^fn. 
 frieud returned to thank hiit eounnel dxultingly, with botbl^^r hwtl 
 ^undrcda in his pocket.— Airga/ jfdvcrtUoij, Ig^^ g^^^ ^^^ 
 
 loor of a y 
 
 liltar, told 
 
 Jfood daily, 
 
 FEMALIi] GENISROSITY. Iiafety. SI 
 
 J immediate] 
 I mat one evening in a mixed company of ladies andl « He dei 
 -eentlemen, when the oonvorRation happened to turn uponli tonbston 
 Uie subject of goncro^iity. It was maintained by ■oiMl|iit|iio|it a 
 of the gentleman, that it was more inherent in the makKist. He 
 than in the female breast.— After many arguments on thiLiM] did n 
 iubjeot, a lady related the following instance of gent-lptMaiygd 
 toiily in a female. Ibsgan 4o fe 
 
 ** In the latter part of the French ro volution, a younQftoni'Opnii 
 nwn, who was closely pursued by a body of gens d'armi 
 111 the streets pf Paris, stopped at a door in which the 
 fidbd a young female, and requested concealment. The! 
 wIhi no time to consider, as the atoldiers were close at hand 
 dfaft eondneted him to a back building .and looked him ii 
 toifcely had this been done when the soldiers passed.^ 
 At it happened, the very body of gens d'armes, who bi 
 
 SQitued the young man, were invited by the owner of 
 tllist to take up their quarters for the ntghti and W< 
 |iUI into a toom in the same building in which th«ri 
 giat had taken shelter ; and as they occupied tht' 
 iiexf the entranee, he coUld not escape withoul piiisll 
 
riMALB OBKBAOIITY. 
 
 31 
 
 /• 
 
 lon'k MO M 1*01 liihtra they Uj. In thii dilemma, the ycuof woman 
 
 hundrvd a);ain,|,iiolvei lo extricate him, if Doteible. She waited until 
 
 nit a«lc hire lbtl|^« thought the aoldiera were all aaleep, and then paif* 
 
 « Aye, «ir, bttlliig through the room without awakening anj of the)n» 
 
 witiioM nt nnylgoquainted the itranger of hit peril, and told him thtdk if 
 
 mid the counsel; Iim would content, the could conduct him ton neighbeting 
 
 rnrnicr rotiirnedl^urch of which her uncle kept the keys, and lecrete him 
 
 (hat safo in liiil|iU the danger wae over. He contented. She took him 
 
 1)0 content : hutlbjr the arm, and they entered the room where th«- eoldiere 
 
 ^ull," then, eaidlwereileeping, when, in paiiing, he atruck hie fiH>l againtt 
 
 yoii.nnd nsk tlulone of them, who jumped up, aeized the young man and 
 
 dKiiw you loavil^mandod who it wai,— when the young ladf, with groat 
 
 wily landlord! prtience of mind, anawered, *' it it only I, who came to 
 
 rliilo our honci(||Mk for"— fortunately, ahe had no more ^o eay , aa the aoU 
 
 ingly, with botb|4itr, hearing a female voice lot go the pirm. They paaeed 
 
 on, and entering the church, ahe conducted him to the 
 
 door of a vault, whioh wae curlouily Mncealed behind the 
 
 iltar, told him to enter there, and ahe would bring him 
 
 food daily, until he ihould be enabled to venture forth Id 
 
 lafety. She gave him the lamp, and ihutting the door». 
 
 immediately xetumed to the houie. 
 
 <* He deioended into the Tault, and Mating himaelf ob 
 t tonbatone, he there beheld recorded the namea of hie il<- 
 titaiued hy iomlteitiioMa anceatora, who had long aince mouldered into 
 iront in the mah 4iiat. He waa overpowered with fatigue, and fell aileepf 
 land did not awake until late in the morniDf, when he 
 BtMeived that hia benefaotreia had not been there^ and he * 
 began lo fear that aomething had happened to prevent her 
 m-o^ming again. Ho waited in terror and anxiety un- 
 til night, but etiU ahe oaipe not, and he laid down in da* 
 k on a torabitone, reaolved to endure the lingeiiftf . 
 ath which awaited him. He aunk into a lethargy iftton ^ , i ? 
 he waa wakened on the folk>wing morning bj tht « t\\ 
 
 Y. 
 
 ny of ladiea and 
 tied to turn upon 
 
 irguments on thi 
 istance of gent 
 
 olution, a youm 
 of gent d'armi 
 r in which th 
 lealment. Thti 
 ere dote at ham 
 id locked him ift 
 oldiera paaaed 
 'armet, who hi 
 the owner of 
 night, and # 
 which tho 
 Bcupied the 
 withoul pdMl 
 
 m 
 
 teioe of hit benefaotreaa, calling on hie name; bat H 
 n^td aa if animation had ceaaed,for he waa unal^lo ||' 
 lOve or articulate a tound. He heard the dreadful amiiM 
 jof the door aa it fell ; he uttered a faint cry> and 
 ip the atepa. Fortunately, the young lady had not 
 apot ; ahe raited the door, entered the TauU, ami Ji^ 
 new Vitu to the aufferer* She informed hiiJi tfei|| 
 hid been unable to get to thtf chureb 0inoe hif eoocftl- 
 
 . I 
 
 A^H'. L '" 
 
39 
 
 Tiio noblk: loir. 
 
 mont, on account of tlio vip;ilanci' cf tho ^naidfl who w«n| 
 ttationed at her unclu'ii, but that sho had made arningi»| 
 ments by which she could siippiv him with food daily;! 
 •lie prepared to depart, and had ascended the steps, wheil 
 thty heard nersuns entering tho diurch. She immcdiattf 
 ly closed the door of tho vault, and the next moment theyl 
 haard the steps of a. body of soldiers passiuf; and repasiJ 
 ing akoMt the church, who were searchinp^ for somil 
 refageeS; whom they suspected were conconcealed there,! 
 They were conducted by the unsuspicious uncle, who Icdl 
 ihein to evfry part of tho buildiuf;, to prove his innocence.) 
 ** Their fcptstcps were oft^n heard by the tremblini 
 couple below, passing over the vault, but they did m 
 perceive it. WKen they left the church, she left the vaulll 
 with repeated assurances of daily supplying him with vict{ 
 uals. She perforhted i\ev promise, and in a few days con*! 
 ducted him from th« place of his concealment, and he wi 
 Mittbled to reach home in safety. 
 
 THE NOBLE SON. 
 
 * You ^ra too parsimonious, Henry,' said Mr D. to 
 «f hiii clerks, as they were together in the counting ro 
 0116 momhig ; * give me leave to say you do not di 
 Mffid^ntty genteel to appear as a clerk in a fashioikal 
 «tii^«/ Henry's face was suffused with a de6p blush, ai 
 hi tpitto df his efforts to surpress it, a tear treAbted on hi^ 
 iMnty «hcek. * Did I not knowi that your salary was •! 
 Mint td provide more genteel habiliments,' contiaui 
 Mr B. < I would increase it.* 
 
 * My salary is sdfficient, amply sufficient, sir,' r^plie 
 Seliijr, in atoica choked with emotion, but with tt 
 ||#cNld independence of foeling of which poverty ha^ 
 liiMi able to ^it^est him. His employer noticed his a^t 
 tidtt aiid immediately changed the subject* 
 '- Ifr B. Iiriui a inatittf immense wealth, and ample beni 
 oWiail ; ho^ae a 'Widower— an4 had but one-ehil 
 ii^hter, wifo wiBts the pride of his declfoing ^^ft;' 1 
 wl»1Hlti»1ii|i«ti^(#Ctt angel, or upHttm^^^ 
 
 
d made arnlng^ 
 with food daily ; 
 I thtt steps, Trhei 
 She immediate* 
 cxt inunient they 
 isini; nnd repaM< 
 
 Tim NOliLB BCK, 9 
 
 Bui the good iiesi), the ioiiocfncc, tho intelligenc* of her 
 
 ^rjaicN who wen ountenauco ! ioid you had but to hecomo acquainted with 
 
 lei' to love and adiiiiro lur. Such was Curuliue DelaDC«j 
 vhea Henry iirsi htcume an iiimato uf her father's house. 
 io wonder then (hut he wo»tihipped at her vhrino ; no won- 
 kr then bo soon h>ved her with a deep and devoted afieo- 
 ion, and, reader, h«id you known him, you would not haro 
 rondured that that iovo was soon returned, for their souli 
 
 rcliinpf for somi ^^j^q congenial, cast in virlue's purest mould. Henry 
 
 ficoncealed there, 
 
 IS uncle, who led 
 
 )Vc his innocence. 
 
 y the tremblini 
 
 ut they did n 
 
 she left the vaulll 
 
 aent, and he wi 
 
 ivas *he very houl of houor, and although ho perceived 
 ith plensure ihat he was not indifferent to Caroline, be 
 till felt that he must conquer the passion that warmed hit 
 lOiom. ' I must not endeavor to win her young and art- 
 \ heart,' thought he. * I am penny less, and cannot ex- 
 t that her fatj^er would ever consent to our union — be 
 [ig him with victm^g ^y^r treated mo with kindness, and I will not be un- 
 i a few days con>^nil^fy|,* Thus ho reasoned—thus he heroically endeav- 
 
 red to subdue what he considered an ill fated parSiion» 
 aroline had many suitors, and some who were full/ wor* 
 hy of her ; hut slie refused all their overtures with a gen- 
 ie yet decisive firmness. Her father wondered at her con- 
 uct, yet would not thwart her inclinatio.i. He wai \fi 
 he decline of life, and wished to see her happily settled 
 re he quitted the stage of existence. It was not long 
 ire he suspected that young Henry w as the cause of . her 
 difference to others, from the evident pleasure she took 
 bearing him praised ; the blush that overspread ^beir 
 16i whenever their eyes met, all served to convince ibe 
 gentleman, who had not' forgotten that he wafODoe 
 og himself, that they felt more than comnaon interfil 
 ift^ach other's, welfare. He forbore making anyi remtfclif 
 n the subject, but was not so niuch displta^d atitbe.fiij^ 
 
 ition as the penny lees; Henry would hiay|^ imagineil. 
 
 1 Henry had now been one year in bit employ^ Mr 
 
 ilsnew nothing of hitfainily, but hiti^Hcjt i||teiiity,ibii 
 
 proachable morals* bit pleating m^mm^^'M^^n^ 
 
 ke him esteem him highly. He yrmM^mMmh 
 
 ', and wished him to.|ip|)ear<in drest at weQi^'li^^Aiu 
 
 bad often wondered at ^ tfliintiMst 6£ Ji^ririWMNi.. 
 
 otii^ be dressed with tbe mott icppi|iQ||»: 'ftet^^ 
 
 I, hit elothet were almost tbread'hare* /Mr P. il| 
 
 id Mr D. to 
 
 le counting 
 rott do not d 
 in a fashioOa^ 
 i deftp blush, ai 
 r trembted on 
 ir salary was v 
 lents,' continui 
 
 
 
 
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 TUB WOBLIO ION. 
 
 •M 
 
 ttot think that tbii proctodod from u niggurdly diipoiilioiij 
 tad ht dettrmlned to broach tho iiubjact, and if poiaiblt 
 aioartaiii tha raal cauio. Thii lie did in tbo mannar ralitj 
 •d above. 
 
 Soon after ihli oonveriation took plaee Mr D. left hoi 
 on buiineaa. Ai he wat returning, and riding through 
 beautiftil village, he alighted at the door of a cottage ai 
 requeited drink. Tlio mbitresM, ^rith an eatiy air, and po*! 
 liteneu ythkh oonvinood him thnt «he had not nlwayv ben| 
 the hunkble cottager, invitud htm to enter. He aooeptc 
 the invitation, and here a icone of poverty and neatneii| 
 preiented itielf, vuoh ai ho had never before witneiiedl 
 The Airnlture, which oouiiitod of nothing moro than whiu 
 waa abfolutely heooMary, waimo exquiiitely clean thatitl 
 gave oharini to poverty, and cait an air of comfort on alll 
 around. A venerable looking old man, who had not neeml 
 •4 to notice Mr D. nat leaning on his italf, hit clothei wer 
 elnn jtnd whole, but no patched that you could icareelj 
 have told which waa the original piece. 
 
 * Tbia if your father, I prenumo,* aald Mr D. addreaaini 
 the BuiatreM of the houie. 
 
 «ttia, lir.' 
 
 ' H# aeemi to be quite aged.* 
 
 * He if in hii eighty-third year 
 hit ohildren excepting myielf.* 
 
 < You have aeen belter dwp V 
 
 'I have : my huaband waa wealthy : but falia fritl 
 rulnad him ; ha endoraed notea to a great amount whl 
 •tttppttiia of nearly all our property, and one miifo 
 mttowtd r^nother, until we were reduced to oomplett pof«| 
 trty . If V huaband did not long aurvivt hia loaaea and * 
 ol mr ohildren aoon followed htm. 
 
 « Have you 4iiy rtmainUig ehildrti^t' 
 
 * I hava 6M, who It my only Mmport. My hm^ 
 ib fiiiblt tiMt I enniiot 40 mii«h and my fiithar belBg 1i" 
 Midi jniiiiiliiitbB. My ton eoaoaala ft«B my Snoi 
 adgt^ aiUABt ofhia aalary; but I. am oonvinoad lii 
 mw^ niM Mtify aU If not the wlmlt of it. 
 
 « Vtai hi Wilol ai homt with you V 
 ^ N9 itr, kt ii dark ht •. merehant in Philadelphia.* 
 
 he haa aurvi?e4all 
 
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TIIR NOilKM ■OW. 
 
 M 
 
 Mr D. acldrefiiDi 
 
 hit lurrircdall 
 
 < Clork fur n m«rchiiit iit Philotlolphit ! pray what it 
 your utm'ii nnineV 
 
 • Henry W .' 
 
 • Ilonry W -!• roiteraterf Mr D. « why h« it my 
 
 olork ; I led him nt my houto not a fortnight n'mce. 
 
 Hare fullow«i(l a miccoidiion of iii(|uiriei, which erinead 
 All nnxioty iin<l Nolicitiiilo that nuito but a uiothorcao foal ; 
 to nil of wliiuh Mr l>. ropliod to hor tatiiiftictiou. 
 
 *You know our Henry 7* naid the ohi roan, raiaing hia 
 head from Uih Mtaff, ' woll Hir, thuii you know aa worthy a 
 lad iiH ov4tr lived— (iod blo»N him for hia ((oodnosa to hia 
 pool old Knind-fiithr r/ ha addod in a tromuloua voioo, wbil<^ 
 the ttmrii run down liiM a^od clieeka. 
 
 • He ia u worthy fidlow, to ha Nuro,' aaid Mr J>. rialog 
 «nd placing a well Ailed pume in the handii of tha old 
 man, * ho id a worthy fulhm, and iiliali not want for fVianda.' 
 
 *Noldo hoy/ aaid ho, montally, aa ho waa riding laia* 
 uroly along, ruminating on hia lata interview, ' nohio boy, 
 he Rhail not want woalth to enable him to diatributa hap- 
 pinoen. I bolieve he loveH my girl, and if ho do«a he aliaU 
 have her, and my property into the bargain.' 
 
 Filled with thii projoct, and determinod if poaaible to 
 Moartain the true aato of thoir feolinga towanta eaoh other, 
 I ba entered the breakfaat room tUo uiorning aftor hia arrival 
 at home. 
 
 • So Henry ia about to leave ua and go to England *'\ 
 try hia fortune,' he oareleaaly obeerved. 
 
 *HaDry about to leave ui!' aaiO Caroline, dropping th* ^ 
 work aba held in her handi, ' about to leave ua and go |o 
 Boglandi' ahe added in a tone which evinced tho deetmat 
 llBtarfit. ' 
 
 < To be aure, and what if ha li, child t* 
 
 < Nothing, Sir, nothing, only 1 thought wa ahould bit 
 lutlitr lonaaoma,' aht replied, taming away to hidt l||| 
 {liira aho oould not auppreaa. ^ 
 
 •Tell me, Caroline,' aaid Mr D. tandarly tmbrMlnf h0«» 
 
 < tall rot, do you lova Henry 1 you know I wiili your li»p* 
 
 Ipiaam my child. I have aver traatad you wUli klndotM, 
 
 I and you never concealed any thing ttom your Aither i»»tU 
 
 tow.* "? 
 
 « Neither will I now,' aha replied, biding he? fcoe ki Wt 
 C 
 
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26 
 
 THK MOBLB SON. 
 
 
 
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 bosom. * I do most sincerely esteem him ; but do not for 
 wwlds tell him so, for ho never said it was retomed.* 
 
 * I will soon find that oat, and without telling hin too/ 
 ili«d the father, leaving the room. 
 ' Benry/ said he, as he entered the counting house, 
 
 *JW expect to visit the country, shortly, do you not V 
 
 * Yes, Sir, in about four weeks.' ^ 
 Mf it will not be too inconvenient,' rejoined Mr D., * I 
 
 should like to have you defer it a week or two longer.' 
 
 ' It will be no inconvenience, Sir, and if it will oblige 
 you I will wait with pleasure.' 
 
 * It will pertainly oblige me, for Caroline is to be mar- 1 
 ried in about five weeks, and I would not miss having you | 
 attend the wedding. 
 
 ' Caroline to be married. Sir,' said Heiiry, starting as if I 
 by an electric shock, * Caroline to be married ! is it pos8i-| 
 We V 
 
 * To be sure it is, but what is there wonderful in that V 
 ' Nothing, Sir, it is rather sudden — rather unexpected— | 
 
 ghat's all.' 
 
 < It is rather sudden to be sure,' replied Mr D., ' but II 
 am an old man and wish to see her have a protector ; and I 
 as the man of her choice is well worthy o( her, I see nol 
 use in her waiting any longer, and am very glad you canl 
 stay to the wedding.' 
 
 't'oanifot stay, Sir, indeed I cannot,' replied Henry,] 
 fi||ngetting what he had previously said. 
 /" ^ You cannot 1 rejoined Mr D. * why you just said yoo| 
 would.' 
 
 , Yes, Sir, but business requires my presence in the| 
 country, and I must go.' 
 
 * But you said it would put you to no inconv«nienctJ 
 but that you would stay with pleasure.' 
 
 < Command me in anything else, Sir, but in this rei| 
 I eatiBOt oblige you,' said Henry, rising a'tad walking tha| 
 floor with bpid strides. 
 
 Poor fellow, h^ had thought his passion subdued ; bvt{ 
 irhto he imir thi^ Caroline was so soon, so irreeovf 
 Wboepme another's, the latent spark burst forth into 
 Uttexttnguisbable flame ; and he found it in vain to CB^tti 
 ok to ooneiiil his emotioDs. 
 
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 ^:: 
 
TMB MOBLip SON. 
 
 37 
 
 l^he old gentleman regarded him with a look of earnest- 
 nets^* Now Henry,* said he, * tell me frankly, do you \of 
 my girl?* 
 
 • I will be eandid with you Sir,' replied Henry, con- 
 scious that his agitation had betrayed him, * had I the for- 
 tune such as she merits, as you, Sir, have a right to expect, 
 I should think myself the happiest of men, could I gain 
 * her love.* 
 
 ( Thttn she is yours,* cried the delighted old man, * say 
 not a word about propevty. my boy, true worth is better 
 than riches; I was only trying you Henry, and Caroline 
 never will be married to any other than yourself.* 
 
 The transition from despair to happiness was great. 
 r«r a moment Henry remained silent but his looks spoke 
 volume*. At last he replied : 
 
 ^I scorn to deceive you. Sir, I am poorer than what 
 you suppose— I have a mother and a grandfather, who 
 are — 
 
 ' I know it, I know it all,* said Mr D., interrupting 
 him ; I know the reason of your parsimony, as it is called, 
 and honor you for it ; it was that which first put.it into 
 my head to give you Caroline, so she shall be yours, and 
 God bless you both !' 
 
 Shortly after this conversation, Henry avowed his love 
 to CaroKue, sullctttug ber iiaao, sutl It if needless to lay 
 that he did not solicit in vain. Caroline would harv 4*- 
 forred their union until the succeeding spring, but lui^fli 
 ther was inexorable. ' He supposed he should have tooml 
 one falsehood* he said, and they would willingly havefaHii 
 bear two, but it was too much, and he would hot endan^ 
 it. He had told Henry she was to be married in ftt* 
 weeks, and he would not forfeit his word ; but perhapt^ 
 added he, turning to Henry, perhaps we shUl have 1U> de- 
 fer, it, after all, as you have important business in the 
 country about that time. 
 
 * Be merciful. Sir, said Henry,' smiling, * I did not with 
 to witness the sacrifice of my own happiness.' 
 
 < I am merciful,' replied the old gentlematt, * and tot 
 that reason would not wish to put you to the intooYen* 
 lenet of staying. Tou said you would wiiiMigi|^ohlif« 
 lii, h»i you could uoti indeed you doolfliiiot**^ I < 
 
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 28 
 
 THB PLAGUK IIT FLORKMOS. 
 
 . < You have been youog, Sir, said Heory. 
 
 * I know it,' replied he, laugl^ng heartily, ' but too ma 
 ny of us old folks forget it — huwever, if you can postpone 
 your journey, I suppose we wuit have a wedding.' 
 
 We have only to add that the friends of Henry were 
 sent for, and that bles^ with the filial love of Henry and 
 Caroline, the old people passed the remainder of their days 
 in peace and happiness. 
 
 TllE MiAGUE IN FLORENCE, ITALY. 
 
 V In the year 1348, the proud and populous city of ^*^* 
 rence was laid low in sorrow by the scourge at «"«« of ^^ 
 most destructive plagues which history r^oot^^ \ a plague 
 which, in the coinplication of its horrors, and the extent 
 of its ravages, is entitled to a mournful eminence beside 
 those of Athens^ Marseilles and London. 
 ^ This plague first broke out in the Levant, and moving 
 on from place to place, finally, notwithstanding every pre- 
 caution that human foresight could devise, made its ap- 
 pearance in the spring of the year, at Florence. 
 
 The. malady was soon found to be contagious, and 
 gpiMid with frightmi rapiaity tbrougn the crowded popu- 
 hitioii of the city. No sooner had the contagion become 
 geoeral than all social order wa» at an end : the conetilti]- 
 ted a^borities of the city ceased to possess any control 
 cter the people, every one became undisputed master of 
 bilown actions; and in tt^is universal anarchy and mii- 
 jlriji dNiudoBed miaereants rose up, who made the desola- 
 tion «f Iheir fellow citizens the means of unhallowed gaiii^ 
 gdof ftom Itouse to house and despoiling the deserted pal* 
 aoii of &eir pbite, and furniture, and even plunderinff 
 the dead and dying in their last helpless agonies, of the 
 ^try Jeweto they wore on their persons. Indeed, the mor- 
 bid aelfishneit and hardness of heart, engendered by^con* 
 ■li^ ftmittanty with these scenes of horror, whioh some- 
 time M tHe besito abandon their friends to fate, and 
 ttoislsd^ bad tolssofa aoto of proiigate pillage, mani- 
 HiM ititif, ^tiniwholrcoQdQCtoltheiiibftb^ltf^ ft 
 
 
 
TMB PLAOUB IH FLOABVOB. 
 
 99 
 
 wti the custom in the citj for the friendi of a deceased 
 person to assemble at his house, and sympathise with the 
 afflicted family ; but all the accompaniments of grief were 
 now no more ; the surviving relations, given up to a kind 
 of intoxication of despair, converted the funeral solemni- 
 ty into a revolting scene of laughter and noisy merri- 
 ment. 
 
 But the manner in which those persons who were yet 
 in health, spent their time, ws^s the most remarkable. One 
 class, thinking to avoid contagion by moderation in diet, 
 and shunning all excesses, formed little parties who Ihut 
 themselves up from the world, paid no regard to whatev- 
 er was passing without their doors, and living temperate- 
 ly on the best of wines and viands, occupied their minds 
 entirely with music and other agreeable, but moderate re- 
 creations. Others, on the contrary, maintained free liv 
 ing to be the surest preservative, and ac^rdingly they 
 passed day and night in drinking, feasting, and every ox- 
 cess of vice, moving continually from tavern to tavern, 
 taking possession of the untenanted mansions of the rich, 
 and using all they contained as common property. 
 
 Another class held a middle course between these two 
 extremes, neither binding themselves to a strict.diet, like 
 the one, nor indulging intemperance like the other, but 
 eating and drinking as their feelings dictated, going about 
 as usual, enly smelling constantly of spicery and aromal • 
 ic herbs, by way of protection against the influences of 
 contagion. 
 
 A more numerous class, however, of those in easy cir- 
 cumstances, hurried away from the city, to their friends 
 and their possessions, in the country, postponing every 
 eontideration to the love of fife, and seeming to hold it a 
 teoipting of their fate to abide in a place thui doomed to 
 dettroetion. But, not to dwell any longer oil these pain* 
 ful objects, it is confidently affirmed, that within the space 
 of five months, what, by the neglect to which thia^ck 
 ^ere exposed; what, by the inherent virulence of the pes^ 
 tilence, more than a hundred thousand souls perithed ilitl)- 
 in. the walls of the city; so that many a msgiiift^nt 
 dwelling was depopulated to the last servant *, thcnlM^iidi 
 in the prime of youthful vigor, who rote in the montiDg 
 C2 
 
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 mmt. RICHARD BAXTKR. 
 
 seeniingly in perfect health, were carried out to their lait 
 Ipng home before night ; large families became entirely ex- 
 tinct, aa if, they had never been ; and a multitude of vait 
 poMeisioni remained without any living person to claim 
 the inheritance. 
 
 REV. RICHARD BAXTER. 
 
 The following striking interposition of Providence, h 
 said to have taken place during Mr Baxter's residence in 
 Coventry. Several ministers ejected by the act of uni- 
 formity, who resided in that city, united with Mr Baxter 
 in establishing a lecturo in a private house on a^ neighbor- 
 ing common. The tim>9 of worship was generally a very 
 early hour. Mr B. left Coventry in the evening, intend- 
 ing to preach the following morning. The night being | 
 dark, he lost his way, and wandering about a considerable 
 V time he came to a gentleman's house, where he asked for] 
 direction. The gentleman, thinking it would be unsafe 
 for such a person to be wandering on the common at so 
 late an hour, requested the servant to invite him ill. Mr 
 Baxter readily accepted the kind proposal, and met with a 
 vary hospitable reception. His conversation was such as 
 toi^givo his host an exalted idea of his good sense and ex- 
 tensive information. , 
 
 The gentleman, wishing to know the quality of hit 
 guest, said after supper, <* As most persons have some em- 
 ployment or profession in life, I have no douM, sir, that 
 you have yours.*' «* Yes, sir, I am a man catcher." " A 
 man catcl^r, (said the gentleman,) are you 1 I am glad to 
 hear you s^' so, for you are the very person I want. I am 
 a justice of the peace in tftis district,^and am commission- 
 ed to seize th^ person of Dick Baxter, who is expected to 
 preach at a conventicle in this neighborhood early to-mor- 
 row morning ; you shall go with rae, and I have no doubt 
 #eahall easily apprehend the rogue." Mr B. agreed to 
 aieiompany him. Accordingly, the next morning, thl 
 gentleman took Mr Baxter in his carriage t(^ the place 
 Ivhere the meeting was to be held. When thejF •arrived" 
 
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RBV. RIOHAKD BAXTSR. 
 
 81 
 
 at the spot, they law a oonsiderbble number of people 
 hovering about, for iieeing the carriage of the juatice, and 
 luspecting his intentions, they were afraid to enter the 
 house. The justice observing this, s:.id to Mr. Baxter, 
 « I am ^raid they have obtained information of my de- 
 sign ; Mr B-'xter has probably been apprised of it, and 
 will not fulfil his engagement ; for you see the people will 
 not enter the house. I think if we extend our ride a lit- 
 tle farther, our departure may encourage them to assem- 
 ble, and on our return we may fulfil our coiflmission." 
 When they returned they fuuiid their efforts useless, for 
 the people still appeared unwilling to assemble. 
 
 The magistrate, thinking he should be disappointed of 
 the object he had in view, observed to his companion — 
 "That as the people were very much disaffected ^o gov- 
 ernment, he would be much obliged to him to address them 
 on the subject of good blehavior." Mr Baxter replied, 
 " that perhaps this would not be deemed suflicient ; for as 
 the religious service was the .object for which they had 
 come together, they would not be satisfied with advice ot 
 that nature; but if the magistrate would begin ^ith a 
 prayer, he would endeavor to say something to them.**" 
 The gentleman replied, putting his hand into his pocket, 
 <' Indeed, sin I have not got my prayer book with me, or 
 I would readily comply with your proposal. Mowef ^r, I 
 am piersuaded that a person of your appearance and respee- 
 tability, would be able to pray with them as well as tp 
 talk to them. I beg, therefore, that you would be so good 
 as to begin with prayer.*' This agreed to, they alighted 
 from the carriage and entered the house, and the people 
 hetitatiDg no longer, followed them— Mr Baxter then totn,- 
 menced the service by prayer, and prayed with that sett- 
 ousness and fervor for which he was eminent. Wbe mag- 
 istrate standiiig by was soon melted into tears. The go(H| 
 divine then preached in hit accustomed, lively, andzealoua 
 manner. When he had concfuded, be turned to the mig- 
 ifltrate, and saici, <' Sir, I am the very Dick Btxtd^^ 
 whom you are in pursuit— I aiti entirely at your dhipci^Md^ 
 l%e jqstice, however, had felt so much during ^# ler- 
 TJce, and saw things in so different a light, that ha %M 
 [aside entirely all his enmity to the nonconformists', aad et- 
 
 
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38 
 
 EXBCUTXOV or HBVBY yAVVTLBBOY. 
 
 orafterwtrdt became their linoere friend and sdvoeate, and 
 it in believed alio a decided Christian. 
 
 EXECUTION OP HENRY FAUNTLEROT, Eiq, 
 
 [FVom a London publicaiim of November 30, 1824.] 
 
 Thii morning, at the usual hour, Henry Fauntleroy, { 
 Esq., late partner in tho house of Marsh, Stracy, Fauntle 
 roy & Co., underwent tho dreadful sentence of the law. I 
 The unprecedented spectacle oi a London banker con- 
 demned to die (or forgery — that offence to which the prop- 
 erty of a class of individuals at once so respectable and | 
 important in society, is peculiarly exposed ;— excited a de- 
 gree of interest in the public mind, beyond example.! 
 The multitude surpassed, in extent and in density, an^ 
 crowd we ever saw within a space so limited. Although the 
 Justice and the necessity of this melancholy expiation, 
 were generally recognised, the sympathetic commiseration 
 of the vast concourise assembled to witness the last mo- 1 
 tnents of the culprit, was manifestly pervading every bo- 
 som, and may be truly said to have been universal. 
 
 During the whole of yesterday many hundreds of indi- 1 
 viduals had collected in the open space before Newgate- 
 composing groups of ten and twenty persons, all waiting 
 with anxious curiosity for information and particulari re- 
 specting the unhappy prisoner, though without any reason [ 
 for their anticipations. 
 
 The buzz of expectation communicated from ear to ear,! 
 nefwrtheless continued, aud by midnight the whole spaeel 
 wag crowded with people, though not with that densityj 
 which the crowd subsequently assumed. 
 
 At. two o*eloGk this morning, the-workmen, issuing fronl 
 the court yar^ which separates Newgate from the Sefiioni| 
 § house, gaye " dreadful not^ of preparation.** The tin- 
 iMMi which had been prepared, were now brought forth,| 
 aad were distributed at the respective places at which 
 hpd heeo decided to erect extra barriers to divide ^e pr 
 mrft jfi ills crowd. The sarpenters began their opftiatic 
 at these points.^, This prudent and necessary preG«^ioni{ 
 
 ^.:'- 
 
UXBOUTIOH OF UBlfRY PAUXfTLBROT. 
 
 38 
 
 ind advooate, and 
 
 LER0Y,£a4, 
 
 ^er 30, 1824.] 
 
 with that density 
 
 resulted from the melancholy experience of that fatal ca- 
 tastrophe, which occurred at the execution of Holloway 
 sad Haggerty, where so many lives were lost by the un ^ 
 |(livided pressure of the crowd. *' f 
 
 From this time, until four o'clock the crowd continued 
 I to increase; the workmen, however, J$i>|tUHied their la- 
 Jbor without material interruption, ana w that hour the 
 ladditional barriers were completed. Af^MJkN^ uf lamps 
 land flambeaux cast a lurid glare over the i90#btt>nancei of 
 ■the multitude, while the clank of crow hixtn^ raising the 
 Ipavement to receive the posts—the djuU heavy reverbera- 
 JUon of fall!*** I't-rfifs ana ximDers-witn tnelirte<r«.«:«»|y i»i«r*r0 
 lot axes and hammers, formed altogether i scene of awAil 
 land gloomy horror in perfect unison with the approaching 
 Iconsummation of the law. 
 
 Until half past three the sky was clear and bright with 
 jstars, although the moon had disappeared. It now became 
 overcast, rain began to fall, and was succeeded by tottit 
 Idarkness. 
 
 At four o'clock every public house iq. the immediate ir|^ 
 cioity was crowded to overflowing, and the reflection of 
 the lights showed a clos6 compact arrangement of livid 
 mtenances, at evory window within view of the awful 
 scene. The crowd continued to increase, those who had 
 hitherto experienced no other inconvenience than that 
 weariness, now began to feel a pressure whidk exeited^ 
 slight degree of murmuring. 
 
 At half past four the gates of the court between the 
 prison and the old Bailey, being suddenly thrown open, 
 jihe fotal platform came forth, drawn by three Homes, sBd^ 
 «lo#ly dragged to its destination opposite the debtor's 
 floor. The heavy roll of this ponderous body, moving iB 
 Ifdoes on whfels of less than two feet diameter, is aueh 
 bs to havf^teptfelt in every part of Newgate, When slow- 
 ly passini llni^tettisive building. 
 The erectidii of the i^itai ttee on the scaffc^ now diiei- 
 ited the doubts of the few* sceptics who stilt l^erishe^ ' 
 |lie hope of "commutation," and from the Mrly^ Bblirif 
 rlich the^llowa was prepared to receive its devoted 
 ' tim, ftl^W9l|fi|i» expectation bec«me prevalent^ of Uti^ 
 
 • \ . 
 
M 
 
 ■XBOUTIOH or HBVBT FAUBTLBBOY. 
 
 «xceution tiking place sooner than that wlJoh had been! 
 evitomarjT. The rain continued to po^r down in torrents-«l 
 yet aa far aa could be judged by appearancei, the ardor M 
 thoie who had patiently waited for hours on their station J 
 was not in the slightest degree abated. 
 
 Six o'clock.— The crowd had how increased to a degretl 
 
 which rendered the felon's door inaccessible. Mr Baker, 
 
 who arrived at this time, in vain endeavored to pent-l 
 
 t^te the close phalanx by which all passage was impeded.! 
 
 At length with great difficulty, aided by much courtesy onl 
 
 the part of the surrounding multitude, who were apprisedl 
 
 *»f the hum****" •*"* ^''•^••rt^u. »vj»«» v# <u:« ir^^^y beneTO.| 
 
 lent and pious gentleman's visit, he obtained an enirauvQi 
 
 through the private door of Mr Wontner, the 6overnor'i| 
 
 house. Immediately proceeding to the room of Mr Faunt- 
 
 leroy, he found the unhappy culprit in a state of resig- 
 
 nati(Ni and comparative tranquility that was highly satii-l 
 
 liutory* as evincing the salutary effects, of that religouil 
 
 consolation which had been so anxiously and so kindljl 
 
 mdodnistered by the united efforts of his spiritual comfort •[ 
 
 «IB, the Rev. Mr Cotton, the Rev. Mr Springett, an^ Mrl 
 
 Bulcer. Mr Fauntleroy received his excellent friend andl 
 
 consoler with a degree of fortitude which manifested per-[ 
 
 ISsct resignation to his tate— thanking him with a solenutj 
 
 jur, yet wholly divested of embarrassment, for the ready] 
 
 puBctoBlity of his attendance in this his final exhibition 
 
 of phristian friendship. 
 
 "Tiie arrival of Mr Baker affi>rded great and neceaiaryl 
 tralief to the Rev. Mr Springett, who had passed the ei| 
 itipiMiil^t^in the prison— the greater portion of that glooj 
 aliiy period in the room of Mr Fauntleroy, who during 
 inttrval between life and deathy had for some abort tii 
 laid down upon his bed, but the awful sensations of hiij 
 mind forbade the i^ose he lougbt— and the very fei 
 bourn ^as devoted were perceptib^ restless. 
 
 He bad been shaved at five o'clock, and having washc 
 I Bnd dressed, felt greatly refireslied. Nearly an hour wi 
 ' Bpent In devotional exeroises aflel the arrival of Mr. BakeiJ 
 In conjunction with the Rev. Mr Springett— the unhapp][ 
 ' objeet of their solicitude manifeited throughout extraoi" 
 liar^ forvpr ai^d Mteptiopr Qis exprefsions of gratit' 
 
 
EXBOWTIOSr or HKURT FAUirTLflROT. 
 
 35 
 
 to gentlemen, thus, as it were devoting themMlTei to con- 
 foling hid last hours, were fervent-— evidently from a heart 
 deeply and sincerely impressed with a just appreciation of 
 their merits. As if conscious of the inadequacy of words 
 to express his real feelings, he endeavored to commit to 
 paper that which verbal language could not express. Dur- 
 ing the night, or very early in the morning, he contrived 
 I to write a letter, which was found addressed to those gen- 
 I tiemen. In this he poured out his thanks with a power- 
 I ful expression of feelings. 
 
 A few minutes before seven, the Rev. B^r. Cotton, the 
 Ordinary, entering Newgate, proceeded to the condemned 
 room in which prisoners spend the last hour previous to 
 elocution, and there awaited the arrival of Mr Fauntle- 
 roy — who shortly after approached, supported by his reli- 
 gious friends. Previous to entering the condemned cell, 
 he put his Wnd into his pocket, and drawing out some 
 gold, delivered it to Mr Baker with a request that he 
 might apply it to the aid of such individuals in the pris- 
 on as should appear objects of distress and meriting relief. 
 Prepare tioQS were then made for administering the sacra- 
 ment, but previously to entering on that last solemn duty, 
 Mr F. requested that his favorite hymn might be ian(^ 
 commencing— -y 
 
 * **Crod moves in a mysterious way. 
 His wonders to perform ; 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea. 
 And ridei upon the storm. 
 
 Deep in unfathomable mines 
 
 Of never filing skill, 
 He treasures up his bright designs, 
 
 And works his sovereign will. 
 
 Blind unbelief is sure to err, * 
 
 And scan his wovk in rain, 
 iStod is his own interpreter. 
 
 And he will make it plain." 
 
 This finished, he •zpresiod his desire ,to partake qif^lkf 
 
 i;.-^^i*: 
 
u« 
 
 ■ XUayVlOJ!! or HBITMV VAVlfTLHROY. 
 
 i* 
 
 ."« 
 
 Morament, and then joined in the service witli the moit 
 profound lolcmnity. When the General Confeiiion wai 
 read from the Communion service, ho pointed NiKniAcaDtlyl 
 to the fuUowinf; part of it, varying his voice very much: 
 
 " We do earnestly repent, and are heartily lorry for 
 these our misdoings : the remembrance of them is griev- 
 ous unto us, and the burden of them intolerable. Havel 
 mercy ubon us," &c. 
 
 There were other parts of the sacred ritual which he all 
 so repeated with great emphasis, appearing to derive 
 much consolation from this last act of solemn deVotion. 
 After the service was concluded, ho seemed comforted, aQd| 
 serenity siU upon his brow. 
 
 Engaging in religious conversation, he expressed the I 
 strong hope and consolation he experienced, observinfl 
 that he looked to heaven with a confident expectation ofl 
 being shortly admitted a guest in the glorious mansion U 
 The short interval which elapsed previous to the arrival| 
 of the sheriffs, he spent chiefly in silent meditation. Dur- 
 ing this time he took off his silver mounted spectacles,! 
 and requested Mr Baker to accept them as a dying tokenl 
 of his sincere and grateful regard, accompanying the giftl 
 with the following emphatic expression—'* ReroemberJ 
 ■ir, these are what last assisted me to read the precioui| 
 truths of the Gospel." 
 
 A little before eight, standing at the extreme comer ofl 
 the room in discourse with his Rev. attendants and Mri 
 Bakei;, he beheld the Sheriffs, with their under Sherifil 
 and Officers approaching, looking wishfully, toward them,! 
 he bowed respectfully, and then prooieded to express hin 
 grateful acknowledgments for the hunmne nUeDtion to hii| 
 eomfort w. ..h he had received. ^ thit moment. Mr| 
 Wonitner, the Gov^mftr, and Mr BafCfIt, Clerk of the pa- 
 pen, accompaniejl by some other gei|||imeD, entered tbe 
 room. The officers then moved towards Mr Fauntleroy,! 
 witl^ the cords for pinioning the ••rms a^d wristi of tht| 
 unhappy criminal. This duty they per^oijued in a man- 
 9er ai little offensive as posaible, the pusonfr maving 
 hands with a view to ft^litate theur object and throwii 
 back the cufib of his coat. He was at this time engaf 
 in C{iaeulator7 prayer, frequently ezfdaiming--^" JUord Jf 
 
 '» *■ 
 
 '^*«.! 
 
KXKOVTIOW or HBIIRY FAVlf TLSIIOT. 
 
 «7 
 
 receive my spirit/'—which he repeated Hevoral times before 
 he arrivpd at the oxiroinity of the privon. Mii iiandnand-^ 
 •rmv having beun Huciirod, ho cait u Merone look on hit 
 ipiritual attundantv, \t\u) Hupportod him between them. 
 •Soon after the clock had struck cip;ht every thing wai pre- 
 pared ; tho shcrifi'fl then iiititnatod that tho time had arriv- 
 ed \f lien tliuy jniist proct'od to tho fatal platform, and lead- 
 ing tho way wero followed by tho Reverend Ordinary of 
 the prison : next followed the criminal, who raised hia 
 eyes, and hands as far aH he could, towards heaven, and 
 walked forward with a firm unshakeh step ; as he passed 
 the several turnkeys, ho appeared to give them a look of 
 recognition. Having arrived midway between tho press- 
 yard and the debtor'^ door, the boll of death sounded its 
 first solemn knell, announcing to the crowd, which now 
 filled the whole »pace between Ludgate-hill and the pent 
 in SmithAeld, the advance of the mournful procession.— 
 The Rev. Ordinary, in a deep sonorous voice, which ech- 
 oed through tho avenues of the priwsn, read that part of 
 the burial service which commences-—*' I am the resurrec- 
 tioD and the life, saith the Lord, he that believeth in mt, 
 though he Were dead, yet shall he live ; and whosoever 
 liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die." The pris- 
 oner ndsed his eyes to heaven, when the following heair- 
 tiful passage was read : " I know that my Redeemer lir- 
 etbi and that he shall stand at the latter day upon tht 
 Mrth; and though after my drath worms destroy tbit 
 body* yet in my tiesh shall I see God, whom I shall t«e 
 tot myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.'* 
 By %b\i time the procession had arrived at the outer d(M$r^ 
 when the Rev. Mr Cotton proceeded tip the stepji to tlM^ 
 platform, and was instantly followed by M^ Fauntlcvoiy^ 
 who, still supported by his friends, ascended the fatal scstf- 
 ftild with a firm step, apparently not regarding the clamor 
 lof the crowd by which he was surrounded. He was 
 Idretted in a new suit of black-— coat^i waistcoat, and pan« 
 |talooni«^under which he wore stlk stockings of the same 
 jflilor, and a pair of light pumps. 
 iBeiag placed under the cross beam, the executfmitr 
 >ceeded to div«$t his neck of his white cravat; and pnt- 
 Ig on the cap, he immediately drew it over the fiice o( 
 D 
 
 ;jciv^.. ;; V 
 
 ... i,i^; .^«..i,^i..:jia,.aj>ri,;^i.i:-s<.i' ; 
 
m 
 
 •THIB riOOI'Ull AOAtAiY H!t WlLt. 
 
 th« eriminal. The nouHe of the halter wni then |iul over 
 hit neck and properly ndjiitied ; the nsflUtfint exBQUtidiier 
 Miapended the cord hy BfTl5iiii{( the hook at the extremity 
 Into the swivel prepared to reeBive it. These n^fful pri 
 Hminf^ries did not taut more than three minutei, diirirti 
 whieh time Mr Fauntleroy Rtood unmoved. The execu 
 tloner then taking hia afatiun within reach of the fHtill 
 bolt, the Rev. Ordinary read as folliiwa : " Man that iJ 
 born of a woman hath hut a short time to live, and is Ailll 
 of misery," ke. << Jiut spare us, Lord most hnlr.l O Oodl 
 most mighty ! O htdy and most mercit\il Savior I thou 
 most worthy Judge eternal ! Huffbrusnot at our last hour, 
 (him any pains of death, to fall lYum thee.*' On utteridH 
 tlie last wonl, thi bolt being suddenly withdrawn, Hentrl 
 9*«lliltieroy wika launched into eternity. 
 
 'thus (\all this unhapp)r man beneath the avenging tl 
 of the law— in a few moments motion and life btoame ei| 
 iltliil. 
 
 &■ 
 
 THE DOCTOR AGAINST Hli WILt. 
 
 The Grand duka BoHa Gudeft^iti WU&, Mlfeed iti Hi 
 f^ during the years lAQT and 100^ iJNkii/i|tiQorAlng to I 
 iilatlnh of OleaHus, very muoh affllotM iM(h Ml« |i}tti<i 
 41 a aertain period, When he sufA^rad f eiy aeteni pitll 
 hi l^auied it nublicif to be praelaimed it Mnaooiirj tliit 
 WmH reward With eitmordinary faVor and |riit Hill 
 W$ ittin, whoevec he might be, that would retliti hil 
 INM thoii pains. 
 ir Haee^B thit no one voluntarily ippeaM to eAfii tl 
 filtor ol the fllind llnke } and Indeed, no wonder) t^i 
 H ibitor had hia whole exiatenee at stake In thoee tli 
 Ml ftHillit if Ilia eure fklled upon aonte high or nohli 
 1^1) atld Oudehow waa in the hihtt of makiAg the 
 rfMMlvii \t he tionaldered the latter as abiolnte liiiitlf( 
 tM^Iti raeponaible for the teiull of hil irti 
 I ' THi WlAi of A eertiln Hojairi or eounoltbr nf tht «i 
 
tHB noOTOA AOAtfriT fill WILL. 
 
 fW 
 
 ^iil Van MmiUM 
 
 ntt, who received very liariji treadnent from her hiiihtn*!, 
 UNik Advantage of thit puhlic edirl uf tlie grand duke, to 
 rtfenge herieif, in a cunning manner, un her nruAl htti- 
 band. She Ihererure, had (he Duke informed (htt h«r 
 liuibAnd iioAieiaed an infalliide remedy for (he gout, but 
 that he waR not aulBciendy luimane (o Imparl i(. 
 
 The bojaar waa immedia(ely aent for (o eoiirt, aiul 
 itriedy examined ; iUe laUer declared by all thai waalii^ 
 If, that he waa unac(|uaiiited with any lUeh remedy, illd 
 had not the alighteit knowledge of medieine. But o«thi 
 would not avail him. Uudenow had him aeverely whip 
 pad and confliind. When, ihortly after, he waa again tv- 
 ainined, he repeated the tame deelarationa, adding, thAi 
 tbia trick waa prohaldy played upoii him by hia wife} the 
 Ouka had him whipped a aeuond time, but more aaTtmly, 
 attd threatened him with deiith, If he did not aneedlly ra« 
 litfahlm from pain. Heised with terror, the buJiA^ WAA 
 wow entirely at a loaa how to act. He promlaed to do lili 
 l>9Bt, but requeated a few daya, in order to hafA ^ 
 aaoeaaary druga gathered. Having, with great dliB«illt|r^ 
 had hi" re<iue«t granted, he aent to Usirbak, imo diyA' 
 
 juuiiiw/ from Muicuvv, in order to net All ao»Ia if 
 druga whiuh were to be obtained there. He AMit ib#ft 
 
 I liartloAd of them, mixed them all together, and ptvMiiiAd 
 • baOi Cat the Duke, in (he hope of (hia blind euro pMt- 
 litAUAOfAinil. 6ud<»liuw, after having uatd tht htlti, 
 flitly found Aome raliAf, and thA hojaai had hia life §p$Hi 
 Blm. KavArthelfaB, baoAUia ha had known auoh an m, 
 dmlAdhia knowledge of it, and refuaed bin aMrfataitAA tn 
 lilt errand Duke, Iba latter had him again thopodgily^ 
 ttll|)pAd» and aftor being f»tt*'rely reeovered, hA gavf^«| 
 i HAW dfAAa, two buudraj ruublea, and eighteen §htHit» 
 
 jtAy of a praaant. 
 
 In idditjon to thia he aorloualy admoniahAd ibA bdiii 
 
 JuiTar to be revenged on hia wife. It la AAld that tho'l^ 
 
 jJIArf lUUr thia oocurrenee, lived many yearA in pf«of utd 
 
 |i»||lpiiiefa with hia apuuAA,^' 
 
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 40 
 
 THE METHODIST. 
 
 THE METHODIST. 
 
 The methbdist is indefatigable in what he considers the 
 daty of his Christian cal!in;v ; he is zealous in his endea- 
 Ton to bring sinners to the throne of ^race ; he is bold 
 in reproving wickedness wherever he finds it, in high or 
 low, rich or poor ; he is earnest and affectionate in ^is ef- 
 foits to draw erring mortals from the f.byss of ruin, and 
 place them on the firm ground of Christian hope : he sets 
 before them the law in all its terrors, that they may with 
 the more certainty flee to the gospel as a place of refuge ; 
 he deprives them of all hope in themselves, that they may 
 fix their dependence on the Rock of Ages. He leaves no 
 stone unturned to advance what he considers the cause of 
 the gospel; he is a lion to the hardened sinner, and a 
 lamb to the humble penitent ; he travels every where, 
 and preaches *< the gospel to every creature," wherever 
 "two or three are gathered together," he considers that 
 place a fit temple for the worship of God, Whether it be in 
 , a dwelling-house, a barn, a school-house, in the shade of 
 the, forest, or under the bare csinopy of heaTen j he is 
 not confined to temples made and expressly dedicale^ to 
 the worship of Jehovah, but considers every place eaffi- 
 ouently dedicated to that purpose which ofiers an occasion 
 of dicing good; he preaches the gospel wliill^rit was nev- 
 er piwaefaied before ; ho pervades every plti^'^0 the cotin> 
 trfi an^ carries the glad tidings of salvation. to those pla- 
 ces where, but for him, they had never come. He c^nsid- 
 en DO distance too great, no way too rough, and no place 
 too obscure for his exertinns; cold and heat, wind and, 
 •tornl^r hunger and thirst, do noi~i^[)pal him ; scoffing And 
 imillt have no effect upon' him, hut to make htm, if pbs 
 •ibiie, more zealous in the duties of his calling, l^ the 
 madvpopulace hurl firebrands, he << reasons with them of 
 rigliteousneas, temperance, and judgment to come;" he 
 «* heaps Goaltiof fire on their heads ;" madness givea place 
 to adiniration, insult to penitence, " and those who ccmbm 
 to icoff remain to pray." 
 
 Th« Siathodist cannot be accused of preaching tb« gos- 
 pel from worldly motivee. No man, not even his enemies, 
 
\ 
 
 THB XBTU0D1»T. 
 
 41 
 
 can lay that he cooitders himself called upon to go only 
 
 where wealth invites him. The society of which he ii a 
 
 memher, has no gold to tempt him, no filthy lucre to cor- 
 
 Uapt him, no easy and luxurious life to allure him. If h* 
 
 needed any other motive than the satisfaction of doing 
 
 \ffiod, he has one which has no connection with this world, 
 
 it is '< a crown of glory which fadeth not away." With 
 
 bis eyes fixed on that crown, and, like Stephen, lookbg 
 
 steadfastly up to heaven, he perseveres in the steep and 
 
 [nairow way, and neither briars nor thorns obstruct' %ib pro- 
 
 I grass. 
 
 The Metohdist preacher, generally speaking, owes but 
 
 I little to human learning. He is eloquent indeed, but hit 
 
 eloquence does not depend pn studying the great models of 
 
 Greece and Rome ; it is not formed in the Porch, not pol- 
 
 iihed in the Academy : it is not made up of rounded pe- 
 
 Iriods nor regular climaxes ; and owes little or nothing to 
 
 the study of rhetoric. But the want of huiban learning 
 
 lis more than made up by a thorough knowledge of the 
 
 Ivolume of everlasting life ; and Peter and Paul more than 
 
 liupply the place of Cicero and Demosthenes. Urged by 
 
 |tbe force of truth and the importance of bis misMon, he 
 
 ■peaks boldly what he feels deeply, and needs not the pol- 
 
 |iih of rhetoric to carry conviction to the hearts of hifi hear* 
 
 en. Warm, zealous, undaunted, he addresses the passions 
 
 his audience; he arouses their fears ; he awakens their 
 
 »W ; he excites their gratitude, and encourages their 
 
 kope. He is emphatically the friend of the poor and nee- 
 
 ly, the lick, the profligate, and the abandoned ; of thote 
 
 rbo have no. virtue to boast, no character to stipport, and 
 10 fHends to' giiide them. Those who are well, need not 
 
 phyiAcian, and those who thfn|c they are well, will not 
 ftpply to one ; hence very few 6f the great ones of the 
 tfa are immediately benefited by the preaching of the 
 
 [ethodist. It is not those who sit on velvet cuiAiionf, 
 
 id sleep under the sound of the gospel every Sunday; 
 
 [til not to those who fare sumptuously every '(^y^ tiiai 
 
 'hS preaching and affectionate exertions of the Me&O^lt, 
 
 peculiarly profititble and welcome ; but to thoM yHo 
 
 ildom have an oppori^ity of hearing the gospel— who 
 
 ivt no nope in this life^and feel assured they have none 
 D 2 
 
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 ai' i.L 
 
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 42 
 
 THJS LOTTKHY TICKET. 
 
 i|)^.^be life to come ^ it is tp such, the Methodist bears the 
 gli^ tidiqgs of salvation— checks the career of the sinDer-~ 
 gfilileif hi^ back to the path of virti|ie--giye8 him new 
 i^i^aji of thet dignity of his nature and the value of his jm 
 morik^i part--and finally out of the most unpromising ma- 
 terial^, produces the honest man— and the undeviating 
 C^^ian. He is unwearied in his attention fo the sick, 
 ill iluippoTting, comfof ting, and leading them to the Rock 
 of Ages ; in directing them to the gr&at physician of the 
 foi|i, yrjjien remedies cease to avail for the benefit of the 
 body. The consolation given by a kind and affectionate 
 prfiacher, is so well described by Goldsmith that I need no 
 aj^blogy for quoting the following lines : 
 
 Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, 
 And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, 
 'The reverend Champion stood. At his control 
 Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; 
 Comfort came down the trembling wretch to ralw, 
 , And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 
 
 THE LOTTERY TICKET. 
 
 J^ick Woodcock was the only child of a respectable for- 
 merr living in one of the interior counties in the St^te 
 of llew-York. The father was a practical agriculturalist, 
 in tM true definition of the term ; that is, he pracUfid. 
 himself the theories he « recommended to others; an^liAj 
 gDilinga plough, or wielding a scythe or sickle, few Iftj 
 th%«teighboirhood equalled, none excelled iiiiin. He was 
 akp. fl^YHeil (and why need fame be appropriated to the^he- 
 ro <>r poet only t) for keeping hi? estate in thorough re- 
 l>air# Sot a furlong of fence was wanting, not. a boaid 
 htii^. endwise from any of his numerous buildings, nor 
 w^ an 9ld hat ever seen protruding its unmannerly crowi 
 
 ,\.. 
 
,«. 
 
 THE LOTTBRT TICKET. 
 
 43 
 
 through a casement iu his snugly planned and comfortably^ 
 
 I finished habitation. 
 
 TbQ consequence of such industrious thrift may easily 
 
 I be divined. He was prosperous, respected and happy. 
 Dtck was . his only child— a fine looking, noble spirited 
 boy he was— the pride qf his parents, and a pattern for all 
 
 {t)ie little boys in the village where he dwelt. He was up 
 with the robin in the morning, and you might hear his 
 whistle as gay as her song, while he followed and emula- 
 ted his father's industrious movements through a long 
 
 I summer day. 
 
 Many there were who advised Mr Woodcock to send 
 
 this boy to college ; and to confess the truth, his paternal 
 pride would have been gratified with the eclat of a liber- 
 al education for his son. But he finally abandoned the 
 scheme, partly because he had the good sense to discover 
 that his son had not the developments of a natural born 
 genius ; but chiefly he could not bear to think his excel- 
 lent farm would be, at his decease, transferred to the pos- 
 sessioa of strangers. He knew this must probably be the 
 case should bis son become a scholar ; and indeed his fa- 
 ther would not have desired him to return to the plougli^ 
 
 {with all his college ' honors thick upon him.' 
 
 Mr* Woodcock was a patriot of the old school, loviog 
 
 I his country as he did his religion ; because be thought 
 both best, without expecting for his faithfulness, wxirldly 
 honor or emolument— "iasking favors of none save Heaven; 
 esteeming an honest man the noblest work of God ; aiikd 
 an independent faroder as the most enviable of all b^ingv on 
 the t'aoe of the earth. Thus He lived, at peace with bi|Ki- 
 
 iseUjiDd with all men ; and when he died his eulo^ooi' 
 
 |i(^|ithe tear of unaiffected sorrow for the loss of a useftil 
 cpzen, and a pious ChriiitiaD. 
 Pick was just nineteen when his father died; bol h» 
 
 I wrote himself a man, and was so considered by all his ao- 
 (jaaintances. And none of those propheciai of ruin to a 
 fiii^ estate, which are so often breathed forth whsii ths ao- 
 miiftulator is laid in the dust, were utiereid on fhtt oeoa- 
 
 Inon. 
 \|^He is gone,' said Colonel Piper, 'but he has left a wor- 
 
44 
 
 TH1D LOTT0BT TICKET. 
 
 tbjv son, vrho will tread in h*s fathert steps.' 
 
 * Ay, ay', rejoined Dr Soda, * there'll be no falling^ ofl^ 
 I'll warrant ye. Dick will keep the body of bit esiats 
 sound ; he'll not hurry the circulation, as some young 
 heirs would.' 
 
 * Mr Woodcock began the world with little or nothing,' 
 said Squire Stapleton, 'and he ha# left property worth at 
 least $10)000 ; if Dick makes as good improyement, bt 
 will soon be the richest man in town.' 
 
 < And he is now one of the steadiest,' interrupted Dea- 
 eon Church. * I always see him at meeting on Sundays, 
 and I never heard him accused of a vice, or even a folly.' 
 
 The ladies, too, were unanimous in their praises of Mr. 
 Ricb&rd Woodcock ; each remembering and retailing some 
 anecdote of his cleverness and intelligence ; and all re- 
 joicing that his widowed mother, in her hour of bereave- 
 ment and sorrow, bad such a prop on which she might 
 lean for support. 
 
 The young ladies might, perhaps, have felt rather self- 
 interested, in his possessing a character as fair as bis es- 
 tate, had they not been deprived of all hope of obtaining 
 sQch a priiKe : but the young and handsome heir was al- 
 ready engaged. And had not Ghloe Harris been one of 
 tiie best girls in the world, her flattering expectations 
 must have excited envy among her associates. But Chloe | 
 i^t so sweet tempered, so unpretendijig, so dutiful and 
 industrious, at home, and so obliging to her friends that 
 her superior beauty, and even the proud fortuhe to wliicb 
 •he seemed destined, were thought but the reward of hsr 
 
 IDWitS. 
 
 Difllcand Chloe had been companions from rafkncy, 
 wbA had loved before eithef ever read a novel, describing 
 thif causes and symptoms of the tender passion. Their 
 aiiwtion was, therefore the dictate of nature, pure as her 
 S(e|»liyMi and sweet as her roses ; no vanity was flattered 
 iaUieir preference for each other; no caprice indulged Ss 
 their intetoonrse ; each * loved and was beloved,* and ths 
 ooai|^eti<»li of Dick's majority was assigned for their iin> 
 ioa--lbN|7er. 
 
 In as #vil hour Dick became possessor of a Lottery 
 Hsket ; and if the motive could ever hallow such a pur- 
 
rum IiOTTSRY TICKVST. 
 
 46 
 
 Ichase, it vrouUi soem as if his must have been laudable. 
 JHe purchased it as an act of humanity. A poor man, 
 {whose wife was sick and in need of many necessaries, came* 
 |to him, and relating the story of his wants and woes^ 
 [produced the card of fortune, which he, it seems, hact 
 \yron at a game of howls, and begged Dick to purchase it. 
 jDick's feelings were coiypassionate-^he would willingly 
 Ibave afforded relief to the suffering woman Without any 
 ■reward — but he knew the man, even should the ticket be 
 la prize, would not bc^ibencfited, as his habits were not 
 Igood, while the ten dollars would most probably be appli- 
 |«d to make his family comfortable, in the exigence which 
 Ireally seemed to have touched his heart with sorrow, atiA 
 lis conscience witli compunction. 
 So Diok paid the money and took the ticket ; and ra- 
 iting three several times to himself, * It will certainly" 
 Iraw a blank,' he deposited it carefully in his pocket book. • 
 
 However my young hero might flatter himself with be- 
 |iog perfectly unconcerned in the result of the experiment* 
 here was, that evening, a restlessness in hie feelingt 
 rhich ho had never before experienced; and when h*' 
 lid himself down to sleep, a tnonsana bugy schi^nieB sni^ 
 rild fancies. floated on his imagination. Golden dreame 
 ^ rered over his pillow ; gay visions seemed beckoning- 
 ^nn to bowers. uf plensure, and h« awoke in a atate ^ 
 l8|ered excitement, that, although it might presage hfep^^ 
 VIbss, was very far from deserving that epithet. H^ had 
 Doir a new theme for speculation, and the possibility of 
 |)1>taining a prize rendered information concerning the man* 
 iment of lotteries far more necessary and important 
 ban the cultivation of his farm. Even his vUi<a..iaaun 
 Moiled Chloe were shortened; yet he intended fully to 
 »P*i"^'hisLiififfliffence wije n he could anmrigo^^*"^ with th* 
 lidlDgi of his good fortune^ ^nd call on l|ier to assist him 
 |d forming plans for the enjoyment of his wealth. 
 Ah, dear deluding Imaginatipn! How lofty are tl»j 
 letures ; how unclouded thy horizon ; how placid thy 
 raters ! how enchanting thy landscapes ! Who, beneath 
 [by influence,, can believe a word, a look, a breath will ^a* 
 :>Iye auph magnificence, darken such brightnesa, d»turh 
 ?h tranquility, or deform suoh lovelinevs ! but, Ini»fhi' 
 
46 
 
 THB LOTTBRY TICKBT. 
 
 ai^OD) thou art a false meteor,'' and whoever quiti tht 
 •toady way ol reaaon to follow thy delusive light, will 
 Hod it a faithless guide— it glitters but to betray. 
 
 The important drawing was at length, after varioui de 
 laya» completed, and Dick received a confirmation of hill 
 ttuguine hopes. He had drawn a prize! the highest 
 priae ! $60,000 ! ! Ah pleasure, oanst thou come in 4 j 
 brighter form than in the golden sliower 1 
 
 Well, I say nothing of Dick's feelings on this occaiioD, 
 tlaey were too sublime for description ; but his friends con- 
 gratulated, the world, (by this term I mean all ;vho ever 
 httrd of Dick or of his good fortune) talked, and won- 
 dared, »nd envied ; and about Ave hundred tickets, in thi 
 * Seeond Class,* were immediately purchased, mostly by 
 young men in that village and vicinity ; the purchaien 
 all aanguine in the hope of obtaining a similar prist. 
 .What a mercy that they were all disappointed ! 
 
 Dick had now become lord of himself; and according 
 to previous arrangements, should have been married to 
 Gbtoe Harris. But he postponed the wedding till he hid 
 ▼itited the city and secured his riches. ' Wealth roaketb 
 mmmrMBtkHu)* satcl Soiomcn, and our goldon-fledgod hero 
 l^f proved ttie truth of the apothegm. The geattem^H 
 If whotti h<e Was introduced in the city, lavished on k*M 
 ««preMioni of attachment, and offtra of assistanoe : cardh 
 All4 oompUments gratified hia vanity, dt^nrntrs and dhk- 
 tttn hit appetite, till the parade and pleasures of the com 
 merdal uetropolit made him think the pumuits of a coun- 
 try life < weary, stale and flat/ in '<eed, if not 'unproflti^ 
 
 Th^*** WA« one young ,merol ant, by the name of Ash4 
 toa» t& whom Biek became particularly attached. Athtiiil 
 Wat gay, ittWlliarant and^iniinuatinri and it ia nn» ^frtwiJ 
 derfbl that a young and inexfTerienced heart should ba dn-i 
 luded by hit fiiir teeming. He toon perceived the tteen* 
 dams/ h« h*d gained over the mind of Dick, iindempl6y-{ 
 «t it t6 convince him that a lifb patted in the* retirement 
 of Ihe country mutt be monotonbut and miterable ; and 
 Uml tb Intun himtelf permanent flilicity and an immeaiil 
 iiUBMiMa of wftalth, it wat only necettary to inter into tj 
 fiitdiictvbip ^itb him^ Mr Auguttnt Athton, and ftt liM 
 fiiidtnce in tha dtj. Hit trtificet ifere ingeniovtr «MI 
 
 
TIlHl rOTTBIlY TtCKMT. 
 
 47 
 
 tht 
 
 will 
 
 arguments specioui^—that they vfettn (Iccoitful amf an- 
 •ound tho event proved : hnt perhapn, under liko ciroutn- 
 itanooH, older and wiser men than 'Mr Woodcock mif ht 
 Dot have discovered their fallacy. 
 
 Ashton introduced him to his sister. She was verjr 
 pretty and highly accomplished— that is, she dressed ele- 
 ((antly, danced gracefully, and played divinely. Dick 
 loved music, naturally — ho had never road Shakespeare, 
 and knew nothing descriptively, about the < concord of 
 sweet sounds,' yet his ear delighted in harmony, and he 
 had, for several years, been esteemed the very best iingor 
 in his own village meeting-house. But such airs— such 
 symphonies, he had never listened to before ! Oh, when 
 the fair Belinda Ashton touched her instrument, hia very 
 loul seemed to thrill, and was indeed < wrapped in Elyei- 
 
 There was, at this time, but one circumstance whieti^ 
 prevented Dick's felicity from being perfect ; and that w&» 
 inch a trifle that I am almost ashamed to mentioM it.— 
 But some how trifles do form our happiness, and trifles 
 will make us miserable .—he had become disgusted^ with 
 hit nam€. Woodcock,— it was not a romantic or heroic 
 name, to be sure, but it had always sounded well enongh 
 Id the ruitto place in which it was his lot to be born, tod 
 where he might have lived and died without disoeveriDfr 
 its Uncouthness. 
 
 Now such bliss of ignorance was denied him, for he had, 
 one fatal evening, over-heard two city ladies repeating it 
 with peculiar accents of ridicule. He never aflerwatdi 
 f Aati H^u^ endure it ; and on disclosing to Ashton the eaote of 
 the name »' A"n-||,i, inquietude, that faithful friend assured him it might 
 *?•♦«* nftrTl^^^y ^ removed. An application to the Legitlator* for 
 leart should bedl>l''**^* ^° ^^^^* ^*> ^^^^ ^^* *^^ ^^^^ '^^^ necessary, 
 reeived the aieeb*| ^^^ ^^* ^^® ^'^^^f ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^*'* Belinda Athton 
 iok tind empldy«l^^*'^^*^ ^^^ displayed, in selecting a name for the friend 
 
 >ever quits 
 give light, 
 )etray . 
 
 after various de 
 itirmation of hii 
 ie! the highest 
 thou come in i 
 1 
 
 on this occasion, 
 it his friends con- 
 ;an all >vho ever 
 alked, and won- 
 ed tickets, in tht 
 ihased, mostly by 
 ' ; the purchaser! 
 a similar prist, 
 pointed ! 
 
 f; and according I 
 I been married to 
 Bdding till he had 
 < WcRlth maketb 
 plden'*fl«dgod hero 
 The gentleman 
 lavished on ^^\ 
 assUtanoe : oawi 
 Itjtuntn and din-| 
 Bsuret of the com 
 )urButtB of a coun- 
 if not » unproftti^ 
 
 Jki the' retirement 
 Id miserable ; and 
 and an immeaii 
 iry to enter into I 
 Ihton, and 1^ 
 
 of her dear brother. The contultationt held eonceming thia 
 important mattir #ere many and varlout. Novels were 
 taniacked, charaelOrt compared, iout'4di aud syllablet eirft- 
 ieiied. The labors of Webster, when tracing the etiftfOlr 
 ^ of ^Hrisgroom, woold have yielded in intensity tbi^is 
 
 re ingeniottS#lii|l^'^;F*^^<*C''^^'^^'* ^in^^ly i9<auiiion# was the for- 
 
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 hiiftM"* i^Uhnloclnfi htn ud'r Imo »t»t"l» r<t\ll«li mrMU'i* \ i\\^ 
 
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 4y Mhitm, without «\hlh)ittt;)c ^ny iliKtiitnt ; urn) U WMBwiii^N 
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 ili^ll«m«i» ov«v h«i* wiihi^t'^il hop^n. Thtit thi^y wtii«l*^iiiU a 
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 inli! IVIlMCIrttlMtt «'oiM*lm'lt» n iimiiMi Udy, wtium ii« 
 |iy« hwl nulhorllt m an »)inH«. " 
 
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 nm'lm Ro.!,*, who, l»> ihn w^w)-, Imd ttmwn iUm Mttitki. 
 
 • nU'lirn i^oi in nufh n lm«ly nuMtn^f nevt^t* ^rai w«li. 
 
 phmilMn^ P.)uHtl.l ntll into t^mii/ Riid ih^ dmtvtnin. who 
 tft« tinly lHMiPvul»«nt luitl Rinmit. 
 
 In M\ini, n«»'. ^ iumkhu in Ihn itmn, ^nf^\sk i]\\m llnfrli, 
 t«» «llmu i»n (hi» (uM^rtNion nl' Dit'k'n iIiIiIhi^m ttnit Mh- 
 lMin«!^«. I..VHI liii (»wn nu\jli»»hHmtily itN hIih hmi\ Itlw. 
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 h» un^ fth^rtlly i.» I.M bltintt^tt. rtlnnj^ (alitotl of A ItHiNMU^ 
 titth, itnti rt»tM«MiH!hl«m niiKhl obtain nill tiair lila A^Huim 
 AH iHM- ilantimi^M } btit ntnio daNtl hint iHoh n m^tim if 
 wv^nttrt (0 (iiu nii|., injniml, Imt unauinHAlnlnir |lfl. 
 
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 iHt iM'rtIn to \\\n ihmkm itiiAlNm, in wMnli hi utnrll itti^ 
 nyAVvkwrtiil Btl**ni|ii»nt tttioloi^i tkoWlng liii DfM 
 \mm hfii nnattmithb, wiahid h^fdbtt^fhutbntl thiM 
 h« evtt» nhonM nmkiM rind (Inaily, hHtttft^dhtfritaattiitikiiet 
 0f ft ihrtft I'of Itotld, whidi ItlM lettm nudimtit «• i>«tMl 
 Wttjiaflon ol' ih» wfonn •»« Hact tlon« hms 
 
 Ihln id tt RtxpoulaiinK, fntlttih aj|i« j nnd tttthlnk 'moHiy 
 
 till annwtt^ till thiniti/ (i tun mndi (ho olmN»i«rl»iio »f 
 
 AiHttrhHins. Nhttnto on th«tti, that with th^lf high ^flvl- 
 
 ljt«i of IntttlbctnAt, moral, und divii itttpfov^miHt, itaif 
 
 ihdtiia make ^nhl theti' ^w{ \ Hvnn [hiiu hiv« tint M|A> 
 
 |N the contantinntion of lolHihni^ii. A hw httnlfttd 
 
 mm will iliy the w^e))inf( eyei of tha iti&il a^iUiitfMli 
 
 dlttti^l, una niaka hsi' think tlio (leAictiun of tier mikm 
 
 iwaUt A very Incky auaeutation-o^atid ao, Juittld of mak" 
 
 m m¥ m\\ \\9A\tii aho very dooll^i^ dttarniblli t« himk 
 
 Iflta @Ndtt, oumfbHiug heraalf with tU ihoMPl ikiM Wft 
 
 il mmt emmi than bve. I^uoh l« ivarioa. tlitt%pl» 
 
 Mittli f«ligion, even delioaoy and iilll\»etidtt «ti m^liMl 
 
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50 
 
 tiiR bottntiY TirRMt. 
 
 i" " 
 
 ♦ 
 
 WomI or power (Imt can itot«iii« tliin denton (Vom mnong 
 \ifi! 
 
 The nohl« miml of Ohloo ff*rriff (tiidniit^tl mjih a nttt 
 oetiAfjr «)ip«il. Mhe httd lored ItleliAitt fundlir, d«AH]r,| 
 trult. H« had broken liiii town,— t)iit ilte ouutd not fbr- 
 |«t n«r tundf^rhfRii \ and now, Miould Rhe nccp|it of piU 
 try gold M «n eqiiivtient fbr \\in nftboiittn 1 No—Rhil 
 R|)Urn«d th« bttte idea. nh« returned Itim IUr letter and 
 dr«(l) wiihont comment or expoi<lulation, leavind^ the iit I 
 jurtta he had done her to God and hia own eonRdenee lb»| 
 A^Mnaatton and t^nniihment. Her fttded cheek and ntelan 
 ^ftholjr ey« Alona told the tale of her wrongn nnd het* lor 
 mwi, and the pity of her tVlendw waft only exhibited hy| 
 addad reapect and indDaaed attentions nnd trnderneBa to 
 warda the dignlfted and Innocent antfifnr. 
 
 thUB paased fcway two yean, during which time theJ 
 fluently heahl of M^ iimmmt, alian Dick Woodcock, 
 and of the aplendld style in which ho was (Iguiing. Mil 
 ny of thtt old people ihook their hcada, and olmerved theJ 
 mir«d) (that ia, hoped,^ he would ace hard tlmea before m 
 dM \ but nearly alfthti young men thought him a veryl 
 l^ftuntte and happy fellow. l)lck could have told the« 
 i Vary dlHterent tale* Yet ffew grow wise by tho mistaki 
 nC othera { It la only by experience that wo are convinci 
 Wki gAlt*y ia not happineaa. Dick had surfeited on tl 
 r!f!lJ*** o*' the world and tbund them fallacioua. li 
 llitl mttttntroduced to every ftishionable vice, and fbut, 
 hw p«ice and health and fbrtune were to be Bacrlflcedill 
 Iht pumuit. He waa new to sin, and open to reproof] 
 and had he but poaaeiaed one fhithAil friend, to ha\ 
 v^aimed him of his danger, and pointed out the meana 
 «iweap«» he might have been rescued ftt)m ruin. But I, 
 had ibnaken those who loved him for himielf, and wi 
 jurwHittded by a set of interested sharpen and holydi 
 tmmj, who only wished to fleece him of his Bubatanc 
 DT iM at hSa txpeuae. 
 
 R^ wl(^ WM ftU aentlmeni in her expressions, andiG 
 «^lflahii«B«iM her heart. She had married him solely k 
 »w^J*«»«i *tt«l aaemed determine^ by the extra vagaiM 
 
 %SL**?^'***^**' *^ *"*'*® henelir amenda for what ill 
 #«MlMiiiy«<| htir aaerlKce of dignity in ihe connection wW 
 
Ytin tidftRIIV YtClttQ'r. 
 
 «t 
 
 iton fVf)m Atnoni 
 
 ill iinteU«r«il country boobjr. In ihort, Dick founil bin 
 Ulfgint hoUM WM only for the Aocominodition of oomtiA- 
 jny, lltit ih«ooiitly l\irniture wm ill ttrrtncetl for piribii* 
 Ihit ttii ivrviintt w«r« kent to waU upon hli ffuttti) iind 
 hli wl(^*i itttilei, iinit muiio, tinil tAtte, and tltnt, wert aII 
 hirotid to the entertainment of thtse ihe thought better 
 IweHh her Attention then her huRbAnd. 
 
 Where now the iocIaI IteArth, the kindred iinllei th# 
 |dim)Htlo uonflden»o he had been eduoeted to enjoy 1 Too 
 Ute ii» repented hie InfAtuAtlon. Ite thought of the af- 
 jfttition of Ohioe, of her modeit virtues and home loving 
 Ulipoeltion ( of the eitinrntlon In which alt tili withei 
 Ihid been held by hor, and— but It wae 'too late*»-the die 
 Iwai «Ml ) onward he muit go, knowing, alio, that the 
 Ititd would be ruin. 
 
 U seemed ns If fortune, with her proverbial Inconstan* 
 
 ey, now eought to torment and dliappolnt aa much ai ehe 
 
 hid before favored him, and almoit every Rpeoulation In* 
 
 |lo which he entered, owing either to hie own Ignorauif, 
 
 ir tu the vlllany of those with iitbom he was concerned, 
 
 ^11 unsuocessflil ; and iVom what might well have keen 
 
 irtned an independent (brtune, he soon began to be in 
 
 ritit of money. To relieve himself from some of his 
 
 iMbirraB*>«Ments he disposed of bis paternal estate, which 
 
 Mitad )« I in the management of his mother. This, he 
 
 ired, would give her uneasiness^ but he knew not how 
 
 lie avoid it. 
 
 When the new owner arrived at the village, and an- 
 
 ft^unced to Mrs Woodcock the purchase of the farm, not 
 
 mn e?teepting the reveuion of her dower, she seemed 
 
 [hMinder^Btruok : but when he actually tack posiesstooi 
 
 >if reason well nigh tbrsook her. Ithe had b6rne the 
 
 iMtth of her husband with the fortitude of a cmistian } 
 
 (hit was an Inevltlibte evil. She had been ohi erful un» 
 
 tr^the desertion of her son, for she was a bustling wo^, 
 
 AM, and the care of the estate had occupied her mind 
 
 m prevented her fVom dwelling on the dangers to which 
 
 )• was ekpo9ied. But now she was berefl: of all— and to 
 
 the iields her huibftitd had cultivated, the trees he had 
 
 inttd, tht house he httd^erected, in the possession oC 
 
 l|ltliger» whiit »he hi^Mpne to ^soothe her passage to 
 
53 
 
 rum LOTTBRT TIOKBT. 
 
 ».=« 
 
 tb« grav«/— her mind could not support it. A' narvoui 
 fiiT«r attaokfd her ; and now it was, that the strength 
 iicd disinterestedness of Chloe Harris' afl«ction for her first 
 •nd only love, was tested. She lavished on the mother 
 tlio tenderness which neither his falsehood nor time had 
 dtttrored towards the son. Da/ and night she sat hy 
 her pillow, and tended and soothed her, as if she had in> 
 died heen lier mother. And when the poor heart-hroken 
 #onian wept .over the follies, and predicted the ruin of{ 
 her prodigal, Chloe always found some extenuating oir- 
 eunstanoe lo urge in his (kvor, even while weeping her- 
 pelf i% the remembrance of his cruelty and injustice. A 
 ■hort time, however, terminated the sufiR»rings of Mnl 
 Woodcock. She died blessing Chloe, and charging her 
 with reproofs and forgiveness for her erring son. 
 
 Richard had been informed of his mother's illness, butl 
 did not—perhaps could not, visit her, and she was hid ia 
 the grav#, and wept only by Chloe. From that day tht 
 sweet girl seemed pining with unrestrained sorrow. Whili| 
 •iii thought the man she had loved, was happy, she hs4[ 
 •■dMvored to bear her own disapi^. intment unmurmur 
 Ulf ; hut now, when convinced that be had sacrificed hill 
 oirn peace and honor at the shrine of folly, and that th« 
 diy was not far distant when, deprived of his fortune, hi 
 NUMt bo degraded and miserable, she wept for him m well 
 M for herself: and her sorrow, joined with the fatigue sbi 
 bad undergone in nursing Mrs Woodcock, soon terndii*| 
 ttod in a quick consumption. She welcomed the approaeii| 
 of death as a kind messenger, which would bear her firoaj 
 « world of sorrow to a region of peAce, ai^d departdl 
 without a struggle. Before her strenf '^ was exhauit«4| 
 «Im had written a letter to Richard, in . hich, after del 
 &ikf tho^oirounstarioesofhii mother's death, and deliv«n<| 
 her dying admonitions, she adverted to her own situatioB,! 
 Mtily describing the tortures ho had inflicted on her truit*| 
 Ib| iieart, and concluded by saying— 
 
 •Before this meeta your eye 1 shall be laid in the mIbI 
 liA filent grave. I dio willingly— 1 die peacefolly— btt{ 
 ^, Richard, how will you meet the king of terron)) 
 Wlkott'that hour approadits, assure yountlf ol my fitt>| 
 glYiiMNs yn, when your M|tt oontoiiiilt i^taki il 
 
TUB LOTTianY TtOKBY. 
 
 r»n 
 
 tliuadeni, lut iny rciuombranco vrhuper forgivonew of alt 
 I can forgive. Would that I could auuro you of tho par- 
 don of Heaven ! Farewell, farewell ! 1 ahall pray for you 
 with my latest breath.* Shu had givou directiona that it 
 •hould not bo sent till after her death. 
 
 Dick, moanwhilo, wassuQering tho penalty ufhia fault*. 
 Partly to stillc rotlection, and partly yielding to example, 
 he had become a gambler, and always losing, as ia gener- 
 ally tho case with novices in this pastime, his ruin had 
 become iuovitahlo. Attachments wore levied on his pro- 
 perty,— -if ho wont abroad, ho was assailed by duns, — at 
 homo he was met with reproaches, till he felt existence a 
 burden, and oven breathed blasphemous wishes that he 
 might be annihilated. 
 
 It was during one of these paroxysms of desperation 
 that the letter fiom Chloe was put into his hands. Ho rt^ 
 collected the handwriting, and trembled : yet there wtre 
 sweet feelings mingled with his terrfioones. He thought 
 of l^er love, of tho happy hours they had paisod together, 
 of the )' ippy life they had anticipated— his heart nttltad ; 
 he liiissed tho signature, while his eyes were fillea with 
 tears. He broke the seal, but when he-had read th« ooq 
 tents the whirlwind of his passions defied control. W» 
 dying mother— his darling Chloe— he saw them— he hetrd 
 their meek voice« raised to bless tho wretch who had tie- 
 fifloed tliem to his vanity. 
 
 *0 !* he exolaimed— *if they had only cursed me I W|iy 
 did they not curse rof 1 I deserveil it— 1 would have bowed 
 dowB in the dust, and aubmitted to my punishment. Yes, 
 I deserve the most horrible !*— and then he raved against 
 hii*bwn folly, and called heavon*a rengeanoe on tlie vil* 
 laiiit who had betrayed him, till bit strength was exhaust- 
 «d ; then recurring td tho forgiveneti of thoae kijtir«^ 
 ones, his soul softened , and he wopt aloud. 
 
 fbrming a hasty resolution to quit a place which hid 
 be^ma intolerable to him, ho took passage in a vetnAl tut 
 Ntw-Oi|^Mkt< He took' no leave of hi* wife^-tMt W|mi 
 ^fA^ofa monbentarjr dttecminatioiil llii^i lh« 
 
 rag4lb«>*ii gtoom^ iiid ahatrietK^ ; lils oiiIjr*«|bf|t^* 
 
 in bting doHTod Uom paroiiiig the \i(ltr of Chfoe „ 
 t», Midhlio keptouattantly tin hitboioili. Sick atliltrt* 
 
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 ^\A^ pii t^^iHl mm Vrlus A ^^l^^ bl' \MM %m, 
 
 liitliltll 'Mt^l'iil'^i ^M^ tt^l&lM V^ulll4hl 11,4^1 ii't'^ltliiii §^ik illkm 
 wmWvtm^gmyww^ wnnjii wii«« fiuw^ii tjfii unEiwitft Fwiit wiiwf 
 
 
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 i|-miti htdiil bf \\\\\t\i m^^ m\U\ M^ \k tttMihiB> 
 ii HN^klHiU^Hlt'D, Wlih Mil CHHt^Mbb^ khitiir 
 
 lliik. KAfchrtr U»e»t* m\^ liibtl iHirt H»cp«ife«< itiHfit 
 Lh yt WAWm (»ilti^;n) illtit, oil M^t^ihg ihctt) Mt-t-AHgd It 
 
 ki*^tl Imhbiiilhb tbt ilt^Ht t^vbt* tb l«6 \s\\i IH lb iimtitl li 
 [wk %»»•(* rijbttkl iwn tlimif«abtl ^whl Nrtt)blmi||s j hh th« 
 iffeAiw Which Imti Hvn hhtlleKj «bH wltn Malrtutt 1i^hlfe, 
 
 IV»^i Ijibblrtiii i^ti|ie»- rtHtl suit hrttrtKj uiHikt-d |ibi, ii^ikn 
 » Al^HiSj kb.-A h\t<^ »illH»l- t'ht'rtHttttt^tfef, lit Which 
 
 ^Mi^n bl Ihn ttvmy ^tr»tH t-eitblrtiBtl, tWb ttl^^'lHb WiH^ 
 ill A ft^i»e« vnlv^i ♦mvelHh| bAti-^dli^ tt tlliliMbMd 
 Jin^^it (ibitiO lmt« nmH\^ iiHM|ti,tiH liH|i^!rt«i ttmh*^ 
 
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 ^hlb t wtii ih thk^ cbiititf)^, Nnyi M«d«tHii di Mbtiti«h 
 pHi* h«t^ Uii^kit] t (ihiiHt$»d b tHtt ih ttttHi|i(iH|^ With 
 «dd tvUh ^l|Hi)^ y^ikH bf A|») Whb i-«l(iitt(t Itt ilMilhlt 
 
 i^flbtj^ nm nofki wiiiiHt ibf to I )il|b#i|^ 
 b i^HiiiiM htki fei^ diiiH* tbr ibui hlM nil ii a 
 t^*i##^ (^ ttillillieilii't fthd whiki b wiriiM^ 
 miillilillM lt> li^i irtiii ltd (Millie 
 . ^ lid tH fltdttiKii iua tiii4(| iMtfim# 
 
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 m\ s\hm \wms m^w^x^ w^ \\w f^\s\ ^ \\\^>^^\Umi\ 
 
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 ^^ ip^ ^«ii\ \vi\* ^mHs \\U ^>\m% {\s ^^ #iw^ 
 
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 if 
 
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 III ^M mMi*l\ Hm^HHMHH^I I (hH ^iihmMH mm Ih fH« 
 
 11 hvm wMtih M(^ \m\i\m [m\\\miM\ \ MHti n!« hh DHii*^ 
 l\iW H^AH \il»H WHU fht* jiHfH^^Hi' hi H, {M Mn H|(l> 
 
 Uiu )^ n\W\\, ^Vlih AMhtH Hi HlH ItHHiif t^ttl^bHH IH llii 
 
 ht^li i\^ MftM I'lUhlittH, HiitUM Im lluH HtUlfMfi»»l< ;*^ 
 
 U p\ \m)s m \\\\\u j'kui m\M mi itgitM Ii»#h l<«iHii 
 
 iwUWh l»«>»rtvtMl \wf l||\i. thi» IVlHf ihxUhU.* mii*^ 
 iba M»»^ IVt^i»i»i*ft Hi lb MfiHrtitwr- rtH»l n*Hi»jj|Hl««»< IH# 
 
 Um\n^ tH iHt^tl »i DiHml liiH IH Mw^h i fi»«(||id mf 
 
 iV \\M\iy tkW\{ i^km\m^mi tn liN iHtiH»«t, I 
 
 i till i^lMHHKi^ ^r mn tm^ »li (Hiiii hitti^Ni in m* fil 
 •t ^Im ^0Hi«tU« mm { tm¥(t ttumi fiM^ Hi iii «H^ Itfili^; 
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 ^ ^h«i UN (H whttih h« Imd tlntotttfl ((ti HHi Hi liii 
 
 Hllv H« WI^Mlit HHl «ti«»tll Hf HH)^ illiM| ttl I M# 
 I I M m)M HHi Hl(\ll« It) MiMjr iHMIt dl^l H^^ 
 
 iHt wk» ti-viliiH him lllmi i tiftiiai Thil 
 Ik tthlliia HlmtH Niiih« «««• #1 Ji# ^^Mi 
 
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 Ttivi rittit kffW tAit to»i»<iteh. 
 
 
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 tttK t mst AHw LAST \)\mm 
 
 ih*<v ^^y\yiittm, th«h- fm\{)r tmm\\\swn, tthtl rtthei- low 
 sn\^vrst», M ^tmM\t)\\ \\\\\A\s\\ti\\\% d» th<» melw^ittlli 
 
 Aitim% lHi»mi«lv««. ytwtii^v i\\t tbll»)Wittg vetti\\Aibh« •. Tld 
 thiy sHt^v^W tlwti Alh^rtSAtely ai eAifh ttihe?* h»)Uiw« wrt IN 
 fim A^xt frtrt \>Ay \*r th\6 y<&rtt- ; ihAt ihi*,^**)^! hoMle br win 
 
 AWAV) t» ^A ttVAwik Hy him ^vl1rt M\imUi h^ m lati of iuw 
 mtm\ ; thAt ihAy *«ho\iW mk^x- tiMm a w^w membieH 
 thAt wh^tt t)tt^ «ilAit> <>WyArtiihbv\W me^i— Ah«\ whAtv Ahttth] 
 «^ ^tAt^^ mi %\S^\\\^ MtAAt, Ahd It) m ; ^hd i)\At» #HAh m\ 
 
 if ^)s^ Hitim^^y hA ihm\h)» t6h ihdse iwd t)Ay«» iIima bg 
 l^« jNt ttMA hA (M tUhAt) a)<oAa^ )Ait It AhmiM be thA m\i 
 
 tlti% ^i ihO^W ihAtt ttttAAVk thA jlrrt JOttiA, Atttii Ih % 
 
 p^ glMAv ^Mk «» ihA m^^n t^r Atr^ht) ^^a^ia t^nAi 
 
 t<H«M WAA At^VAAtH(M||^Htil\Al AMi) WHtmitt^ll^i iH UiA y« 
 4««^ it WAA AAgAVVy AmHVAA<M. thAV WAt^ Att ih IHa ||)HlJ 
 <)t' Hflh^^b«^iiy AttAtb^tt by VAA(^h)AAl mAMvllhl^^ Ibhtl 
 AttteHl IhfAyMAAHi^ At\tt b<)kA«)1^WAh) td tbAti^ tlitUHl MH 
 {tt|t litil yiAAtk^Vthl AMt(«(^tt\6AI «)f ^tAAIUlTA. 11^« Mt, 
 4lli«|^l^ \A^I«A<I> thAt tmU ^tn tlAl^kAHAtl thAIA AHllAt^^ 
 
 liAMi v^ mt m\ vi&vv UkAty ^ m^^^ itiAtt At this m\ 
 
 iMMlls ^1^ HSA kAl^fen W(|bt Vrbt) WAA ttAltiMAtl tA AM^^ 
 tUMk ^^At ^IttA At Ibfi h)MAty tl^ttAlt. 
 
 1^ ^A ^(|K«ltlMAIM^ WhAA this Ih^UA AbttlMAAl WAft Ahtl^l 
 «il«llttit«M «i t^^tt VAAkl ^\^ Atbhg thA dAt^k k 
 
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 tt«ilii»4 M lkA(^.^AAtl ittil tm^tit tbA Attiuwi 
 Iflii^ IMM^Iftmi »Ai^ M^l ^t^ ii tb^^ I 
 
 
 
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tMtt ntant a»m tAUt titttittott. 
 
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 L« hbbbllHff Utibh eHttrhnit nllPt n wv^fi* fif nf the gtttt^ 
 m^ t^bkiHtf nboiti With tnuhtliul »')'Mi, tirty little hrowb 
 [i|«i, Atnl othet« ddttfirttly tl»^RM»nl rutt IM n H«it milt «l 
 |tt«l"«lhg ft)!- the tlnnth nf rt gi-httt ftmtul tlrtMtththi- nr ti 
 H^l-^fenl-plVllMttnOM.— PtthInK, MrtltlTtlpK, tmithlMfl ttUttll^ 
 
 ^ff jDlntu M\\ tremblinit; ktierH, W(?rt^ hitnttlNl nhhitt iHfiBJ 
 Uirtf Rtuheirtitt mirth, titt«t n|i|»fo}it"ltttmi, lltf«ttrt ««e atnl 
 Uh to Atiothei, m jt (jft-miti of itiftrry chlhlrftH ^tnultl hrt*-*' 
 [itHbutnii Kohti^h |mltihf>M, llvitig; chnHots, tlinttintul tnhlt*i, 
 iddmltn bi' «rtH»l |>pntl, uMH i\\p Ditielerl |ins«r«sf<lbti nf n 
 (Atlflah'd wrttut. uhlrh cntild tratisfbt-ttt Hnltt hHt^k ntitl , 
 ttW, rtM»1 humble umbbf^nny, Ihtb mit^h finilly tt-ertntit-M. 
 'Al fbl you, tirrit-gr/ r?ttilrtlmef1 oiiottf thr» tWelVfe) ad- 
 eUlHg bl« btntbet-lM IrtW, 'I t^xpt^t^i I wholl nee you Hi 
 ^jTj WUbRretl, ah«l nhnitiltph m hH mUI eel iklH, fm tnet-e 
 Hlit)e or A Htiin !' and he aet^tmttmtilet) the wot-ds with 
 \\limiy nk\) m the ghouldet-. 
 
 AlOi-ge ^bt-teirue wai tenitlHg; eat'elepiily btet- the nlde 
 ' tb yacht, IftbRblHf^ the loudent bt atiy at the cbtitef- 
 illdh which hmt been catHeil bti. The mtd.Joh fhuuiiai 
 (iiitntibh bf big bfbther-lH-taw threw himbtthis batattee, 
 111 IH a mbmehi he wan ovetboai-d. They head the Hm- 
 i^la«h> belbte they cbittd be lald tb hattt leeh hlHifkti. 
 ftD yachi wan ptbceedtng NWltlly albtig ; but It wai )ti> 
 ittHy itbiitied. The uttMbst ebtiitertiatlbh tibw t^fevall- 
 |. h wan heai'ty datk, but l^btteieue waft ktibwti tb be 
 l^ktiDllent iwltuHie^i attd itaftliiin as the aeeldetit waft, 
 |i^ Hik bartaltt he would regalu the teMet. They ebuld 
 Mimhltti. They liMteHed. They heai-d the ibUiid bf 
 [i hAtida aud tbat. Th^ halted hlitt. Ati atiiwet- wii 
 |tei»d,but iH a fklut gut'iifliug voice, aud the e«clamii 
 att) 'dh Ml* struck u)ioti their eatn-^tu ati InsiaHttWd 
 ihira« who Were eittiert gwimtueri, (iluhged ttitd ih» 
 ilPt attd iwatti tbwardi tha Mpbt whetieo the ««eliilili- 
 |^tiMM)«d«dk Om« df tliem wai Withltt an arm'i ItHfiH 
 IN>rtiibue : he law hitn $ ho wai atruigliug itMl btif- 
 lii| the water i hetbra Itocdutd be reabhad, h« fitol 
 Vtit iAd hia diitliAtad iViatid bahetd thi «ddjrin(t <il«eJti 
 ill fhiVA Jttit ovar tha apol wharo he had ittiut* 'Ma 
 ^ " k\fAt iitd tottobaii Iha bottotu } but tht tldtt iili|l 
 
60 
 
 TBBS FfBtT JnVD LAST DIHimtt. 
 
 have drifted the body onwards, for it could not be fog 
 They proceeded to one of the nearest stations where 
 vopes were kept, and having proetired the necessary i 
 paratus they returned to the fatal spot. After the Ia|i 
 of above an hour, they succeedou' in raising the lifef 
 body of tlieir lost friend. All the usual remedies wi 
 employed for restoring suspended animation ; but in t^ 
 and they now pursued the remainder of their counej 
 "^ London, in mournful silence, with the corpse of him 
 bad commenced the day of pleasure with them in thei 
 ness of health, of spirits, and of life ! Amid their set 
 er grief, they could not but reflect how soon one of \ 
 joyous twelve had slipped out of the little festive circk 
 
 The months rolled on, and cold December came 
 all its cheering round of kindly greetings and merry 
 pitalities ; and with it came a softened recollection of 
 fate of poor Forte&cue ; eleven of the twelve assemblcfd] 
 the last day of the year, and it was impossible not to I 
 their loss as they sut down to dinner. The very ' im^ 
 larity of the table, six on one side, and only five on 
 other, forced the melancholy event upon their memoi 
 
 There are few sorrows so stubborn as to resist the 
 ted influences of wine, a circle of select friends, and 
 season of prescriptive gaiety. Even those pinching 1 
 btos of life, whch come home to a man's own bosom, 
 light up a smile, in such moments, ^t the beaming 
 teaance and jocund looks of all the rest of the world. 
 . A decorous sigh or two, a few becoming ejaculatia 
 and an instructive observation upoti the unc^tainty of I 
 made up the sum of tender posthumous '' offerings to 
 flionM of poor George Fortescue," as they proceedc' 
 discharge the mors immediate duties for Hrhich they 1 
 'ffst. By the time the third glass df chanipagiie hiKl 
 iraund, in addition to sundry potations of fine old ho 
 mA** capital madeira," they hid ceased to discover 
 tbing so Tory pathetic in the inequalify of the two 
 •fif tho table, or so melancboly in^^ilieir'^rippled numi 
 
 Th« rMt of til* shotting passed on to their hearti'i 
 HHt. Coiivoriatiofr'imi^briikly keptup^id ^e 
 ivpiof |iini, leptttoo, aasedolv, poKties, toaitt, ht 
 
 jdti 
 
THE FIRST AND LAST DINNER. 
 
 61 
 
 lokes, broad laughter, erudite disquisitions upon the via- 
 
 ige of the wines they were drinking, and an occasioDal 
 
 )Dg, towards eleven o'clock when it might be observed 
 
 [hat they had emptied their glasses with less synptomi 
 
 u palating the quality of what they quaffed, and filled 
 
 [hem again, with less anxiety as to which bottle or decan- 
 
 }r they laid hold of, they gradually waxed moral and ten- 
 
 ler ; sensibility began to ooze out ; ** poor George For- 
 
 B8cue !'^ was once more remembered : those who could 
 
 )unt, sighed to think there were only eleven of them ; 
 
 ^Dd those who could see, felt the tears come in their eyeSj 
 
 they dimly noted the inequality of the two sides of the 
 ible. They all agreed, at parting, however, that they 
 [ad never passed such a happy day, congratulated each oth- 
 
 on having instituted so delightful a meeting, and prom- 
 ked to be punctual to their appointment the ensuing eve- 
 bog when they were to celebrate the new-year, whose en- 
 
 ince they had welcomed in bumpers of claret, as the 
 ratchman cried " past-twelve !'* beneath the window. * 
 
 They met accordingly ; and their gaiety was without 
 ly alloy or drawback. It was only the first time oi 
 leir assembling, after the death of " poor George For- 
 ^scue,** that mad6 the recollection of it painful; for, 
 |iough but a f<iw hours had intervened, they now took 
 ^eir seats at the table, as if eleven had been their origin- 
 
 number, and as if all were there that had ever been 
 
 [pcicted. . 
 
 It is thus in every thing, tw first time a man enters 
 I prison — the^rs^ book an authli writes— the first paint- 
 ^g an artist executes-— the ^rst battle a general wins--' 
 
 Br exceedingly from their ^rsf repetition. There is a 
 
 lari|i, a spell, a novelty, a freshuMs, a delight insepara- 
 
 (e friiiim the ^rst experience, which Ao art or circumstance 
 
 impart to the second. And it is the same in all the 
 
 rker tmts of life. There is a degree of poignancy and 
 iiii^» the first assualts of sorrow, which is never 
 
 ind aimwards. In every case, it is simply that tUe 
 ]rst fine edge of our feelings had been taken off, and tha[t^ 
 I ean never be restored. 
 [Several years elapsed, and our eleven friends kept up 
 
 rir double anniversariis, as they might aptlv enough be 
 
 F 
 
 
63 
 
 THE FIRST AND LAST DINNER. 
 
 I 
 
 called, with scarcely any perceptible change. But, alai:j 
 there came one dinner at last, which was darkened bv 
 calamity they never expected to witness, for oif tha 
 very day, their friend, companion, brother almost, m 
 hanged ! Yes, Stephen Rowland, the wit, the oracle, (|J 
 life of their little circle, had, on the morning of that dajj 
 forfeited his life upon a public scaffold, for 'having mad 
 one single stroke of his pen in a wrong place. In otbe 
 words, a bill of exchange, which passed into his hand 
 for 700<£, passed out of it for 1700^, he having dravj 
 the important little prefix to the hundreds, and the bil{ 
 being paid at the banker's without examining the word 
 nf it. The forgery was discovered, — brought home 
 Rowland, — and though the greatest interest was used 
 obtain a remission of the fatal penalty, (the particular fel 
 male favorite of the prime, minister himself interfering,] 
 poor Stephen Rowland was hanged. Every body pitie 
 him ; and nobody could tell why he did it. He was nol 
 poor ; he was not a speculator ; but phrenology settlei 
 it. The organ of acquisitiveness was discovered in 
 head, after his execution, as large as a pigeon's . egg. 
 
 It would be injustice to the ten to say, that even wiii 
 friendship, and a merry season, could dispel the gk 
 which pervaded this dinner. It was agreed beforehan 
 that they should not allude to the distressing and mela 
 choly theme : and having thus interdicted the only thii 
 whicli really occupied all their thoughts, the natural 
 sequence was, that silent contemplation took the place i 
 dismal discourse; and they separated long before 
 night. An embarrassing restraint, indeed, pervaded 
 little conversation which grew up at intervals, 
 champagne was not in good order, but no one liked 
 complain of its being ropy. A beautiful painting of Vt 
 dyke, which was in the room, became a topic of discn 
 sioi. They who thought it was hung in a bad plat 
 shrunk from saying so ; and no one ventured to speak i 
 the execution of that great master. Their host was ha 
 ing the front of his house repaired, and at any other til 
 he would have cautioned them, when they went awa( 
 ajB the night was very dark, to take care of the scaffoli 
 
 
TkB riBST Azin last onrnMu. 
 
 e)». 
 
 lH|t DO, they might have ttumbled right and left before he 
 rould hare pronouneod that wottl, or told them not to 
 nak thtir nidti. One, in particular, even abstained from 
 iiing hit customary phrase, '< this is a drap of good wine;'* 
 id another forbore to congratulate the friend who Mt 
 lest^bim, and who had been married since ho last saw 
 lim, because he was accustomed, on^ such occasions, to 
 snploy figurative language, and talk of the holy nooBi of 
 redlook. 
 
 Some fifteen years had now glided away since the fate 
 poor Rowland, and the ten remained ; but the stealing 
 liand of time had written sundry changes in most legible 
 cbsracters. Raven lock shad become grizzled; two or three 
 lieads had not as many locks altogether as may be reck* 
 Dn«d in a walk of half a mile along the Regent's Canial— 
 DM was actually covered with a brown wig— the crow's 
 jfeft were visible in the corner of the eye— good old port, 
 id warm Madeira carried it against hock, claret, red bur- 
 indy, and cbampagner-^^ews, hashes, and ragouts, grew 
 Into favor — crusts were rarely called for to relish the 
 obleese after dinner— conversation waf lest boisterous, and 
 |it turned chiefly upon politics and the state of the funda, 
 the value of landed property— apologies were madefoir 
 Dming in thick shoes and warm stoekingf'^the doors md 
 ido#8 were more carefully provided wilSi list and iMid 
 -the fire more in request, and a quiet game at whist 
 IIM up the hours that were wont to be devoted to diink-* 
 fDg» tinging, and riotoui merriment. Two rubbers, a eup 
 e(^e, and>M homo by eleven o'ol<>ck, was the usual 
 % when the fifth or sixth glass had gone round after 
 kbe reiBOval ^f the cloth. At parting, top, there was no# 
 loog\Beremonylu<iheliallj buttoning up gieaitrcoats, ty- 
 fsgon "^oolleii- oomforterS} '^fixing silk haiidkerchiefii ovei 
 ■milh and up to the earn, a^ graspisf ititrdy walk- 
 [ingcaneetd support unsteady feet. 
 Their fiftieth anniversary came^ and death had indeed 
 mbuay^ One had been killed by the •oi^fiarDing of 
 ^OMtiil coach, in* which W had taken hi» pilaee in^prM 
 rhrpiMant at the dinner^ having frorchased «n eitaii 
 b|fmii^Quthihife^ and retired thi||>Mf wiHi l^' iiuiK^« 
 '^^^ir 1^ oiicl^ifene the terrific operation Ibf fhijl^- 
 
 ■ %^ 
 
 
M 
 
 THB riHtV AND LAIT DlVVSm. 
 
 el, and expired beneath the knife— a third had yieldtdl 
 up a broken spirit two yeara after the less of an only nur-l 
 viving and beloved daughter ; a fourth wai carried off igl 
 a few days by a cholera morbui ; a fifth had breathed bill 
 last the very morning he obtained a judgnoent in his Ikvorl 
 by the Lord Ghancollor, which had cost him his last shill-| 
 ing nearly to get, and which, after a litigation of eight'i 
 een years, declared him the rightful owner of ten thou*| 
 sand a year,— ten minutes after ho was no more. A sixtbl 
 had perithod by the hand of a midnight assassin, whol 
 broke into his house for plunder, and sacrificed the ownerl 
 of it, as he grasped convulsively a bundle of Exohequirj 
 bills, which the robber was drawing from beneath his pil 
 low, where he knew they wore every night placed for bet-| 
 ter security. 
 
 Four little old iqcn, of withered appearance, and de- 
 crepit walk, with cracked voices, and dim, rayless eyeij 
 sat down, by the mercy of Heaven, (as they themselTetl 
 tremulously declared) to celebrate, for the fiftieth time, thil 
 first day of the year, to observe the frolic compact, whicii«| 
 half a century before they had entered into at the Stirl 
 and Garter, at Richmond ! Eight were in their graves!! 
 The four that remained stood upon its confines. Yet thty| 
 ebirped cheerily over their glass, though they could 
 scarcely carryjt to their lips, if more than half ftiU ; andl 
 oraoked their jokes, though they articulated their wordil 
 with difficulty, and heard each other with still greater di^l 
 fiottlty. They mumbled, they chattered, they laughed,! 
 (if a sort of strangled wheezing might be called a laugh;)] 
 and when the wines sent their icy blood in warmer pul 
 through their veins, they talked of the past m if it weii| 
 bat a yesterday that bad slipped bj thectt,— and of thtii 
 future, as if^it were a busy century that lay before then. 
 
 They were just the number for a quiet rubber of whiit;| 
 and for three successive years they sat down to one. Tbel 
 fourth came, abd then their rubber was playsd with asj 
 opes dummy ; a fifth, and whist was no loDger practica- 
 ble ;^tooeould play only at cribbage, rdU cribbage wai| 
 the game. But it was little more than the moclury 
 plUjN Their pabied hands could hardly hold, or their ftd*| 
 iogtipi^ distinguish, the cards, while their torpid foe 
 ties made them doze between each deal. 
 
THB riBiT A;;n last DiirMBii. 
 
 66 
 
 hSrd had yitldid| 
 I of an only lur- 
 rai carried off in I 
 lad breathed kill 
 ;ment in his Aitw 
 lim hif laaf ihill-| 
 Igation of eight* 
 net of ten thoU'l 
 y more. A lixtbl 
 it aMatiin. who! 
 rificed the ownerl 
 He of Exohequerl 
 a beneath hit pil I 
 ;ht placed for bet-l 
 
 earance, and del 
 im, ray lew eyeiJ 
 they themMlveil 
 B fiftieth time, thi 
 c compact, whicbtl 
 into at the Stat 
 in their graves il 
 nfines. Yet thtyj 
 ough they cou) 
 an half full ; and 
 ated their wordil 
 hitill greater dif-l 
 they laughed, 
 e called a laughjl 
 in warmer pulMl 
 >astMi if itwenl 
 (tt,-— and of thtii 
 lay befoiv then, 
 rubber of whiit;! 
 wn to one. The 
 play id with an 
 longer practiea- 
 d €Tibbag«waiJ 
 the mockery 
 
 Id, or their ftd-j 
 Ihek torpid ht 
 
 At length came the las/ dinner ; and (he survivor of the 
 twelve, upon whose head fourscore and ten winters had 
 showered their snow, ate his solitary meal. It so chanced 
 that it was at his own house, and at his own table they 
 I had celebrated the first. In his cellar, too, had remained, 
 for eight and. fifty years, the bottle they had then uncork- 
 ed, recorked, and which he was that day to uncork again. 
 It stood beside him. With a feeble and reluctant grasp 
 Ue took the " frail memorial" of a youthful vow ; and, 
 for a moment, memory was jaithful to her office. She 
 jthrew open the long vista of buried years ; and his heart 
 I travelled through thorn all : Their lusty and blithesome 
 spring,— their bright and fervid summer,— their ripe and 
 temperate autumn,— their chill, but not too frozen win- 
 tsr. He saw, as in a mirror, how, one by one, the laugh- 
 ing companions of .hat merry hour, at Richmond, had 
 dropped into eternity. He felt all the loneliQesa of his 
 condition, (for he had eschewed marriage, and in the veins 
 of no living creature ran a, drop of blood whose source 
 was in his own ;) and as he drained the glass which he 
 had filled, ** to the memory of those who were gpne," 
 the tears trickled down the deep furrows of bis aged face. 
 
 He had thus fulfilled one part of his vow, and he pre- 
 I pared himself to discharge the other, by sitting the usual 
 Dumber of hours' at his desolate table. With a heavy 
 heart he resigned himself to the gloom of his own thoughts: 
 a lethargic sleep stole over him— his head fell upon bis 
 bosom— confused images crowded into bis mind— he bab- 
 bled to himself— was silent— and when his servant entered 
 the room, alarmed by a noise which he heard, he i'ound 
 his master stretched upon the carpet, at the foot of the ea> 
 iy chair, out of which he bad slipped in an appoplectic 
 UK. He never spoke again, nor onre opened his eyes, 
 though the vital spark was not extinct until the follow- 
 [ingday. And this was the last dinner. 
 
 [Blackwood*8 Magazint. 
 
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 ui>-, 'i 
 
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 Mmi 
 
ee 
 
 PBorsMOM or tiotri. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF SIGNS. 
 
 King James IV., on removing to London, wm waited 
 upon by the Spanish Ambassador, a man of erudition, 
 but who had a crotchet in his head, that every oountry 
 should have a professor of signs, to teach him, and the I 
 like of him, to understand one another. The ambassador | 
 was lamenting one day, before tiie King, this great deuifUt- 
 atum throughout ^ Europe, when the King, who was i 
 queerish sort oCs man, says to him-~ < Why I have a pro^ 
 fessor of signs in the northernmost college in my domin* 
 ions, viz. fii Aberdeen ; but it is a great way off, perhafMl 
 600 miles.* ' Were it 10,000 leagues off I shall see him,' 
 says the ambassador, * and am determined to set out in two 
 or three day8«' The King saw he had committed himseifJ 
 and writes, or causes to be written, to the university of 
 Aberdeen, stating ihe case, and desiring the professor to 
 put him off some way, or make the best of him. The 
 ambassador arrives, is received with great solemnity ; but 
 soon began to enquire which of them had the honor to b» 
 professor of signs 1 and being told that the professor was 
 absent in the highlands, and would, not return nobody 
 knows when ; says the ambassador, I will wait his returoJ 
 th<^|;b it were twaiye months. Seeing that this would not 
 do, ni^l^^^t the/ h^, to entertain him at a great exp^nie 
 all tfa^e \yhile, they contrived a stratagem. There was one 
 Geor^, a butcher, blind^f an eye, a droll fellow, with 
 muc| wit and roguery about him. He is got, told the 
 storyi and instructed to b^ a professor pf signs ; biitfi&t to J 
 speak on pain of death. Geordy undertakes it. The am» 
 bassador is now told, that the professor of signs would W{ 
 at ^oine nest day, at which he rejoiced i^reatly. Georify] 
 is gowned, wigged, and placed in a chair of state in s 
 room of the college, all the professors and the aml»as|adotj 
 beiog in an adjoining room. The ainbassador is now phown I 
 into Geordy *8 room, and left to converse with him at well| 
 as he could, all the professors waiting the issue with 
 Ut^ and trembling. The ambassador holds up on« of hit 
 fi^lfwra tp Geordy ; Geordy holds up two of bis. The 
 iiniraMador liolds up three ; Geordy clenches his fist and 
 lofllLi Item. The a'ifil>assador then takes an onngo^^jfroii. 
 
 
pRormtoft ov iioirt. 
 
 67 
 
 ill pocket, and holds it up ; Goordj takei a piece of bar- 
 tj cak^rom his pocket and holds that up. After which 
 le g^limsiilnr bows to him, and retires to the other pro- 
 ' bo anxiously inquired hit opinion of their broth- 
 is a perfect miracle/ says the ambassador ; < I 
 rouldnot give him for the wealth of the Indies !, * Well/ 
 lid tber professors, ' to descend to particulars.' * Why/ 
 the ambassador. * I first held up one finger denoting 
 there is one God ; he held up two, signifying that 
 are the father and son, I held up three meaning 
 ^tber, son and holy ghost ; he clenched his fist to say, 
 %i these three are one. I then took out an orange, sig- 
 jifjiog the goodnlls of God, who gives his creatures not 
 ily the necessaries of life, but the luxuries thereof ; upon 
 [hii^h the wonderful man presented a piece of bread, show- 
 ig that it was the staff of life, and preferable to every 
 jxury.' The professors were glad that matters had turo- 
 ottt so well ; so having got quit of the ambassador, 
 ^ey next got Geordy, to hear his version of the-signs. 
 Tell, Gerody, how have you come on, and what do 
 think of your man !' * The rascal !' says Geordy, 
 rhat did he do first think ye 1 He held up one finger, as 
 ich as to say, you have only one eye ! Then I held up, 
 |ro, meaning th^'t my one eye was as good, perliaps as 
 both his. The 1 the fellow held three of his fingfiii# Jtq 
 |y that there were but three eyes between us ; arid then 
 so mad at the scoundrel that I steeke^ my niettt and 
 I to come a whack on the side of his head, and w^u1,d ha' 
 le it too, but for your sakes. Then the rascal did not 
 with his provocation here, but forsooth takes out an 
 ige as much as to s^y, your poor baggarly cold coun- 
 eannc4|produce that ! I showed him a whang of bear 
 nook, meaning that4^4inna' c^i^re a farthing for him 
 |r bis trash neither, as lang as ha' this ! But by all 
 It's guid, (concluded Oeordy,) I am angry yet that 1 
 i* thrash the hide o' the scoundrel ! ' So much for signs» 
 Itwo ways of telling a story. 
 
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68 
 
 ROMAHTIO HISTORY. 
 
 ROMANTIC HISTORY. 
 
 Aittdli^ those who were put to death during the pei 
 of terror, the Colombians will long remember thf nnfo 
 tuuat^ Donna Apolinaria Zalabarriata, better known 
 the name of La Pola, who was sentenced to death by : 
 manO} and shot, together with her betrothed husband. Sh 
 was a young lady of good family in Bogota, and was dii 
 tinguished by her beauty and accomplishments. Ent 
 aiastieally attached to the cause of liberty, she devot] 
 herself to the hazarduous task of obtaining and transni| 
 ting to Bolivar secret intelligence respecting the for 
 disposition and plans of operation of Ihe Royalist vtmi 
 The particulars 6f this important information she conti 
 ved to collect from the Spanish officers themselves, at 
 tertuhasy or evening conversattonesj at her house, wl 
 were frequented by them, who listened with deiightl 
 her powers of conversation and singing, accompanied I 
 the guitar. From these officers, who could not possifi 
 suspect so young and apparently artless a female of 
 dangerous design, she used to inquire, as if merely in 
 course of conversation about their respective regiment 
 and, by asking after their absent companions, she fov^ 
 means of learning where their advanced posts were 
 tioned. She transmitted all the information she cotildi 
 lect to Bolivar by means of a trusty messenger ; but 
 fortunately, one of her packets was intercepted and i 
 messenger, under the, terror of impending death was 
 pelled to betray her. She Was immediately^ i tried 
 military court, (martial law having been pyoelaiintMlj 
 the capital,) and was /condemned to be shotj together^ 
 her lover ; although no proofs whatever coulit^be pi 
 eed of his having been privy to her undertakiBg. 
 were placed in capilla for twelve hours, previous to beoj 
 brought out for execution ; but evda this short inter 
 would not have been granted had not Zamano eonti^ 
 it of the greatest importance to discover if possible fl| 
 were accomplices. To effect this, no means were left i 
 tried to induce her to betray them. 
 
 She was on one hand threatened by the friar, who 
 to eonfess her, with eternal punishment hereafter, if i 
 
MAff^SAOfiS AT FORT WILLrAM HBITBT. 
 
 mi 
 
 lould dare to conceal any thing from him ; and on the 
 tber, attempted to be bribed by o£fi»n of pardon and re- 
 fer herself and her betrothed, if the would declare 
 whom she had been assisted. She, however, resolute- 
 ly denied having any accomplice except the messenger 
 rhom she had einployed. The lovers were both led 
 It the next day, and^bound close together, on two ban- 
 
 I, surrounded by troops. 
 »When the picket of Grenadiers, appointed to shoot 
 em, was marched up close, and in readiness, she waa 
 ^nee more offered pardon on former conditions. She again> 
 rithout evincing any signs of fear, declared that if she 
 ^ad any accomplices she would scorn to betray them for 
 be purpose of saving her own life ; but that as Bolivar 
 ras fast approaching, they would be known on his arri- 
 val. Having observed that her intended husband was 
 iting, as if about to speak through a very natural 
 of the death he saw so near, she implored him aSv 
 'last request, if he had ever really loved her, to show 
 liis death; that he was worthy of her choice; assuring 
 that the tyrant Zamano would never spare his Itfe, 
 rbatever disclosures he might make y and reminding him 
 bat he ought to dierive consolation from the reflection that 
 dea^h was shared by her he loved. The friars then 
 Btired, and the firing party made r^a^y . She then j for 
 He first time, felt dread, and ezelft|i^ 5;;Xo«t h<^^« ^» 
 t, butchers, to Icill a woman ?* Sll^limroediately cov- 
 Ace with her saya, and on drawing it aside for that 
 Be, the words, 'PioaLaPatri;* were discovered 
 )idersd in gold on the Satguiana^ The siftnal wa»- 
 ^IQ given from the Viceroy's balcony, i^nd they were 
 instantly shot. 
 
 MASSACRE AT FORT WILLIAM HENRY. 
 
 [JProm Cair9ir*» 2¥avlt»J] 
 
 Wiebb, who commanded the Eng^sli army^ id 
 A^iMrica, which was then encamped at Fort Ed- 
 
m 
 
 MAMAOftB AT FOIIT WILLIAM HMVtLY, 
 
 WMrd» having iDtolUgtnea that tht Frtnoh trpopi utidtrl 
 MotUk MoDtoalm, were making some moTeinentt towatdtl 
 Fort William ilt nryi he dataohcd a corps of about flfteeol 
 hundrad man, contiiting of Engliih and Provincials, t«| 
 ■traftfthen thi garriion. In this party I went as a rol<| 
 unteer ambng the latter. 
 
 The apprehensions of the Bngliih general were no 
 without foundation ; for the very day after our arrival w<| 
 saw Lake George, (formerly Lake Sacrament,) to whic 
 it liesl^^guous, covered with an immense number 
 boats ; a&d in a few hours we found our line attacked bjj 
 thaFrenili GKBneral, wbo had just lauded with alereJ 
 tKjDUsaod ^Regulars, and Canadians, and two thousand lo) 
 dians» Oolonel Monro, a brave officer, eommaned in tli 
 Fort, and had no more than two thoitMitid three hundr 
 men with him, our detachment includai;^ 
 
 With these he made a gallant defiuut^'and probi) 
 would have been able at last to preserve the Fort, 
 ha be^n properly supported, and permitted to cpntinue I 
 a0brtt« On every summons ip surrender sebt by tli 
 Frinoh General, who oflbred tbe. most honorable tei 
 his answer repeatedly was. That he yat found himself ( 
 a eondition to repel the most vigorous attaciiiMs besiejtt 
 i^ere able to make; and if he thought his present for 
 ihsuffioient, ha could toon be supplied with a (n%t 
 number Nm^|y>^|iDeiU army. , 
 
 But the OoloniiMving acquainted General Webb wii 
 hia tituatioii, and desired he would aand^hitti soma 
 troopS) this General idispatphed a liieManger to hha fil 
 alelt^ wherein liaiafbrmttl htm that It was not luliit 
 art»a8«iat him, alid therefore gave hiuf ordera to toin^iid 
 ^iha Fort on the belt terms he could procure. This pa« 
 Ml into the hands of the French General who imi 
 ttaly sent a flag of truce, desiring a eonfereAoa with 
 governor. ^^^ 
 
 They aeeosdingly mat, attended only l^ a/amaU 
 in the centra between the lines ; when Mona. Mont 
 told the Colonel that ha was ootna ki pjNraon to dei 
 ponasalon of tha Fort, as it belonged to the B^ 
 BMitw^ TbaiCci. rapliad» thit^ ha koe^s i|^t 
 
 '?; 
 
MABBAOHB AT VOHT WILLIAM HfiNRY. 
 
 1*# 
 
 71 
 
 could be, Itor should ho surrendor it up whilo he could 
 I'end it. 
 
 The French General rejoined, at the same time deliver- 
 ing the packet into the Colond'a hand, << By tiiis ''au- 
 thority do I make the requisition." The brave Governor 
 lad no sponer read the contents of it, and was convinced 
 ihat such.^ere the orders of the commander in chief, and 
 Lot to bo'disobeyed, than he hung his head in silence, and 
 }eiuctant||f entered into a negoeiation. 
 
 In conmderation of the gallant defence the ^rrinon had 
 lado, they were to be permitted to march out with all the 
 lonors of'war, to be allowed covered waggons to trans- 
 lort their baggage to Fort Edward, and a guard to protect 
 ^hem from t!ie fury of the savages. 
 
 The morning after the capitulation was signed, as soon 
 (ts day broke, thd* whole garrison,' now consisting of about 
 two thousand men, besides women and children, were 
 )rawn up within the lineH, and on the point of marching 
 |)ff, when a great number of Indians gathf/ed about, and 
 iegai. to plunder. We at first hoped that this was 
 ^heir only view, and suffered them to proceed without op- 
 loiition. Indeed it was not in our power to make any, 
 lad we been so inclined ; for though wo were permitted 
 |o carry off our arms, yet we were not allowed a single 
 round of ammunition. In this hope however we were 
 piiappointed ; for presently some of them began to attack 
 |he lick and wounded, when .such as were not able to 
 prawl into the ranks, notwithstanding they endeavored to 
 ivert the fury of ^eir enemies by their shrieks or groans, 
 rere soon dispatched. 
 
 ^ere we were fully in expectation that the disturbance 
 rould have concluded ; and our little army began to movf ; 
 but in a short time we saw the front division driven back, 
 id discovered that we were entirely encircled by the sav- 
 kges. We expfpoted every moment that the guard, which 
 |he Frendh, by the articles of capitulation bad agreed to 
 kllow us, would have arrived, and put an end to our ap- 
 
 sh«nsions; but none appeared. The Indiana now be- 
 jttn to strip every one without exception %f their arms 
 ftlld elothes, and those who tnade the least reaistance felt 
 ke ireigbt of their tomahawks. 
 
MABHACRE AY FORT WILLIAM H||jj|9Y, 
 
 72 
 
 I happened to be in the rear division, but il^H|not Iod^ 
 before I shared the fate of my companions. Three or fou 
 savages laid hold of me, and virhilst some held their weap 
 ons over my head, the others soon disrobed me of my coaj 
 vraisteoat, hat, and buckles, omitting not to take from 
 what money I had in my pocket. As this was transact 
 close by the passage that led from the lines on to the pUigl 
 near which a French centinel was posted, I ran to bij 
 and claimed his protection ; but he only called Ae an 
 glish dog, and thrust me with violence back aglh intoi 
 midst of the Indians. ^ 
 
 I now endeavored to join a body of our troops tbJ 
 were crowded together at some distance ; but innumerablj 
 were the blows aimed at me with different weapon as I 
 passed on ; luckily however the savages were so close 
 gather, that they could not strike at mo without endaD 
 gering each other. Notwithstanding which, one of tbeij 
 found means to make a thrust at me with a spear, whid 
 grazed my side, and from another I received a woui 
 with the same weapon, in my ankle. At length I gaini 
 the spot where my countrymen stood, and forced mys 
 into the midst of them. But before I got thus far out 
 the liands of the Indians, the collar and wristbands of d 
 shirt were all that remained of it, and my flesh yti 
 scratched and torn in many places by their savage gri| 
 
 By this time the war whoop was given, and the India 
 began to murder those who were nearest to them witho 
 distinction. It is not in the power of words to give 
 tolerable idea of the horrid scene that iiow ensued ; m« 
 women, and children Were dispatched in the most want 
 and crael manner, and immediately scalped. Many 
 these savages drank the blood of their victims, as it flof| 
 «d warm from the fotal wound. 
 
 "We now perceived, though too late to avail us, that^ 
 were to expect no relief from the French ; and that, 
 trwy to the agreement they had so lately signet) to iU 
 us a sufficient force to protect us from these insults, tfa^ 
 t&eitly permitted them ; for I could plainly perceive 
 Pt«&eh oftfM walkinit about at some distance, dii 
 ing togethn^f With apparent unconeern. For the honor, 
 human nature I would hope that thia flagrant breach 
 
 % 
 
KABIAORt AT I'ORT WILLIAM HEirW-«| 
 
 73 
 
 our troops thi 
 but inuumerabl 
 it weapon as 
 vere so close 
 without endai 
 ch, one of tbei 
 a spear, 'whii 
 eived a woui 
 t length I gaini 
 id forced my 
 ithus far out 
 vristbands of nj 
 my flesh yf\ 
 ir savage gri 
 and the Indi 
 to them withi 
 )rds to give 
 ►w ensued ; m( 
 the most wani 
 Iped. Many 
 ctims, as it flo 
 
 very sacred law, proceeded lather from th^siivage disposi- 
 ion of' the Indians, whitih I abknowledge it is sometimes 
 tmost impossible to control, and which might now unei- 
 iedly have arrived at a pitch not easily t6 be restrained, 
 ;han to any premeditated design in the Firench comminder. 
 ,n unpirejudiced observed ^ould, however, be apt to cbn- 
 itude, that a body 6f teh 'thousand christian tfoops, had it 
 [q their power to present the m^sacre from becoming so 
 reheral. il^ut whatever was ^e cause fr'ottii^hich it arose, 
 [he cense4uences of Jt were dreadful, and not tonM^ paral- 
 leled in modern history. 
 As the circle in whi<lh I stood enclosed by this time 
 ai much thinned, and death seemed to be approaching 
 ith hasty strides, ' it was proposed by some of the most 
 [esolute to make one vigorous effort, and endeavor to force 
 lur way through the savages, the only probable method 
 I preserving our lives that now remaihed. This, Koiir- 
 irer desperate, was resolved on, and abottt twenty of iis 
 irtrog at once into the midst of them. 
 In a moment we were all sdparated, and what was the 
 of my compatiions I could not learn till koine niodths 
 '; when I found that only six or seven of them effeet- 
 their design. Intent only on my own hazardous situ - 
 iron, I endeavored to make my Wiiy through my savage 
 lemies in the best manner possible. And I have often 
 in astonished since, iyhen I have recollected with if hat 
 ipoiure I tobk, a* 1 did, every necessary step fortay 
 ..jorvatioin. S6m^ I oyelilurned, being at' that tiWie 
 [eim| inlSf athleticf, and othc^ I pass^ by. dexteroasly 
 ^oidmg theii: weapons ; till at last two very stout chitflii, 
 tiie thost savage bribes, ais^l could distii^guibh by'th^r 
 ess, whose streng^th I could not resist, laid h^td ot'iklk 
 each arfifi, and b^^iin td Toi'cd me thrbugh the cr^Wd. 
 I hb% fesijTiied myself to my fkte, hot dbubting but 
 i^ i^ihf inte^lj^d to dispatch me, ahd theti' to satiate 
 "i^ir Whgeancei with i^y bloodi as I found th*y wereh^- 
 iDgnbetowatrds a retired swamp that liecy al (ibtn^e ^4 
 ic^. l^t befoMMrier hid j^b^ niany'j^ards, aii Ehglftiii 
 mt df sotii^ mitlhctibh, as I couM disc^i^ 1^' his 
 i/iuilia^btoscj by us. 'Ottfe of Ihfe liadiifliN^iWiridy 
 Iftiiir9a jifs hold, and ii^Hngirtg'ctt:^s'n#i%b;i»«t, 
 
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74 
 
 # 
 
 ▲ HtfACRB AT rOKT WILLIAM UBOfRV. 
 
 .endeavored to^ieizo him ^ Uls prey; l)ut. the gentli 
 iuan being strong, throw him on the ground^ and won 
 probably have got ^wa7> had not he who held my otl 
 aruiK quitted nie to a$sisl; his brother. I seized tho upf 
 tunity, anil hastened aw»y to join another party of 
 gUsh troops that were yet unbrdken, and stood in a be 
 ,,a.tsouic distance. But before I hud t^ken n^any stcpt^l 
 .hastily cask my eye towards the genMenian, and saw 
 Indiai^'s tomahawk g^K into his back, and heard him 
 ter his l^st groan ; this added both to my spe^d and dq 
 poration. 
 
 I had left this shocking scene but a fow yards, wli 
 a fine boy about t^'clvt; years of age, who liad hitheij 
 escaped, came up to me,, and begged that I would let 
 lay hold of me, so that he might stand some chance] 
 getting; out of the hand.s of the savages. I told him th 
 I would give him every assistance in my power, andl 
 this purpose hid him lay hold ; but in a few moments! 
 was torn frt)m my side, and by his shrieks I judged he 
 spon dem.o]ished. I could not help forgetting my o^ 
 cares for a minute, to contemplate the fate of so .youD| 
 sufferer ; but it was utterly impossible for me to takej 
 methods to prevent it. • 
 
 I was now once more in the inidst of friends^ bat; 
 were unable to afford each, other any suf^coji. As this i 
 tltii^ division that had advanced th arthest from the fo^ 
 thought there might be a possibility, (^tbough but a 
 one,) qf forcing my way through the puter ranks efi 
 Indians, and getting to a neighboring^, wood, which I 
 oeiy^datsome d'stanpe. I itvas first encouraged to^ 
 by the almost mirir julous preservation I had already i 
 perienced. , j , 
 
 Nor were my hopes in vajn. Suffice it to say tba 
 reached the wood ; hut by ti^e time I bad penetrated a| 
 tie way into it, u)y breath was so exhau^^ed that I 
 ipyself into e^ brake and lay for sonie minutes appareg 
 ft the last, gasp. At length I recovered the power of i 
 pirationi but my apprehensions retui;ned with all 
 formpi;. force, when I saw several savs^g^^, past by,i 
 blj^itn pursuit of uie, at no ^very great distanjce.. Inj 
 •ijtiiatiou, i knew not wneltie^ it vievff iM^ttet, t^i p| 
 
MASSACRE AT FORT WILLIAM NKlfRY. 
 
 75 
 
 endeavor to conceal myself where I lay, till light cam« 
 
 I ; fearing, however, that they would return the rami} 
 
 ijr, I tht ught it most prudent to get further from the 
 
 idful scene of my distresses. Accordingly, strikiug in- 
 
 ianother part of the wood, I hastened on as fait as \h& 
 
 pars and the loss of one shoe wou'd permit m^ ; and af- 
 
 a slow progress of some hburs, gained a hill that 
 
 riooked the plain which I had just left, from whence I. 
 
 ^)d discern that the bloody storm still raged with una- 
 
 |ed fury. 
 
 )ut not to tire my readers, I shall only add, that af- 
 
 j passing thre^ days without subsistence, and enduring 
 
 severity of the cold dews for three nights, I at length 
 
 plied Fort Edward ; where with proper care my hodj|r^ 
 
 b recovered its wonted strength, and iny mind, as ^r' 
 
 [he recollection of the late mel^ncho^y events woiil4 
 
 ^it its usual composure. '4'''* 
 
 was corpjiuted that fifteen hundred pevdHi were ki) •- 
 
 dr made prisoners by these savages t'H>igf this ,fdl 
 
 , Many of the latter were carried aff by tltem 'k 
 
 er returned. A few, foutid their wiiy ) :(ik to their ]i|#o 
 
 country, aft&r h|g«Dg experiencri a long kt^''§€\ 
 
 Captivity. 'Wm' ,'"^'^r' 
 
 lie brave Colonel InoliVo had hastened away soph^^- 
 ^e confusion began, |o the French camp to cn4pftvpr 
 cure the guard agreed by the stipulation, but his ap- 
 |tion proving ineffectual, he remained there tijii Gen* 
 /ebb sent a party of troops to demand and protect 
 ick to Fort Edward. But these unhappy concur- 
 Et, which would probal^y have been prevented, had 
 fen left to pursue his dwn plans, together with the 
 so many brave feHcr##, murdered in cold blood, to 
 v^lor he had been so lately a witness, made -such 
 ipression on his mind',ithiit he did not long survive, 
 in ab«Ut three Qibhths of a broken heart; arid wMi' 
 {it might be said; that he was an lionor td his tatki^- 
 
 . ri 
 
 inoi refiriain from obsfehring (hat very few of thdawQ 
 UriM of Indians lived to r«tUrn l^broe. Thid smiiil- 
 'tneiiiii of thefir communication with the Eufop^- 
 
 |ad itv vtky among theiik, and made aB equal havoo 
 
 
 
76 
 
 ibSCAPE FROM THC IVqUISITION. 
 
 >■ 
 
 to what they themselves had done. The methods they purj 
 sued on the tirst attack of tha^ malignant disorder, to abat^ 
 th^Jever attending it, rendered it fat^l. Whilst ,thti 
 hlobd was in a st^te of fermentation, anii nature was strifl 
 ingto thrqw out the peccant matter, they checked heroJ^ 
 orations l)y pti,inging into the water : the consefiuence i3 
 that they died by hundreds. The few that survived W 
 ti-ansfor^ned by it into hideous objects, and bore withtli« 
 to the grave deep indented marks of this much dread 
 disease. 
 
 .That the unprovoked cruelty of the French command 
 was not appr9yed of by the generality of his countrymel 
 1 Jxaye since been convinced by many proofs. One i 
 1^ however, whch I received from a person who was 
 Hjeiiis to it, sh^ll 1 at present give. A Canadian mercbt 
 
 111. 
 
 oi^ soipe consideration, halving heard of the surrender of 
 tlnglish fort, celebrated the fortunate event with great j 
 joicings aiid liospitality, according to the custom of 
 c^jiji^try } bui,!|ao kooner did the news of the mast 
 wh^ch jBn^ued reaqh his ears, than he put an immed 
 sipp to iU^ f|($stivity, and exclaimed in the severest ' 
 afl|inat^^the inhuman pormissioi\^j|eclaring at the 
 ^ tiine that those who had conniv(«Bit, had thereby ( 
 dgfrD^ on that part of their king'lHEninions the venge 
 qi ^JHeay en '. To this. he added, thlt he much feared tli 
 ii^' 1(|m of them would deserve^y be the coiiteqv 
 >^^'^ir!aty this prediction has been verified we well 
 
 ■yu] 
 
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 1 n !> . 
 
 ^, CAPT vtopALEl^'S ESCAPE FROM fHJ 
 
 4. i^l^j^e Spanish C^ptv.V?^i| J^a)ea»,a native of Cadi^j 
 fia^t^^l^rfy ki>o\fn.fqr his M^^ seer 
 
 s4^^tjqt|(» had,.b^,g;i|ii^, in lell7^ jtq^dissfinjins^te theiif 
 phnci pies among the inhabitants of the city of 
 "^lie^e Jie was i;:^ , garri^op,, Jlia d^yotio,^ tf| this 
 oi^utjd^ no|4 long fem^lpi .^npuni^hed : . |ie was. sqon ; 
 ^§fM^ ^°^^^^P^ tP prison. His papers wftfg^ jii 
 *^m9i Pi!^<*^^4>TOK^? h^^ ^^^M cpf;»:e8j[^na^ae; 
 
 
 "■M 
 
 j>^ 
 
BtOAPB rmOM^HB IlfltUIIITIOll. 
 
 4 I 
 
 the MMrtt Moieties in the kingdoni. Be^ttg tKdi convic- 
 ted of two crimes at once, the local aiKhtei«iet contMered 
 the matter too important to be submitted tfrthefr detiiion. 
 end Van Halen was transported under a numerous escort, 
 I to the prisons of the fnost obscure dungeons iihlhetnqui- 
 Uition. Preparationid vrere made for his trial ; btal ai he 
 I bad declared, from the first moment of his arrest, that h^ 
 Iwould give no answer to the 'charges against him; unless 
 lin presence of the king, and this resolution having b^n 
 Ueveral times reported to tho'kin^, Van Halen was at 
 ] length brought before bim. 
 
 I Not at all affected by the tortures he had undergone 
 
 lin his captivity, nor by the almost certain prospect of a 
 
 bpeedy and cruel death, instead of imploring the ftvot* 0/ 
 
 iFerdinand, he devoted the brief interview to |^reseAtr>g 
 
 %iin with a picture of the ruinous situation to whieh he 
 
 Iis4 been reduced by his ministry. He decHuM tb film 
 
 jtbat aU Spain was in fact filled with secret societies ; tlMit 
 
 trsecutions were vainly employed fbr their deklroetion ; 
 
 It no human power could succeed in ntiemptliM^ to diifeat 
 
 sir object ; that the persons of whom the iioei»ii4i'%er« 
 
 mposed bad never proposed any project agafmt |||1 life 
 
 (idhekifti, nor even against hit lanii or 4i#Wl ^t 
 
 illisinghim on a « throne supported hf thU jii^ andt 
 
 bylNl>>lo.Vft and confidence of the people, hufodH^tduld 
 
 ^ifbeen raised to the highest degree of^itiitlitj^/; ia 
 
 I, Ihat in order to secure a httppf resoH; k il(gk| 
 
 besuffiQientif the king would of hii o^n^ 
 
 adbfit the spirit at those very soeiottes, and |»kie» 
 
 {liBMsieat th^ir head^ He demanded df him to re^^ire 
 
 klb^ Gourl of. Some, the revocation of the cfnMr«a 
 
 iMjiroiiotinoectigainst them ; above all that he sl^ould 
 
 e|iet the jtarrow and sanguinary interest of hi« oounfel- 
 
 ««*; a«d4eefnred that the king of Spain Would then bi^e 
 
 ik^ten«i|.i^ invincibte army, which li« mi^ti^^ 
 
 to redone to servitude, but wli^eh Whk*% 
 
 led freei} wiculdalso be the more dieted Imtltfti 
 
 _^fclMifiii.'^ . ;•:■:,•-# 
 
 4ilriy|ilnd of language^ in which the toinidtl^^^we^^ 
 "^neeiMloQied to deal, Ferdinand betrayed ^iiore surprise 
 •^fiwi^lioil^l The character of that prmefe h«#'fcj>peat^ 
 6 3 
 
 
 i^'^Mri 
 
 . * 
 
T8 
 
 BIOAPN rnOM THB IIYQUISITIOIT. 
 
 ed in to inwsplic^ble a light, no contrary in diffttrent litiia- 
 tiona of Ufa, that we fthoiild be afraid to decide whether 
 the condescenaion> with which he treated Van Halen wai 
 the effect pf ooinpasMiun or of profound diiiiinulation. It 
 ia ocrti^D howpver, that he enquired, with an appearance 
 of thf tendereat interest concerninf; the privations he had 
 Buffered in pfison ; and on learning ihat he was accustom- 
 od^to ainoking tobacco, aent him a case of Havana segan 
 from among those which had been reserved for his own 
 use. After such marlcs of interest, one wouUI have look- 
 ed for the clouioncy of tho prince and the liberation of Van 
 Halen ; but the fact was far otherwise. While his friends 
 were enjoying the expectation of a happy termination iv j 
 the affair, the ministers of Ferdinand pressed its decision 
 with activity ; and information was brought by a little 
 child,^an attendant in tho prison, that the greatest dangpr 
 •W^s to be apprehended to Van Halen. The child haviny^ 
 caught a few words by accident of a conversation whicl» 
 wai going on; succeeded in finding her way to a small win- 
 dow by which the dungeon was lighted, informed him of 
 the danger to which he was exposed, and supplied himi 
 with paper and a pencil. 
 
 Vap Halen was thus enabled to open a correspondence 
 with iijb friends in the city, and inform them, thftt in spite 
 of ilio difficulties under which he labored, the means of es-, 
 cape wore in his power. He received in reply that *' their { 
 arms #nd their purses were at his service. '* A grettt re- 
 w{i|d wa| iheijoforo oOored to his interesting little messen- 
 p;^i and a topo>;^raplwcal plan having been drawn of the 
 streets in the neighborhood of the prison, a copy of it wai 
 tent toi Van Halen, on which were marked the plaeet | 
 where ills friends were to be posted. All this being thu» 
 , f everted, it was necessary only to fix on a moment forj 
 Ihf execution of the plan. It was in the wiiytisi! ; the day 
 Vaif arrjtved ; the 4;lock struck seven ; and tlw first/letaeli 
 iMQt of iiis fmnds assembled at the distance of a few pft-* 
 fftf^m tlie principal entrance of the prison. A man 
 nm6is his appearance, dressed in a^ nigiit goiVn and- »\i^\ 
 ]>eift. ^in an instant tliey disguised him in a foreign ui^i 
 form and led him away. 
 
 Af^ter taking flev^e^al long tuma through the slreete efj 
 
BAOAPB rnoM TUB iirqtjisiTtoir. 
 
 the »iKict« efj 
 
 rid, in order to bafllo a pursuit, the fugitive wan eon- 
 led to a safe retreat, wiiore he found a large aum remit 
 for him by the •^oneroai Count ofMontiJo, with pan 
 tf provided for \\\t departure from 9pain.— He pasied 
 of ;he kingdom into Portugal* and thence to England,. 
 
 which he took the route to Rusiin, vrhere he entered 
 the military acfvice. 
 
 >he lecrecy with .which thia affair was conducted '\t 
 more honorable to tho character and patriotism of 
 gpaniarcfs, because <hat from tho moment when it 
 
 decided that Van Halen shuuld remain a few days 
 kisdrid, to avoid the search which was known to 
 making in the environs of tlio city, all the niem- 
 
 of the secret societies having been informed of hises* 
 
 , desired to see him, and did in fact see him, without 
 
 occurrence of a siiigle act of indiscretion, and, indeed, 
 
 lont causing any apprehension to the fugitive or his 
 
 idi. We do not believe that history can furnish a 
 
 .e noble example of confidence, or one which was more 
 
 tided by the event. It was during the interval which 
 
 B Halen spent in Madrid, in expectation of an oppor- 
 
 ity to leave the country, that he recounted to many of 
 
 'friends who wore continually visiting him, the par- 
 
 ibrs of his escape ; and they are at once so ronaaDtic 
 
 so well authenticated, that we cannot withhold tbem 
 
 our readers. 
 
 hen he had obtained from his l:^t¥e frien j the prisoa 
 I, a precise description of the edifice, which he had^on- 
 psssed through very hastily at his introductioi^ he*^ re- 
 sted of the jailor to be supplied with some hoedicine 
 icb he pretended to want, and desired it might b# 
 iti^t to him at the hour he had fixed for his friends to* 
 H for him. While the jailor was laying the medicine 
 lUt table, he f eiieed him in an instaht, dnd throwing 
 lUfkin the bedj cpvered him Ttrith the clothes, sprung; 
 of the ddbr wUich had been left open, locked it aftor 
 I, passed through the intricate winding passages* wliiehi 
 little. girl had df|fHB^ to bim a hundred timet >iTer^ 
 instead o€ taking^/1|ll direction to the'outor door ^|ii9> 
 ^ould liare l^feen imjiosalble to pass, obeyed her dirf lO. 
 d followed the course that led to the aGarlJe Ma 
 
 t.,* 
 
S{} 
 
 KSCAPIS VM^On TUB IMQUISITIOZr. 
 
 inhabited by the jjiilor^s f^paily, consisting of ^\a lyife 
 dau£bteri '^o being oc«i?upie4 witli domestic aiOTair^, w^ 
 terribly fri^htenjed at the appeai;a^oe ojf f ucb ai) app» 
 tiott^ an4 ;9ever thought Oi attem{>tin^ to prer^^t bisi 
 cs^p?j whijch he effected by ,a|i outer dpor. It ^as not 1 
 hpwey^r, t^Core the, two w<9nien c^me to their senses, 
 entering the prison began to search for the jailor ; l^ut vi 
 deri^g without light thi-ou^h ^he d^rk and spacious coq 
 dcrsj ithey wer^ long in fini^tlD^ the right way tp VJ 
 Jlalen's dqngeon. 
 
 MR, JJOWEB'S ESCAPE FROM TW INQUISITIQ( 
 
 ,"/ peve^ (says Mr. Bower,) pretesfded ih^ai it «rai 
 il^ sake of religion alone, that I left Haly^ but ou 
 contjiarj, have often declared, as all my fiends ^n att 
 that/tiad I neveir belonged to the Inquiaitioii, I iihovild haf 
 g9ne on> %9 most Roman Catholics do* %7iithouV ei{ 
 rnomqch as questiouiug the truth of thp r^gipA iriwbii 
 ^ w|a e^uQ^ted or thinking of any other • But ^^^^ 
 ^i^irjof ci7ji^|tie^,of tl>at septet trihll^fu^ s?ioqked lu^j 
 iy«|i^ JLJl f w^jpli, an;l rendeijefd ine» as I was oI>Hj 
 -])y dpie ^ .CqunseUor to he aci^essa^. tp tbefp, 0119 
 t«h4 moist unhappy men upon earth. I th^rcyforebfgaR 
 think of resigpi;ng .o^y office ; but» ,|is I had 01^ sev^ 
 occasiOli^, betrayed ilpi^e weakness,, #a ti^ey teriyted it,'j 
 Ihat 18^ somie cprnp^fsipn and .h^mani||f, and hfdupon 
 accoutlVl^een reprimandiejd by the Ingu^jtor, I was t((| 
 apnrfd^ed that niy resignation woujli^ hp;, j^s^ribed by h 
 to n^ disau^Qving Uie prpceedings qf ^^ holy tfil) 
 inal. And indeed to nothing else 0P4I4 hf ha,ve a^prit 
 it,\8 a piaqp at tb.fjt bpai;4 ^9fi a su^ y^^^ to pret^owB 
 «nd att^nde^ w^ith great pTiyil^s t^^ a opnai^erable s^ 
 «ry. Bein^ thcrefpjrp, spusiti^fhoiy^ (tg^^uif a thking 
 wpuVl be to give t^e loast ground to any suspicion of tb 
 <iikut«, and ^0 ik>nff^r a^le tp be^i; thf^^i tbp.|| 
 
 b^i^Mkies',practisea.ilo|pst c^ai^;]^ ||rjibip;]||p«e walli,, 
 thi iiipiW^es of nfiy conscifnpe, in, h^ng aocessj^rj 
 theof/ I determined after i^any reijitl^^ i^g^, and rou 
 
SSCAPE FROM T^K IVqUISITION. 
 
 81 
 
 qs inquisitiqJ 
 
 leliberation with myself, to withdraw at the same time 
 Ifrom the Inquisitor and from Italy. In. this mind, and in 
 |[he most unhappy and tormenting situation that can pos- 
 sibly be imagined, I continued near a twelvemonth, not 
 ible to prevail upon myself to execute the resol^,tion 1 
 [had taken, on account of the many dangers which 1 fore- 
 Isaw would inevitably attend it, and the dreadful conse- 
 iquences of my failing in the attempt. But, beii^g in the 
 mean time ordered by the Inquisitor to apprehend a per 
 SOD, with whom I lived in the greatest inti|nacy s^nd 
 I friendship, the part I was obliged to act on that oc^casion, 
 left so deep an impression on my mind* as soon prevailed 
 over all my fears, and made mc determine to put in execu- 
 UoQ, at all events and without further delay, the designs 
 had formed. Of that remarkable transaction, therefore* 
 I shall give here a particular account, the rather as it will 
 show in a very strong light, the nature of the proceedings 
 in that horrid court. 
 
 The person, whom the Inquisitor appointed ^m<e to ap- 
 prehend, was Count Vincenzo ^ella Torre, descended from 
 an illustrious family in Germany, and possessed of a very 
 considerable estate in the territory of Macerata. He waft 
 one of my very particular friends, and had lately married 
 the daughter of Signipi Constaptini, of F«rmo> a lady m 
 less esteemed for her piod sense than her beauty. With 
 her family, too, I had contracted an intimate acquaint* 
 ance, while professor of Rhetoric in Fermo, and had G^en 
 a^nded the Count during his courtship, from Macerata 
 toTermu, but fifteen miles distant. I therefore live^ with 
 bo|h in the greatest friendship and intimacy ; and the 
 Count was the only person that Ifved with me, after I 
 war made Counsellor of the Inquisition, upqn the same 
 free footing as he had doj^e till that time : my other frkndR 
 having grown shy of me, ^ave i3pe plainly ^ understand, 
 that they no longer cared, for mji^icompaiiy. 
 
 As this unhappy young gentlei^|n was one day walk- 
 ing with another, hornet two Capufl^ia friars ; and, turn- 
 ing to his companion, whea th^y were imssed, * What 
 fools,', said he, ' are these to .think they shall gain heaven 
 by wearing sackcloth and going bare foot ! Fools indeed, 
 it they think sp, or that there is any nlOTit in tormenting 
 
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 82 
 
 CSCAPB FROM THE INQf ISITION. 
 
 one's self: they might as well \\v0 as urc do, and thejj 
 would get to heaven quite as sod.i .' Who informed againri 
 him, whether the friars, his companions, o^ soM^body else,! 
 1 know not : for the Inquisitors never tell the names 
 the informers to the Counsellors, nor the names cf thtl 
 witnesses, lest they should except against them. It is tol 
 be observed, that all who hear any proposition, that ap*' 
 pears to them repugnant to, or inconsistent with the doc-l 
 trine of the holy m ther church, is bound to reveal it tol 
 the Inquisitor, and likewise to discover the person bn 
 whom it was uttered ; and, in this affair no re; ard is tol 
 be had to any ties, however sacred ; the brother being 
 bound to accuse the bro.her, the father to accuse the son, 
 the son the falher, the wife the husband, and the husband 
 his wife; and all bound on pain of eternal damnation, 
 and of being deemed and treated as accomplices, if they I 
 do not denounce in a certain time ; and no confessor can 
 absolve a person, who has heard any thing jsaid, in jest or 
 in earnest, against the belief or practice of the church, 
 till that person has informed the Inquisitor uf it, and giv- 
 en him all the intelligence he can concerning the person 
 by whom it was said. 
 
 Whoever it was that informed against my unhappy 
 friend, whether the friars, his companion, or somebody else 
 who might have overheard him, tl^ Inquisitor acquainted 
 the board one night (for, to be less observed, they com- 
 mon! -^ meet, out of Rume, in the night) that the above- 
 mentioned propositions had been advanced, and advancid 
 gravely at the sight of two Capuchins : that the evid/nce 
 was unexceptionable ; and they therefore had met to de- 
 termine the quality of the proposition, and proceed against 
 the delinquent agreeably to that determination. There 
 are in each Inquisition twelve cotinsellors, viz. four Di- 
 vines, four Canonists, and four Civilians. It is chiefly 
 the province of the divines to determine the quality of 
 the proposition, viz. Whether it is heretical, or only sa- 
 vours of heresy ; Whether it is blasphemous and injurious 
 ta God and his saint<), or only erroneous, rash, schismat- 
 kal, or offensive to pious e&ts. 
 
 That part of the propositioYr, " Fools, if they think that 
 thert is any merit in tormenting one's self," was judged 
 
K8CAPK PBOM THE INQUISITIOIT. 
 
 |od declared heretical, as openly contradicting the doc- 
 rine and practice of the holy mother church recouimend- 
 ig austerities as highly meritorious. The Inqusitor ob* 
 erved, on U) is occasion, that by the proposition, << Foob 
 ideed," &c. were taxed with folly not only the holy fa- 
 lers, who had all to a man practised great austerities, but 
 ^t. Paul himself, who chastised his body," that is whip- 
 ed himself, as the Inquisitor understood it; adding, that 
 ||ie practice of whipping one's' self, so much recomuiended 
 \y all the founders of religious orders, was horrrowed of 
 19 great apostle of the gentiles. 
 
 The proposition being declared heretical, it was unani- 
 jously agreed by the board that the person who had ut- 
 tered it, should be apprehended and proceeded against 
 Igreeably to the laws of the Inqiusition. And now the 
 serson was named ; fur, till it is determined whether'the 
 kccused person siiould or should not be apf)reiiended, his 
 lame is kept concealed from the counsellors, lest they 
 ihould be biassed, says the Directory, in his favor or 
 Igaiwst him. For, in many instances, they keep up 
 ippcarances of justice and equity, at the same time that 
 Id truth, they act in direct opposition to all their known 
 laws. No words can express the concern and astonish- 
 lent it gave me to hear, on i^uch occasion, the name of 
 friend for whom f had the greatest esteem and regard. 
 The Inquisitor was apprized of it ; and to give me an op- 
 ortunity of practising what he had often recommended, 
 riz. of conquering nature with the assistance of grace, 
 Reappointed me to apprehend the criminal, and lodge 
 urn safe before day-light, in the'*prison of the holy lnqui> 
 Mtion. I offered to excuse myself, but with the greatest 
 ibmission, from being any ways concerned in the exe- 
 ^ufion of that order ; an order, 1 said, whicUfSFentirel/ 
 ipproved of, and only wished it might be put in execu- 
 tion by some other person ; for your lordship knows, I 
 kid, the connection. But the Inquisitor^ shocked at the 
 rord, ** What V said he, with a stern and angry tone of 
 roice, '< talk of connections where the faith is concerned ! 
 khere is your guard, pointing to the Sbirri, or bailifis, ia 
 raiting, let tL(} criminal be secured in St. Luke's cell (one 
 the worst; before three in the morning." He then 
 
84 
 
 ESCAPE FROM .THE INQUISITIC N'. 
 
 withdrew with the ref- of »he cc'j'ns<»'{ors; an 1 ag he nv? 
 sed me, " Thus," he said, *' nature is conquer^ >' • lij 
 betrayed some wea>i -k^. oa htuse of humyt.;;y, not IodjI 
 before in fainting awa^ ylAV^l attended the torture 
 one who was rackud with \ tc MiiPost barbarity ; and ha 
 on that occasion, been repvimar.ded by the Inquisitor ! 
 suffering nature to get the better of grace ; it being anlM 
 «xcusable weakness, as he observ <tjd, to be any way 
 fected with the suffering of the body, however great, whei 
 inflicted, as they ever are in the Holy Inquisition, for 
 good of the soul. And it was, J presume, to make tr^ 
 of the effect this reprimand had i.ad upon me, that theei 
 ecution of this cruel order was committed to me. Asl 
 could by no possible means decline it, I summoned alli 
 resolutio*:. after passing an hour by myself, as it were 
 the agonies of death, and set out a little after two iu 
 morning, for my unhappy friend's house, attended byj 
 notary of the Inquisition, and six armed Sbirri. 
 
 We arrived at the house by different ways, and knocll 
 
 log at the door, a maid servant looked out of the window 
 
 and inquiring who knocked, was answered, the Holy Id 
 
 quisition, and at the same tlim-:, ordered to awake nobodjj 
 
 but to come down directly and open the door, on paini 
 
 excommunication. At these words, thn servant hasten 
 
 down, half naked as she was, and having with much ad 
 
 in her great fright, at laL,i: opened the door, she conducti 
 
 us as she was ordered, pale and trembling, to her masted 
 
 bed-chamber. She often looked very earnestly at me,i 
 
 she knew me, and showed a great desire to speak to mtj 
 
 biit of her I durst take no kind of notice. I entered 
 
 bed c" Aber with the notary, followed by the Sbirri, whii 
 
 ;tlic kdy, awakening at the noise, and seeing the bedsti 
 
 lrouiided1>y armed men, screamed out aloud, andcontinuij 
 
 screaming as if oiit of her senses, till one of the Sbii 
 
 provoked at the noise, gave her a blow on tlie forche 
 
 that made the Mood run down ber faqe, and she swooi 
 
 away. I rebuked the fellow very sfeverely, and orden 
 
 him to be whipped as soon as I returned to the 1nquii| 
 
 tiori. 
 
 In the mean time the husband awaking and seeing i 
 with ray attendants, cried out in the utmost surpr 
 
iB^rA^B PROM TflB INQUISITIOII, 
 
 es 
 
 i''MV Bower!'' M& then sttkl bo mc^e; no/ conld'^] 
 iiMii^tiai^^ oUer a single HfHf^ i >pd i; nre- iviitff ^i 
 gdo that, in fhii dt^i, I mtsUred wj grief so Tttt kd i&'i 
 m\e to let iiKy'llnfortoiiate friend kiow that he vis a prig- 
 teer of the Holy Itiguisition. *' Of the Holy f aMii^tfnl'M 
 tie re^lfed, 'Hilas ! what have I donel My deaHiieDd, WJ 
 Iny frrend now/' He said nany affecting tbin|^ ; bot,^ 
 [u I knew it was not in my power tp befriend triHi, I hatlj 
 |iiot courage to look him in the faee, but€urni^ n^)baoki| 
 him, withdrew Whtle ba dressed, to' H eoriler of tKe 
 I, to give v«Bt to my grief there. The notary stodd 
 \tf him w^ile We^iiressed, and as I obsftirted^ qaite anaf> 
 {Tepftd. Indeed, to be toid of all humanity, lo be able to 
 £hdld one's fellow-creatures groaning and ready to ex- 
 pire in the most exquisite torments cruelty can ilfefrent, 
 rithout being in the least alFeetea wi^h their sttJAringi, 
 tone c. the chief qualifications of ah Idofuisftor, aiid whai 
 11 who belong to the Inquisition must strive to attaiii. 
 It often happens, at that iniemal tribunal, that, wbllb 
 unhappy, aid probably an inhoc»nt person Iftetyi^ 
 it ^tfteir presence on the rack, and begging by allUfsft 
 iiiNllbr one moment's relief j in a manner one irotllil 
 liitk nd'huAfan heart could withstaad, that the Ihdfttisilcrr 
 the rest of bis inhuman erew, quite unaffeeied With 
 t^mj^Hunts, and daaf to his groans, his teaiis indent 
 sre tintertaining one another with thie 'news of 
 »^wii ;Biy, sometimes insOlt with unheafd of birbai'- 
 fi'the unhappy wretches in the heightof their tormebti. 
 »fit«iii to iny unhappy priioner ; h^ was am iodikr 
 li than 1 oidered thi fiargtftio, or head of tha'tiMrtir 
 ^tli Hi4 hands with a cord behinid his back, asiapr^et&Mf:: 
 ilfeh <>ec^ions, without distinction of persona, no iS^ 
 """ bHhg shown to men of the first rank, vrhen «fa»rged 
 hei^, than to the meanest artifieecs< Ue^^-6\« 
 rcft^airfrienMip ;«so that I durst no longer leolrtipon 
 ^iit;n With whom I had lited in the gitoatest friendship 
 tntimaey, as my friend, or shewhimj isn that aci^ount, 
 J^least tegatrd or indufgeuce: ' • 
 
 As we left the «han^ber, the Ceuntess, who hait been 
 l^liyed out of the room, . m^t us, 4nd screamii^^ if^^ 
 |Miit pitiful manner, upon seeing her husband With his 
 II 
 
 
m 
 
 TfrtU'l^^kPS FROM THE IVitVMniOV, 
 
 iuinds ti»d behifi<| lii»'\)aeik &ik« a thief or robb«r^ fie^ 
 «oihraoe bim, ADd . hMcific- OD bi« aeck, begged, wHjm 
 JhoA 9i teara^ w« would b« m merciful Mto pu4 an 
 libber JM#, Ihatihe /BH«ht bav« the MJkMtbfttiou, the 
 mti«ia«|«M «be witbed for in tbU world,. Af djing in 
 bpsoni Qtib9m%u with wbo» she bad rowed ijeyer 
 pt^rt. The Count, 4>ferwbeilmed with grief, did bot ut 
 a f ingW word. I could »ot find ia my heart, nor was Ijj 
 AC4^ivlUioft,tO!iiter|)QS(S4 and, indeed, a scene of grc 
 dietr«8s waji neiw beheld by tuMttaa eyee. However,] 
 eignal was- given t^ nptary to part tbem, wbidt hf 
 aCQ(Wdin£ly/qjMte <iitcen«erued ; but Ui^Countees fell ia 
 ;i swopii, aid. itlie CoAUnt; was in the nean tiine, par 
 dowA statfU/aDd^out cvT the bouse, ^a«nid»t the laud lame 
 t^ti^MB and «igbfl,Qf Jiis servantf^on.aJl isidee j, for he 
 a jBajB^nTeraarkaible^ the eweeAness of hie tc^uiper. and! 
 kMiedi.W aJl airoufid bi». 
 Qa arriving at the Inquisition, my priaoner w»i 
 1^ signed fate the h^uds; ^ libe gaoler^ a |lay buothtr of 
 y*. JPpf^vuc, who slHit .hirn up in the^m^eoavp^tioi 
 , »^tfe^ ai^d delivened tl^e kpy 4P nie- I J«y t|ia)t inigbtj 
 't|>e {»aUoe, wliar^i^very cqM|i8iellor>a6>ia ropini(aiP4 r#l 
 M ^ iJ^y the next. ^Mwing to tbie In^m^itor, 
 hi not tl^fithi^ order had .b^n,piQiM:tua|ly ponpVe4; YK 
 The Ijpi^isitoj- had been aUefstdif pinut^y ii^fpr^iedof^ 
 whi4e'C$>nduct;by thenotarjj ^a^tja^^fQrHiJa^lBk^i 
 U.ye^i|rg th^ ^ey.to btifi said, " You lia^e apted Uktt^ 
 whoiis de^irouttat leufit tOfO'-eFCQitie, with t\ie mm$t 
 -Qf gjace^ tt#' ij^liitatipns fOf Tiatujw ;" jthaA i»r. JiiJcf 
 wh^j^ dttsirqu^iwith the awjistanpe of grace, to met 
 libose hiniself, from a human crea^ure^ iivt^A hrutAi^ 
 
 ■■., Eyi»>>y priepiier is kep^^ the fimt week of ihif M 
 ment« lAja dark narrow dungeon, so l^w that. ,hf, 
 ^ «tand ij|>r^ht in it, seeing .no oi»e but \h^ gs|ojiei:,,i 
 4}aHrjriei^ hini, every othftr day, hi^^portion of hreadap^' 
 ter, the only fqod that is allowed hiin. This is done,! 
 say, to tame him, and render him, thus weakened*; 
 sensible of ihe torture, and leee able to hear it. ill 
 end of the week, he is brought in the night bieiore 
 board to be. examined \ and on that occasion my 
 
B90APB Wii<iWl THE IN QUIgITrC^A?i 
 
 87 
 
 Ifriend became so altered, in a week's tjtae, (hat, hsMl rt 
 been for his cTress, f shoirlct not iMive known hi iii ;' aniT 
 l^ised no wonder ; a change of condition so sudden and 
 inexpected ; the unworthy and barbarous treatment h« 
 id already received ; tlie af»prehensk>n of "fi^haf he- might, 
 jtnd probably should suffer } and perhaps, naore than any 
 [bing else, the distressed and forlorn cc^ition of hh once 
 Wppy wife, whom he tenderly loved; whose company ha 
 Md enjoyed only six months, cou<hl be attended with no 
 kther effect. Being asked, according to <$tistoih, whether 
 had any enemies, and desired to name them ; he an- 
 swered, that he bore enmity to no man, and hoped that 
 man bore enmity to him. For as, in this tribunal the 
 |)6fion accused is not told of the charge brought against 
 inij nor of the person by whom it is biought, the Inquis- 
 w asks him whether he haa any einemies, and desires 
 liiia to name them. If he names the informer all pro- 
 Bdtngs are. stopped till- (he informer is examined anew ; 
 Lad if the information i# found to proceed from ill wfll, 
 Ind'nc'OoUatciral pro(^ can be produced, the prisoner is 
 liseharged. Of thJs piece of justice they frequently boast, 
 [tthe amie time thai they admit, both as informers and 
 Fitnesses, persons of the most infemous character, and 
 sh M are exchided by aH other co»rt«k 
 in ihe next place, the prisoner is ordered to swear that 
 >lirAl deelare the truth, and conceal nothing from the 
 tribifnal, concerning himeelf or others, which he 
 k#s, and the holy iribunal i» desirous i» know. He is 
 IB interrogated for what crime be has been apprehended 
 imprisoned by the Holy Court of the Inquisition, of 
 [courts thb most equitable,' the most cautious, the liiost 
 sniifal. To that interrogatory the Covnt answered with 
 fliiint and trembling vdice, that he was net conscious to 
 iwlf of any crime, cognizable by that hol'y court, nor, 
 Idised, by any other ; tliat he believed, and ever had he- 
 lved, whatever the holy mother church believed,-' or re- 
 tired him to believe. He had, it seems, quite forgot what 
 he had unthinkingly said at the sight of the two friam. 
 The Inquisitor therefore, finding that he did not remem • 
 »r, or would not own his crime, after many deceitftrlin- 
 )gatories, and promises which he never intended to 
 
88 
 
 KtqAPB FBOBi tflB iNqiUIBXTIOir. 
 
 fulfil, ordered him back to his dungeon, and allowinj^ him 
 another week, as is customary in such cases, to recolkH;t| 
 hinjseH, told him that, if he could not at thattinio prevail | 
 upon himself to declare the truth, agreeably to his oath, 
 means would be found of forcing it from him ; and ho mu$t| 
 expect no merely. 
 
 At the end of the week he was brought again before tlmj 
 infernal tribunal, and being asked the same questions, re- 
 turnod the same answers, adding, that if he had done or I 
 said any thing amiss, unwittingly or ignorantly, he was 
 ready to own it, provided the least hint of it were given 
 h;m by any there present, which he entreated them mosti 
 earnestly to do. He often looked at me, and seemed t»| 
 expect, which gave me such concern as no words can ex-i 
 press, that I should say something in his favor, fiuti 
 was nut allowed to speak ca this occasion, nor were any 
 of the eounsellors ; and had it been otherwise, I shoulil 
 not have dared to say any thing in his favor, the advocate] 
 appointed by the Inquisitipn, and opmmouly called '< The 
 Devil's Advocate," being the only person who issufferedj 
 to speak for the prisoner. 
 
 This advooisite belongs to the tribunal, receives a salary,] 
 and. is bound by an oath to abandon the defence of tliel 
 prisoner if he und^takes it, or not to undertake it, if M 
 finds it cannot be defended agreeably to the laws pf the] 
 Iloly tribunal ; so that the whole is a mer^ sham and iru- 
 position. I have heard this advocate, on othef occasiomj 
 allege soraetbing in favor of the person accused; hutpoj 
 this occasion, he declared that he had nothing to offer k\ 
 d<^ence of the criminal. 
 
 .^||},tbe Inquisitiopi the person accused is always supposed] 
 g^lit;y, unless he has named the accuser amongst his ene-j 
 mies: and h»i^ fi#V»^' the torture if he does not pi 
 guilty, and OFn tbecrinic that is laid to his charge, witbi 
 ou)t, being so mqch as tojd what it is ; whereas in all other] 
 courts where tortures are, used, the charge is, declared to] 
 the party accused before he is tortured ; nor are they ever] 
 iQ^icted without a credible. evidence brought of his gutli.j 
 But in this court a man is frequently tortured upon the (i« 
 positienof a person, whose evidence would be admitted h\ 
 no other, and ii) ail cases without hearing his charge* 
 
K9CAPK FKOM THZ INQUISIl'ION. 
 
 89 
 
 As mj unfortunate fricrld continued to maintain his in- 
 Inoornce not recollecting wliaf. he had said, he was agreea- 
 Ibif to the lawi of the Inquisition, put to the torture. Ho 
 |had scarcely borAe it twenty minute*, crying out the 
 riiole time, " Jesus Maria,'' when his voice failed biniat 
 )nco, and he fainted away. He was th«n supported as 
 le lumg by his arms, by two of the Sbirri, whose prov - 
 ^Bce it is to manage the torture, tili he returned to him- 
 }|f. He still continued to declare that ho could not rec- 
 )lltct his having said or done any thing contrary to the 
 ilatliolic faith, and earnestly begged they wouFd let him 
 moir with m hat he was charged, being ready to iown it 
 Sf it was true. The Inquisitor then was so gra<ykH]s a^ 
 to put him in mind of what he had said on seeing the 
 tMTo Capuchins. The reason why they so lotig conceal 
 ^ron> the party accu(^ud, the crime he is charged with, is, 
 that if h^ should he conscious to himself of his having ^\er 
 lid or done any thing contrary to the faith, which he is not 
 charged with, he may discover that too, imagining it to 
 the very crime he is accused of. After a short nause, 
 ilie poor gentleman owned that he had said soUoothing to 
 that purpose, but as he said it with no evil intention, ho 
 bad never more thought of it from that tiAie to the pres- 
 ent. He added, but with so faint a voice as scarce eould 
 heard, that fo. his rashness he was willing '.o undergo 
 rhat punishment soever the holy tribunal should think fit 
 ^0 impose on him; and he again fiiioted away. Being 
 Based for awhile of his tornient, and returned to himself, 
 io was interrogated by the promoter fiscal (whose busi- 
 iwi& it is to accuse and to prosecute, as neither the informer 
 m the witnesses are ever to appear) concerning his inten- 
 tion. For, in the Inquisition, it is not enough for the 
 irty accused to colafess the fact, he must likewise declare 
 rhether his intention jras heretiM or not; and many to 
 Ifem thenwelveer from the torments they can no longer 
 jdore, Wn their intention was heretical, though it really 
 rai not. My poor friend often told us, he was ready to 
 ij whatever we pleased ; but, as he never directly ac- 
 
 lDOWl«d»ed his intention to have been heretical, as is re- 
 112 V 
 
ESCAPE KROH THi: IXqUlfllliOIT. 
 
 q()ii'e4 by thA rules of tbe court, he was kept on tho tor- 
 t,\irQ till, quite ovdroonit with the violence of the anguish, I 
 tye was ready to expire^ and, being then taken down, b«| 
 ^as carried quite senseless, back to his dnnf,'eon 
 the«e» on the thirtl day, death f ut an end to his sufferin^l 
 The, Inquisitor wrote a note lo. his widow, to desire her tol 
 pray (or the soul of h^r late inisbnind, ftad warn ber notl 
 ta complain of the Holy InqmSLtion,iii8 capable of any joi<l 
 tice orcrueHy.' The estate was oonfiseated to the InqQi»| 
 sitioHi and a small jointure allowed out of it to the wid< 
 ,pw;. . 4^s:they had only been married six months, and 
 ;SQfn0>p^rt of the fortuhoiwas not yet t*^id, the InqiYisitorl 
 ,fient.9jft order to the Constantini family, at Fermo, to pail 
 I/O the holy office, atid without delay, what they ontil 
 ;to tj^a late, count della Torre. For the e£Ricts ef h«r&| 
 tics i^x^ all confiscated froiti the very day, not of tbcirl 
 ■,coavic4;ipR, but of .their erime ; so that all donations ina 
 ^aftQr tM time arei Void ; and whatever they have givei 
 <i8 f jain^ed by- the Inqtrt^ti<Mi, into what hands soever kl 
 A^y have passed*; even the fortunes they have givea 
 .l^air daiij^hters in marriage have l>een declared to beloni^ 
 to, and aye cjatmed ;by tbo Inquif^'tion ;'nor can it 
 doubted that tbd desire of thoke confiscation* is <Jne greil 
 rti«tu^«r (he injustice and cruelty of thatcouH. 
 . The death of th«iu«hftt)py;COttnt della ToRfe Was 4c 
 -publicly knoMrn ; but no irian cared to speok of it, 
 cvori hi? ueares)t reMioiV}, nor $o much a$ to meQtton 
 nameV'lest any thing should inadverti^ptly esciipe thei 
 which migiit be construed into a diliapprobation of th 
 r^rpcoedings of the most holy Iribju/ual ; so great , ia 
 a\ve inspired by that jealous amd focrciloss o<(i,ufft* -■^ki 
 
 The deep ioopresssion wliieh tlte death; of my fri«n4 
 4|i» most bat:l:)arpus and inhiOman troalmefit kp had mi 
 Vith, isijnd the part I htud been obliged to \ct in sPai^EBO^ii 
 a tragedy, made on my mind, got at once the better 
 yiny fears ; so ihdt forgetting the dangers I.ltad till theoi 
 i»Hch apprehended,', I; resolved, 'without ^nrtiier delay, i 
 pui in cxecutioo my :<i^ign of quitting the Inquisition, 
 bidding forever adieu to Itfily. To execute that 
 wit!i some safety, J proposed to beg leave of the InqnM 
 > itor to visit tho Virgin of Loretto, but thirteen miles disi 
 
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 E90^VB TROBt THK IXQUI8ITI0K. 
 
 91 
 
 ^nt, atid to pass a \fer«lc there ; but in the mean timo, ta 
 
 nakc thi) best of my way tu the country of the Griitonii, 
 
 he nearest country to Macerata, beyond the reach of the 
 
 iquisition. Hait'ing therefore, after many conflicts with 
 
 rself, aeked leave to vieit^^^ the neighboring sanctuary, 
 
 lid obtained it, I set ont on iKurseback the very next 
 
 lorning, leaving, ae I propoecd to keep the horse, his fu^ll 
 
 lalue with the owner. I took the road to Loreito, luit 
 
 irned otit of it &fta small distance from Recanati, after a 
 
 mi violent struggle with myself, the attempt appearing 
 
 me at that juiwJture, qUite desperate and ite practicable, 
 
 id the dreadftil doom reserved for me, should my piaa 
 
 lil, presented itself to my mind in its strongest light. 
 
 ^utthe reflection that I had It in my power to avoid be 
 
 )g taken alive, and a permuation that a man, in my 
 
 litii^tion mi^ht lawfully avoid it, when erery other means 
 
 liled him, it;Tived my staggering resolution ; and all mj 
 
 m ceasi-ng at once, I itoered my course, leaving Loretto 
 
 behind me, to Rocea Contrada, to Fossonbrone, to Calvi 
 
 the dukedom of Urbino, and from thence through the 
 
 lom^gna into the Botogncse, keeping the by roads, and 
 
 ^t a good distance from the cities of Fano, Pesaro, Rimi- 
 
 ki, F\)l-li, Faensa, and Imola, through.whicb the highroad 
 
 sed. Thus 1 advanced very slowly, travelling* i^eaer- 
 
 iMy speahing, ia very bad roads, and ofteifin places where 
 
 [here was no road at all, to avoid, not only the cities and 
 
 rns, but even the villages. In the mean time, I sel- 
 
 |BiB had atiy other support but some coarse provision, and 
 
 ^ rery small quantity even of that, which the poor shep- 
 
 lierds, the eoun'^ymen, or wood cleavers, I met in those 
 
 infi^equented by places, could spare roe. My horse fared 
 
 Tot much better than myself ; but, in choosing my sleep- 
 
 tg place, I consulted his convenience ae much as my 
 
 |)trn, passing the ni^ht where I found most shelter for my- 
 
 ^nd most grass for him. In Italy there are very few 
 
 tttary farm houses or cottages, the country people there 
 
 lit litiag in villages ; and I thought it far safer to he 
 
 rbete I eottld be any way sheltered, than to venture into 
 
 if of them. Thus I spent seventeen days before I got 
 
 ft'6f tfie ecclesiaalical state ; and very narrowly escaped 
 
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 BftCAPK mmOM THB I|l«VJiI.Tl(Qir« 
 
 b«ii<g tkken or inurdtred, on th^. v«r jr borcle^ of f|j 
 sl(ll»^ St haippenf d thus : j, w* 
 
 I Md pttiied two wiiolo^dA jft iritl»out j finy fful^it 
 
 'WhiteViri BM«ling.^itlij»obod)r^in tb*><b^ ipfidi, Um^ w( 
 
 ■o|}t>l5^ HI* iKith abtfi and leanoi^ to jBomt ntf^jf^M 
 
 as I wab mot lilr liroiii tlw;1)ofdefa(0f tbe? doioinUips.of i 
 
 1h>|)«. I tH^ttffatl sbould ba itUf tod|i[^i^|il| 1 go^j 
 
 to^^tlieiIddiiiifse,rwl»re Ibfilwu^I ibouldl)! Injfsaj^ 
 
 geff thail'Wliikii remaining /in the Pijp^ (ik>iiM9ioo|.; 
 
 finding oiytfilf, atoutbQooB of tbe tlafd^^sy^i f^xtrei 
 
 weali^ and mdyto ftint aiftayi ^K came rnUff ih§ high 
 
 that reads lipoai>:Belagda to Florence., m (^m J^j» dis| 
 
 from the former otty^and alighted i|«|}|ii^.|ipMse 
 
 stood qiiite%filieU. paving adc«4 the W90»iiliil|b^ hi 
 
 Whether sMt^Nid any: victuals readyt and b^ng fpld 
 
 ahelirad, t wintto open the door of th« only jroom i^^i 
 
 hbuto; (that being a place ^where genUemenn^iirfily. 
 
 to <(ihan^ horseS)) and sa#,> to my great mif^^^i 
 
 airci'pasted on it, with a most minut*. dtseifi^^^if^^ 
 
 "W^ole perrsoa, andrihe prohiiae of a 'tcward pf fighjt 
 
 dred woWnii for de|Mreriag me up ^leto/^thp Inq.iii8i||ki 
 
 betni a filgiti ve emu the holy tribunal, ahd of si^ 
 
 Iclfedetnwnifor my head. By.the samtpliefir!^,ia|i| 
 
 \if«r#^oil>KMili» on pain'of the greater eSjOOMunjiBil 
 
 tni itlSei^e^ barbori or ente^n me, to enwe^il H, 
 
 me, or^to be at|j^*W9ymiding and aisisttng ma/^ jaal^l 
 
 escape. ' t'liis greatly alarmed ttei as thu fea^i'i pay^. 
 
 imagine f but I was sfeillAitioiei a^gbl^ whin ^ni 
 
 th% Tocrnii t saiv^two fellows drinking^ ^ere» klH^* 
 
 the^i^ eyei upon ine 9^ sooh as I esM»e in» opEl^i^uied ^ 
 
 |ii|f at'iiie r^ry steadlastly. I stroTe^ by wipiipljuy; 
 
 by'tflowlhg mr tttiee,by loo^l^^trat; thewi^^w^^ 
 
 f^f int^ ihe^r faSTf ngatiiitt Wew of me^ SfMt enii. of tl 
 
 9af!iljE^,%e geHHeashmseeinsiafraidi^l l«i ae^, | put^ 
 
 - fil^ lidiiiitet hai^iiin^iei^ aid turtliiigit)M||(ft faUovi 1^ 
 
 sUdl #hi^ldi(^ j«4 mei^,iyoit nneal 1 4is^ i^ «if» agl 
 
 l^ld to be i^een ! ^ said hofthmg, b«li kK#i|if 
 
 fmfidwt, ^toA' nodding his heMl, Wfi^ fpt^ pi4 
 
 i|$^^ie& inilMdktelf ?fidio1f ed^iiBi^ I irat^ 
 
 li^|4{Niiili^ith twoor%hfef mortfiT in close 
 
 and no doubt consulting whether they should mptthi 
 
BVCAPV PROM THC IJf^VUtTtHtl, 
 
 D3. 
 
 y bortlei^of fl 
 
 ^«r noti I wAlked'tbainionent toto'tbe stable, mouQlfd 
 hone woobMrved by tbem, andfiphik (hey "WHi^it^, 
 il^ m<orth9xdi behind <Ui« bo«M, . Hi4e ofl^rAittt 
 ^^^lllld'riii » four hiwrs g«t into tbeh llodabese. I wa» 
 \099pm9d ^t tl^ lillo«r» di<l> not punuetae ;, 
 rJoMi^ly«oooaH(| for il bq^ |)(f ^ what it do( 
 
 fthair <M theyr wer*,.tU»Bga«t ** ^^^^ ^* 
 pififknd had' 1^ the- appaarane* of baadilti or ml^j 
 ;ftyMif ^«d fthe ^oia^oieila ef th« l^opii^(b» nrQinaik 
 :,'heuiedid n^loare to tfuit tbem with -h^K himei., 
 vifag procvwd^ aome rrfipfftbineiit, t^h oontinued my 
 niere ieiaiarely trough iho^I'lanaasaii, the Milan- 
 aifdpirt of the Venetian tOTfitory, .to> Obiavenna, 
 with itt districi to the CrtMonti whoabborlhfr very 
 t^tbe InquisitioD,, i^ndi are ever ready to. receive 
 ^lioleet all who fly fi^om it^ and take relbgoiTaa many 
 llido,, in their don^ttieni., However, aa I ; pfopqeed/ 
 ;i?af toon aprconld^' to th« oity of BerDe^hioie-, 
 »oi thai great Proteaiant canton, jwdw^a. informed 
 beat way waa> through the oantMMkof (Jry^and 
 ifiW^ and part of the ■ canton ' of Liicern» all ^tht-eo' 
 itWM, frci^reAiIfy concealed wl.i'> l.wutaiid^diii; 
 ■% <»nie.'/.For, thoogh no tiMiukttiOn pievail* 
 ^|ii«4N^f^3^tilhe ;Pefe*ft nnncto, who^ leaidliipk 
 iBtghH liave pecauaded- tha magiatratea .of thoil» 
 ^iiiitons to stop-jMe, ^^aa an apostate «nd deafrtar , 
 
 leited kftit diyafa^€hiav>enMii#t|{n8«i«Md^i^ 
 
 Hj^t^ refreabedi oefiti^uittg itrthnwgh the 0011111^ 
 
 libMlii^ and tbo twosa|iallenolon||f ITry dndilriitr 
 
 |1% tff ^^ ^viiiitoni of Lotoem.n 7hiB^ : I tiitied m 
 
 r,:t«|iipai^'qtiita.u6aoqtiiiiliid.^^#^^ thji»0Qttlil^« la*^ 
 
 )* city at#i^KaUiuncck,lwali#dvatto^ 
 
 f^ii 98 14tiiew notiiwhero|9iMai^f)then> ^Mliii^ 
 
 viilMl^nitf tbM <li9-«i^ toftfllnfta Av*a Luceni^ 
 
 'thatln^Ufftieo, I turned frooi ttfx^^ppiA at fo^n a* 
 
 it^l|riiMiii,%a# out of sight ; andr Ihiii night l^paated 
 
 ^iBottgge o^ii vgoodi ntituiid shepheHl^;,frh0.a«pplieil. 
 
 mib^phiiiiilk, and my h0iae wJHh^ plenty^ ielfitaM. 
 
 ^ItiryaiHy next moii^gi making the beat oUmi^^ 
 
 'WMtwvid^ nijl knnr ithiil Beta ]|ky west of l»iiceri^ 
 
94 
 
 isscAvs VBoiz i»a» f H^txi&itioir. 
 
 -'.i 
 
 Bul^iilitr a few iailii^ lilt MNfbtvf ^(^^M^ verf 
 Uiaom, ftDd ha vng travtlUd^ tb^ w hole #Biy oter 
 tiUif^ I w«i'oTw<i»lEeii>fttiM(Bg8t)th»«i at i^f^t^ 'M,^ 
 outfoir a tbeiter 4mtmg thtf night firdni th» mow i«dl 
 I petamr^km lighli at a dttteae*, ahd ttiiikfirg mm.i 
 got into a kind of foot |Niti)^ but so Ma^rf^w and rtiM 
 that I was^bllffedta^ltadiMyhi^no, «»d^Nh«wti/« 
 oae foot helMf #etitimwf to iQdv« tlio 0(hU-i TtTuf , « 
 moehdiflicoll^ I iMUshod^ th« pii«^'froiii Whence the 1} 
 pfoetodedi ia^^fNxeri littie cdt!age / and kifMltinfp at^ 
 door,i waiilMtoKMiBbwaiilim an^l what^nratf wantbg^l 
 aaa^^Mdthat lwt»kt^ntn^v%tiia had toet inyiftiyi 
 your way J ra^liedh^^ thera in no^af here to lotOi 
 ing tnfoluiod that i waain tbeMGantOfi'of Bern/^'I 
 G^^oried I^Jtransportad willi ji|i|||ailatn.> The 
 nan imawaredl * Ahd <k^ <t<> ti*Vwn told hint 
 wati aniltiat I was goitig t»B» iHHli ha(#q<fitetdat , 
 fifAfi bj^ntmpi^ out of tii^ high toads,^ to avoid ^Itttfgi 
 t^'^ehan^tJi^ those who sought iia^ydeitriMieiyy 
 thaieffpfiiiapMtd> the door; reeeivod and «hter<^inM 
 with att /the hospiyiltywhieh his fMirettjr W0iil#|)tf#iii 
 regaled mv #ith sour unkit and sbnte ««# hiid» efg#i 
 o»fy |W0viuiflfta h|» had, and clean atiti^ wiili i kIM 
 riHl Ihrmy^^ed, he han^ing^ve^ o^iiA'i Air.^««^liktM 
 wife. ThfrgoUd<9onian isqbesied as u^diiKlto^ 
 and good tftatare^id hifr cuuntenaiisu^ ai he^ <^liUlhft«di^ 
 said many kind thhigs in the Swiss langi|ag# wNi 
 IniihiMkriBteifMNPted tu ihis in^ tMi Hitian I'tot thd 
 gii«is>l^ itfeHundutitbod* Imiferjmkm^m mdr^coi 
 iKfa«pn%btvr ai^»o io0ii#rdid I befin tfu stirMtl^i 
 i^f da^the^^ gM^an Uddtifals^Wife %6th d^m'iSL^ 
 UwLkwAimm^^t a^'^viirt^ they 1 had be«tf^idi#«»i 
 teMaiiiiniie beitei^ obli|od msrmhmMfm ^i##V 
 irhi^FrUvidiU«e|(ith^«iid/d;l^8«rp^«etl fhe^ 
 4bat^i>ut|M}sa; (^ll^i»il#olt^leaire of the #^ #h<^ 
 
 !jwr ayni liltM uf^'t^ iMutto^ sdetned '«|iyt^flln^«i«l 
 wt^iidifM jdtiKey. tAsfoifth^ iragbti(i^f%i 
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 'to give imteediate notice of nij trrival, at well ae tliei 
 4ivM ef my flight to Michael Angelo TambuTiDi, gem 
 (he order, and my very particular friend. 
 « The i^torwroteaa I had desired, him, to Ihe gei™ 
 land the g^ittl faking ii«^ootice of my flight, in hit 
 :«wer (for be could itot disapprove^ it, add did not thi^^ 
 «afe to approve it; ordered me to <M>ntiaUe whereJ wkij 
 lAirther onlers. 1 arrived at IMiay early in May;< 
 continued there till the latter end cif June, or the hk 
 Aing M July, when the rector received a seeond letter i 
 the general acquainting him| that he had beeir c^mm 
 «d by the congregation of the Ihqu(iitioii, to order, 
 ybertver I was back »> Italy ; to prbmlseikie in their nii 
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 tam4 order had been tranlmiited; iMlon aft^r ^f^^iim 
 the iluneios at the diflbleiit Rdmah CathoHe coUrtsi i 
 lietheiefore, advised «iiB to cobsulf my own safety wj 
 
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 l||iiiithe recaint ef the genemiy kind Wt*r, the; 
 ttk^m^ oplniiai thtft Iilht(Uld rehaitby a»tt^i. 
 without Mi^ time^to^Bnglittii, Hk only las t^T si 
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 th^fotiUjtotuMi'Wiitoh he ttn^td lit tli# ItfMliit' r«tlt#iil4 
 dttcitti'llffilbitaeeof IMivVMi lo liii ^M^ th« mt 
 oi meh w«# ItA ^pen. H« olBMiitimWi kJt Mlilitlli,' tipift 
 i^kkt^MtmmAptiH tr 4li« 'itttidiAf 11^ i#{nd6i#^^< 
 IMiriMi^r bi>><tii«UMd'tt| hM it ivlvii %lfigKl^if' 
 ftiilHr^tKliiKNiiidi H Wftt(Ov#lli» itaiitti''<li|)*«1 
 lAmil iHjr i^fc. lioi wbdowi iHiIti)^ lij^ diii^|eiM»y« 
 iilNilInn tefildi U nuiidi wivi dlirMtftll l»^nui*^ 
 
 ijHoliMinMd Mm. Hi ilMtt diiiiidiii udm 
 
 tt MiiMid' wHIv'llift MiiM < liitiigBt ^^I^P 
 9i§iSkm*%m9AmMh liieiAttif tPiii In ^ sliiitd^ 'll^ 
 mn^nii il Hit dMr of !t)l»iiioil|«oiit filMtildii' vntii 
 'fbiililttlil^iriM il^ bell tti^ ddorriHi ^dttllttM 
 BMn fllfefed to ifptn tiiai'ttft liiiulil% «id^ ffiliiMlid 
 f iiil>i labd toiil^iid dUi^ilig tteit4lt# ttfUH) HOifi' 
 
 ^tptin^^ iftMuwdi^ mild Itl telNwNiiAl VK^mk. 
 lipUiiti#4kftKi«|«iliiil b^^ til* doiiii Ivi^ttkNid #1 
 iikidiMid4tif!«iMdit. Mtvtn imMIm^ Uttli IMlill^ 
 
 ||gk#illKdliMi litellilif^ anil ri*i^ -^ 0Mii«t«{i'il|Nilii»i 
 
 JlioilfM aA»ioott «» lh^i|^ ii tt< »ttd il lilhi ^^ilitl|ftlM> 
 #illi «idlo Zbtilbm it^Bt did4iMK«iri^0K^ 
 
 im ^i^imtm ^l# ligbl^f/ 4iiiiilFtitd < ; amiefii^^ tt 
 .nbal ililiAMilMOiiiiiidiipii^lki^^ |itllMii#^ 
 
 iiifMfltti^^liMidif, i"^i|M 'ii^ ^MKiMfik^*^Kfm'^^^ 
 jjitAaC^illiipHiMow • '4«tt 'iiP'«>iM*4; lok «i|r»%hi 
 
 %.P:Mli«|ltiBf 4-lMftlt.*-^. i-*' -t-^^ -.ii^T-.- ^ , m^ic ^d ^..1 
 
 L -iSlipQiik kmm Umb i^iti(iilioii^9v«t^lr -lii @lct« 
 jiMfi 1. Hii jmmUBUiii AjMitwItitii ItJliirtliil 
 ^iipttilibii o«»iddriii*|, »()«». Mulii. 
 
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 IllMk^i ilHiHliii lb| M^tPMIt) buf wlMliNr Miir I 
 f|ii|Vf t»r Hii Ittiumil tUteiiiiliM of IHi» t1ifiiMtliMN» if 
 
 imilii H t^ili^ iMftyMi litfi»j^ itti t»«bo fmlmmiA nr 
 
 tlWWiii liii»trrttttWip ( ii i i ^ ThirMitiiittiafilh 
 ^iVMiltii^itlii MHivlyKi itnitiiNnfrhliMii 
 
 ;.'9imM IWi|piVlBl^lllHil|«Vf IVv><VWI|||NV^ 
 
 '^WHR^^^P^^^^MI^III ^^^MV ^^^^^B t ^H^V^I^^R W^^W ^l^w^^F ^^F^^p^WPw^B 
 
 > jiiliiiiNiWiiiwf^i^ iii^^ 
 
 mi^mMt^ imiMMi tppiMlMi ini^^^ 
 
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b pM lhii» nigliti In moM t>i^oriiiiiiil ropoM. Thi iili& 
 hii ltt«ii faNPi i«4 diirk, mmI JlaiitoM. iook<!tf« ili4lio& 
 kiittt wkvn XhMf WM ti« iitiKMii On tlw ii}|li« nibMlt 
 -itM th« cvMilttf of CkrlilitiM 4i^, ISttittoNi Mitlii^ 
 UMltAtr'i odi i^ tkiMl Mll«it •«fl' you uffUr^u 
 r»w iltiir fttintf) ti*vt mmbii %»lti» lik yont )»o(lt«&f'« 
 
 Ikriilmut tf «. ITimnHitdiijr o(kh4imknk$m^ 
 
 ' IMur ol (Uilfibiiiiogvthiir mppfr to tfe« pHMiitii, ^ 
 iter fiiiiof tb(». iertttnti, itoe m«rd«; Mi Ika* illli^ 
 >itill il ehyrab* 2ttinoim llioii t}ii«#4 iai*tiDttiit|i Ullv 
 t » Ib'iiMirrotr Utwttii iik|ii%ttt i^ otik o^itotki |0i 
 in tho c«)rd« imd «tl jroMiwtlf rirndgri" i . 
 
 low loAtf did thit day ftppctr to ^ttiioiii and^fi^fiMttfc 
 ti /t'iindt how muoh aniittxt how taint iiHiiM 
 -'tMlont! ihn •vfulng tfint^ Tlf# kwifiii «ri)|if 
 ofiti ibOtttii&o'oloobihtt (rrindlnMMofI inilil 
 fMr ol; Iht iiuMiHor UMibani of |W Jiuiuiilmii ill 
 toliblt^ TW wittt WMftol ipifttdi k4 iitot 1M^ 
 Idl^ ind In HilTr aH botir moft th#y witt kII bilflfA 
 profiMund ■iHpi tibt abidKi th«n lold' to 2SiMiiaNl| 
 «|Wjry ^r it ••J««m •• 7<Mi ptw^ffo I lh«r# iifa^iw 
 --^to W to niglft } t wlU |o.»* "Will/* Mpllvtt I0*» 
 
 .i' * If Y*^ ^^^"^ *** '^P ^^ <K itidiiwf « iwi 
 tilb4 i^oUipliaii w« will gooii togtlfciiiv** l» IfM 
 ^'^^•fi-^M I^AkOs #fNf All iiiliNtpv flkmd^iMMI 
 m mmymii but, aild^Mtli wMtslrtkl to Oit'fiip 
 rilHM^tttent. XaoMra iufpitf #ltb tli» fvvdtilntii ' 
 m t ht hMl mpptlMl bUnndf wlth> osMlltni liM 
 •iHiklMi nnd ti^Mgiv ihfi|b|intd Iht pliMWl^^'^i^^ 
 1| ftMvt tkvtB o'«to4i|^i«li#.i»rdtaf» ktmi mluk^ 
 m ttblA* 1^« wlfe^Ao^n foll^wod km lold'i Milir^ 
 d^A»oni^^MlelliiM(N' • '^ v.r-' .:i. - .,ifi/ 
 thek n^w itruek t#«lvf. ZAmoMK «Kln|^liiill 
 kdkMi iMi t»n llp^lof 4tMt|idtd4liwiliaiir. Hii«pi« 
 ifiirtag ttt I WM nai'ftMitliir ilarli ■iiliMtniiliirlntiirft«[ ■ 
 t fitf ta div up n |mI» ladd«n #hloh ««iit^ki#' ^ 
 
 Hi kt ittw to tht window i a •liikt whlltki waa tka 
 
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 ■BOAVH rftON TMM lir^VlBtTION, 
 
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 •kttftU in » momeiil AfWr ho mw dtMtii4 ik thVn ««f4 
 witeh U hM eoiiv«|»^ to ilttiVttii . Hi MlM<i il t H»^ 
 ti|«4 U to hit \Mvt «iMl tHibfikyt it « tfittUtpi^v WIHi 
 tbi utttMM teil4of hi i^w Ui* bfldvr ttotttd. Tho ^(l|« 
 ftim whUh h* *iiiai>i4 wm moit ditwIIUh ]&ti«t«i ip. 
 MNkMi Vnd ft momiOt inon gate htm to tho ooitiUot* I 
 hMMt of tho doUghioa Ziiiiori.' thty Aow MroM IM 
 llNNlii tnttM tt^ •trttt» Md w«ri io^b »t a dliliMi 
 K $i^ iMii^t Hmo. $a«iiomii|iifthl»loi|MK<«glii 
 iHrtlM hli sitbr to hk mfi\ tho KMrl htdowwl M 
 llill 4Bil«(ilti> and ipoko with An itloqUiiiot whitb iii m\ 
 in Imutgo to oxfiroM. ** Oomoi'^ at longth eritd ^ftmon, 
 «tthi|MOitothtFlith«iror«HinorolM) i«0M«iftAi1'^ Thiy 
 toon oiitirtdJho^|ttv^«t tho ooBiiiil» flow ootom kl 
 itt A niomonlitooohtd tho door» t nooiidoi tho itiiii) mtl 
 h«ro %ftA thoir IUMirt]|IOo(|ro iuMkOMiliHn of bit ^^w 
 
 ««0h» Sttmol Olror of oil 0ftod»»* txoltlnidl SitofM 
 10 bA h^t hit Itoooo btforo thO throne of hit IMt '* hn 
 tlo 1^103^ of thir onferUiBAto orootitio v roOOiilpomio nf| 
 #li||r«iirft whom thy nMtiMi htvo ooohl^li^ tdiiove h 
 ifilig ttiohiMoiii.M How oholl 1 nltal tho tuotport 
 thovOtotflowUii octtooy of thOth^MoMtl l&tHirftn oi 
 tilohltd to one for tho rotovoi^ of hlolihorty. ipd to/' 
 oHit Ihl tho ooooHty of hii prOiioftjr. ** H^» 
 dmrfodiotth loYol»»orltdhe. r Aioyoii<no|Ji^ fii^< 
 |(^loi ZoinoiA* ** iUo ym not on honoil aikI<«a ii ' 
 iftii^^> Otolftltaoditho ooooiil* Agoin thoy omlH 
 iiul^|ilftglodthoirtOAiilo||tihor. ThoopoModlhoiiiil 
 
 fl^ littonod with ^Kl^V to thodoUU of Who| ^ 
 httidoMltt order toot&ii tiui objoot of hU hopOti li^ 
 |iiylltemiik,bow M M 
 
 pill lluiil boh^ ||ifiii»nN?^ ho roplio^ '* ho|io i 
 (MUm mtion In my bio¥t# ond^ I oooitd to toi^i 
 ^|ynyorrottf whot hoTOitdono 1 whol wooihy; 
 lyiiil not jmt JUdgoo informodt ^%n i* Ko>^ 
 ilf ^ HotONHtoi^ foil oiOi iNp Kifoigot griMii i 
 iiwyr MMMitak Hu^ bBvittMdftti^ Im^ lybok vi 
 iiiitloiMi ui At^ii^ng yowr unwtosihys hoitioli 
 li^ii#^i|iloli;bo^M robbodiyo% Mid irigMioli^ai 
 
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 iowoMM by your dtt^ruoUon, rand«rtd him ontbt* U fH- 
 omptiiM lilt •qually d«tmt«bl« ibn. Thii b«M toooAipltoe 
 mniS^d hiniMlf by piirrieMt.' Pll||hi snilohtd him Mjii 
 tki iword of ofl^ndfd Jttitlot ; ht trivtritd tMllH iia 
 fiiohtd f rftn^t, vhtN tiaw orlmti oonduettd wm W^ 
 mSMA* At tha momthi of dtith ho daoltrod' tht trliik 
 d whk»h ho ond hit flithor hid boon guilty towtnitM. 
 flili dooitfitloii, propoHy tuthontiootid, hid JUillii||iil 
 Mt) Md.i^btoyoiihmdnot tmlled on Zimoni, )4|i|itd 
 hiVi^ldUbtfbfothiOnindlnquliltor. BuiGolflikhla 
 vlidom» httd ordortd othorwlio/* 
 
 Afttr iho ootemotion, which thtir flight AroM thtlMi- 
 iHliMi hftd 900Mlonid, wot tubtidtd, tho odniol |jrltiti)y 
 (li»mktohod vemol to Bbrdoiux ; whtro, ofMr a |»fOiptl> 
 tm v<^Agt» Bttov An utid Zomoro taCily landod. 
 
 NOLUAC» THi: jfiflurr. 
 
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 Thilbllowing toooiint of Nblhle, ii loiutt, who "itHg 
 iitdiMd4n oAo of tho Nvotntlbnory maMtoroi it A¥i|> 
 iH^ii^m thi AMia Btrrubl. 
 
 r#f||K^ iilid iM tomtit, hod boon daolirad, hjfiU ii- 
 Hibly^ MttHodtol^rinoo) Jourdaifi tu^nimod 6liiif4ti$t 
 itt it Avignon with hit banditti. The ui^(l»rtQnato ^' 
 miailiutup hi pHion waro davotad by him to dlith. 
 41 immania pit Wit openad to aarva at thaiir ftriY#,ijttil 
 |iliiof^iind wava oifttad thTthar to e^a^ tna 
 flM wara «00 priionoti to tho iMiitte t ^a hdur #ii 
 
 ~ for putting tham to d#ith inf throwing thani, 
 |il otltarjtliMo tha>tt» Thara wit at AtignD^ i 
 |tiwt» «na 6f tlkiii man ^r whom wa fM^ on 
 HiMitioii, Itkoi^it pikl t0 the ai^iti in haavan 
 ^lHlr%ba MottiKatho 'ft#<;ftiittiail|^ batm raotoir^ 
 Ihe lamttt^ ffiuAiMnil, im*iti» iaw 16 
 4Pa» # imra^lAMl b«*tt^ Uia ]PDH(di ^0iif^. 
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 fiwmi it! b«i«g Ihit of Um pooiv Bin Inf tU thttt j^m, 
 
 «fi»fll in tiM town* he bad bMo tiM fiithoi'^ and «iiAigf^ir| 
 
 IJIO iPfkiKfiit, th« conMlftif of Ibe «fliel«d,4ln aiifiMr nd 
 
 IripM i>f the ifibabitanto, Mid b« wauld ooiiittoB to tbtir 
 
 .4l|ti«|iM (i» ^iiit ^bo pl««0, oA lb& arrival 91? JFeardaattiii 
 
 •l^^lj^ditli* Ha etmli Attar raaolvt to leat^ biaifMtiilh 
 
 |i(p|ii» dapnvad of tbair* muiiitar, in the bogtntiiikg of il^ 
 
 MlMif* ¥ ^bo «Mbiam» and &r laaa.to )oa?o>4hal«^ dtpii- 
 
 fiP!dw^'<»B'<'<>JA^ioiM ^ ralifioD, irbila^iiiidlv the tjn». 
 
 4|iiriPP»<> ^vndittit Mar^yfdooi, tho glory diboddli^li^ 
 
 blood for Jesusj for hit cburah, or for tJM laiibaii,rfri«»»li 
 
 4ljii||ilNit!^o appomplisbmeo* of d^sim and wiabaa^ irbi«li 
 
 Mli^bil l^fe; bad boaa fbrmad in bii.^aoii)« and #l«hMii^Mi 
 
 boikufivr hp« IQ mpifo bit diaei|Aeaj INmr bo mi» dira^ 
 
 iog them in the patin V p«cM<Ofi* sBiolifbbadbtoirtoi 
 
 a martyrdom, concealed by a countenance always aerebe, 
 
 and always beaming angelic joy, with peac^ of oonicienot. 
 
 Hie body olothed with a hairnibirt, had needed the stroof j 
 
 tonititutlbn^with which nature had endowed him, to 8uj>>| 
 
 port him "nnder the mortifications, watchings, and fas^l 
 
 he mdured, thrftpfb'.ilt t;lfO aotivil^ of t minister, and tkf| 
 
 'austerity of an ai^chorite. Daily at prayer and medite*^^ 
 
 ^#1 Iffi»g,ib9^ ligbl*t^«lly viniMiit fth% tititt laiidr|ibor,| 
 
 .1*^^^ bf iief «r loft wHbPWf. adminieleTifig ^«i|R<^ as**! 
 
 llffti conided to his hands by Ibo MUtimi alwlytf pMrl 
 
 il nod^iiiiMoltfi bul ripb fw oth^v^ H frfiftiiilengllft 4{«w t»| 
 
 ,f$i^nmi%to tbosaori^vo of « Ufa wholly dafMltd tc^ohiiiitrj 
 
 :«»4iobiS'0Od.' ■ .^r;- t.A Jk: ■ ■ I 
 
 |I^ Ifolba(w wbom the banditti tbeasselTeii bad biStbsit>| 
 .%)|d saorodi wao sent prsioner to the oaetia tho day be 
 |||l|on wiliob the aix l^nbdred victims were ipat t)^ diilbj 
 lIljippeiiriQef among '^fm imbappy peiwno^ who ilil 
 lipw and itjreMd Mm, %»§ IbM of a oonioUtig ait«<i i 
 ■ ' ifiit W(^f4i% ,wort thoair#it apiwWio of eortlfi >#a»t Hj 
 r|o py!;ep|kiiii tjboa^u'#ppi^i|ag^ Mni> tbotyiudg*! 
 |q|pKi<i4 l*e,j(jp|.,!i,,i^isoi!iiaoi, to^ ' 
 
 
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 ti< i h ii iii i «<iicti^ii» »liy^ 
 
 lli»('»i«il|(^(b#%few flit ^ttk^ 
 
 I m which they •truck thetr Tictimr m the * "" 
 
 |tfiiiil«iiiri«i*r.to Mlir^itetiiMi,'^^ ' - 
 
 i-ir-^*** oi«cA<ht JWwiiMlf3 ••••iifi^tei M} 
 
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 j^t^^f^ c«)Miv(.uM li*tli<a*' till* Mtddtn iairoaMli } ftr I 
 
 ^pljilli^ll^ </lil|llft,wtf . OMt; )llMi»i- tli»i fMlMrt or % 
 iWi»Pillllij»ll>f ypfiateyintb* di wi rt io<. iyiabbif )^ i»| 
 
 #»il||IR9i#toiitlWii»» twills iihi>r%#«^ dMglHafi. „ 
 
 ^llj|i||}f.iififfP!WlM^ ,qMwAtoiit« 
 
 ilJh^^AilA ma4iuliM;««eap«tM fMniBi?lM«Mi»>flNii{ 
 
 Mf|iNfW!%«t%/MlAiMMteMil#k Midi 
 
 v^ ^piBp bar kottting and sallied<.#ut;|QriMk«*«ca^ or 
 
 jj^ Itnd jiiitl Pel^w w«ia j^ong, bad b«e» ittrriad 
 a^pir, aiid W4ir9 QiHtuailgr ,aa Iwpiij in thair ovioob^i 
 l«S#» wd virte«,^fipilj^wMi^ mtm md dbpoaHiaoa 
 >4^eia. Jfia waa e|^|^ged 'm a boaioafWy whidb 
 
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 laiii fFkk Mliifbl* fiihnil/ litdiiumthNik ftliliret ind ic- 
 IfWiBttiMMt wtra looktd upon by tht gootf^lki^ MiitiM* 
 |ytft«# tb* MitfblKNiHlo«l a* pitMhit of tlHti«i^Aiid wet« 
 
 >A» flfit of 4lM#*rMMr, Mbt Poll)^ Wiiiilitd^ ia^t 
 4if irIwoilHit iMoff^tgao, boibre lo^|t^ liy#^ li««»i 
 iliigo a^Mot. Tmw after tlmo MrtVMk^' dMffM, 
 IMINV titltMi, %lii»i|Mf|ii'io 1i# miMh iiiora' MtefMma 
 
 ow flMilMi^ of tlio niffHig#^iti«t;) tha'wHiteiirj 
 
 MMiM»'Md oxaveito^chriaitaii'iictUlttM^i^^ 
 
 lAdty *wto«fottl tH* aovvi^lll tfi;Kti vf'iii^ i^^ 
 
 lb* Mat iMUkodi of iMm^ingiinrilf^hMkM^ #iti 
 
 PvMlhaBa kind of hair a^iif^sMtfM^iilkfiifhi^'l^ 
 
 Am Slia obUM'not for'lior N» tlMifataiia '#Kii«^ill 
 
 lb' «M^Mi> P^Hew to^iaMa^a f|iHrn«w a^^^^^^ 
 ^^^-^tttaW^^eMiDipe bf Iho iUfklA^ te^ag0l^i^^ 
 
 abpilMa'tfo >ll!4 pait ofM* ^^'i%ll^^.^i 
 
 «c4a«hilan'c«i'lleoldediitlitb; lin^ivliaf^ir^ 
 
 'Ilia ««atoiiiafB lia^^an to negloei hHHi^ ' > 
 
 . >*iiHlrofie i mhMhh e^«ditMi#t^riril 
 
 Maiitodi^lifiiNN^ tAMtet'^ l^^'H^oi^aiiSCli 
 iraiuM'-tfttNi^ti^i^^. ^^-Jii'- 
 
 - "' ' iiMitopii^N>ii't<»^^w» #'«ri i '^ 
 
 aad liia.^ifa ! aiMl^it* oniol mattaai^V .^ 
 
 ' i^ ^^^NdMModoA^llift'wtlior of tHi iliii^i IfMid „^ 
 I to air^Bt g a i rtl f i»i» ^mw IM layftirlilbQ|ii^ 
 oiimaii gaf?# M> wi jM |lri» ^tfi»litriiil|^^ 
 
 ID' Itw^^/ waa^^ U B iflJiuwii tlinwik^l(N«^iftiHlii^^ 
 Ji iwp^ ippoivlftt litiiar Im at iMli^^<» it 4|MM^ 
 
 
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 APrECTIONAfE DAVOHTEAS. 
 
 117 
 
 Th«ra ii HillncM in th« hm^e of death, which Myi to 
 llifitjr tfM4 Mftlf, and putf (he linger of tUenet nn (be 
 hip ^ tb«* boldei tiDi|icrtlnenon It wm a enlib erenlng In 
 jiM, when alitde hof entered, M^fing, »lliet L— - 
 |«Miee you to eill, iMr mother ft dying.* I kael^nei to 
 well oHei:!id hoote, and ae I entered the Matly ar- 
 inagedyard, it aeemed aa il the aweiat jierftm^ ef ihe 
 of the righteona wae there. A allelit gyaij^ of the 
 I, by Ihe eldMt daughter, weleolned me in* who al#p- 
 Itghtly to the dying mother, to adminitterwhat might 
 aeceiaary ; while four ateten, beaide, attired In wbite^ 
 around her coueh; the white eurtaioft of the bed 
 w jndowa, the airineM, a^d taetto, threnghent tho 
 aaid |Dlainly that the virtuoue woman^ n^ho « wor> 
 » -diligently with bor banda* haa left her Itapleaa Here» 
 ^hW dcttglitera aronnd bar an* like 'pMlabed atMMt;* 
 ^(dyiag aatet waa apeeeMeaa^ abe had gilrtn bee biit 
 nndlmdH^Hiingtodoibnt to dio. An ntmail 
 lata ailenoereignted tbrbngbout the nigbl, #liila l|^ 
 abol' aeemefl atanding oh the lallMNiit bntwliiik 
 WMldi» waiting the iaol meaaage, IM at tbife »eii l> g 
 liadfibldllitirBt'bfeaflia'on thn imitmmgfptfll^t^ at 
 ft ia di w^ I hnard w^mmMiw atniggtav « ^tdnlallbat- 
 Atamavt. I'lodbedi Hm daoglSara bat AklHii aiii 
 mmmmwA bar %ed, tiiofiitb^r inia*d«bia wiilwMiil 
 mid4«^litoed tbo«dtt of mereiea to aet«|;inttialK|B(l 
 ^••drNjraieibetaoHipmMan of hia ymrtis ^iHm^i^t^ 
 rilaniing, tatb* miinalcina of Hia b liaaa tf . M b^ 
 bav^aipitilftotbe^bd Wb» gaveJH; tbo itNt|^ 
 ) t|^aonl'iM,'fm bUmt^k«d^|(id#Wia^ka«M» 
 imiinliH'agaHi.''^ file aldelitidhilgb^ ^ 
 
 ik aiMi tUa li the libal f can aHb»lM»Ml ot 
 (Ml! Ibat we obllld tbUow her wiiiiipJbi «»^ 
 #hiln tkaj HU again aolibit bionih li# 
 ^wnlgmiid tholithetf, ^linva dSitlNevI mv^^^^ii da#^ 
 tey^^ghftedyiillitaram andilai<frb0HTiiimil.M^ 
 •a#npairrtng"»aii( iiit-iteAatf Ibriaiiiilittig^ 
 'IbaiiMiltmai^i I «a}|iA^vwiie» dMHiI'M^^ 
 i^i fait Bf «MKr jfabv^ioiM^ «ictbWk ««» 
 
 
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 fH«Bi«(I. You must fp with ui to Iht grave 
 yon leave forever. I went, the iroee they bt4 planted^ 
 tier headi had long aince f jlleii Irom Ha atem, Had 
 live daughtera knelt around tli^ '|Ulle eiioloativei iMii 
 guarded the inoundi ai I aaw them around her Uod^ wl 
 hiirrfoul wIm taking ita 0igUt, while: it aeemed her mil 
 •dppirit waa looking from the go4dea batMeaienta of 
 V% and dropping the henedietion of tho bleaaed 
 theaOv planta of her tearing. Aa I walked away, my 
 naid, Oh, tbe.bleMed fniita of early inttruetion, and 
 fieh waving Itarveatf of a mother'a toil. 
 
 THIS BARBBR'8 GHOST. 
 
 
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 A gentleman travelling tome yearn ainoe In the 'Soi 
 m Siateei eilled it ate Inn and requeited entertaini 
 Ihr Hm'filght.^The hoat informed him, thai It waa ovt 
 hit ponrat lo aoeommodate him» aa Ma tioQae^ waa alu 
 Ij^k laN^ntmated him to lodg* himy «a Ml wa» all 
 r<?||giiM with travellings ar well aa h^^baaal; 
 fWi^Kioliiltation the hoet oonaeAted ti»ont«tflaH^%lm, 
 jii^ile wealtalaer/%a^oertaiii«^lmmberdiiliiii 
 Hfvaemipied, hi eonaeqtieiiee of a hiHef 
 
 liiiiltf hf^li ghoit of h birber^wlm Waa #«^^^ 
 Jiiii)1^ that' room ai tittmb^r of yimt 
 
 ^Jferyjfisl^^fald the gueil, «f amiiotalNdofiha 
 iialb«al«i^ my horae and prepare me aomt aupparJ 
 ttr taking aoaim refreehneiit,r he inquired how^^inMI 
 ^tiat manner^the ehamber in whioh he^ waa td 
 toftt^. Tho hoat* replied, that thoiawhw hi 
 Kin Hmmi ■titiM» kht: ahotHy aflar they TittnaMI' 
 "ifflllmowils iotoe* waa heavd/la i ftfemblili|^aa# 
 aoeepi, laying, * Do yew wtm^ kk wlun^^-^iiP^^ ^ 
 flhid tho gu#al if he oomeal wifl»lrtliimiHalf«ia«i 
 mil^ la^eaNd tha« he ml^ .he -iioJMll^tfiwfiipi 
 1ilpa|^«tiH^ be waft«6iiiKta^Mm#i%1o 
 .wl i i »i l>aia,Bvitei mmm^timikm^^rpKmin at; 
 liih#lliliie.-^iWii% »^DttriO^^ 
 i^omeiieei iHtr ha^nf %ear4 gJKMI iC6iiai» hl^ 
 
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THB BitKBlR'l GHOIT. 
 
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 ltd every closet in hie aparttneiit but oould diwOTtr 
 % but a large baaiii. I^ then wentnto bed ; bui^ 
 f moch fatigued, he did not dcwe hie %f9§ to ilee|> 
 diately, (whieh it often the case,, when one it ex- 
 eljr tired) and in a few mpmenti he imafined he 
 the voice at rorreeented to him by the boat. He 
 from hit bed and learohed every part of bit eham- 
 ifi hot could discover nothing. He then went to hmk 
 
 teener had he began to compote himself agi^n 
 
 rtion wat repeated. He then aroiie» went to hit 
 the sound appearing to proceed Arom tbat>^arter, 
 Tdteod awhile silent.-^ After a fim nooientt of tut- 
 >, be again heard the tound dfittinetly. Convlnfed 
 lit wae from without, he opened hi* trindow^ wbeii 
 iWft repeated Aiirto hit ear. Onit <^i)ter examinetien 
 rikterved that the limb of a venerable oak, which ttded 
 ii|iir hie wiodoMr, projected so n^^ar the boote,at on er» 
 if Itftath of wind 46 grate ag^nst the thiiiglee, tnating 
 »iimd resembling the interM^tion,' *J)9yoiHJwma to h$ 
 'NMtff* Having sttitfied Mh)ielf tlitt ttt» ghott wit 
 Hog more or lets than thetHifib of n tree# eMstef Ift 
 ^et #itb tb» hciiite^ be igafn went to bed MMrit> 
 ^i^H^m tleep; but wat now interruptid^bj jjleibi 
 %^l»^i«(Mti behiir^ where the gMlMeri.i«rm 
 ^^Mkiftg beeoirid turn thit ditcoirai^^4»4 bin 
 ^K^NMKtiffi lii ttini the ibeet from Ibe bed,. wii||ie4^ 
 l^blMi^ MBd la&ing the basin Im bit tam^ dtimn^ 
 rotom (if the ga^Mertk and^euddenly opMiii^||iMr< 
 ied;4iiinelfehB$ngin a trem»leoe«eite «||^|^ 
 Ni^be^rtfUvvdlt^ Petrified irt %bit I alMteptio^i &^ 
 rtbe 99om in nhe grtntett eonAition ; toate tmidlrfini 
 ii «ll|iii>fveir#^ beiitlof ^«M. He^1li«|»Ml|^ 
 ifiailrii>liM{»«ndir Ibe ttblt^ and giUMwiftiiir iiii^ 
 ^MlMtf #flioBey ittio it^ #Miib ba4 beeii^ lift >%|pt.r 
 IWUfidfln and retired fibetably to i«i^ i ^ul/^ 
 inext morning on going below, bte^iima^^* bnilil 
 ^fiVatetleot^bttobi Th# imaMlat^^«tkfd bin 
 Ijii If rt j ge d at good «tgbt» itit. BvMpttil j^ 
 - -ntt Well,, no ,wOBder,V#aid the boil^ ^tm' 
 ^ "^gBlil|to bltf^MMWl; fliUMii jw|i>*«^^ 
 ibloettr loom, and carried off everf/|^jf 
 
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 1^ foUowiitf aowMiAt of thja iMiiitafr in lnlitB ff 
 tlittiltMsrol A gMiU«m«ii wli9 r«tiil«4 in thu iDdiM 
 X««rt» tiiii n^ niNiMi ty« wiint •» to what ho vvw. 
 
 *v| hfttNi liono Ml MVounI to givo jrou* which tniiii tti 
 tlteMii^ hot b«i awurtdk iin^ I ■hall AggHAvatt no oiroi 
 •IMti hut mftii^kjr n»ltl« wM^ loywUfiiiAid mote thftn 
 l)«i^td«Atbfn!MV»i9fttw«K whole dtifftUigfthoef i 
 
 Siiiii jTiAjro, ■inct, tho ootninand^ of my 4iiite|oni<aiiDr<*, 
 itif nii ,l|440floii» to tiAQMot Ml ftfia^rof fto littlo oopiii] 
 
 th« |>tlMi|iil 4IIWII Mug the Tooele: ei ionp libtei 
 flMinr itt|tr«iiid&w Ihert Alood •omeltrgo palni trf m» tin 
 •iNNM iM % deiightlbl proipoiit. 
 
 OttiiiKkmiiiiii at I WM looking, el thMtj tKUfWi. t 
 eiil^^MMl||^ At«tg«Mrm of on* ofthMiiitiAtfAiifii 
 iittllMt^Miihii MUl lwiituigehi»HtitiMi4ioiliiiMit||iil^ 
 •liil^JtlM «M#t» Mid ti^ng i|^^igiiiyi|>iii<|jMtg,il4 
 lh»l|i»i•»,;^ilp•ilgMlil^eilhi•i i^thi'iifil^ 
 wimmm M^li i m . iwttkigj lii» I beggMl i him W ilifi^ 
 
 H M lli<| Ht<Hlwltta4yMiii l\ lii»l|o«t<<i imliiifii < 
 
 Miliiniii tn^ hmtettMl AlaoKi ilikiiigil9 ^^msAii 
 
 ■-|te«IHiiAw(ilto hiNitiip ftlljRi|( doomi Ihiiirflildf 
 
 I^JI^iiN pit>t|ef«;r v>' * . -s; - '- h /*• - . 
 
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VHM AHAO^VDA. 
 
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 thttlht wondtr w«i only thtt Ihc ertatur* wii to nt tr, 
 r^that It waiT * Mrpf nt but too well known In lh« tntaad 
 irti of the woods, where It often dropped down flrofli tile 
 »trtrt of a targe tree, and devoured a traveller alive. 
 A relation lo itrange le thia could never have giiaatf 
 (dit with me, but that I actually aaw the ereature froM 
 i ilae, capable of doinf ihore than was related. - ^ 
 U eontinu«d<divertin||itaelf till we aasembled a bod^i 
 rilve of ua, to go on ^raebaek well armed to dflliSiy 
 
 We rdde near the plaee, but not to eitpoie oureelvea Iso^ 
 r we rode behind a thicket, from i^henee we might 
 icii level our fire arma at him; but when wo art^ved 
 we found him eo much hrger than, we oonoeHftd, 
 I we wiahed ouraeivea at home again { and ibr a loif 
 
 we dared not Are. ' > 
 
 Ipe had now time to obeerve the creature ; and beUef* 
 l>fir, all the deeeriptiona of monatera of thia kind hith- 
 gWen are triflea to what we aaW in him. . Tha 0^« 
 all deelared (hat be was muoli larger than #nsr th^ 
 everaeen, and auoh a misture of horror and b<^ut|r 
 f, no eye but that which aaw il eaji eoneeivt. ^, 
 ereature waa aa thick aa a man'a walit, yet'ieeautf' 
 hti and verykmg'in proportion to hit lliiiAMiaii s 
 hangiiif htemeir 1^ the tail fnom the higkiilbmf|riw 
 it tree^ and teMhing the grouad with hii hMd^ ySa 
 ffiaSnfly nimble, and waa now divettiftg hifwiill. 
 heil of Af day. with a thouaand gamliAi lotnlil. 
 af the IreOi and would aometlnifti|)Mip iiiHi 
 It hia tfll rouad tha^bottom of the triM^|^|iVaflpg 
 Kia #ii^ length all around it. 
 ^leae gaiabola, we wereeurpriaed la 
 apfwt up iaia the trie j but t^ 
 f 101 Maimal of the fos kkdp whioh 
 I aamiiit lawardi himi he took thia 
 Ibr'htm/ Hadarteddown upon the uaiipi^'«v«ft#||| 
 cM bhn in in a few minatea, thea " --^^•^ -^ - 
 d«Mbla taiigue of a blacki«h aol^^ 
 iileagtli iipoa the ground ; but ii^ JMi M^j 
 d' the. tree.:- - . ■ ■ . 1, • -4-i^-*h-- -- - •^^^♦^* 
 
 ffiature I had an opportunity wtHi tkOiiQt^i 
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 UrMi •dniffi^iii^ to hthoU liiat. H» i^m tmonA 
 mtyB ttk« ia «sooodil6; h«s Imd w«t fr^a^ witfi a, „ 
 ^MMrii ti|K)tiii the mi4dl», vad fellow itrenki, rowiA 
 jawt; Il0 IhIA * ytltoir circle <il« gold ««|0e inmukI 
 ;;ii|i#iR4 and behjmd tlmi Moiltttr graft! tpet oC blMli. : 
 ■idls w«ra 9i attoKvat ccdw, a»(t hia ba«k vwrn bea«f 
 %iQ can ba dfeacnbad : his liaad inm T«ijr Af^ but . 
 imio^ ti»i4 1«> Jii» as^a iiwualronaljf; ltuig<i ^4 n. 
 MglilMd^Wfriblei WJlMiliAiiiovada^iiVliiUieMift^ 
 waa^ if poaaible, a thousand times mora beautifal thaftj 
 lbiNi»^lMi «olor ^eaording to Hie sev?aral ^Itaidw Qlligbl| 
 imUD^ a iraik vitriatjr,, in m^nj, pkeva bicfciii^ Uiit^ 
 .«lm)|^ei^ ed^va in aiib. 
 
 ^ ^eaJilaiwedfQiirftea^s at Imqk^s be taor^, aii4 
 
 M^jMki^aliail QQeai bill whajlbar b« a^cidepMIgr _ 
 
 jiiat at that tiine,^or our fears made m taka M atii» 
 
 ^^^MsedUimor nfv«c hit Moir fof h#t9ol^i|(»|i« 
 
 ^•l!t^'#ti4airiter aeou^eU^of war iii«« a|la{^e0)»4to||i^i|i 
 
 Jliiihii«t|;ei^feu(^ii himra^ lipiia, bul to gft ' 
 
 ,,a«Nii9||Ri^#M» 1^ «t«^ 
 
 Tlie^lfttAa^ 8«amed! Iti lnn^iR ibDiem^noi fw^i 
 calM il 4EiMucoi|d%aaij| laHiad <^ nlingv l|«n|^4^ 
 Ibaj^ aaiAghl iCas thaj l^idt ii» MHitt W<iil^ dfH»i| 
 tbiir 4I9III, when <H»a of Hiaaar ar aM«(i«iv t^fiMMii %• 
 iia difcAlwie, h^ 8eld€i9i qwtta it f|»r ^nt %4i ' 
 
 M)9l^ef|.|i^eoii|p»liy to^4|Df^.^4^^ 
 iiaeii waft ipao^ io^ reJayi^ tiM^ amni^lr iN^IH 
 i9fi cih«^ ofr tb« cimpm^; had^ii^ #, ib^tov^ «|.. 
 ittf li(??t|^ thay toH a^buiidaifeef, of tbtnga! tb$i. %i^ 
 iii|^«i^)iljri b*Mi whikt ii»^^i^^ 0(1]^ 4^^] 
 ;||^^4jil*:^)ey b»d teW tWiilill Vbatl*if|^Ni(U 
 IH|» Qii^Adi tnith. a»diH»babll%^f r.' . 
 
 mm in by Hi^g ii» %# bongba : ej^^isg9ti^t|iii%^ 
 1^^ il^iM)i^|^«todly drppsr^oil Om «9(«NI«|t,rllit 
 itiiiil bej^iw, HiM%m m emm$i ; bud i\m^mt9^m ^H 
 
 ^li^ii^IfQuialealfAB to jff^ti. 
 
 f$Ml0f«lhii}oiiniA|^rvi <MpemH<ld to |fe»'^N|b4r>^< 
 
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 . li^mMi «t^fila>i^iiife;^^ iv^a ine had IN^ ^,^ 
 , (if I dare call i) so) tofind oiir enejoiy ^klbisf^lOftoit 
 
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TiiB.AllA«0]IDA. Its 
 
 iftd rcn^ ^eroe and vcr/ hamgrj tbiy mornnig, ami w« 
 
 taw Iht effeoto of JU 
 There are great ptenty of tigers in tlutcounlrjr ; one of 
 of monstrous size, not less (baa a cooNBoft beifcr, 
 rhi'iretit along, came at length umler the serpent's tree ; 
 rft^oinent we heard a dreadful rustling in the tnee, aatd 
 itft as t^KHight the jserpent dropped upon litm, 4ieiBi«g 
 ^iflliaioross the back a UttSe belqw the ahoublers, withiia 
 l^le mowth, and tailing in a |>ieoe of the back ll|g|;tr 
 IDA mattes head: the orealetle roared with mgoogr, jptbd 
 )Our unspeakable^ terror, was ntnniAg with bta afeny 
 owardus; his course however was soon atoppedr lor Hie 
 le adrersary winding his body three or foiiT tiiiws 
 id the body of kis pfejr, girded him so violentiif , that 
 >a fell down in agonjr. - ^Tbe momest the serpent lead 
 liiB folds, he let ifo the l>ack of Hie erealiNre, and 
 and twisting round Ike head, eipened its faaii|l 
 to its fbU assent, a'nd seised (he wlMle ^Jide <if the 
 i»it> |)ititi^ and grinding him in a |iAoii ^liHde ' 
 riknd at ence ekak&ng l^m and' tearaig lilm lo 
 
 Sfaatigo* reaped up again on this, and words ari ^ 
 ''tp> point his seenring agony ; kie writhad awd'tqUid' 
 it, kWt all ki vain, the enemy wherevei^ Im west wm» 
 i binmiid his hoUwRr rearing from withiti &e dvV'O^ 
 ^«Hn!^ Waa«^eadfelkeyatad isxpressfOB. 
 ^:iwB8 vliBip fiilafg on ttie ere^ure in this silatii, but thiiy 
 " ieh»iedaga«wt its; ^«y told me, they knew kib ieop- 
 . no, van, that they wine now yeiy sure of bna wiikiiiiit 
 troi^le Of faaa&ard, if tbey lilt kirn alopie ; batilrtbeRf 
 lliied^iiim in this ogndilion, ke would be «a bvitmrnf > 
 ^^lil^mtvaAoi obriiy^ #ould a^sutedly pxf tk«fir*' 
 l^fPiay aecmed lb know ao well what tbt^ liitc 
 |t, that/ 1 vaadi^ ae4)uiesoed; ^^ ( 
 
 #Welal!of lis apent the whole day m ^Mnikif Ikis 
 'pi ; aod-saiiily ihe agonits of the tigerwteralMyniid alt 
 It GiGup b^ coikceiv«d, and hta death IhiMrb iionnl4 than a 
 Jpiii^llltar jMtfan^Kh aH <heir tortures put tUlsdftit:;^ 
 pEiitififf wM^a stvnt% na^ifiiMrce ereatore, and ;lhot|^. 
 ■^^u^in hur^r g# lid of MaJ^d tmm^^ fBigw^m? 
 ' of tmubie^ n kimdliiiir tliiea m^M Im «par"a|^> 
 
 
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 anil ran a IiCUa waj, balloon Ml down again, partly opJ 
 pmmd by th J weight, and partly by tba writhed twitti 
 of Ibo eeritent round bia body ; but though be fell, be waij 
 far firom being conquered. 
 
 After aonie houra he teemed much ipent, and lay at if J 
 dead ; and the serpent, who had many times gifted himMir| 
 Tfolently round him, attempting to break his bones, lNit| 
 in fain, now let go his hold, and twisting bia tail rouiiij 
 tba tifer*s neck, who was now in no condition either d 
 reaiat oc escape, be made towarda the tree, dragging with] 
 sopae pains,^ the tiger after him. 
 
 Nature, it seems, informs this animaK that though itj 
 
 eaiiwoonquer such large ' creatures as these, it joan by m| 
 
 nieana devour them as t^ey are, aince their bodies^ are; to 
 
 ; tbiek lor bis swallow, and he must therefore break th^j 
 
 ^NMBti, and reduce them to a soft mass, before be can msn-l 
 
 lift tbem. Tbia be usually does, as we saw him attMipt| 
 
 %<m the tiger.*by getting his body very finnly and 1 
 
 ^isHid^a^ by this means crushing them to pieeea; 
 
 I^U' tniia miethod will not do, be has recourse to the ti 
 
 iMTwe now bad opportuniity to obserye. He dragged 
 
 ''-^irbgrdclgrees lifter him to. the tree, and the ereai 
 
 ig $Jnioat dead, unable to stand, he seized btm lig1^1| 
 a t|iBe|id time by the back^ and set bim on lualegs : 
 thfitnptk of the tree, then immediately windnig bia 
 loiiad^oth the tiger and the tree several timea, ba^ 
 botifwitliall bit Tioience, till tbe ribs and otl|ei« ^i 
 bagaii to gli^ way, and by repealed -attempts o^illlkbifj 
 b» bi^ke 9JAjhe ribs «ndlegs4n ^r or five dUlMiiiit 
 0^1 ;^ia to^Lup several heuis^ and the poor ei^iftniie' |it| 
 tl^.wlMle wi^tiving,^^ and at every' crack ol itia. 
 gafli^ ai-iitowlj thoufh liot loud, yet piteoua anOM^. 
 piMi fblj^Qit cruel beart, and make even manfo^l 
 «|ltural hMh||dto^ its species, and pity ita m^ry. 
 
 Jkft^ tbilBgrimd ribs, the anake attacked the skull^ 
 tha dana maniiar^ biit this provied »o diMcult a task, 
 the Bon^r tiled; with fatigue, and seeing bis piey in 
 tmm^htk of aieapinf, left bim for the nq^t at tM iaotii\ 
 ^ilfs^ner, knd retired into i| himself to i^t ; npott vKi#| 
 wa menl' h*itt», vu4 I molt assure y ott, I eould 
 ^y1^ poarttgar Was AAtdindly ao atroiig, tbati^ji 
 
 
 
THB AlTACOltDA. 
 
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 \\Sm ftill'alivti, though mangled in tbii migerablo tnannar. 
 In the morning I returned Mritli several othert to Iha 
 jthleket; batae we rode up ii«re ea^v a'ttrange change; 
 Uhe bodr of the tiger, which we noxf saw no longer to be 
 I known ai snch, but looked like a red lump of shapelMt 
 IJMtteri was dragged to some distance from the tree, and 
 Ifhoae all over as covered with glue or jellf ; when we 
 larrived, we saw plainly the meaning of this, the niaka 
 liw^yet busied about it. He had laid his legs onrbf ob4 
 1^ to.the body, and was now placing the head itraigbt 
 Ibefore and licking the body C which had no tvmaifiiihg 
 |ihtpe of one) a&d covering it with its slavetr; wUidi wiu 
 rhst gave it that shiny look, coating it over like «: jdlj^,, 
 rendenng it fit for swallowing ; and having ^preparid 
 ;to his mind, seised the head, and began to suok that, 
 1 afterwards the body into his throat, '^hls w^iim Work 
 iomuch time, that 1 left him straggiin|: aithe'ahoiil- 
 When I went home to dinner,, and by^s ilc^ilt^df 
 who stayed td watch him, it was i)i|^li^'MEHr«'li| 
 m\ in; •' r d 
 
 ijoaoming we assembled for the last tima> *iid the^n 
 iwdinen itnd children fallowed us, assuring H^.thkt j^ 
 .w«i gorged^ there was no-danger/ I:'<hipl|i'ivf 
 llieaiia cbnoeive the nieaning of this,'tiipeiwie-i»Nilia 
 but ihen I found it verf' true ; thb ifvpiftpiva 
 htmself, that he> could neither fight neir'^n 
 ifw" .■■.. ■ -■,■■/■ -:-. ■ . ■ . ■ ^ ^' '■' : 
 
 Hi^pmiitStMldD our apfmncli to climb tlw tree, hot in 
 ^ iiiiwtekaMeaoirtheheiulwith^ states.! 
 4liiiiiilMi«a mitt and his lengtt^ tbWty«^tbiet»^!et 
 
 niton. ^ H4irai soim eat ^ and I assare y4«i^ air, 
 ar AMI whiter than TealrMid^ as they iaii Wil 
 it,i>^tt«r tMted thaii any fleik whatever. 
 
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 In Br«Mrd»i Letttri, publiihed in Italian in 1778 In 
 first Ihf following interttting aiscounk of an adventaii 
 whieh lit taiet with in ihf quiciciiUer minot of Idria. 
 
 "After pasting, through Mveral parts of thd Alpi, 
 
 and hairing Tisited Gsrmany, I thought t could not wiU 
 
 ftftttra homo without visiting tho quioksilver mines tt 
 
 ldria» and seeing those dreadful . subterranean oayemi, 
 
 itbtra thousands aro condemned to reside, shut Qut froi^ 
 
 ali'hopH of ever seeing the cheerful light of the sun, tad 
 
 obKgtd to toil out a miserable life under tho whips o^in> 
 
 pettottt task masters. Such wretches as the inmates «f| 
 
 this plaee my ejes never beheld. The blackness of tbarj 
 
 visage* onl^ mtt*' ^ cover a horrid paleness, caused hf\ 
 
 the nexiotts qunties of the mineral they are employed hj 
 
 prnolttring. Arthej in general consist of mslefiictors eoi<| 
 
 demMd for life to this task, they are fed at the public n 
 
 piMt ; but they seldom eonslttie much provisions, as tbtfj 
 
 •lose'thair appetites in a short time, and commonly 
 
 <*libott^twe yenrs expire from a total contraction of all tl 
 
 joimi in tbo bodyr In this horrid mansion I walked 
 
 ifiy gttide for sbmt Ume, poiiderhig on tbe.stmnge tyipi 
 
 Mk#f Mwo of ma^ when I was startled by ni 
 
 Milfl ine, oalling mr by name, and kiquhTmg after 
 
 iMitll with moai oordial albciinn. I tnmed^ and'siw 
 
 crtftttare all bhtck and hideous, who approached i^ 
 
 aitk.^ most pitQbuaaeeent ezelaimed^ * Ah t M» B^li 
 
 Ami»» don*t you you know mt t* Oraiionar Hesv 
 
 whftt was my sufpriso when throngh th« vcfl of 
 
 f Mf^b e d newi, I di8te»ve«Nl tha futures of my okl«nd 
 
 pi iai igount Aijii^n«t«! Yon must ilimetmllfr bi4l^ 
 
 'W ^la gi^t, and moat agreeaUt pelionn ftfelka c(biilit 
 
 #iilitti( f il onee (he paragon of th^ n^ a^d the M 
 
 ite el the fhif sex. I havo often heard^vou T<peat 
 
 M|* •• 9i« of th* few that did Hdaor to the piiteoi ' 
 
 $it^pt0imA of generosity and pity in the |rfdHtof '|^, 
 
 "^ ^e mHo made no other use of his' lbitiliir!lMlt 'W 
 
 ■'■'/ 
 
 miPthi dMictsies of hi* fellow of»atilfes» I 
 c9 sl#oi9ising him, 1 1^ to hint ^ttt nlMfiMi 
 ^ a tear if condolence, asked him how hv en» 
 
 
 
wuuAhm oom§vAMcji nawAiinBD. 
 
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 To (hif he replied, thut having fought a^duel with a |[en- 
 iral of the i^ustrian infantry, agarnit thd Emperor's eom-* 
 BUful, and having left him for dead, he wat obliged to fljr 
 iato one of the foreeti of Iitria, where he was taken prii- 
 boer, and aflerw'ardi Iheltered hy tome banditti, who had 
 bag infested that quarter.->With theee he had lived for 
 nine monthg, till bjr a close investiture of the place in 
 thich the/ were concealed, and a very obstinate resist- 
 fM$$, in which a greater part of them were killed^ hu was 
 ti|ken ai|d carried to Vienna, in order to br broke alive 
 upon the wheel. On arriving at the capital, however, 
 be was sooti reeognixed, and through the interegiiJlp of 
 frtsnds his* punishment of the rack was ehaoged w^ that 
 of perpetual imprisonment and labor in the miiMii^itf ldria« 
 *< As Alborti was giving me this accoont, a young wo< 
 ■in came up to him, who 1 at once sav^ to be bom jbr 
 bitter fortune. Th^ dreadful situation m the plaee waf 
 not able to destroy her beauty ; and even in this scene of 
 vmtoh^dness, she seemed to have eharms to grace tb^ 
 Bost brilliant assembly. This lady was in fkct daugblfir 
 t9 one of the first famitiei in Grerttiany ; and having t; 
 •very means td procure her lover's pArdon without 
 iiS atlast resoMred to share his miseries, as ehjs eoiild m 
 itlkive them|;/< With him she toAor^agly 4ssoiti4id- ittto 
 ^e mansi<ikitt nhen^ fiiw of thellflRg rattirn ^ ai^ilh 
 kirn she is eontcDted to Uve ; w^h him to toil$ forgiwg 
 He gayeties of life, despisMj( file splendors of opul^l^, 
 uA* contented with the isotticioiisness of her own fpn- 
 •imoy/' 
 
 , dneii oonif anc^ could not go'*unr«Fardediif^In a Hter 
 i^rttten nine d^ys after, Mr Ever##iia«!ter that he wif 
 *<th%8peotatof of tt^e ttios$ aflktinTieens^ever ft! h#; 
 kpM. A panon ei^roe post from Vienna, m the ,11^^^ 
 llgeneac the mouth of thegfefttev vhaft. Be ilfp 
 ^ ir :foUo#e<l by a second, and hy a third 
 
 was iRer th* uQfortunaite Count, niiNblMMHliiJt^ 
 ic it, gave the belt informntiott % 
 Drere the br^tbet nttd eeashi of th«b 
 how. soldier n^\d inlimiloMUead 
 
 irith hie parelon^j^'^hioti had h»itt iNdsfUMcltr 
 , wilh^ wlioni ^- jfciliiaa b ee n fo nf ^^ w^to^y 
 
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 tHtt MBIIiail*, 
 
 ptrfbotty roeovtred rrom hi« iroundi* I ltd thttn with iB 
 tli« •xptdition of Joy down to hii dreary abodt ; preNntcd 
 tt) him hit fViendt, and informad him of tbo happy cbangi 
 itt hla oiroumtttnofi. It would ba Impoaiiblf to dtteilbi 
 iha Joy that brightened upon hie grief worn eountenaoee; 
 M^ waa the young lady*B emotion leaa YiWd at ieeing hw 
 IHeiidl^ and hearing of her huiband'i f^edom. '^ 
 
 Some houra were employed in mending the appearaiMi 
 of thia faithful couple : nor could I without a tear^ behoi4 
 him taking leave of the foVmer wretched eonpukiona U | 
 hia t0it« Wo Boon emerged fVom the mine, ana AlbeiU 
 ttnd^ia 'vifo onoe mere reTJaited the light of the ami. 
 
 Tb# tihpreeii baa again taken him into fkvor, Jiia fay* 
 tune and rank are rettored t and he, with hla fair partner) 
 now have the pleaatng eatiafaction of enjoying happintM 
 iKltb double reliulK as they onto knew what it waa to bi 
 flUHrbble." | 
 
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 ' 4 ipt^S^^tly, rosy cheekedv flaxen haired little gifl,ttsii 
 la'^tiln the pleaiant eveninga of June^ m the marbk 
 «fM|Foppoaitd my lodgings, when I lived in Philidelpbia» 
 Hilllig ottr n hundred little aonneta, and tell o^ver ni 
 lilht^feali^ i 8we«t voice, end with an nirofdeligbtltfl 
 •l^liftlly, thit chanttod me many a time. She if aa tbli 
 tilifphan child, and commonly reported to be rich, Oftaii 
 im I tat after a da¥ a toil and v«xatt<»ii»llld li#t»i|f4 
 Initfocbot voib^^lMthing forth the ili^ of fmk 
 nenf which i^Wied eheerAi^ firoitt 4 light b4ar^ 
 p«^tba of Ihit tranquility •tttahoTerjnsr boiOM. 
 *til't:iisa llutttl«r, %h(^ii I fint kii#w her 
 ' ^^In liftd tiapabdr durinf irmeli time 
 " ""^ 'the eity, when wtlklug a|or 
 ' le w|fiiiffe«, I Mfrw an^iegai&t.l 
 riajgja, Mowed^ by a gemliligii 
 Idif>6t1iiMttiloly 
 « i^ llliyNrhb ^tta^myv tts^ 
 
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 wkM wt UfA togffthtr in Walaut.Stiett 1—1 did raiMiB* 
 I bw, U wii heraolf. 
 
 Sht uied to bo fond, Mid ht of tre»tiiif litr llttif elrr 1# 
 
 joffriffndf with romiDOfii— and »t last aha actad out a 
 
 Dtit romaiica beraalf.— Sha oama out into tlia gay eir^Iea 
 
 Lf lifa uadiv tha auapioaa of har gUkrdiana. II waa aaio» 
 
 bjr aoma'alia waa rioli— wry rich— but tha amount of aer 
 
 wtalth did not appaar to be a uattar of publioity ; boW" 
 
 iftr tha ourranti and, aa waa generally beliavad, well 
 
 fMiaded ^aaport, waa auificient fo draw around her niany 
 
 |«|«irera, and among the number many aerioua oourtiera. 
 
 Ihe did not wait long before a young gentlemap on 
 
 Iwiiom ahe had looked with a aomewhat partial aye, ba- 
 
 cMtie h^ waa the gayeat and handaomeat of her lovera, 
 
 Itn^ldened by her partiality, made her an offer. Preba- 
 
 m ahe bluahed, and her heart fluttered a Utile ; but thay 
 
 If tie aitting ih a moonlight arbor, and aa her embarraaa* 
 
 nvM waa mora tha|i half concealed^ ahe aoon reoorered^ 
 
 luul aa waggiah humor happened to have the aaoendant/ 
 
 lilia put on a aerioua face, told him ahe waa honored by 
 
 Ikii prefereuce, but that there waa one nratter- wh|cb §W 
 
 liihad well underatood before, by giving a rapjy;,. aba 
 
 lad him to hia promiae. Perhapa you may baft 
 
 ight me wealthy; I would not for the world bfsia 
 
 labor under a miatake oa that point : I; am worib 
 
 itaen hundred dollara. 
 
 waa proceeding, but tha gentleman started aa If 
 
 Itrified. Eighteen hundred dollara! ho repeated in a 
 
 inner that betrayed the utmoat aurpriae : ]^, m^^'amr 
 
 be, awkwardly, I did underatand you yraa utorth a. 
 
 kt deal more^but— > ' . 
 
 Ilo, Sir^ ahi replied ; no escuaea or apolpgiea ; tbinlr 
 It what I hftVa told you*^you are embarraaaad noWf 
 gnawer roe another time ; and riling, ahe bid faim goo^ 
 
 SNjuateacapad a trap. He went nai^ d|py tiller 
 liAoa, to enquire more particularly into b«f a^^nir 
 riP^Ttng the aame anawer he dropped Ina ji#t.j||^ 
 
 llpalt aerioua profMiaal followed aoon after* 
 
 one #bo bad auccecded to a tfifB pbrtioA 
 
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 YUM PRtTILmirOI. 
 
 of hot NUtm i but npplyiiiftthe mum oitielUl* to tlit Um 
 h« off rtti, the found a Ulc« r^iult. llo too, Itft hrtr, am 
 ilm f<i(|oiMd in tnothvr (brtuntte Mcapt. 
 
 Slit lOMMlinit afktri Iwcomm tequaiiited with a yonnf 
 Ij^illWttmn of ■Ifitdtr fortUM, In wIimo apprnAflhtt* ib 
 tUtflf Ut ilit digoovortd mnro cf tlio tinmrouii diffidoiioe nf 
 Muvt Ihan the had nitneiMd b^fom. Sh« did not cliicli 
 liim In Ilia hopei, and In procoaa nf tiint ha too, nindo hir 
 <Mi otfor. Tittt wlitn aha apoka of her fortune, ho baggid 
 liar to ba ailant '^ it ia»to virtua, worth, and hoMty, aii^ 
 lia, that J pay my court } nut to fortuno. In you I aJiaU 
 obtain what is .worth nuira than gold.— Bho wAa woNt 
 agracabljr diaappolntad. They wera married ; and, aflir 
 tha union waa aoleasttitiod, aha made him maator of ||| 
 her fi»rtuna« yth\\ haraalf. I am Indeed Worth eiglitom 
 Hundred dollars, said aha to him ( hut I have never aaiil 
 IkHfr much more ; and I never hope to enjoy moro pleai* 
 a|l« Utan I feel thia moment, when I tell you my fiirtust 
 i# ana buadred and eighty thouaand dollars. [ 
 
 ^(t waa actually ao ; but atlll tier husband ofWn tolia liir| 
 Hiat Ui her he poascsaca a far moro noble fortuno. 
 
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 T«1E ra^TILIUMCB. 
 
 k my mindibe um-^irUI of llie' anoienti hva mtM«i9i| 
 imm saercdlfind pleaaimUy aaaodated. Tlie oleam wl 
 aMifble» coigilntikg tke purified temaimi of aR We hii 
 loved, ta a^ij^ct around whioh aflfboftion aHH lov4s 
 Hnier { but the damp dark grave, with itatllent loatlti 
 >tQlll of eoft « Uon, ia « rcvf^lting auti^eet of conlemplti^ 
 f^t ovtti %rheni levo la atitn(|er tiMttdetttii* Itlmt tbiw 
 H tM ^e^ <>f ^)>«^( NrM Wfor« the Yi«a opnrk ia ts^ 
 UlMtt)— and of^r^turning to eonaoiouRnefs with the we| 
 dlll^tU upon fOMt md the frcakk^ air of hea.iren ihtrt ^nl{ 
 fiili^r ! To me this Idea ta ao larrild^r diitlnef tM li 
 A« apitttte of my ;*waking houia, and the nIghlmiMf of i 
 ^#«ama. BerUaita the vividneaa of thta imprasaloi^ la i»j 
 i«i|t t^ the revlmrk t (Hqwanlly iKaaid from «« "^ ^ 
 ltv«, wliil» t'^i^s^a yet a very amai eliild : Ifaait 
 
 
VHR VSI'TltllliCa* 
 
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 itlFlilliuiridt w«i« bitfifd btAire thcyt wt i« dM4» mh%n Um 
 fallow iiiirtr imgtd lo ttlrriblf in Boitoii." Tha ptHod ii 
 «iM rtflMiDlievtfd by ouf AiUmiii, wltt n pMllltiic* Wilktd 
 t k mA fti ii9on*dtty, And tht hmiriU ilono wm siluit Mnl 
 AiNkff M tilt tomb. 
 
 TIm dMth-ontta wtnt llMir Mn4imMid round tbroufli 
 VHtf bour vl th« dnri Md unihMudiKi^ tMMottiiidf Mi* 
 tfwiy dtad wt^« burritd to their Itit homt. I kntir n 
 iMttt who dtring tbii tinio of ptrili i»«i umloliod Arom 
 tbi gm^o tttrtJy hf Ibt porooirf rii% aibotkni •€ bH wMb. 
 Oftb#oorfootnomof tht ttory thoro i»no dotibi} Ibr I 
 tavt ofttn hoard it ropoatod by both tho pattknooaMtnMd. 
 thIoftwfUl Ybiittttion of Odd oamo upon Ibttti wbon tbojr 
 «ffi newly innfritd ; wbon txitttnot wa»bM|)piliiitt tMl 
 HfM^ration woroo than death. Tbo young buobind bionwe 
 l^«i«tiin lo Ikat dlaoaio wliloh iv«a bataHiiiiK doatfttoUen 
 «fii iho oily* Tho f^londf of bio wife urgod hor t» taok 
 
 ego in tho oountry , iMid nol tiak hor owin Ufo >b» i«^«al- 
 allaniit to iavo hlm% But n» pominaion ooulil4i« 
 dnaa; hor «» loairo bim ; night and* daf aho Kritl^ hkkM" 
 HM I and in th» anguiih of bir bon>t tdia ptayei itbnillo 
 jMattttnttraiighl roat tifoa hor. Bu^hov ptayor was* not 
 ilMHKot«d»»BUMly mdtafidly ii did'kti work «pm^nll>iiir 
 biMil hold door; ftui to^ hor, dbaHi^ wtould n^* m0m, 
 #iilCl»ak%|irayodlbv It audi aobgbd H wMi iOMHk iMto 
 bdupMtlio iMrooilh of bmt ^xNt bMnn«( IM|l>ll»JM>1t 
 «M hannloMii Midi In 1lt»#idttwat^ dooyMdi ^k o rl ii fa^ 
 ig^tbt worbMil doeitoa df bMivMt. ll«>iBl»c^ati%liPiir 
 tttlko h o^a aho #aa> alab« wMi tbd it<|ii,ii fMJMtfy 
 iliiailfBooof thio doaorttdiitroola waa |««iiMiM1»yNiio 
 inabling of tbo dtath»oai!l« ; ilid vbi ^mtiarlblgr^N 
 il)lnk«4ite.-mi^r '^imntltoo ilght k Hmp ^uA 
 IJHufchti ife^ddiglf ^oahid^ 4iite bdP> lrt»d» tUH 
 m bd^kay^>^i»4Io»on^w^ilioi^olg^t^a- l^ll M y wi ^ oi | 
 ijkft waa potttltttd to kttp teiooapacbootAali 
 (Nii> 4n^irbaBiiiB«iadi niMii koii«lnilM>d) 
 #apitielio»t iNBiditlMMigteioioot9i^ffaa0wll«oi <if^Mifll(4i||ill^, 
 liyt 09iiMb4o««i%lftlKl*l)illa^«# rp ibdrnw iibBf|^'^fi»'Mi# 
 
 [ fm t oU ny iiobThqfBi^ ' Aiabiftb«'iaiMai.4infcak'-vol«d^iid 
 Ib^iBlMi BOMidv «<MMIig out tho dead,*' diatliibod^^ tbo. 
 
 hlMilil^^ttooia. Again tbo young wife on^Mtted, #opl 
 
 
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 And foreamed— the htarts of the men, wliose dreadAil en. 
 ployment accustomed them to such soenea, were touched; 
 but they woald not yield. They aaid <« the lafety of Um 
 icily reli|uired them to be firm in the discharge of their ^a- 
 ij I that they had alreidy disobeyed atrict orden, aid 
 ih^ dared not do it agpain ; that the hope of reitoring bin 
 waa mere insanity ; it waa evident he bad long ben 
 idead.»* • 
 
 Wbenahe found thty would not be moved by herpray- 
 •la, abe threw her am round the body, and olung to it 
 .^i^ the atrength of madneat; declaring if they buriid I 
 ona ibey should bury both. 
 
 The m^n, after a few gentle attempta to remove h'er, 
 
 daahed the teara Arom their eyea, andaayinf, <* We cannot | 
 
 •eparate them," left her another half hour of hope. Tin 
 
 moment of that interval had a value, of which mortabi 
 
 Uidar ordinary circumatauces can form no oonceptioB. 
 
 lUalurative, after^|reatorative, wai applied, but invai*. 
 
 WMh aiokening anxiety she batoned ber eye i^on tlM 
 
 w«teh, and then on the stiff, cold form beiside ber.->*| 
 
 Ilia half hour had nearly gone; in five mimitet thtj 
 
 wxNild again come to claim the dead ; and ahe fell thatibi I 
 
 nuat reaist no longer. She breathed into hie noatrila»— sht J 
 
 .moved her band upon hip cheat, to restore the aelioii it| 
 
 Hwltopt— but no» change came over hia rigid ieatnni.| 
 
 iilMiwthed hia temples and moiatened hie lipi with mk\ 
 
 w^it0tfy*$h» terrible nianbliiig of the carta %•• b«M|| 
 
 ittdniB ttii Ambling eagemesa of the moment ahe i^lUill 
 
 .^1 ^ontentagsf the vial Into hia noatrils—a sudden eosfi^ 
 
 ^%p«Ned over the fbee of the dead/! a abort, qotekj 
 
 .gM^^-^f-and the tvea heavUy opened ! ' 
 
 *l^men with^tbe denlh oarta were atartled by a leii| 
 ^i|^, that aoondedas if it tore asunder the ionl fteii 
 ^Mi it eame.-4?hett they entered, they fettnd the dea4{ 
 Iii4n|and the fiving senseless. 
 
 #|illMisbind and wtfe were soon, lestoi^ to heaHb« 
 JMl^vod to bo the parenta of a nomeroaa funily i and | 
 iNiiiabMid now amvives hon who witbHio airing $m\ 
 •I lovo tbiis Mii^bed him Horn vn early gmto« 
 
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 fc^^i cpuQiry nbfre tlie ;i>roth«r dwd, »iid Mir btm 
 
 I'il^COIIlMII^IIOT* pl«:Mbd upon tbui a^CMBUlftttd 
 
 _|lll^, god evttjr tbipf ;w «it with a full tidfr in Urot 
 m fPniigiithmmmaJrm^cSl^kUmwd up the ^rU 
 "»• with great gravil»r 9 Ad deUbeimtioo, «» and now gtn- 
 
 ^^n^iiijtHdipiwdtifii ^(Whym^p^tii* jAigm, 
 
 ;ii^i p i ltiii! »ii jtiB< itit^awrtipfif»- 
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 4lM Odd 'bf Mtura ■d^mea to harfl tmiilil(^lid'ift«ii| 
 
 im^ woHdv tfaew eeleiltitl plants uito a MHl'iit^itt^ 
 
 Hutainiimtsd irttli 4lthy and uttg;rat»fkpi M^idi'^tc^fiiti 
 
 «hoMn bower. The elennqe of the #tiiti6ttf idf<i^ 
 
 Ik Waa in one of tlKMe beantfM 1^# ifkti^fM 
 
 _, the Terj fammfti of bttrnioantaint, io i^oiiitieitt 
 
 ibenerj and striking cohtmst with ^« iuiroilBdiiH^ 
 
 )i and the order iHth which eVery tMtt| wii 'iofkH^ 
 
 JIhbugh new bearing tMi marin of potlrH^^ii^ ie^^^ 
 
 btipoke the handoTlbniieip MHikiif and tile blii^i tf 
 
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 iM to f#tilliA to thi #clen9 withili.-i^The Inpse pT at Dili 
 ' M gloMiy inonieiiti tbiind' t^ 'yimtll' knecli" "'" 
 kfHf tiie ngbd matctni iteiiii|r t(^ i«A<t ^' ^ 
 iennliifaiic# the feeli^ (#iier|ieart« AitebL...^. 
 raia#dlier heM <^ her ilAiiMtliMMiiS w^ii 
 tiineiih^hiid tiaHod4ii»rliMKb4|#iii^^ 
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 U|iliaiMi>M(l:ldeito^rift} N«, Mc «i« i%i9?^ biijt.rtt, 
 
 ^ nimid he 9M*i«» in « ItirliHi VtAoiiin, Wioii)^9Wift. 
 iiMittttt UMf I fi^ed^ file, ^* nutjM- me tpyv •«« ]iel' but Kl%' 
 
 Uiiji|jbi«M«l V^icsiftwa}! my'igniatedl fOffikfti w of- 
 
 '»0h.«kafit7S* tmtaioffd th«, astp»iiti«4 9fin»gm[>,-rr\hm 
 I Ntif uMoott. Wm ^#f« tf^r ioeh (Miinto n t led w iP ii t T«U 
 
 fOMre 1 and I will f'ltld. Such bread will nourisli, will 
 iapart abiding tubatance.V !*. Williuglj/* said nht^ 
 « Youth should iisten to the voiee of th« aged. You atk 
 HM Mcret of qiif lMi|]i»ilM>ll-^'liB imH^: Whence my 
 «onpo8ure— from confidence in God. Tean are preeioik* 
 
 «* This loreljT sport, now covered with blight and eTtr- 
 
 ] i0im nitfe %viira OHM ^vf mad. ^tn tiai$», %9^ ykntt- 
 
 HAi fpljjAvy^ C9lb:«<;)W QfO^Oed ipri4i^9|l»«» IIQlft. il^QA^fli 
 HiMkMe,; W«l0llft9 alpifiB ii(i4;b,lii|B JUuii,^!: dl9me9lie|B^4lK^^ 
 tpy^aid|h«i9lfjlo^ efmii«^i9l «ii« #ial a^lBM^n^ lit 
 Hkk hm m^vfitf chrnm^* ??bj% ^e%iv^4t wam ^^ 
 
 u^m mMumm iMroing^ ob ! what # ^xtftrni^srwm :fiml»> 
 ^l^0kll} fi;miP7 «Mik; lit w«p 091 tbfi fdeeti^^^i^if*' 
 liffl#f (fiiiMfA. MPwmn*. ^n4L w M ^*^ amaigitlt iii6»b% 
 i4m «9<d imI||0^ Jlh<mflAvii|tM>d%il(nM«i<iCr^^^ 
 
 1ll|^¥ % ^fum vpfhinff #^A mft wytb %b)9^ htA$hi 
 
 iMiM iritU^>ii^«t, I gwinfd |h* Maiii»#n»rrfili>:|b«r 
 Igftql qUfr sige. 4^i! wl»it actniti 11119 |i|iarei,,«|i»^#«' 
 Mi IM^iee lMif»0htr||f|r1ni llMif' n\m9^ «94 •#mUi^f HWIflt* 
 
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lio 
 
 TBS TBHVimfoy tmmvBAhmu, 
 
 Thf jmiDgiiiiil1iitt«edliiibreitl|ltftiilWM}*i 'A itpi$t] 
 iMd ttwimm htm, «iiil h« conkt not liiovii ' H« iMiiifilii 
 ottloipMa^lNit hii wol^ W0i«l(|k>M;for vttMiMtJ^J^, 
 t^liPO'flr^illiM eflbiti'lM MeMittM « / jmi Ofti0rl*'^i|f 
 oatttn^ mk^ in htr iHtlftMd •»!• ttMf ii#^i«^ 
 glMlw; aMDfvriof at iM^lh h« idttw Urmn liii bdiM»«t 
 l^Mfil of goMi ' «• #8 nt^ flot^wwit 'IIWJM«nd«*»iiM ll|[i 
 « f WM r«dfMned from the orael' wngM^ nddptwi b)r«% 
 iliilthr meveBnnt, «nd bow {fOtiMf hii «Mrtinio ; HitH 
 your own^* ' The Lof# hos providod* exdaimoA BlMty' 
 <« brother; a bontfkctof^^ < ailiiion 4 home,' he rO|i9iell, 
 in * a A^oMfi'-'whiipered tho dying matron and kir 
 •pirit fled. Tbo transit wai too fudden; her oupwatfiilfc 
 
 TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. 
 
 ITf DESTBUCTIOH BY IrlBV, UBl>«B TlTtfi. 
 
 II 'M^ on the lt)th of AugOit, the day ali%adj darkened 
 itt^tti^ ieWiiii oalOttdar by the'destruotibn of the fenfiir 
 Ti^% % ^ing of Bibyten ; M trfti ahnobt fMil/ 
 lPiir#ithdrii again into Antonfo^ intending IliO'lieDf 
 moling to mail a geneKil aesiMnit. The q^t iiimniir 
 evening came on ; thoieftibgiMin ibpflie forthe Mi IsHm 
 a#iie »ii<Hr¥hf#%*Rs, and gUsteliitif j^hUHJuM dflw 
 Tll^ ffioe. Trttts had i«thred io test ; irh«n>;i«lilMk^ 
 tfti^itad terribleoi^ iiNitf^e«rd, anf T,matt eitti«l«ili!i| 
 iUpblMiMHng that the f^in|dO#a8 />ttfire. Sollre^lfliil 
 !M|Kii;iidt;«UhMittdHig the^repnlii4 in tho inomiig, M 
 miimm to attack the mei^who mmmsifmfjfm^ 
 O^Higniihing thi firos abcpt ^^^oUtib. Thl»'iiNiill 
 ii#iii«ly dfi^ «hem%ek^1^i^ett^rin|thoiiiMiiH»^ 
 wl^ittiedl^ forced %i^r ^y to ih#fli&|^«^; A iil»!dlir' 
 i^oilt ordeii, weiillng on the thoiil^n «f oWt" of Ml 
 4^iiii«ttdei^ ^mw a bUyngtiandlnto a gitddd liiMit do#, 
 mriiii northed of ^eehaii^hers, In 1li4 OiMm^ btimKHI # 
 pmA: thfrllamesaprniig «pil%noi» Thif Ji AJ|g£ i w i i 
 <fii^iiiltinioifv''«b»i^«nd g^P^'^^^^aHnffi^ 
 fnifi^ deiiiiiiiiition (^ m^fgtt^mi$fmmAWm^ 
 
TUB YKMPLB or IBBtriJlLBlC. 
 
 m 
 
 yiil. me Ttm^lci. Tilut ruohvd 4ewii with «lM BMit' 
 i|ii|$«li»«ho«l«d; ImbmJ* ■iilii.to his toldimiltt^Bi^ 
 t|gi|k»} hi» viroic0 truidrowBMl,, and his signsr-niMMlioidi 
 ii^«4ht i«BM«l ttelosioo^ "SIm IsgionwisB siBUI dbil 
 yp; }lthsy lisbsd oBv trmmploig etch olb«r>'dBi»B in flhsiir 
 fH's^liifCei «f WQBibliiigoTcrlhBorBitf^liBfffftoiBS^fisr- 
 ijIgiwitk ihB 4tmmf. Eadi fxhosted tba ^«ikBr» «■** 
 s||jf|!liafle^ikiK.hbiBiBg hmoA Into th^ isBsr pBrt^^HMT 
 eiiiise, and then haiM to the. work of eamagt.- Tho- 
 mil M i d * aiidfdafeneeless psople wars sluBiDtbaBsaBds; 
 tlnrtilay haa)ptd Jike.8acrilioea rauDd tho aHar p tha 8tap» 
 ^iiha Tampda ran ftith* atfeama of blaad*; wliich washad 
 4oirn the hadias that lagrahoBt.<i.r< B> 
 ptua fdiind it impeasibla to ehadk the fage of the>BOl- 
 iiif^i hAantared with hispfficeia and aasveyediha intf - 
 rforoT the saeiadedifiea. 1Fha*aplaador«iiiad thaiBflTiUi^ 
 iMIidaiV'Mdfai tha flamaa had not jf t pOaal^atad ^1^ 
 kalf l^lai^ ha piada a Jasi affiirt la aava it, aad agai» iss^- ' 
 liQrtidt#haUsoMiei»4o stay the prograsB(^i th» "aeliflagta* 
 imi^ i ^Hm oaBtoHoB I4bartdiii| aBdaBvJBrad loi 4^0i. sImiKt^ 
 BM^ wiUk'Jifai slsff.iaf ;0fiaa; but«rao nspaailbwMiB^' 
 pas fKBi wmf to lba;fiiriootBnimosit|^ BgaasslihirJi^ 
 lNbi(&|i«iB>ax6itamatit oChaltla, and ierlt^a Jtwrtjuhlst 
 lw|a;flr#Ba^n MTha.i9Ml4fi^^ «f ft|# #4i# ippi^ 
 tejsiliit with gol^r.^h^h^oiM^ 1^911^111^^^^^^^ 
 ipyighlraf#M flames, yipy fupp^edtlM^ m' ^/ m^ 
 
 #|ad^ «t0»rt i light«d taieh^ ^llprefp tha,^iiij|(if a^^ 
 ''^ jr^lba. whole h«i^nt mmiin0m» m w> IwM^^SIf ? 
 
 'mmk^mA fiitfiirpad^tha i^cais ,i||j|eii«a||,faili 
 
 'fiMi>Wa»,|a(|:t0lt8|at^< ., ,f;^1^w/ Wr*i';rT 
 
 ^f^pailifig upef^fa^ito tha ItfiivpimfFi^t pip 
 Lfir^ T^,whii|i,iimiis4ti^MM 
 
 p$ili^fi0tii99^^H\ in wJil^ Be treB|a«i)ws,^6r98h, j^^ra, 
 l yatp Nad op in the fierj ahjris. The rapfs j^^j^fc^p- 
 litciililfia sheets of flamidg te^ The neighbofiBg Bills 
 Hill iHl^tad vpi and dark groii^ of people ware saei» 
 ^^"'^^InMilWf ie?#fy tbft prpgfeiftof Aha 4f Ific- 
 WW aiMl %^hts of tha upper city wila m^d* 
 
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 , \mHfi. TWO! A r^TVLmnAMtwtii x 
 
 tb«ai|kMiiJBe«tft^iilW)«ii«ra |)«MWng>ifit«h*ufluiiMi pMiiyt 
 wiHi ltMNP0AMi9.afHtDi« 43MfctbgraliiMMM4.ihUB4iraK tdiiiA 
 oC'Alliilgi liolttMiaj > 'm»,e9ltab^iohi\»m mo^tMi^^ii»R\kA, 
 
 aMitii9^«iiilfa Mtotlndad; i^edMtkandr wmliDii,^ miiBi tiliii 
 i«il|B lM|iMiiog&vnthiaitaioeitraMi«i'tl|Bir tM^ 
 ti»tUlter.a;:;ai)riaf nn^batlraiiddeioiBiliovi if' <: . ,kvi;^ 
 fXlMi<«iMigbtefii»tthrti»wasif(r9|a Biol«>cbiiidAfii:tiMMilbi> 
 «M0tcbifrQi»i«ntli6t)tl < Me a^and wom^n, oi4<Mrid*^u||| 
 liiliiliMiti abd DtiMiti, vtlioea wtho<ftMmrbt aB4|thaii^&«lilit 
 «raved mercy, were all hewtii il6i«n|4iii BiidiMi!MiiBtile»on»^) 
 iutf».f JThemumbctl of>ftfaie eiain; eseiifileil 4)hMioeih«Jtiiy- 
 «r#4n Tha lagionaiieAiiiiere ollli0a4 ^ > dafentolriovvt )mq# 
 «(}4«a4l0tcKif|rOoni'tlM!.'iiiark df ei^tKtduxMm^ iJbitoi,iat< 
 
 «OMt 4l&|lieltemidBf;^aft«ii*^aitda iaftb«M«f^ariGi«|wif<]|W 1 
 ofr^fctnt^itriJ apoa^ tbe troii|ti^H)B0lle* <«o4h«i i^Uliai 
 B(iiilX>^^^»hrfriMdwtiiofe N^«iid uaaditlino aii ftusiM 
 
 them poor wreteheii, IW^^ lik^lillrie^dl^tftii^ IWIN^^ 
 
 DfAr Canterbury, a private gentlemau named .^ 
 
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WmMtVW^iM9»-tBK0MHt9iS. 
 
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 |HlPfH«r«i|*i»ui>f iii(>fllheeM9( »iiidf •tttVMni 'AMtfMMitr 
 l4lfiflatlMt)i|itaJhiiq!4M)ifikt«i(|ft>MifUo* (M M«iMf ^Mrt^ldJiiii 
 
 l«Hiili4 'W«i7iMiiiK(«HiMii>%M>t(»'attiBiitiv«<itb' bit Mih^eit 
 |vtiitliefiire»lir'inuij!iNit of'liit^tiDMi' i0>«f|i#mttiwhAi^ il- 
 
 I ;4ilit ifpmtitietiiiMp (iMlhg ^MisliidlKi; tli«ifrt«ttdgifttid' gt- 
 
 Cintancei of Mr. Turner, came to'iifttke'ill«ity iHiliJI^iil 
 iAvening; with him, ttii^M aD'tMntliiie^^imlialf^.^and 
 y«Mi(piHie)Nai Hii fatlWer^ wHo^iWfiAgfiinicy^iMillt^Hiitidn 
 hMHi llbi SMvemi^ i^ativ* lo hit'yoMif bifMMltyiiali^ittdi. 
 
 #|fiili««lld.9ri«te to find an^ tlii«iir«»<l tt«idtill«<tKati^ij^ht 
 [yiite)«lorl08ifMi'4iii)wrfect4|<lBliAeaSi^<iii Itia^vti* ' Tl^e 
 
 *" at f»)^0»ify^«(Meiep</lhat he«iaiiilo|(hki^!iia.l'%o/Mbib 
 
 liiAsireikmiAuiikated ait |lkn)ft«r/ k^tm^iwik^i^iuk^ 
 Iplkiti wbich is a teiQrat I 'Qitfeoi^Ma^myy^Njt «fMr^4ia%%g 
 Miiiliifliul ilailtiilk^aiid 4tt'liraliit^(>l<««i|(»iMM «%t^ft^ to 
 [iiiMrt«i«3|iaia|irf ioite witiioitti«i»' ail^^ 
 
 -^|Mi««%Kicli)lifi|Sht<4)ei w^tiltMi^mififdlim^^'i^mmr 
 
 lwift ii^ iuu yiaiwlNli#i^rA)4intlllWibtt<t»» likd9<^sNiiilb- 
 
 ii>ff!SMa,iaw«i(edJllIvifSt«i^CfHa,. >»ll^f«tir<i«Mi'^iM^ 
 
 t uatrolu^ it irn^ l»<itig«lM nMottMtfflg^o |}|tok 
 
 Etlui.HlillH4e,etlld(io iPilftttf «fttt>iiidM«i, idd^ii^t 
 
 imm^i aBdoiiM»lMiiiat«di%«|| «d lfl|| | Mi i to «1n 
 
 uMB^qivitiiwrtit Mla»m»t^}0iiJiiyb»atfii^i^m- 
 
 %lifiatrum for thirty guineas.* After #iii^i<Mi^v 
 
 1{%iala%^riiii«MttMg(|ijril|(ij«ii« «Kiia4 bP%u0tgmt 
 "•"^ #a|sioiii iiijriiif ^ had b^n defraudel!, i^^ 
 
 •vl "-il! 
 
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 TUa TWO ArOTHMOAHlM. 
 
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 fritb bit noBty wilhout tn tqiuraltDt 
 iiMi^MdllMilh* would tfpaU lo tbo Uiwt for ffdiia. 
 f ho Mr(ton btuii in posMiitloA of .ho moMf nmikm 
 '^tMt vod ponoitlod bimto voiitliiix»|t atltiftmor Miii 
 ^tbii ImuI iOMowkat iuMdod Im oolorijr miil»Mrmaam 
 ..'■* Wbr, fir, oltluMigb jou now noko to imifb light of ||ii{ 
 Jioorttr booooM 70U know it* yot, iiiiigaiAoftiit>M il «|]f 
 4iioailo7ou»itbMi.put muiy bunavod pqimIo< imo^ifj 
 pocket, and if your ton will alwoyi boat it in nOnd^ m 
 4»ako propor.ntoof it, bo may turn it to i«; good ok u 
 Zoomit M I boTo done.' 
 
 atiU tbis did not Mliify old Mr Turner; at lenglb 
 oon interpoMd, and eaid to bit father, * 0o noC> oin 
 youreelf oneaey about tbo purcbaio of tbii eeeniag Ui$$ 
 my matter haatieatodnio kindly (4uring tbo. whole ' 
 of my apprentteeebip, and I have no reason to Bup[ 
 ho wifbtte to impeee on eitber of ue. . You> lir, do mokm 
 dersland our biitineta, there are eeerete i« all tradea>' 
 I have no doubt but I iball, ae Mr; Stevene .eayei pi 
 gro»|li^ by thie vaiuablo aroanum, eo^tbiil 1 bogyM 
 boeontonted, and leave the reet to me ; I iball tafch 
 iho mopoy ehall not bo thrown away.' hm-^ « r^| 
 ^ tbia inkerpontion of the.ton, hlTfathor Immmm 
 and when the aompanyi buoke up, took bink; hmtiimkim 
 
 4. Ciw daya tflov bo wcnted hie eon to iel»iiip^il^ 
 neeilpr |)l«i!i^ jinBfdiatoly» in oppoeition la hMl^ 
 teik^Fboiahf oieMidere^ li»d oheatedi hlm^TfC 
 ^ ginileviiiMi, bowofor, had a nind to travel, and 
 ^i$ €ouf\jiia9\^Mi»rhm noeeeiary it )wat lo^ 
 i|rii>^ ^rtber oipartonoo in the pMetiM 4)f 
 %«lMilliatiiii tbil oi^ fiivgeoM ihttd^^ 
 inf ^oiWOlTeo in theif peafimeioti^ AiUntfi^t 
 . fiflliiiiiA* #elUfitantl|r gavo hif ooieont, atd^hiil 
 
 .0^mm»W^ thtnem^imtAhkim^y^ thfoigjbatblp 
 '<|i^Bla|lr.-r^4ftet^ h«rittgi4h^ 
 ,7f|i^ fnd h9^m giint^ilitiipw^i*^**^** ?' *^ 
 pmlMliooit ikilt In botb phyito ap^ i pi ioiy* 
 ,1^ 1|iii»#l^iai It letoltttlM iQltiWVd •Uno¥elr^tit& 
 
 i£-i!?'ita«"'#^ 
 
 »4 4xj^jf - tni ■ T^Bii^||irt<?jaMu<l".iw. 
 
tHll TWO APOf JIBOAKlUl. 
 
 14ft 
 
 ckiniter of t mounuUnk doetor» wliidi profitqioii WMf 
 iHhAt time in groat Mieen botl| io Otrmitii/ M Ilnir* 
 Lllib he tecordiogly began to do. wrth gmt anfOMi a|i4 
 yuauie, and having completed bit tour in cfanyt a jear^^. 
 '^%t contrived Ito arrive at the little towii wl^ti^lM M 
 .^led hit time. . ' 
 
 ;li4 long a)>iMnce had made wch an altfration in hk Wt- 
 Mtttd f/satidref that be wae aiider no ap|)rel|ic«aioliorb|* 
 tkno«^n. •<> that afiui|iihg the name 4 iBaron da l(i: 
 pgoac, and AnnoMncinghimwrlf ai aluiioue jfiifvign/phf- 
 ao, on his travels throughout Europe, lia attVecti^il 
 it hi proposed reinsfiniog some time in Ganierbiiinr ind 
 )ivicinity« Accordingtjr he began h>. making fi Agnre 
 iHk his carriage and servtnts, and in ash^rltime aef^wirr 
 fjjl^ett'reputation as weM as emofumenC from a uumt>i<^ 
 f|lires which he performed, <, i „ 
 
 "t so happened tliat one 4t^y while he was mounted oa 
 lfa|^ in this town, attended by his seriCailtM, whojdealt 
 l|iil Bied^ineii to th^ nuq^roua purchasers,^ biaoldjiiae- 
 llfstens, apniroached as near as be could,, in ordet Uf, 
 (bis learned doctor harangue, 
 i ioon as the doetor saw bim he knew hiin, apd ajMelRfr 
 j^Jih*^ that moment striking bim, he l^gwl,4dj.Ad#esa 
 |«ti<>ntive spectato. s a^ follows : ' h^kn kind gonjt >- 
 ^ ^^ is ndtoriquithat the me(|ical prapUUonem p)^i pi^, 
 ^ iti tiris country almost ontifeljf'iiiglecl tlie siuil^ jiC' 
 rseiei|ices which do not immediately rijatf» ^ pl^yfii^^ 
 bt tbej^relnain Aiiiac^uainted ivitli many cur iot|jii«fl|^ 
 ||i|}iervationi wbigb tend to cl«fiic*at| numberlpss 6ase|. 
 Tjtelr pVdfessiqiiiil \\np, The«e obiMirv'aUoos areg^n^i:^!-, 
 Mwiwrntofh^itooel ceiiBbraied^^ 
 I^Jind are or the utraoHt couse^uenoo to tho^i^n^tioif 
 9piif who are'afieoted With the most grievpu^^(^i^e% 
 ) maladies,. _ , -.''^ V- .*"■! 
 
 Itoumay bl^oirr^, ladiiw and geiitlfimc^i tUat,i|4t)| 
 thn among the learuiid, that un|»wlheteKture or,«|on^i 
 linn of parts, of ^he blood be already formed, jj^toii 
 tettkr atatd, whirls vulg^fyr mW^^tk vIcmiHusiai^ of 
 
 ^^^. M i«^"»mp«iple^Qf ^»%oU^^^^ 
 |w|»6b Ikfiect 9^^ ciifiUinp^ Jt^ ^ nd wi|i_ 
 ■*-^ Witl pravaiY ill a greater or a less degree 
 
 : ■■/ -N ■ ' ' ^'"'■<' 
 
 fcV, ! 
 
 '^i^^MK I 
 
m 
 
 TUB TWO APOrilBCAUriSB. 
 
 ftei^h we ,inuy j^Fc^Wm many praEOOitW .J 1 
 
 ■Will, 'A«* 8)1(1 gtftitHiiHei^; ii tlio Wt aiid'mYit.» 
 
 
 ^ * tfe^^'J^'/* '*® Pleaned to wmei^b/cr/ contihucrf ht^ii:! 
 
 >. » 
 
 
rrihrlff TWO Ai*otiiBCA^iki. W 
 
 M hlviii^ fii^sht ; Ml tn'n^ b« H^WhM' to lay on 01^ 
 ^6dt jnimedidfety pi^<)o^e'd^d In hVt Mx^ihsb^'&l^iibfH- 
 
 ? f ho poo' Jipoifieciiry c6«M thiri^ of nbChinjj^ |»ut iiU«it 
 l^stmUffor h^ pro|)lK»cied cqacohVihc hU Aphroacliin'! 
 iRil^O., fie v^<^nt home d^irebfl^ and r6l«ted Vo !\lf 4if| 
 itflillihftd flba^d. JVhd s&me little time iill^ri the jr()||) 
 fooiftn perceiving her huiiban<t pausing, nie1a[nol|i6ly.^n(| 
 i]®|rcntly ooncorned at it, could not lielp ^Ttjnpatbltfimj^ k' 
 |fi(9ir%ith hiib, Raying,-^' My dear, I am sorry to seop« 
 iilfmTO : I hope you do riot fecfl the (lis<^ase cdtniioijg upO|| 
 [jfrf|alrtsa(ty ; I should thintt you are the be^t j^^^eSft^lietli- 
 lif^a doctor could perceive any symptoms ^t>t inn^M m 
 ma; but if I might advisee you, you should, for proveiijtioili 
 ll^socurlty, toike iiottiething which you may thiQk\fef- 
 Uiietthfe dirfcCtly .* * A>6,» replied the husband^ •b\iiy 
 |ilt<i told me that ndbodv but himself coutd tell Wtuit to 
 Ifiye me that tvould dd iiti^ ihy good, imt tliter^fore. ^ t 
 |ioi)^ttlitt^lf ftttadced ttbcdrdinit to kis prediotioii. \i4i mhe 
 
 A^Xt^S^ of s|>ri1ts tb^P^lnVhja Mmreti tiii§Bl%il 
 bioe^Mit ^Ueri^ioti would apnl^l^iit ^at tiiyf^pi 
 
 lip Hdlohfl^, oot^fit, 
 t sihd hU iHib^^li^ )nei%<iiiHiit the n^^ j|| 
 
 liliha noise of his iltnesi spread over the vrhOlt 
 
 iii^U ttit^giht _ * , 
 
 |lore, yat^ifl w«i>^raiittdod thiit ail ttib tMlsihet 
 
 ^Id, without his assisttnce, would be unatniling. 
 
 The next d«i/ a feVdr enstie^*, (which was inevitabU) 
 
 ^ I ii^n «^ aii«h 9Pt|oiw;) \>f thj« ad»ioe of l^sw^fe 
 
 Kj^MB» fr(f H; lji» at M nnt for Dr <t « IUU|U«|i|f!B,^ 
 
 ' ^me, {Mit took no notice of ev^ having'sceii msjm* 
 
148 
 
 rnu TWO APOTUECAniBf. 
 
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 tijBlit before ;, Ke felt q( |iii pi»1#e, 9ik<ed iu^li qtt^t^o^ai 
 hk thoujit lp*^^P^ ^^^ ^'^ tlmtiiM diiieftpe waa Qf a v«rj^ 
 diingtrmit'^itu|«, that !«« had not found any ph)rsiciatt!|Q 
 England, that knewjiq^w to. manage i|t properly, bqt Uiiti 
 ftill he ^ad bopea of being able to recover him ini afe|| 
 ^yp, fuihcl bpd been called iii (iaie; '|I»t if he cured h^ml 
 iw vro^ hay^ %ty guineaa fQr his medicinea and at|eih, 
 dtiieef and tliat if ha did not ^succoedi he was willing to 
 foitf it 4 thjc^aaiid. , 
 
 Tdiliesa t^rms the apothecary ghidly. consented, and tbftl 
 
 (ic^tor wont borne (o prepare something to relieve him;| 
 
 #e may suppose any simple thing would do, for the cure I 
 
 i was to'J^ ejorected, not by the medicine, but by the pbyM 
 
 Firo^itltis moment he b«'gan to mend apace, so that, Ul 
 aMirt);)^t*Wcil9re was perfected in four or 6ve days, and thel 
 dpefmf not Qttly receive^ his stipulated reward,, but wail 
 et^lb^ in an el(traordinary ma^i)er. 
 
 ;^(ter Mr. Sterens was c^uite Well again, b^ was vem 
 «l^tb^# to. know by what rule or mi^tbod the apjH-oacbtosI 
 distemper could b^ found out, and ho^^.the cure wa» to bftl 
 dkci^d^ He thought if he could by a^y means obtainl 
 thia Secret, he shQuld be happy, and then be able tovji| 
 WJtti/any. of his professional competitors in England* • , 
 , 'Bq f^ be had made a proposal to the doctor for t| 
 ^^plJB^ttie pf thjs secret, and had taken a great deal of jp^ii 
 ibi^t it be at last agre<^l with, him to b« taught this m 
 aati 'i^ifnce for.a^ hundred guineas. And whea» la^liir' 
 lj||l| jo^^ the bargain was struck, lind the monejr paidl 
 tna iKioitfitebank baron g<^ve him a paper neatly fpldedm 
 tf^ed, wbiich, as he s^id^ contained the whole art t^s^i^M 
 
 /Tl% Apothecary, with gre^^t, in>Pftti^n<^> broke, the «i|i^ 
 'iuid4o' hi« great surprise, found the, paper, CQiitainedm^-' 
 iQf W^'^he identical nostrum, in biaow^n h^nd writij^l 
 yme^ he formerly sold to Mr Tutn^r^being only ' 
 
 uonoeit can klU-^and conceit can cun). , 
 
 He %iiainedaoni6 time as jf ^tunned, . tm tl^ 
 Van| Upb a fit of laughter, anddisooV^WI^tmsfltj 
 
 
 
L<nn>oir. 
 
 lie di4 ndl ipprote t)«r Iho ieieriti Tii# kpotMcitrr 
 l^bbUgfd'to be iitiifl«d, fhmnghy mb^t aoem^iftf 
 m^ lM«*>ditMUIed «iid >i^tbi^. jin^'MdMim^ irm 
 -^1« Retottrgnae, Iftow Bbctor Tttttidfi bj^ fiilldWittfSfe 
 ir«* M^M, Wli«|i ^ll^rathiBr ^urebai^ lira g«^«tf j^ 
 
 m tftiMM iiigift«i iitfiii^ iri^ pilijff^ 
 
 iltfxeelleDt lliostruiii» and experimental^ >«6^itint'^tS 
 
 LONDON. 
 
 w,!d 
 
 [From P«rttni:/(m»» iERsfory of Limdon,] 
 
 The immediate site bf the city of Loiidq^ Is ill^it fqr; 
 jf4l^e miles from the sea; trestward, lit a? feMS^aAt lib'dt 
 •«H>ii8 vilfet , ■tretehini along ^he banlia oHhe f W itofe£ 
 ^ rit^ as It $oW9 throv^h the thetniAdtttf, %^M 
 Wr?* br crts^n*.' Ott the bbrih^ni ^e/ *h^^^ptt|S^ 
 mittt a quiek ascent, akid ^leti' more g4d^^ 'i,^^ 
 Miff ^l!feitiS»>«w«H ibiff^est 0iimi %im 
 Ke^Adttl'^i^ated Wrtit. On tl«^ «^u^ sidfe bif^4 W^i 
 llteyttMliidib liiBatiy leirel, and was ilflisi^try If M' 
 pioraii of maiiy tnHtti iii^i^^i; fK(s Jiir WSiW 
 iiiNl^iptigh the jrtr^ etaiiii»&4nf'briheMflr 
 
 r«li^'iiroMtbf4|fei.^ l^^f^ 
 li^tff bf Itil ^btirtie, is ft^^ui^ td UW i^M 
 ;i^ Ifebefsil dijpth art lowiiirrtH alto t^^b 
 ^t^^pfUt 4ijlM it #1868 fronir'^lb tw^lVe /^t 
 mm^i ^^Mbs^bsed b iib^ to tHe^Rifii^\« ^- 
 
 "B*8*d¥blfehdon ]^ria|^i by thetefliill^brw^ 
 ^ itfbbiinnchlifllien 'eoi^^ 
 _ jf; iibiviltM'ebai^esH bft# abd iti libeHSat, Mm 
 
 §m^mt^ii^m& br ^^tiiii^ tHd'^i^^^ 
 
 N2 i * 
 
 
m 
 
 ••.*!ffiWlff 'J 
 
 L'-» / 
 
 hhl 
 
 faet t)mt vegetation is earlier, by ten days or a fortBigby 
 on tbe west and south west sides of the inolropohs than at 
 the northern and eastern sid^j. The more prevalent windi 
 blow from the^ north east and south west ; and these wii'i 
 little variation, occupy Jtbo^ t«f» ©r eleven months in IhJ 
 year. The thermometer sometimes rises to eighty di». 
 gHees of; j^^^ein^eit's. scale ^vpry^aw-aly ,|o.ii^i|hty-fmir 
 d6greeii;'but the coni'mon summ^ heat is from sixty five 
 ^^^S^^^^^^^^^^^^r\^ 3(n winfe?r;it nomotirfcsl 
 |tm Cnoil^eQ (|egree»^^i^t,j^ mc^t g^m|iK)« jrinjbec ifa^ 
 Iff ^^|r||s?i^«, Js ;U^^^j,|,^ en^^ 
 
 JM0^^ f % m^ h^^M^ y ^m »y«esf juH^e« 
 
 ^iPfijp^^i^^im^f^^f^, 
 
 ,1 
 
 i|;<f^^|M|irs'.:-tbatf,«a 
 
 .^ 
 
iloM^dir. 
 
 lU 
 
 m *^i 
 
 iliHliid at ;g8,890»000 . There ar« on an average, 9nnui>> 
 al||i)bitM^j|;1it iQi Bittiagai^te market 2,500 cargoes of Mn,. 
 ifrtfoitfy'^toiiK eadi, and ahoot twenty thousand^ tont bjf 
 becHaitridgt.; m the w^mlel2ili,000 tons. The ammat 
 uHlBlffqi^qo 0^ w^ieat^ tn r Londoty, oiay bo averaged at; 
 tfO^flO^cmsttcra^ each ccntaming eight Wmcl)C8tei^.bii{(hr- 
 |lii^41li ^^^000 barrels, Jeachc4>«.^ining^ tliirty six gal^ 
 iiiti;:»pMrita.iiaid.Gonipoilt)(is, 11,000,()QU gaUoM ; wine* 
 fmpifun^ batter^l ,000,060 lbs. Tfai» quantity of caai» 
 ed in «bifliik l,^OiOOO chaldrons, of 'M bushels, or 
 ton aBd^ hall to ieadi £baXiix>n^ About 10,000 cuwa 
 igqit io. tha':viciniliy of London^ for supplying the in< 
 nis witli miUti and they are supposed to yield near- . 
 \j sovcti millions nine hendrcd thousand gaUooa eycry 
 car; even this great quahtity is consi4erably increased 
 'pj the dealers ; who adulterate it, by at least one fourth, 
 ith water, before they serve their customers., The- port 
 acttinllf oecilpied by ahipping, Ihxti Loadon Bridge to 
 r Deptfcrd, a distance of at least four miles, is from 
 ir tgifi:i-« iitnitkredt y«tds in average breadth»^^The aum • 
 rof vessels belonging to this port In September, 1800, 
 «Niieeptain^„ bf ^her k}ifieiaV documciitA laid. bc^ii'tlr» 
 df Parliameti*, to be2,6<l6vcaj'rying^68,iWti«l9« 
 ij>402fm)aln. Comparing this nuaiJ)er witii the nuta»- 
 ^li^ntdli ITBl^. the^incrftatic williiW ,aftfk^^tig. 
 ^^ pei^iod tb« vessels amounted only t6 SfiOs'etmjrii^ 
 
 tcMftf, IiimI '10065 m«n»» The awerage RamberKof . 
 iiiif]th«^TlKiinett«nd docks >ia 1400; tfigtHKlS'iWtth 
 ^MiiiaBdiibar(^f«jaipl(fycd ill failing and nfiladiBK 
 |n^^tli66i«naU jorafki'^ngaged^ in the ifiiland^niAB.';; aai » 
 #rtBM »d;?^i»fc<w»ieB4br tbe aooommoditioii; o£ fb^itm* i 
 ISOd^T ee<t6mft^iQifficar9?:af« constantly «b ^Htfr^iiit 
 ffiartayOf <1il|ittiirM i. 4|0(Kllabtn*era afca .el«if»bycU i 
 fitnibm^laflUssstjBnd^r^iOOO watern;<n niiHftafti 
 •94^4tiafli.i fEM boif ei(hold troppa, dtwi^ tbrM > 
 f«ai%aai4iiiebiitatniBg nhogfe 7,000 ttttftiiite^ 
 gioffliiiw iliiil iiB^«QfimeiHft gvanift oon^ 
 
 mIiMO ;tim() fiirni 41*0 jM^ii wii^i milttPty m^. 
 ilhe^liHl^optttisi;! liBt^Miieititf 4b«»e imtuf^ttre . 
 
 i|i|iMWit4f iffdUilBoll'tD tio«iMtiiilii»ji«Mi^;toiiiilMr * 
 
 l« ma 
 
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M» 
 
 DK9CBIPT10H OF CUBllT. 
 
 of ehurcbes and chtpek belonging to the citablishMftti 
 in the metropoiie, bAt it is not far short of 800. The Hon. 
 her of religions edifices belonging to the Dissenters In tbi 
 metropolis is above that number. There are 80 chapels^ «r 
 placea of worship, for the independents, among '^iqpIM% 
 are included the Scotch Presbyterians. The Bapti^^Htsi^ 
 nearly fifty chapels ; tlif Methodists or follonreM of^Whitir^ 
 field and Wesley, twenty three ; the Unitarians mmt ; tbcl 
 Arians two ; the Quakers six ; the Swedentborgiai^i^ lf>ii|(i<[ 
 the Huntingtonians, three ; the Sandimonians, the* lld[Ml4> 
 Tjans^ the New Lights, and the FreeThinkerSrliave>«i»| 
 chapel each. In the metropolis, there are sis <J^i4 
 Synagogues, fifteen Roman Catholic ChapelSj andr milk^j 
 teen foreign Protestant churches. 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF JESUS OHRIST^ 
 
 JBf Publiut LentuluB jRoman Gamtmor qf Jmdea, 
 
 *f There now Uten at this time jn Jodea, a man of si» j 
 f^iklar' virtue^ whose name is Jesus Christ y whom the l«r« 
 barians Esteem a prophet ; but his own followei^ addnj 
 him sa ^ offiipring of the ImmortaJGodri HeaaHibiikj 
 the (l«4d't«^vn thteir gravest, and heals all sorts of disettiM/j 
 with' a word or a touch. He is tall imd well sfcaped 
 an ankkMi,'' reverend aspect ; his hair of a color thai 
 h|^j^idb|; matched, lading in gnweful eikrla balaW 
 eip|!'«il^lnrg on hw shoulders, parioA on the e«o«l«y0f 
 Itfii IHce the Nasarites.: ilis fefehaaci is MaMollv 
 |u%ei his eheeks without vpotj saVe that of v Idvilj^ 
 Uh hdHi and mouth forme^^ wNK •sfpiiMte-i 
 Hiii beard thiek^ and of a coldr iuttMi fisa iliii#i^ of > 
 haa#^if#Mbing an inch><belo# hH^ cbiiii^^wd piilliig^ ^ 
 mMdlii4ika a foite. fiis eyes brighir?-««a»'^ais#) 
 If a rebokaa 4With knitjes^, tMnmielsvJwittf «mitditMifi 
 whale «d#Mi' wivBlbar III w4t^ oit ^id,ibii|igl«i 
 aMpp^ ^iellilv^tM^ttiiltf lliiii li|«gb/it>ti(il«i> 
 
 pa«inf tha .children of men." 
 
VHB MOTHKll OF JB8U8. 
 
 Itt 
 
 THE MOTHER OF JESUS. 
 
 * JIBB 80RROW9 Aim, JOTf. 
 
 ||ftfl3l|'f;Mverett tiialt'oomineDced, after Jesof hadpM' 
 
 iftip- period, of youth.— Wlieii ho appeared before th# 
 
 I of fthe public, she heard ^ith pleasure hit cointt«iid« 
 
 ff%kor%fiiion§t and saw with wonder hit stopendoua 
 
 l#tj|'ll«t she perceived with pain that he did not 
 
 iftho' throne of his father David, and that he even re- 
 
 aU 'attempts to make him a kii:g. As sh4 was i%* 
 
 i{|t,> in common with the rest of his disciples, of the 
 
 nat^1'eof his .character, she did not yet comprehend 
 
 t hit kjnj|(dom is not of this world. She groaned With 
 
 itrostof tifo 'inhabitants of Judea, under the tyranpiy 
 
 IheRomaps^' Mving hei country, she ardently withed 
 
 ^ell^rance from tiie ^on yoke; she hoped that twst 
 
 wou^^yindicate its indejpendt^nce ; but so^nambittoue 
 
 heo^iworldty honors and/poputar applause, that th% 
 
 _ Ji to feaori he would itot HiKleft«ke the ardnoufl Wusms| 
 
 lie was not the king ofi Israet Mrhat w«g he 1 Doubtr 
 
 her he«rij her mind was perpkxed with myiteritt ; 
 
 she could <fin^ Deo elue, by which she^ould eiic«|M> 
 
 ^1he^lahyrtlll%.^ / 
 
 >^e Hatred and tovy of the leading men. of Jades alto 
 
 Ited her alarm.* While Jesus relieve thii^jpoory eoni" 
 
 iii^- inoorn«i!»; and bound 'up ,|h«if wew^ ^ il|e 
 
 >f he reproeelifd the Phariaeet vii^h tlietr^'^ 
 
 [i^rieei and threatened themvurlth the vm „ 
 
 ^eh boldriftvective^, she eppveheftded WDu .„ 
 
 Msaiee* She leared, whaliUi truth took plaoei, 
 
 ild not long escape the 9iMts ^of tbrnik ji«loii^ _^ , 
 
 . She waa esoeedkiglf terrified, wh^^ibe^ MyNJ 
 
 ieoJftie, that he wae^ g^ing tip to Jefuslleii,. iwlMMt 
 
 Idi he httray ^ into the handi of hit iniplieahiiili 
 
 nii who^^wxMld idftict on hit» $ omel and stfaater 
 
 tb^ ^r though he added, 4hat; on the; thifd d^ im 
 
 tiBff^m ftp it it efideolrthaiiih#iiDdetatdodiiot 
 
 jmiliglol his words, iWere thciviidl bdr faicipe* to^^ 
 
 reUedj^ilh the dvstv, Wee jtenol^tlipi pam^^ 
 
 hftiKliitb restore the LingdoD^rii |«i««|1 mu 
 
 ^<^«» 
 
Tifs if«VMa» or j«iv>i. 
 
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 •he to be deprived •£ a^beloreid'idii, Mid Her country 
 a delrvererf , • 
 
 Acoompanyiiig^ Mm to Jenwaleun. siff iK»on law h»ai> 
 he had predicted,' in the power of hii enemies. Re 
 hatm^ttl bf <me of his diosen ei>«rf|iiii}Mt, imd fisiM 
 kr tilt »tit. Adjufiged girilty of *Nrth by- tlv« (^l 
 ctfiha Jewish nstionv h« was del4H*»|ied diF#r to be 
 •ili^> by thait* iriasteni, the Romana. She b«h)il(l 
 IMweikig thfottglk tiM streets of Joiusatetn, Ms ««!injpl»i']| 
 «ed Willi « cro«rn of thorns, and befti4nf his erbiMf/ bl 
 evtiadsted tvilk fatig^tie, that he WM not long; hM to . 
 fiart it nltiw^ Having arrited at th«^ platfe* ef eiceeil 
 Um li»Mieni> rodely atripped off Ms elotl)«». WKlh ai)|^ 
 Ofiio^l^^abo saw the Tiaits forced through hit hands 
 l^litbeiilieard tbo sound eft ha terrible liiimfiier;„ 
 4wHl|i^||i# tfolood stroamini; from his wounds t she lobki 
 tftltfaiilieadliy paleness of hife eountenahOe : her «ai« wi 
 •mtltiiii' with the terriAo etfy ;« the epear w^« \\\m 
 IkitotiKh bia tide and? her awn soul was pierced thifoughi^ 
 ao^ Was it theivany ooMsotalion to her> thiit 'her ten, il 
 «H«r«dlin;( ioithe tast his tend^meia for hiii oiother ii 
 fapgeUing^this' own anfoiah amridat^hli artfxi^fi^lter ^ 
 ^ esmialttecl hm \» the caye of ^ b*^lbtttdi'ji«(hn 1 
 was indeed deprived of Viim forever, if alibthllP'^ l^i- 
 iMs tabaan^y . She faaard hi* dy in^ igrbaw i^im^\ wilK 
 attvhopa^eifpired* . ■ ■■■:,;;i;n* ' 
 
 ^Wltii liiaaMiiTe I now turn to iW j(^< of Wmf. 
 tinHW^IIfl alijgiiish <ft har ao«l wai^ ««f rofin^l h«t oiF . 
 JimiliOii&'^OD the thitir day i Jestia Kir har M^ fi^eteK)< 
 IMili#fibfttly 'from hit i^tia V4f». He a^pes^rbd tc^ bar, 
 4)i^liad ti)« nat4ira of his kihgdoltif and she inaw 
 j^ifH}d^«^a)ti«%aatiorof thiffiRrorM. livery c 
 iMinfolded, «YKl all her doyb«i} diDfyeHed. l^a _. 
 iiii#4hii£thiiJileg8ialvwaa8ent t^ fed#etninatKkiiid' 
 flili^«iid^|l«ath, to osliibHsh thie domMiid|i^f ^ghtbt 
 Ifiiaiilt hia^fbithfol fbtto^eri^ »<i>« to #arthly bul tlf^l 
 ilfty t^rbMit. t# 'iifniftit Ihe |;h»#v of the 8ep#e«i#1 
 
 mM9- ^0uf^ lNa«|«Mod of ^rty^dil^ aba hiif « 
 
 |iiiisi:«f:^Miittff i^^ mm ^-^ 
 
VUM^ff l^ttAfP, 
 
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 jilMi tmii lo«Ufld iilk hib/Kitti txuitfttMitt/till » •IoimI «mi- 
 ' AtMmi Irunik (hot ligU ^ WiUt> » hciirt flUed wilk fral- 
 HJfot-lh^mlwatialhlcatoiwtd on kwrtaiul thit ii[«rl<lb AIm 
 Wiimiltd tk*<itoflMtnf>Mr of lM»r liliyf in iNUi^Hitfi^ 
 
 iMMRfiAliQlMi evM tlifiitautfireitataiMv li th« gld^ of 
 
 inei^tt CM AMI of ber aavjbur Jtisiw CIumI; onm i 
 
 fAOditflNrtiifnt toil, but now bmr dinltid fuvenign 
 
 llbc^ woriitht j»|i imd sdniow* of Mary. < JB^i<^^ {>•- 
 IkiifonNiR, flVfrjF MbeMonnCo Diotiicr^ muti b» iptofoitoH 
 islVrffturx. Eytty daugtUar.of Adam muil iicfotM i* 
 ' <gl«rj loonlirrrad on heriex, in tbat a woiiati W|t40i»M 
 >k«b9 IhefNiirent of tbtM«BRbh. ; ^ 
 
 
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 ULIH'S LEiVP. 
 
 Ihm 9ivh oC AprU, ]79i» Benjamin mill n^^^g 
 Mi0,.«kloi^ lbs mcniHi of f h« Renbttwa fhrtf/i iiiiM 
 it PbtMiit; Vitginin^ahd ngoifl^rtlie £ei^|#a,> b«^ 
 ^'il^;n ptili ,lbat ltd up to m ^pmi^ tbo itpp 'Wi# m# 
 intffli jbilt bblow (fa« KeinNivttv In^f^urMiN if«iit|i||^ 
 Aftibn nppTodehfdlhe iiill be>wM Mi»b«ii^itlillM4 
 >»i llteb on ^ibe:iofi» > mho t»n(u\yyy4owm^0Aiihmm 
 
 ^«r 4ioib yi^ho hwi arm?/ ^|^ |i| liiaj j OoJ dl^lttM^ 
 9Slnied(l^c|^pb biii>«lothciiia«d tW€M!l>M <|ili|il# 
 
 itiMayr id JMifigbi bqpc$ tii««>tii^^niiiM?bJMt^^iiiN. 
 
 itUi»ning,Mi#toaciilpfiii^ ftoi^onlr :nBii«ii,f 1iy^^«iip 
 ^ 4M«Blid ibotldili %'the mi^tionx^f^^t SfliS^ 
 Om lotiimsiiinttae «t. hini4 ; '^m^^fmimM 
 
 ^m l|ldi #41i«c^y i)|iMif« tli4 motion 
 l-a^trnm^ IhHn^nlin^ kMnvltfr . 
 at J« bim, bfei.icacvtayM mkti^ Mii#1 
 ,#ftffrA^4ited Wm. In thii awful ^^ 
 
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 ho ttood pondering over hit melancholy condiUoiii' wi Aoi||| 
 •rim to defend himtelf; until thp Indian had oobfti hmi 
 up to him ; when he summoned rtiolutioni and •<«(>»i 
 «ed a rapid retreat tow arda the hrink of llv»>|>iieii 
 liitttly puriucd hy the fndian--arrived thara h^idliot>^ 
 mtarihut kaped down the precipice, paaiing t^ra^h 
 top blanchos of a itmall Buckeye tree, hf^jdiiipvd lii 
 fife and a half feet before he touched >tha);nNNid; Ht 
 •njig M noon aa possible, ho made thro9 cithen leapt^ 
 firat seventeen, the second seven, and the third eliirenii 
 which took him down nearly to the base of the bilf. 
 then rat| to tha Ohio river, plunged into the wftter,' 
 undertook to awim across, hut find ip^g the watlr 
 •old, snu tuat the Indians had not pursued himha^rahiii 
 ed t\i the shore, ran up the beach, r^ crossed iMVkhi! 
 it a small cano9, and soon Arrived at the Stockade. 
 distance o( each leap was measured by *the late Col Lowia 
 of Virginia, and Cul Boon of Missouri, who were at 
 8tokade at the time. From tlie fall of the leaves in 
 tumn^' to their budding in the spring, the precipice can 
 tatn by bot^tiiien de<k:ending the Ohid Rivei'yitom a "" 
 4i«tpf»ca; ««d ever since that occurrence, it baa 
 fffQui Ui9in the appeUatiou of */ Uun's Kbap/*' 
 iffitiis^nding the extraordinary effi)rt^he mada^ aftai 
 H^; down like precipice, and which enabled him jto^ 
 llip^iiacape, they were not made without conaidlrabia' 
 for some ttmo his Uiie was deapaired of^but ha ( 
 iverad. Ha is mow a respectable citis^tf of Qi 
 ityi Ky.j Ha is sixty-five yearatof age; hail ki 
 !l|^!iri,ji»|d8pti|^t|y;^mir^hful, jolly and gay. Hei 
 fiN^H^fttigood health, sava some occasional pains if 
 lUltd hipa, which be thlnka, resulta froni tlie thi| 
 ll^lliAelV6d,,wlii«ii|hf Hmped ^own the jMrecipic^^ ru. 
 J||Mi91)» iNRktyjfOf 1795, it waa siicerlftihbd flrom aon* 
 ^# lillifini^iwbo mm into Potot i^liaaant and mi 
 iffitl^lbiti Whilfes, that ii atojiy baft l)6Mf in irofoa a« 
 tinpi ifd ««teni«Yely; believed nn the aatiMritjp >of 
 f^i^MMi lUlin^Hi^Vfrhatlhey had firad oi^4 
 flilli 1!^ |i|ii t^; jilQi^ of a high predlpice^dfii 
 4||(H« jNl/ioek ^toiajMid flaar off,** 
 
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 A WESTERN ADVENTURE. 
 
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 i^JSirlj in tbt tpringpC 1780, Mr ALpj^Rorn M'Oivr- 
 «i of |i8»ng<on, kjr. went iato thit woods op fnot ttf 
 dMr^ . Hji looa killed a large buek, and reiuiaed 
 form borif in order to bring it in. During hi^ ab* 
 i» a party of Indlant, on one of tbeir neoai ekulling 
 litioni, aoeidentallj ftumbled on the deec, and , per- 
 that it had been r^entljr killed, thoy naturally 
 id the hunter would speedily return to take care of 
 leth. Three of them therefore took their statiOne 
 oloie ride ehot of the deer, while the oth^v t#o 
 red the trail of the. hunter, and waylaid the path by 
 be was eapeeted to return.— Mr M'jOoonel, expMt* 
 ^fiodjinger, rode careleself alohg the path, whioh tb#'i 
 iiooutt were watching, until he had come within tioil 
 jibe deer, when he was fired upon by the whol* paily„ , 
 \^ hoiae killed. While laboring to extricate himstir, 
 the dying animal, he waa seized by his enemies^' \x^ 
 ^yvQverpowered, and borne off aa a prisoner. His 
 bawcTer, seemed t/9 be a merqr^ good natiHred u^' 
 >wa, end permitted bim to aecooipilny theim milnltt^ 
 ^lirbiat was rather extraordinary, allowed him to fi- 
 jilip gun and hunting acoutreibeiits. He acco«bp(||ii|i 
 ;,Drith^ gmat apparent cheerlulnese thrpngb tlid 'di^; 
 ^ liyed bin d^t^ity in shooting deep for the Uiem 
 ky* until they began to regard hint wi*bireal| 
 )i,yitikf\n% jnMrelied witli tbffni in thfa nninei^ 
 dalys, they at letigtl^vead&ejlihe bank* ^'ii#l 
 , Sx £(ere|Ufore, Itiii; Indians 3^8 taken "*'""^' 
 ^to;^ild bim aibigki, althbugh not yeij 
 tbil ^vetting be had irbipoasthited w|m ...„ 
 ! ail4 cooiipliiineid sd sti^ngly of th^ ptiin w| 
 \ iia|e h\m thfit! tbiy merelr wrapp|(l tl|e j^i 
 illiMnd hip wriitf, ai|4 bfiving tied it p'^^ 
 •n«^ attaciyi^^# ttltxtmim^ii^j^ v^ ' 
 > i|i|irlBt^t^t>rerai|l iM ^df&^j 
 
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 M'Connel determintd to efiect hit cicftpo that nigkt j 
 if poMibU, ai dn t^ folle^iteg timming tkaf would croii 
 the riyar, which would rander it much mora difficult.-, 
 ni^ aiHalBrt, laj auiitly untU mMnight, sntioiialf ft, 
 mlniyiif lipdB tiva Mat ineana of affitctiog liia objadt. 4ft. 
 cMaoti^ buxitig hH ajoa Id tha direction of hia fwt, tM 
 foHuMXi tha guttering blada of • koili, aphieli hMlaaeuii 
 i^ iWith, iod WM now If inginear tlia ftet of oua of ^\ 
 Indiana. To nfaoli H idth bia h4ods, wlthoqt dlttwl 
 
 th# two indipna, to WUoni he was Ikateiiad, Wda ikup 
 
 lila, »Bd it waa i^eiy haxi^doua to attampi to drttw it^ 
 m^h hii feot. '^ia> hoWavai", lia attampted. With niiNkl 
 diffiouUy he gifAspM the blade betwaoti hia toea, atod a^ 
 r«|Mialad Bodibng oonfinuad dflTorta/ auOeaeded at (iif|_ 
 inbririgintcit Within Itaoh of hia hahidn. To out hia aoM 
 wai thtoh but the woHc of «a moment, a<id gradunUj fisJ 
 ailewtljr attricating hia perion from tha atma of the M 
 dianai |)a wtilkad'to the ai« and eat down, lie aaW tHit 
 lii^ wotk 'waa imt half done. That if he aHould kttiiin 
 to 9et|irft home '#itiib(it deitroying hia enemiei, he mmi 
 aiAhl-odlj bo purtaed atad probabfy overtaken, when li 
 ftfttt #oiild be eaftaim On the other hand, it aeeihail 
 i^i(^qiOiBthta for a aingle man Id iosoaed In a eo^^ 
 j^ fit^ llb8bna» eytn atthou|rh ttBiMied and lai^ 
 niibould not hd|fe b deal a blow with hit hnlfewi iili 
 ^fi» Aitfct^. aaifii deatrtijr eadh bf his eokimiia 'to 
 1)f^0ttta«ahdnittgthe:»aatt-»Their ilUmherii f^ 
 ^»lil>i%Hy light arid rrea^leas-^and if he ifalled: 'witl^ »r 
 oherhartmaU^naUfH^ beioii^ifinNrered \fy M -fuTt 
 TO*lfitolfa.*th«|pe$l>^A>iH»butof thbqqeitioiH « 
 
 ^^ J lll lgni rtaiiia »rdflefetion fbr a fbw ihlhiitii, I^ tbri 
 iWIPPr Thif^gUiM *f the Indians \tere^abh»a'«l 
 liri^)»-4helr hhtves ahd ton^afa^wba wis^e ihyvatiiirt'^ 
 lh^'aidei» ^ 1fbe'<Wiitr he ihii^ed !obt 'toubh fitroi 
 antateding'tl^tir owiieri»^but'th4? ftxnkleviie ^^mft 
 Uums^ l#ith ther^sixoeplidp of t3iiro,.'%iid. hhltl^jiiolj 
 #toda, whem ^he t tn#w the Idtliftni ^M^li mot 
 ihdhliiAafi. »Hf^/theB^eliiniad?toUMi^)<i 
 dimwei^ fliia/glMlk^ gni^ talih^ ID^fv 
 hftllreafted tlie<iiicl^i0i%ioii a ^e^.WtMti^ 
 vietimi, and haYiiig taki^n deliberate aim ^ 
 
 
 
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 iMtiinA^ihe Imart of Mc^hirt ba ^ulliiil both iKpfftri, m 
 
 Mmt oiAiiionl. BqUi sboliiwora Iktfl. At lb* rtfWBt 
 
 lb«ir giini, Iho oihtMitpniig la Jihehr fMt, tDd ■tend 
 
 [fMljr uottiKl ttxni. Jtf 'OoB|i«ll, who hid mrt iMUj|% 
 
 ilhe 1^1 ^n Ibd olhei lUfei wirt. bid, batlilji I^Md 
 
 iOf them aftd Artd »i two ofhU MMNMiet, wba h«|)paiir 
 
 ItAttMKTiiit Ud« «}tb tMb other. Th« ■eacetl f«n 
 
 baiftg. shot; Uirough. Iha MMire o(. the body , tba Mt 
 
 ,|iiU» bttlb>wLng imiMjt but qttbsbly rMoveeiiig, Hnped 
 
 fiwio Oue ^ .podi M ftti ia poMiblt. Tbe AfUi and 00I7 
 
 who.n^maiiied unhiirt, dtctMl olT Itkt.a dB«r, liill^ a 
 
 wliioli anno^icad equal tanror aod attoiliabnitel. 
 
 inaiU, not witbing Id fight anj moieiaueb b*ttla% i*- 
 
 bM own ritflo froaa tha itaok, and m«da th« beal of 
 
 sma/jt« Ltsing^oD, whan be anstvad aafefy vilbta 
 
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 ifke ^i(il««iiae««i(id db«gar»to iHilaK^«liily ii#ttlifa 
 itataU Ifftw Vorlit and tbaa# inh|diiti% Iht %«•. 
 jNurt of/'Naw Bngland wera atfMMnd<ifeom Itt^ltiiMig 
 Indians^ end for tl^ iwnRtnf ttioaa aistielatii^aai 
 lat tbab attbabbneai j|pa but littU {j^oilii Inrttw 
 ^ifi l^neratiMv Moat of tteyCWttitiy:;, ^hara- ««# 
 MdBf )|6lrns and TlUagaa ailHiPtrsa ' :tben finT«|g[ 
 il*^; WoKml bbare^ in« -lilaimotiiiti^nwf 
 iMttt^ ■< hn*^ iftdifina i^atabad > etbry 
 tha inM>itMta-*^h«j waiiei ndi tdtM 
 ^ibtotiai imi tiiaU bnrrieadad, and. ao atpaiMiillil mt 
 >lll i^inintt Ibrt. Tha rifla wna tb« ebit^ iodt«ii~ 
 fi^tMioii tbay dapendad both <bv dffoiea aoid'>ttt|^' 
 , ' i^^ifquebl Mdbnoailied nroaa between the fodtiilia 
 t^ t i te^Salf andaqnidirf tbtqi tevtoinatwd in> a moit 
 " liiiaiJf obii^'ft' '■■■ '■! .■■ .^ .■ r ». -, 
 
 Ibe ?e«p 1608, » man bj^ theiMAiie of Allen i^no^ed 
 tHHl^ (jFeiihitbe vinifliity dl^oalon td the binis 
 jlwiifc^^ lif Miin<iiibet» tbe madam- t^ni ia 
 Ipit lie IttmUff wM eompebed:^^ ifi« w^ >bia 
 
 
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 twoitmt, anda relitir«'by th« Dame of Jobiuon. Bott 
 tlitia ware man of mpseular fKasaaa and both had an fat. | 
 viBtaiata lialrad (ontvdt Jhe Indiaiit. Tba brother 
 Johnion bad been taktii prifoiier and burnt bf ifm} 
 The fit^fer of . Allen had been murdered by a Mohi 
 >#liief Ml bUi ownt;liouie. The former had been edueateii 
 liiintor* The latter had devoted hit life thus far toi|J 
 rieoltural purloiti. There ti^jr lived in lecnritx 
 the ffttoe of a year, during whieb time they had el 
 and eolti voted leveral acrea of lend. The produois <^ \ 
 tofetber with the antmali killed in the chaee, iupjvoi 
 .tiwfitniily. But while in this oonditioni they had evi 
 reafon to expect an attack from tiieaavi^ee. SmaM 
 tieiiM4 been iMen prowling around their dwelKnf, 
 lM)t^epa were diatinctly visible in- the neighboring^! 
 . One evening, just after sundown^ as Johnson was sitf 
 in the door of the cottage^ his attention was suddenly rifJ 
 eted |}y an object on the top of a tall pine, almost codcmI*] 
 ed by its branches. It appeared to stir. His suspici'Q 
 were increased. Presently the sound of a distant In^ 
 ^ wboop was borqe |to ^is ears. He immediately commi 
 MMI)isinfa^Ui|^noe to Allen, who wUb alaerl^iii 
 ad to put tbOrhOttae in a state of defence. The anii 
 ^ j^uia traa alatiiied their fears. John8on» who was 
 iMgnMnted/ with almost every custont of tba li 
 adii»ihid 1^, blai rifles saying * the heathendog in y( 
 tiai would jmrdWm|Jttid he the chance to do It. 
 tttfepfeet^day. ||jH raised bis ri0e-^1 
 
 ^M||t moment the w9l& body of a large Indian tui 
 lund; Allen was about to rush from tba 
 r^flo whehhe was arrested by the powi 
 companion. ' Stir not,' siaid be f for kits \i 
 hall an hour we ahall have the whola gang upon lii«^ 
 ',j|^it».' answared Alien, * there oan be nOdaiigar Hi tl^| 
 eflpe/eially When auob a rich priae preaents itself/ 
 walald lose mooe thaii you would gain. Every trea aM} 
 Obtain an Indian. Trust me, if we survive thia.iil 
 Wf iiay tliinic oursaliiaa fortunate.' This waa 
 i^tUisiiade bim fioai#s object. All Uie doors< wai^tl 
 4im||!lb^ steawwaa taken from^ the beds to 
 1^ iboqld^tbty attempt to enter, tbe ohimney^i 
 
 
 
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 ^1^ oeeMidiiarl snaptfinif. of tWika l<^d«iil UM 
 
 l#jr thouM be ily^ OpM bjr t6»^ini^ii^i ofthiF ' 
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 iiit#'M^r tHa <^htoiMy boiwM^^oJTil 
 d liiapurpoaa. I^liay tiad dry knvaa baamaary 
 f^, tt^^ttMir awcw baadi, ami aant tham Ua* 
 III m 199^ irMoh , bdhf na^ aoailHiaabia ««i^ 
 pftfliai. Ka^Mad to iMa ezttflttiiiy tba baai^b4 
 ^^*~a taaowaa; JobMon thraw ^iptii a aiiildl 
 UHf^lbaif ba«9 acnoaaaad, an^ tslHNtai 
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 ibet ion^mto coaif. , J'ltMa ^{•^&^m||^^ 
 
 depariitm IhNii the Ooluf|d>ia mf Wii«liMilt o&kM^' 
 *tllag0i nlMil^lfowiWhittjr io tlie vk)i»||^ oflifS^L 
 • Mr M'K^f imaaeiiitttely opencft N^iiltH^adii fi^itb* 
 tiHatirM. Ha wept ioiif bore with m\fe^ a^, Vitt i*- 
 4a the inostfsMiidl^ QUinQ<>r,«i]^)fi^.^. tkmM m 
 ^ihtwWkifei Dinrinij^ thii' piridd,^t«¥eift| of ^ 
 ittifiited thtf^yessei witUiftrro* Tb^ iiilb«lidib»NNMi>^ 
 btli* icaptftin wire ii0t:oakiiUto«^>ito irfn theltet^ 
 ^M**^^»ter ■truck pn4 oTtifelr pdnvH^mmim^^m^ 
 lifti^ Mk«rtb«A, a oom^tegp iWM ^iMied bf^ Hi^, 
 of th|f^ebier^9(lii^riie ftiiii^ofat irfTlbo vo«»el. Tfi^ 
 Ifi^totRrMer, harii^, idiiootilvA^^ their diiiiiie, 4oi^ 
 
 jwttid %i<*«t&e ptlr|»ie4i»f i ii#SiM ( | tho 9§ohtW 
 
 ^f^tonAecTa^kw ! That 9^NBt«Kli|fl^««||«£^> 
 
 tt^lthfcfc t%«r Cifrtaili only^^jS^ moM- 
 
 ^iald.that l»i)miliniitejr|H|p « piMoPoT 
 
 firing ifai^ianpii^oaid have^F^^uraie^ to atii^l^ 
 
 #ip M m> f he Batt?ei Id the^meaMhiio. i!M4^^ 
 
 Ifbtti «n[*Ka7«i aodde^Mttfrn tba| ibtiri^^i 
 
 fed thii> fhlp uiiliiian ninidieni, t< 
 
 to^tluow -oitrYieopIe o£^ their' 
 
 ^iiMiiPHIadr^ the ooiMpunej^ dd^ en bdiki^ 
 
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 mm¥¥mA$tmymii ;£»rl^^4beii^iftNig«itll#l 
 
 "*•*-«« lt> Oiai^oii wpfli the i^k» InM tiileitt^ ||^i^ 
 
 ecwploof lsr|ataitbeei ciobiooii^iigitllii^^ 
 
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 e^QHl^ ftfitt ftiiolfcf r eanoe, with Wn ^tiAl nwabtivliS 
 oggl^/ttM «r«i«il tmrfjrli^ bwver, otter, wd ©tfett tik 
 
 ^<l^r|^ J^ip)» liQftUt a liiiiiml oti9iMm n^enoe I 
 mtMio «l«^rii||r^^|ibq^ oC the itttnidevs. Tlriblflitti 
 
 ^itW^i^ «^a |l^ fitiig to MO, aod^ b^ 
 
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 fift his savage aiiailanta bj ripping ope^ their bow- 
 
 iaiKi matilate'd aeraral othen. Co?ered witb wounda, 
 
 »iMlad htniMlCfor a ndomaDt hy leanfng on , ibe tlllier 
 
 |fl||al, when be received a dreadful blow from a weapdn 
 
 mpatttwnMgan, (a ipecietf of half tabi«« hilf^bb; 
 
 ro to three feet in length^ aix indbet in brtod^ tlid 
 
 »«edged,>on thebaok patt Of his head, whietirlRllled 
 
 iMJH^tlie deck . The death dealing knifl» fell iVom hSii 
 
 'fend bis savage biH^fhers^ after ettibguishiDif the 
 
 ithi of life that still remained, threw bH ^'aoj^Ied 
 
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 [Fi^8eiftig<,the captain's fate, our inforipant, who wiie 
 tohivii and who had hitherto eaeapid /uninjured, 
 id Into the water, and was taken' intb a canoe b^ 
 It Wonien^ who partially covered his body with mats, 
 itei that the original intention of the enemy was to 
 Mr M'Katy a prisoner ; and after securihg the vessel, 
 »i^e him his liberty, on obtaing a ransbiHi fh)m .%lttjiife ; 
 ^en findrftg^he resistance made by the caytai^ land 
 r,«tbe former of whom had killed one Of the p/hfti^pel 
 (heir love of gain gave way to reV^iAge,' and th*y^ 
 red to destroy hiin. The last time ^be^flUAited geb^ 
 il)iWM,8ee«, 'his head was hangkif over the side of a 
 fimM three sa^ragesi armed with |MiifitJiitfafe»itj weie 
 •itiig out his braintf. 
 >li<|he mean time, the devoted erewj who hedmaint^n^ 
 'iinei|tial contest with unparallelled bravery, becime 
 illy U verpowered. Three Of them, John Andetson, 
 itfwein,'John Weekes, the carpenter, and St«j^h|n 
 stioceeded|tafter a de^rate^ struggle; Iff ^iihlii^ 
 of' the CaMn^ the entrance of whieh'the> secii^- 
 iilside. Thelndiaitif how beetlWe more 
 ell knew tl|er^'*iir«re ^khtf otiite- 
 fhM feli«ady' es;|^ri#need enough 
 e^three meh while on decl^j and armed 
 Ikes^ to dread appt^Iii^g tbein ti^hlle 
 ^d niore Hartal weapons ai Iheir'i^mmand'. Ah^ 
 nd hie> tiird«eompi»ioiis» seeini^'^ir eommMiider 
 iw dead and dying iro^Udthetlly siH^feeling mq^eo^ 
 ^ u»^ei«ie«B0^4n^ farther o|]^iiioii, ditlimiitted 
 i|^a'(«rrible Irbvenfe^ Tw^ if them, dieieJR^ei, 
 
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 «9t about Ifi^f iJig ^ tfmn 4o tJiQ;p(p^4ArtqagAKiao«*w|k^i 
 
 i^U4 ad<H»fpe4 9wm lQ4i«afi. from ^^» ^*Un mtodi 
 yf^ vr^re i^ <^pf% s^ gtV9 tt^eqi t# i|iji4«ri^t«A>linl, 
 ib^ wer^ p4Bru|iit|Bd to, 4#p»r,t v;mii|9)jest«a m W« ;# " 
 ^^*A ^it» t^^y nirould giv^ iheai ^i9t.po9(|ii«M>o fifi 
 
 no 0^000 shou^ reiiiainneaf, thfi^wliM^' gl^jl^ilif 4lftto 
 boat; 'l^hc^ anxlei; of tb» fai^^^ia^^ to g«l»|>CMiii|t<i) 
 t)ie ptuiider, a^a theirdi8i|M:%ii^iv^«i|i|f W «ilMr»;)ft 
 in4»fie^ tbotu to embnico tbi^' prapoiiitipo w|t,K m, 
 and tbe pinnance was immediately brotigbl iMMtfimt 
 th|;ee heroe^ baying by this tip^ pi^r^ctfd thoir difftlj 
 arraugewiBnts, and,a«cjertai^|3d( that ;p0 IndiftH W9II wal 
 the,m, gri^dujaiiy lp,w«eed tlheD|i»(||ve9 fiiopk t\\^x^bim 
 dmji into the. boat ; and b«iviQg fired th% tra^ii^; <lt^l] 
 pu#b«id off towards Xh^ mouth of tb^. b^rbQf* l>9 qI 
 feeing iiiterposed to. prevent th^ii; 4^pai|uff. J^Hli^W!^ 
 the eDemy now ruabed ou decV to s^ i^ thfi Ipng^ itf^i 
 pfiz^, fthputio^ y^lfci of x4ctoryj bu^i ^%irv ^fiiwiph 
 t4 msm duiatioQ. ^usj, p ^b^y Mi te^t <»mii til« 
 ^»9r>a.i)tes plosion took piaiit, ivuicb in anihttfriM;, ' 
 ~ |)waffdt of^tWQ bnndreA ri»vftg^8 into et4«i^ijp, imd 
 |«]^(y tj^jured aa many vaatk,^ The iliie»pi«te?, who 
 l^t^jreaobe^iiMuU mymke!sm:^mmy mtitii^f* 
 iea floating iiear Hie beach, while' li«Hfe> ak-aisj 'm^ 
 i^olher Wttil ih^oMatt oil the atiipy wttfrs ^^faro#li°i 
 4^i^i;«bbdi«tti|«l» on llfA^ii^^^ The fi»|i|b « 
 
 <^ t|ke vmy\99i» wm Ibai^^e Mislnrnf Life h^ 
 li0 IN E'^il Spint Qf thf^ wateiif A^ fmmsh thwif'" 
 ^|^t,v to th^ wikMe paopi^ /Billiifeliii joinM 
 <iiptii)riimiQa oepMlonedt b^ tlie riigiaif.»n'i4ft» 
 i|k Japiffi^ion«t «f tlliei witts attl^«^|Mi||l| 
 iOHll^m^ paralyA^^ for a tiiN« tbe » ^m^^Hb Ifaa 
 l|t% and £ikvuf4;^ attcnfrt ^H^A*q^|^Hf'ftte. 
 
 i^npi^adei to 0f«afa. '^^ '^*^*^ ^*^Rr 
 
 9^ tl^ barboFi ^i(li tl^^giltaiitionj ^iai^^poiWji'^f' 
 
 ifii al^t|)ia#H«|e tolbfr^biaibfe^^^^ 
 
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 fod #w«jtwl bit bwlhtr aM tht otbir fiiMi 
 
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 ilreii to the riw p»tb#, wliitb^ M thwjui^jrfi 
 
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 rtb tog^ether. At that moroent a sharp firing waf haftrd 
 iktpog the buihee above, announeing that the other pi^- 
 wero engaged, bnt the trio below were toobiiay to.at- 
 ipd to any tiling but them9elve8. Big ^oot waa for fin 
 ^fint atundlid by the violence of the iboek, and Adam 
 r^ enabled to keep them both down. But the ei^ertion 
 iiary for that f^urpose wae so great that he had no 
 tiiure to uee hie knife. Big Foot quickly recovered, And 
 iiDting to rise, wrapiped his long arms around 4i4^^** 
 T^nd pressed him to his breast with the crushing 
 of a Boa Constrictor ! 
 Adam, as we have already remarked, was a pQw;er|liI 
 to, and had seldom encountered his equal, but never 
 he yet felt an embrace like that of Big Foot, j^e in- 
 lly relaxed his hold of the small Indian, who sprung 
 Ms feet. Big Foot then ordered him to run for his torn- 
 iwk, which lay within ten ^iteps, and kiU the white 
 1, while he held him in his arms. Adani; p' |i^^.:||is 
 sger struggled manfully to eictricate himself ki|«|>^ n^e 
 Is of the giant, but in vain.—The lesser I %:* ajp- 
 loached'him with his uplifted tomahawk, bi^t A4lini 
 shed him closely, and as he ivas about to 8tri» e,,gil|« 
 j.a kick so sudden and vioWnt, as to knqtH the ^tf^i- 
 iwk from bis hand, and send him Sil^gerin, ^m^ #o 
 water. Big Foot uttered an ^cla^tion iia fk tonii pC 
 , contempt at the failure ofhisepfixqpianio^, s^nd ra|)ung 
 tWce to its highest pitch, thundered out sevetal; w^fis 
 ^ Indian tongue, which Ad^m oould not 'understai^^, 
 Ijilipiiosed to be a directioB for ^he^C^<»nd attaclf.; f^ie 
 li^ian now again approached, carefully sbunnlAg 
 *s heelt^ »id nk^iking v^ny motions with his tpina- 
 »» ipi <^||iM||^f^iv^^^ii^^^^^ ^^^^ point vf^erovihe 
 ^WQ^^^^H^!^ ^^^d fcrv several secoQds» un^l a 
 ^on fmm , Big Foot, compe^li^ hjs 
 SuiBfte-was Adam'e d^^r^ty; and 
 ^ _._,,. f that ho DptlHii^d to reneifljib^ tooist- 
 a glaiMinft direPti<)a^i«Pf » bis lejfttwristj yf<^0- , 
 >4eeplys|iuft not 4|«iltei him. J^no^i i»ad|,a 
 ^nd df»f^rate ©li^^iNi^ Wmself;?^^ 
 ^ant Aod ifiwecee^d* ■ < : %tantly #n^»U^5,f.{i|i- 
 le Itflien fe0^diaot :ifeotui» to 
 
 Pi V),,*. 
 
 M':. - 
 
 ici 
 
 / 
 
 ./ 
 
 
 Ud 
 
 ;> 
 
I'.- 
 
 no 
 
 4IIAII AVD AiriiinW POB. 
 
 mnt 
 
 hurting HH eompftnion) he thot the letter Indian throa| 
 the bodyL But eearcely had he done to when Big Fc 
 srOM, md ptaoing one hknd upon hie collar and the othe 
 mpcNi Ma hip, pitched him ten feet into the Mr, at he hio 
 ■elf would have pitched a child. Adam felfupon hit ^ 
 At' the edge of the water, but before hit antagonitt coulj 
 iprihg upon him, he wat again upon hit feet, and itQn 
 With rage at the idea of being handled eo eatily, he 1] 
 li^ed hit gigantic antagonitt with a fury whitehfotiitii 
 CJ6ig»|»enta.ed for inferiority of ttrength. It wat now tfi 
 flat flght betyreen them, for in the hurry of the ttrug| 
 UeHli^ltbad leiture to draw their knivet. Adam't lUf 
 ricMrj^titity and experience at a pugilitt, gave him a gr 
 i^ViiBttga. The Indian atruck awkwardly, and fiiiidiii 
 Hiiiiii^lf rapidly dropping to leeward, he cloted with 
 J|^f»g0taitt, and again hurled him to the ground. 
 <g||H^tjr rolled into the rivei', and the ttruggle continii 
 W^ Ottttbftted fury, each attempting to drown the otii^ 
 ^^'1[p^ian being unuaed to tuch violent exertion, 
 ht*!^^ been much injured by the firet thock in his it 
 a^V wi^s unable to eXert th« aame powera which had gi| 
 '^ hitii mich a decided superiority at 0rst; iind Ad 
 i^itnl him by the acAlp lock; put hit head under wit 
 ^1^ h%ld it there until the faint strUgglet of the Indiaaij 
 dil^ed him' to believe that he was drowned^ wheii he 
 Ifttl^ hia hold and attempted to draw hit knife. Tbtl 
 dilia hofrever to use Adam't OWA exprettibn, * bad , 
 h^po»9wMng!* He instantly regained hit feet,' 
 in^bia turn put hit advertary under. In the atltog|le, 1 
 Irere carried into the current, beyond theif ' «fe||lth) 
 HIMdi wat compelled to relax hia hold ta^ iwiifciiti 
 ^^m* There wat etill one loaded 7^«^||i||||^iltUMi 
 «9n|i iwam hard in order to reach it, 1^^^^__ 
 Ihemoat expeH awimmer, and Adan^^^^^Bhe 1 
 b« toolattf, turned and twftm^outintqjj^^^K int 
 t0 diT^ m tMur Ihittrate hit enent3r9HRIi|| AH 
 in^tduit,, Atidtrew^^ hat^ he*rd that hii ili^hi^aa 
 i^« ttruggle" with twd ni^ana, and in great dai 
 vp^l^l^io tll^e^ of te tmnkftbiivi, imoi 
 ^liHi* . jNlNither i^^hite man folto^ed htm cl 
 ^ AVb hd thfe1iver» corered^ with 
 
 
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 "«», 
 
 ^ 
 
 m 
 
 A 
 
 «.'!( 
 
 
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 *«:♦- 
 
 AVn AMDIIBW POR. 
 
 171 
 
 ig rapitUy from thor^, miitook bioi for an Indmii anil 
 upon him wouftdibg hiro daogerously id the •Upulder. 
 im turned, and seeing his brother, called loqdlj upon 
 ko to < shoot the Big Indian upon,^ shore.' Andrew's 
 in however, was empty, having just been discharged. 
 I^ortunately, Big Foot had also seized the gun with which 
 tdam had shot the lesser indian, so that both were upon 
 quality. The contest now was who should load first. 
 Foot poured in his powder first, and drawing his ram- 
 lout of its sheath in too great a hurry, threw it into the 
 rer and while he ran to recover it, Andrew gaipe^ an 
 Ivantago. Still the Indian was but a second too , iat^, 
 his gun was at his shoulder, when Andrew's ball en- 
 ed his breast. The gun dropped from his hands and he 
 Ml forward upon his face on the very margin of the |ny- 
 Andrew, now alarmed for bis brother, who was scai««^ 
 able to swim, threw down his gun and rushed inloffie 
 prer in order to bring him ashore— but Adam, moreintfOl^, 
 ^pon securing the scalp of Big Foot as a trophy, tt^arii up-' 
 ID bis own safety, called loudly upon his brother* tq.tef^mit; 
 |hb) alone and scalp the big Indian, wfao was now eiiaM^V. 
 ring t6 roll himself into the water, fromaromanUadetiK|B,;^ 
 puliar to the Indian warrior, of sectoring his sculp Jlftfifi:. 
 enemy. Andrew, however refused to obe^, •"*.f.T1|Hi|:/ 
 UjPQtt saving the living, before attending to tbe ^Mlr 
 Foot, in the mean time, had suceeded in reachii^i m^ 
 ip water before he expired, and his bod: ^as borii^ (^ 
 ^jf tb6 wave^, without being stripped of the ocji^meiit aii^ 
 )e of an Indian warrior. 
 
 Mf4 a man of the Indians escaped. Five pf Btg Fp^i^a 
 
 thers, the flower of the Wyandott nation, had ficcaai^ 
 
 lied him Ji^^. expedition, and all perished.-p-tit ^,.MM 
 
 tli9 nd^Hte^ calamity threw the ^hfile |r|bjl^il^w 
 
 ^?i^QM"l|^^^B. remarkable fi^Re, ^thelr ^pui;*!^ . ^ 
 
 faj^^^^HligenGer gav|B them imfOfi^ ii)ip|fnice»» 
 
 Mc^f giflHRIP^eir credit, was generally r^frte«^||l»; 
 
 of huiti|p^t|^^ Their powerful interpo^jLion l|^a^ Mt-* 
 
 i^9^y ^spn«ff from the stakie, and hi^i given a. ||Ji«i^i> 
 
 RlBter Iqj^^jf fic^fe of the Indians in ^^^^'■iM^Miiff 
 
 \^, A ohjiof ^ ti>e sam^ nanie ,wai aUvft |p||pp|, 
 
 r^untrx •<? j#fl a» 17091,. builf&lNr ^J^S§. oc' 
 
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 A* 
 
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 x:; :-,•;--.-■■'&* 
 
173 HfVKHTIOir OF LBTTBBI iT AMl(hjUAtl. 
 
 ion of Btg Foot ii not known. Adam Poe recovered of 
 hif wottitdt, snd lived many yeart after thia memorable 
 ooiiAidt-*bttt nevtfr forgot the tremendoui ' hug* wliich 
 ht auatained in the arma of Big Foot. 
 
 INVENTION OF LETTERS BY AN INDIAN. 
 
 ■vrf; 
 
 fcL\. 
 
 Tiirllillowing extract from Mr Samvbl L. Knapp'i 
 Ladtiini on American Literature, recorda one of the most 
 '}«tiibvdiiiary eventa aince the original invention of let- 
 teii. 
 
 ** 'Fbe invention of the Cherokee alphabet haa excited the 
 ailrtiiahaient of the philosopher in thia country and in 
 Etiiopt -; t^ut aa I have not yet seen any aatisfactory ac- 
 OQItlit ilP the progress and history of this great effort of I 
 dil^i of the present day, I will state what I know of it, 
 iRilii fk^f^Hrps of the inventor himself. 
 
 '<tf «fei« winter of 1838, a delegation of the Cherokees 
 ▼liHM thi city of Waahington, in order to make a treaty 
 wiUi tho United Stalisa, and among them was See-quab- 
 yiir^^ inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. His English 
 n^ii^wai Ooorge Guess ; he waa a half blood, but hadner. j 
 f r Irott hii own account, apoken a singlo word of English 
 u| ^i^i tiBw Of his Invention, nor since. Prompted by 
 BljKd^wnettrioaity, and urged by several literary friends, I 
 afl^d to 84%«>quah-yah, through the medium of two io- 
 tefDr^^rt^one a half blood. Captain Roger, and the other | 
 A'lilf'MOdi ohibf, whoao assumed English name was John 
 9^^; to toliito to me, aa minutely as possible, the mental j 
 <^p^tions, and all tbe&otsof his dtscovei'^||B|«heerfully 
 e6iiit»liid wkbia^y request, and gave v^f^Htekte and 
 4riitiMli«i|orj^ answers to ev^ry qae«tioii,^^^Hb tt tbe 
 •asiii llm^ ^treful to know firom the int^^^Hf I ul^ 
 di^^itii^ his mnswera. No itoio coUld H^MIen mmfe 
 f(nito'ln hb demeanor than was See-quah-ya|i«; he por- 
 ting to the: io^ti custom, for a considerable 
 ihquOstioB#as put, before be mado hii i^ 
 , , . — >n took a whiff of h%l calumet while refl^6cti4| I 
 oitwii^iMfr* Tfa^-dletaiis >of the examinsliotr art tiN^ 
 
 Mv .. i" 
 
 "^..^ 
 
 1^* ?# 
 
 - '-J' ■:*,!• 
 
 ^k^ 
 
•■:•;■•' 
 
 lllTPlfTIQ* or LBTTBUl SY AIT IlfOSAlV. 
 
 173 
 
 ig to enter into them^ but the lubtUnce of it was— that 
 
 (See-quah-yah) iprai now about liyty-live yean old, 
 It could not preciiely aay—that m early life he waa gay 
 id talkative, and altbougb be attempted to apeak in 
 
 locil but once, yet waa often from bia eaay colloquial 
 twera, and ready command of bia vernacular, a atory 
 liler of the convivial party. Hia reputation for talenta 
 
 every kind gave him aonie diatinction when he waa 
 iit« young, so long ago as St Clair's defeat. In tbia 
 
 ipaign, or some one tiiat Noon followed it, a letter waa 
 
 liod on the person of a prisoner, which was wrongly 
 
 by him to the Indians. In some of their delibera- 
 
 oDi on this subject the question arose among them 
 
 IriMthcr the mysterious power of the ** talking leal" waa 
 
 jfift of the Great Spirit to the white man, or a discovery 
 fthe white man himself 1 most of his companions were of 
 
 former opinion, while he as strenuously maintained 
 
 latter. 
 
 "Thi4 frequently became a subject of coQtMUpMioo 
 ^idi him afterwards, as well as many other thingy which. 
 I knew, or had hoard, that the white roan could do : but 
 I never sat down seriously to reflect on the subject un- 
 it iwelliog in hia knee confined bim to his cabioi and 
 kich at length made him a cripple for life, by tbbirteoing 
 
 diseased leg. Deprived of^ the excitements of war 
 
 the pleasures of the chase, in the long nigbta of bis 
 
 Bioement, his mind was again directed to the mystery 
 
 [ipeaking by letters, the very lutme of which, of course was 
 
 ; to be found in bis own language. From the eriei of 
 
 beasts, from the talents oi the mocking bird, from the 
 of bis children and companions, be knew that feel- 
 land pa8ii«ML|rere conveyed by direct sounds from 
 
 intellig ^yiHfcg to another. The thought struck bim 
 
 Wf ^^ MiM^^Bl the sounds in the Cherokee language. 
 
 ifwn ear^fJIPlpoarkably discriminatioi/ apcf. be /caJn 
 
 ItObbif ai4 the more acute ears of his wife and chil^reii* 
 
 l^fffben he thought he had disilaguisbed all tlip dilfer- 
 
 fjAiid« in their language, he attempted to use pictpial 
 
 Images of birds and beasts, to convey those souitdi 
 
 I, or to mark them in bis own mind. fUe soon 
 
 this method as difficult or impossible, aiil^ ti^M 
 
 1*2 
 
 v.; 
 
 
174 
 
 INTBirTIOV or LKTTXKt BT AB IMDIAK. 
 
 arbitrary soandi Without any regard to appearances, except 
 ■uch as might assist in recollecting them and distinguishing 
 them from each othei . At first these signs were very nu- 
 merous ; and when he got so far as to think his inTentionl 
 nearly accomplished he had about two hundred characters 
 in his alphabet. By the aid of his daughter who seemed 
 to enter into the genius of his labors, he reduced them at 
 last to eighty-six, the number which he now uses. He 
 then set to work to make these characters more comely to I 
 the eye, and succeeded— as yet he had not the knowledge! 
 of the pen as an instrument, but made his characters on a I 
 inece of bark, with a knife or nail. At this time he sentl 
 to the Indian agent, or some trader in the nation, for pa-l 
 per and pen. His ink was easily made from some of thel 
 bark of the forest trees, whose coloring properties he hadl 
 previously l:nown — and after seeing the construction of 
 the pen, he soon learned to make one, but at first he made 
 them without a slit ; this inconvenience was, howeTerJ 
 quickly removed by his sagacity. His next difficulty vzt 
 to make his invention known to his countrymen ; for, b; 
 this time he had become so abstracted from his tribe and 
 .their usual pursuits, that he was viewed with an eye 
 iuspicion. His former companions passed his wigwan 
 without entering it, and mentioned his name as one thi 
 was practising improper spells, for notoriety or miscbieT-{ 
 ous purposes, and he seems to think that he should hav^ 
 been hardly dealt with if his docile and unambitious' dii 
 position had not been so generally acknowledged by hit 
 tribe. At length he summoned some of the most distin-j 
 guished of his nation in order to make his communicatic 
 to them— after giving the best explanations of bis di8cor| 
 ery that he could, stripped of all supemataral ifii«enc(| 
 he proceeded to demonstrate to them in jflB^ earnest th» 
 he bad made a diseo\'ery . His daughtQ|9H|F was his odH 
 pupil, was ordered to go out of hearing; vRkUl K>d reqaeit| 
 ed his friends to name a word or sentiment, whica ht pn 
 down, and then she was called in and read it to them ^ thi 
 the father retired and the daughter wrote; the iMiii 
 were wonder-struck but not entirely satisfied. See^ui 
 yah then proposed that tb.^ tribe should select 
 youths (torn among their brightest young mett 
 
IirVBNTION or LBTTSBB BY AN IBDIAB. 175 
 
 I night communieate the mystery to them. This was at 
 kDgth agreed to, although there was some lurking suspi- 
 I doD of necromancy in the whole business. John M — (his 
 Indian name I have forgotten,) a full blood, with several 
 others, were selected for this purpose. The tribe watched 
 I the youths for sev eral months with anxiety, and when 
 I (hey offered themselves for examination the feelings of all 
 were wrought up to the highest pitch. The youths were 
 separated from their master, and from each other, and 
 watched with great care. The uninitiated directed what 
 I master and pupil should write to each other, and the tettB 
 were viewed in such a manner, as not only to destroy their 
 } infidelity but more firmly fix their faith. The Indians oo 
 thiii ordered a feast, and made See-quah-yah conspicuous at 
 it. Hnw nearly alike is man in every age ! Pythagoras did 
 thesame on the discovery of an important principleof geom- 
 trj. See-quah-yah became ai once schoolmaster, profeMR>r» 
 philosopher, and chief. His countrymen were prcMid of hiv 
 talents, and held him in reverence as one favored by the 
 Great Spirit. The inventions of early times were shroudf* 
 ed in mystery. See-quah-yah disdained all quackery. 
 I '* He did not stop here, but carried his discoveries t0 
 irambers. He, of course, knew nothing of the Arabic di- 
 gits, nor the power of Roman letters in the science. Th« 
 Cherokees had mental numerals to one hundred, and had 
 words for all numbers up to that, but they had no sign» 
 I or characters to assist them in enumerating, adding, sub- 
 I tracting multiplying or dividing. He reflected upon thi» 
 until he had created their elementary principles in hi» 
 mind, but he was at fi*^t obliged to make words to express 
 his meaning, and then signs to explain it. By this pro-^ 
 cess he socn had a clear perception of numbers up to a mill- 
 ion. His g^ftt difficulty was at the threshold—to fix the, 
 powers of p^ligns according to their places. When thi* 
 was overcome, bis next step was in adding up hit differ-^ 
 «Dt numbers, in order to put down the fraction of the deci- 
 nal, and give the whole number to its next place ; but 
 when f Icnew him he had overcome all these difficulties , 
 ttd was quite a readf. arithmetician in the fundamental 
 Mm, This wu the result of my interview, and I can 
 tiMj lay that I havB seldom met a man of mor? shrewd- 
 

 170 
 
 lyv^arTioiir or jlsttbrs iix,.^v iitdiav. 
 
 ness than B^e-quali-yah^ tie acUitrt4 fo all the custoini 
 of his country, and wb«n his asNociat^ Chiefs on the mii^ 
 sion assumed our costume, he was dressed in all respects 
 like an Indian. /.See-quah-yah is a man of diversified tal- 
 ents ; he passed from metaphysical and philosophical in- 
 vesti^tion to mechanical occupations with the greattit 
 ease. The only practical mechanics he was acquainted 
 with were a few bundling; blacksmiths, who could make a 
 k-ough tomahawk or tinker the lock of a rifle; yet he 
 became a white and silversmith Without any instruction, and 
 made spears and silver spoons with neatness and skill, to 
 the great admiration of the Cherokee nation. See-quali- 
 yah has also a great taste for painting. He mixes his 
 colors with skill ; taking ail the art and science of his 
 tribe upon the subjeci, he added to it many chemical ex- 
 periments of hi^ own, and some of them were very sue 
 cessful and would be worth being known to our painters. 
 For his drawings he had no model but what nature fur- 
 nished, and he often copied them with astonishing faith- 
 fulness ; his resemblances of the human form, it is true, 
 are coarse, but often spirited and correct ; and he gate 
 action and sometimes grace to his representation of ani- 
 mals. He had never seen a camel-hair pencil when he 
 made use of the hair oi animals for his brushes^ Some of 
 his productions discovered a considerable practical knowl- 
 edge of pe jpective ; but he could not have formed rules 
 for this. The painte»s in the early ages were many years 
 in coming to a l^iowledge of this part of their art; and 
 even now they are more successful in the art than perfect 
 in the rules of it. The manners of the American Cadmus 
 are the, most easy, and his habits are those of the roost 
 assiduoufc« scholar ; and his disposition is more lively than 
 fhat of any Indian I ever sa^. He understood and felt 
 the advantages the white men had long enjoyed, of having 
 the accomulation of every branch of knowledge, from 
 generation to generation, by means of a written language, 
 While the red man could only transmit his thoughts to un- 
 certain traditfon. He reasoned correctly when he xapA 
 this to his friends as the cause w^hy the red man had made 
 so few advances in knowledge in comparison with u«, and 
 to remedy this was one of hi« great aims, and one whidh 
 
 *) BO womder 
 
THB PET LAMB. 
 
 177 
 
 ^e accomplished beyond that of any other man living, or, 
 erhaps, any one who ev^er existed in a rude state of na- 
 
 ire. 
 
 « It perhaps may not be knov/n that tiie Goyernment 
 [the United States had a fount of type cut for his a)pha-% 
 (, and that a newspaper p'-inted partly in the Cherokee 
 iguago and t^artly in the English, has been established 
 [New Echota, and is characterized by decency and good 
 ; and thus many ol the Gherokees are able to read 
 ith languages. After putting these remarks on paper, I 
 the pleasure of seeing the head Chief of the Chero- 
 I, who coiifirmed the statement of See-quah-yah, and 
 ded that he was an Indian of the strictest veracity and 
 briety.'* 
 
 THE PET LAMB, 
 
 Every one who has been at Alesbury, has heard th«r 
 
 of the Pet Lamb. Many summers ago a sweet lit-' 
 
 iblue eyed girl was to be seen each rhoming, an voon 
 
 I the dew was off the grass, sporting to the raes^dow, 
 
 bng the l>rook that runs between the village and the 
 
 Tcr, with the only companion in Avhich she appeared to 
 
 ke delight, a' beautiful snow white lamb. It was thd 
 
 of a deceased sister ; and the little girl was now an 
 
 lihan. Her family had been wealthy and respectable in 
 
 If life, when they lived in Philadelphia; but her fa- 
 
 er having met with some very severe losses in trade> 
 
 |iDt to try his fortune in the East Indies, and the first 
 
 n the family received afterwards was of his decease at 
 
 They were destitute and being driven from the 
 
 by the breaking out of a malignant disease were 
 
 Bwn by chance into the residence of a venerable oW 
 
 ^J, who, having buried her mother and sister came to 
 
 )ury to spend her remaining days with her only 
 
 ^rgc, this engaging orphan. Left in this situation thus 
 
 in life, no wondci, poor girl, that she loved her litt'ft 
 
 ^, the only token of a sisters affection, for that sisters 
 
 tf no wofider that all the aflft'ctions of her innocent 
 
178 
 
 THK PET LAMB, 
 
 heart should cling to the last ol^et; left tu her dcs 
 yuTith, and grow fresher and fresiier ad the gross gi 
 greener over the sod that ?<!■»: i! i?'<i -igbes cf h«r : 
 dred friends. 
 
 Tuo little creature was perfectly a; .e at ;d would follow I 
 its young mistress, when perniiUyfl, ihiough the ▼illage, 
 wherever she went : and when she used to go to school 1 
 on the village green, it would lie down in the shade of J 
 the trees until she was ready to return home with it. She! 
 washed its soft fleece, and fed it with her >wn hands ev- 
 ery day : and so faithful was she always in her attentioii| 
 to her pretty favorite, that the villagers all loved her, an(| 
 many a warm hope was expressed that she> like tbatl 
 helpless lamb, might find a fond and devoted protectorj 
 when the friend who was now her foster mother, and was 
 fast wasting away beneath the weight of years should gcj 
 down to the shades of the still tomb, and leave her young 
 and inexperienced, in a world of selfishness and vice. 
 
 During the time her kind patron lived, Clarissa ytH 
 treated as a daughter. 
 
 Contiguous to their dwelling was the residence of a vrelj 
 livift^ fara^er, wiioss iiuie son ur^vA frequently to clambej 
 over the stiles into the meadow to see Clarissa and bel 
 Iamb ; and in process of time their young hearts becan]] 
 knjt together by a tie more tender than that which bint! 
 a brother and sister. It was tliought they would be mail 
 ried-^and they perhaps thought so too ; for Charles' fal 
 ther often hinted that a union oi the two places would 
 a delightful thing. But the old laOy died, and her vri| 
 felt iato the hands of rogues, who succeeded in geting 
 session ot ,i,e property. 
 
 Tl»is was tUe death blow to Clarissa's hopes, the intej 
 course between her and Cbarles was instantly broken 
 by his father — he was sent to a medical school at a dij 
 tance, and she was forced to put herself out to servic 
 among families who had scarcely before considered thcd 
 selves her equals. It was a bitter fortune ; but she bol 
 it with heroic fortitude at first— for still she receivj 
 through a private channel, frequent and affectionate M 
 ters from her brother Charles as she called the young 
 ' panion of her brighter fortunes, and still she bad her 
 
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THB PSI LilMB. 
 
 179 
 
 r de» 
 
 OSS gi 
 
 jtt. 
 
 ould follow 
 le ▼iUage, 
 \ to school 
 e shade of 
 th it. She 
 hands ev- 
 >r attentiofti 
 ired her, am 
 >^ like thai 
 d protector, 
 ier, and wa 
 rs should gi 
 'e her youm 
 ind vice. 
 Clarissa ^ai 
 
 lamb. But at last; this secret corresponds. nee ^at 
 discovered and broken off, and nil "possibilUv of further 
 intercourse prevente'^ and las* of all they took from h r, 
 faer only remaining jfriend aud favorite, the niemonal of 
 a dying sister's lovo — her little Pet Lamb. She tried 
 
 all the means in her power to prevent a separation, but 
 in vain,, the only privilege granted her was^ to have her 
 name, (Clarissa Beaumont Alesbury,) marked on its fleece 
 in beautiful gold letters, and then she kissed it fbi the last 
 time, and saw it delivered to a drover who was proceed- 
 ing with a large stock to the city. 
 
 For a month the deserted and unfortunate girl gave 
 herself up to the destroying influence of a melancholy 
 ipirit ; sickness and sorrow preyed upon her delicate frame 
 -she was no longer the gay and sporting belle of the 
 Tillage, attracting the admiration of every one, and court- 
 ed by all. V rten at the parties of her old associates she 
 DOW stood a poor unnoticed servant, and she felt how bit- 
 ter a portion was cheerless poverty, when it invades and 
 snceof a vrelB takes possession of hearts once rich and happyi-she felt 
 ly to clambelwith how much meanness of pride the world delights to 
 issa and heBtrarople, when it can on every thing of virtue, or beauty, 
 learts becant|or loveliness that is superior to its own. She felt how 
 treacherous was hope, how vain the promises of youth, 
 how vanishing the friendship of an interested and nelfish 
 f orld. But in proce.«s of time her native strength of mind, 
 and that << untaught innate philosophy,*' unknown to the 
 low and vulgar, triumphed even over her misfortunes. 
 She resolved that since it was the will of heaven to allot 
 to her the humblest sphere in life, she would strive the 
 better to improve ' her narrow privileges, and to resign 
 herself to her late without one rebellious murmur. She 
 M so, bvt still she often shed a tear over the riemory of 
 )>er poor Pet Lamb. 
 We now beg pardon of our Alesbury friends, while we 
 but she bol|o with the reader a little trip to Philadelphia. On the 
 site receivBextensive commons which lay towards the Schuylkili, a 
 ectionate Iwirge collection of cattle was exhibited by a company of 
 e young coM»ders ; as the sight was a very ftne one, many penons 
 had her |6otB the city came out to see it. ^mong thereat was a gen- 
 ts whose demeanor and features wer« atrikinglj em- 
 
 '.Thich binii 
 ould be mail 
 Charles* i% 
 ices would ! 
 in(i her 
 geting 
 
 )es, the intej 
 ly broken 
 loot at a dH 
 [ut to servic 
 Isidered ibcij 
 
i.J" 
 
 160 
 
 TUK PKT LAMB, 
 
 Mtemsiilc'dX of a deep and fixed HorVow. He walked slovlj 
 along surveying, with a downcast eye, tiio moving, but 
 group — his hands behind him, and his dress fich, buthasg] 
 iog carelessly about him. As he cast his eyo over th( 
 passing flocks, ho thought he saw a lamb with thenamJ 
 of Clarissa Beaumont on its neck ; and suddenly arouiio/ 
 |)rom a letha^y, he plunged into the crowd and seized iS 
 . He was not^staken in the name*— and when he ioqtj 
 abmit its history, and was told it came from Alesbury, hj 
 purcbased'it, and had it conveyed to town. His conductf 
 which was wholly inexplicable to the bystanders wi 
 crowded round him at the time, was not rendered the leui 
 to those who knew that the next day he set out in cooif 
 sy with the Iamb he had purchased for the interior of P«nD 
 aylvania. 
 
 It was a holyday among the young people at Aleibur 
 on account of the anniversary of the birth of my landiil 
 dy of |he inn's eldest daughter, and a large party was 
 aembled around the tea table, iu the afternoon, in the fu| 
 glow of hilarity and mirth. Poor Clarissa Beaiimoiil 
 the prdltiest of. them all was there— not as a compaDio 
 hut as a servant, thf; butt of a vulgar jeer, secretly scot 
 and openly insulted by these who were jealous of 
 splendid superiority of intellect and beauty of person 
 maiuiers, ar'^ exposed to a hundred impertinent liberti^ 
 irom those who had once courted her favor, and groi 
 proud on receiving a smile from her sweet lips. Sli 
 was there, still treasuring up the bitter lesson that loij 
 f«i)d friendship and respect, have no foundation in 
 thing but wealth — when a noble carriage and two beauil 
 ful bays drove up to the door of the inn. Tha atteof 
 of the company was, arrested, all were at the window, 
 lo, an old gentleman stepped from it while his seryi 
 handed him down Clarissa Beaumont's Pet Lambl 
 li«to||iS8^ed girl flew to embrace it, but before she ,«oa| 
 <||ui its neck the arms of the noble stranger werec^Njiil 
 •(ICifcle her— she fi&ll into them and fainted — it lKi||l 
 ^iiiier ! ! ! The report of his death in the East Indi^. 
 unfounded— he ba^retiirDed within a month to Phil/l 
 pbia,' wjl^li a,Q.aq|)^ie fortune, and after having l^e^jiil| 
 sdp|j|Q^^ iliAt ii^ ^is family were ^eceafed, thii icciiir 
 
LOO CHOO ISLAirUBRS. 
 
 177 
 
 ith tbetkani 
 enly ar^uuni 
 aind seized ii 
 n he inq! 
 Ale»bury, b 
 
 rstalnders il 
 
 (red the lew 
 
 out in com] 
 
 tisrior ofP«B] 
 
 alked slovljBiifeugbt him to new life and joy in the recovery of a dar- 
 ring, hiiitrmjBupi child, the image of an idolized wife, and the lait 
 ch, but hngSpltdge of her fervent love. 
 
 eye over thf The scene that followed ma>y be imagined. Claruwa 
 was ftplin the angel of the village—but she treated Ukf 
 iolsome fa wing and congratulations of her old acquain- 
 tanoes with as little attention now as she had their scc^s 
 bre. Her father took her in a few days to PluladelphMt» 
 here she lived in tho bosom of luxury and splendo&r^ 
 His condttctHyet as kind as amiable, and lovely as she had* ever bieen. 
 ' "■ 'nd even then true to her early e£fections she did ridt for- 
 it her faithful Charles, whose true'heart had never chang- 
 ed through all his father's persecutions and humiliation, 
 but when his father lost his estate, and liis family wer» 
 reduced to abject want, she married him and all were re- 
 e at AlesbnnHit<(red to plenty and happiness again, 
 of my landlij 
 party was 
 )on, in the fu] 
 Bsa Beaumonj 
 I a companic 
 jecretly sew 
 jealous of 
 of person 
 tinent liberti^ 
 yor, and groi 
 reet lips* SI 
 jsson thajt loi 
 idation in 
 tnd twobeauJ 
 Theattenf 
 le window, 
 ite his seryi 
 et Lambt 
 efore she 
 er were QPflBj 
 ted— it 1*^^ 
 Bast Indii^ 
 Ith toPbiJl 
 vin^be^leA 
 d, this «flc>«^^ 
 
 LOO CHOO ISLANDERS. 
 
 In the year 1816, Lord Amherst was sent as an Am- 
 tbaisador from Great Britain to China. White he remain- 
 
 at China, two armed vessels — the frigates Alcesta and 
 brig Lyra — which accompanied his Lordship, ytsitod 
 island called Loo Choo. The Alcesta was commanded 
 ^j Capt Maxwell, and the Lyra by Capt Hall. 
 
 Capt Hall and ^ surgeon of ono of the vessels, .wrote 
 
 h of them f narrative of the voyage, aud an account of 
 people of Loo Choo. Froa# tl]||sir narrative the foUow- 
 
 , particulars have been * collected. 
 
 "The Island of Loo Choo is about 60 miloi long ajnd 
 broad; it is situated in the happiest climate .of thu 
 
 obe. Refreshed by the sea-breezes which blow pvor it 
 
 •v«ry period of the year, it is free from the extripi^j of 
 t and cold which oppress many other countries. ^Pji^o 
 pie teemed to enjoy robust health ; for we observ^Ino 
 
 iiieased objects, nor beggars of any descriptioiH" 
 
 On the approach of the ships, tiie astonished nMlyes 
 ft ptrched on the surrounding rock^ 9nd heights, ^a- 
 g OQ tht vessels ^ they entered. lidQll. af\er several 
 
 • 
 
170 
 
 1.00 cnoo isla7;!>i:k9. 
 
 $■ :-^ 
 
 canoes came aIonp:sld[ej containing some people in offieej 
 ivho wished to know to what country we belonged, tfdj 
 the nature of our visit." ^ 
 
 , jBeiog; informed that the ships had heen ^itlK|^ Aid- 
 liaissador to China— that they neoj^e^ repains &c. fw'e na- 
 tiFes i.umediately sent carpenters to assist, but were ai- 
 f(tirod that there were carpenters on^ board, and that an as- 
 yUim wat all that thoy required ^HvitiQ the time of tbo 
 repair, with permis&ion to take on board provisions and 
 water. j^ 
 
 An immediate suppjy, of bullocks, pigs, goats^ fowli 
 eggs, and otiier articles followed this intimation. Sup 
 plies of the same description being sent on board as often 
 aii was necessary, for about six weeks ; but the chief au- 
 tborilies who sent then), refused an^ pay or remuneratioDi 
 whatever. 
 
 "It was intimated to this people that it was necessary t 
 have a party on shore, such as ropeQiakers and srnithv, 
 Tlbey reqkiestqd that this might not be dene till they coul 
 liear from their king. But after a visit irom one of tl 
 (fhiefs, several officers wf^nt on i^hore to an cntertainmei 
 providiid fo"lf /thera. 
 
 '* About this time a mutual friendship began to exiil 
 between us ; confidence took place of timidity ; and no 
 inatead of permitting only a few to visit the shore at 
 tfiiie, they fitted up the garden of a temple as a genei 
 linm^nal for us.'^ 
 
 <'Man/of these islandeflf display ed«a' spirit of inteHi 
 gehce and genius. 4T||ey all seemed to h& giftcfd witfa 
 sort of politeness, whiwi fiad the fairest claim jto b^ te 
 natural; for there was nothing constrained, ttothipg 
 or utudied in- it." 
 
 " It wajs interesting to observe, indeed, 'how early 
 gentle and engagiiig manners of all classes h«re won U] 
 the sfeilors no less than upon the officers. '^Tfae natifi 
 from the first were treate4 I'^Hh entire conlidence; 
 watch was kept over thefi^, nor%ere they exclud/d 
 any part of the shirai and not only was nothing stol 
 but w>en any thin^^as lost, nobody even suspected fc 
 aa iln^ant ^t l^liaW taken by them." 
 
 '^*'fimt^0imA haughty feeling of national 9a|)«rl6i 
 
 ., several 
 m." 
 
 t^The admini 
 
 |e of the gejni 
 
 rs highly effi 
 
 "Crimes are 
 
 they seem h 
 ^•Tirlike instr 
 
 or an arrow 
 lys declared th 
 
 ledge of wa 
 [''V^e never sa 
 
 m^h a fan- 
 ent ever 
 
 pg orders, 
 
 always 
 
 "^hen they s; 
 
 ^nds of 8oni( 
 
 Might not ki 
 
 Co see ^yiag 
 
 ifltely iasiied ti 
 
 
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 LOO QIIOO I8LA«flmEl. 
 
 179 
 
 litf, so strongly exisCifng among tiio comivoii class of Brit- 
 liiit seamen, which induces them to hold all Toreignera 
 kIk»P» was at i\m icHa^nd completely s ibdued and tamed 
 V the ^ontlo miners and kind liKehaviauf of tlie most 
 pacific people in the world.'* 
 
 '♦ Altbou|i!;h completely intermixed and often worliing 
 jtogether, both on shore aiid on board, not a single quarrel 
 rconipldiut took place on cither side during the whole of 
 jrstay. On the contrary, each succeeding day added to 
 l^endship and cordiality." 
 '•It was very intereiSting to ob.scrve the care which the 
 jativesjbok of the sick, whom they assisted all the way 
 m the beach to the temple ; a number of people attend- 
 Ito support such of them as ha.l barely strcngCh caongh 
 walk. p 
 
 "When they were safely lodged, eggs, rrt411t, fowls, and 
 Ifgetables were brought for them ; and whenever any of 
 fax were tcmp*ed by the beauty of the scenery to walk 
 ^f, several of the natives were reauy to accompany 
 em." 
 
 [''The administration of the** government seems to .par- 
 le'of the gejneral mildness of the people, and yet it ap- 
 18 highly efficient, from the very order Avhich is al- 
 liys maintaii^ed, and the general dilTusion of happi- 
 
 ["Crimes are said to be very unfrequent among them, 
 
 fthey seem to go perfectly i,narmed; for we observed 
 
 iwarlike instruments of any description ! not even dt^ 
 
 or an arrow was to bo seeKt." "And the natives a^ 
 ^ys declared they had none. They denlidd having any 
 
 rledge of war, either by experienjice or tradition." 
 P'f^e never saw any pynishmenfs mflicted at Loo Chod ; 
 pi^^jyith a fan, or any angry look, was the severest 
 letit ever resorted to, as far as we could* discover. 
 fltig orders, the chiefs were mild, thcugU firm ; and 
 .^ P^le always obeyed with clieerfulness.** 
 [whien tbey saw the effect of our fowling-pieces in 
 [Ijands of some of the gentlemen, they .begged that 
 ' might not kill the birds, which they wel;e always 
 to see flying about their houses. An av^t^'^r^ im- 
 Sitely issued to desist from this sort of spq^i'tl^*" 
 
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180 A OLOBlOUt BXAMPL9 OV WAfHIRGTOlV. 
 
 f'** Th9 period of our departure being now fixed, alt ourl 
 ttoret were embarked on the eveninflr pf the 96th Octoberj 
 The next morning, the Loo Choos, &> fiark of respeetj 
 arrayed themselves in their best apparel, and proceeding 
 to the temple, offered up to their godi a solemn sacrifice] 
 invoking them to protect the Englees, to avert cVlry dan] 
 ger, and restore them in safety to their own land. 
 
 " In the manner of this adieu, there wae an air of sal 
 limity and benevolence, by far more touching to the heart 
 than the roost refined compliments of a more civillzej 
 poople. It was the genuine benignity of artless «uature 
 and of primitive innocence. 
 
 i* Immediately followitig this solemnity, our partlcula 
 friend, crowded on board to shake hands and say— Fari 
 wsLL ! whilst the tears, which many of them shed, eyi 
 ced.the sincerity of theit attachment." 
 
 "'We slllod out seaward, and the breeze being favor 
 bJe, this happy island soon sunk from our view ; but 
 will be, long remembered by the officers and the crewd 
 fpr the kindness and hospitality of its inhabitants haj 
 fixed upon every mind a d%p and lasting imptesAton 
 gratitude and esteem." 
 
 A GLORIO 
 
 A GLORIOUS EXAMPLE OF WASHINGTON. 
 
 Washington was stationed at -Alexandria with a rel 
 mentt of which ^le was Colonel. At an election for me 
 bers of the Assembl v. Washington was in favor of CokJ 
 G. Fairfax, and Mr W. fayne headed the frieiidft of ' 
 liam El^ey. 
 
 In the course of the contest, Washington, grew tec 
 and said somethVng offensive to Mr Payne, who ele.Tf 
 his shelalah, and at one blow, extended our hero od 
 ground. 
 
 News was soon carried to the regiment that ^leir 
 mander was murdered by the mob. In a moment 
 whole regiment was under arms, and in r^pld moi 
 ^ towards the town, burning for vengeabipe. 1>ur)hg 
 time, Washington was so far recovered as to go s»ai 
 
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A GLORIOUII UXA^PLK OF {VAfBlIf GTOST 
 
 .• 181 
 
 ■Mt hit eiirag^ed loldien, vrho crowded around him w|Uk 
 joy to see him alive. 
 
 After thanking^ them for such evidence of attachment, 
 Ike assured them that he was not hurt, and bogged them 
 by their love to him and their duty, to return peaccablj 
 I to their barracks. 
 
 Feeling himself the aggreesor, he resolved to make Mr 
 I Payne the honorable reparation of asking his pardon. 
 Early next morning he wrote a polite note to Mr •ayne, 
 [to meet him at the tavern. . 
 
 Payne took it for a challenge, and repaired to the tav- 
 [tni in full expectation of smelling gunpowder. But what 
 jwas his surprize, on entering the chamber, in litu ff a 
 |braco of pistols, a decanter of w iiie and a pair of glasses 
 on the table. 
 
 Washington rose to meet him,, and offering His hand 
 
 Iwith a smile, began^'' Mr Payne, to err sometimes is na* 
 
 ture, to rectify error is always glory : I believe I was 
 
 Jwrong in the affair of yosterday ; you have had, I think, 
 
 Imne satisfaction, and if you deem that sufficient, here is 
 
 py hand, let us be friends.^ 
 
 An act of such sublime virtue, produced its proper ef- 
 Iftet on the mind of Mr Payne, who from that bioment be-^ 
 lame the most enthusiastic admirer ani friend of Wash* 
 |iogton. 
 
 jibridged from th» BalHmor* Pattiot, 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 " He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he who 
 iketh a city.*' In the first instance Washington was 
 orercoBie by his passions : but <n the second, he was the 
 Doqueror. Of the many anecdotes of this great man, I 
 Bollect DO one in which he appears to better advantage. 
 In no other instance, perhaps, did he ever make a great- 
 tr display of true courage and magnanimity. Compared 
 rith ^ coarse which he adopted, bow mean and con- 
 temptible would he have appeared, had he sought revenge 
 pj a duel, and added sin to sin ! 
 How cowardly and barbarous then is the conduct of 
 i\at» in general, when compared with the just, humane, 
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182 
 
 ▲ HCH BISHOP BUARPK AND THB ROBBEB. 
 
 and dignified conduct of Washington, in retracting his 
 own wrong and presenting the hand of friendship to one 
 who had rendered him evil for evil — a severe blow for an 
 offensive word. 
 
 Let it ba the care of Christians to give proper i:elebrity 
 to such examples of magna^nimity and self command— such 
 #lcvation of mind above the influence of barbarous cus- 
 toms : then duelling and war will soon cease to be popu- 
 lar, and be banished from the world. 
 
 ABCUBIB 
 
 AJICH$I3H0P SHARPE AND THE ROBBER. 
 
 It was a custom with Archbishop Sharpo in hi« jour- 
 neys, generally to have a saddle horse attending his car- 
 riage, that in case of feeling fatigued with sitting, he might 
 take the refreshment of a Hdc. In his advanced age, a 
 few years before his death, as he was going in this man- 
 ner his episcopal residence, and was got a mile or two in 
 advance of his carriage, a decently dressed, good looking 
 young man on horseback came up to him, and with a 
 trembling hand, and faultering tone of voico, presented a 
 pistol to his Grace's breast, demanding his money. 
 
 Tiie archbishop, with great composure turned round, 
 and looking stedfastly at him, desired that ke would re- 
 move that dangerous weapon and tell him fairly his con- 
 dition. *« Sir, Sir," cried the youth with great agitation, 
 " no words, 'lis not a time for words now, your money 
 instantly." •' Hear me young man," said the venerable 
 'prelate •' come on with me. I, you see, am a very old 
 «ian, and my life is of little consequence ; yours seems 
 far olheiwise. I am Sharpe, tho Achbishop of York : ray 
 carriage and servants are behind, but conceal your pertur- 
 bations and tell me who you are and what money you 
 want, and on the word of my character, 1 will i>ot injure 
 * you, but prove a friend. *^ 
 
 " Here, take this, (giving him a purse of money) and 
 Bov.' tell me how much you want, to make you indepen- 
 dent of so dangerous and destructive a course as you tre 
 nqW engaged in." *' Oh, Sir," replied the man, "I de- 
 
 t:t* 
 
AnCUBTBHOP KIIARPC AND TliV ROBBEll. 
 
 183 
 
 st th6 business as much as you do ; I am — but — but — at 
 oni8 there are creditors w!io will not wait.; llfty pounds, 
 \j lord, would indeed do what no thought ur «tongue be* 
 ides my own can feel or express." - - 
 
 ' Well, sir, I take it at your word ; and#ipon my hon* 
 ifyo'^ will compose yourself for a day or two, and then 
 
 I on rae at , what I have given you shall be made 
 
 ipthat sum ,; trust me I will not deceive you." 
 
 The highwaym^in looked at him, was silent, and went 
 
 ; and at the time appointed, actually waited on the 
 
 rchbishop, received the money, and assured his lordship 
 
 at he hoped his words had left impressions which no in-' 
 
 lucenient could ever efface. Nothing more transpired of 
 
 in for a year and a half; when one morning a person 
 
 nocked at his Grace's gate, and with a peculiar earnest- 
 
 less of voice and countenance desired to see him. 
 
 The Archbishop ordered the stranger to be introduced. 
 
 le ha4 scarcely entered the room, when his countenance 
 
 langed, his knees tottered, and he sunk almost breath- 
 
 on the floor. On recovering, )ue requested an audi- 
 
 icc in private : this being granted, he said, " My lord, 
 
 fou cannot have forgottea the circumstance of relieving 
 
 highwayman. God and gratitude will n^ever suffer it to 
 
 obliterated from my mind. In me, my Lord, you nov, 
 
 hold that once most wretched of mankind ; but now, by 
 
 our inexpressible humanity, rendered equal, perhaps su 
 
 rior, to millions. Oh, my lord, 'tis you 'tis you that 
 
 ave saved me,^body and soul ; 'tis yon that have saved 
 
 much loved wLfi^ and a little brood of children, whom 
 
 loved dearer than my own life. 
 
 "Here ray lord is the fifty pounds ; but never shairi 
 nd language to express what. I feel ; God if? your wit- 
 S8, your deed itself is your glory ; and may heaven bo 
 our present and everlasting reward." The Archbishop 
 as refusing the money, when the gentleman added, 
 My lordi 1 was the younger son of a wealthy man ; your 
 
 Irace kifew him, I am sure, my name i)> ^; my mar* 
 
 age alienated the affection of my father, who left roe to v 
 ffrow and penury. - 
 
 " My distresses— but your Grace alread^r^now's to what 
 ley droi^e me. A mopth since my brother ditt^a bachei'- 
 
184 
 
 KATVRAL AND MARTIAL 
 
 or, and intestate ; his ifortune has hecome mine ; and ij 
 «par«d and preserved by your goodness from an ignominj 
 ious deaths, am now the must |)enitent, the most grateful] 
 andjtbe happjest of human beings.'' [Percy jinecdoUi 
 
 lb # ' 
 
 Shenstone the poet, and Rev Roivland Hill, were pacll 
 ' of thom robbed, and each of them by kindness rescued hiJ 
 robber from impending destruction, and placed him in cir] 
 cumstances to provide for himself and his family. 
 
 NATURAL AND MARTIAL VOLCANOES 
 COMPARED. 
 
 A description of the desolations made by natural voica 
 Does, excite a degree of astonishment, sympathy, and, hoij 
 war, 
 
 But there is another species of tolcano, far more de 
 tru«tive to mankind than those which have been descrij 
 be<l ; many of which have existed in Europe, and in othe 
 quarters of thfe globe. 
 
 An ambitious, blood- thirsty war-maker is a martial vol 
 <eano> whose eruptions liave been more horrible than aoj 
 which have been recorded of Etna, Cotopaxi, or any otii( 
 oatural volcano of the earth. 
 
 One Tamerlane or Ghengis Khan — one Alexander 
 Cesar^one Edward III or Charles V — one Frederic 
 Prussia or Philip of Spain — one Louis XIV or Napol 
 of France, has probably caused more misery and devoid 
 tion, than all the volcanoes of Europe, or of any oM 
 quarter of the world. - 
 
 An earthquake, Which should swallow up all Europ 
 would produce less misery, and less destruction of hurci 
 life, than has been caused by the martial volcanoes of th^ 
 part of the globe. * 
 
 Yet such has been the infatuation of our race» that 
 other, men have been so much praised as these milit 
 destroyersw Tb# murderers of millions have long 
 held in admiration, if not adored, by a deluded \?orld. 
 
 Who is not ast 
 jtopaxi has sent f( 
 of 20 or 30 milei 
 lits course ! 
 
 But what is all 
 jfliich the flaminj 
 [the crater of a w; 
 
 The eruptions 
 [irhole provinces, 
 Irindreds, and ev 
 tioas. 
 
 In one eruptior 
 eitenAed to Java 
 jinhabitaDts with i 
 plosions of .a mai 
 ruin of multitude 
 «rater. 
 
 " Volcan 
 
 Their eruption! 
 I smoke, which ind 
 canic Princes, i 
 
 For a consider 
 , ich princes caus 
 tries loud bellow 
 danger. 
 
 Next is seen 
 threatenings anc 
 indicates an infei 
 
 This is soon fi 
 nited substsince 
 whole countries 
 tion and wo. 
 
 Thus one mar| 
 has done more 
 ttn eeiUurieSy wi 
 seldom less than| 
 
 The name vol 
 the fabulous « 
 titb justice be 
 
VOLCANOES C01TPA|l£D. 
 
 185 
 
 Who is not astonished, when he hears t!>at Etna or Cu 
 \i has sent forth rivers of burning lava to the extent 
 of 20 or 30 miles, spreading ruin and horror throughout 
 its course ! >« 
 
 But what is all this when compared with the extent to 
 which the flaming lava has spread, which has issued from 
 the crater of a wanton volcanic Prince ! 
 
 The eruptions of one martial volcano have di»so1aiel 
 irhole provinces, and spread the flames of destruction for 
 h'lndreds, and even thousands'' of miles, in various direc- 
 tioas. 
 
 In one eruption of Tomboro the ashes of the explosion 
 estenAed to Java, a distance of 300 miles, and filled thtf 
 inhabitaiats with consternation and dismay ; but the ex- 
 plosions of„a martial volcano (lave caused tho death and 
 ruin of multitudes of men, moT". than 3000 miles from the 
 «rater. 
 
 '* Volcanoes bellow ero ihey disemiiogue !" 
 
 Their eruptions too are preceded by terrific, menacing 
 [smoke, which indicates an explosion. It is thus with vol- 
 canic Princes. 
 
 For a considerable time previous to a violent eruption, 
 ich princes cause to be heard in all the adjacent eoun' 
 tries loud bellowing^ of complaints, and cries of insult and 
 danger. 
 
 Next is seen a smoking manifesto — •* breathing on< 
 threatenings and slaughter'- — the heat of which clearly 
 indicates an infernal origin. "^ 
 
 This is soon followed by l;»e explosion of volcanic, ig- 
 nited substances, and boiiing lava, which overspread* 
 whole countries with misery, death, and horror, lamenta- 
 tion and wo. 
 
 Thus one martial volcano, not more than six foot high, 
 has done more mischief in one year, than Etna has done in 
 ten eeiitufiea, with a height of two miles, and a " crater 
 seldom less than it mite in circuit." 
 
 The name voZcano Was probably derived from Vulcan, 
 the fabu1ou# •* god of subterranean 6re.»> It may then 
 li^ith justice be applied tci the miiitary destroyer, whose 
 
180 
 
 I CUKIOSITY. 
 
 *• tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, that settcth on fire| 
 the course of aature, and is set on fire Qf hell.'* 
 
 CUB^IOSITY. 
 
 In the groat circle of human affairs, there is room fori 
 tBvery one to be busy and well employed in his own prov- 
 ince, without encroaching upon that of others. It is tljal 
 province of superiors to direct ; of inferiors to obey; off 
 the learned, to be* instructive ; of the ignorant, to be do- 
 cile ; of the old, to be communicative ; of the young- fo be 
 advisable and diligent. Art thou poor] Show thyself ac- 
 tive and industrious, peaceable and contented. Art thou 
 wealthy 1 Shov/ thyself beneficent and charit^itle, concle-| 
 sccnding and humane. If tliou livest much in the wotUI, 
 it is thy duty to make the light of a good example shine I 
 conspicuously before others. If thou livest private aiid| 
 retired, it is thy businesj to improve thine own mind, 
 and to add, if thou canst do no more, one faithful sub 
 ject to the Messiah's kingdom. There is no man so 
 seque^ered from active life, but within his own narrow 
 sphere he may find some opportunities, of doing good ; of | 
 cultivating friendship, promoting peace, and discharging^ 
 many of those lesser offices of humanity and kindness, 
 which are within the reach of every one, and which we 
 owe to one another. In all the various relations which 
 subsist among us in life, as husband and wife, masters and 
 servants, parents and children, relations and friends, rulers 
 and subjects, innumerable duties stand ready to be per- 
 formed ; innumerable calls to virtuous activity present 
 tli«mselvcs on every hand, sufficient to fill up with advan- 
 tage and honor the whole time^of a man. 
 
 These are much wortliier and nobler objects of your at- 
 tention, than any of those trifling varieties which you can 
 explore and discover in the character of thosQ among 
 %vhom you live. By lifting your view to so high a stand- 
 ard, you will be preserved from descending to those futile 
 and corrupted employments of thought, which occupy the 
 jdle, the vain ^ud the malignant. It is incredible, hoir 
 
CDRIOSITY, 
 
 187 
 
 Lich time and attention arf thrown a\vay by men in ex* 
 Imining the affairs of others, and discussing their conduct. 
 Kere only tlieir time and attention thrown away, the evil 
 (would in some dogrec, 1)0 less. But they are \V^orsc than 
 lirown away ; they are not merely fruitless, hut produCv- 
 Itive of much mischief. Such a habit of thought is con- 
 liected with a thousand vices. It is the constant source of 
 ash and severe censure. It arises from envy and jealousy, 
 tt foments ill nature and pride. It propagates niisunder- 
 llanding and discord. All those evils would be prevented, 
 the reproof which our Lord administers in the text, 
 ic oftencr home, with proper authority to thft reflection 
 man ; * What is that to theel' Each of us have more 
 iterial and important business of our own to fulfil. Our 
 sk is assi^ed, our part allotted. Did we suitably ex- 
 ^nine how that part was performed, we should be less dis- 
 osed to busy ourselves about the concerns of others. We 
 liould discover a disorder to be corrected at home ; many 
 iweed to be pulled out from our own grounds ; much re- 
 paining to be done, in order to render ourselves useful in 
 his world, and fit for a world to come. 
 Wherefore, instead of being critics on others, let us em- 
 ploy our criticism on ourselves. Leaving others to be 
 Iged by Him who searcheth the keart, let us implore 
 assistance for enabling us to act well our own part, and 
 follow Christ. 
 
 That idle curiosity, that inquisitive and meddling spirit, 
 ^hich leads men to pry into the affairs of their neighbors, 
 I reprehensible on three accounts. It interrupts the good 
 |[der, and breaks the peace of society. It brings forward 
 Dd nourishes several bad passions. It draws men aside 
 oiD a proper attention to the discharge of their own duty. 
 It interrupts, I say, the order, and breaks the peace of 
 ciety. In this world we ate linked together by many 
 les. We are bound by duty, and we are prompted by m- . 
 rest, to give mutual assistance, and to perform friendl j 
 kes to each other. But those friendly offices are per- 
 iod to most advantage, when we avoid interfering un*- 
 iri!y in the concerns of our neighbor. Every man 
 hti own part to act, has his own interest to consult, 
 •ffiiirt of his own to manage, which his neighbor ha« 
 
188 
 
 THK GOVBBROR AND NOTARY. 
 
 m 
 
 no call to ticrutinizc. Human )ife then proceeds in it 
 moit natural and orderly trtin, when f^-vnty one keer 
 within the bounds of his proper province ; when, as Ion] 
 as his pursuits are fair and lawful, he is allowed, witboii 
 disturbance, to conduct them in his own way. That j\ 
 study tqrbe quiet, and to do your own business, is theapo( 
 tolical rule, and indeed the great rule, for preservation 
 harmony and order. But so it is, that in every age, a iJ 
 of men have existed, who, driven by an unhappy actiyi( 
 of spjrit, oitener perhaps than by any settled design 
 doing ill, or any motives of ambition or interest, love 
 intermeddle where they have no concern, to inquire inj 
 the private affairs of others, and, from the imperfect infof 
 mation which they collect, to form conclusions concerniij 
 their circumstances and character. These are they yt\ 
 in Scripture, are characterised as tattlers, and busy bodi| 
 in other men's matters, and from whom we are called 
 turn away. 
 
 Though persons of this description should be proinpt| 
 by nothing but vain curiosity, they are, neverthele 
 dangerous troublers of the world. 'While they conceil 
 themselves to be inoffensive, they are sowing dissen!| 
 abd feuds. Crossing the lines in which others move, tl 
 create confusion, and awaken resentment. For every 
 conceives himf^elf to be injured, whj^n he finds another] 
 truding into his affairs, and, without any title, taking i 
 on him to examine his conduct. Being improperly 
 unnecessarily disturbed, he claims the right of disturl 
 in his turn those who wantonly have troubled him. Hei 
 many a friendship has been broken ; the peace of maDJ 
 family has been overthrown ; and much bitter and las^ 
 discord has been propagated through society. 
 
 [PierpotUi 
 
 THE GOVERNOR AND NOTARY. 
 
 In Former times there ruled, as Governor of the All 
 bra, in Spain, a doughty old cavalier, who, from haj 
 lost one arm in the wars, was commonly known bv 
 
TIIK GOVERNOn AND/TOTAHY, 
 
 193 
 
 
 name of cl G^obernador IManco, or tho ' 9ne armed govern- 
 or.' Ho, in fact, prided himself in being an old soldier. 
 Lore his mustachios curled up to his eyes, a pair of cam- 
 Ipaigning boots, and'a toledo as long as a spit, ^vith his 
 Ipockct-handkerchief in tho basket hilt. 
 I He was moreover, exceedingly proud and punctilious, and 
 Itenacious of all his privileges and dignities. Under his 
 bway, the immunities of the Alhambra, as a royal residence 
 had domain, were rigidly exacted. No one was permitted 
 Ito enter the fortress with fire arms, or oven with a sword 
 ]()r staff, unless he was ofa certain rank ; and every horse- 
 nao was obliged to dismount at his ^ate and lead his horse 
 lAhe bridle. — Now as the hill of the Alhambra rises from 
 Hiic very midst of the city of Grenada, being, as it were, 
 ^n excrescence of the capitol, it must, at m\ times, be 
 omeWhat irksome to the cijptain-general who commands: 
 he Province, to have thus an imporiuni in imperio, 'a 
 etty independent post in tho very centre of his domains. 
 [was rendered the more galling, in the present instance^ 
 om the irritable jealousy of the old governor which took 
 Ire on the least question of authority and jurisdiction, 
 nd from the loose vagrant character of the poopb, that 
 li gradually nestled themselves within the fortress as in 
 [lanctuary, and from thence carried on a system of rogue- 
 and depredation at the expense of the honest inhabit- 
 i\A of the city. 
 
 Thus there was a perpetual feud and heart burning be- 
 peen the captain-general and the governor, the more vir- 
 int on the part of the latter inasmuch as the smallest of 
 two neighboring potentates is always the most cap- 
 is about his dignity. The stately palace of tho cap • 
 |in-general stood in the Plaza Nueva, immodiately under 
 bill Alhambra, and here was always a bustle and pa- 
 ds of guards and domestics, and eity functionaries, A 
 etiing bastion of the fortress overlooked the pafoee and 
 kblic square in front of it ; and on this bastion the old 
 Ivernor would occasionally strut backwards and for-. 
 uds, with his toledo girded by his side, keeping a wa-, 
 jeye down upon his rival, like a hawk reconnoitering- 
 I quarry from bis nest in a dry tree. 
 Whenever he descended into the city, it was in grand: 
 
t94 
 
 THIS timrURSlOB AW ROTAnV, 
 
 f* 
 
 parade, on horseback, surrounded by \m guards, or in iiin 
 ktato C(Mcl), un aifcient and unwieldy S|.anieli vdifice, of 
 carved timber and gilt leather, drawn by eight mules, Avlthj 
 running tuotinon, out^ridcrs, and lacquics, on which occa- 
 sion ho flattered himself he impressed every beholder witlJ 
 awe and admiration, as vice-regent of the king, thou{rh| 
 the wits of Grenada, particularly tliose who loitered ahout| 
 the. palace of the captlin-gcneinl, were apt to enecr at his 
 petty parade, and in allusion to the vap;rant character oil 
 his subjects, to greet him with the appellation of king <oi 
 the beggars.' One of the most fruitful sources of dispute 
 between those two doughty rivals, was the right claiiued 
 by the governor, to have all tilings passed free of (fjtvl 
 through the dity, that wore intended for himself or garri{ 
 son. By 4||j;rees, this privilege, had given rise to exten 
 sive smuggling. A nest of contrabandists took up tlteij 
 MAbode in the hovels of the fortress and the numerous cavej 
 ih \\fi vicinity, and drove a thriving business under tbj 
 connivance of the soldiers of the garrison. 
 
 . The vigilance of the captain-general was aroused. H^ 
 consulted his legal adviser and factotum, a shrewd, ined 
 dlosome escribano or notary, who rejoiced in an opportu 
 nily oj perplexing the old potentate of the Alhambra, an 
 involving him in amaze of legal subletics. He advised tli 
 ^ptain^general to insist upon the right of examining e^ 
 eiy convoy passing through the gales of his city, and 
 penned a long letter to him in vindication of the right,-^ 
 Governor IVlanco was a straight forwad cut-and-thrust oS 
 soldier, who hated an escribano and this one in particulf 
 worse than all escribanos. 
 *• 'What!' said he, curling up his mustacbros fiercelJ 
 < do«s the captain- general set his man of the pen to praj 
 tic.v confusions upon mel Til let him see that an 
 soldier is not to be bailed by school-craft.' 
 
 Ue seized his pen, and scrawled a short letter in aer 
 bed band, in which, without deigning to Winter into arg 
 naent, be insisted on the rigb.t to transmit free of sear^ 
 and denounced vengeance on any custom-bouse ofli(j 
 who should lay bis hand on any convoy protected by 
 flag of (be Alhambra. While ibis question was agitalj 
 between the two praginatical potentates it to ha|)pei 
 
Tilt: GOVCRROn AND NUTAnY. 
 
 195 
 
 that a mule laden with supplies fol (he fortress, T»rnvc.l 
 one (lay at Xenil, by which it was to twivorse a suburb of 
 the city on its way to the Alhan»..ra. — The convxy was 
 beaded by a testy old corporak who had lonp; t^crved un- 
 der the governor, and was a man after bis own heart ; ns 
 rusty and staunch as an old tolcJo blado. As thoy ap 
 proichcJ the g.ilc r.f t'ae city, the cwrporal placed th»i 
 bnner of the Alliainbra on the pack-saddle of tho inul« 
 and drawi.ig himself up to a perfect perpendicular ad- 
 vanced 'vith his head dressed to ilio front, but with tho 
 wary side glance of a cur passing through hostile (rround, 
 ready for a snap and a snarl. 
 
 * Who goes there V said the sentineKat tho gate. 
 
 » A soldier of tho Alh^mbra,' said the corporal without 
 turning his head. 
 ♦What have you in cijarge 1* 
 < Provisions for tho garrison.* 
 
 * Proceed.' 
 
 The corporal marched straight forward followed by th« 
 convoy but had not advanced many paces, before a posse 
 of custom-house officers rushed out of a small tcdl-hGUse. 
 
 'Hallo there!* cried the Jeader, * muleteer halt, and 
 open those pacltages. . 
 
 Tlie corporal wheeled round, and drew himself i»p in 
 battle array. * Respect the flag of the Alharabra,' said 
 he, • these things are for tho governor.' 
 
 ' A fig for the g':vernor, and a fig for his flag. Mule- 
 teer, halt, I say.' , 
 
 * Stop the convoy at your peril !' cried the corporal, 
 cocking hifs musket, * muleteer proceed,' 
 
 The muleteer gave his beast a iicarty thwack ; thecii** 
 torn-house officer sprang forward, and seized the halter ; 
 whereupon the corporal levelled his piece and ^hot him 
 dead. 
 The street was almost immediately in an uproar. / 
 The old corporal was seized, and, after undergoing sun- 
 dry kicks, and cuffs and cudgeliugs, which are generally 
 given impron^ptu by the mob in Spain, as a foretaste o< 
 the after penalties of the law, he was loaded with irons, 
 •Dd conducted to the city prison while his comrades wero 
 
100 
 
 THE OOVURNOR AND WOTAnY, 
 
 pormittoci to procenil wil!» the couvoy, alter it iiad been 
 rutpaged, to the Alhamlira. 
 
 The old governor was in a towering passion when he 
 heard of this insult to his fhig and capture of his corporal. 
 For a time, he storraed ahout the moorish liallji, and va 
 jiored uhout thi) hastiuns, and looked down tire and nwonl 
 upon the palace of tlje captain-general. Having vented 
 the first ebiillitiou of his wrath, ho despatched a n)efs»;;o, 
 demanding the surrender of the corporal, as to him he 
 longed tho right of sitting in jiidgir»i;nt on the oftcnces of 
 those under his comrr.and. The captain-general aided hy 
 the pen of tho delighted escrihano, replied at great length, 
 arguing tliat, as tho offence bad been committed within 
 the walls of his city, and against one of the civil olFicers, 
 it was clearly within his jurisdiction. The governor re- 
 joiued by a repetition of his demand ; the captain-general 
 gavc^a sur-rejoinder of still greater length and legal acu- 
 men ; the governor became hotter and more peremptory 
 in his demands, and the captain- general cooler and more 
 copious in his replies ; until the old lion-hearted soldier 
 absolutely roared with fury at being thus entangled iu tho 
 meshes of legal controversy* 
 
 Whil 
 
 the expense of the governor he was conducting the trial 
 of tho corporal, who mowed up in a narrow dungeon of 
 the prison, had merely a small grated window at. which 
 to show his iron-bound visage, and receive the consolationi 
 of his friends. 
 
 A mountain of written testimony was diligently heaped 
 up, according to the Spanish form by the indescribable «k-- 
 cribano.— The corporal was completely overwhelmed by 
 it. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 'be 
 banged.. 
 
 It was in vain the governor sent down remonstrance 
 and menace from the Alhambra. The fatal day was at 
 hand, and the corporal was put in capilla, that is to say 
 in the chapel of the prison, as is always done with cu>« 
 prits tho day before execution, that they may meditate on 
 their approaching end, and repent them of their sins. 
 
 Seeing things drawing to an extremity, the old goverii- 
 or determined to attend to the„ affair in person. For thig 
 
 u the subtle escrihano was thus amusing himself at 
 
THE OOTBRnOB AND KOTXRY, 
 
 197 
 
 purpose, he ordered out liia carriap;e of state, and, ■ur- 
 roiindod by iiii guards, rumbled down the avenue of t^e 
 Alliambra into tito city. — Driving to the house of tho e8- 
 cribauo, he summoned him to the portal. 
 
 T!)9 eye of the governor gb>amed like a coal at be- 
 holding the smirking man of the la^v advancing with an 
 •ir of exultation. 
 
 < What is this I hoar,' cried he, * that you are about to 
 put to death one of my soldiers V 
 
 * All strictly according to law— all in duo form of jus- 
 tice,' said the gelf-sufFicicnt cscribano chuckling and rub- 
 bing his hands. * I can show your excellency the writ- 
 ten testimony in the case.' 
 
 • Fetch it hither,' said the governor. — The escribano 
 bustled into his ofiice, delighted with having another op- 
 portunity of displaying his ingenuity at the expense of 
 the hard-headed veteran. 
 
 He returned with a satchel full of papers, and began to 
 read a long deposition with professional volubility. By 
 this time, a crowd had collected, listening with out- 
 itretched necks and gaping mouths. 
 
 ' Prythee, man, get into the carriage, oujt of the pcsti* 
 lent throng, that I may the better hoar thee,' said the 
 the, governor. 
 
 The cscribano entered the carriage, when in a twink- 
 iing, tho door was closed, the coachmen smacked his >yhip 
 -mules, carriage, guards, and all, dashed off at a thun- 
 |dering r^te, leaving the crowd in gaping wonderment ; 
 
 r did the governor pause until he had lodged his prey 
 
 one of the strongest dungeons of the Alhambra. 
 
 He then sent down a flag of truce in military style, 
 iroposing a cartel or exchange of prisoners — the corporal 
 
 r the notary. — The pride of the captain-general wae 
 liqued; he returned a contemptuous refusal, and forth - 
 ith caused a gallows, tall and strong to be erected in tho 
 
 Dtre of the Piazza Nueva, for the execution of the cor- 
 oral. 
 
 'Oho! is that the gameV said the governor. He 
 
 ire orders, and immediately a gibbet was reared on the 
 
 erge of the great beetling bastion that overlooked the 
 
 hxA. ' Now' said he, in a message to the captain gen- 
 
 R2 
 
 » 
 
^ 
 
 I'UC OOTICRNOR AND ROTARY. 
 
 ^t^l, ' hang my soldier when you please ; but ftt tite saoiJ 
 time that he is swung off in the square, look to see yourl 
 escribano dangling against the sky.' 
 
 The captain-general wa3 inflexible ; trcops were paraJ 
 'itfed in the sfquare ; the drums beat, the bells tolled. Ac 
 ' immense number of amateurs had collected to behold tiie 
 execution. Pn the other hand, the governor paraded hiij 
 garrison on the bastion, and tolled the funeral dirge of the 
 notary from the Torre de la Oampans, or Tower of thcj 
 bell. 
 
 The notary's wife pressed through the croWd, anj 
 throwiug herself at the feet of the captain general, implor-j 
 ed him not to sacrifice the life of her husband, and the 
 welfare of herself and her numerous little ones, to a poinj 
 of pride, * for you know the old governor too well' said 
 she, *to doubt that he will not put his threat in execu-j 
 tion, if you hang the soldier.' 
 
 The captain-general was overpowered by her tears anJ 
 lamentations, ajid the clamor of her children. The corpo] 
 ral was sent up tc the Alhambra, under a guard, in a^lj 
 lows garb, like a hooded' friar, but with head erect, and 
 face of iron. — The escribancT was demanded in exchand 
 according to the cartel. The once bustling and selfsuffi] 
 • cient man of the law was drawn forth from his dungc 
 more dead than alive. All his flippancy had evaporated! 
 his hair, it is said had nearly turned grey with affrightj 
 ahd he had a down-cast, dogged look, as if he still felt th( 
 Jbalter around his neck. 
 
 The old governor placed hiis one arm a-kimbo, and, foj 
 a, moment, surveyed him with an iron smile. * Htfhe 
 forth, ray friend,' said he, * moderate your zeaF in hurryj 
 ing others to the gallows; be not too certain 6f ,'y^ur owi 
 ''ifafety, even though yott should hive the laMr' on ywj 
 ■ ilide ; and above all, take care how you play off' you 
 idhoolrcraft another time upon an old loldidr.*-- irasfttrt^ 
 ion Jiving. ^ 
 
t tffe laoiil 
 
 I see yourl 
 
 wrere para^ 
 oiled. Ac 
 behold tile 
 paraded hi^ 
 iirge of the 
 wer of th^ 
 
 crowd, anj 
 ral, implor-j 
 id, and the 
 I, to a poinj 
 well' said 
 : iu exccuj 
 
 it tears anJ 
 
 The corpoi 
 
 rd, in a ^l] 
 
 ;rect, and 
 
 Q exehand 
 
 id seifsuffi] 
 
 is dungc 
 
 evaporated 1 
 
 itli afifrightj 
 
 still felt th^ 
 
 ibo, and, fo 
 e. <Heh( 
 1 in hurryl 
 of 'your Of ( 
 iMr' on y< 
 ay bff'yot 
 
 i-; J r ' 
 
 ft 
 
 V, 
 
 THE VriLD GISL. 
 
 THE WILD GIRL. 
 
 1^ 
 
 In 1731, as a nobleman was shootin^^, at Songi, netr 
 [Chalons, in Champagne, ha saw at a distance in the water, 
 lomething which he touk for a couple of birds, and at 
 [which he fired. * 
 
 The. supposed birds avoided the shot by diving, and rit- 
 [iog at another place, made, to the shore, v/hen it appeared 
 [that they were two children, nine or ten years o^ age. 
 
 One of these children returned to the river and was ncr- 
 ler afterwards seen ; the other went to the village of Sbn- 
 Iji. The inhabitants were frightened at her singular ap- 
 jpearance. 
 
 They set a great dog at her ; but she waited his attack 
 [without stii*ring from her place, and as soon as he wa» 
 [within reach, gave him such a blow with her club as laid 
 [him dead at her feet. 
 
 Unable to gain admisaioii into any house, she returned 
 IJDto the fields, climbed up a tree, and there took her re- 
 [pose. • 
 
 The Viscount d'Epinoy cffercd a reward. to any one wha 
 itould catcfi this wild girl. At length she was allured tt> 
 jfome down^fcy a woman who walked under the tree with 
 |i child in her arms, and oiTered her fish an'd roots. 
 When she had descended, some persons lying in wait 
 ttked 'her and conveyed her to the Viscount's seat. At 
 lint she was taken into the kitchen, where she fell upon 
 le wild fewl, and ate them up before the cook missed 
 Itbem. 
 The Viscount delivered her to the care of a shepherd, 
 smn^endlng him' to be extremely attentive to her," 
 under a protiiise of-^ayir>p; him well for his trouble. 
 It c<Mc a j^r»at deal of trouble to rendier her a little tamli. 
 )nce she eloped in a severe frost, during a heavy fall of 
 low,, and after a Ibiig^earch was found sitting on a ttet 
 i the open fields. 
 
 Nothing was more astonishing than the swiftness and 
 
 jjility witl| which she ran. She did not take long step* 
 
 pike other people, hit her run 'was rather a flyings trip, 
 
 rhicI|Vas k ore like gliding than walking. 
 
 Sevlbral y lan after the had been caught she was capa- 
 
 
 
 
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m 
 
 THE WILD GIBL. 
 
 ble of outstripping wild animals, which she proverl to thj 
 queen of Poland in 1737 ; beinj; taken out on 9, huntifln 
 party, she ran after rabbits and hares that were started] 
 caught them presently, and brought them to tbe queen. 
 
 In her savage state she had no language, but a surtoi 
 *rild ftcreanri, which sounded frightfully when she wai iJ 
 anger,^ and ()articularly when a stranger attempted to takij 
 hold of her. 
 
 Long afterwards her speech had something wild, abrjpJ 
 tiDd chi^ish ; but when she was a little civilized^ she apl 
 peared to bo a quick, lively" girl. 1 
 
 There was nothing, from which she was more difficuil 
 to be weaned, than eating flesh and vegetables raw. Hel 
 •tomach could not hear dressed victuals. 
 
 Once the Viscount had a large company, apd she ts^ti 
 table with them. None of the high seasoneddishes bein^ 
 to her taste, she started up, vanished like lightning, fille 
 her apron with live frogs from the nearest pool, hasteneJ 
 back, and bestowed them amopg the guests with a libera] 
 liand, joyfully exclaiming — '• here, here, take some !" 
 
 In the year 1732, this remarkable girl was baptized bj 
 the name of Maria le Blanc. On account cf the chand 
 an her mode of life, she was often ill, and, afl^pr the deati 
 of her patron, ^pcnt the remainder of her days in a co&f 
 vent. 
 
 How this child came into that wild state, and in wha 
 country she was born, could never be asc^ained witi 
 certainty. It was conjectured that she was ap £fliquiiniu 
 brought to Europe in some ship. 
 
 When shl? had learned to talk, she said that the haj 
 twice crossed the sea — gave a description of boats rf 
 bling those of the Esquimaux ; and i^hen shj^ was sfarDi 
 a series of delineations ot peoples of differont coontrie 
 «he seen)ed u^reeably suprized oncomiizg to ]^at in wbic 
 ibt Efquimaux w^re represented^ [iVffMMf -Prfe^^^. 
 
 :»>t 
 
TRAITS or INDlAir CHARACTER. 
 
 201 
 
 AMIABLE TRAITS IN THE CHARACTER' OF 
 THE INDIANS. 
 
 s 
 
 There is no nation in the world who pay ^ater respect 
 I old' age than the American Indians. FrollJf their infan- 
 
 thoy are taught to be kind and attentive to aged per- 
 ijas and never to let them suffer for want of necessaries 
 : comforts. 
 The parents spare no pains to impress upon the minds 
 
 their children thp conviclion^l||it they ^ould draw 
 bwa upon themselves the anger orihe Great Spirit^ were 
 |iey to neglect those whom in his goodness, he had per- 
 lilted to attain an advanced age. 
 
 j It is indeed a moving spectacle to fsee the tender and 
 jtlicate attentions which, on every occasiop, they lavish 
 
 on aged and decrepid persons. 
 [When going out a hunting, they will put them on a 
 
 se or in a canoe, ajad take them into the woods to their 
 JBnting ground, in order to revive their spirits, by msk- 
 
 tbem enjoy thesight of a sport in which they can no 
 Dger participate. 
 I At home, the old are as well treated and taken care of 
 
 if they were favorite children. » They ar« cherished, 
 
 l«ven caressed ; indulged in health and nursed in sick- 
 
 I ; and all their wishes and wants are anticipated. 
 [Their company is sought by the young, te whom their 
 
 rersation is considered an honor. Their advice is ask- 
 |oD all occasions : their words are Ustened to as oracles. 
 
 hj, even the second childhood, often attendant «n ex- 
 
 w old age, is never with the Itidians a snbject of ridi- 
 
 I or latighter. Respect, gratitude and love^are tocxpre- 
 
 Dinant in their minds to permit any degrading idea ta 
 with these truly honorable and generous leelings. 
 
 BiaiHty is not common among the Indians j yet I hare 
 
 pwn several who were afflicted with mental derange-^ 
 
 it. 
 
 Ifen in this situation are always considered as ebjects 
 
 pity. 
 
 Srei'Jr one, young and old, feels compassion for their 
 tune i to laugh or scoff at them would he ct)niidered 
 erime, much more so to iwult or molest thent* 
 
303 
 
 TRAITS OF xnrniAir ^haraotieb. 
 
 The nation or color of the unfortunate object makoi doI 
 %<Kfferencc ; the charity of the Indian extends to all, andl 
 .'Ao discrimination is made in such a lamentable cas». 
 
 Suicide is not considered by the Indians either as an act] 
 of heroism ojitof cowardice, nor is it with them a subjee 
 of praise or %lame. They view this desperate act as th^ 
 . consequence of mental derangement, and the person wl 
 destroys himself is to them an object of pity. 
 
 The first step that parents take towards the education 
 of their children, is tgim^pare them for future happiDes^ 
 by impressing; upon 'MHf^<^"<^^6'' ininds, that thby are in| 
 debted for their oxisnl^ to a great, good and benevoienj 
 Spirit, who not only has given them life, but has ordaine 
 them for certain great purposes. 
 
 The parents next proceed to make them sensible of tiJ 
 distinction between good and evil, that good acts are plea{ 
 ing to the good spirit ; all that is bad proceeds from th 
 bad Spirit, who had given them nothing. 
 
 Instruction is given in the gentlest and most persuasiv 
 manner; nor is the parent's authorfty ever supported 
 harsh, compulsive means ; no whips, no punishments, 
 tlireats arc ever used to enforce commands or compel oB 
 dience. 
 
 A father needs Oiily say in the presence of his childref 
 ** I want such a tWng done ; I want one of my childn 
 to go upon such an errand, let me see ^vho is thegoj 
 child that will do it.'» 
 
 This word good operates, as it were, by magic, and 
 children vie with each other to comply with the wishesj 
 their parent. In this manner of bringing up children,! 
 parents are seconded by the whole community. 
 
 If.a child is sent from his father's dwelling to car 
 dish of victuals to an aged person, all in the house wilij^ 
 in calling him a good chikl. If a child is seen leading} 
 3ld person, the villagers call on one another to look 
 and see what a gooc2 child that must be. When acU 
 has committed a bad act, the parent will say, ** Oh ! 
 j»;rieved I am that my child has done this &ad act. I M 
 he will never do so again." This is generally effect 
 particularly if said in the presence of others. ^ 
 
CBOWMNG THE WISEST. 
 
 20S 
 
 ; makof do 
 to all, audi 
 cast. 
 
 ;r as an ac< 
 n a subjecl 
 3 act as thi 
 person w 
 
 CROWNING THE WISEST. 
 
 Not many years ago, it happenet] that a young gentle* 
 gian from New-York visiled London. His father being 
 leonnected with several of the lAagnates of the British ar- 
 istocracy, the. you n^ American \jas introduced into the 
 Ifashionable circles ' of tl»e metropolis, where either in i:on- 
 lequcncq^of his line personal appearance, or that his fa- 
 ther was reported to he v«ry rich, or that he was a new 
 . Jfigare on the stage, he attractec". much attention, and be- 
 y^ ^yV^Bome quite the favorite of the ladies. Thislyas not at all 
 i benevolenH^ljjjjjgj ^y ^1^^ British beaux, but as no very fair pretext 
 
 'cred for a rebuff, they were compelled to treat him civilly. 
 
 [Thus matters stood when the Hon. Mr (M. P.) and la- 
 
 ly madd a party to accompany them to their country seat 
 
 le educatioi 
 e happinesi 
 
 has ordaine 
 
 nsible of tli| 
 cts are plwi 
 :eds fromtl 
 
 in Cambridgeshire, and the American was among the in- 
 
 ited guests. Numerous were the devices to which these 
 
 leTotees of pleasure resorted in order to Uill that stubboTD 
 
 Id fellow who will measure his hours, when he ought to 
 
 now they are not wanted, and the ingenuity of ev«^ 
 
 me was taxed to remember or invent something novel. • 
 
 The Yankees are proverbially ready of invention, and 
 
 le American did honor to his character as a man aceus- 
 
 lied to freedom of thought. .He was frank and gay, 
 
 d entered into -the sports and amusements with that Qn« 
 
 fected enjoyment which communicated a part of his fresh 
 
 elings to the most worn-out fashionist in the party. Hit 
 
 d nature, would have been sneered at hy some of the 
 
 lad cavaliers, had ho not been such a capital shot, and 
 
 le might have been quizzed had not the ladies, won bj 
 
 lit respectful and pleasant civilities, and his constant at- 
 
 ntion in the drawing room and saloon, always ahowed 
 
 emselves his friends. 
 
 But a combination was at last formed among a trio of 
 adies, staunch patrons of the Quarterly, to annihilato 
 Ihe American. They proposed to vary the eternal eves- 
 Ing waltzing and piping by the acting of charadea and 
 laying various games, and having interested one of thoao 
 iitf|tigable ladies, who always tarry their point in tht 
 ^^^_iitl»f, it was toted to be the thing. 
 [^eeftwiMt'l ^jf^ goB^e f^^ charades bad been dispoaed of, ona of 
 
 )St persuasi 
 supported b| 
 nishments, 
 r compel ol 
 
 bis childrei 
 
 my cbildi 
 
 is thog( 
 
 lagic, and 
 the wishei 
 
 p children 
 
 ity. 
 
 ing to ca 
 
 house will 
 leen leading 
 er to look 
 When ad 
 
 y, « Oh ! 
 d act. I hi 
 
 jrally «ffecti 
 
 4. 
 
204 
 
 CROWNING THE WISEST. 
 
 the gentleman begged leave to propose the game calledl 
 i Crowning the ifisest ' Thid is played by selecting al 
 Judge of the game, and three persons, either ladies orl 
 gentlemen, who are to contest for the crown by answer-l 
 ing successively, the various que*itions which the resto( 
 the party are at liberty to ask. The one who is declared] 
 to have been the readiest and happiest In his answers re- 
 -ceives the crown. t 
 
 Our American much against his inclination, was chosei 
 among the three candidates. He was aware that his poj 
 «ition, in the^ society with which he was mingling requirj 
 ed of him to sustain himself. He was, to be sure, treated 
 with distinguished attention by his host and hostess, and 
 generally ,by the party, but this was a favor to the individ^ 
 ual, and not one of the company understood the characteij 
 of republicans or appreciated the Republic. The thred 
 worthies had arranged that their turn for questioning hit 
 should fall in succession, and be the last. The first out 
 was a perfect exquisite, and witli an air of roost ineflabit 
 condescension he put his question. 
 
 If I understand rightly the government of your coun-j 
 
 IS voice was I 
 
 Dt. 
 
 Should I vj 
 ich I am con^ 
 id give ftie an 
 of 
 
 'You niu/jt in 
 
 hj is the wise 
 
 skill x)( man 
 
 ly barbarous. 
 
 will meet yo 
 
 le argue witi 
 
 The murmur w 
 
 expression of 
 
 n received. 
 
 rhe third then 
 
 ic» which seemi 
 
 '' require youi 
 
 nlea of the | 
 
 iwer. You ha\ 
 
 ies— which are 
 
 try you acknowledge no distinctions of rank, consequentljHThe youn? 
 
 you can have no court standard for the manners of a geoAu bright with fl' 
 you favor qie with information where you Aeathed manv a I 
 politeness is to be found.* |bed patriot from 
 
 01 
 
 you 
 
 tloman— will 
 
 best school of 
 
 ♦ For your benefit,' replied the American, smiling calmBiiigh he boYred'i 
 
 ly, * I would Vecommend the Falls of Niagara— a contemfl'The standard 
 
 plation of that stupendous wonder teaches humility to t^ ' 
 
 proudest, and human nothingness to the vainest. It 
 
 bukes the trifler, and arouses the most »tupid ; in short il 
 turns men from their idols ; and when we acknowledi 
 that God only is Lord, we feel that men are out equals, 
 true christian is always polite. 
 
 There was a murmur among the audience, but whetheBnjfore the Am' ' 
 of applause or censure the American could not determioelig^aiQ bowed l^'^ 
 as he did not choose to betray any anxiety for the resulP^**' •• ®^ 
 
 hj a scrutiny of the faces which he know were bent 
 laim. 
 
 The second now proposed his question. He ^i^ecl 
 to be a great politician, was mustachioed and whiskei 
 Uke a diplomatist, which station, ho had been covetio 
 
 \kthe power of 
 
 k^eonsequently 
 
 *eloved, and rcl 
 
 ft. Now I iisi 
 
 _<m earth wivere 
 
 py eherished as ii 
 
 *e hVftior of q 
 jBtry we should i 
 
 ^5f •?P'*"s« was 
 
 wed lb as to alh 
 
 [^"irn to ^e itl 
 
 B 
 
 Js^-- 
 
CROWMNG THE WISEST. 
 
 905 
 
 iiti calteti 
 •Iccting I 
 ladie» or| 
 ' answer- 
 ;he rest ol 
 s declared] 
 iswers re 
 
 vas chosen] 
 iiat hia po 
 ing requir 
 ire, treatei 
 3stess, am 
 ;ho individ 
 e charactei 
 The threi 
 tioninghi 
 he first oni 
 )st ineffabli 
 
 is voice was blanii, but his emphasis was very signifi- 
 
 Dt. 
 
 Should I visit the United States, what subject with 
 ich I am conversant would most interest your peopU 
 id give ftie an onportunity of enjoying their conversa- 
 
 'You must maintain as you do at present, that a mon* 
 
 ihy is the wisest, the purest, the best government which 
 
 skill of man ever devised, and that a democracy .is ut~ 
 
 J barbarous. My countrymen are fond of arguni^nt, 
 
 will meet you on both these questions, and if you 
 
 e argue with you to the end of your life.* 
 
 The murmur was renewed, but still without any deci- 
 
 expression of the feeling with which his answer had 
 
 n received. 
 
 The third then rose from his seat, and with an assured 
 ic« which seemed to announce a certain triumph said. — 
 'I require your decision on a delicate question, bujt 
 rules of the pastime warrant it, and also a candid 
 iwer. You have seen the American and the English 
 lies— which are the fairest V 
 pnsequentljlTlie young republican glanced around the circle. It 
 irs of a genAi bright with flashing eyes, and the sweet'smiles which 
 ithed many a lovely lip might have won a less deter- 
 ged patriot from his allegiance. He did not hesitate, 
 gh be bowed low to the ladies as he answered, — 
 'The standard of female beauty is, 1 believe, allowed 
 be the power of exciting admiration and love in our. 
 I— consequently those ladies wh6 are the most admired^ 
 'fe«loved, and respected by the gentlemen must be the 
 t. Now I Assert conQdently that there is not a na^ 
 On earth wh.ere woman is so truly beloved, so ten- 
 [ly cherished as in the Republic of th6 United States— 
 nfore tl>e AiAerican ladles are the fairestl But,— and 
 igaiQ bowed low— < if thd ladies before whom I have 
 tKe Udmor of expressing my opinion, vere in vfkj 
 itry -we should think them Americans.* 
 he applause was enthusiastic, and after the mirth was 
 le A^oteArided i> as to aUow the Judge to be heard he decreed 
 whisKerefniQiiro to1|ie Vknkee. [Lddiea Magazine, 
 
 cavetiDJl ■' S 
 
 your 
 
 COUM 
 
 where yoM 
 
 iiiling calm 
 —a contem 
 aiility 10 tl 
 est. It 
 
 in short il 
 cknowled 
 equals. 
 
 (ut whetheJ 
 
 determiDel 
 
 r the re8ul| 
 
 kre bent 
 
 
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20(> 
 
 VISIT TO V SLAVI3 BIUP, 
 
 CAPT. WORRELL'S VISII" TO A SLAVE SHIP. «,, ,„„„,y ,il.„ 
 
 . f\ a n r * T- i J- ^ Jinoe plitintive 8 
 
 On a Southern voyage of trading and discovery, Captlyfthe foni.iles 
 Bepjamin Morrell, Jr. visited a slave ship off the ^'oMt oBj„ gpite of all 
 
 w 
 
 til 
 
 Africa, of \vhich ho has given the following account. 
 
 1 have already informed the reader, that when I enter] 
 ed the Bay of Bcngucla, there were no less than foui 
 slave dealers from Br[izil, waiting to complete their carj 
 goes. — One of these receptacles of human misery lay 
 anchor within fifty fathoms of the Antartic; and I w 
 80 distressingly annoyed by the shrieks and groans of i 
 hapless inmates, the wretched victims of unfeeling av 
 rice, that I resolved to visit the vessel, and u:\ake an ofTc 
 of such medical aid as might have a tendency to allevial 
 th^ anguish of the sufferers. With this determination, 
 ovdered a bout to be manned^ and boarded the b^ig ^vit 
 out ceremony. 
 
 I was received by the officers on deck with a cerlaij 
 degieo of cou'"tesyj not unmingled with surprise; -whi 
 \>hen. 1 made known the ojjject of my visit, assumed 
 expression of derision or contempt. Firmly adhering 
 Q|y orig.nal purpose, however, I insisted upon seeing, m 
 if neceis-sary, administering to those. suiTerers, whose ai 
 dible complaints had so powerfully excited my sympathj 
 Thei captain gave orders that my demand should be coi 
 plied with; and grjicious Heaven ! whs^t i^ borrible spi 
 tacle was presented to iny view ! 
 
 ' ^' if the reader has ever been on board pf a Hudson Riyl 
 n^arket sloop, loaded with calves mm] sheep for tjhf cj 
 sla^ignter houses, he may form sui^e idea of tl^^ Bi^| 
 (slave bi;ig, A range of pens, or bins, <ppciipled. each 
 of t^o main-deck, from , the cat head, to the in^io chaj 
 id vf\i\fh were confined siich a nuoibe^ pf slaves as v 
 permitted to come on ^ecfe ftt pn<^ iim«« tpialM^^'^^Werml an«ruish 
 niaii^ l^atchway, on each sicJe, was ere^W ^ Ml^'J^lbelr hus 
 or ipartition separating the men frarn the^w(|in,e^9 ; W^*r8 and friends • • 
 narrow passage remained. ope^ t^o the g;an|5j|ray,.abijft» - . -^ '• 
 i|ternmpst pen, or between tjiiat^ud the qc^t^r^jcpl^. 
 ^the slaves, perfecUy na|^ed, were sjlj^v^Sfi jfl ^Mi- 
 i^d aft, in a sitt,ing or crouching j^q^tijre^ ap^ npl^if^Qf 
 ■ men liad their faces between their knees, tuner ind^t 
 
 In passing along 
 
 dMpairing huma 
 
 |riDg glances, sue 
 
 ppliciting expi 
 
 ars, that lookec 
 
 tally unniannec 
 
 he poor negroes 
 
 fhite manN syn 
 
 Ition, Eve.i the 
 
 over their nake 
 
 After having ti 
 
 ickening scene, i 
 
 ine:e of pens on 
 
 If the females i 
 
 ide of the dock, 
 
 ition or bulk-hea 
 
 women evide 
 
 'artly from the o 
 
 «, I .gatherec 
 
 njtclies liad bee 
 
 peated applicati 
 
 eoiis crier anc 
 
 an brutility bac 
 
 mit ai'fes^ted my j 
 
 ere wives and n 
 
 eir breasts and 
 
 ith hunger araoi 
 
 asts or the repti 
 
 nrished by stra 
 
 lion of feeling, the 
 ripes, until natui 
 On learning the 
 :e^ those softer 
 
 ^^-<y 
 
VISIT TO A SLAVE 8IJIP. 
 
 207 
 
 ■inR moody silence or' mournfully chantin;.^ in a low voice, 
 jiiine pliiintive sonj^ of their native villap;os. The fccfinns 
 jofthe foniiles were of course more clamorously expressed, 
 |in spite of all their tyrants' exertions to keop them quicti 
 |in passinpj along the deck between these two ranges ot 
 |il»pairing human bein<>;s, I encountered such mute iniplo- 
 |tiDg glances, such appalling looics of misery, such pitecntfc 
 jpplicatinaj expressions of coufitenanco, buch torrents cf 
 irs, that looked like pearls on ebony, as completely and 
 (tolly unmanned me. My own tears fell like rain, and 
 jthc poor negroes gazed on the strange phenomenon. of a 
 Ifhite manN sympathy with' wonder, doubt and admira- 
 lion. Evt.i the females had not been allowed a rag to 
 Ifover their nakedness. 
 
 After having taken a cursory view of the whole heart - 
 
 lickeiiing scene, my attention was attracted to the after 
 
 \intre of pens on the starboard side, which contained about 
 
 aif the females then on deck. Here, as on the opposite 
 
 tele of the dock, (he two sexes were separated by a paf- 
 
 jljtion or bulk-head eight feet in height; near which wtre 
 
 ro women evidently writhing in the agonies of death. 
 
 Partly from the officers and partly from their faUerf wif- 
 
 srs, I .gattiered the shameful facts that these dying 
 
 rretclles had been reduced to their present situation by 
 
 epeated applications of the la«h, as a punishment for thoir 
 
 teotis crier and heart-randing wailings. This worse 
 
 ban brut&lity bad elicited those shrieks and groans ivhich 
 
 |l<|tai'Cfi**'ed my attention on board the Antartic. They 
 
 iere wives and mothers: their infants had been torn ftom 
 
 neir breasts and thrown «ipon the ground, either to p^ri^h 
 
 rith huUj^er among the grass, or to become the i^rey of 
 
 easts or the reptiles— or, possibly, to be preserved and 
 
 onrished by strangers. In the phtenzied paroxismal of 
 
 Daternal anguish, they had called for their infants— for 
 
 jbeir husbands— for their parents— for their brothers, sis- 
 
 m and fri^ends ; nnd for this natural involuntary cbuUtr- 
 
 |ioa of feeling, their'bodies had been cruelly lacerated witti 
 
 jtripe^, until nature sank exhausted, no more to revive. 
 
 On learning these facts, indignation enabled me to sup- 
 
 those softer feelings which were before nearly cho- 
 
906 
 
 VISIT TO A f LAVK IIIIP. 
 
 kinf; me ; Tvhilo Iho hardened barbarians around mo wen 
 sariivnic smiles upon tbcir lliccs. Tiio captjiimi of tw 
 vessels woto present, and svveiai oflioers. Fvr tlio n>c 
 tnont, I impiously wisiicd to be urmed wilii the lif^litiiin 
 Cf heaven, to punish the guilty, and turminato the f»uQ'er 
 ing's of their yictiins on tho spot. As this was not prae 
 ticable, however, I gave vent to my r«M:linp;8 in a torren 
 ot invective, pouring upon laem Volle*"^' of vituperation, 
 J cannot recollect wliat I Kaid ; but ' jie time I gay 
 them broadsido after broadside, witbv.oi. receiving a singli 
 ■hot in return. They received my lire in silent astonish 
 inent sufloring mo to rake them (ore and aft, until in 
 magazine became exhausted, and I paused for lack of am 
 munition. 
 
 In the mean time, the iwq special objects of my com 
 passion were released from their suflerings by death ; am 
 just as the visiting captain had attempted some observa 
 tion in excuse or palliation of their conduct, our altentio 
 was arrested by another object. One of tho captives, 
 well made good looking man, of about twenty-tive yeai 
 of age, had contrived, manacled as he was, to scale th 
 bulk-head,. from the top of which, being unablo to useliii 
 h^D^S) he felt into the female's apartment, where his hni 
 •truck a ring bolt, witli such force as to fracture his scull 
 It was the husband of the youngest of the two womei 
 who had just breathed their last. For a few moments 
 }ay senseless from the effepts of tho mow ; but soon cai 
 to himself sufficiently to understand what was said to hi 
 III the next moment he recognized the dead body of 
 wife, which he franticly strove to clasp in his manaol 
 arms, ^nd, with a yell of despair, endeavored to awaki 
 her with his caresses from the sleep of death, while 
 wound in his head was pouring forth a torrent of blood 
 jlhe inanimate object of his piteous lamentations. 
 
 The captain joi the brig now spoke, and ordered one 
 .the officers to tear tho poor fellow from the eorpse of hi 
 Wi(4, and to stow him oia the other side of the deck, 
 raisecl his mute imploring eye to me, in which I read 
 speedy termifiation.of his miseries, and an ardent (tesi 
 io expire on tl^e bpsgm of his wife, The officer adyanee 
 
YltlT TO A ILAVB BUIP. 
 
 1^ 
 
 mo wera 
 H of twc 
 
 tlio nic 
 ri{2;1itnini< 
 ho ftufleij 
 
 not \)xw\ 
 { a torreni 
 
 Ito seize him ; but this was too much for me to iritneM. 
 iiprang before the dying man, drew tnj dirk, and order* 
 |idthe officer to desist on the |)oril of instant death. 
 
 * Hold !' I exclaimed < you shall not molest him. Back ! 
 Ibick ! back ! on your life ! No man shall touch him uo- 
 lleM he cut his way through my body. You have butch- 
 lired the wife of his bosom ; he is now dying from the ef- 
 
 uperatioDflftct of your savage barbarity, and they shall not be sepa- 
 
 \0 
 
 siDj^ld 
 astunisl)| 
 until roj 
 acU of ami 
 
 iered one 
 jrpse of W 
 deck. 
 ch 1 read 
 Irdent diwi' 
 ler advani 
 
 nted until his spirit is united with Iter's, in that blessed 
 world where fiends of hell like you can never come. 
 Back ! or your blood shall mingle with the negro't ! !' 
 Ttie officer recoiled a few paces, while the others stood 
 filing at me and each other in mute amazement. I stood 
 jixed in my purpose, however, and not one of the con- 
 |icience-8truck, guilt-appalled, cowardly wretches, could 
 Inaster up sufficient courage to oppose my single arm. 
 The dying captive's struggle was short. In a feir minutes 
 Inore he breathed his last, on tl# cold inanimate lips of 
 itr he loved more than he feared death. I then returned 
 7 dirk into its sheath, and again addressed the embar- 
 ssed officer :— 
 
 Step forward^ inhuman, monster ! and contemplate lb* 
 feets of your cruel barbarity — your triple murder. Look 
 lere ! on the remains of those three poor victims of your 
 irarice and cruelty ! Think too of their hapless infaiiti ; 
 licb, if not happily already gone to meet their parents 
 a better world, are fated never to enjoy a parent's ten- 
 ess in this. How will you answer for crimes likf 
 before the God of justice 1 I do not marvel at yoqt 
 iwardice, the inseparable eontomitant of guilt like yours, 
 do not wonder that you turn pale at my just rebuke, and 
 mble there like culprits at the gangway. But bow 
 ich more will you tremble when you are arraigned be- 
 the bar of Divine Justice, and hear the voice wbich 
 gilt the universe into existence—' Inasmuch as je 
 ve not sliown mercy to one of the least of thes^, ye 
 ve not done it unto me.* 
 
 rWith these words I advanced to the gan 
 about to depart, when the captain of 
 
 S 2 
 
 
aU 
 
 OHOANG AHD HilTBI. 
 
 fed a hope that I would not leave them io anger, but that 
 I would walk below and join them in » glass of wine. 1 
 promptly declined the profTored courtesy, asiurixig; kiift 
 that it gave me very unpleasant feelings to breathe tbt 
 same air with men engaged in this abominable traffic ; but | 
 w«re I to drink with them, I should feci guilty of an act 
 
 naion. Alas ! 
 hop is it possiti 
 lief buried Hi tl 
 leodarest of hu 
 fsr marry ag 
 I and hero j 
 
 of wanton impiety that had stained the untarnished lustn Iwill, and endea 
 
 of the flag under which I sailed. 
 
 They retorted with a most provokiqg assurance, thtt 
 great numbers of American vessels were at that moneot 
 engaged in the same traffic : vessels w^ich (hoy knew 
 were owned in the United Statet;, commanded by Amer- 
 ican captains, and manned by American and English se»« 
 
 CHdJkNG AND H4|^SI.— A CHiiriisxB stobt. 
 IFrom Goldsmith's Citizen of the fFbrW.] 
 
 Choang was the fondest husband, and Hansi th« moit 
 endearing wife in all the kingdom of Corea : thej were * 
 pattern of conjugal bliss ; the inhabitants of the countij 
 around s^Mr, and envied their felicity ; wherever Choang 
 came, Hansi Wtf sure to follow ; and io all the pleasure 
 of Hansi, Cfadang was admit^d a partner. 
 
 Their bve was so great, that it was thought nothing 
 coulU interrupt their mutual peace ; when an accident .hsp 
 peuiEld, which in some measure, diminiiihed the hiislwnd'i 
 assurance of his wife's fidelity ; for love so refined as bit, I the Vidow |i^d 
 was i^ubject to a thouisand little disquietudes. V diicipie of Chci 
 
 Happening one day to goamoi^g the ton&bi that lay itlVinii jsaqne tp pa 
 some distance IVom his house, he there periDc^Ted J^l^jKi Utmost .oiQ^inpi 
 dressed in the deepest moulding, (being clothed all Of9fmf3(ppftr, i^d ,|he 
 
 nployed two v 
 determined 
 ibeyed, •veo tb< 
 drying. 
 Choang; who ^ 
 however, ai 
 t, concealing t 
 me, adding, th 
 gilding hkt 801 
 est were retu 
 bat he had seeq 
 lipess, tliat sue 
 lie should one d 
 It is impossible U 
 •ttspicion. As, 
 t extremely del 
 id exclan^ations, 
 If was ioveigbe 
 IQifed never to 
 bo, like her cou J 
 The night w 
 >^a# obliged tc 
 dii^ppsefl to ret 
 
 in white,) fanning the wet clay that was. raised oyer ppi 
 of the graves with a large fan wbieh the hefi^ jn hst 
 hand ; Choang, who. had early be^a tauf^ht wisdoip ip Itii 
 school of I^a^x^nfas unable to assijp .a cause for h«r prsf* 
 eut employment ; and coibing up, civilly demanded tbs{ 
 
 Ohoangjtnt 
 nxim an^ ^ 
 (/ Xhmr .^pp»r< 
 mt » w4% 4e 
 
CaOAMQ AWD niAvu* 
 
 Ml 
 
 ■rtaion. Alas ! replitd.the lady her eje« bathed in lean,. 
 mP >• it posfible to aurrive the loia,pf roy husband, who- 
 jliei buried ib this gravel he was the best of men, lbs 
 Iteoderest of husbands; with his dying breath, he bid tguf 
 iTsr marry again, till the earth over his grave should.be 
 and hero you see me steadily resolving to obey his 
 Ifill, and endeavoring to dry it with my fan. I have 
 ](nployed two whole days in fulfilling his oommeods, and- 
 determined not to marry till thoy are punctually 
 
 eyed, •Yen tbonigk bin giave should take up four day* 
 
 drying. 
 
 Choangj who was struck with thei widow's beauty, could 
 however, avoid smiling at ber haste to be married ; 
 lit, concealing the cause of his mirth, civilly invited her 
 ome, adding, that he had a wife w&o might be capable 
 
 giving h6r some consolation. As soon aa he and hit 
 
 nest were returned, he imparted to Hansi in privato 
 
 irbat he had seen, and could not avoid expressing his un^ 
 
 lipess, tliat such might be his llirn case, if his dearest 
 
 life should one day happen to survive bin. 
 
 litis impossible to'desciibe Hansi's resentment at so unkind 
 
 Mispicion. As her passion for him was not on^y great. 
 It extremely delipate, she employed tears, anger, frowns,. 
 od exclai^ations, to chide his suspicions ; the widow har- 
 |elf was inveighed against ; apd Hansi declared she was 
 
 olvcd never to slepp i|nder the same roof with a wretch, 
 
 ^bo, like bQr could be giiilty of such bare-faced iQconataii- 
 
 The night was ool^ i^nd stormy j llowever, Ibestran-' 
 
 was obliged to seek s^nother lodging, for Choang w«» 
 otdi/lppse^ to resist a|)<l Hansi would have her way. 
 the .widow h^d scarcely be^p gpn^ an hour, when ah 
 
 disciple of Choang% wbom be bad not seen for many 
 jcaiy^ tp pjaj him a vi^jt. He was received with 
 
 ;litino4t.oi|i:empny,,pUced ,in the most honorable seat 
 [VSj^pnr, 9^d ,tl^ limine begap tp cir<;ulate with gr«at free- 
 ^^ Cbq^Qg .|tD(l Hai^si exhibi^^ open mark* of lOiutuil 
 
 \m^f^ an^ m^igqed .re^^pqciliation : nothing cQi||d 
 
 il .their .f^ppgi^ent happinef^ : so food a .biishaiid^ to 
 
 \mt » w4f$», /ew CQuI^ behol^ ^itl^QUt reg^f^ttHAg their 
 r* jhCoIumV i wMw io • >tbpirJv»ppine«i^i^w M <>!«;# 4ia- 
 
819 
 
 %. 
 
 OMOAHO ▲•» HA II It. 
 
 tuibed by C most fktal accident. CMtog fell lifeless in an 
 apoplectic fit upon <hi floor. Every method^as usM, 
 but in vain, for hia recovery. IlaiAsi in^m, at Int, incon- 
 aolable for hit death: aiter some hows, however^ she 
 found spirits to read his last will. The ensuing day, she I 
 ahe began to moralize and talk wisdom ; the next dbiy sbtt | 
 was able to comfort the young disciple ; and, on the third, j 
 to shdrten a lon«; story, they both agreed to be married. 
 
 There was now no longer mourning in the apartments ; 
 the body of Choang was thrust into an old ccttn, and I 
 placed in one of the meanest rooms, there to lie unat* 
 tended, until tlie time prescribed by the law for hw inter- 
 ment. In the mean time. Hansi and the young disciple I 
 were arrayed in the |i08t magnificent habits; the Wide 
 wore in her nose a je#el of immense price, and her loTcr 
 was dressed in all the finery of his former roaster, togeth- 
 er with a pair of artificial whiskers that reached down to 
 his toes. The hour of ^eir nuptials was arriyed; the] 
 whole ftimily sympathiz^with their approaching happi- 
 ness ; the apartments were brightened u|» with lights thatl 
 diffused the most exquisite perfum^, and a lustre morel 
 bright than noon day. The lady expected her yotjthfull 
 lover in an inner apartment with impatience ; when his| 
 '•entant, approaching with terror in his countenance, in- 
 Ibrmed her) that his ma&ter was fallen into a .^t, whichl 
 would certainly be mortal, unless the heart of a man late-| 
 ly dead could be obtained, and applied to his breast. She 
 tearoe w^'iteil to hear the end of his story, wlhen, tuckiofl 
 U^ her clothes, she ran with a mattock in her hand to (he 
 iiflip where Choang lay, resolving to apply the heart oil 
 her dead husband as a cure for the living : she, therefbie,! 
 •Huek the lid with the utmost violence. In a few bTovril 
 the 60ffin flew open, when the body, whicli to all appe«r-| 
 aiioe bad been dead began to move. Terrified at the 
 eight, Hanii dropped the mattock, and €hoang irill 
 out, aitonished at his ow^ situation, his wifd's \rausuil| 
 ij^Agnificenoe, snd her mott amazing «urprize . Ho wi 
 aoMng the aparChieiits, uniible*to conceive the leaiiM 
 •0 much tpiendor. He was not long ia fuspentt 
 tkii^4omeitict informed him of every t*aiMaction tinee 
 iteil became iniensible. He could lekrce .b^Sievt wl 
 
 ■■''n * 
 
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 THB WITCH. 
 
 213 
 
 :^ 
 
 they told'him, ami went in pursuit 9f Hanti herself^ in or- 
 der to receive lucffo .certain iofpraiation, or tq feproaoh her 
 infidelity. But m(t prevented his reprQ|iohe8: he Ibund 
 her weltering iiijt^looi, j^r sl^e had stabbed herself to th» 
 lieart, being unable to survive hernhftie and disappoint- • 
 »ent. n 
 
 Choang, being a phijiosopher, was too wise to make any. 
 loud lanientatioM ; he thought it best to bear hi^ loss with 
 (erenity ; so, mending up the old cofllin wht^iBe had lain 
 bimseir, he placed his faithless spouse in his roolu ; ai^d> 
 anwilling that s^noany nuptial preparations should be ex- 
 pended in vain, ne* the same night, married the widow 
 with the largo fan. 
 
 As they Wjere both apprised of the foibles of each other 
 before hand, thejr knew how to excuse them after mar- 
 riage. They ffved together for many year| in great 
 tranquility ; and not expecting rapture, fuad« a shift td 
 ind contentment. 
 
 jf' 
 
 THE WITCHj 
 
 When Lord Chief Justice Holt presided in Ike Court^pf 
 Ling's Bench a poor decrepid old creature, equally bow-^ 
 led down by agc^ poverty and infirmity, was brought lie- 
 mi» him charged as a criminal, on whom the full sev^- 
 |it]r of the law might be visited with exemplary efleet. 
 )e terrors of impartiality never set on any Judge's brow 
 |with more impfe^ve dignity or threatening aspect thai* 
 that pf Judge'^olt. The trembling culprit was Qver«> 
 rhelmed witii' her fears. The charges wiH'e opAited*. 
 'What is'herjrime V asked his lordship. t^H^ttj^^^**: . 
 low is it pri^iod V * She uses a powerful ■.i^ M ff^T«vLs| 
 Be see it.'— The spell was handed to the beip^ ji~ ^^ 
 mod a small ball of variously colored rag^ of a|lk bqiMft^^ 
 lith threads of as many different hues ; these mite ud~' 
 found 9nd ui)folded, until there appeared a scrap of 
 imeBt, on wtiSeh were wtitten certain characters iK>W*j, 
 irlf illegible^fom much use. *The prosecutor averrecl 
 : W|i Iha spell;* tb«' judge, utter looking at this patent 
 
 * 
 
 
214 
 
 LIFB OP A I/O0KIM6 GLASS. 
 
 %■* 
 
 chart!) a fetr moments, adr^ssed i)2!!:^*fr icy t^e* terrified 
 prisoner : < Prisoner, hoWcatne you by t^'" ^ **^ 7^ng 
 ^entl%man, mf iord, gave It to me Hi^ure my child's 
 ague.' *How long siqce!' * Thirty jllears my lord'— 
 r«And did it cure hit/ 'O yes,' and nitiny others.* M 
 am glad of it.' The judge pa*]sed a few moments, and { 
 addressed himself to the jury ; Thirty years ago 1 and 
 soilM» comuanions as thoughtless as mysi^T went to thiij 
 woihan's wlHing, then a public house ; and after enjoy- 
 in|; ourselves found we had no means of discharging our I 
 k'eckoning. I had recourse to a 8trataff4ttb. Obierving a 
 chiM ill of an ague, I pretended I had a spell to cure her. 
 T wrote the classic line you see, on a scrap of paithment, 
 and was discharged of the demand on me by the gratitude 
 of the poor woftian before us, for the siXpposed benefit;] 
 natni^e doul^tless did much for, the patient,^^he force of im- 
 agination the reit. This incident but ill t^its my pfesentl 
 character and the seat in wliich I sit, but to conceal it| 
 would* be to aggravate the folly for whieh it becomes ui^^ 
 to aton6.' 
 
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 r# 
 
 • * 
 
 #ifFE OF A LOOKING GLASS, 
 
 It being very much the custom, as 1 am' informed, even 
 for obscure individuals, to furnish some aciiount of th< 
 selves, for the edification of the pubjio, 1 hope I shall no 
 bJB deemed impertinent fur calling your attention to a fei 
 particulars of my o'wn history. I cann^, |nde<ed, boast < 
 any very ei^traordinary incidents ; |)Ut naniing, during 
 «ourse of a lohg life, had much leisure aad opporkinit 
 for observation, and being naturally of a iinfiecting cast,! 
 thought it might be In my power to offer some renrai 
 ihBt may not be ii^holly ttiiprofitable to your readers. 
 
 My earlidi^t recollection is that of a carver and gilder 
 shop, where I remained for ma«y months, leaning wl 
 my face to the wall ; and, having nevef known liny live 
 M^f scene, I was very well Contented with my quiet c(hi| 
 d^tion. The frst object that 1 remember 'to^ have anrnt 
 fk)ir|rttention, was, what I^o# believe, mtitit haVe bee&l 
 
i«iFE or A 
 
 le terrified 
 •*A young 
 ny child's 
 (ly lord'— 
 ;hers.» ' I 
 nents, and 
 ago I and 
 »nt to (his 
 Iter enjoy- 
 ii^ing our 
 bierving a 
 cure her. 
 
 LOOKING OtASS. 
 
 S15 
 
 J^ge spider; which, after a vast deal of acamj^rrng 
 about, began, very deliberately, to \veave S|^ curious nveb 
 all over my face. This afforded nie gf-eat amusement ; aod 
 not then kni^wing iNi:hat fs^r lovelier objects were destined 
 ^to my gasMi, I di^not reseot the indigjftity. 
 
 At leng^ when little dreaming «£ any change of for*^'^ 
 tope, 1 felt iloyseVCi suddenly removecl from my station r tnd 
 immediately aftejfwards ufiderwent a curious operatipn, 
 whiel), at the time, gfetve me considerable- upprehenudns 
 for my safety ; b||t these were succeeded by pleasujre, up- 
 on finding myself^irayed in a broad black ffikne,. liaUd-* 
 lomely carved anigilt ; for ytu will please to observe that 
 naithment I ^^ P^^*^ ®^ w^l^ 1 am now speaking, was upwards of 
 e eratitudeB^"""*'®'^®^^''' *^' "^'"^ process being finished, I Wr?.8 
 id berefit'B'"^**®^*'^ placed 111 th^^shop window, with my face tQthe 
 brce of im-B'^®-'* wb'cfa ^*s dlte of the most public in the city. 
 ^^^^iHere^my^a^jitntioA was at first distracted by the constant 
 ^^^1 J wcc^si«>n of objects,* that passed beforo. me. But if^^as 
 tiecomes lii.aa'''^^ ^^"^ before J I^egan to remark the considerable #ign|ii 
 of' attention I myself excited; and how much I was di|> 
 tiB%i|ished». in this respect, from the other articles, my 
 neighbors, in the shop- windpw. I observed, that passeikr 
 gers, wUp appeared to bo posting aflay upon urgent bur 
 MBBss, would tifteil^ turn an^i give me a friendly glance as 
 ^y pa|ie4> , But I was particularly gratified to obserre, 
 list while the old^ the ah«ri)by, ajnd the wretched, seldom 
 i|K)k apy, notice o^me, the young, the gay, and the hand- 
 inne^ gerteraUy^d me this compliment; and thai tfaes* 
 S(K)d*lookiiift.{)eop|y9 ilways seemed )»est pleased with me ; 
 plii^h I ajttfil^ttted>4d their superior discernment. I scell 
 
 It 
 
 •rmed, even 
 of then- 
 l shall not 
 on to a fe« 
 
 cftng cast, 
 ne reniark 
 eaders. 
 ind gilder" 
 aning vrit 
 rn «iny liv 
 y quiet con 
 Ve anesi 
 hatVe beeit 
 
 diirine tbS"''*^'''***' pn«^ yjfWg lady^ who used to pass my master^ 
 A nnrtunit ^^^ leguWy ,e wy morning in. her way td school, and 
 L.^f_^° ibP my0t omitlied to turn her head to look at mei as 
 
 i!9A.t by ; 80 thai; at last w« became well acquainted with 
 Hoh^Qther. . I must jfionfess, th»t|^ this period of my lifi», 
 l:>ir»f, in groat da]||(er oif becoming; insufferably Taio, ftfom 
 <ll^ reg^nto, t||at were pud me ; and, perhaps, I am. not 
 tU ; onljr ijndi^idu^« who naa formed, mistaken notions t of 
 ^ ;»! tentmoff h«j#cei?ea in iiociet j. 
 Nf viioii;y, ho«ever» reeeived n considerable ;dl|fc|^ 
 m% jipiimtWMiS I fteady all the neodt by i^hith I 
 
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316 
 
 LIFE ^F A LOOKIKG ipLASB. 
 
 tk ' 
 
 irat liirrounded in tho shop window (though many of the« 
 much more V>ni®ly in tiieir structure, and humbler in 
 
 stheir destination^) were disposed of sooner than myself. 
 I had the mortification of seeing one after another bargain- 
 ed for and sent away, while I remained, mont^i after 
 
 'month, without a purehuser. At last, howevy, a gentle- 
 man and lady from the country, (who hkd been standing 
 80|netime in the street, inspecting, and^ as I perceived, 
 cobjersing abont me,) walked into^he shop and aftef some 
 altercation with my , master, agreed to pp'xhase me ; upon 
 irliich, I tfas packed up, and sent off. I was very curious, 
 you ]paay suppose, upon arriving at myfnew quarters, to | 
 see what kin^ of a life I was likely tP Ift^d. I remained, 
 howeyer, sometime unmolested in my fs^cking case, and 
 very )Iat 1 felt there. Upon beingfk. at 'last, unpacked, I 
 f^und myself in the hall of a larg^lonehoufe in the coun- 
 try. My master find mistress, I soon Idarne^li were new 
 married people, just setting up houseftkeeping; aiu) I wa>| 
 rateified to decorate their best parlor,- ip which I 'wu 
 ftresently conveyed ; and after some little discussion It- 
 tween t*iem in fixing my longitude and latitude, I irai 
 hung up opposite the fire-place, in an angle of ten degrees | 
 from the wall, aocordillg to the fashion of those times. 
 
 And there I hung, year aft^jr year, almost in perpetual I 
 solitude. My master and mistress weret sober, regular old 
 laahioned people^, they saw no company except at tm 
 time and Christmas day; on which octasions onlyj they I 
 occapied the best parlor. My countenvQce iised to bright* 
 en up, when I saw the annual fire Mttdled in that amplej 
 grate ',— and when a cheerful circle of kioun^ cousins 
 eembled round it, At those times I Miays got a little I 
 notice from fhe young folks ; but those festivities over, 
 and I was condemned to another half year of lonelihen. 
 How familliar to my reeolleotion at thif hour, is that large, 
 «4d fashioned parlor!' H^n remember,' «as well as if I hidl 
 leeti thentlmt yesterday, the noble floipers on the erimKAl 
 damask chair covers and -window curtains ^ and those d-l 
 fioiisly carved tables and chaim* I c^ld describe every I 
 one of the stories on the Dutch tiles iM atttreonded tfael 
 grate; the rich China ornaments oir tbe wMi m»btle-| 
 
 ^ pieM; ai|d the pattern of the paper fci#fitt|i^ irW<?h 
 
 ^ 
 
'^': 
 
 LIFE OP A LOOKING GLASS. 
 
 217 
 
 f of the« lifted alternately of a parrot, a poppj, and a shepherdeM, 
 a parrot, a poppy and a shepherdeis. 
 The room being litle used, tiie window shutters were 
 iiely opened ; but there were holes cut in each, in the 
 tpe of a heart, through, which, day after day, and year 
 jifter year, I used to watch the long dim, dusty, sunbeams, 
 ming acrosf. the dark parlor. I should mention, how- 
 rer, that I seldom missed a short visit from my master 
 id mistress on a Sunday morning, when they came down 
 irs ready dressed for church. I can remember how my 
 iitress used to trot in upon her high-heeled shoes, unfold 
 leaf of one of the shutters, then come and stand straight 
 fore me ; then turn half round to the right, then to the 
 lit; never failing to see if the corner of her well starched 
 ndkerchief was pinned exactly in the middle. I think 
 can see her now in her favorite dove colored lustritig; 
 hich she wore every Sunday in every su|nmer for seV- 
 years at least,) and her long full ruffles and worked 
 on. Then followed my good master, who, though his 
 iiit was somewhat shorter, never failed to come and set- 
 hie Sunday wig before me. 
 
 Time rolled away ; and ray master and mistress, with 
 that appertained to them, insensibly suffered from its 
 ifluence. When I first knew them, they were a young, 
 ming couple as you would wish to see ; i>ut I gradu- 
 llf perceived an «ilteration. My^ mistress began to stoop 
 little ; and my.m^ter got a cou||h, which troubled him 
 re or less to the e&d of his days. At first, and for roa- 
 \j years, my mistress' foot upon the stairs was light and 
 limble ; and she would come in as blithe and brisk as a 
 irk; but at last, it was a slow, heavy «tep ; and even 
 7 master's began to totter. And, in these respects, ev- 
 thing else kept pace with them : the crimson damask 
 it I remembered so fresh and bright, was noW faded and 
 im ; the dark polished mahogany, was, in some places, 
 rArm-eaten ; the parrot's gay plumage on the walls giew 
 ill ; and 1 myself, though long unoonsciout of it, par- 
 k of the universal 'decay. The dissipated taste I ac- 
 luired) upon my flrst introduction to society, bad long^ 
 subsided $ and the quiet, sombre life I led, git^e mtf 
 ftWoh ion'l grave iDedHfttive turn, Th« change which I w§mMd 
 
 imbler in 
 1 myself. 
 r bargain- 
 >nth after 
 a gentle- 
 standiog 
 perceived, 
 aftel some 
 me ; upon 
 -y curious, 
 larters, to 
 remained, 
 case, and 
 ipacked, I 
 1 the couQ> 
 were new 
 anfl I was 
 lief I iwas 
 iussion ht- 
 ide, I W 
 ten degrees! 
 
 ■tS* ■ ... 
 
:I18 
 
 l.tFtO UF A L'^OKIIVG GLASII. 
 
 tl 
 
 i|t nil tlioso lliing.4 nmund mo, cnuKod inn to rcflt'ct u^ud 
 on their ^itnity ; and when, upon (he (u*casiu»i brfnri 
 montioned, I med (o nee tlie ^ay, hlooming rucon of tin 
 young, Maiuting; we with lo much complacency, I wouii 
 fUin huvc ndmoniiliod lh«m of (ho altcrutions they mii 
 soon undergo ; and lijiTo told thorn how certainly tlm{ 
 bloom must lado away as a llower. Ihit alas ! yon kno 
 Hir, looking-glaiseii 04Ui only reflect. 
 
 Aftor I remained in this condition, to the host of Dr 
 knowledge, about live and forty yours, 1 suddenly mm 
 my old maiter : ho cimo to yiMit mo no more; endh 
 the change in my mistress' appnrcl I guessed what had hap] 
 pencd. Five years more passed away ; and then I ib 
 no more of her ! In a Khort time after tliis, several riidi 
 Ntrangcrs entered my room ; the long, rusty Hcrow, wiiicl 
 had held me up so many years, was drawn out ; and 1 1 
 gather with all the gooda and chattels in the house, xvm 
 put up to ouction in that very apartment which I had 
 long peaceably occupied. I (elt a, great deal litirt at (hi 
 very conlcmptuouf terms in which I was spoken cf, h)— ^ . 
 dome of the hidders ; for, as I said, I was not aware thiB"'' *^V ""' ""''' 
 I had become ai| o|d fashioned as my poor old master j^^'^P^"^ "''''^' "' 
 mistress. At last, I was knocked down for a trifling iiimj 
 and K<nt awny to a very dil&rent destination. 
 
 liefoie going homie to my now losidence, I was sent 
 
 A workman io he refitted in a new gilt (rame ; which, t]| 
 
 though it completely me^ernized my appearance, I inui 
 
 (tonfoss, at first set very uneasily upon Ine. And now! 
 
 although it Mas not till my old ago, I for the first timel)e| 
 
 came acquainted with my natural use, capacity and in 
 
 Imrtanco. My jiew station was no other than the dre 
 
 ing rooni of a young lady, just come from school. Befori 
 
 i wa$) well fixed in the destined jpot, she came to survc; 
 
 me, and with a look of such complacency and good will 
 
 ns I had not Foen for many a day. I was now prcsentlj'*,"''"*''" [" '^P'"" 
 
 il^itiated into all the mystories of the toilet. O, what M^ \^^r |'''^n»J^ » 
 
 endless variety of lacea, jewels, silks, and ribbons ; piMl7."'.**'^P7^**"\*' 
 
 cDinbn, cushions, %nd curling irons; washes, Msenceil ."^ .°" ^ , J' '" 
 
 powdera, and patches, weie daUy spread before me ! If ■ ' '"^^'* ' *^"' 
 
 liad been heretofore ahjnost tired with the sight of my ol 
 
 mistresa' everlasting lustring, I really felt tttJ^ tw^ 
 
 with tilt |>r(|fusion of ornament and preparation. 
 
 f wag, ifidoed, 
 
 iitioiii* ; they \v 
 
 li me, aHer hei 
 
 gleet. Never 
 
 lid, witliuut 1 
 
 jguro hours I wi 
 
 d, to cunfe.Hs t 
 
 (heir Icoj^th ; I 
 
 ( hour of dicssi 
 
 ged with her, i 
 
 eruoin— in tlio 
 
 fid, of NO muci 
 
 lat I have freque 
 
 (aspect with w 
 
 id when hIio leti 
 
 gemenls. II()^\ 
 
 might be, still 
 
 tcred ; but instt 
 
 en a few hours 1 
 
 My mistress w 
 ung companions 
 igto see how tin 
 ir respects to m 
 ns in the course 
 iportunlly of obs 
 iet veflectio7is. 
 In this inanntM' 
 ly mistress, withe 
 Ijer in her or in 
 t her aspect ton 
 compared it wit I 
 ipeared to regard 
 
 t, with regard 
 ; I have been a 
 course of my ' 
 
 f-' 
 
urn or A LuoKina qlass. 
 
 2ip 
 
 I wa», iniK'ciI, f.ivoroJ with my inislicss-* coiislaiit al- 
 |iii(ion!i ; tlu<y wtto so uiireuiiUing ni puiicctly to ustun- 
 
 me, ai'lci' l)L'iii<r eu Ion;; ntriistoincd to coiiipunUive 
 «gluct. Novor (lid she outer \\vv •'oom on llio ino»t liusty 
 iiid, without voucIiMiilinnf me a kind gKUico; and at 
 (jguro luMii'M I wa»i indulged with ituicli lon)',(?r vit»it8. In- 
 ed, to confess thu truth, I wixtt bomutimos (|iiitt> surprised 
 Itttoii' iciip;th ; but I do not mean to tell talcH. During; 
 ^( hour oC drcNisin^, >vhcn 1 wus inuro prcCcisHlonally en- 
 iged with hir, thbro vns, I could prrccivc, nothing in 
 lie room— in tho houNe~noy, 1 btlicvo iiothin<; in the 
 arid, of NO much importanco in hor estimation ut* myself. 
 |iit I have frequently remarked tvith concern, iho dilTor- 
 gt aspect >vith which sho wolild regard moat (hoso times, 
 od when sho returno:! at nit!;ht from tho cvcning'8 en- 
 agemcnts. Ilowrvcr lato it was, or however fatigued 
 iio might he, still I wnn rairo of a greeting as rsoon an Nho 
 Rtereti ; but instead of tho bright, lijooming faco I had 
 |ten a few hours before, it wan generally jjalo and hag- 
 ^rd, and not unfrcquently bearing a strong in'pression uf 
 ^appointment or ehngrin. 
 
 My mistress would frc(iuently bring a crowd cf her 
 pung companions into hor apartment ; and it was amUK- 
 kg to see how they wniiKI each in turn cemo and pay 
 eir respects to me. What varied features and cxprcs- 
 m in the course of a few minutes 1 had thus had an 
 Ipportunlly of observing ! upon which I made my own 
 fiiet vefltctioiia. 
 
 In this manner 1 oontinnyd some ycarw in the sorvice of 
 |y mistress, without any material alteration taking place 
 liber in her or in me ; but at length I began to perceive 
 at her nspoct towards me was changed, especially when 
 Icomparpd it with my first recollections ttf her. SIk» now 
 ppeared to regard nio with somowhut Icsm coniplaccncy ; 
 pd would frequently survey me wilii a mingled expres- 
 
 ufdispleabu re and suspicion as thoug!) some change 
 
 |ld taken place in me, though I am sure it was no fault of 
 
 10 ; indeed I could never rojl-rt upon myself fur a mo- 
 
 \t, with regard to my conduct towards any of my own- 
 
 I; I have been a Autliful servant ; ncr havo I once, in 
 
 course of ray whole liio, given a (also answer to any 
 
220 
 
 LIFn OF A LOOKING GLASS. 
 
 » 
 
 one I have had to do with. I am, by nature, eqaallj 
 averse to flattery and detraction ; and this I may say fuJ 
 myself, that I am incapable of misrepresentation. It wa} 
 with mingled sensations of contempt and compassion^ tbaj 
 I witnessed the efforts my mistress now made^ in endeavor] 
 ing to force me to yield the same satisfaction to her as 
 had done on our first acquaintance. Perhaps, in my conj 
 fidential situation, it would be scarcely honorable to du 
 close all I saw ; suffice it theu to hint, that to my candid 
 temper it was painful to be obliged to connive at that bor] 
 rowed bloom, which after all was a substitute for that iu| 
 nature ; time, too, greatly baffled even these expedients] 
 and threatened them wholly ineffectual. 
 
 Many a cross and reproachful look had I now to endure! 
 which, however, I tooU patiently, being always remarb) 
 bly smooth and even in my temper. Well r<»memberin/ 
 liow time had spoiled the face of my poor old mistress, 
 dreaded the consequences if my present owner should exl 
 perience, by and by, as rough treatment from him ; aii 
 I believe sjie dreaded it too : but these apprehensions yim 
 needless. Time is not seldom arrested in the midst of Iiij 
 occupations; and it was so in this instance. 1 was on] 
 day greatly shocked, by beholding my poor mistresi 
 stretched out in a remote part of the room, arrayed in \f«rj 
 different ornaments from what I had been used to see be 
 wtar. She was so much altered that I 8car«;ely kneij 
 %r ; J^iili t for this she could not now re^roa^ rae. 
 w^^ehet! her thus for a few days, as she lay before me 
 QfM and motionless as myself; but she was soon convene 
 away, and I saw her no more ! 
 
 Ever since, I have continued in quiet possession of bc| 
 deserted chamber ; which is only occasionally visited hi 
 other iparts of the family. I feel that I am now gettio] 
 old, and almost beyond further service. I have an ugl] 
 crack, occasioned by the careless stroke of a broom, 
 across my left corner ; my coat is very much worn in leil 
 eral places ; even my new frame is now tarnished and pi 
 fashioned; so that I cannot expect any new employmenl 
 
 Having now, therefore, nothing to reflect pn but 
 past scenes 6f my life, I have amused m^aelf wimgivii 
 ^you this account of them. I said I had made^ p)i^ysicgn 
 my my study, and that I have acquired pome $k\\\ in th 
 
 iflp'" 
 
HUPKRlURrrV OF TALU^TT. 
 
 ^l 
 
 interesting Kcieucc. The result of my obscrvatioM will 
 it least be deemed ioipartial, when I say that I um gen- 
 erally best pleased vritli the character cf those faces, ^vhrdi 
 appear the most so with mine. And I have seen occasion 
 
 1(0 far to alter tho opinions of my inexperienced youth, 
 that for those who pass tho Ica^t with me, and treat m« 
 
 {rrith little consideration, I conceive the highest esteem ; 
 
 Uiid their aspect generally produces the nio.st pleasing rfl- 
 
 wetions. [Jano Taylor, 
 
 SUPERIORITY or TALKNT. 
 
 Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia, and Franklin's em- 
 Iplojcr, had contracted to furnihh the blauks for an emis- 
 sioii of paper money by tho .rjovernraL-nt of New-Jersey. 
 ['Fearing that our Philadelphia printeir;:^' says the author, 
 •might strike off more money bills than they had desired, 
 Ithe New-Jersey legislature thought praper to send two or 
 Ithree Commissioners to superintend tho press. Thes© 
 Igentlemen, all of the shrewd sort, and constantly with 
 Ithem while at work, soon found out tfio difference between 
 Itho master and the young journeyman, — Keimer, though a 
 Ipriuter, had never been a reader ; Franklin hud devoted 
 lill his leisure hours to reading. • The one had ever court- 
 lid pleasure in the furniture of his mind ; tho othet:^ popu- 
 arity in the decorations of his body. Tho shape of hit 
 rbigkeillfthe cock of his hat, tho cut of his conif, were 
 sat things with Keimer; every trick at easy outsi((tt 
 liow was caught up by him. But it would not do. 
 fhile Ben, stripped to the bu^, was heaving at the press^ 
 [eimer would stand by stately as a prince at his levee — 
 rith his gilt snuff box nicely poised in his left hand, and 
 lit right, be-spangled with rings, tastily carrying ^liie fra- 
 )t Macaba to his nostrils, courting the commissioners. 
 as before said, it would not do. The cosnmissioners 
 Ifjii^ted new ideas, and Keioilir had »tlone to give them. 
 ^rMently they tuirned to Ben, whom, by the by, they 
 brdly thought it vyorth' while to interrogate, considering 
 \9 character of his roaster, and his young and raw ap • 
 irance. But in place of the old ye9 and no of n/astet 
 T 2 
 
 ..# 
 
232 
 
 BBOArS or WABHlNGTOir. 
 
 Keinier, ho gave them such answert as at onco aurprised 
 and delighted them. He waa slow to speak, hut when th« 
 commissioners, curious to explore his intellect, which hat! I 
 so unexpectedly startled them, purpobely put a number of 
 deep questions to him on the subject of their paper money, 
 such as its effects upon agriculture and commerce, and tli« 
 laws that should regulate its quantity, ho answered all in 
 his own peculiar way of sagacious brevity, that made th«oi 
 declare he must have studied nothing else all his lire, 
 The reports which these gentlemen made in his favor, 
 produced their natural effect. Ben, was invited every I 
 where, and treated with the most flattering attention ;-»| 
 Keimer, though his employer, was entirely neglected, or[ 
 invited only as a compliment to Ben.' 
 
 ESCAPt OF WASHINGTON. 
 
 [From the Manuscript, a periodical published in N. Y.] 
 
 Washington's a watch*woid, oucb as ne'er 
 Siinll sink, whero there's an echo left to air. 
 
 B 
 
 TROl». 
 
 ' Tiie name of Washington is dear to every American 
 
 Distinguished, not only for bravery and intelligence, botj 
 
 for the purest virtues which can adorn the human heart,} 
 
 bo has been venerated in the memory of distal^hatioDiJ 
 
 and immortalized by the blessing ke shed upon nis coun] 
 
 try. Ho resembles the orb of day imparting his twilighj 
 
 long after he is set, and inviribly dispensing his light and 
 
 cheering warmth to the world. Cautious and prudent, h<| 
 
 was never surprised by the most disheartening failuretJ 
 
 nor alumed into compliance by the most daunting threats] 
 
 His eye could penetrate the darkest designs, and his powj 
 
 ers of invention enabled him to escape the most forinida 
 
 hie stratagems. Th? very means employed by the epem; 
 
 to incommode him, were frequently in his own hands tl 
 
 instruments of their ruin. As an illustration of his eagi 
 
 eyed caution, I will briefly narrate his escape from a sii 
 
 gular plot, which I learned from the lips of a venera^ 
 
 ioaD several years since deceased. 
 
XICAPB OV WAUXmOTOir. 
 
 223 
 
 When ^.ho American army was itationed at Weat-Point, 
 |d'*ring the revolutionary war, tho British Head-Quartera 
 were not many miles distant on the Hodaan ; and each 
 were waiting, like the figures on a Chesa-Board, for some 
 bvorable movement, to disconcert and thwart the opera- 
 tioDS of the other. Scouting parties would engage in fre- 
 Luent akinnishcs, and waggons of provisions, ammunition 
 Uad clothing would fall into the power of tho^e, superior in 
 number and address. On one of these occasions a quanti* 
 ty of English uniform was seized by an American detach- 
 ment; and several notable advantages obtained by thf 
 ] Utter, intipired the enemy with a desire to retaliate. 
 
 About this time, while at West-Point, General Wash- 
 IJDgton had an intimate acquaintance, resident not far dit- 
 {tant from the afmy, in whose family he enjoyed the kind- 
 est hospitality, as well as relief from sterner engagementf 
 [which harrassed his weary mind. A« every circumstance 
 was food to either army, a visit like this, not many miles 
 from their camp could not escape the cognizance of ike 
 English : and to possess such a prisoner as Washington, 
 would tend, in tlieir opinion, to shorten the period of the 
 war. But the undertaking was difficult; there were 
 guards advanced to cover the American commander, and 
 there was no mode of discovering bis visits except by 
 winning over some one of the family. 
 
 The friend whom the general visited was once thou^t 
 to have espoused the interests of the British ; but he had 
 taken a decided stand in favor of America, and though a 
 brave man, he professed the strictest neutrality, alleging 
 as his reason — his years and his dependent family. 
 
 During the intimacy of the general, it was rumored in 
 the American army, that his fiiend had been seen often 
 returning from the British camp. Washington seemed t* 
 disregard the account, for he never ceased to visit the fam- 
 ily, and apparently mingled as cordially with the host, at 
 if no suspicion had crossed his mind. 
 
 At length, one day, as the geneml was taking leave, 
 his friend earnestly requested him tadifte lUth him. He 
 reminded him of the uncommon delight which bia intimacy 
 ob|i|arred-— begged h}ni to lay aside every formality, and 
 repitd his house as hh home, and hinted that he'did boI 
 *Mnk that the sener^.l considered it in that light ; as th# 
 
924 
 
 AfCAPK or WAiui:f6Tufr. 
 
 i;uftrJ that always acfTbropanicd him nccraed to indicate 
 that he was not visiting u friend. *< By no means, dear 
 9ir," eiclaimed the wortliy patriot ; •« there is no mau I 
 •stceo) more than yourself] and as a proof of the confi. 
 (I'enco which I repose in you, I will visit you alone to- 
 morrow, and I pledge my sacred word of honor thai not 
 A solditr shall accompany me." '* Pardon me, general," 
 replied tha host, " but why so serious on so trifling a sub- 
 ject 1 1 merely jested." " J am aware of that," sail the 
 hero, smiling ; « but what of that ? I have long cotfider- 
 the planting of outposts unnecessary, inasmuch as tliey 
 may have excited the suspicion of tho enemy ; and al- 
 though it bo a trifle, that trillc shall not sport with tlie 
 fritndsbip you indulgo for me." " But then— the hour, 
 general !" ** Oh, yes, two o'clock." "'Precisely," re- 
 turned tho other. 
 
 At ono o'clock on the following day, the general mount- 
 ed his horse, and proceeded alone upon a by road which 
 conducted him to tho hospitable mansion. It was abuut 
 half an hour before the time, and the bustling host receiv- 
 ed him with open arms ; in addition to tho greetings of 
 tha delighted family. ''How punctual, kind Sir !" ex 
 claimed the warm-hrartcd friend ; •' Punctuality," replied 
 Washington, ** is an angel virtue, embracing minor as 
 Wbll as important concerns. He that is not punctual with 
 a friend, that friend may doubt his integrity." The host 
 started; but recovering himself, he added—" Then youn 
 ' is a proof that we enjoy your fullest confidence."— Waih- 
 ipgtoQ proposed a promenade upon the piazzi previous to 
 4inner. It overlooked a rougli country several miles id 
 io extent ; fields of grain sweeping beneath the sides of 
 blick hills producing nothing but ro'^*' and grass: shal- 
 low runlets of water flowing along the hollows of the un- 
 even WMte— then hidden by woodlands intercepting s 
 prospect of the country beyond— spotted now and thea 
 with several glimpses of the Hudson, stealing through the. 
 sloping grounds below, and conquered on both sides by 
 tb« dim, purpflb highlands frowning sometimes into hoary 
 battleiAents, and tapering again into gentle valleys, bardly 
 illonioated by the sun. <<This is fine boI# soeSery !" 
 •telaiised Geoera! Wasbiogton, apparently absorbed in 
 
ASCAPB or IVABIlIirOTOir. 
 
 9S5 
 
 tho beauty of the prospect. " Yes, Sir," replied lu» 
 fritnd, looking wiiilifuUjr around as if expecting some one'* 
 approach ; but» catching the piercing glance of Washing- 
 ton, his eyes were turned with confusion to tbe floor. 
 
 '* I roust rally you, my friend," observed the general : 
 Do you not perceive yonder point that boldly rises from 
 the waters, and suddenly is lost behind the hill which ob- 
 Htinatoly checks the view V " I do," returned the absent 
 listener, engaged in something else than the subject of en- 
 quiry. " There," continued the hero, <• uiy enemy lies 
 encamped ; and were it not for a slight mist I could al- 
 most fancy that I perceive his cavalry moving ; but hark ! 
 that cannon ! Do you not think that it proceeds from the 
 head-quarters of the enemy ?" 
 
 While pointing out to his friend tho profile of the coun- 
 try, the face of the latter was often turned the opposite 
 way, seemingly engrossed in another object inunodiately 
 behind the house. He. was not mistaken : it was a troop 
 seemingly of British horse, that were descending a distant 
 hill, winding through a labyrinth of numerou«K|>rojectionff 
 and trees, until they were seen galloping through the 
 plain below — and then they were hidden by a field or for- 
 est that swelled along the bosom of the landscape. 
 
 " Would it not be strange," observed the general, ap- 
 parently unconscious of tho movement behind him, ** that 
 after all our toils, America should forfeit her liberty ?" — 
 "Heaven forbid," said his warmhearted friend, becoming 
 less reserved, and entering more warmly into the feeliuga 
 cf the other. " But," resumed Washington, ** I J>ave 
 heard of treachery in one's own camp ; and, doubtless, 
 you know that it is possible to be " wounded in the house 
 of one's own friend." " Sir," demanded the down-cast 
 iicst, unable to meet the searching glance of the noblo 
 Washington ; " \iho can possibly intend so glaring a 
 crimel " «« I only meant," replied the general, " that 
 treachery was the most hideous of crimes; for Judas-like, 
 it will sell its Lord for money !" ** Very true, dear sir," 
 responded the anxious host, as he gazed on a troop of 
 British horsp; winding round the hill, and riding post haste 
 towards the hospitable mansion. •• Is it two o'clock yetl" 
 dcipanded Washington, *< for I have an engagement this 
 
i«a 
 
 •yiltt WHKEL or FOHTUJIM. 
 
 afternoon at the afhiy, mkI I regret that vny viitt must ba 
 shorter than inteiidml." " It lacks a full quarter," said 
 hii friend, Beemingly doubtfVit of hin watch, from the ar- 
 tival f)f tiiehorBiMuen. '< Hut blees me, Sir ! vfhai caval- 
 ry ate those, that are bo rnputly approaching tho house?" 
 •« Oh tfiey tnajr poBsibly bo a party of British light horse," 
 «-et\tr4te4 Waslnngton, " which uioan no harm, and if I 
 mistake not, they hnvo been sent l.ilUer for the purpose 
 of protecting me." 
 
 As he said this, the captain of the troop was seen dis- 
 mounting from his horse, and his example was followed 
 by the rest of the party. -*-*• General !" returned the other, 
 walking to him very familiarly, and tapping him on his 
 shoulder, •• (Jenoral you are my prisoner!" •• I be'ievo 
 not,*' said Washington looking calmly at the men who 
 ATcre approaching ll»e steps ; •' but friend," slapping him 
 in return on the arm, «' I know that you are mine ! Here, 
 *)(Ucer, carry this treacherous hypocrite to tho camp, aiul 
 1 will make him an exampio to tiio enemies of America." 
 
 The Bi;ilish Ceneral hail secretly offered an immense 
 8UD1 to this man to make an appointment with tho here 
 «t two o'clock, at which time ho waiTto setfd a troop of 
 horse to secure him in tlieir posscfssion. Suspecting his 
 intentions, Washinpiton luid directed his own troop to 
 li&bit themselves as Knglisli cavalry, and arrive half an 
 hour precisely before tho time ho was expected, 
 
 Thwy pursued their way to the camp, triumphing in 
 the sagacity of their commander who had so astonishingly 
 defeated the machinations irf tho British General. But 
 the humanity of VVashino;ton prevailed over his sense of 
 justice. Overcome by llio toara and prayers of the family 
 ho pardoned his treacherous friend, on condition of his 
 leavitrg tho country forever ; which hi accordingly did; 
 iind hisnamo was ever after sunk in oblivion. 
 
 THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. 
 
 In a small town in one of the Now England States, 
 th«re resided some years ago, two young men, whosesub- 
 
TiiR wiiBTL or roniujiw, 
 
 227 
 
 Lquont furlunoH licrve furciUlo to mlinw tlio atbarMm^tr of 
 uersosftl application to siiiily niit] buNinedSoii tlio one Itand, 
 nod the folly of rolyiri|;r on unocitral lionoro unri cx(eufiv» 
 I patrimonies on tlio other, filnimiol Lodjard wan tho only 
 ftvorite i*on of a g;entlotnan, who, in point of richei and 
 honors, stood conlessedly at the head of the ariitocracy of 
 I (hat section o( tho country. Nature had done much for 
 I, Samuel's person, though she had not boon remarkably gen*- 
 «rous towards him Im tho bostowmont nf her inontal gifts. 
 The fntt, however, that he was tho d!irlinp; son of the rich 
 and Honorable Judge Ledytrd, waR enough in hiscstimn- 
 (ioO, not only to niako up for wliai nature had refused trr 
 Kfftnt him, but to give him a great lupcriority over his Icsfr 
 favored neighbors. Tho best that tho fashions of thisi 
 world can give was abundantly provided to gratify the 
 vanity of Hanuiol. iriiat be Was superior to every one- 
 die none dared openly to deny, as all feared to incur th& 
 haughty frowns of the patrician father ; and it is not as- 
 tonishing that Sanuiel should prciunio liiinsclf to be all 
 Iwhich the flatterers of hia (lunily insisted that he should^ 
 lb«. 
 
 Within a few rods uf the stately mansion of Judge Ltd- 
 hard, stood the humble dwelling of Peter Le Fcrest, tha 
 Ihouse joiner. Peter had a son of tho same ago of Samuel, 
 ntftphen Le Forest, however was but a poor boy ; anr) 
 IwhAt added, if possible still more to his shame, (in tht ea- 
 |limation of the Ledyards) ho was a joiner, a laboring; man. 
 Though Samuel and Stephen were near neighbors from 
 Ithtir birth, little acquaintance Hud less intimacy vraa •!• 
 Ilowed between them. Ff Samuel, in his great (;ond«afcen- 
 Hon ever did speak to Stephen, it was to remind him of 
 |iii thther's grcatnosi and the obaourity ot Stephen's, Mid to 
 Diult ^im by any other means at hand. 
 
 These boys, for most of tho time from sir: to sisteen, 
 rent to sohool but not together. A select estaliliehmftnt 
 Dttit be prepared for the children of the Judfj^t while 
 fiipheOi with his scanty supply of books, under the tuj- 
 jion of diderent masters, at the common schools, had- -to 
 
 ike the best progress he could. He applied himlelf, 
 
 Dwever, and made good proficiency. When these jFoathe 
 at the age of sixteen, and as Samuel was about to 
 
 V". 
 
298 
 
 THV WIIBKL or FORTURB. 
 
 enter college, the Ledyardt learned with surprise 4nd in- 
 dignation that it Mras the design^ of Peter Le Forest to 
 send Stephen also to college, and at the same university 
 where Samuel was to acquire his literary honors ! Ste- 
 phen Le Forest, however, had as good a right to go to col- 
 lege as Samuel Ledyard, and the faculty being independent 
 of both, would rccotve the former as readily as the lattir. 
 The thought that Stephen was to be class mate with Led> 
 yard was revolting to the pride of the Judge and his arii* 
 tocratic son, but determining that Samuel should have no 
 intercourse with Stephen, and trusting that the great 
 wealth of Ledyard would exa!t the former in the good es- 
 teem of the faculty and students over the latter, ho wu| 
 sent to Cambridge and entered the class with Stephen. 
 
 During the four years rcsidetiep at college, Samuel adher* 
 «d strictly to his determination to have no intercourse with | 
 poor Stephen Le Forest, the laborer's son. To his fel- 
 low students ho professed to know the thing, and knew 
 him only to despise his poverty and obscurity. The pro- 1 
 digality of Samuel was proverbial in the college, and in 
 more than one instance his violation of principle and neg- 
 lect of study, subjected him to the leprimand of the Prei-| 
 ident.— Stephen pursued the even tenor of his way, attend- 
 ed to his studies, recited his lessons well, and by his ami 
 able and unpretending deportment, acquired the good will I 
 of the better part of the students and the approbation of| 
 others. 
 
 After leaving college, bpth Samuel and Stephen werel 
 placed in situations to prepare for the bar. In due tinel 
 Stm>hen was admitted to practice, and opened an office inl 
 the vtliage of his nativity. SamuePs father dying aboutl 
 thit lime, he abandoned his legal studies, presuming thtt| 
 business would be unneeesary to him, so great was the 
 inberitaace left him by bn father. For some years he| 
 made it his only business to dash about irt stately pri 
 expending what be cegarded'as the inexhaustible tic\m,\ 
 left bim by his father. Time however, proved his ittiif 
 take. Before prodigality and dissipation, * richea took 
 themselves wings and flew away.'^ The gamiDg table 
 made fttal inroads upop. bis property. He taw StepI 
 flounsbing in bit prciession and despised himi for thou| 
 
 
fflE WHEEL OP FOUTUR 
 
 220 
 
 ie and n«g* 
 f the PtM- 
 |ay, attend- 
 jy hiB ami 
 i good ^iil 
 »rob&tion of! 
 
 ia the course of a few years Stephen had accumulated 
 more property than Samuel had remaining, still it was a 
 circumstance sufTicicntly humbling in his view of the for- 
 mer, and sufHciently honorable in his view of himselt, that 
 Stephtn was the son of Lo Forest the carpenter, and he 
 was the son of Ledyard, the judge. 
 
 In ten years Samuel had not ;« cent remaining. liar- 
 irawed by creditors, and having too much pride, to stand 
 jin his humiliation before Stephen, now a man of wealth 
 [aDd influence, he left his native village and entered some 
 [pretty office on board of a ship in the Navy. Here hia 
 [iiabits "x^ere such as caused him to be cashiered, and ha 
 [was dismissed from the service in disgrace. 
 
 In the mean time by industry and perseverance, the 
 hoiner's son arose to eminence in his profession. Before 
 [Ledyard entered the Navy, Le Forest stood at the head of 
 the bar in the country, and about the time of Samuel'a 
 [leaving the service in disgrace, Stephen was appointed to 
 jthe same honorable otBce which the senior Ledyard had 
 |iormerIy hefd. Since that time Samuel Ledyard has been 
 jntenced to the State Penitentiary for his cvimcs, where 
 lie remained a miserable object of pity when I last heard 
 roni him. These are facts substantially from real life. 
 Che names only are fictitious. They seem to show how 
 le wheel of fortune in a free country will carry the meri- 
 Dfious upwards, while it precipitates the profligate into 
 lins below. — We have no thought to adorn the tale 
 iy any fanciful embellishments. The desire not to tell too 
 DDg a story has compelled us to leave out studied descrip- 
 }Dfl. We were present at the trial of Ledyard. Le For- 
 itwas the presiding Judge on the bench, and whc^ his 
 ity called him to pronounce upon the unhappy criflnnal, 
 re saw the tear to steal down the manly cheek of the 
 lge« and his voice faltered as he gave utterance to the 
 iad language of the law. — For ourselves, we could not 
 well command our passions. Wo thought of the past, 
 ^•looked on the present, and wept. How could we help 
 if Oh, that youth, in every circumstance would learn, 
 it * pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit 
 
230 
 
 OATHARINA ALEXOWA, 
 
 ff 
 
 before a fall, while he th^t humbleth himself sbaU be ex- 
 alted.' 
 
 CATHARINA ALEXOWNA. 
 
 CatharinaAlexowna, was born near Derpat, a little city 
 in Livonia. She was heir to no other inheritance than 
 the virtues and frugality of her parents. Her father bein^- 
 'dead, she lived with her aged mother in their cottage cov- 
 ered with straw ; and both, tKough very poor, were very | 
 contented. Here, retired from the gaze of the world, by 
 the labour of her hands she supported her parent, who was 
 now incapable of supporting herself. While Catharinal 
 spun, the old woman would sit by, and read some book ofl 
 devotion. Thus, when the fatigues of the day were overf 
 both would sit down by their quiet fire side, and enjoy ttiej 
 frugal meal wifh vacant festivity. 
 
 Though her face and person were models of perfection,! 
 yet her whole attention seemed bestowed upon her mind;! 
 her mother taught her to read, and an old Lutheran minii-l 
 ^ter instructed her in the maxims and duties of religion.| 
 Nature. had furnished hei- not only with a ready but a 8oi4 
 id turn of thought ; not only with ^ strong but a right 
 understanding. Such truly female accomplishments proJ 
 cared her several solicitations of marriage from the peaij 
 ants of the country ; but their offers were refused ; m 
 she iK^ed her mother too tenderly to think o^ a separatioDj 
 ^atharina was fifteen when her mother died ; she nowJ 
 thtftefpre, left her cottage, and went to live 'with the Lu] 
 Vtheran minister, by whom she had been instructed from he 
 childhood. In his house she resided in quality of goveni| 
 ess to his children ; at once reconciling in her character] 
 unerring prudence with surprising* vivacity. 
 
 The old man, who regarded her as one of his own cbilj 
 dren, had her instructed in dancing and music by the ma! 
 
 
 
J^ 
 
 M'^ 
 
 Catiiarina alexowra. 
 
 231 
 
 be ex- 
 
 little cily 
 nee than 
 ber bein,i 
 tage cov- 
 vere very 
 
 iers vrho attcnclad the rest of his faniil/'. Thus she con- 
 tinued to improve till he died ; by which accident she was 
 once more reduced to pristine poverty. The country of 
 Livonia was at this time wasted by war, and lay in a most 
 miserable state of desolation. Those calamities are ever 
 most heavy upon the poor ; nHb^^refore Catharina, though 
 possessed of so many accompl^bnients, experieoi^d all thv 
 miseries of hopeless indigenoil> Provisions becoming ev>^ 
 ery day more scarce, and her private stock being entirely 
 exhausted, she resolved at last to travel to Marienburgh, 
 a city of greater plenty. ^...i 
 
 With her scanty wardrobe packed up in a wallet, she 
 set out on her journey on f(^t ; she was to walk through 
 a region miserable by natuif , but rendered still more hid- 
 
 world b'yl^'i^ ^y ^^^ Swedes and Russians, who, as each happened 
 -who^rasl^" become masters, plundered it at discretion ; but hunger 
 
 CatbaTinal^^^ taught her to despise the dangers and fatigues of the 
 
 ne book ofH^^y* 
 
 ^ere over I ^'^^ evening upon her journey, as she had ' entered a 
 
 1 enjoy thepttage by the way side, to take up her lodging for the 
 
 ■night, she was insulted by two Swedish soldiers, who in- 
 
 I peTfer,tion,l>ist6<^ ^pon qualifying her, as they termed it, ioft^to the 
 
 ler mind ;■'<>"*?• They might probably have carried their inswKs|nto 
 
 ran minii-V'^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ subaltern officer, accidentally past mg 
 
 of religion.V7>^°^"^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ assistance : upon his appearing, the sol- 
 
 , ^^^ 2k sol-W'B'^ immediately desisted ; but her thankfulness was hard- 
 
 ut a rigbSy greater tlian her surprise, w hen she instantly recollected 
 
 ments proV^^*^ deliverer, the son of the Lutheran minister, her 
 
 the peai-B"™®' instructer, benefactor and friend.^ J" 
 
 efused *, foil 'I'his was a happy interview for Catharina ; the^)t^)e 
 separationV^^ of money she had brought from Aome was l^pthis 
 . ^YiB novVDAG quite exhausted ; her clothes were gone, pn^^ by 
 ith the LuV^<^<i) ^^ order to satisfy those who had entertained her in 
 ed frombeV^'i^ houses : her generous countryman, therefore, gave her 
 of covenV^A^ he could spare to buy her clothes, furnished her with 
 charactei|b<)fs^> and gave her letters of recommendation to Mr 
 luck, a faithful friend of bis father's, and superintendant 
 s own cbilP Marienburgh. 
 by the nvi ^ui beautiful stranger had only to appear, to be well 
 
232 
 
 CATHARlITA ALEXOWIfA. 
 
 ed with all th 
 her beauty ev 
 Sh.9 had not 
 Great, paying 
 come in with i 
 with pecuh'ar i 
 was struck wit 
 called fur the I 
 
 and found her i 
 
 person. 
 He had been 
 
 of interest J he 
 
 own inclination! 
 
 of the fair Lave 
 
 received ; she was immediately admitted into the superin- 
 tcndant's family, as guvcrness to his two daughters ; and 
 though yet but seventeen, shewed herself capable of in- 
 structing her sex, not only in virtue, but politeness. Such 
 was her good sense and beauty, that her master hime;elf, 
 in a short time offered her his hand, which to his great 
 surprise, she thought prpper to refuse. Actuated by a 
 
 f>rinciple'15f gratitude, she Was resolved to marry her de-™ n j e th u 
 iverer only, even though he had lost an arm, and wasBj,n^ u,,,"^ f)®^ 
 otherwise disfigured by wounds in the service. 
 
 In order, therefore, to prevent further solicitations from 
 others, as soon as the officer c^me to town upon duty she 
 offered him her person ; which he accepted with transport 
 and their nuptials were solerailizcd as usual. But all the! 
 lines of her fortune were to be striking; the very dayBpjjj'jjg '*." '^V 
 on which thoy were married, the Russians J^iy siege taMpjggju.*'^^"^ 
 
 Marienburgh : the unhappy soldier had now no time t(|,ii m. " ^^'^ 
 XL 11 1 1 /• J. • u ■ail. ine meant 
 
 enjoy the well earned pleasures of matrimony ; he wawj^gj- . .. . 
 
 called off to an attack, from which he was never afte«„„n^« L ^"^ "I 
 
 . . ■pnnce assurinsr 
 
 ieen to return. | Udder to 
 
 In the mean time, the siege went on with fury, aggraB ^y^ 
 rated on one side by obstinacy, on the other by ''cvengeBjj^g Emnr ^^ t 
 This Har between the two northern powers at that *' Jpoorsolitarv * " 
 WW thily barbarous ; the innocent peasant, and the hariiA^i,^ g^ . r ^f 
 less virgin, often shared the fate of the soldier in arM^j^g^^^ ^ ^^^^ 
 
 Marienbitrgh was taken by assault : and such was thl^|,Q|g ^^^| ' 'J 
 fury of the assailants, that not only the garrison, but Preeminence b tl 
 most all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, weip ~ ' ' 
 
 put to the sword ; at length, when the carnage was prej 
 ty w^W over, Catharina was found in an oven. 
 
 Slwifhad been Jjtitherto poor but still was free : she w^ 
 )^o 
 
 She ever retail 
 her on a throl 
 er husband, labc 
 
 ■^ . ^ 1- 1. J r . 11 u * •* J*^**» ^h® Studied] 
 
 now^o^iConform to her hard fate, and learn what it wasK^j^ ^^^^ g, ] 
 
 be a Have: in this situation, however, she behaved ^'(emblies ' institut 
 piety and humility ; and though misfortunes had abam^gjij ^jj^ . ^ 
 her vivacity, yet she was cheerful. The fame of her niAfQgg friend wifJ 
 it and resignation reached even Prince Minzikoff, the I^Wret, regretted by 
 sian general ; he desired to s^e her, was struck with ^' 
 beauty, bought her from the soldier, her master, and pla 
 her under the direction of bis sister. Here she was trei 
 

 
 CATHARIITA ALKXOWIf A. 
 
 S33 
 
 supenn- 
 ers ; and 
 lie of in- 
 is. Such 
 r himself, 
 his great 
 ted by a 
 
 ed with all the respect which her merit deserved; while 
 her beauty every day improved with her good fortune.x 
 
 Sha had not been long in tliis situation, when Peter ttrc; 
 Great, paying the Prince a visit, Catharina happened to 
 come in with some dry fruits, which she served round 
 with peculiar modesty. The mighty monarch saw, and 
 was struck with her beauty. He returned the next day, 
 ry her de-H^j^HQt) f^r the beautiful slave, asked her several questioM. 
 and was! jnd found her understanding even more ' perfect than hef 
 person. 
 
 tions fromB Hq ha(j been forced when young to marry from motives 
 I duty shelgf jnt^rest ; he was now resolved to marry pursuant to his 
 transport,™ Q^n inclinations. He immediately enquired the history 
 Jut all theBof the fair Lavonian, who was not yet eighteen. He tra- 
 very dayBgg(j her through the vale of obscurity, through all the v,i- 
 ly siege toB,.iggitudes of her fortune, and found her truly great in them 
 10 time toBjH^ The meanness of her birth was no obstruction to his 
 jr ; he waijjggign . their nuptials were solemnized in private ; the 
 prince assuring his courtiers, that virtue alone was the 
 proper ladder to a throng. 
 We now see Catharina, from the low, mud-walled cot- 
 )y reveDgeB|jge^ Empress of the greatest kingdom upon earth. The 
 t that timBpoor solitary wanderer is now surrounded by thousands, 
 i the harim^ljQ gjj^i happiness in her smiles. She, who formerly 
 r in arnSiranted a meal, is now capable of dififusing plenty upon 
 ch was thl^hQie nations. To her fortune she owed a part of this 
 ;on, hut ^^preeminence, but to her virtues more. 
 
 She ever retained those great qualities which first pla- 
 .J her on a throne; and while the extraordinary Prince, 
 ter husband, labored for the reformation of his taifn, s^b- 
 ects, she studied, in her turn, the improvement |i« her 
 iwn sex. She altered their dress, introduced miVM as- 
 emblies, instituted aii order of female knighthood ; and at 
 had abat ^Qgth, when she had greatly filled all the stations of Em- 
 e of her me iregg^ friend, wife, and mother, bravely died without re- 
 off, the Ru ^t, regretted by all. [ Goldsmith. 
 
 lok with h 
 er, and plac 
 ihc was tre 
 
 V 2 
 
 never afttj 
 iry, aggra 
 
 ildren, 'wei 
 e was prei 
 
 je : she w 
 tiat it was 
 ehaved vi 
 
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 234 
 
 Tim: IBXILB OF TUB ALLEOAlfT. 
 
 TUB 
 
 THE EXILE OF THE ALLEGANY.-by j. s. l. 
 
 A fevr years since 1 was travelling in Pennsylvania. 
 When I reached the base of the Alleganies, I left my 
 horse in the care of a peasant, and ascended on foot. | 
 climbed ridge after ridge, braced by the pure air, and ex> 
 cited by the increasing majesty of the scenery, until I 
 wholly forgot the flight of liours and my remoteness from 
 Uie inhabitants beneath. When I attained the summit, 
 the day was fast waning, and the rising wind moaning 
 through the defiles of the hills and slraking the bare bran- 
 ches of the trees, warned me of a coming storm. I im^ 
 mediately began to descend, in the vain hope of reaching 
 the foot of the mountain before night fall. Darkness bail 
 already gathered in the eastern vallies, and the last ray 
 of light was leaning on the western ridge when I observed 
 a rude cabin sheltered beneath the branches of a hemlock. 
 I approached and raised the latch of the door, which was 
 not barred, and though on my entrance I perceived the 
 room to be unoccupied. The desertion, however, seutned 
 only temporary for a few embers were decaying on the 
 hearth. I threw some pieces of wood on the brands, and 
 «>eating myself on the rough bench, began by the dim and 
 imperfect light to scan the apartment. All around in» 
 spoke of barrenness and destitution ; it seemed vthe very 
 temple of poverty where ahe hud gathered all th:: symboli 
 i)( her worship.i ** What miserable out-cast," thought 1, 
 " can be the tenant of so comfortless a habitation 1 What 
 could have induced the most poverty-stricken wretcb l^ed bands°ratb 
 to aba^pn the crowds of life, where the overflowings of ^e bound of the 
 the rictfinan's table may find their way to the poor man'* 
 boara,|ind to dwell in this mountain solitude, whither tht 
 footsteps of charity cannot pursue him? Is it a crime, Bd by habitual in 
 is it pride, or is it misanthropy V^ 
 
 Musing on this theme, and fatigtied with the toils of 
 
 the gale, the cry 
 jtbf vague apprc 
 jtrowding and pr 
 ggled for th< 
 em. While ti 
 |ny eyes bent dc 
 an suddenly da 
 {ny feet, and the 
 lan coarsely cla 
 log, stood before 
 n, and in the < 
 it was, seemed a 
 [itranger in my c 
 t not of apprel 
 need of hospit 
 e to his cheek 
 ireandarepastoi 
 itality, you shal 
 \j power to offe 
 rthen, and div 
 ied a light and : 
 rtunlty of stud 
 as remarkable i 
 aceful, thougli 
 >)d, and his ten 
 ailed winter in 
 il tary quicknes 
 ^uld belong to 
 
 x^raging without in all its destructive violence, which, ad 
 ded to the loneliness and desolation of the spot, produced 
 
 the day, I sunk into a reverie. The forest storm was now ftuation and the 
 
 With this desig 
 Bd conversation 
 a feverish excitement of min#^that encouraged wild and med to touch th< 
 I'antastic ideas. Shade after shade flitted across the dream became dev^loi 
 ef ' my imagination, and I could hear in the^ howlings of wakened an inte 
 
 y the incongruit 
 tion, I determine 
 
TUB AXILS or THB ALLCGAIIT. 
 
 235 
 
 |tbe gal«, the cry of distress and the shout of mpioe. All 
 jthi vague apprehensions of an overhearted fancy cama 
 rowding and pressing on mj heart, and although reason 
 ggled for the mastery, yet she could not overcome 
 »m. While thus wrapped in a vraking dream, with 
 |p]r eyes bent d\,wnwan 8, a shadow like the form of a 
 lan suddenly darkened the floor : I sprang hastily upon 
 |iiy feet, and the action recalled niy scattered senses. A 
 lan coarsely clad, but of a majestic and venerable bear- 
 ;, stood before me. In one hand he held a hunting 
 n, and in the other some forest game, which, little a* 
 it was, seemed a heavy burden upon his aged frame. ** A 
 litranger in my cabin!" be exclaimed in a tone of surprise, 
 t not of apprehension. ** A stranger," said I, " who 10 
 need of hospitality." A slight flush apparently of pain 
 le to his cheek as ho replied, *' If a seat by my hearth- 
 reand are past of mountain game, deserve the name of hof-' 
 itality, you shall freely share them ; they are all it it in 
 If power to ofier." With these word«i, he laid aside hit 
 rthen, and divested himself of his outer garments, kin ■ 
 led a light and sat down by the fire. I had now an op' 
 rtunity of studying his appearance more narrowly ; it 
 IS remarkable and interesting. His form was tall and 
 aceful, though bent with years ; his forehead high ami 
 Id, and his temples partially covered with locks that rt^ 
 ailed winter in whiteness. His clear grey eye bad m 
 il tary quickness in his motion, and it seemed as if if 
 ^uld belong to one who had watched the movement of 
 n wretch l^inned bands rather than the flight of the forest btr4> »r 
 owings of Jne bound of the forest deer. His face had that edtecated 
 oor man'f K'ipression which invariably characterizes the cultirateJ 
 , and that well bred-aspect which can only be obteiiH 
 by habitual intercourse with polished society. Struck 
 17 the incongruity between such a man and such a habit 
 itioo, I determined to learn, if possible, the caost of bit 
 ituation and the history of his life. 
 With this desigUi after our frugal repast wat ended, . 
 produced Bttd conversation had inspired mutual confidence, I ven- 
 wild andlued to touch the string. The character of hit mind at 
 the dream II became dev'eloped, and the style of his remarks ha^i 
 lowlings of|wikened an intense interett, which I had neither tbt 
 
 t. L. 
 
 ^Ivania. 
 left my 
 foot. I 
 and ex> 
 
 until 1 
 less from 
 summit, 
 moaning 
 are bran- 
 I. 1 im- 
 reachin)!; 
 Kness hail 
 
 last ray 
 i observed 
 hemlock, 
 vhich was 
 eived the 
 ir, seuined 
 ig on the 
 rands, and 
 le dim and 
 round m* 
 ^the very 
 n symbolt 
 bought I, 
 
 1 What 
 
 rhither the 
 a crime, 
 
 le toils of I 
 
 was now 
 
 rhich, ad- 1 
 
9ao 
 
 TUB BZILIO or VHfl ALLBOANY. 
 
 power nor the design to conceal. I was coni >leutthi( 
 I was in the presence uf no ordinary man. " How hap* 
 pena it," I said ** that you have chosen this solitude, k 
 bare and so comfortless, fur the asylum of your age 
 Mothinks that splendid mansions and courtly society miglu 
 claim, and proudly too, a form and mind like yours fur ai 
 inmate and an ornament. What can have driven yot 
 across the circle that encloses social life, to this solitarj 
 abode 1" " Youn^ man," the stranger replied, " it is bu^ 
 a common tale, and why should I obscure the fair light 01 
 youthful feeling with the shadow of aged suffering 1 M 
 tale is one which, when told, will leave a dark remem 
 brance, that will hang like a cloud on your brightest an 
 happiest hours. It is one which I shall tell in sadnem, 
 not in wrath, but which you will hear with feelings swel 
 led by both. Listen to' my words, and' if while I spea 
 your voice should break forth in curses upon injury an 
 ingratitude, remember that I curse not, hut forgive. You 
 wik what has made mo an exile for life, and a tenant ol 
 this wild spot ; my answer is the ingratitude of others and 
 my own just pride. Could I have^ tamed my own hii^li 
 spirit, to bear insulting pity and scornful charity, I wohI< 
 never have forsaken the haunts of men, but I prefer th< 
 savage independence of a mountain hunter to the polished 
 servitude of a courtly parasite. You will understand tli 
 reason of mv exile from the events of mv life. 
 
 •* Young stranger, you see before you one whose na 
 once sounded far and wide across the fields of America 
 one, whose banners your fathers followed to battle fort 
 yvars ago ; one who afterwards presided in the councils 
 your nation, and whose head was raised high among tin 
 great ones of the land. In the tenant of this wretchei 
 hut you behold a man of lofty ancestry and once a prince 
 ly fortune ; the last of a time-honored family, on whicl 
 the cloud of misfortune has settled darkly and forever 
 What boots it that I should tell you that years and yea 
 ago, long ere the freedom of America was yet in erabryoj 
 the name which I bear was made famous by my gallani 
 ancestors on fields where the British Lion waved hloodi); 
 and triumphantly— that tl\e war-cry ^of our family wa 
 loudest in the conflict, and its flag foremost in the charf 
 
 Til 
 
 |of (ho brave 1 
 IrecnJIcctions ur 
 ||[lurioiis und nIi 
 Larl tlioy fall 
 jtiut not with vy 
 M Ills Eiiropei 
 Jjot an appenda 
 hncc descended 
 Jwlien the aggn 
 Itry gave birth t 
 lihjr inheritance 
 Itin, and mv for 
 land chances of 
 Imoment. I em 
 llirmly ; and fr( 
 land America w 
 lono of the lead 
 Jpoor, and I was 
 [were suflfering f 
 Ihankrupt, and 1 
 jof support to ni 
 |compeiled to dit 
 coatcst I need 
 liar to every ms 
 After its triuuij 
 country were o 
 ill crowded on 
 haughtiest and 
 siiould lie prost 
 iiest vial of fate 
 prosperity had 
 country, not foi 
 obligation. I 
 money I had 
 think you, was 
 
 '* Surely," s 
 less liberality.' 
 
 "With inhi 
 ty !" exclaime 
 resented the na 
 hearts were ha 
 
TflK RXILR or TIIR ALLICOANY. 
 
 JKJ7 
 
 Lf the brave 1 To tlio younp; and iinlnincd Npirit, stitli 
 IrecollcctionM uro like Ihc rnyH uf uioinin^ wliicli livrMlU r 
 ||r)uriuiiii and Nhiiiii)}( duy ; but on tbe uliJ and witbvred 
 Ijifurt tboy fall like siinNct beams, fraught with memory 
 [but not with expectation. Hot to my Htory ; my father 
 
 I his EiiropHan homo for America, when America was 
 
 Ijct an appandagv of Hritain. Mis wealth and hitt inllu- 
 
 hncc descended to me. I waM in the primo of my days 
 
 Iwlien the aj^gression and tyrannies of tliu lOnghtih miniri- 
 
 Itry gave birth to the rcvohitiun of the colonies. Although 
 
 mj iidicritance placed me hif^h in thu aristocracy of lint- 
 
 liin, and my fortune pleaded 8tronp;ly ap^uinst the perils 
 
 land chanceM of such a Htru^<i!;le, I did not heriitate for a 
 
 Imoment. I embraced the righteous cauHo, ardently and 
 
 Ifirmly ; and from that inbtant, ancient tioii were severed, 
 
 and America wag the land of my allegiance. I became 
 
 pno of the leaders of her armies. My country was then 
 
 pour, and I was rich — the brave men whom I conmtanded 
 
 were suffering for the necessaries of life ; the treasury was 
 
 bankrupt, and I advanced from my own purso the meann 
 
 jof support to my soldiers who would otherwise have been 
 
 compelled to disperse. The events of the revolutionary 
 
 coBtest I need not relate to you, for they must be famil- 
 
 liar to every man between the Misssippi and the Atlautio. 
 
 After its triumphant termination, as the fortunes of my 
 
 I country were on the increase, my own were on the wane. 
 
 crowded on ill, and that destiny which ovorturns thu 
 I haughtiest and the proudest families, decreed that mine 
 should lie prostrate in the dust. When the lastand dead- 
 liest vial of fate was poured upon me, and the last leaf of my 
 prosperity had withered, and not till then, I applied to my 
 country, not for charity, but for tlie repayment of a Aacred 
 obligation. I asked from her abundance a return of the 
 money I had loaned her in her destitution ; and how» 
 [think you, was I paid V 
 
 '* Surely," said I <* with heartfelt gratitude and lovnd • 
 I lest liberality.'* 
 
 "With inhuman neglect and with h^rtless insensibili- 
 ty !'* exclaimed the aged man ; **the men who hen rep- 
 resented the nation, were nursed in prosperity until their 
 hearts were hardened, and they scorned and- neglected the 
 
339 
 
 TUU EXILIO or TUB ALLEGANT. 
 
 JII 
 
 Jvith ft b?n6vul 
 veteran warriors who had trampled tlie bravest and theB-,* forced me 
 bout of England's chivalry to the earth, that their lonsCnored seat at 
 might bo free." |len to no refu 
 
 •' What," said I, "were not such claims as yours, vbichBif heaven has I 
 stood on the double foundation of justice and gralitudemi,, eve of heav 
 promptly acknowlcdji;ed and cheerfully cancelled." I ^^ jj^gj j^y ^ 
 
 ••Promptly acknowledged !" he replied with niingledByid endurance 
 grief and irony, "know you not, that an Americaulpgg ^f ti^g i^^ 
 congress is a (lelibe.rative body, and that deliberation isnev 
 er prompt 1 Cheerfully cancelled ! know you not, that i 
 ruling principle is economy, and that economy is neve 
 cheerful in parting with its orel" 
 
 '• But surely," I interrupted, •• the nation was jus), and 
 paid its debts fully, if not ^ith good willl" 
 
 <• Listen to the sequel, and marvel at national justice,"! 
 was the reply : '• When I exhibited my accounts against 
 the government there were some trifling items not 8iiffi-| 
 ciently authenticated, which required examination. Thii 
 examination was postponed from time to time ; more in 
 teresting questions arose, on which members displayed! 
 their rhetorical abilities ; congress did not choose to be hur- 
 ried in its proceeding ; the importunities of an aged, for 
 lorn and famished .man, were considered as froward obtru- 
 sions. I was friendless and uninfluential ; I could neither 
 uplift the aspiring, nor prop the falling ; my prayer wasi 
 as inefTectual as that of the oppressed fsraehtestothe sternl 
 Egyptian, and. heaven did not interpose in my behalf its 
 supernatural afflictions to force them to their duty. A win- 
 ter past, and left my claims undecided ; another and an- 
 
 other rolled away, and still saw me neglected. True,! 
 
 it Georgetown, 
 e active and 
 ut a month 
 e^r was awara( 
 nds." 
 
 "How," I ex 
 Asmadii a prof] 
 ready leans ov 
 e pension can 
 in rattle on yo 
 ly prophecy wa 
 e last turn to t 
 trly wasted. 
 " I came hithe 
 ist look of my i 
 few family men 
 iins. I have pi 
 these wilds : t 
 n, I will acqi 
 entful life, and 
 w, good night. 
 That morrow ^ 
 
 I was lingering out a comfortless old ag#, obtaining sub-l^fyg^ durinc hi 
 sistence in summer from the game of the woods, and in-Ej„g between m 
 habiting in winter a miserable lodging in one of the oar-B||gQg^ ^^^^^ ^^^ 
 row alleys of the national metropolis. But what of that Vxeited feelinirs ( 
 the men who were to canvass my claims, fared *umptuou^^gg|^^j fordknl 
 ly and lived in splendor, and felt not the wretchedness o(E|e i^iu, goirani 
 justice deferred. Business must take its course, and i^ylvraprjed mv cl 
 claim was an affair of business. One generous man, vboL fiQor i^^^ ] 
 had known me in better days, did not shrink from my ad- „i\^ ^. 
 versity, He followed me one wintry day from the hall 
 of the capital to my obscure retreat in the metrcpoUi and 
 
 IIQ. 
 
 a SOU] 
 Was it th 
 
.;riiB sxiLc or tm^ allegant. V fi«)0 
 
 Ifith a benevolence that tlic proudeit heieirt could not re- 
 ift, forced me to liis own house, and gave me the moit 
 loDored seat at his own hospitable board. He would lis- 
 teD to no refusal, and 1 remained his guest until spring. 
 heaven has blessings in store for generous deeds, maj 
 gratitude,Ht|,e eye of heaven beam benignly on that generous man 1 
 '^•'* I At last my claims were heard, aftor years of anxiety 
 
 ;h ming)edl|Qd endurance, during which I was once seized by the 
 **""'■""■ ings of the law, and thrown, in mid winter, into a prisdd 
 it Georgetown, which would have been my grave, but for 
 e active and warm hearted charity of a woman. It is 
 ut a month since a pension of five hundred dollars a 
 e^r was awarded to mc, in lieu of my claim of some thou- 
 uds." 
 
 IIow," I exclaimed, *' a pension ! Then government 
 ,sniadf( a profitable bargain; for your exhausted frame 
 ready leans over the grave, and long ere the receipts of 
 e pension can equal the amount of your claim, the clod 
 in rattle on your coffin." Little did I imagine how soon 
 ly prophecy was to be fulfilled ; fate had already given 
 le last turn to the hour glass of his life and its sands were 
 trly wasted. 
 
 «* I came hither yesterday," continued he *' to take a 
 «t look of my mountain hut, and to prepare for removal 
 few family memorials, the only valuable;^ which it con- 
 iins. I have pursued the game to-day for the last time 
 these wilds : to-morrow when we descend the moun- 
 iln, I will acquaint you with other particulars in my 
 entful life, and I will then tell you who I am. An 1 
 iw, good night, we both need repose." 
 That njorrow dawned upon his lifeless body ! t had ch- 
 aining subjjygj^ during his recital, that his frame shook as if strug- 
 ds, and in-K|i|^g between mental excitement and physical debility, 
 of the DV'Baieness and flushes alternately crossed his cheeks as hif 
 ^^-^l ^"*^Mxcited feelings contended with his languid f|»n)o. An 
 Bumptuous-HgjggijQJ forrf*oding hung like lead upon mybiMrt as I 
 chedness oHijg him goila night and entered the adjoining afiirtment. 
 'se, and i^ylwrapped my cloak around me, 4\nd threw myself upon 
 man, ^"^m floor, but I couM not sl^p. About midnight I was 
 om '^^^ 'ktled by a sound which seemed like the groan of one in 
 m the nalll|JQ ^i^j^g {^ xhe wind sighing through the trees, or wai 
 tropoUi and^ 
 
 fit and th 
 their ion 
 
 urs, which! 
 
 American' 
 ition is nev 
 lot, that i 
 y is neve 
 
 Rs just, and! 
 
 al Justice,"! 
 nta againsi 
 38 not suffi-l 
 ition. Thi 
 ) ; Uiore in 
 s displayed! 
 }e to be hur- 
 n aged, for- 
 ward obtru 
 }uld neither 
 prayer was| 
 to the sterol 
 ly behalf itsi 
 ty. A Win- 
 er and an- 
 ted. True, 
 
249 
 
 ^4 THE EXILB OF THE ALLUOAMlP 
 
 it the Bfi^ony of . aflfering humanity ? I listened, it wa^ 
 repeated again, in tones that struck thrillingly un tnj 
 heart. I sprung to the door and entered the other room 
 the hearth-fire was decayed, and I Vainly stirred itsbranoi 
 
 I descended 
 and stopping a 
 orders for his 
 have been folic 
 
 for light. I opened, the narrow casement ; the night V('afl|,. ^ few hireli 
 dark and Millen, and cloud upon cloud rose in f'"o^ninjp^y|o|,g|y to 
 masses from the h6rizon to the zenith. I could see noth 
 
 ihelf a fow bo< 
 aod on the inni 
 fubseribed witl 
 
 ing, but from a corner of the apartment the moans catnd 
 
 distinctly to my ear. I groped my way to <he spot—il 
 
 was indeed the moan of that aged man. I laid my hand 
 
 upon his brow ; it was damp and cold— I touched hii 
 
 breast; the hcct-pulso Geat faintly and almost impercep] 
 
 tibly. *• Merciful God !" I exclaimed, " he is dyliio; 
 
 here in solitude* and in darkness, with no aid to cherisll 
 
 that spark of life which timely interference might yej 
 
 keep burning." •' Ik'nevolent strangei^" he iiJl||rniurcd| 
 
 brokenly and faintly, •' what can arrest the wheel 
 
 death, when it rohs over a form so aged as mine? Mj 
 
 hour has coi>^:, and I have so lived that I can brave itl 
 
 horrors. The tardy justice of my country has come toj 
 
 late, and -^ ." His voice ceased ; I heard the death ratf 
 
 tie rising in his throat ; I raised hiai gently in my armi 
 
 and the heart brokea veteran of the Revolution expire 
 
 peacetully upon my bosom ! 
 
 The storm was yet howling,without, as I laid ttle At 
 
 softly upon its pillow, and approached the window of th^jg^gj. g^ u 
 
 hut. *' Yes,'* I exclaimed, "on such a spot and in «icBi„,.:„„„„ . ^^^^ 
 111 • J i! J- 4^x14 ■Dusmoss, he cou 
 
 a scene should an injured hero die ; nature at least maJoQ j^jg itn^^ 
 
 mourn his death though cold and selfish man vii\\ l^^*" fltoher piano' 
 without emotion." Iheard from the 
 
 At last the gray dawn of light specked the J^o^^oBBg^^^gij^ 
 
 and crradually ascended the east, usherintr in the morroJj,. «-«„♦.,„ .. 
 u- u it ij * u 'i^fi !-• • J v'Mr creature thi 
 
 on which the old man was to have quitted hia rude «wiB,^^jgj literall 
 
 for a better home. He had indeed quitted it, and forevei rpi^^ ^^^ ^j^^ 
 
 for a home, where the memory of coldness and ingratitud 
 
 cannot darken the brightness of the bltsaed ;^J}ut the mein 
 
 cry of his wrongs may yet, in the hour of retribution, b 
 
 a pointed'steel in the breasfa of each and all of (h<$Bewboi 
 
 neglect traced on his faded cheeks the farrows of anguii 
 
 aiaidat thoie of time. He forgave, but heaven will pun 
 
 iah. 
 
 THE 
 
 Frank Seym 
 icoDipanion. h 
 ! met him, and w 
 vas the husban 
 the village, and 
 upon whom he 
 Ivas the favorit 
 ji^hich was the 
 quent resort for 
 of such unmin 
 Frank \s as justi 
 
 The first tiro( 
 at his own houis 
 pressions which 
 *B8 a man who 
 blit every thing 
 iQd neatness, an 
 ttpon every thin 
 oaeeould fail of 
 W 
 
THN DBMON OF THE CLOSET. 
 
 341 
 
 icd, it wai 
 ply on ID 
 ther room 
 3d its brand 
 3 night yii 
 n frovrnin 
 Id 8ce noth 
 noans catni 
 
 I descended the mountain, after a last look at the det^ 
 ind stopping at the first habitation, ga' e the necessary 
 orders for his burial ; and the hero, whose bier should 
 have been followed by a nation, was laid in tke ground 
 by a few hireling peasants. Such is national gratitude." 
 Previously to my leaving the cabin, I observed on a small 
 (helf a few books. I opened one that was old and worn 
 and on the inner cover, I discovered a family escu(cheon 
 
 the spot— ■lubgeriijeji yifiih these words, ** Arthur St. Clair." 
 
 d my l:an" 
 
 touched hii 
 
 it impercep 
 
 B is dying 
 
 X to cherisi 
 
 e might yel 
 
 I njjl^ mill red] 
 
 :)e wheel 
 
 mine? M 
 
 in brave iti 
 
 iS come to 
 
 the death ra 
 
 in my armi 
 
 tion cxpirei 
 
 THE DEMON OF THE CLOSET. 
 
 it 
 
 Frank Seymour was, for many years, my friend and 
 companion. He was about thirty years old when I first 
 met him, and was rising fast to en|,inence at the bar. Ho 
 was the husband of one of the JDOSt charming women in 
 the village, and the father of a bright flaxen-headed boy, 
 upon whom he doated with all a father's fondness. He 
 vras the favorite of all who knew him, and his hou^e,' 
 i^hich was the prettiest in the neighborhood, was aAire- 
 qaent resort for all his friends who loved to visit a scene 
 of such unmingled happiness as they there witnessed. 
 Frank Mas justly proud of his beautiful wife, and was 
 never so happy as when, released from the cares of his 
 business, he could sit in his own snug parlor, with his boy 
 oo his knee, and liisten, while she sung some favorite air 
 to her piano, or join in the merry laugh that was so often 
 beard from the cheerful group that gathered around his 
 fire-side on a winter's evening. There never was a hap- 
 fr creature than his wife then seemed to be. Her heart 
 Ntimed literally full of joy to overflowing. 
 The first time that 1 met Frank, was at a little party 
 id ingratitudlj^^ j^jg p^jj house. I shall never forget the agreeable im-- 
 ^ut the mem pregsions which I received at that visit ; and if ever there 
 etribution, b ^^j^ ^ i^^^ whom I envied, it was he. He was not rich, 
 f thcJse WDW 1,1^ evtry thing around him wore such an air of comfort 
 s of anguii |0j neatness, and there was such a finishing touch of taste 
 'en will pun ^j^u every thing within and around his house, that no 
 oBt oould fail of being struck with whatever he saw there. 
 W 
 
 aid tfie dea 
 ndow of thj 
 and in sucl 
 least maj 
 will learn 
 
 the horizoi 
 the morro^ 
 
 t* rude cibii 
 and foreve 
 
242 
 
 TUB DlSMOir or THE CLOSET. 
 
 There was no idle expense of decoration, but the furoj 
 ture was so judiciously selected, and the ornam'ents so 
 tastefully !i|rranged, that his parlor was really a pleasant- 
 er object w the eye, than many a gorgeously furnished 
 ^drawing room of a far more princely mansion. 
 
 He was not rich, as I have said, but he had been so far 
 successful in business as to be above the fear of poverty, 
 and he was sometimes suspected of an undue propensity to 
 acquire wealth. 
 
 There was a closet which opened into his parlor in 
 which he was understood to keep his private papers, and 
 whatever money he might possess, the door of which was 
 ever carefully locked ; and, as his wife never made any 
 inquiries into his pecuniary concerns, she never felt any 
 curiosity to examine what his closet contained. 
 
 His fondness fur money seemed to increase with its pos- 
 sesion, until it became a passion which could no longer 
 escape the attention and remark of his friends. His vis- 
 its to the place of the deposit of his wealth were observed | 
 to be m,ore frequent, and with the growth of this passion/ 
 there came over his manner, in his ordinary intercourse 
 with his friends, a change, which they could not describe,! 
 but couid not fall to lament. Frank, however, was still the 
 same noble fellow before the world that he had ever besn 
 and appeared at times with such a brilliancy and power 
 as to surprise even his admirers; and whatever might 
 have been the seeming coldness of his manner to his 
 friends at one time, he was so ardent, so generous and 
 fascinating at another, that they forgot his former cold- 
 ness and were ready tb forgive every weakness of his na-| 
 ture. 
 
 It had not occurred, however, at that time, to his wife,! 
 that any change had taken place in her husband's mannerl 
 or feelings. There was an indescribable something whichl 
 at times made her sad ; but it was a feeling so new tol 
 her that she did not know how to trace it, or to what tol 
 ascribe it. She often saw a frown upon her husband'tl 
 brow, but she did not doubt it was that of care or thought-l 
 fu I abstraction, which the perplexities of businesil mightj 
 have pla^nted there, and she was satisfied with this men 
 tal explanation. He had become less and lesi frequentljl 
 
THE DEMON OF THE CLOSET. 
 
 243 
 
 the companion of her evening hours, but she knew that 
 business engagements detained him, and she cheered the 
 long and lonely hours which she spent in waiting his re- 
 turn, with a thought that it could not be long before this 
 timeipf toil would give place to competency and ease, 
 when she might again enjoy the society of one for whom she 
 had cheerfully given up the world. And when she heard 
 his well known step, she forgot the time she had impa- 
 tiently watched his approach, and welcomed him with a 
 wife's sweetest smile. 
 
 Not only had Frank's visits to his treasure become more 
 frequent than formerly, but he appeared anxious to avoid 
 the observation of others, especially of his wife, whenever 
 he made them. Often did she hear him leave his bed at 
 midnight, and listen to the sound of his footsteps as it was 
 directed to this closet ; and the sound of the bolt, as he 
 unlocked the door, grated harshly on her ear at that still 
 hour, when no other sound could be heard but the soft 
 breathing of her infant, that slept undisturbed by her side. 
 Nor could she fail to remark a wildness in his eye, and a 
 hurried confusion of manner in her husband, whenever 
 he returned from this secret haunt to his couch, which 
 were alike strange and unaccountable to her. She did 
 not, however, allow her thoughts to dwell on these ap- 
 pearances, and still struggled to be as happy as before. 
 
 Such was the state of things when the birth of a third 
 child rendered it necessary for Frank to employ the ser- 
 vices of one of those ancient matrons who become the 
 repositories of village scandal, and whose early wrought 
 fancies revel in creations of the wonderful and the strange. 
 
 She had known Frank when he was the delightful fa- 
 ther of his first-born, and she saw him now the cold, in- 
 different, and unfeeling parent of a third innocent and 
 helpless infant. She saw, too, that there was a change in 
 every thing around her. There was a paleness upon the 
 cheek of his wife, which was something more than th* 
 hue of disease ; and the fond yet tiroid look, which she 
 east upon her husband, as he sat moody and silent by 
 her bed side, was something so different from what had 
 once been the case, that even the crone, whose heart had 
 
 -t. 
 
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 344 
 
 TUB DBUOir or THB CLOSKT. 
 
 
 long been callous to all the icfter emotions, was touched 
 by her altered appearance. 
 
 It was npw June, but the little garden around the house 
 was green with rank weeds, among which a scattered 
 flower was here and there struggling to lift its head. 
 The woodbines and honey-suckles had been beaten down 
 from their decaying frames, and lay neglected amidst the 
 grass that was springing up in the walks, which had otico 
 wound through the beautiful shrubbery that had sheltered 
 and surrounded the house. 
 
 If Frank at any time broke his sullen silence in her 
 presence, money, expense, and ruin were the tupicK of 
 his conversation ; and the oftoner he sought this fatal 
 closet, the more gloomy and morose he became. 
 
 The crone of whom I have spoken, at length resolved 
 to discover tho cause of this change. She had heard the 
 hints and surmises already referred to. She had remark- 
 ed his secret visit to a particular spot, and did not doubt 
 if she could even peep within that secret and forbidden 
 place, the mystery would be solved. She determined to 
 make the attempt, and having waited till she heard him 
 descend in the course of the night to the parlor, she fol^- 
 \ovi^d him with a >4ileni and stealthy step. The clock 
 from the neighboring church tolled the hour of one as she 
 entered the parlor, and Iieard the door of the secret closet 
 creak on its hinges. Frank was just entering it, and the 
 lami; which he held threw a dim light upon the deep 
 darkness within, which was all she could distinguish, as| 
 the door was closed as soon as he had entered. She lis- 
 tened for a moment, and heard deep but indistinct mutter* I 
 ings of voices in the closet, and then all was still a^ain. I 
 She listened still longer, and then heard the sound ofl 
 hoarse and half suppressed oaths and curses which seemed 
 to come from no earthly voices, and soon all was again 
 silent. She could endure it no longer ; her blood chilled 
 with terror, and she hastened back to the sick chamber of 
 his wife, not doubting that she had heard the unearthly! 
 sounds of no human dialogue ; and had heard too, min- 
 ffled with this, the chink and ring of the money for which | 
 Frank had sold bis soul as he counted it over and depos- 
 ited it in his secret hiding place. Her suspicions yrsTi\ 
 
 •v 
 

 TIIR DGMOir OP THB CLOBST. 
 
 846 
 
 coDfirmed beyond a doubt, when, in a few minutes, he 
 looked into the chamber where she was sitting by the 
 tide of the suffering patient, on his way to his own apart- 
 ment* and she saw a glare and wildnes in his blobd'-shot 
 eyeff^bich no one could mistake for a human expres- 
 ojotK N^r were her convictions weakened when she heard 
 at intervals during the night, from the chamber to which 
 he had retired, the uneasy tossing of his frame upon his 
 bod, and the half articulate terms of blasphemy which he 
 muttered to himself, or, to her excited imagination, ad- 
 drcNsed to the spirits that haunted his couoh. 
 
 The terrors of that niglit were too great for her to en- 
 dure a second time, and she abruptly left the house in the 
 morning. — From that hour every one in the village stu- 
 diously avoided Frank's presence ; and if he was seen at 
 ail, it was generally after dark upon some unfrequented 
 path, ruminating in silence or muttering to himself. His 
 demeanor became more and more reserved and morose, 
 tnd even to bi^i former friends he was moody and repul- 
 live, lie was no longer seen at church on the Sabbath, 
 nor at his office on week days, and no one doubted at last 
 that a demon had possessed him. 
 
 About six months after the night of which I have spo- 
 Iken, I received a pressing note of request from Frank's 
 ife to come to his house. I went, and J could noi have 
 aginedtlt possible that such a change could have taken 
 lace between what I then saw and what 1 had witnessed 
 few yearaKbefore when I visited there. Frank was 
 cing ^l^^'aW ^'^^ an unsteady step. His two eldest 
 lildren stj^j^^ivering over an ill ^>upplied fire, near 
 hich his tfwpas sitting with a feeble and sickly in- 
 it'Upon fepHlpee, and pij^sented at once the picture of 
 irror and deispair. Her beauty had ail faded, and a hag- 
 paleness had taken its place. Her husband had 
 I morning received a letter which seemed to exaspc- 
 chamber ofltte hioi to a paroxysm of rage, and under this excite- 
 unearthly V^nt he had offered her personal violence. Domestics she 
 d too min-lKl long been destitute of, tind her children were too much 
 for which vrrified for her to dare to remain any longer alone. Ev- 
 nd depot* k thing that I saw wore the aspect of cheerless misery. 
 oioBs wereP* piano that I had once listened to was gone ; every 
 ■ W 2 ' 
 
 touched 
 
 the houRe 
 scattered 
 its kead. 
 ten doWD 
 midst the 
 I had onco 
 I sheltered 
 
 ce in her 
 topics of 
 this fatal 
 
 • 
 
 ti resolved 
 heard the 
 id remark- 
 not doubt 
 d forbidden 
 ermined to 
 heard him 
 for, she tol- 
 The clock 
 one as she 
 ecret closet 
 it, and the 
 the deep 
 inguish, as 
 She lis 
 net niutteV- 
 still again. 
 > sound of 
 ich seemed 
 was again 
 ood chilled 
 
 *? 
 
246 
 
 THB DUMOlf OF THE CLOSET. 
 
 ornament in tho room had disappeared ; and a few broken 
 chairs and a shattered table were all the furniture that 
 remained. I sat down in silence, and my eye rested on 
 the oDce fine features of Frank Seymour. I had scareiely 
 setn him for a year, and I shuddered at the change^^at j 
 I, witnessed even within that period of time. I never ne- 
 fore saw so much of the very fiend in human shape as his 
 swollen visage and sunken eye presented. He muttered 
 half stifled curses upon his family and the world, and 
 sometimes a ghastly smile would steal over his livid coun- 
 tenance, and this would be succeeded by a darker frown 
 upon his hard-knit brow. 
 
 I felt that my situation was becoming awkward and 
 most painful, and was making an effort to break away 
 from so revolting and heart-rending a scene, when a loud, 
 quick knock was heard upon the door, and a stranger, 
 without waiting to be bid, entered. Frank seemed to an- 
 ■ ticipate his business, and, in a sullen, dogged manner, de- 
 manded what he wanted 1 'This will inform you,' said 
 ^ strang^er, showing him a paper, < and by virtue ^of thig, 
 I t^ce whatever is in this house into my own custody.' 
 without waiting for any reply, he began to make a mem- 
 orandum of whatever the room contained. He then pro- 
 ceeded to other parts of the house, and in a little while 
 Teturned to the parlor, apparently dissatisfied and disap- 
 jpointed. * You have other property than this,' ^«iid he, 
 exhibiting a meagre list of a few nearly worthless articles. 
 < You have other property than this, and I must have it.' 
 * Nothing,' said Frank, who had by this tiioe recovered 
 in some measure from the stupor and confuiloB kito which 
 the entrance of the stranger had thrown Itfiin. ' Nothiqg 
 -*I have not a cent for you, nor will I bear your inso-l 
 lence any longer — so, leave my house,. or,' with an oath, | 
 ' it shall cost you deafe.' 'Mr Seymour,' said the stran- 
 ger, coolly, but firmly, ' I know, and you know my duty I 
 too well to think I shall shrink from performing it.' * That 
 door,* pointing to the secret closet, * is the only placa 
 which T have not examined, and I must examine therel 
 also:'— -Frank's rage now became positively terrible ; h«| 
 foamed at the raojuth, and trembled in every limb; andl 
 as the stranger advanced towards the closet, Frank, with 
 
 # 
 
TAMKS V, IN DISGUlSn. 
 
 • n 
 
 247 
 
 |a horrid oAth, that no man living should ever open that 
 liloor, hprung like a tiger upon him, and attempted to 
 iKlxi^'hit throat.^ I'he stranger, who >va» a stout athletic 
 
 iti^ recoiled so as to evade this attempt of Frank, and 
 havtiw wftli a single blow prostrated him upon the floor, 
 Imihiraupon the dour and burst it from its hinges. As 
 [the door f^ll, the mysteries of that place were disclosed. 
 ItIk (granger cast one glance and shrunk hack, for there' 
 |$tood the Demon, to whom Frank had sold ^limself, soul 
 i|i(l body ;— there was the Fiend, who had consumed his 
 Isiibstance, t)eggared his family, and more than widowed 
 Ihis wife. There stood the altar, on which, like the an- 
 liient worsliipper of Baal, he had immolated his children, 
 land made himself an out-cast and a demon. 
 
 Reader you have anticipated me— for it is not fancy's 
 Ipicture — there stood his half-drained bottle. 
 
 JAMES V. IN DISGUISE. 
 
 James V. had a custom of going about the country dis- 
 
 Ijiiiscd as a private person, in order that ho miglit hear 
 
 omplaints which might not otherwise reach his ears, and 
 
 erhaps, that he might enjoy amusement of nhich he 
 
 [could not have partaken in his avowed royal character. 
 
 Phis is also said to have been a custom of James IV. his 
 
 ather, and several adventures are related of what befel 
 
 Ithem on siich occasions. One or two of these narratives 
 
 nay help to enliven our story. 
 
 When .^mes V. travelled in disguise, lie used a name 
 rhich waH known only to^come of his principal nobility 
 M attendants. He was called the Goodman (the tenant, 
 bat is,) of Ballengiech— BallengieclHs a steep path which 
 
 ids down behind the Castle of_ Stirling. — Qnce when he 
 ras feasti'ng in Stirling, the King sent for some venison 
 bm the neighboring hillff.— The deer were killed and put 
 
 horses^i; backs to be transported to Stirling. Unluckily 
 [htey had ^o pass the castle gates of Arnpryor, belonging 
 
 ia chief 'of the Buchanans, who bad a considerable num- 
 Kr of guests with him. It was late, and t}re company 
 
 m 
 
 ,.t. 
 
248- 
 
 lAXEB y. IN DISGUISK.. 
 
 were rather short uf victuals, though lie had niore than 
 enough of liquor. The chief seeing so much fat venisoa j 
 passing his very door, seized on it ; and, to the expostu< 
 lation of the keefiers, who told him it belonged to King] 
 James, he answered insolently, that if James was^Kiog 
 in Scotland, he Buchanan, was King in Kippett^be- 
 ing the name of the district in which the castle of An- 
 pry or lay. On hearing what had happened, the King got | 
 on horse-back, and rode instantly from Stirling to Buchan- 
 an's house, where he found a strong fierce-looking High«| 
 lander, with an, axe on his shoulder standing sentinel at 
 the door. This griui warder refused the King admit- 
 tance, saying that the Laird of Arnpryor was at dinner, 
 and would not be disturbed. * Yet go up to the company 
 my good friend,' said the King, 'and tell him that the 
 Good man of Bailengiech is come to feast with the King 
 of Kippen.' The porter went grumbling into the house, 
 and told his master, that there was a fellow wit^ a red 
 beard, who called himself the Goodman of Bailengiech, 
 ^t tin gate who said he was come to dine with the King 
 of Kippen. As soon as Buchanan heard these words, 
 he knew that the Kiug was there in person, and hastened I 
 down to kneel at James' foet, and to ask forgiveness for 
 his insolent behavior. But the King who only ^eant tol 
 give him a fright, forgave him freely, and, going into the! 
 castle, feasted on his own venison which Buchanan had! 
 intercepted. Buchanan of Arnpryor wat ever aflerwardi| 
 called the King of Kippen. 
 
 Upon another occasion. King James, being alofieandinl 
 disguise fell into a quarrel with some gipsies, or other va-j 
 grants, and was assaulted by four or five of tb^m.-lChis chan- 
 ced to be very near the bridge ol Cramond, which, as itl 
 was high and narrow, enabled him to defend himself withl 
 his 9Word against the.-^number of persons by which he wail 
 attacked. There was a poor man threshing in a barul 
 near by, who came out, on hearing the noise of the scuf- 
 fle, and seeing one man defending himself against mm- 
 bers, gallantly took his part with his flail to such goodl 
 purpose, that the gipsies w^ere obliged to fly. The biii-l 
 bandman then took the King into tbie barn, brought hinl 
 a towel and water to wash the blood from his fiiee ||id| 
 
 •, 
 
JAHKS /. IN DISGUISE. 
 
 249 
 
 D\ore tlian 
 fat venigonl 
 B expoftu- 
 id to JCingj 
 vrat|KiDg 
 
 bands, and finally walked with him a little way towards 
 Edinburgh, in case he'should be again attacked. On the 
 way the King asked his companion what and who ho 
 was. The laborer answered that his name was John 
 Hvv^ifoon, and that he was a bondsman on the farm of 
 Jppelif^be-lgnefeead, near Cramond, which belonged to the King 
 Lie of Aiii<|gfg|.otiand. James then asked the poor man if there was 
 loy wish in the world which he would particularly desire 
 ihould be gratified ; and honest John confessed, he should 
 think himRelf the happiest man in Scotland were he but 
 proprietor of the farm on which he wrought as laborei. 
 He then asked the King in turn, who he was; and Jaaics 
 at dmner,Bjjpijetj^ as usual, that he was the Goodman of Ballen- 
 le company Bjigch J a poor man who had a small appointment near the 
 palace; but he added, if John Howieson would come to 
 e him on the next Sunday, he would endeavor to rep^vy 
 i manful assistance, and at least, give him the pleasure 
 seeing the royal apartments. 
 
 John put on his best clothes as you may suppose, and 
 ippearing at a postern gate of the palace, inquired for the 
 uod man, of Ballcngiech. The king had given orders 
 at he should be admitted ; and John found his friemi, 
 6 Goodman in the same disguise which he had formerly 
 orn. The King still preserving the character of an in- 
 ferior officer of the household, conducted John IIo^yieso« 
 om one apartment of the palace to another, and was 
 used with his wonders and rera&.rks. At length he 
 ^^bA him if he should like to see the King, to which 
 ^l®"®*'^*^"'Hlohn replied, nothing would* delight him so much, if he 
 or other va-l^yij j^ g^ without giving offence. The Goodman of 
 "■T"''*^***''|"Rillengiech, of course, told him the King would not be 
 ^htph, **. 'Hungry. — * But,' said John, * How am I to know his grace 
 himself wln^^^ jj^^ nobles who will be all about him?—* easily,' ro- 
 lled his companion, 'all the others will be bareheaded^ 
 e King will wear his hat or bonnet. 
 So speaking, King James introduced the countryman 
 to a great hall, which was filled by the nobility and of- 
 rs of the crown. John was a little frightened, and 
 — vW close to his attendant ; but was still unable to distin-- 
 »rought ^liiBh the King. * I told you that you should know him 
 is &ce #«lrhis wearing hts hat,' said his conductor — * Then,' said 
 
 [)eKii\gKot| 
 to Buchan- 
 king High- 
 sentinel at I 
 ling admit- 
 
 m that the 
 h the King 
 » the house, 
 wit^ a red 
 Ballengiecb, 
 th the King 
 lese words, 
 ind hastened 
 
 giveness fori 
 r meant to 
 ng into the! 
 
 ichanan had! 
 
 }r afterwards 
 
 hich he was 
 r ip a barn 
 of the scuf- 
 ainst mm- 
 :o sueh good 
 The hill- 
 
250 
 
 THE MYSTEIUUUS WKDDIKO. 
 
 John, after he had again lookoJ round the room, * it must! 
 be either you or lue, fur all but us two are bare-headed. 
 
 The King Iaug;hf>d at John's fancy; and, that thcl 
 good yeoman might hare occasion for mirth also, made him] 
 a prescFit of the farm of Braehead, which he "had 'Wish- 
 ed 80 much io [^0k>de8M, on condition that John «Iow. 
 ieson, o" his successors, should be ready to present an| 
 tiwt'r and basin tor t'le King to wash his hands, when 
 Majesty sliould come to Holy rood palace, or should pais 
 the bridge of Cramond. Accordingly, in the year 1822,1 
 when George IV. came to Scotland, the descendant olf 
 John Ilowieson, ol Braehead, who still possesses the es-j 
 tate which was given to his ancestor, appeared at a sol- 
 emn festival, and ofilred his Mnjosty water Crom a silver 
 ewer, that he might perfcrm the service by which he held] 
 his lunds. 
 
 THE MYSTERIOUS WEDDING. 
 
 A DAMSH STORY. 
 
 On the north west of Zealand stretches a small fertila 
 peninsula, studded with hamlets, and connected with th^ 
 main land by a narrow strip of waste ground. Beyond 
 tiie only town which this little peninsula possesses, (hd 
 land runs out into the stormy Gattegat, and presents aii 
 aw/ul, wild and sterile appearance. The living sandj 
 have there obliterated every trace'of vegetation ; and m 
 hurricanes which blow from all points of the ocean, ar^ 
 constantly operating a change on the fluctuating surfacei 
 the desert, whose hills of sand rise and fall with a motioij 
 ail incessant as that of the waves which roar around then 
 In travelling through this country I spent upwards of 
 hour in this district, and never shall 1 forget the impreij 
 sion which the scene made upon my mind. 
 
 While riding through the desolate region a thundej 
 storm rose over the ocean, towards the north ; the wave 
 roared, the clouds scudded along in gloomy masses befon 
 the wind, the sky grew every instant more dark, " mens 
 
THIS MYSTBRIOU8 WEDDITG. 25| 
 
 [ohn «low- 
 present ani 
 
 ), when hisi 
 should pai 
 
 1, ' it must Icing earth and sea :" the sand began to move in increas- 
 (-headed, ling volumes under my horse's feet, a whirlwind arose and 
 that thclilltfd the atmosphere with dust, the traces of the path be- 
 », ma4e hintl0me invisible, while air, earth and ocean seemed minp^led 
 had'ivishlind blended'togethcr, every object beings involved in a 
 ~(|oud of dust and vapor. I could not discover the slight- 
 it trace of life and vegetation around the dismal scene ; 
 the storm roared above me, the waves of the sea lashed 
 lournfully against the shores, the thunder rolled in the 
 I year l822,Blistance, and scarcely could the lurid lightning flash pierce 
 iscendant oSbe heavy cloud of sand which whirled around me. My 
 es^es the es-lianger became evident and extreme ; but a sudden show- 
 ed at a Bol-Bfof rain laid the sand and enabled me to push my way 
 om a silverBothc little town. The storm I had just encountered was 
 hicb he held^borrid mingling of all the elements. 
 
 Iq this desolate country there existed in forilier times a 
 illage called Roerwig, about a mile distant from the 
 ore. The moving sands have now buried the village ; 
 d the descendants of its inhabitants— mostly shepherds 
 id fisherman — have removed their cottages close to the 
 ore. A single solitary building, situated upon a hill, 
 ct rears its head above the cheerless shifting desert. The 
 ilding and the village church was the scene of the fol- 
 wing mysterious transaction. 
 
 In an early year of the last century, the venerable cure 
 
 Roerwig was one night seated in his study, absorbed in 
 
 lous meditations. His house lay at the extremity of 
 
 [ present*) aiBe village, and the simple manners of the inhabitants 
 
 living sandaere so little tinged with distrust, that bolts and locks 
 
 fere un)cnown amongst them, and every door remained 
 
 n and unguarded. 
 
 The lamp burned gloomily, — and the sullen stillness of 
 midnight hour-was only interrupted by the rushing 
 of the sea, on whose waves the pale moon shone re- 
 d, when the cure heard the door below opened, and 
 et the impresBe next moment heard the sound of men's feet upon the 
 r. He was anticipating a call to administer the last 
 >n a thundeBces of religion to some one of the parishioners on the 
 b * the waveBint of death, when two foreigners, wrapped up in white 
 masses befoiwaks, entered th^ room. One of them approaching, ad- 
 dark " naeualcsted him politely : " Sir, you will have the goodness 
 
 G. 
 
 small fertild 
 ted with thd 
 nd. Beyond 
 oossesscs, tM 
 
 ion ; and tw 
 he ocean, ar^ 
 in g surface! 
 jvith a motioil 
 around then 
 p wards of ii 
 
 % 
 
•263 
 
 THB MYSTKHIOLi: WBDDING. 
 
 to follow US iiiMtantly. You must perform a marriage cere 
 mony, the bride and bridegrodm are already waiting yuurj 
 arrival at the church. And this sum," here the stranger 
 held out a purse full of gold—*' will sufnciently recum 
 pense you fur, the trouble and alarm our sudden demaoi 
 lias given you. 
 
 The cure stared in mute terror upon the strangers, wlu 
 seemed to carry something fearful — almost ghastly in Ihcii 
 looks, — the demand was repeated in an authoritative toiii-^ 
 When the old man had recovered from his great surpriiiej 
 he began mildly to represent that his duty did not alloi 
 him to celebrate, so solemn a rite without some knowledge 
 of the parties, and the intervention of those formalitie^ 
 required by law. 
 
 The other stransjer hereupon stepped forward in a inen| 
 acing attitude ; " S;r," said he, *' you have your choice 
 follow us and take the sum now offered to you,— or rel 
 main and this bullet goes through your head." Wliils 
 bpcaking he levelled his pistol at the forehead of the venl 
 crable old man, and coolly waited his anwser; whereupoj 
 the cure rose, dressed himself, and informed his visitants- 
 who had hitherto spoken Danish, but with a foreign ac 
 cent, — that he was ready to accompany them. 
 
 The mysterious strangers now proceeded silently througl 
 the village, followed by the clergyman. It was a dar 
 autumn night, the moon having a^lready set ; but \vhe| 
 they emerged from the village, the old man perceived 'wit 
 terror and astonishment, that the distant clnirch was illi 
 minated. Meanwhile his two companions, wrapped 
 their white cloaks, strode hastily on before him throu{ 
 the barren sandy plain.— On reaching the church thi 
 bound up his eyes ; he then heard a side door opened ^il| 
 a well known creaking noise, and felt himself violeDl 
 pushed into a crowd of people whose inurmuring he hei 
 all around him, while close beside him some persons 
 ried on a conversation in a language quit^ unknown 
 him, but which he thought was Russian. As he stc 
 helpless and blindfolded, he felt himself seized upon bfj 
 man's hand, and drawn violently through the crowd. 
 
 At last the bandage was removed from his eyei, and 
 found himself standing with one i>f the two Btrangers 
 
TIIU MYMTICRIOUB WUODlllO. 
 
 363 
 
 ntly re com 
 Iden demao 
 
 angers, wh 
 astly in Ihci 
 ritative tone 
 reat turprist 
 ilid not alio 
 e knowled^ 
 e (ormalitieJ 
 
 fore the altar. A row of large tapers in magnificent ill- 
 irriago cere ■ ^^^ candlesticks, adorned the altar, and the church itfelJf 
 raiting yourB^j^^ splendidly lighted up by a profusion of candles. The 
 
 «*w -«*?ll'^*®P*** '*''®"*^® "°^ reigned throughout the whole buil- 
 ""' "" din J, though the side passages and all the seats were crowd- 
 ed (o excess ; but the middle passage was quite clear, and 
 he perceived in it a newly dug grave with the stone 
 which had covered it leaning against a bench. Around 
 biiu wore only male figures, but on one of the distant 
 benches he thought ho perceived a female form. The 
 terrible silence lasted for Home minutes, during which not 
 _» sound could be detected in the vast assembly. Thus 
 ^ ^r^.ToLS'''^®'^ *'*® mind is bent on deeds of darkness, a silent gloomy 
 brooding of soul often precedes the commission of the hor- 
 _rid action. 
 
 ar in a inenj ^^ ^^^^ ^ man, whose magnificent dress distinguished 
 your c oiceHjiJuj f^^^^^ ^^jj ^j^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ bespoke his elevated raiik, rose 
 ' T""'"\vl 1 B*"*^ walked hastily up to the altar; as he passed along his 
 \ f i\ !' ■•'ep resounded through the building, and every eye was 
 do le ^enHjjjj,|jgj upon him, — he appeared to be of a middle stature, 
 with broad shoulders and strong limbs, his gait was com- 
 manding, his complexion was of a yellowish brown, and 
 his hair raven black, — his features were severe, and his 
 {lips compressed as if in wrath, — a bold aquiline nose 
 eightened the haughty appearance of his countenance, 
 d dark shaggy brows lowered over his fiery eyes. He 
 ore a green coat, with broad gold braids, and a brilliant 
 r. The bride, who also approached and knelt beside 
 at the altar, was magnificently dressed. A sky 1)lue 
 , richly trimmed with silver, epveloped her slender 
 Sml^, and floated in large folds, over her graceful form, 
 t diadem sparkling with diamonds adorned her hair, 
 le utmost loveliness and beauty might be traced in her 
 tares, although despair expressed itself in them, — her 
 eeks were pale as those of a corpse, — her features unan- 
 ted, — her lips blanched, — her eyes dimned, and her 
 I unitnowu ^^^ hung motionless at her side as she kneeled before 
 he altar ; terror seemed to liave wrapped her conscious- 
 i(^ as well as her vital powers in deep lethargy. 
 The cure now discovered near him an old ugly hag in 
 party-colored dress, with a blood red turban upon her 
 
 r; whereupoi 
 Ills visitants 
 a foreign ai 
 n. 
 
 ently througl 
 t was a darl 
 ;t ; but ^hel 
 perceived wi 
 urch was illi 
 i, wrapped 
 I him throui 
 I church thi 
 )r opened vil 
 nself violen' 
 uring he hei 
 ie persons 
 unknown 
 
 ^ed upon by 
 le crowd, 
 s eyes, and 
 strangers I 
 
 i,3» 
 
^54 
 
 Titw Mi^^HTmnorH wionniNcj. 
 
 hoAd) will) stftoil {iiv/.injj; >vitii an i'>:prefisi(M» itC nialigiiiiht 
 fUry on lite knu«lin|r hridu ; and beliiml tliu Itridegroom, 
 he noticed a iiian of i^jgnntic. hWa^ and a pjloomy nppcnt 
 ance, whose eyes wcro fixrd iniinovenblc on iho kioUiuI. ' 
 tlorroi' slnjclt by tin* nrrne heforn him, Iho priest Rlnotl 
 mute foi- Bome time, till a thrilling look from the biHJe- 
 grooni rononded him ol the ceienumy ho had come lliillHr 
 \o perform, Ihit the uncertainty whether tiie couple In 
 was MOW about to ujarry understood his langua{ro, nlVonl 
 ded him a iVcsli sotuco of uneasiness. He venturoti, innv 
 ever to ask the britlo!!;voi>in for his name and that o? Iiis 
 bride : " Nrander and Fodora" wan tbe answer returned ii\ 
 a rou;i;h voice. 
 
 The priest now bet5;iin to read tbe ritual i^i faulleritu' 
 
 accents, frequently stopping'; to repeat the words, witlioul, 
 
 however, either the bride or bridet!;ioom appearintr (o vl 
 
 serve his confusion, which contiruied liim in tbe conjoi 
 
 tu'.'e that Ins lanp;uaftO was almost unknown lo eilbei ni 
 
 them. On putting the (pieslion, " NejuuU r wilt thou li u!- 
 
 tliis woman for thy wedded wife!" he doubtwl wbellui 
 
 he should receive any answer ; but to lis OHtotoslmuMn 
 
 the hridejjroom answered in tlie alhrmalive, with a loud 
 
 and ahnost Bcreanunp; voice, wbicb runj»; tbrou|.',luait \W 
 
 v^ho'ift church, n -\ile deep 8itJ;bs wen? hourd from every 
 
 quarter of tbe building:, and a silent quiverinp; like the 
 
 reileciion of distant lifthtninp: tbvew a transitory nmtion 
 
 over the death pale features of the liride. W^hen the prii^t 
 
 turned to her with the interrogatory : " Fedora wilt tluui 
 
 i^ave this n»an for tbv weddedMiusbahd 1" the lifeless foini 
 
 before hint seemed t(» awake, — a deep convulsive thrd) ot 
 
 terror trembled on her cheeks, — her pale lips qulvcred,- 
 
 a passiufi cte.\m of li«'^ shone in her eye, — her breast hea 
 
 ved— a violent liusb of tears flooded the hriflianoe of hn 
 
 eytM*, and the " yes" pronounced like the scream ofnn 
 
 jruinh uitered by a dvina; person, seenied to find a dce| 
 
 ertho in the sound of ^rief which burst from the surrour.d 
 
 iuK multitude. Tbe bride then sunk into the armsi of th( 
 
 horrid old hacc, and after s(une minutes had paused in aw 
 
 t\il aih nee, the pnle corpse-like female kntfcled ajjfain aBi 
 
 in a deep trance, and the ceremony was finished. Tli 
 
 hridc^voom now !x>se and led away the tremhilin{i; hrid 
 
 
TIIK MYSTKIUOtrn \M0fM)INO. 
 
 255 
 
 lullowuil by tlio tall iimti and tlio <»ltl wutiiaii. Tho Iwo 
 si)-;iii^i>r*4 then («|)|)(>ai-e(l tig;aiii, uiid littviiig boiiiHi the 
 |iiiost'8 ej^es, <liow him with violiMico flirouj^h tliu crowd, 
 and pushed liiin uul at i\\e dour, vvliich' they boltod from 
 within. 
 
 Tor HOiDi) iiiiiiutnN tho oht man Btood (Mtdcavoring to 
 ii'CDlhM't hiniBrlt, and iinrortain whtMlitr th»; liorrid iccno 
 nil h all its jrhnHtly ntlondant circninBtancrs miji^ht not 
 have hocn u droam ; hut when ho had torn tho handage 
 from his eycci, and saw tho ilhiiniiiattd church. before him, 
 •III I hoard tho ni\irinurin|r of the crowd, ho was forced to 
 ludiovo its reality. To loam tho iMsu > ho hid hiniHolf in 
 ;i ronicf of Iho buihlinfi;, and whib> Tmlening there ho 
 biard the nunmurinj,!; within |j;row haider and louder, — 
 then it ^oLMin^d as if a fierce altercai^on arose, in which he 
 lhouu,ht ho could recojrnl/.e the ruiiipi roico of tho bride- 
 {j;roun «'.oin!nandin;.5 sileiico, — a loUfj pause Inlhiwed, — n 
 hhot lell, — Iho Mhriek of a female voice wys lioard, which 
 \v,\^ succeeded by another |)ause, — then follosved a 80ii)id . 
 *'!' pick-axes which lasted about a (juarbr "of an hour, after 
 .vhich the candles were oxlin|^uished, the door was Hung 
 open, and a multitude of persons rnslied out of tho chtireh, 
 iiud ran towards tho f;ea. ^ 
 
 'I'lio old iniest now arose fn in his hiding phico and 
 hastened back to tho village, wh'jro ho awoke Urn nfigh- 
 boiM and friends, and rolatod to t^om hifi incrcdiblo and 
 marvellous adventure : but every thing which had hither* 
 to fallen amongst thei^io simple people, iiad been so calm 
 and tranquil,— HO much measured by the laws of daily rou- 
 liiio, that they were sei/.ed with a very diiTereQi alarm ; 
 tlkcy believed that some unfortunate accident had deran- 
 '^v([ tho intellects of their beloved pastor, and it wail not 
 tvlthout difiicuUy that he prevailed on some of th«m to 
 acconipany him to tho church, provided with pJckd attrt 
 t«pades. 
 
 Moanwhilo iho morning had dawned, the sun arose, 
 and tho priest and hia companions ascended tho hill towards 
 ihe church, when they saw u man of war under full sail 
 towards the north. So surprising a sight hi this remote 
 district, m.ide his companions already hesilate to reject his 
 utory as impro1)able, and still more were they inclined to 
 
256 
 
 THE MYSTERIOUS WEDDING. 
 
 listen to iiim when they saw that the sid«-dooi- of the 
 church had been violently burst open. They entered full 
 of expectation, and the priest showed them the grave 
 which he had seen opened in the night time, it was 
 evident that the stone had been lifted up and replaced 
 again. They, therefore, put their implements in motion, 
 and soon came to a new and richly adorned coffin, in 
 which lay the murdered bride, — a bullet had pierced her 
 breast right to the heart, the magnificent diadem which 
 she had worn at the altar no longer adorned her brow 
 but the distracted expression of deep grief had vanished 
 from her countenance, and a heavenly calm seemed spread 
 over her features. The old man threw himself on his 
 Jknees near the coffin, and wept and prayed aloud for the 
 soul of the dead, while mute astonishment and horror sei- 
 zed his companions. '; 
 
 The clergyihan fouid himself obliged to make this event 
 'instantly known with all its circumstances, to his supe- 
 rior, the bishop of Zealand ; meanwhile until he got fur- 
 ther instructions from Copenhagen, he bound all his friends 
 to secresy by an oath. Shortly afterwards a person of 
 high rank, suddenly arrived from the capital, he inquired 
 into all the circumstances, visited the grave, commended 
 the silence which had hitherto been observed, and stated 
 that the whole event must remain forever a secret, threat- 
 ening at the same time with severe punishment, any per- 
 son who should dare to spe^k of it. 
 
 After the death of the priest, a writing was found in a 
 parochial register narrating this event. Some believed 
 that it might have some secret connexion with- the- violent 
 political changes which occurred in Russia, after the death 
 of Catharine and Peter the first ; but to resolve the deep 
 riddle of this mysterious affair will ever be a difficult, if 
 i>ot impossible task. 
 
 f: 
 
 ty 
 
THB CIUCLR OV HUMAR WICII1B8. ' 
 
 257 
 
 THE CIRCLE OF HUMAN WISHES. 
 
 BY J. K. PAULDING. 
 
 When Horatio was a little boy at school he was always 
 wishing himself a young man, ' for then/ thouglit he, ' I 
 ihall not be obliged to be foiever at my book, and live in 
 constant fear of the schoolmaster.' 
 
 When he became a young man, he left scliool with de- 
 lightful anticipations of the pleasures he was about to en- 
 joy. But from school he was placed in the office of a 
 (Treat lawyer, full of business, and from morning till night, 
 he was employed in copying the same thing over and 
 over again. ' 
 
 ' I wonder,* he often said to himself, " I wonder what 
 is the use of telling the same story so often. I wish to 
 heaven I was out of my time, and then I should be my 
 own master.* 
 
 At last his time was out^ He passed examination, 
 opened an office, and wrote esquire to his name. Here 
 he would sit whole mornings, with his feet againsi th« 
 fenders or jambs, waiting for clients— but no clients came. 
 
 ' I wish to heaven,* he would sigh to himself, ' I had 
 something to do.* ^ 
 
 In process of year&.he distinguished himself as a speaker, 
 land business flowedUn upor him, till he had hardly tinrus* 
 to sleep or eat his |neals. * 
 
 " Zounds,*' cried he, 'one migjkt as well be a galley 
 tUve. I wish I were a little boy at school they arc so 
 happy, no business to trouble them, and no care^ ou their 
 minds.' 
 
 But as it was impossiblo to become a school-boy, again, 
 Horatio turned his thoughts towards the future, and be- 
 gan to wish he was rich enough to retire from business, 
 ind be a gentleman. 
 
 Years passed on, and at length he became rich ; so rich 
 that he thought he might leave cff practice and enjoy him- 
 iclf. Accordingly he did leave off practice, and for a lit- 
 tle while it was delightful to have nothing to do, and go 
 where tie pleased. But doing nothing tires a m-Mi 9X last, 
 it is the hardest work imaginabJe. 
 X 2 
 
 '^' 
 
968 
 
 THE CIRCLK OF HUMAN WISHES. 
 
 ' * I wish/ said Horatio one day, as he was perplexing 
 himself to death to know what he should do, I wish I had 
 ■omething to employ me.' 
 
 AH at once he was seized with a desire to become a 
 great roan. As we advance in years the love of wealth 
 often changes to the desire of power. He entered on the 
 atena of politics, and his eloquence soon elevated him to 
 distinction. He ros« to the highest offices in the state, 
 and at length, saw nobody above him. 
 
 * Well,' thought he, < I have it at last. I am the great> 
 est'-among the great, and now 1 shall be able to enjoy my 
 ■elf. In the firg| place I shall do just as 1 please.' 
 
 At that moment his secretary came to announce a per- 
 ioin on business. 
 
 ' I am not inclined to see any body just now ; tell him 
 to call again.' 
 
 ' But, sir, it is a man of great consequence, and one of 
 your best frKsnds, he may be offended. . 
 
 • Very well, Itt him come in.' 
 
 The man of consequence entered, talked three whole 
 hours about the politics of his district, and ended by soli- 
 citing an insignificant appointment for himself or some- 
 body else. *. 
 
 ' Well,' said Horatio, * thank heaven he's gone. I'll 
 go and take a'ride into the country before dinner. 
 ^Jiist as he had ordered his hor%|$, t^Msecretary came in 
 Ifipiihoiince another person of e6nsequ&ce, who had Very 
 ^particular business, and whom it would be bad policy to 
 offend. After a few wry faces from Horatio, he was let 
 Jn- 
 
 The visitor being a knowing character sat a long time, 
 becam'e very facetious, cracked jokes, told excellent sto- 
 ries, and when he had tired Horatio to death, thought he 
 had brought liim into a humor to do any thing he desired. 
 Accordingly he begged his interest in behalf of the people 
 he represented, in favor of a great public improvement* 
 Horatio had been specially instructed by divers old states-: 
 men to give good words if he coUld give nothing else. So 
 he flattered him with good words, and the knowing gen- 
 tleman IgGtit his way chuckling at his happy knack of 
 bringing great men into the humor of granting favors. 
 
 \ 1- 
 
 1''?v-. 
 
THE CtRCL,V or HliMAR WISHBS. 
 
 t59 
 
 e great- 
 joy my 
 
 i a pcr- 
 
 tell him 
 
 d on* of 
 
 36 %vhufe 
 
 by Boli- 
 
 or some- 
 
 one. 
 
 V\\ 
 
 # 
 en a 
 
 came m 
 
 had Very 
 
 policy to 
 
 i wa» let 
 
 ong time^ 
 silent »to- 
 l»ought he 
 |ie desired, 
 the people 
 Lrovement« 
 |oUl states-; 
 else. So 
 ring gen- 
 knaek of 
 favors* 
 
 I never met sucn a tiresome blockhead,' quoth Iloratiu. 
 il'll make it a point to oppose his application.' 
 It was too late to ride out before dinner, and he sat down 
 his meal without appetite, thinking he would have the 
 ernoon to himself, at all events. By the time he had 
 ed, there were six people waiting to see him on partic- 
 r business. It would not do to offend them, and be- 
 es he was the servant of the people. The particular 
 isiness of each was to beg some particular favor. Hora- 
 felt in an excellent humor for denying them all. But 
 is would be impolitic ; so he promised them all. 
 What a tedious business !' said he. ' But Hhall baT# 
 comfortable evening at all events.' 
 In the evening visitors dropp'ed in, one after another* 
 til he had quite a levee. Every one tried to make him" 
 If particularly agreeable, for each had a f^or to ask ; 
 d they talked so much that Horatio th(|tt|^il ht had a 
 arm of bees in his ears. • After he ha^%aw|ied thre« 
 es in the face of his visitors, and promised all thoy 
 iked, they went away. 
 1 wish to heaven somebody would calrone of these 
 es to give me something, instead of begging fovors as 
 J all do ; there would be a little variety in that.' 
 He rung for his slippers, but the sound of hisi>ell if as 
 wnedby a violent ring at the outer door. The porter 
 nouuced a stranger. 
 
 Tell him to call to-morrow, I'm just going to bed.' 
 ' He says he has most urgeftt business, and must see yon 
 •night, sir.' ' . 
 
 ' Despatch<*s from abroad, t suppoM^ show him in.' 
 The bearer of despatches entered, and after looking caa^ 
 iBly around, seeing that all doors werevshut, and that 
 dy was under the sofa, hemmed three timet atid b*' 
 
 ' I beg pardon* sir, for this untimely tiiit, butf Iniit 
 will excuse me when you know the urgency of the 
 sion ; 1 come, sir, to giv^you,— 
 I 'Heaven .be praised,' thought Horatio, * here it a maa 
 fat has got something to give me at last.' 
 I'l took the liberty, sir, at a devoted friend to your ad- 
 ministration, to call and give you tome advice about the 
 
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 ^V-:. 
 
200 
 
 THIS CIKCX^E OP IIUMAS WI8IIB8. 
 
 
 VH 
 
 course proper to 1)6 pursued, in order lo (1ef»at a plot 
 the opposition, of which I have just been conBdentiall] 
 appriged.' 
 
 What fable 
 • I will tell \ 
 
 Sir,' said Horatio, 'I feci under infinite obligationtVP ^i^harch in 
 
 'Provided yoi 
 
 e other, ' I ha 
 
 ' Agreed. O 
 
 red a portior 
 
 tes or at leas 
 
 \g trod iipon 
 
 sufficient com 
 
 tin, exclaimec 
 
 ercy of every 
 
 ' If I were bui 
 
 may I ask, what it is V 
 
 The adviser look till three in the morning to finish hi 
 communication and advice. Before he had ended, Hora 
 tio was two thirds asleep, but he awaked in time to ex 
 projshis gratitude, and promised to bear in mind this sig 
 nal proof of regard, in calling so late at night out of pun 
 good will 
 
 Day after day, passed in these perpelual interruplioDx| 
 Horatio had not a moment to spare, either for ease or ex 
 rrcisc, and was tired to death. 
 
 ' I wish to heaven,' said he, * I was a private man, witiBs<^<^i)tent posses 
 Tiothing to do but just what 1 pleased. Ah ! Mr MirvaiiBDinion, Jupiter 
 I am glad to see you. It is a delightful thing to receivB^Dge me into \ 
 a visit from one wJio wants nothing.' ■hich just now 
 
 Mirvan was an old friend of Horatio, a rather eccen(riB»7 of danger, 
 person. Some peoj)le thought him wise, others a fool, foB' Jupiter, whor 
 lie seemed content with what he had, and what he wasBl^earing this re 
 though he was neither rich nor in power. He was a kimlBuQor. The littl 
 hearted man, though he had not the reputation of it ; fo^'^^^^d £ibout wii 
 he was apt to mrke a jest of what other people though 
 very serious misfortunos/and seemed to take little interesi 
 in what are called the ups and downs of life. 
 
 After the first friendly salutations, Mirvan assumed tin 
 privilege of age and intioracy, and inquired how he likci 
 his new situation. 
 
 You neither look 80*W€!1 nor seem in such good spiri 
 af when I used to see you in your office drawing pie 
 and declarations. • 
 
 Horatio unbosomed himself to his friend. He detail 
 to him the progrfBS of his wishes from boyhood upward 
 from the time he wished he was free from the labor an 
 confinement of school, till he realised them all, st^ b; 
 fttep, and became a great man, since when he had dom 
 little else than wish himself a school fooy again* 
 
 ' It is the history of mankind,' said Mirvan, after listen 
 iing attentively ; ' and of all living things I believe, ii 
 there be any ^u^i in the fable — ^ 
 
 untered an at 
 
 mony, either i 
 
 '0, Jupiter An 
 
 name, ' what a 
 
 see you ! Wc 
 
 Id dare to insi 
 
 gain Jupiter 
 
 leant sfrutted} 
 
 ! flattered himse 
 
 I' It is worth wh 
 
 era© upon us, 
 
 t wasp dartec 
 
 iog into his h( 
 
 Body o* me,* 
 
 ; * body o* me 
 
 ant., O, Jupite 
 
 Jupiter as usua 
 
 "ghly amused 
 
 The wasp friske 
 
 e 
 
THE 
 
 t a plot 
 k6'3enliull 
 
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 OLE OF HUMAN Wl8H£8. 
 
 261 
 
 * What fable V asked Horatio. 
 
 • I will tell you,' replied the old man, his eye lighting 
 p with arch intelligence ; will you promise to listen V 
 
 'Provided you neither ask a favor nor give advice,' said 
 
 e other, < I have had enough of both lately,'* 
 
 'Agreed. Once upon a time a certain atom which 
 
 red a portion of that spirit of intelligence which ani- 
 
 tes or at least in t^s* days did animate all nature, bi*- 
 
 ig trod upon by a little insect, that has never been 
 
 sufficient consequence to be christened in £nglish or 
 
 tin, exclaimed against his hard fate in being thus at the 
 
 lercy of every creeping thing. 
 
 'If I were but an insect !' cried he, and the spirit of 
 c man ^itiBiscontent possessed him from that moment. ' O, Jupiter 
 Mr MirvanB"''^^"' Jupiter Ammon,' he repeated, ' wouldst thou but 
 lange me into an insect, if it were but as .big as that 
 hich just now insulted me, I could then get out of the 
 i7 of danger. 
 
 'Jupiter, whom nothing escaped, laughed ready to die, 
 
 bearing this request, which he granted in a fit of good 
 
 or. The little atom was as proud as a peacock, and 
 
 tted about with great dignity until it chanced that he 
 
 luntered an aht which walked right over him without 
 
 mony, either accidentally or by design. v^ 
 
 0, Jupiter Aromon,' exclaimed the little insect without 
 
 name, * what a thing it is to be so small that nobody 
 
 see you ! Would I were an ant, and then nobody 
 
 lid dare to insult me.' 
 
 gain Jupiter laughed and granted his request. The 
 leant sltutted} about, who but he ! prouder than ever, 
 flattered himself he was somebody. 
 It is worth while to live thus with the eyes of the 
 erso upon us,* cried he, when just'et that instant a., 
 t wasp darted at him, and he narrowly escaped by 
 ning into his hole. 
 
 bligatioDsj 
 
 :o finish hi 
 tded, Hon 
 time to ex 
 nd this sig 
 out of pur 
 
 terruplioDsl 
 ease or ex 
 
 g to recejvj 
 
 ler eccentri 
 rs a fool, foi 
 hat he was 
 } was a kind 
 ,n of it ; foi 
 pie thoughi 
 ttle interesi 
 
 assumed th 
 low he likci 
 
 good spini 
 awing plea 
 
 He detailei 
 upward 
 De labor am 
 all, step b 
 
 he had donilBody o' me,' exclaimed he, panting with rage and 
 Q^ w', * body o' me ! jehat a misery is it to be nothing but 
 
 after listea-l^t. O, Jupiter »mmon, would I were a wasp ^' 
 beliav^i il^upiter as usual, granted his prayer, for he began to 
 Hiighly amused with his little atom. 
 IThe wasp frisked with his great tail and admired his^ 
 
262 
 
 THB CIRCLE OF HUMAN W^HKB. 
 
 '''}jor(» was 
 fee house wl 
 Olio (lay then 
 written all his 
 
 little waist, until one day, not minding what lie was aUutl ' ^"^ ^^'PP 
 he got entangled in a large spider web, where he remain.l ' '''''C'n ho 
 ed struggling while the spider sat trembling with eager 1"'^''^' ^^»d 
 itess, waiting till he should exhaust himself by his ef/ortg 
 to pounce upon him. At length, supposing the numtetr 
 arrived, he darted towards him, just as ho made a las 
 desperate effort and escaped the toils. 
 
 * Truly, a pleasant sort oi" life thi»,* quoth the wasp 't 
 be forever in danger of being caught and eaten up by spij 
 ders. O, Jupiter Anjmon, if I could only be a specklei 
 spider !' apd a spider ho became from that moment. 
 
 ' Mercy upon us, what a big creature was he, and wh 
 havoc he made upon the wasps and flies, till a great motlH^'^'^t^nco of ( 
 blundcri r, his ' *y in the twilight, bolted right througB'^*'^'^ ^le .' wh 
 his line ' •>, ..,; big round as a cart-wheel, dotted wi|B»ubstanco wo s 
 iniprisont ■' ud not only carried all away, but pW^'^teilig^ent a 
 
 the spider't. .-3 i.t 'oopardy. ■''e wretched ir 
 
 * Fire and fury ! . xUimed he, ' here is a month's prB^i'tih for his. s 
 visions and an age's toil all swept away in a momeiB'''°-'''' not be < 
 O, Jupiter Amnion ! make me a great moth, I beseeB'"''^iS ^<> instru( 
 thee.' No sooner said than done, and a moth was he. B'lefe is no Gor 
 
 ' Nothing was so happy as our new made moth, ifl ^'husthe do 
 flew from flower to flower, tasted their sweets, gambo 
 whithersoever he pleased, till one night seeing a can 
 in an open window he became enamored of its splen 
 and rushiujg; towards it so'tinged his wings and burned 
 body that ire lay in the greatest agony. 
 
 ' I am dyiftg — O, Jupiter Ammon ! make me an aw*^^'"'te beveraj 
 again,' and he perished \Vith this humble request on JP^^^teon his b 
 lips. ^^ P^'ng on a stoi 
 
 ' And now for the moral of my story,* said Mirvan.P" ^'*<5 flies whic 
 
 'I comprehend,' said Horatio; « my ov^n experiW"^* thou Belies 
 furnishes it. Ftom an atom 1 have become a moth, ■"s^ered the 
 ting about the* candle, and every moment in dang^^'^'" the folds 
 scorching my wings and falling to the ground. But ■'^'^Pper, worn 
 pose the moth had become an eagle, and king of alll^^^®' and holdii 
 birds 1»L , i|. •"'tected roe sir 
 
 « He would only have expcrienled the folly of ip'^ch of the ft 
 discontented with his former state, and sighed foiP'^se were not 
 ease and insignificance of an atom.' f ** ^^ the qUej 
 
 bn the 
 
 great fi 
 
 ^son, and bel 
 
 oJo;ger exist* 
 
 He had a Ka 
 
 !^''e f" -r of the 
 
% 
 
 JfRrJUDiq^^ UC^Bt-KKD. 
 
 'ZiSQ 
 
 I yidM aloutl 
 he remain- 
 with eager! 
 his ef/orUJ 
 the nuiinciii 
 made a lasj 
 
 he wasp 'lil 
 n up by splj 
 >e a specklef 
 oitient. 
 he, and wW 
 a great motli 
 :ight throud 
 dotted will 
 way, but pi| 
 
 X roo»t\\'s pi 
 in a mome 
 
 ' But ijupposo he had become an atom again V 
 ' TSien he woald have h>np;(Hl to become an eagltj onco 
 Imoie. And thus «3nds the circle of human wishes/ 
 
 PREJUDICE REBUKE]). 
 
 There was at Surate, a larn^e city of Ilindostan; a cof- 
 ffce house where many strangers frequently assembled. 
 One day there came a Persian Seidrc or doctor, who had 
 written all his life on tlieology, but did not believe in the 
 existence of God. ' Who is God V said he, * whence 
 came he! who created him 1 whom is he? If he was 
 wbstance we should see him ; if he v/ere a spirit, he would 
 |be intelligj^ut and just ; and lie would not permit any to 
 be wretched in the worhl. I myself, afler laboring no 
 much for his. service, should be, pontiff at Ispahan, and I 
 should not be obliged to leave Per.><ia where I was endeav- 
 
 l am convinced 
 
 ' K **l "veseeB"""^ ^^ instruct the people. Tlierefore 
 . ' u„ ■there is no God.' 
 
 3th was he. 
 ),de moth, 
 eets, gamW 
 eeing a cani 
 ot its «plen 
 i and burned 
 
 te mo ^'^ ^} 
 request on! 
 
 ■ '% 
 
 said Mirvan. 
 
 lovn experi^ 
 
 le a moth, 
 
 Int in dang<i 
 
 Thusthe doctor, misled by his ambition, by reasoning 
 Q the great tirst cause of all things, had lu.st his own 
 ason, and believed that it was not his intelligence which 
 olo'ger existed, 'but that which governed the universe. 
 He had a Kafter slave to atHnd him, who remained at 
 the (' >r of the coffee house, while his magitpr drank his 
 vonte beverage called coquenar. When this began to * 
 iperateon his brain, he thus addressed the slave, wIk> Wjbs 
 iitting on a stone in the sun entirely occupied in brushing 
 ;ff the flies which almost devoured him. * Miserable blaclrl ^ ' 
 lost thou believe there is a God i'' « Who can doubt it V 
 nswered the Kaff'er. As he said these words he dtevf- 
 rom the folds of his pagne (a piece of cotton cloth or 
 But ■"'■^PP^r* worn by the negroes,) a little wooden marmo- 
 ^^'' f aU»*^^®' ^^^^ holding it up, said, ' Behold the God winch has 
 king Protected we sincaJ.came into the world ; it is^Jnade of a 
 
 ^r&nch of the fetiUptree .' All the people of^^e coifee 
 ouse were not Idss surprised at the answer of the slave, 
 ban at the question of the master. Whereupon a Bra- 
 
 folly oi 
 sighed N 
 
264 
 
 r UE I VDlOiiril^BU KBQ. 
 
 i)"' 
 
 min, ishruii^gint]; his shoulders, said to the negro, 'Poor I 
 silly fool ! how dost thou carry God in thy girdle 1 Know 
 that there is no other God but Bramah; who created the 
 world, whose temples are on the borders of the Ganges; 
 the Brnrains are his only priests, and it is by his pecniiarj 
 protection that they have existed these hundred and twen- 
 ty thousand years, hotwithstandinji; all the revolutions ofl 
 India. Immediately a Jew said, 'Do the Bramins belie?e| 
 that God has no temples but in India, and that he exists! 
 only fur their tribe 1 I say that there is no other God buti 
 the Cod of Abraham, who»u people are the children of Is- 
 rael. He preserves them though dispersed through the] 
 whole earth ; and they shall one day be gathered togeth- 
 
 ftmulH of M 
 Ali, they ar 
 At these 
 Persia, whc 
 io smile, ar 
 count of thoi 
 fcrent roligioi 
 God and his 
 true religion 
 the coffee ho 
 Confucius, wl 
 lie had taken 
 unnoticed, bu 
 
 or at Jerusalem, when that temple shall be again raised up,H|,jjj |,p ' . . 
 which was formerly the wonder of the universe.' Mont in i I i 
 
 As he ended these w^ords the Israelite shed tears, and waiiB„„„„ , ' , 
 
 I • 3 ' V !• • ■ iiosu, you Knc 
 
 gomg to speak agam, when an Italian, in a great pas8ion,lj„^Q qI* 
 
 thus addressed him. * You make God unjust by 8ayingBj,g,.j,|^j. . *J^^ 
 
 that he loves only the children of Israel, He has i'®j®ctedl(|jj|« «u- •/? 
 
 them for more than seventeen hundred years, which islvQur on* ''^'^ 
 
 evident enough by thoir ditpersion. He now invites aW^j j|^j_ ^' '**?! 
 
 men to the Romish Church, but of which there is nosafel^^gg i j' ®* " 
 
 A protestant minister replied to the Catholic, and saidlg^ |jj- * , ^^^ 
 •How can you confine the safety of men to your >dolatroufl,Qjj|.g| -u ** ^ 
 communion 1 Know that ifSere will be none saved bu||e|f he sn Ir**^ 
 those who, aocording to the gospel love God in spirit anAn J|,ingi^ 
 pin truth.* ■nfl#;*».«-r4 l 
 
 A Turkish officer of the Customs, who was «>nokii. Ji;"^"'^.^ •>«' 
 his pipe, and listening to the conversation of the ^^fltoSurate l' 
 christians, in a very solemn manner, thus addressed ^h^i>LBiiuivi<>- t ^ 
 • Fathers, how can you limit the knowledge of God t(l^ anchor ^ * 
 your churches alone 1 The law of Jesus Christ has beeili ^^^^ **" 
 abolished since the revelation' of Mahomet. Your relit- ^^ y^t 
 gioQ exists only in a few kingdoms r and it is over its nLj^^^.^ ^ °* 
 ins that ours is raised up in the finest portions of ^ui'op'leountries ^I^ 
 Asia and Africa. It is now seated QjjLthe thvone <^^ ^''lliid lost h' ^ 
 Mogul, and has spread into China, tk|R country of ligh«iad been ^r^\' 
 You acknowledge the reprobation of the Jews by th^oature \ ^ 
 humiliation ; then also acknowledge the mission of our PnLd trjod^ '^^^ 
 phet by his victories ! There will be none saved ^"* *^K)mancv ^I^*^^ 
 
 Y 
 
 h 
 
PRFMUDICf] KiuOrKEI). 
 
 12(i5 
 
 frititids of Mahomet and Omar ! As fur thoso who follow 
 All. thoy are infidols !* 
 
 At tlieso words, tho Seidre or doctor, who was from 
 Persia, where the people follow the sect of Ali, began 
 to smile, and a quarrel was about taking place on ac^ 
 count of there being so many strangers who were of dif- 
 ferent religious and sects, all disputing upon the nature of 
 God and his worship, and all maintaining that the only 
 |uue religion was that which he professed. In a corner of 
 I the coffee house, there sat sipping his tea, a disciple of 
 I Confucius, who was travelling for his own instruction ; as 
 had taken no part in tho conversation, he remained 
 liiDnoticed, but had listened attentively to every word that 
 had been slid. The Turkish officer observing him, called 
 out in a loud voice to the following effect: 'Good Chi- 
 nese, you know that a great many religions have spread 
 into China, and I have been informed so myself by some 
 merchants from your country, who all protested to me 
 that the religion of Mahomet was the best. Pray what is 
 Uour opinion of God and the religion of his prophet?' 
 At this question the most profound silence reigned in the 
 coffee house, and ^very one anxiously awaited the answer 
 of the Chinese. The disciple of Confucius having cross- 
 ed his hands upon his breast, appeared for a few moments 
 leotirely absorbed in reflection^ suddenly recollecting him - 
 lielf, he spoke thus : < Gentlemen, it is ambition which in 
 [ill things cariscs men to disagree. If you will have the 
 Ipatience to hear me, I will relate a circumstance, still fresh 
 lin my mind, to elucidate it. When I left China to come 
 Ito Surate, I embarked in an English ship which had cir- 
 leamnavigated the globe. On our passage here we came 
 Ito anchor on the eastern coast of Sumatra. About noon 
 li went on shore with several of the crew, and the sun be- 
 ling v^rj hot, wo sought the shade of some cocoa trees, 
 [where already reposed a number of men from different 
 leoontries. In a short time there came along a inan who 
 Ibad lost his sight by loolcing steadtastly at tlio sun. He 
 Ihad been foolish enough to endeavor to comprehend its 
 nature by appropriating tho light of it to himself. He 
 
 id tried every opticaWand chemical means, and even ne- 
 pramancy, to enclose ono of its rays in a bottle; but not 
 Y 
 
2H6 
 
 PRKJUDICr. RURUKni). 
 
 being able to succecil, lie Raid, * Tim lifflit of lliu huh is 
 not a fluid, for \i cannot bo agitated by the wind ; it isi 
 not a solid, for it cannot bo separated in pieces ; it is not 
 a fire, fur it is not extinguished in >vater ; it is not a body, 
 since it cannot bo handled ; so it is nothing at all.' In 
 short, by means of looking at the sun and reasoning upon 
 its light he became blind, and what was still worse, h:ii| 
 lost his reason. Ho believed that it was not his own 
 sight, but tho sun, which no longer existed io the uni- 
 verse. Ho had a negro to conduct him, who tausing lii> 
 master to bo seated in tho sliade poi^r us, and the ^|raii<^rci 
 1 have mentioned, took a cocoa wbi^hiHad fallen fnqm tlio 
 tree, and began to make a lamp of the shell, a*iricko^lK- 
 bark, and to expr'-.-'S some oil fnjnr the mi *? f^^ '" ^"s 
 lamp. ^V ^4v * ' * * 
 
 Whilst he was ihus occupied, the blind man sftid to liini 
 fetching a deep sigh, * Then there is no longei" any liglit 
 in the universe V ' There is the light of th<\ sun,' an- 
 swered the negro. ' What is the sunV replied the blind 
 man. * I know nothing of it,' said the black,' except 
 that when be rises my labors begin, and end at his sitting. 
 His light interests mo less than |he light of my lamp, for 
 without it I could not serve you dirring the night ;' then 
 holding up his cocoa, he said, • Here is my sun !' At these 
 words, a man who walked with crutches began to laugli ; 
 and thinking the man wbo^jiad lost his sight was born 
 
 
 blind, tbtis addressed him : 'I^earn that the sun is a globe 
 of fire, which rises every morning from the sea, and sets 
 far to the west in the niountains of Sumatra, which you 
 might perceive yourself, if you enjoyed your sight.' 
 
 A fisherman said to the cripple, ' One may easily per 
 ceive that you never was far from your village. If you 
 had legs and could walk round the island of Sumatra, you 
 would be convinced that the sun does not sit in its moun- 
 tains : but rises every morning from the sea, ind re- 
 turns into it at night, without being extinguished, which 
 1 witness daily along the coast.' 
 
 $r An inhabitant of the peninsula of India said to the fish- 
 erman, ' How can a man who has common sense believe 
 that the sun is a globe of fire, an^ that he every day 
 comes out of the sea and returns into it without being ex- 
 
i>Rt:junicic KKDUKnj). 
 
 2(V7 
 
 : HUH \s 
 (1(1 ; it I* 
 it is not 
 t a bodv, 
 all.' in 
 ing upon 
 )rse, liml 
 
 his o^vn 
 
 the uni- 
 kusing l>is 
 
 \ risJQuIn the 
 I'ick o^Ir- 
 luvt in liis 
 
 * A 
 4 
 
 mid to hint 
 any liglit 
 ^ sun,' an- 
 l the blind 
 k,' except 
 his sitting. 
 y lamp, for 
 g;ht ;' then 
 !' At these 
 1 to laugh ; 
 was horn 
 is a globe | 
 , and sets I 
 Iwhich you' 
 |ght.' 
 easily per 
 ;e. if you 
 ^matra, you 
 its mouD- 
 (a, and re- 
 ^hed, "Which 
 
 to the fish- 
 tnse believe 
 
 every day 
 lit being QT^- 
 
 tinj;ulslu'd 1 Know the sun is a Doata or Deity of my 
 ( » uitry, who rides thri/Ugh tho heavens daily, on a car, 
 I iming round tho golden mountain of Merouwa, and when 
 lio i:< eclipsed, ho is swallowed up by the serpents Ragoo 
 anti KoUU;, and h delivered from th»Mn only by the pray- 
 ers of the Indians, on the borders of the Ganges. It is 
 vory fouiish fo.' an inhabitant of Sumatra to believe that 
 llif! sun gives light only to his island.' •- 
 
 A La.scar, who was ciiptain ot a trading vessel, replied, 
 < It U still more foolish to believe that the sun prefers In- 
 dia lo all other countries of the world. I have been, said 
 lie, to the red sea, on the coast of Arabia ; to Madagas 
 Ciir, the Afloiaccas, and the Phillipine islands, and I per- 
 ceived that the sun enlightened all those places as well as 
 India. He does not turn round one mountain ; but he 
 iise.^ in the isles of Japan, which for that reason are called 
 Jepon or Gepuen, birth place of the sun, and he sets far 
 to the west behind tho mountains of England ; I am very 
 certain of it, for when I was a child I heard my grandfa- 
 ther say so, who had travelled to the ends of the sea.' 
 
 He was going to say more, when an Engli.$h sailor of 
 our crew interrupted him by saying, there is no country in 
 the world where the sun's course is better known than in 
 England. 1 say he does not rise and set any wherQ ; he 
 continually makes the circuit of the globe, of which I am 
 still more certain, as we have just come from a voyage 
 round the world, and wc every where met him ; then ta- 
 king an Indian reed from i!ie hands of one of the auditors, 
 he traced a circle on the grouii I and endeavored to explain 
 to him the sun's course from ono tropic to another; but 
 not being able to succeed, he appealed to the pilot of the 
 vessel to confirm what he asserted. The pilot was a wise 
 nan, and had attentively listened to the whole dispute, 
 without sayinj|. a Word. 
 
 But when lf0 perceived that all the auditors were silent, 
 to hear ills answer, he spake thus : * Each of you is de- 
 ceived. The sun does not revolve round the earth, but 
 it is the earth revolves around the sun, presenting to him 
 in 24 houcs the isles of Japan, the Phillipines, the Mo- 
 laccas, the Sumatra, Africa, Europe, and other countries. 
 He does not enlighten one mountain, one island, onw hor- 
 
268 
 
 PRKJUDICE RRBUICKD. 
 
 / 
 
 izon, one sea, or even our earth only. IIo is the centre 
 of the universe, and enliglitens with the earth Roveral oth- 
 er planets, which revolve also around him. Each of you 
 would be convinced of these truths if ho would look at the 
 heavens in the night, when all these orbs revolve in the 
 immensity of space, and banish from his mind the foolish 
 idea that the sun shines only on his particular country.' 
 Here the pilot ended, who had been round the world uiu! 
 observed the heavens. * It is the same,* added the disci 
 pie of Confucius, * with respect to God as with man. 
 Each man heliuves that he alone possesses him in his own 
 church, or at least in his own country. Each nation be- 
 lieves that it contains in its temples what the visible uni- 
 verse does not contain. But I will ask you, ii there a 
 temple to be compared to that which God has raised up 
 to gather all into the same communion 1 All the temples 
 of the world are made only to imitate nature ! We find 
 in most of them, columns, arches, lamps, statues, insLrip- 
 tions, books of the law, sacriticcs, altars, and priests. 
 But in what temple shall we find columns so beautiful as 
 the trees of the forest, or those of the Orchards bendinjj 
 with fruit 1 Arches so plovated as the azure vault of 
 heaven 1 A lamp so S]i4endtd as the sun ? Where shall 
 we see statues so interesting as sensible beings, who 
 speak, love, and assist each other ? Inscriptions so intel- 
 ligible as the benefits of nature 1 A book of law so uni- 
 versal as the love of God founded on gratitude, and the 
 love of our fellow creatures 1 In short, an altar so holr 
 as the heart of the honest man, whose God is the sove- 
 reipi pontiff"! Thus, the more indulgence we have for 
 others, the nearest shall we imitate his goodness. Let 
 him then who enjoys the light of God which is diffused 
 throughout the universe, despise not the superstitious who 
 perceive but a small ray in his idol, les<^ as a punishment 
 to his |)iide, it should happen to him as to the Persian, 
 who, wishing to appropriate the light of the sun to hjm- 
 sself, became blind, and was obliged to have the assistance 
 of the lamp of a negro !' Thus ended the disciple of Con- 
 fucius. And all the people of tlic coffee house, who were 
 disputing upon the excellency of their religions, preserveil 
 the most profound silence. 
 
TIIADDEUS KOSCICKKU. 
 
 he centre 
 ivoral oth- 
 ch of you 
 ook at the 
 vc in the 
 the foolisli 
 r country.' 
 world and 
 
 the disci 
 n'ith man. 
 in his own 
 
 nation be- 
 irisible uni- 
 it there u 
 
 raised up 
 tho temples 
 ! We find 
 les, inscrip 
 ind priests, 
 beautiful as 
 ds bendiuj: 
 re vault of 
 Inhere shall 
 eings, who 
 ns so iiitel- 
 
 law so uni- 
 te, and the 
 tar so holy 
 the sove- 
 
 e have for 
 ness. Let 
 i> diffused 
 
 stitious who 
 
 lunishment 
 
 he Persian, 
 
 sun to him- 
 Rssistaiice 
 
 iple of Con- 
 who were 
 
 8, preserved 
 
 «^' THADDEUS KOSCIUSKO. 
 
 Among the remarkable men of modern timet, there is 
 perhaps, none whose fame is purer from reproach than 
 that of Thaddeus Kosciusko. His name is enshrined in 
 the ruins of his country, which, with heroic bravery and 
 devotion, he sought to defend against oppression^ and for- 
 eign domination. Kosciusko was born at Warsaw about 
 the year 1775. He was educated at tho school of Cadeti 
 ii) that city, w^hero he distinguished himself so much iiT^ 
 jticientific <luties as well as in drawing, that ho was eelec- 
 led as one of four students of that Institution, who were 
 sent to travel at the expense of the state, with a view 
 jof perfecting their talents. In this capacity he visited 
 t'rance, where he remained for several years, devoting 
 lliiinself to studies of various kinds. On hi^ return to hi«i| 
 lown country, he entered the army, and obtained tihe com- 
 pud of a company. But he was soon obliged to expa- 
 triate himself again, in order to fly from a violent but un- 
 requitted passion for the daughter of tho Marshal of Li- 
 thuania, one of the tirst officers of state of the I'olish 
 ICourt. 'I 
 
 He bent his steps to that part of North Amorica which 
 [was then waging its war of Independence a|>;ainsit Kng- 
 lland. Here he entered the army, and served with dis- 
 inction as one of the Adjutants of (}or». Wahhington. 
 hVhile thus employed, he became acquainted with La 
 (Fayette, Lanieth, and other distinguished Frenchmen ser- 
 iring in the same cause, and was honored by receiving tnlft' 
 mostit flattering praisM from Franklin, as Wi II as the pub- 
 |lic thanks of the Congress of the United i'rovinces. He 
 |wM also decorateil wiHi the new American order of Cin- 
 natus, being the only European, except Ld Fayette, to 
 iiom it was given. 
 
 At the termination of the war, he returned to his own 
 ounlry where ho fived in retirement till the year 1780, 
 t which period he was promoted by tho Diet to the rank 
 if Major Gei>era]. That body was at this time endeavor i^' 
 Dg to place its military force upon a respectable footing, 
 A the vain hope of restraining and diminishing the domi- 
 eering influence of foreign powers, in what still remain- 
 Y •> 
 
 *'M 
 
», 
 
 5^70 
 
 TIIADDIU'S KliSlCUKKO, 
 
 ed of Poland. It svlso crccupitNl itself in arranging (he 
 constitution of that unfortunate and ill-governed connlrT 
 -rii^TeAderiDg the monarchy hereditary— in declaring uni- 
 v^riftl toleration — and in preserving the privileges of the 
 nqi^ility, while at the same time, it amclioFated the condi- 
 tion- of the lower orders. In all these improvemeutii, Slan- 
 islftus PoDJatowski, the reigning king, readily concurred ; 
 though the avowed intention of the Diet was, to render 
 tho'orown hereditary in the Saxon family. The King of 
 Prussia, (Frederick William II.) who from the treaty 
 of Cherson in 1.787, between Russia and Austria, had 
 become hostile to the former power, also encouraged tlic 
 Poles in their proceedings; and even gave them the most 
 positive assurances of assisting them in case the chani;ts 
 they were effecting occasioned any attacks from other 
 fovereigns. 
 
 In the year 1807, Napoleon being about to invad? 
 Poland wished to use the name of Kosciusko, in order to 
 rally the people of the country around his standard. Tht 
 patriot aware that no real freedom was to be hoped for 
 under such auspices, refused to lend himself to his wisiies. 
 Upon this the Emperor forged Kosciusko's signature to 
 an address to the Poles ; which was distributed throughout 
 all the country. Nor would he permit the injured per- 
 son to deny the authenticity of this act in any public 
 manner. The real state of the case was however made 
 known to many, through the private representations of 
 Kosciusko : but he was never able to publish a formal de- 
 ni£l of the transaction till after the fall of Napoleon. 
 
 ^\hen the Russians, in 1-S14 had penetrated into Ch^m- 
 paigne, and werp advancing towards Paris, they were as- 
 tonished to hear that their former adversary was living Id 
 retirement in that partjof the country. The commune in 
 which Kosciusko lived was subjected to ])lunder, and 
 among the troops thus engaged he observed a Polish regi- 
 ment. Transported with anger he rushed amongst them, 
 and thus addressed the officers : — ' when I commanded 
 bravo soldiers they never pillaged; and 1 should have 
 punished severely, subalterns who allowed of disordersj 
 such as we see around. — Still more severely should I 
 have punished older officers who authorised such conduct 
 
 by their cuipr 
 I fjencral cry, * 
 
 10 usV— '"l a I 
 
 I soldiery xjast ( 
 
 liis f«et, and c 
 
 lional usage, 
 
 u'liich they hi 
 
 Ut" Kosciusko 
 
 liiat of an exi 
 
 iver Polish I 
 
 L'ood and gene 
 
 i'ne Empen 
 
 Itei view, and o 
 
 JiJiii rioi hi ng cc 
 
 jibrti;iiate nativ 
 
 jSwilzt'iland, w 
 
 pcjijenccs of an 
 
 iNot lonp,- before 
 
 [fstate, and derl 
 
 ;;i>lere(l and c\ 
 
 \mv. the full pe 
 
 Iremains of Kos 
 
 Ipeiiso of Alexa 
 
 jresl in the Cat 
 
 Jcoinpanions in- 
 
 |f.st of Polish Wi 
 
 CONi 
 
 " On the Mtl 
 e Russians wc 
 Ipoleon reached 
 [cause it is there 
 elves at first sit 
 lordly and striki 
 ■lurches, and it; 
 alaces of Eastt 
 urrcHinded wiUi 
 '»l;ir ii^ass of {( 
 
C05FL AGKATIOIV OV MOSCOW. 
 
 .>- I 
 
 by their culpable neglect.* * And whu are } on,' was tlie 
 (;encral cry, * that you dare spoalw w.ith so laucli boldness 
 lo us V — ' I am Kosciusko/ Tbo effect was electric ; the 
 soldiery loagt down their anus, j)rostrated tbomsclves at 
 his feet, and cast dust upon their heads accordin(r to a na- 
 tional usage, s6pplicatiiii; his t'or(!;ivcncss for the fault 
 u'liich they hai>.'Comniitted. For twenty years the name 
 i){ Kosciusko had not been heard in Poland, save a* 
 limt of an exile/; yet it still retained its ancient power 
 (Ver Polish hearts; a power never used but for some 
 1 200(1 and generous end. 
 
 Tne Emperor. Alexander honored liiiu with a lonjf in- 
 lie: view, and olfarcd him an asylum in his own country. 
 ikii noihin<Tf could induce Kosciusko again to see his uu- 
 jloHniKite native land. In 1HI5, he retired to ►Soieure, in 
 Switzerland, where he died, Oclolier JfJth, 1817, in con*^ 
 j.set;<Jenco of an injury received by a fall from his horse. — ^ 
 JNot lonp; before, he had abolished slavery upon his Pt))ish 
 Iwtate, and declared all serfs entirely free, by a (U'^ed re- 
 I'ijlered and executed vvith every fonnality that cot;ld en- 
 hiire the full peiiformance of his intentions. The morlal 
 remains of Kosciusko were reniovrd to Poland at the ex- 
 pense of Alexander, and hav<9 found a fsitting place of 
 Iresl in tiie Catiiedrai of Cracow, between Ihose of hi* 
 Itompanions irv ^ms, Joseph Poniatowski, ;(nd the grcat- 
 «st of Polish warrior*!, John Sobieski. 
 
 CONI^iLAiKRA'TlON OF xMOSGOW. 
 
 '' On (he 14th September 1812, while the rearguard of 
 lie Russians were in the act of evMuating Moscow, Na- 
 loleon reached tSie hill called the ]\K)unt of Salvation, be-> 
 puse it is there that the natives kneel and cross thcni- 
 ielves at first si^ht of the Holy t'ity. Moscow 6eem«d 
 ordly and striking as ever, Avith the steeples of its thirty 
 !liurches, and its copper domes glittering in the siin ; its 
 lalaces of Eastern architecture, minglid with trees, and 
 urrcmndcd witli gardens ; and its Kremlin, a h«ge trian- 
 [ijlnr m»s» of towers, something between a palace and a 
 
 4^1 
 
273 
 
 CONFLAGRATION OF MOSCOKV. 
 
 castle, which rose like a citadel out of the geneial mnss 
 of groves andihuildings. But not a chimnny ^ent nn 
 )>moke ; Dot a man appeared on, the battlements, or at thi' 
 gates. — After waiting two hours, he received :V i boaic 
 ^"'iiench ill ^fihitanls, who had hid themselves durintr I'iO 
 »r;acuation, the strange intelligence that Moscow w.-.s at«- 
 sertedi by its population. The tidings that a populalJ;/ii 
 of two hundred and iifty thousand persons had left their 
 native city, was incredible. The signal was now given 
 ibr the troops to adyance, and the columns^' still in a state 
 of wonder at the solitude and silence which received them 
 every where, penetrated through the asseniblaj;e of huts, 
 mingled with palace* where it seemed thatperury, which 
 had scarce means to obtain the ordinary necessaries of life, 
 had for her next door neighbor all the wealth and profuse 
 
 petiditure of the East. At once ti.? silence was bro- 
 en by a volley of musketry, which some miserable fan- 
 atics poured from the battlenients of the Kremlin on tlie 
 tirst French troops that approached the -palace of tli« 
 Czars. — Bonaparte, as if unwilling to encounter the sight 
 of the empty streets, stopped immediateBy on entering 
 the first suburl). His troops were quartered in this deso- 
 late city. During the first few hours after their arrivn*, 
 an obscure rumor, which could not be traced, but one of 
 those which are sometimes found to get abjpoad before the 
 approach of some awful calamity, announcod that tlio city 
 would be endangered by fire in the course of the iiight. 
 The report seemed to arise from those ©vident circurastMn- 
 ces which rendered the event probable, but no one took 
 any notice of it until at midnight^ Vh^i the soldiers were 
 startled from their quarters with the report that the town 
 was on fire. 
 
 '/ The memorable conflagraiu?; L;gan amongst the coach- 
 makers' warehouses ana workshops in the BazaHr, or gen- 
 eral market, which was the richest <listrict of the chy. 
 If was imputed to accident, and the progress of the flames 
 was subdued by the exertions of the French soldiers. 
 Next day the flames had disappeared. But at night the 
 flames again arose in the north and west quarters of the 
 city. As far the greater part of the houses were built of 
 wood, the conflagration spread with the most dreadful ra- 
 
 pidity TIiK- 
 
 and '>/;ark.'ps w 
 
 mer\ ed tl ai ' 
 
 (brse times in 
 
 irp^s forth ru 
 
 a,)'ulated to di 
 
 were increased 
 
 liiough as yet u 
 
 der in the Krer 
 
 Its ammunition, 
 
 dow. Morning 
 
 ring the whole 
 
 i.itimely and u 
 
 a thick and si 
 
 smoke. The eq 
 
 the third night, 
 
 was no longer i 
 
 dead hour of i 
 
 be on fire. Bo 
 
 the entreaties o 
 
 in the Kremlin, 
 
 ([nesl, he seeme 
 
 ing a fragment c 
 
 ind danger in r* 
 
 ?aiQ the city j 
 
 itreets a 'ched w 
 
 ireathed was su 
 
 nopposed, and 
 
 enturies to rais( 
 
 iolence, and thi 
 
 ssaid, four fifth 
 
 FA' 
 
 Among the nu 
 i(! themselves in 
 irise, Heniy II u 
 'he straits and \ 
 oast of America 
 
 # 
 
rKr^Sl OF HENRY HUDSON 
 
 27a 
 
 eial mnss 
 or at thi' 
 
 lurintT tlif 
 iv was '.ie- 
 poputati:/!! 
 left their 
 low given 
 I in a state 
 Mved theti) 
 ;e of huis, 
 «.iry, which 
 tries of life, 
 nd profuse 
 was bro- 
 erable fan- 
 lin on tile 
 ice of tlie 
 ^r the sight 
 n entering 
 1 this deso- 
 Eiir arrival., 
 jut one of 
 before the 
 tat tiic city 
 the jrtight. 
 ircumst'in- 
 o one took 
 diers were 
 t the town 
 
 t the coach- 
 aar, or gen- 
 the city, 
 the flames 
 h soldiers, 
 t night tb« 
 ters of the 
 Bre built of 
 readful ra- 
 
 Ipidity Th!l.f »vas at first imputeil to tlie blazing brands 
 and '«i;ark?ps w!^ich were carried by <i - vind; butit was 
 ybiicr-, ed tl ai u^i often a«' the wiuci chanired, and it changed 
 hbrse times in v\i?:: tcnible night, new flames broke al- 
 |ir?is forth s* iiiat direction, where the existing gale was 
 la) 'ulated to direct them on the Kremlin. T'ese horrors 
 Ufve increased by the chance of explosion. There was, 
 liiough as yet unknown to the French, a magazine of pow- 
 \kr in the Kremlin ; besides that a park of artillery, with 
 ammunition, was drawn up under the Emperor's win- 
 Idow. Morning came, and with it a dreadful scene. Du- 
 Iriug the whole night, the metropolis had glared with an 
 liitimely and unnatural light. It was now covered with 
 la thick and suflPjcating atmosphere, of almost palpable 
 Ismoke. The equinoctial gales rose higher and higher upon 
 Ithe third night, and extended the flames, with which there 
 was no longer any human power of contending. At the;. 
 Idead hour of i Jdnight, the Kremlin itself was found to 
 Ibe on fire. Bonaparte was then, at length persuaded, by 
 Ithe entreaties of all around him, to relinquish his quarters 
 jin the Kremlin, to which- as the visible mark of his con- 
 Iquesl, he seemed to cling w^ith the ten- city of a Hon hold ■ 
 ling a fragment of his prey. He encountered both difficulty 
 lind danger in retiring from the palace, and before he could 
 hain the city gate, he had to traverse with his suite 
 (streets a "ched with fire, and in which the ver/ air they 
 breathed was suffocating. The fire continued to triumph 
 unopposed, and consumed In a few days what it had coi>t 
 3nturies to raise. It raged till the 19th with unabated 
 fiolence, and then began to slacken for want ol fuel. It 
 said, four fifths of this great city were laid in ruins." 
 
 FATE OF HENRY HUDSON. 
 
 Among the numerous adventurers who have distinguish • 
 id themselves in the dangerous field of maratime enter- 
 irise, lieniy Hudson will always hold an exalted rank. 
 'he straits and bay wb.ich he discovered on the northern 
 oast of America, having received his name, cannot fail 
 
 •■#■3 
 
274 
 
 FATE OF HENRY HUDSON. 
 
 to transmit it to the latest posterity. But while we ad-l 
 mire his intrepidity, v.nd pay a tribute of respect to lliej 
 memory of an al>le, a successful, but an unfortunate navi- 
 gator, it must always be accompanied with indignant feel-| 
 ings at the baseness of his crew, through whose inliuniau- 
 ity he was doomed to perish. 
 
 * The expanse discovered by Hudson was the great in- 
 land sea, called from him Hudson's Bay ; and it was a| 
 ^rand discovery, although not exactly what he imagined. 
 The 8d of August was now arrived, a season at whiclii 
 tiie boldest of nortliern navigators had been accustomed to| 
 
 . think of returning. Little inclined to such a course he 
 continued to sail along the coast on the left, which nnisl| 
 have appeared to Inm the western boundary of America 
 hoping probably, before the close of Autumn to reach scmel 
 cultivated and temperate shore, where he might take upj 
 
 ipiis winter quarters. The shores along this bay, however/ 
 tho'ugh. not in a very high latitude, are subject to a cli-j 
 mate the most rigorous and inclement. Entangled in the! 
 gulfs and capes of an unknown coast, struggling withl 
 mist and storm, and ill seconded by a discontented crew,! 
 he spent three long montiis without reaching any comfort-l 
 able haven. It was novv' the fjrst of November, th« icel 
 was closing on all sides, and nothing remained but tol 
 ineet tho cheerless winter, which had actually begun.l 
 The sailors were too late in attempting to erect a wooden! 
 Jiousr ; yet the cold, tliough s( ' ere, does not se^ra to havej 
 reached ':'iy perilous height ; their chief alarm respected 
 provisions of which they had brought only a six monthsi 
 supply, and consequently had now only a small remnantj 
 left. — Hudson took active measures to relieve this want." 
 Ha carefully husbanded the original stock, and propound- 
 ed a reward lo wlioever should kill beast, fish, or bird;| 
 ond * Providence dealt^tntrcifully, in sending sucii a sup- 
 ply of white patridgcs, that in three months they killedl 
 a hundred dozen.' In spring these birds disappeared, but! 
 were snoceeded by docks of geese, swans, ducks, and sealj 
 not dt niztns of tlie spot, but on their flight from the soutlJ 
 to •,c:'U!„ V-'hen these v/ere passed, the air no longerf 
 yli'!..'ed a siip^ 'y, hut the sea began to open, and haTingj 
 on the fir.*?* da - (akcn fivv: hundred fishes of tolerable sizeJ 
 
I'ATi: OF IIEMiY il UDSOrf. 
 
 ,275 
 
 iile we ad 
 pect to the 
 tunate navi- 
 iignaut t'eel- 
 se inhunian- 
 
 the great in- 
 id it was a 
 
 xustomed to 
 a course h 
 which must 
 of America; 
 o reach some' 
 
 tliey received good hopes ; l)iit this success did not con- 
 tinue ; V>eiiig reduced to great extremity, Ihey searched 
 the woods for moss, which they compare however, to 
 pounded timber ; they ate even frogs. The commander 
 iindcrtoolv an excursion with a view to open i;n intcr- 
 lourse with the nahvr's, but they tied, setting fire even 
 to the woods bcliind them. Parley was obtained with 
 one, who was loaded with gifts yet he never returned. 
 Discontents arose as to the distribution of the small rc- 
 ;e imagined, ■njaining portion of bread and cheese, to ailay which, the 
 in at "whichBjjptain made a general and equa' partition of the whole. 
 This was a bad measure among such a crew, many of 
 whom know not how ' to govern their share, but greedily 
 devoured it as long as it lasted.' One man even ate tho 
 whole in a, day, and brought en a dant£crous surfeit. 
 Their distress becoming tl)i'.s greater than ever, soon 
 ght take upB|,rought on a most fatal crisis. 
 
 ay, however.H < Hudson, -as may be observed, had from the first to 
 
 ect to a ch-Bstrijggle witii an unprincipled, ill-temper«d crew, void of 
 
 mgled m tneBj^y jjoncem for the ultimate success of the voyage. He 
 
 igg^i'^S "^'^'™ad probably hoped, as the season should advance, to push 
 
 tented crew.HjQQthwards, and reach the next summer the wealthy re- 
 
 any comfort-mious wiiich he was commiesioned to search. The sailors, 
 
 iber, th« »ceHQijthe contrary, had fixed their desires on ' the capo where 
 
 ained but toBf^^^jsjo bret^l,' the only place Avhere they expected to oh- 
 
 ually begun.BtiJQ both preisent supply and the means of returning to 
 
 set a woodenBgngland. Ringleaders were not. wanting to head this 
 
 se^ra to haveBjrowing party of malcontents. At the entrance of the 
 
 rm respecteoHjjjy^ tj^^ captain had displaced Ivet, the mate, who had 
 
 six monthsmjQ-yyjj strong propensities towards returning, and appointed 
 
 nail remnantBgyiet \j^ jjjg room, a man of merit, and who had always 
 
 ihown zeal i^) the general cause. Ho had also changed 
 
 [the boatswain. But the most deadly blow was struck by 
 
 "reen, a wretch, whom, after he had been cast off by all 
 
 is friends, Hudson, from humanity, had taken on board, 
 
 they kille(mjj^.gfj^gj^yQ,.gjj ^^ reclaim and to restore to society. 
 
 ppeared, butB tjjg ^^^^ possessed of talents \\hich made him useful, and 
 
 cks, and seali^gi^ ^ favorite with his superiors ; and among other dis- 
 
 rom the soutlmQj,tgjj|g^ jj. ^j^g reckoned one, that a veil had been thrown 
 
 ir no longeia^gf several flagrant disorders of which he had been guil- 
 
 and haymglv. Yet some warm expressions of Hudson caused, it is 
 
 olerable size; 
 
 this want 
 id propound 
 sh, or bird;] 
 sucli a sup-' 
 
 vr-a^-V"^^ 
 
 J 
 
TiCi 
 
 • ATK or lll!«UV IIUDHOK, 
 
 ««i«l, by a mimiihlorstrtndiujj: iiboiit the purcliust) of a ^uk\[ 
 coat, BO actod upon (ho (icn-o spirit of this ruflUjn, that, 
 ronouncin}; ovwiy tie of ^liititiule, and all that h sacral 
 Hinonp; mankind, ho htM^aino tl»o chief in a conspiracy to 
 Hoi/.o Iho vessol, and oxpufto the connnarnh'r to perish. 
 
 ' Aftor uonio (hiy'a consultation, tho tin)o was fixed Inr 
 the porpetraJion of thi?« horrihh' atrocity. On tlu) 21st of 
 Jriuc, IGII, (Jrocn and Wilson, tho boatswain, came iiUi 
 Pnckot, tho narrator's cabin, and announced their fata! res- 
 olution ; addiu}^, that they boro him no nnich p;ood will as 
 to wish that ho should remain on board. Prickot avcrr. 
 most solemnly, that ho exhausted every argument, which 
 mif^ht induce them to desist from their horrid purpose, bt 
 eeoching them not to do fio foul a thinjr in tho sight of 
 God and man, and which would forever banish them from 
 their native country, their Avives and children. (Jrot-n 
 wildly answered, that they had nuxde up their minds to go 
 through wilh it or die, and that they would rather bo hang 
 «d at home than to s(atV(? hero. An attempt was mad? 
 to uegocia to 0. delay of three, two, or ovon one day, but 
 ail without cirect. Ivct came next, of whom, as being 3 
 person of mature age, there seemed more hope ; but lio 
 was worse than Green, declaring that he would justify in 
 England, tho deed on which they had resolved. John 
 Thomas and Michael Perse now came in, proving thern- 
 s^ves * birds of a feather,' and Mofor and Bcnnet having 
 followed, an oath was administered to the following tonor; 
 ' You shall swear truth to God, your prince and country; 
 you shall do nothing hut to tho glory of God and the ac- 
 tion in hand, and harm to no man.' Pricket complains of 
 tl.* reproach thrown \\[)on him for having taken this oath, 
 the bare terms of which are certainly unexceptionable; 
 but the dark contest by which they were illustrated, marks 
 them as containing an implied obligation to remain at 
 least passive on this dreadful occasion. All was no\«^ 
 ready, but Pricket pcrsisaded them to delay till day light, 
 the accomplishment of their crime. They agreed, but 
 kopt strict watch through tho night, and held theraselve!' 
 ready to act at the first aj^pearance of dawn. 
 I * Rayhreak approaching, Hudson camo out of his cabin, 
 %hen he wa.s instantly set upon by Thomas, Bennet, ad 
 
 Wilson wh( 
 
 back ; and < 
 
 him that lu 
 
 I vet then a 
 
 commander' 
 
 having a sw 
 
 would have 
 
 ftpcedily rei 
 
 (ho choice ol 
 
 fused to bo < 
 
 ately follow( 
 
 ready letting 
 
 Then with a 
 
 from their be 
 
 of Hudson, 
 
 ford no aid, £ 
 
 8ome. They 
 
 some powdo 
 
 completed, w 
 
 with their to| 
 
 Hudson, thus 
 
 this great na^ 
 
 and desolate « 
 
 distress to v/\ 
 
 known. 
 
 * The (Sailor 
 opoo the ship 
 •ry chest, ami 
 could be disco 
 cdmniand, use 
 the cabin and 
 was afterward 
 that of secret! 
 (outinoers had 
 arise. Even ( 
 WM no place 
 ichemo than t( 
 other, they mij 
 t.''i hand and 1 
 detained for a i 
 'm miles arou 
 
r\rnov iihnmv tii/dhoiv. 
 
 277 
 
 ,ti ()f a ^!iio;\li 
 idV.in, tlint, 
 iivt is sue rod] 
 onspiracy to] 
 perish. 
 r,\n lixgd f(»r] 
 
 1, came lull 
 \(:\v fatal ros-l 
 
 p;(M)d will as 
 'lickot avcrf.] 
 imcnt, whidij 
 
 purpose, lit 
 
 Ihc sight of] 
 ih them IVoinj 
 drcii. (Iiotn 
 ir mimls to ^o] 
 kther bo hang 
 pt was iTiadcj 
 
 one day, but! 
 m, as being a 
 
 Wilsun who Kci/iCd him nnd buiind hist hands bohind hiti 
 Imok ; nnd on him uagorly ajking what they ntcant, to) .1 
 Itiin that he should know when on board the Mhallop. 
 I vet then attacked King, the carponter, known an the 
 coramandor'n moit devoted adherent. That bravo fellow 
 having a sword, made a moHt desperate rof*istance, and 
 would have kiilod his assailant, had not the latter been 
 npcedily reinforced. The mutineers then offered to him 
 tfio choice of continuing in the ship, but he absolutely re- 
 fused to bo detained otherwise than by force, and immedi- 
 ately followed his master whom the conspirators were al- 
 ready letting down the sides of the vessel into the shallop. 
 Then with a barbarity beyond all example, they called 
 from their bods, and drove into it, not the firm adherents 
 of Hudson, but the sick and infirm sailors who could af- 
 ford no aid, and whose support would have been burden- 
 some. They threw after them the carpenter's box, with 
 «ome powder and f»hot. — Scarcely was this transaction 
 completed, when they cut off tho boat from the stern, ' out 
 with their topsail,' and set off, flying as from an enemy. 
 Hudson, thus abandoned was never heard of more; and 
 this great navigator undoubtedly perished on these remote 
 
 i Id iustifv inl*""^ desolate shores, though the form or duration of the 
 lolved. .luhn 
 
 uoving them 
 ennet having 
 lowing tfmor 
 and country; 
 d and the ao 
 t complains ol 
 Iken this oath, 
 
 distress to which ho fell a victim, must be forever un- 
 known. 
 
 * Tho (Sailors, as soon as the guilty deed was done, fell 
 upon tho ship as on a captured vessel, break'-^i; open ev- 
 ery chest, and seizing on every remnant of food which 
 could he discovered. Green, however, who assumed the 
 e4inniand, used some vigor in restoring order. He placed 
 the cabin and provisions under the charge of Pricket, who 
 ^'ntionabiiel^** afterwards accused of a matter no less than treason,— 
 t t d raark'sl^'**^ ^^'^ sicreling ^ome cakes of bread. As soon as the 
 
 * .^«;n ntinjutineers had time to reflect, rueful raui»ing began to 
 to remam »(■ . 1 -i.^ . ^t ^ 1^ » • ? .«• *• 
 
 All was nowl*"*** *«ven Green, admitted that England at this time 
 U'W dav liehtl''** **** place for them, nor could he contrive any blUtcr 
 1 ' reed butl'^^®"*® ^^^^ *° ^®*P ^^^ *^'6'* '***'' ^''^ ^^^ some means or 
 l*therafielves|°'*'®'» ^^®y might procure a pardon from under his Majes- 
 r Itv'i hand and seal. Tho vessel was now ■ embayed, and 
 
 \\ f h' cabin 1°**"**'^ ^^^ * fortnight amid fields of ice, which extended 
 
 ^ . / .nipur nailos around it, and but for some cockle grass found on 
 Bonnet, a«"| „ ' » 
 
278 
 
 FATK or HBlfllY IICDf«Oir. 
 
 an island, tb.c crew must have perished by famine. Con- 
 siderable disputes with respect tu the steerage arose be- 
 tween Ivet and Bylet, who alone had any pretensions tu 
 •kill; but the latter being justly viewed with the greatest 
 confidence, at length guided them to Cape Digger, the 
 longed-for spot, the breeding place of fowls, crowds of 
 which accordingly continued still to darken the air. The 
 party immediately landed, spread themselves among the 
 rocks and began to shoot. While the boat was on shore, 
 they saw seven canoes rowing towards them, whereupou 
 they prepared themselves to meet opposition. 
 
 However the savages came forward beating their breasts, 
 dancing and leaping, with every familiar ana friendly sign. 
 The utmost intimacy commenced, the parties went back 
 and forward, showed each other their mode of catching 
 fowls, and made mutual presents and exchanges. In short 
 these appeared the most kind and simple people in the 
 world, and * God so blinded Henry Green' that he viewed! 
 them with implicit confidence. One day, amid the height 
 of this insanity, Pricket, fitting in the boat, suddenly 
 saw a man's leg close to him. Raising up his head, he| 
 perceived a savage with a knife uplifted, ready to strike. 
 In attempting to arrest the blow, his hand was cut, atidl 
 he could not escape three wounds, one on the breast, andl 
 one in tl>e right thigh, l)y which time he got hold of the! 
 handle of the knife, and wrenched it from the assassinj 
 whom he tJien pierced with his oagger in the left side. 
 At the'same time a general attack was -made on the En- 
 glish crew, dispersed in different quarters. Green an^ 
 Perse, came tumbling down wounded in the boat, whichj 
 was pushed off, while Motor, seeing * this medley,' leaped 
 into the sea, swam out, and getting hold of the stern, wat 
 pulled in by Perse. Green now cried corragio, and he and 
 Perse brandished their weapons so vigorously that the sav-j 
 a^L's ceased attempting to enter the boat ; but they pouretj 
 ini^louds of arrows, one of which struck Green with sucii 
 ^orce, that he died on the spot, and his body was thro\rii 
 into the sea. At length the party reached the vessel ; bul 
 Moter and Wilson died that day, and Perse two days afj 
 ter. Thus perished the chief perpetrators of a dreadful 
 tragedy, visited by Providence with a fate not less terribli 
 
 thAW that w 
 uiW >rtiinato 
 ' The ere 
 cxtroine poi 
 straits, and i 
 venture on 
 hr obtaining 
 contrived, (U 
 (() collect tl 
 preserved as 
 voyage. Tl 
 dreadful extr 
 a day to eaci 
 theui fried ^ 
 tion was ni; 
 survivor of 
 action, sunk 
 in the steep- 
 and desperaf 
 thoni sight ( 
 Ireland. Th 
 haven, they 
 which they 
 their vessel, 
 Plymouth.' 
 
 All travel 
 cations about 
 the largest at 
 ever existed 
 Horuch Aruc 
 Algiers by th 
 my,) destroy ( 
 the sovereign 
 ands institute 
 and successor 
 Levant, io su 
 
 I 
 
ALGIERS. 
 
 •iTV 
 
 O.YWi that whic.li thcj liad inflicted on thoir illustrioiis and 
 uiif irtiinato victim. 
 
 • The crew, thus deprived of thoir best hands, were in 
 extreme perplexity, obliged to ply the ship across the 
 dtniits, and unable, without the utmost fear and peril, to 
 venture on shore ; which yet was absolutely necessary 
 for obtaininoj provisions to carry them to England. They 
 contrived, during some anxious and unhappy excursions, 
 (() collect three hundred birds, which they salted and 
 preserved as the only stock whereupon to attempt the 
 voyage. They suffered during the passage, the most 
 dreadful extremities of fanr.ne, allowing only half a fowl 
 a day to oach man, and considering it a luxury to hav« 
 them fried with candles, of which a weekly distribu- 
 tion was made for that purpose. Ivet, now the sole 
 survivor of tho ringleaders in the late dreadful trans- 
 action, sunk under these privations. The last fowl vai 
 in the «teep'tub, and the men were becoming carelesii 
 and desperate, whe;i suddenly it pleased God to give 
 tiicm sight of land, which proved to be the north of 
 Ireland. They complain that, on going ashore at Bere- 
 havon, they did not meet the sympathy and kindness 
 which they so much needed ; however, by mortgaging 
 their vessel, they obtained the means of proceeding to 
 Plymouth.' [Edinburg Cabinet Library, 
 
 ALGIERS. — BY MR SISMONDI. 
 
 « 
 
 All travellers who have seen Algiers, all the publi- 
 cations about that government, concur in describing it as 
 the largest association for the purpose of rap'ie that has 
 ever existed on the earth. Since 1516, when the corsair 
 Horuch Aruch, or Aroudji Barbarossa, (introduced into 
 Algiers by the Moorish King of that country, Selim J|<ute- 
 iny,) destroyed his benefactor and seized upon his thriQiie, 
 the sovereignty has always belonged to the band of brig 
 ands instituted by the pirate, organized by his brother 
 and successor Haraiden, and recruited at a distance in the 
 Levant, io such a manner as always to keep up about th^ 
 
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 ALGIERS. 
 
 number of 12,000 men. These Turks of tbe Levant, as- 
 luciatud for the commission of crime, and selected from 
 among those pursued by justice and banished from soci- 
 ety, are so odious to their compatriots, that there is no in- 
 stance of a Turkish female having so degraded herself as 
 to marry an Algerine. Yet every one of thes*» bandits 
 when enrolled in the militia of Algiers calls -'imself an 
 £ffendi, or Lord, and considers himself as having a share 
 in the Government. It is for him, and to increase his 
 pay, swelling in amount in every year, that the Algerinf 
 Pirates rove on the sea, and the Beys at the head of 
 their small army levy contributions on land. He rises 
 by seniority successively in rank to the highest military 
 offices ; and, if favored by perfidy or the violence of fac- 
 tions, becomes seated on the elective throne of the Dey.— 
 But none other can enter the Algerine army than a Le- 
 vantine Turk, or renegade Christian. This is the title of 
 nobility invented by Barbaro^sa, in imitation of the order 
 of Malta. Whoever is born in the states over which that 
 military corps holds dominion, is excluded from it forever. 
 
 Neither Moor, nor Arab, nor Berber, nor Jew, can be 
 ad>T.itted. The children of the Effendis of the army, called 
 Kouloglisy those of the Beys, and of the Dey himself, are 
 perpetually excluded. Nothing can e£face the. stain of 
 having been born of a moorish woman or slave. 
 
 The chief whom these robbers elect from among them- 
 selves to command them, whom they style their Dey, 
 never mounts the throne save over the corpse of his as- 
 sassinated predecessor. Each election is preceded and 
 followed by numerous massacres. The aspirant, when 
 crowned, suffers none of his competitors to live ; and if he 
 does not perish himself on the first day of his reign, he 
 euts off the heads of all his rivals ; and it is but a painful 
 dignity which he attains at such a price. His comrades, 
 whQ have raised him above themselves to preserve disci- 
 pUn%(|end their disputes, and administer justice, leave 
 h^ icarcely a moments rest. At sun-rise, every day in 
 the week except Thursday and Saturday, he is 8eate<l on 
 a lion's skin in the hall of the divan, occupied with affairs 
 of state, and surrounded by his ministers, and afterwardt 
 with passing judgments and causing the sentences to ba 
 
 t 
 
 executed, 
 gard for hui 
 ishments ai 
 anJ with t 
 captain of ] 
 er of pirates 
 together for 
 ing system i 
 on land. ' 
 Turks, in w 
 ing of indusi 
 nreak, and di 
 first of the 
 public treasu 
 sels, half, of 
 who are sold 
 been made 
 purchasers, a 
 with no respi 
 io, with three 
 and a few oli 
 sistence by la 
 Bagnio to s^ji 
 At the timi 
 under the two 
 when their m 
 ried on piracy 
 tions; but the 
 manner of life 
 DO more than 
 non ; since wl 
 by treaties, to 
 they receive tl 
 loake no treati 
 without prove 
 Pope, the sma 
 that they have 
 but because th 
 These pirates j 
 lions, by their 
 ficient ground 
 
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 #.' 
 
 fl 
 
ALGIBBB. 
 
 281 
 
 ,evant, as- 
 ?cted from 
 from soci- 
 •e is no in- 
 herself as 
 ;sae bandits 
 -•iinself an 
 ig a share 
 1 crease his 
 e Algerinp 
 le iiead of 
 He rises 
 st military 
 nee of fac- 
 the Dey.— 
 than a Le- 
 the title of 
 3f the order 
 which that 
 n it forever, 
 ew, can be 
 army, called 
 himself, are 
 le. stain of 
 e. 
 
 mong them- 
 their Dey, 
 of his as- 
 receded and 
 irant, when 
 e ; and if he 
 Is reign, he 
 >ut a painful 
 s comrades, 
 jserve disci- 
 istice, leave 
 ery day in 
 s seateil on 
 with affairi 
 afterwards 
 ences to b« 
 
 executed. He discbarges these last functions with no re- 
 gard for human life, with no moderation in awarding pun- 
 ishments and fines, but also without delay or expenie 
 and with the rough impartiality commonly found in a 
 captain of robbers, a King of the Gypsies, or a command- 
 er of pirates, who, like the Dey, rules over bands leagued 
 together for hostility against all mankind. The plunder- 
 ing system of Algiers has tho same influence at sea and 
 on land. The sovereign soldiery,, or twelve thousand 
 Turks, in whose name the Dey reigns, understand noth- 
 ing of industry. They are banded only to despoil the 
 weak, and divide the plunder. Piracy is considered as the 
 first of the resources of the revenue of the state. The 
 public treasury claims half of the p^rofit of capiured ves- 
 sels, half of the hding, and half the value of captives, 
 who are sold at auction in the public market, after having 
 been made to run» jump, and carry burdens before the 
 purchasers, and having had all personal defects examined . 
 with no respect for age or sex. They are fed in a Bagn- 
 io, with three black loaves of half a pound eac'a per day, 
 I and a few olives in vinegar. Tht^/ ihaust gain their sub- 
 sistence by labor in case they are not removed from the 
 Bagnio to si^re the digraccful favors of their masters. 
 
 At the time whon the power of Al^i^ri was highest, 
 I under the two Barbarossas and their immediate successors, 
 {when their marine excelled all those of Europe, they car- 
 iriedoQ piracy indiscriminately a;;ainst all christian na- 
 tions; but they have declined by tlic natural effects of their 
 manner of liferand their crimes. Their navy consists of 
 no more than a dozen or fifteen vessels, carrying 200 can- 
 non ; since which th(^y have consented to bhid themsevles 
 Iby treaties, to respeei the more formidable powers, while 
 Ithey receive the annukl presents they exact. But they 
 jinake no treaties with those whom they do not fear, an^ 
 without provocation or offenee will make war on thp 
 iPope, the small Italian states, and Hanseatic towns : ibot 
 Ithatthey have any con^lamt to make of being wronged, 
 ■but because their treasuiy is empty and must be filled. 
 ■These pirates are out of the protection of the laws of Ba» 
 |tion8, by their own will, and by having considered it a 8u/- 
 icient ground for war to lay to a nation, < we wani your 
 Z2 
 
282 
 
 ALOIKUB. 
 
 property, to 'divide, and jour persons to be our slaves/ 
 They have made any war lawful which may be waged 
 againft them, provided only it be declared. They now 
 complain that the French consul hafci taken Roman sub- 
 jects under his protection ; for, France has consented by 
 treaties, confirmed for the last time in March 1700, to the 
 shameful terms of 'not lending its flag, and not protecting 
 the vessels of foreign powers, which may be at war with 
 the Algerine governnaent.' But this government has had 
 no other motive or pretext for declaring war against the 
 Pope, than a desire to plunder his subjects. A like mo- 
 tive is sufficient for declaring war against itself. . 
 
 The robber empire of the Algerine soldiery extends 
 over all the country between the realms of Morocco and 
 Tunis, the Mediterranean and great desert of Africa.— 
 This region is designated as the realm of Algiers, though 
 inhabited by a great number of independent tribes wiio 
 are annually pillaged by the Algerines, but they defend 
 themselves as well as they can. M. Perrot gives it 220 
 leagues in breadth and'120 in depth. M. Renaudot, 215 
 in breadth and 180 for its mean extent from north to 
 6 juth ; while the chart of Dufour makes it 205 by 140, 
 and containing 19,000 square leagues. Tl^ lowest of 
 these calculatbns makes its extent as great as that of It- 
 aly, with a climate and soil superior to those of that beau- 
 tifiri peninsula ; insomuch that it can support them ; both 
 nhen the province of Africa was the richest and happiest 
 belonging to Rome, and when the Caliphs restored it a 
 second time to civilization, and founded numerous'Arabian 
 Universities ; makii)g it the seat of literature, science and 
 art, at a period when Europe was stiitionary in ignorance 
 and barbarity. But such has been the irresistible pres- 
 sure of 'military despotism, that it has reduced the popu- 
 lation (o two millions and a half, relics of ancient Berbers, 
 Moors, Arabs, Moriscoes of Spain. The only rule of Gov- 
 emiftent known to that of Algiers, is to take from the 
 wretched people all that can be carried off from them.— 
 The Kouloughs, children of Turks, who dwell in towni, 
 with some remaining servile and degenerated Moors, and 
 the Jews, ar^ the only persons \ltrho enjoy a kind of pro- 
 tection and of justice within » narrow circuit round the 
 
 villages wli 
 dens. The 
 ses now n 
 Their popu 
 to ruiu.— Tl 
 Berbers and 
 working sea 
 lAlttH after h 
 theoi, and i 
 the tliree fie 
 ants of the 
 Turkish tree 
 people, or ra 
 ibe removed. 
 distance of t| 
 country sea tt 
 tility of the 
 of the culti* 
 soil degenen 
 precints of ol 
 and the coum 
 I pant sows th 
 gem, by flyjr 
 I earth, as if li 
 'n this an 
 land struggl;^ 
 luffered still i 
 of industry, 
 sovereign sol< 
 Algerine pop 
 rocity they j 
 given a certa 
 Iwbject tribes 
 estimated by 
 to every vice^ 
 pfoors, Berbe 
 oppressors, lu 
 I ancestors. T 
 liiterature wh 
 I'ures, and the 
 periority in 
 
 S 
 
J' 
 
 ALGICRf. 
 
 2S3 
 
 ir ilavcs.* 
 be waged 
 rhey now 
 iman sub- 
 seiited by 
 90, to the 
 protecting 
 t war with 
 nt has had 
 igainst the 
 . like mo- 
 
 ry extends 
 lorocco and 
 ,£ Africa.- 
 ers, ihough 
 tribes who 
 they defend 
 ;ive8 it 220 
 laudot, 216 
 im north to 
 05 by 140, 
 U lowest of 
 I that of It- 
 of that beau- 
 them; both 
 and happiest 
 restored it a 
 rous Arabian 
 , science and 
 in ignorance 
 isistible prei- 
 ;ed the popu- 
 lient Berbers, 
 rule of Gov 
 ake from th« 
 irom them.— 
 ell in towns, 
 1 Moors, and 
 kind of pro^ 
 ■uit round th« 
 
 villages where thoy have their improvi ments and gar- 
 dens. The town once numerous and nourishing, posses- 
 ses now neither industry, comuierce or manufactures. 
 Their population rapidly diminishes, sind they are falling 
 to ruin. — The most remote fields are cultivated by the 
 Berbers and Moors, who only show themselves in the 
 working season, and take refuge in the deserts and moun> 
 tains after harvest, of which th» y carry a great part with 
 them, and hide the rest in the earth ; whilst, every year 
 the three Beys of Oran, Titerif, and Constantine, lieuten- 
 ants of the Dey, set out at the head of three bodies of 
 Turkish troops, to levy the annual contribution on these 
 people, or rathf^r, to take away by main force all that can 
 I be removed. It is asserted that Algiers, and within the 
 distance of three leagues from it, ten or 12,000 gardens or 
 country seats may be counted. There the remarkable fer- 
 tility of the soil is seen contending with the carelessness 
 of the cultivators, who have let the productions of the 
 soil degenerate. After passing these borders, and the 
 precints of other large towns, the land has no proprietors, 
 and the country no government, fho first chunce occu- 
 pant sows the fields which he can only reap by strata- 
 gem, by flying with the booty, which he hides in the 
 earth, as if he had borne it o£f as an enemy. 
 
 In this annually renewed war to levy contributions, 
 and struggb between brigandage and barbarity, man has 
 lufiered still more in his moral nature than in his habit*^ 
 of industry. Though the scum of the Turkish nation, th^^ 
 sovereign soldiery are the least despicable portion of th» 
 Algerine population. In the midst of their vices and fe- 
 rocit}' they preseripB discipline and courage. Power hat 
 given a certain dignity to their manners. But all the 
 subject tribes have terribly degenerated. The Koulogli* 
 estimated by Renaudot at 150,000, give themselves up 
 to every vice, and the most effeminate weakness. Th* 
 Moors, Berbers and Moriscoes of Spain, disarmed by thei^ 
 oppressors, have preserved none of the courage of their 
 aQQestors. They have alike forgotten the art of war, thr 
 literature which they restpred to Europe, their manufac- 
 lures, and the agriculture in which they shewed their su f 
 periority in Grenada and Valencia. Those who live 
 
 '% 
 
264 
 
 J0II5, l>aK£ or BEDFUKO. 
 
 in towns have fallen into ihtemperance, and ^to slave, 
 ry ; thosQ who cultivate the fields, and take refuge in 
 mountain! and deserts, into the lowest state of savage life. 
 The Jews, repulsed and despised by all the other classes, 
 placed in the social ladder of rank below the slaves, not 
 allowed to drink at the public fountains till the meanest 
 slave has done so, are more overwhelmed with insult and 
 injustice, than titey even were in the middle ages by in- 
 tolerant Europe. « 
 
 [Since the above was written, Algiers has been sub- 
 dued by the French government.] 
 
 JOHN, DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 !rt one of the morning excursions of John, Duke of Bed- 
 ford, about the year 1765, he discovered a woman at a 
 short distance from him, wringing her bands, weeping 
 aloud, and diiicovenng every mark of the deepest distress. 
 Moved with sympathy, he immediately approached her, 
 desired her to dry up her tears, and tell him the cause ofj 
 her sorrow ; promising at the same time to do her all tb« 
 service in his power. 
 
 Seeing a man, in a plain genteel dress, looking at her 
 with, an air of benignity, and interesting himself in her 
 suffering!}, and being entirely ignorant of his rank^ she 
 communicated her story to him without reserve. *' I have 
 a large family \ my husband is sick, and, being unable to 
 pay our rent, the Duke of Bedford's steward has seized 
 our stock, and left us nothing but thet|Aismal prospect ofj 
 unavoidable ruin ; and I came out to this field to take my 
 last sad sight of my poor cows, which are still feeding io| 
 the park there." 
 
 Deeply affected with her melancholy .tale, he advised I 
 ber to drive the cows home, and offered to set open (he | 
 gate for her for that purpose. At this proposal she start- 
 ed, burst again into tears, and absolutely refused to med- 
 dle with them. " 'they are no longer my husband's,"! 
 said she ; ** and if 1 drive them home, I shall be looked 
 
 upon as a t 
 lianged for i 
 Forcibly i 
 the honest s 
 money, told 
 take the libe 
 Duke of Be( 
 sort of man, 
 for her. Ac 
 W^oburn Abh 
 introduce her 
 The good wo 
 promising to 
 they parted. 
 Next drfj', 
 ft'ent to the A 
 shown into a 
 with her imra 
 Iseveral gentle 
 knew at first i 
 kith her the d 
 idea of his bei 
 kith surpri.se ; 
 of condescens 
 flrooping spirit 
 luse to be afl] 
 He then cal 
 [receipt in full, 
 n taken froi 
 'ceipt into hei 
 into her husbai 
 ery honest m) 
 'I? her thirty 
 •ice with her 
 
 A 
 
JOHITj DUKIS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 ^Ij 
 
 tito slave. 
 
 refuge in 
 savage life, 
 ler classes, 
 slaves, not 
 le meanest 
 
 insult and 
 ges by "in- 
 
 and for any thing 1 know, I may bo 
 
 betu iub- 
 
 upon as a thief 
 hang<^d for it !" 
 
 Forcibly struck with the justice of her reasoning, and 
 the honest simplicity of Iter language, lie gave her some 
 money, told her that he heartily pitied her, and would 
 take the liberty to recommend her and her family to the 
 Duke of Bedford, whom he knew to be a good natured 
 sort of man, and he hoped he would do something valuable 
 for her. Accordingly, he desired her to call next day at 
 Woburn Abbey, and ask for John Russell, and he would 
 introduce her to the Duke, and speak to him in her behalf. 
 The good woman having returned him many thanks, and 
 promising to meet him atj the time and place appointed, 
 they parted. 
 
 ^ext dsf}', dressed in her best clothes, the poor woman 
 went to the Abbey, sind asked for John Russell ; she was 
 shown into a room, and told that Mr Russell would be 
 with her immediately. She had nut waited long when 
 several gentlemen, richly dressed, 'entered the room. She 
 pest distress. Ijjnew at first sight the features of him who had conversed 
 roached her, l^ith her the day before ; and strongly impressed with the 
 the cause, of lijga q{ hi^ being the Duke himself, she was ready to faint 
 with surprise ; but his Grace walked up to her with a lool: 
 ]f condescension and goodness, which reanimsited her 
 idrooping spirits, while he assured her that she had no- 
 ase to be afflicted, but might keep herself perfectly easy. 
 He then called his steward, ordered him to write her a 
 [receipt in full, and to see every thing returned that had 
 n taken from her husband. His Grace ihtfti. put the 
 ceipt into her hand, and told her that he had inquired 
 
 )uke of Bed- 
 woman at a 
 ds, weeping 
 
 o her all the 
 
 aking at her 
 liiself in her 
 rankj she 
 «« 1 have 
 ng unable to 
 has seized 
 prospect of 
 
 Into her husband's character, and found that he was a 
 
 to take inyBrery honest man, and had long been his tenant ; and giv* 
 
 1 feeding ^dBdj^ her thirty guineas, he desired h.^r to go home, and r^- 
 
 ice with her family. Percy jfnecdotea^ 
 
 he advised" 
 
 et open tb« 
 
 sal she start- 
 
 iied to med- 
 
 husband's," 
 
 U be looked 
 
 '#' 
 
286 
 
 THE PREOIFICB. 
 
 THE PRECIPICE.~A NOKWEGIAN TALI!. 
 
 It ii a custom, among the goatherds of Norway, to 
 assemble and relate to each other their adventures among 
 the mountians. On one of these occasions, having told 
 their talcs, an elderly hunter, who had sat in silence dur- 
 ing their nariatives, thus introduced himself to notice. 
 
 'My young friends, you have been telling us some mar- 
 ▼ellous adventures ; but as I am an old hunter, and there- 
 fore am fond of the spirit wiiich leads you into them, I 
 will not strive to sift the grain from the chaff, the exact 
 facts, from the colors in which you have dressed them, 
 liut I will give you, in my turn, an account of an acci- 
 dent which, you all know by report, did actually happen 
 to me, as the the limp in my gait can testify to this day. 
 
 It is now about twenty years since, I. was hunting one 
 <lay as usual. I had sight of a chamois, and was advan- 
 cing upon him, when, having almost got within shot, I 
 sprang across a chasm a few yards wide upon a ledge of 
 snow opposite. The outer part of this was, alas ! only of 
 anew ; it was frozen hard ; but as I came upon it with 
 considerable force, I felt it giving way beneath me. The 
 tnan who says he never felt fear, never was in a situation 
 such as this. The agony of terror, and what agony is 
 greater 1 rushed through my frame. My first impulse wasj 
 to spring forward, to reach the firm ground, but the very 
 effort I made to save myself, accellerated my fate ; tb 
 mass broke short off, and I fell ! 
 
 I have often since been to view the spot, and standin 
 in safety on its brink, my nerves have shivered, as I look 
 ed down the awful preeipice. How I escaped being dash 
 od into as many atoms as there arepebbles at its base, i 
 is impossible to divine. The height is upwards of sevent}j 
 feet ; there was no projecting rock, no jutting tree t 
 break my fall. Perhaps the snow, which fell along wit! 
 me in vast quantities, and which crumbled as it fell serve< 
 to protect me. When I perceived my footing yield, th 
 earth as it were sink from under me, I felt the commoi 
 hypierbole, that my heart sprang to my throat, almoi 
 cease to be one. One gasp of mortal agony, as it bun 
 
 ■# 
 
TUB PJlEClprCK. 
 
 28T 
 
 iLIS. 
 
 ►r\ray, 
 
 to 
 
 from my lungs, gave mc the sensation of choking, ivhich 
 the phrase I have mentioned strives to expresa. 
 
 The feelings of my mind may he all summed in the ex- 
 clamation which I helieve escaped me—" Oh God !— I'm 
 {Tone !" My next thought was a momentary appeal to tltat 
 God's mercy, — and then I thought no more. 
 
 When I recovered my senses; day was beginning to 
 close, and I lay enveloped in snow. My hunting spear 
 was beside me broken; and, stretched upon my bosom, 
 lay my faithful dog, spread out, as it were to protect me 
 from the cold, and breathing upon my face, as if to com- 
 luunicate his life to bring back mine. Poor fellow, (the old 
 man continued, and the tears glistened in his eye as ho 
 spoke,) poor fellow, he is dead long since, and his son, 
 (stooping and fondling. the dog at his feet,) is old now: 
 but if I had but one crust of bread, and one cup of water 
 in the world, old Thor should share them with me for hit 
 father's sake. 
 ._ The <log looked up, as thouoh he understood his master, 
 m a ledge o ■ ^^^ |^^ § miled in his face with tliat expression of thankhil- 
 ilas . only o | ^^^^ which the countenance of his race alone shares with 
 that of the human species. 
 
 I felt, continued the hunter, I felt numbed and stiffened, 
 and in considerable pain, all over, so much so, that I could 
 not distinguish any particular hurt as being more sever* 
 than the rest. I endeavored to rise, and that soon show- 
 ed me where my chief injury lay. I fell back again 
 instantly ; the thigh was broken. '^ In addition to this, 
 . _ two fingers of my right hand, and one of my left, wer» 
 and stanainj jj^Qj^gji ^Jjq^ j^n^ jj ^^s bruised in almost every part. But 
 Bd, as I J°° 11 was alive ! As I looked up to the pinnacle from which I 
 3d being aashf |j^^ ^jj^^^^ j ^^^j^ scarcely believe that to be possible, 
 at its base.Jj ,^^^ ^p^^ where I lay, was in a narrow cleft between 
 rds of seventj^^^ ^j.g^^ which diverged from each other as they advan- 
 itting tree Vcq^^ leaylng a sort of triangular platform open between 
 ell along >»»tlthem and a third. A torrent threw itself, like a wild 
 s it fell ^®'^^f Ihorse's mane, from the rock above me ; but, in th* num- 
 ing yield, tn||erles8 eddies which whirled in the hollow, it was diiper- 
 It the coniiBO|j^ .^^^ ^.^ ^^^^^ .^ reached the place, distant through itt 
 - t^'^<>**'.»^^°|(lepth. where I lay. 
 iny, as it vwm jfiji,^ ^^^^ began to thicken fast ; the faster on aacouni 
 
 res among 
 iving told 
 ilence dur- 
 notice. 
 some mar- 
 
 and there- 
 ito them, 1 
 , the exact 
 3ssed them, 
 of an acci- 
 ally happen 
 ) this day. 
 lunting one 
 
 was v^dvan- 
 thin shot, 1 
 
 upon it with 
 th me. The 
 n a situation 
 hat agony is 
 t impulse wa8| 
 but the very 
 ny fate ; Ih 
 
 ar 
 red 
 
 m 
 
2S8 
 
 TIIU PRKOIPICK. 
 
 of the deep den in which I was. The wiDd blew as if all 
 the quarters of the heaven sent forth their blasts at once, 
 and they all met and battled tliere. I had escaped one 
 dreadful death, and I now began to fear another more 
 dreadful still, becanso more slow, and more felt, I feared 
 that I should die through cold, and hunger, and untended 
 wounds. The cold, I now felt more severely ; forshortlj 
 after I had given up, in despair, all attempts to extricate 
 myself from my situation, my dog, after whinihg and yelp 
 ing piteously for some time went off. As he turned th« 
 corner of the rock which hid him from my sight, I felt aii 
 if my last bold of life had gone from ,me ; as though the 
 friend of my bosom had left me to die. 'He too, abandons 
 me,' I exclaimed, and I blush to confess it, I burst into 
 tears. Being forsaken T)y one whom I thought faithful, 
 cut roe to the heart. Who, indeed, can bear that 1 
 
 The world now appeared to have closed upon my sight 
 forever. My wife, my children, my dear home— I should 
 see them no more ! I figured to myself all the delights and 
 chsmties of that home, and I felt how bitter it is to b« 
 torn from life while life is yet strong ; all its ties firm- 
 ly knit ; all its affections glowing. As darkness settled 
 round 1 thought pf my wife anxiously listening for my 
 •tep, or rather for the well known step of Thor, preceding 
 me ; and the bright fire gleaming upon smiling children's 
 faces, the fairest ornament and the dearest comfort of a 
 fireside ; and the rosy lips held up for a father's kiss; 
 and the little hand clinging round the knees, to attract i 
 father's notice ; and their mother's gladsome smile of wel- 
 come to me, and uncbiding reproof to them. Such wai 
 the picture I drew mentally ; such was the group which 
 I knew was awaiting me. I looked around and the 
 contrast of the reality flashed upon me in all its horrors. 
 The wind, raged and howled through the darkness, and in 
 the lull, the spray of the torrent hedewed taj &ce, sod 
 ro^ there. I was encompassed by awful precipices, here 
 and there visible on?y by being covered with snow. Snow, 
 jpUsOrWastbe bed on which I lay, the bed on which I 
 was to die. And to die!, oh God! to die thus! Alone, 
 through pain and limine ; through cold uid the exhaui- 
 tioQ of suffering nature ! The terrors of tempest and ef I 
 
 night woi 
 I hence I n< 
 We off 
 allow sii^ 
 undergone 
 done sol ] 
 if not in d 
 what extej 
 " I lay, 
 time whici 
 hope dawn 
 which I ha 
 knew, a ps 
 to another i 
 to me as a 
 rarely travc 
 again. On 
 aIon| this p 
 jectured it t 
 ger returnin 
 the idea wh 
 with the wh 
 which had i 
 wind swept 
 against me, 
 could /eg/ thi 
 my head. "] 
 with that del 
 ing possess, 
 gladdened m; 
 The agony 
 drowning ma 
 water closing 
 Kaffold, and i 
 parsons may 
 [persons only. 
 * My despair 
 ny last hour 
 [from this wor 
 was dreadful. 
 m hope of lifi 
 A 
 
 ^ 
 
TUB 
 
 Jirics. 
 
 289 
 
 i\r as if all 
 Its at once, 
 >8caped one 
 other more 
 It, I feared 
 id untended 
 
 for shorlly 
 io extricate 
 g and yelp 
 I turned the 
 rht, I felt af 
 
 though the 
 )0, abandons 
 
 I burst into 
 ght faithful, 
 thati 
 
 an my sight 
 ine—I should 
 
 delights and 
 
 er it is to be 
 
 its ties firm- 
 
 -kness settled 
 
 »ning for my 
 
 or, preceding 
 
 ng children'i 
 
 comfort of a 
 
 ather*s kiss; 
 
 to attract a 
 
 smile of wel- 
 
 Such wai 
 
 group which 
 
 and and the 
 
 II its horrors, 
 ^ness, and in 
 tny foce, and 
 jeeipices, be i* 
 
 mow. Snow, 
 on which I 
 
 thus! Alone, 
 the exbatti- 
 ipest and of 
 
 night were the precursors of the terrors of death. From 
 hence I never was to stir more ; this was to be roj end ! 
 
 We ofi n forge for ourselves causes of unhappiness, and 
 allow sUght things to mar our quiet. But he who has 
 undergone, not what I underwent that night, for who htu 
 done sol but, circumstances of peril and despair, in kind, 
 if not in degree, like unto these, he, only, can know to 
 what extent our nature can suffer. 
 
 *' I lay, in pain of body and anguish, for a space of 
 time whiclvfrom these causes, seemed endless. At length 
 hope dawned upon mc. Along the top of the cliff to 
 which I had leaped, and from which I had fell, passed as I 
 knew, a path which led from the village in ^vhich I lived, 
 to another about two leagues off. This had not appeared 
 to me as a chance of escape ; for, by night, it was very 
 rarely traversed, and morning 1 never expected to see 
 again. On a sudden, however, I saw a light gliding 
 along this path, as though borne by some one ; and I con- 
 jectured it to bo, as in fact it was, the lantern of a villa- 
 ger returning homewards. " 1 shall be saved yet !'* was 
 the idea which thrilled through my heart, and I shoute4 
 with the whole strength of my voice, to realize the hope 
 which had arisen. At that moment, a furious gust of 
 wind swept through the chasm, and hurled back my cry 
 against me, like tbe'sjioke of Cain's rejected sacrifice ; I 
 could /ee2 that my voice did not ascend twenty feet above 
 my head. The light glided onwards. Again I shouted 
 with that desperate strength which none but the despair- 
 ing possess. The light did not stop ; no answering shout 
 gladdened my ears ; the light disappeared ! 
 
 The agony of that moment, who can conceive 1 The 
 drowning man as he struggles his last effort, and feels the 
 water closing round him ; the criminal as he mounts the 
 scaffold, and sees his last hope melt from his gra^, — such 
 persons may have experienced what I felt then» and such 
 [persons only. 
 
 ' My despair now became fixed and total. 1 felt that 
 my last hour was come ; I endeavored to turn my thoughts 
 jfrom this world, and fix them on the next. But the effort 
 was dreadful. As I strove to prepare myself for death, 
 the hope of life would flash across me again, and interpose 
 A A 
 
-• • •- 
 
 200 
 
 Tll« PMftOlPICR. 
 
 between me And my prayer. If a sound caught my car, 
 I raised my head to listen ; if the vhriation of a shadow 
 passed over tlie surface of a rock, I strained my sight to 
 look ; but the sound wouUl cease, and the sight would 
 pass away, — and I sank again, upon the snow ; and, again, 
 I prepared myself to <lie. 
 
 At length, (to my dying day I shall recollect that mo- 
 ment,) at length a gust ot wind brought to roe a sound 
 which I thought I recognized; T raised oijself with an 
 anxiety which almost choked me ; I listened, all was still, 
 the wind rose and made me doubtful whether I heard it a 
 second time or not ; a third, all doubt was over ! It was 
 the honest voice of faithful Thor, coming at speed, anJ 
 barking as he came, tp show, doubtless, the path to the 
 spot in which I lay. Again his deep-mouthed bay sound- 
 ed loud and distinct, an it approached the top of the pre- 
 cipice. There he paused and continued barking, till, at 
 length, several lights flashed upon the path ; along which 
 he had come, and advanced rapidly towards him. A hal 
 loo came upon the wind, I strove to answer it as loudly asj 
 I could. This time it mattered little whether my voice 
 reached the summit or not; for, as soon* as the light«j 
 seemed s>.t the spot where the dog stood, he dashed down 
 the cliff, clinging to the irregular surface as ho came, now 
 holding by a stone, now sliding down with the rolling 
 earth and snow, till he sprang into my bosom ; and almost 
 smothering me with his caresses, made the echoes of the| 
 clifis ring again with his loud and ceaseless barking. 
 
 My companions now perceived where I was. Thejl 
 made a circuit of some little extent, and descended to nvl 
 by a less precipitous, but still a difficult path. Mr youngl 
 -friends, unless you have experienced the transition fronl 
 deipair to safety, from abandonracnt to kind friendship,! 
 from death to life, you can form to younkelf no idea of thel 
 ilocd cf feelings, both rapturous and gentle, which thenl 
 jioured upon my rouI^ The chosen of my heart was nov| 
 DO widow ! my children were not fatherless ! I was resto- 
 red to life, to the world, to hope, to happiness, and I ow- 
 ed it all to the loyalty and love of a poor bound ! Tf henl 
 jrour hand is next raised to strike your beast is ang«rj 
 
 pause — an< 
 durod to ki 
 
 Tub hit 
 
 deeply imp 
 Madame A 
 of groat in 
 its siinplicii 
 vividness, 
 written dei 
 Elizabctl 
 of Mr Job 
 Norfolk, Wi 
 her mother 
 period of h 
 guidance. 
 Friends, w£ 
 to enjoy grc 
 individuals l 
 tonicd to m 
 advantages 
 seventeen v 
 see every t 
 the gay am 
 folk. A sh 
 Society, (as 
 ham, to ma 
 ticansformati 
 came more 
 the holy vii 
 etrated by 
 a mind like 
 be transitor 
 fine herself 
 faith by hei 
 convert one 
 ichool-ropm 
 
MR! mv. 
 
 391 
 
 pausti'-and think upon the service which oht Thor iei|- 
 (Itiidd to kit ruaitor. That master had been a kind one. 
 
 MRS FRY. 
 
 Tub history of this excellent woman deserves to b« 
 deeply impressed on the hearts of her sex. It is from 
 Madame Adile De Thou's history of the Quakers, a work 
 of great interest. The picture of Mrs Fry is perfect id 
 its simplicity, and brinies the original before us with a 
 vividness, and an actual presence, that seldom belongs to 
 written descriptions. 
 
 Elizabctli Gurney, (now Mrs Fry,) the third daughter 
 of Mr John Gurney, of Earlham Hall, in the county of 
 Norfolk, was born 1780. She hail the misfortune to lose 
 her mother when very young, and was thus at an early 
 period of her life, in some measure abandoned to her own 
 guidance. Her father, though a member of the society ol 
 Friends, was by no means strict, and suffered his children 
 to enjoy greater freedom than is usually admitted among 
 individuals of that sect. Elizabeth Gurney was accus* 
 tomcd to mix much with society, and she enjoyed all the 
 advantages of birth, fortune and education. She was about 
 seventeen when she first visited Londog ; was anxious to 
 see every thing, and having participated for a period to 
 the gay amusements of the capital, she returned to Nor- 
 folk. A short time after her return, some members of the 
 Society, (as is customary among Friends) came to Earl- 
 ham, to make o. family visit. This suddenly brought ^ 
 ti^ansformation in the habits of the whole family ; all be- 
 came more serious, and seemed to feel the infiueoces of 
 the holy visit ; Elizabeth, in particular, was deeply^ pen- 
 etrated by the evangelical lectures which she heard. In 
 a mind like hers, a religious impression was not likely to 
 be transitory. Too pious, and too well informed to con- 
 fine herself to useless forms of devotion, she proved her 
 faith by her labors ; and soon prevailed on her father to 
 convert one of the apartments of Earlham Hall into a 
 •chool'ropm. Here she daily received four-and- twentf 
 
 •./■■ 
 
 ^■^teV-A.v«Li45i~- . 
 
992 
 
 MRS rnv. 
 
 It 
 
 poor children, to whom iho read and explained the Bible. 
 She astumed the simple garb of the Quakem, and renoun- 
 e«d all kinds of amusements. 
 
 In 1800 she married Mr Fry, whose generous and ami- 
 able character full> justifies her choice. Far from oppo 
 ting her benevolent labors, he facilitates them, and aflfords 
 her ample means of relieving the unfortunate by annually 
 placing at her disposal, a considerable sum, which she 
 jippliea entirely to the brnetit of the poor. 
 ' Mrs Fry *8 life is devoted to acts of virtue, and her 
 time almost wholly occupied in charitable missions. She 
 makes no distinction ; the unfortunate are brothers, what- 
 ever be their country or religion ; sorrow is every where 
 the same, and benevolence should be universal. Mrs 
 Fry is at. once a physician' to the body and the soul ; she 
 comforts and feeds the poor, and supplies them witli 
 clothes and Bibles ; and thus she explains and teaches the 
 gospel. She even administers succor to criminals : she 
 regards vine as a disease, and never withholds assistance 
 from the sick. 
 
 Mrs Fry, in being informed of the deplorable state of 
 the female prisoners in Newgate, resolved to relieve them. 
 She applied to the governor folk leave of admittance ; he 
 replied that she would incur the greatest risk in visiting 
 that abode of iniquity and disorder, which he himself 
 scarsely dared to epter. He observed, that the language 
 she must hear would inevitably disgust her, and made use 
 of every argument to prevail on her to relinquish her in • 
 tention. 
 
 Mrs Fry said that she was fully a;vare of the danger to 
 which* she exposed herself; and repeated her solicitations 
 fiw permission to enter the prison. The governor advi- 
 •ed her not to carry in with her either her purse or her 
 Wfttch. Mrs Fry replied, <* 1 thank you, I am not afraid ; 
 I don't think I shall lose any thing.'* 
 
 She was shown into an apartment of the prison which 
 contained about one hundred and sixty women ; those who 
 were condemned, ai)d those %vho had not been tried, were 
 all suffered to associate together. The children who Wire 
 brought up in this school of vice, and who never snoke 
 without an oath, added to the horror of the picture.- The 
 
MRS ruY. 
 
 d93 
 
 1 the Bihlc: 
 ind renoun- 
 
 js and ami- 
 from oppo- 
 
 and affords 
 l>y annually 
 
 which she 
 
 10, and her 
 sions. She 
 hers, what- 
 vory where 
 orsal. Mrs 
 CI soul ; she 
 them with 
 teaches the 
 niinal8 : she 
 s assistance 
 
 ble state of 
 
 elievc them. 
 
 littance ; he 
 in visiting 
 he himself 
 
 le language 
 id made use 
 uish her in- 
 
 le danger to 
 jsolicitations 
 lernor advi- 
 
 irse or her 
 not afraid ; 
 
 lison which 
 those who 
 
 llried, were 
 
 who Wire 
 
 iver snok« 
 
 Iture. Tht 
 
 prisoners ato, coAked their food, and Niept all in the sance 
 room : it might have been truly sai ^ that Newgate re- 
 semMod a deu of savages. 
 
 Mrti Fry was not discouraged. The grace of God is 
 infiqite ; the true CliriNtian never despairs. In spite of a 
 rery delicate state of healtii, she porscrved in her pioui 
 design. The women listened to her, and gazed on htr 
 with amazement : the pure and tranquil expression of her 
 beautiful countenance speedily softened their ferocity. I| 
 has been said, that if virtue could be rendered visible, it 
 would bo impossible to re.sist its influence ; and thus may 
 be explained the extraordinary ascendency which Mrs 
 Fry exorcises over all whom she hppruaclics. Virtue has 
 indeed become visible, and has assumed the form of this 
 benevolent lady, who is the ^uidp and coui^olatiou of her 
 fellow-creatures. ' 
 
 Mrs Fry addressed herself to tho prisoners :— -'♦ You 
 seem unhappy," said aho. " You arc in want of clothes ; 
 would you not bo ploased"^ if some one came to relievo 
 your misery ?" . 
 
 " Certainly," replied they, "but nobody cares for us, 
 •nd where can we expect to And a friend ?" 
 
 "I am come with a wish to serve you," resumed Eliz- 
 beth Fry, ♦' and I think if you will second my endeavors, 
 I may bo of use to you." 
 
 She addressed to them the lanp^uago of peace, and af- 
 forded them a glimmering of hope. She spoko not of 
 their crimes ; tho minister of an all-merciful God, she 
 came there to comfort and ta pray, not to judge and con 
 demn. Whe.i she was about to depart, tho wometl throng- 
 ed around he as if to detain her. " You will never come 
 again," said they. But she who never broke her wprd 
 promised to return. jjp 
 
 She soon paid a second visit to tholr Inatlifiome jail, 
 where sjie intended to pass the wholo day ; the doors 
 weie closed upon her, and i?he was left alone with tho 
 prisoners, 
 
 " You cannot suppose,", said she addressing them, "lli«t 
 
 I have come hero without being dommissionod. This 
 
 booki (she held a bible in her band,) whicli has been tlie 
 
 guide of my life, has led me to you. It directed mo to 
 
 * A A 2 
 
 .f» 
 
^■' 
 
 2»4 
 
 MRS rRT. 
 
 risit the prisoners, and to take pity on*the poor and ths 
 afflicted. 1 am willing to do all that lies in my power ; 
 but my efforts will be vain, unless met and aided by you." 
 She then asked them whether they would not like to 
 hear her read a few passages from the book. They repli- 
 ed they would. Mrs Fry selected the parable of the lord 
 of the vineyard, (Matthew, chap. 20,) and when she came 
 to the man who was employed at the eleventh hour, she 
 iMaid, " Now the eleventh hour strikes for you ; the great- 
 er part of your lives has been lest, but Christ is come to 
 to save sinners !'' 
 
 Some asked who Christ was ; others said he had not 
 come for them ; that the time was passed, and that they 
 could not be saved. Mrs Fry repHed, that Christ had 
 suffered, that he had been poor, and that he had come to 
 save the poor and afflicted in particular. 
 
 Mrs Fry obtained permission to assemble the children 
 in a school established within the prison, for the purpost 
 qf promoting their religious instruction. The femals 
 prisoners, in spite of their profligate and vicious habiti, 
 joyfully embraced the opportunity of ameliorating the 
 condition of their children. Much was already effected, 
 by restoring these women to the first sentiment of nature ; 
 namely, maternal affection. 
 
 A woman, denominated the Matron, was entrusted with 
 the control of the priso^^rs, under the superintendence of 
 the ladies of the society of FriendSj composing the New- 
 gate Committee. 
 
 Mrs Fry, having drawn up a set of rules of conduct 
 for the prisoners, a day was fisted, and the lord mayor and 
 one of the aldermen being present, she read aloud the ar- 
 ticles, and asked the prisoners whether they were willing 
 to adopt them : they Ifpre directed to raise their hands as a 
 feign of approval. This constitution was unanimously re^ 
 ceived ; so sincere were the sentiments of respect and 
 confidence she had inspired. 
 
 Thanks to het perseverance, ajid the years she has de- 
 voted to her pious undertaking, a total change has been 
 effected in Newgale prison; the influence of virtue bail 
 softened the horror of vice, and Newgate has become the 
 asylum of repentance. 
 
THIS BEGiairXKGB Of TICC. 
 
 295 
 
 lor and tht 
 oy power ; 
 dby you." 
 not like to 
 rhey repli- 
 of the lord 
 m she came 
 1 hour, sht 
 J the great- 
 t is come to 
 
 he had not 
 d that they 
 ; Christ had 
 had come to 
 
 the children 
 the purpoM 
 The female 
 cious habiti, 
 liorating the 
 (ady effected, 
 nt of nature ; 
 
 ntrusted with 
 ntendence of 
 ff the New- 
 
 IS of conduct 
 rd mayor and 
 aloud the ar- 
 were willing 
 eir hands as a 
 animously re* 
 respect and! 
 
 '9 she has dc- 
 ge has been' 
 of virtue hai 
 
 18 become thi 
 
 Strangers are permitted to visit the jail on Thursdajv, 
 when Mrs Fry reads and explains passages of the BibU 
 to the prisoners. Her voice is extremely fascinating : 
 its pure, clear tones are admirably calcolated to plead tbt 
 cause of virtue and humanity. 
 
 The late queen expressed a wish to see Mrs Fry, and 
 in the most flattering terms testified the admiration she 
 felt for her conduct. The thanks of the city of London 
 were voted to her ; and, in short, there is not an English' 
 man who does not bless her name. 
 
 Mrs Fry, who is as useful among the members of her 
 own sect as she has been in Newgate, exercises, in her 
 evangelical mission, that charitable indulgence which 
 arises from sincere piety, and a pure conscience. Her elo> 
 qucnce penetrates the soul j no one can hear her without 
 becoming more virtuous, or at least without feeling con- 
 vinced that he may become so. She is not feared, \ ut 
 loved ; and she is herself the example ('f what she teacbet. 
 
 THE BEGINNINGS OF VICE. 
 
 BT MRS RIGOURHET, Or HARTrOttD. 
 
 Few of us are accurately aware how insidioui yrv tbtf 
 approaches of evil, or with what fearful rapidity iUk mind 
 traverses the downward road, its integrity of purpois one* 
 forfeited. This knowledge is probably best attained by 
 the history of those who have been suffered to ploil|^ 
 deep into guilt. The map of their v.anderings darkly il- 
 lustrates the danger of the slightest deviations from duty* 
 the brnfest parley with the tempvif. The chart of'thMr 
 voyage defines the force of that current which is ablt to 
 •weep the boldest and the proudest man into the vortex of 
 destruction. The t>lain of fresh and quiet verdure has 
 been converted into a morass by a carelesa ttrok* of tb« 
 laborer's spade ; the inundation which baa destroyed life, 
 and poured its foaming torrent over buried citien, was at 
 first a fcareely visible breach of th« protecting burrier. ^ 
 
 This train of reflection has been suggested by somt fea- 
 
 '*-:l 
 
 
290 
 
 TUB BKQIKTSIXGB or TICB. 
 
 tures in the history of one of the inmatct of a ueighborinj^ 
 p/ison. He was the son of respectable parents* from 
 whom he received the nurture of kindness, and the rudi- 
 ments of education, without, however, the direct influ- 
 ence of religious principle. His first error was the theft 
 of some sugar-candy from the bow-window of a confec- 
 tioner.- This sin of his boyhood was committed with ex- 
 treme agitation. In recently mentioning it to the chap- 
 lain of the prison where he is now confined for life, he 
 said, — " I was not able for sometime to breathe freely, 
 and I felt a deep pain at my heart." This, the beginning 
 of his sins, passed undetected, and possibly this impunity 
 operated as an encouragement to the. dark career, which 
 was soon commenced. Early in life he left the parental 
 roof, and having a fondness for the sea, became a rover 
 upon that element. During parts of several years, he 
 was attached to the crew of some of our ships of war, and 
 in the last contest between Great Britaiin and this coun 
 try, proved himself not deficient in courage. Yet he con- 
 tinued to be absorbed in such varieties of disgrace, that 
 he wished his parents to believe hin^ dead, rather than 
 living, th6 victim of guilt, and caused a lett3r to be writ- 
 ten them, conveying the false information, that he had 
 perished in an engagement at sea, where his brother had 
 indeed fallen, while fighting by his side. The strong tal- 
 ents with which nature had endowed him, were evinced 
 in the adroitness with which he devised and executed 
 evil, and the recklessness of his endurance when its pen- 
 alties overtook him. Crime made him a tenant of the 
 Connecticut State Prison, as it formerly existed, among 
 the mines of Simsbury. Promiscuous intercourse with 
 depraved spirits, rendered him still more hardened and 
 refractory, until the (^verity of this system of physical 
 diseiptine was exhausted upon him. The amount of pun- 
 ishment which he received, and which his. desperation 
 seemed to render necessary, has been pronounced sufii- 
 cient to have destroyed the life of an ordinary man. Stitl 
 ;he was unliumbled, unsubdued — proud of the false heroism 
 with whieh he foil^ his self-created adversities. When, 
 at the expiration of his term of seclusion, he MfM again 
 admitted to the community, it was evident that be hftd 
 
 acquire^ o 
 fearless be 
 ed, re mora 
 th« tremul 
 first essay 
 tioner 1 
 
 He is, a( 
 on at Wetfi 
 ilant, mora 
 mind, seem 
 feet. In th 
 retires, med 
 exercise son 
 sionally emj 
 
 (amoiit lljiu 
 
 paper are se 
 
 upon the su 
 
 purifying sp 
 
 ration upon 
 
 to his parent 
 
 years. A cc 
 
 I it was thougl 
 
 though it exi 
 
 lis familiar to 
 
 than the inge 
 
 I the suffering 
 
 I" Father,- 
 
 presents, to i 
 through the 
 Jike an oak it 
 orer the repti 
 your candor 
 'Tiling to yo 
 [acknowledge 
 pear mother, 
 rushing in up 
 [origin of whi 
 »U8e, I thoui 
 «Pense, than 
 
 m/ ■ 
 
THS BBGnrNINGS OF VICE. 
 
 297 
 
 eighboring 
 ent8, from 
 I the rudi- 
 irect influ- 
 8 the theft 
 f a confec- 
 d with ex- 
 the chap- 
 for life, he 
 uhe freely, 
 e beginning 
 kis impunity 
 reer, which 
 he parental 
 me a rover 
 il years, h« 
 i of war, and 
 1 this coun 
 Yet he con- 
 isgrace, that 
 rather than 
 •r to be writ- 
 that he had 
 brother had 
 ie strong tal- 
 rere evinced 
 nd executed 
 hen its pen 
 jnant of the 
 listed, among 
 {rcourse with 
 lardened and 
 of physical 
 loutit of pun- 
 . desperatioD 
 lunced suffi- 
 mau. Still 
 fyAfie heroisv 
 ,ies. When, 
 [e v^ap aS»B 
 that bt had 
 
 acquire^ no wisdom from his suflferings. So frequent and 
 fearless became his acts of dishonesty, that in the confirm- 
 ed, remorseless transgressor, who could have recognized 
 the tremulous hand, the suflFocating heart, that made their 
 first essay in guilt at the bow-Avindow of tlie confec- 
 tioner 1 
 
 He is, at present, an inmate for life, of the State's Pris- 
 on at Wethersfield Gonnecticiit, where the mild, yet vig- 
 ilant, moral influence which is brought to bear upon his 
 mind, seems not to have been fully devoid of salutary ef- 
 fect. In the cell to which, after the toils of the day, he 
 retires, meditation, and the discourse of his spiritual guide, 
 exercise somewhat of a tranquilizing power. He occa- 
 sionally employs himself in turning parts of th*e New Tes- 
 un»c.,t iiuo *'-"--V -n«ft and fragments of coarse brown«^ 
 paper are seen scattered about firsrcciT, -^^^..^^ --al •• 
 upon the subject of that blessed Book, whose raeeik ^-^.^ 
 purifying spirit seems as yet to have had no decided ope-# 
 ration upon his heart. He has recently written a letter: 
 to his parents, whom he has not seen for more than 20 
 years. A copy of it is connected with these remarks, as 
 it was thought its unique style might interest ourrrea^ders, 
 though it exhibits rather the cunningness of excuse, which 
 is familiar to the seared conscience of a practised offender,, 
 than the ingenuous penitence for which Charity seeks in 
 the suffering sinner and the returning prodigal. 
 
 Wethersfield Prison, Connecticut. 
 I" Father, — 
 
 After my grateful devoirs, I solicit these' 
 [presents, to inform you, that I am at this date extant^ and 
 [through the mere charity of God and good people, 1 stand , 
 [like an oak in the forest, and display as yet a superiority, 
 [over the reptile calamities that environ me. While I ^*o0f 
 lyour candor will counterbalance my delinquencies in not 
 Ivriting to you during so many years absence, I frankljr 
 [acknowledge it was whplly out of commiseration to ray 
 Idcar mother. For signal afflictions !iave b^en incessantly 
 Inishing in upon me, as water from a mighty streairo, the 
 jorigin of which, being so out of character, in an unjust 
 lase, I thought it more cruel to acquaint you at parental 
 expense, than to let you be under the belief of the fabu- 
 
 
 
208 
 
 THB BBGIRRIirGS Or TICK. 
 
 lou8 information that I was killed on board the frigate at 
 the time my brother fell a victim to grape-shot from the 
 ship Shannon, Capt Broke, and whose last words were— 
 '« Don't give up the ship !'* • Whereas, through the pure 
 mercy of Hinw who ever holdeth the destinies of war in 
 his hands, I was preserved with only a mutilation in one 
 hand and the stroke of a cutlass on the left side of the 
 neck, with two or three other partial wounds, which will 
 €Tcr stand as a visible criterion of native rights. 
 
 I lament that I ever abandoned the sea. It has caused 
 me to wade through a great sea of trouble, so character- 
 istic, that pen and paper would fail me to describe it. 
 And even if it wtre possible, 1 should shrink from the 
 toil, as it is not my intention to contristate you, nor to 
 madden the heart of my dear mother.. T^o.^fo.o i w.i» 
 forbear, and oiilv--^---«a^^«^°rtm.n.ature ot vanous 
 ^JU-u^milnement, with their alli^ed crimes, for you 
 rnow it must be brief to fall within the bosom of a mew 
 ^letter. 
 
 Wherea.^, lying nineteen weeks in the cock pit of the' 
 ~ aforesaid frigate, I was discharged by the cartel flag of| 
 truce — the olive of peace then just p>.'eping through the 
 clarion of war. I then embarked for Boston, where I re 
 celved eight months' pay in her service and eleven months | 
 > arrears due from the ship Adams. 
 
 By the advice of my brother I abandoned the sea, pnd| 
 went to the shoe-making business. I did well till I con- 
 Unacted the habit of gambling, in a small factory near my 
 shop, and on losing was induced to remove $27 from a 
 merchant's desk, for which I was arrested and sent to jail. 
 Her^, while I waited my trial, the accident of a brand 
 "felling over the band-iron, caused a wooden post to smoke, 
 and awoke a family who lodged overhead, while I lay fast 
 asleep. For this I was indicted for arson, and sent fori 
 nine years to the Newgate of Connecticut. From this 
 place I was turned out, all but naked, in the winter, when 
 BO employment was to be had. In this situation,'! took 
 a coat and pantaloons from a tavern where I put !|p, andl 
 steered for New-Jenrey. My feet beginning to i^ell, (| 
 i|l^k a horse and rode twenty miles. I hitched the hoi 
 •t a hay-stack, and the next day was taken and* prove 
 guilty, and sent to the same prison for three yean* 4^ 
 
 getting n 
 
 this new. 
 
 This le 
 
 where th< 
 
 tion, exec 
 
 skilful ha 
 
 perceptioK 
 
 purposes s 
 
 ing the sa 
 
 talent, am 
 
 but a proi 
 
 to disguis( 
 
 proper dia 
 
 ned agains 
 
 thy to be < 
 
 The con 
 
 ous attentii 
 
 coiled, at i 
 
 from the c( 
 
 tion, "rem 
 
 standing th 
 
 set fire to a 
 
 slumbered. 
 
 There is 
 transparent 
 islet. 
 
 It is Burn 
 
 den by penc 
 
 to it is by a 
 
 derwood ant 
 
 When we 
 
 we fee no Ic 
 
 white cottag 
 
 the tall treei 
 
 World alone 
 
 ntlody of th 
 
 jV0: 
 
 
THE WIDOW. 
 
 {299 
 
 getting my liberty, I stole. $1Q, for which I was sent to 
 this new, humane prison, for all probation." 
 
 This letter was furnished by the chaplain of the prison 
 where the writer is confined, and has sustained no correc- 
 tion, except in orthography. It exhibits the adroit and 
 skilful habit of excuse which characterises a mind whose 
 perceptions of moral rectitude arejiewildcred, jind whose 
 purposes are rather bent upon dedByi|Mdteroi» than speak- 
 ing the sacred truth before God.fHtCvin^es considerable 
 talent, and some knowledge of the power of language, 
 but a proud, unhumbled spirit, is equally visible, seeking 
 to disguise itself under a false pomp of diction, when itii 
 proper dialect would have been,-T-'' Father ! I have sin- 
 ned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more wor- 
 thy to be called thy son.'' 
 
 The contrasts exhibited by thid individual deserve seri- 
 ous attention. The hand that trembled, the heart that r0» 
 coiled, at a dishonest appropriation of the sugared bait 
 from the confectioner's window, could, without compunc- 
 tion, " remove $27 from a merchant's desk," and notwith • 
 standing the sophistry with which the deed is enveloped, 
 set fire to a building, in which helplessness and innoceney 
 slumbered. 
 
 THE WIDOW. 
 
 There is a little, fairy lake in our village, a beautiAil 
 transparent sheet of water, unbroken by a single rock or 
 islet. 
 
 It IS surrounded by towering hills, and the shores are hid- 
 den by pendant willows. The only convenient approAch 
 to it is by a meandering path, cut through the heavy «it<r 
 derwood and thick brush of the forest. 
 
 When we glide over the pure surface of that lonely lakt* 
 we tee no lov%,ly landscape of flower-jeweiled meadowt, 
 white cottages and church spires— we are quite shut ii| hf 
 the tall trees and lofty hills, and may fancy onraelrei in, * 
 World alone, a world of fancy or of mythology. TIm 
 jntlody of the wood-robin comes sweet and dear OTf t the 
 
 *ry 
 
300 
 
 THU WIDOW, 
 
 •mooth waters, and the fragrance of wild-ro9e8 and sweet- 
 brier floats in the air above. The sun at noon-day looki 
 deep into that pure mirror, and is reflected back by a thou- 
 sand glittering stones. 
 
 I was standing at my uncle's door one summer night, 
 watching the evening star, as it went rapidly down, al- 
 itiost lost in a flood of bright moonlight which seemed to 
 hasten th^ departuns of the retiring beauty. I was arous- 
 ed^ by a hasty step behind me. 'T was Harry. 'Cousin,' 
 cried he, ' will you go on the lake with roe. 'Tis the 
 loveliest evening in the world. We will take the little 
 boat, which even you allow to be perfectly safe, and if 
 you wish, I will ask the little widow to accompany us." 
 
 *' Oh, the little widow — I kno>\ we must ask her, but 
 the will make us so dull — " 
 
 '* Oh cousin, with the bright moon above us and the 
 blue loJke beneath, can we ever be dull V 
 
 In half an hour, we were rapidly skimming the lake be- 
 fore a breeze which just filled one sail. 'T was a scene of 
 perfect magic. The blue heavens were over us, and the 
 clear waters beneath. Their almost solemn quiet was on- 
 ly broken by the forest whip-poor-will. She sat in grate- 
 ful silence until we had reached the middle of the lake, 
 when the breeze died away and it was entirely calm. 
 While the boat was quietly reposing on the bosom of the 
 wares, the widow broke th<> silence by singing in a clear 
 sweet voice, ^1 
 
 . •* Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea." We 
 sat ID breathless stillness, listening to the melody, as it 
 •wept over the waters, and at every pause we heard it 
 faintly reverberated from the heavy woods which belted 
 the lake. 
 
 When she had finished, we drew nearer to her and af* 
 li»r thanking her for the song, tried to draw her into con- 
 ▼•rsation. She was a stranger in our village, having re- 
 cently come from Maine to recover some property which 
 belonged to her deceased husband. I looked on her with 
 jieep interest when I reflected how much of suffering, and 
 ||0W much of romantic vicissitude^ -she must have known. 
 She could hot have been more than nineteen, and so 
 loVel|r a creature. In the sad habiliments of motiming, 
 
THE "WIDOW, 
 
 301 
 
 and iweet- 
 
 i-day looku 
 
 by a thou- 
 
 niier night, 
 down, al- 
 seemed to 
 was arou8- 
 •Cousin,' 
 »Tis the 
 :e the little 
 safe, and if 
 pany us." 
 ask her, but 
 
 I us and the 
 
 the lake be - 
 as a scene of 
 ' us, and the 
 [uiet was on- 
 , sat in grate- 
 
 of the lake, 
 itirely calm. 
 )osom of the 
 ig in a clear I 
 
 sea." We 
 melody, as it 
 
 we heard it 
 vhich belted 
 
 her and af* 
 her into con- 
 ^, having re- 
 >perty which 
 
 00 lierwitb 
 tuffering, and 
 jave known, 
 [teen, and so 
 
 1 motiniiogf 
 
 she was more than ever lovely. Her rich Italian eye and 
 complexion, were happily contrasted by their sombre hue. 
 
 Har^y and I had often talked of her and wished to know 
 more of her, but she was so very silent and reserved, we 
 had given it up in despair. We only knew that she wai 
 a widow, with two little sons who were left to the care of 
 their grand-parents. She had come to our village with her 
 brother, who was gone to the southward and would shortly 
 return to accompany her back to her own home. Wheth- 
 er it was the bewitching influence of our moonlight sail, 
 or the kindness of our expressions that opened the wid* 
 ow's heart, I cannot say, but she soon began (o converse 
 with perfect unreserve, as if we had long been friends.*^ 
 
 A cloud passed from over the moon, and the constella- 
 tions which till then had been hardly perceptible, shone 
 out with unwoL.ed lustre, when Harry began to ^peat 
 part of a poem whichiwas written by one of our school 
 girls. J ^ y 
 
 The widow listened attentively to the whole, but there 
 was a wild light in her eye when he came to the last line. 
 
 ' How familiar the word war sounds to me,* said she ; 
 < my father was an officer at the time of the late war, and 
 my two brothers fought for their eountry -at his side ; my 
 grandfather was killed in the war of the revolution, with 
 my mother's eldest brother. I came of a race of warriors,* 
 ^ded she with a smile, . ' and the sound of war though 
 dreadful in itself, awakens ih my heart a momentary feel- 
 ing of pride and gladness, connected, as it is in memory 
 with so many revered and beloved names. 
 
 * And your husband too must have been, — said Harry 
 checking himself before he had finished the sentence, think- 
 ing: he had too rudely thrust upon her the remembrance' 
 of her sorrows. 
 
 The bright bloom faded sliglitly from the widow's 
 cheek, but the wild lustre of her eye scarcely waned, 
 when she replied, ' My husband was in the army during 
 the last year of the war. He was then only seventeiin, 
 and engaged in only a few skirmishes. He has often 
 deeply regretted that; he could find no opportunity of 4kh 
 tihguishing himself. I used-to regret it too, but 1 do not 
 iiow-~he was proud enough ; and he had cause of pride, 
 n B B 
 
303 
 
 THK WIDOW, 
 
 if an J mortal has cause for aught but self-abasement. Ho 
 was one of God's noblest creatures in heart and mind.' 
 
 * How did he look V S^id I. 
 
 * He was elegantly tall ; I leave you to judge of hk 
 face,' added she, draNving from her bosom a miniature 
 hkeness of him, ' of the features, I mean ; the irradiating 
 spirit is not here.' 
 
 'l^was a fine Hrecian head, but the Itair was perfectly 
 flaxen. S>' .tinned— 
 
 ' Frederii iud I had been intimate from our childhood, 
 although he was several years older than 1 ; our feelings^ 
 and sentiments had ever been the same, and wo never 
 had a single quarrel in the course of our long friendship. 
 "When he went to the wars, I wept bitterly, thinking I 
 never should see him again, although I then felt for him 
 as I should for a brother ; and when he at length returned, 
 we loved each other better than oyer. 
 
 * We were perfectly coagcnfal tqpirits, always happy in 
 each other's society ; and it rarely occurred to us that we 
 might not live long and happy together. One fine day 
 saw us walking by the river, with our little boy, in per- 
 fect health, and without one care or fear. The fourth day 
 from that, tie was laid iq his cold grave, and we were left.* 
 
 She was silent for a few minutes, and neither Harry nor 
 I ventured to speak. < He died in humble, but firm de- 
 pendence on the Savior,' resumed the widow in a steadier 
 tone, ' and I think he was not deceived — I had then no 
 consolation and no hope. 
 
 < The world to me was empty and dark. I thought of 
 heaven, but it seemed to me as though time there would 
 pass very wearily, and it only looked tolerable as a refuge 
 from an abode of woe. I knew nothing of the good and 
 beneficent one who reigns in that pure place, and to spend 
 a whole eternity in singing his praises, appeared to me an 
 insupportable weariness : I could not bear to think of it. 
 
 * But since I have learned to know and love the be- 
 nign and good Father of us all, I believe the greatest en- 
 joyrnent would be in his presence, and that in his service 
 we o.ould feel no fatigue. It is there where kindred spiritji 
 n^ejet without fearing a melancholy termination of thei|r,h9f>- 
 piness. Alas, how many sincere friends are here kept aloof 
 
 from cac 
 of friend 
 loss othe 
 and its s 
 ♦But 
 fi'iendshi 
 the swec 
 literature 
 tal darki] 
 ceive «* I 
 wo are k 
 cease, an 
 not that 
 troubling 
 ' Indoc 
 me wish 
 it would 
 ter year, 
 cription, 
 submit to 
 were assi 
 ' Re me 
 solemn y 
 n9 man* f 
 heaven, 
 talents to 
 for your t 
 find your 
 Dark c 
 swept fui 
 us. We 
 for us, as 
 terrible, 
 of our g 
 with a la 
 ed, and, 
 heedless 
 and the 1 
 How s 
 fearlessni 
 enjoymei 
 
 k^ 
 
'fHB WIDOW. 
 
 303 
 
 )ment. Ho 
 id mind.' 
 
 11(1 go of h'lK 
 a miniature 
 e irradiating 
 
 as perfectly 
 
 r childhood, 
 our feelings 
 d wo never 
 ; friendship. 
 , thinking I 
 felt for him 
 gth returned, 
 
 lys happy in 
 to us that we 
 )ne fine day 
 boy, in per- 
 he fourth day 
 we were left.* 
 ler Harry nor 
 but firm de- 
 r in a steadier 
 had then no 
 
 I thought of 
 
 there would 
 
 )le as a refuge 
 
 the good and 
 
 , and to spend 
 
 ared to me an 
 
 think of it. 
 
 love the be- 
 
 e greatest ep- 
 
 in his service 
 
 kindred spirits 
 
 >n of theij:h»p; 
 
 here kept aloof 
 
 from each otiier by untoward circumstances ; tho influence 
 of friends, the difference in rank or wealth, and number- 
 loss other things which come between tho heart's desire 
 and its accomplishment. 
 
 * But heaven ih tho place where sincere and perrenial 
 friendships will be fuinied, and kindred spirits will hold 
 tho sweetest intercourse. Here, the clearest sunshine of 
 literature and science only serves to reveal to us our men- 
 tal darkness ; but therey our eyes shall be open to per- 
 ceive ** hidden niysteries," and we shall know even as 
 wo are known. There oppression and unkindness shall 
 cease, and perfect lovo shall reign in every heart. Oh is 
 not that a happy place <' where the wicked cease from 
 troubling and the wOary are at rest V ' 
 
 < Indeed, Mrs Auburn,' said Henry * you almost make 
 me wish to go there. I always thought as you did, that 
 it would be immensely stiff and tiresome to stand year af- 
 ter year, and sing psalms ; but in the light of your des- 
 cription, it seems to me perfectly delightful, and I should 
 submit to death with comparatively little reluctance, if I 
 were assured we three should meet there.' 
 
 ' Remember, my dear Sir,' replied the widow, in a very 
 solemn yet kind tone, ' remember, that " without holiness 
 n9 man- shall see the Lord" in his pure and beautiful 
 heaven. But humbly devote your affections and your 
 talents to your almighty Father, and seek of him pardon 
 for your sins and purity for your heart, and then you will 
 find your everlasting hbme in that abode of blessedneM.* 
 
 Dark clouds rapidly passed over the nky : a heavy wind 
 swept furiously down the lake and dashed the waves over 
 us. We were rapidly nearing the shore, and it was well 
 for us, as it was becoming so very dark and the storm so 
 terrible, we must have sunk very soon. At the moment 
 of/ our greatest alarm, my uncle appeared on the shore 
 with a lantern, and after some time we were safely land- 
 ed, and, with thankfulness to Heaven, we returned home, 
 heedless of the storm, although it poured in torrents, 
 and the lightning flashed vividly around us. 
 
 How short is the transition from pure enjoyment ft$d 
 fearlessness to sorrow and dismay. How brief too it the 
 enjoyment of terrestial friendship ! We saW the widow 
 
304 
 
 TMIi IIBRO or THH PLAGUB. 
 
 •very day in the next week, until we Joved her iincerely 
 and tenderly. Then she departed to her distant homo, 
 and we ihall probably never meet her again, unless in- 
 deed, We are io happy as to find her in tlie beautiful 
 heaven whither her Frederic is already gone, and which 
 •ven now, she delights to look upon as her beloved and 
 blessed hone. lLady*8 Magazine. 
 
 # 
 
 THE HERO OF THE PLAGUE. 
 
 When the plague raged violently at Marseilles, every 
 link of affection was broken ; the father turned from the 
 chnd— the child from the father ; co^viardice and ingratitude 
 no longer excited indignation. Misery is at its height when 
 it thus destroys every generous feeling— thus dissolves ev- 
 ery tie of humanity ! The city became a desert, grass grew 
 in the streets, a funeral met you at every step. 
 
 The physicians assembled in a body at the Ijlotel de 
 Ville, to lipid a consultation on the fearful disease, fur 
 which no remedy had yet been discovered. 
 
 Afler a long consultation they decided, unanimously, 
 that the malady had a peculiar and mysterious cii|arRoter, 
 which opening a corpse might develope — an 'operation 
 which it was impossible to attempt, since thd operator 
 must infallibly become a victim in a few hours, beyond the 
 HHWer oi human art to save him, as the violence of the 
 attack would preclude their administering the customary 
 remedies. 
 
 ^A dead pause succeeded this declaration. Suddenly a 
 surgeon named Guyon, in the prime of life, and of great 
 eeiebi^ity in his profession, rose and firmly said : <* Bo it 
 go : I devote myself for the safety of my country. Jie- 
 fore'this numerous assembly I promise, in the name of nu- 
 manity and religion, that' to-morrow, at the break of day, 
 I will dissect a corpse, and write down, as I proceed, what 
 I observe." 
 
 .He left the assembly instantly. They admire him, la- 
 ment his fate, and doubt whether he will persist in^his de- 
 •ign. The intrepid and pious Guyon, animated by all th« 
 
 tublhuei 
 
 to his wo 
 
 mediately 
 
 He confei 
 
 A man 
 
 hours. ( 
 
 room ; he 
 
 Full of ei 
 
 collected. 
 
 deriliff tei 
 
 on thte w 
 
 Thou will 
 
 In discove 
 
 which des 
 
 point out I 
 
 rifice usef 
 
 the action 
 
 He begi 
 
 corded in ( 
 
 room, thre 
 
 diately bo 
 
 hours—a d 
 
 who to sai 
 
 since he M 
 
 mired, and 
 
 Physicia 
 
 duties, whi 
 
 ing them U 
 
 which is as 
 
 tains the sc 
 
 How woi 
 
 umes excep 
 
 of human i 
 
 •iNfo one whc 
 
 strange to t< 
 
 p ^ 
 
 4 
 
 (♦. 
 
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 M?' •* 
 
 
run BOOK or NATunc. 
 
 306 
 
 ' lincfxely 
 int homo, 
 unleHA in- 
 ) beautiful 
 and which 
 sieved and 
 fagnzine. 
 
 lies, every 
 id from the 
 ingratitude 
 leight when 
 lissolved ev- 
 , grass grew 
 
 I. 
 
 ;he Hotel de 
 disease, for 
 
 nanimously, 
 
 cliaraoter, 
 
 n 'operation 
 
 la operator 
 
 beyond the 
 
 ence of the 
 
 customary 
 
 Suddenly a 
 ind of ejreat 
 id: "Be it 
 untry. By- 
 name of iiu -> 
 >reakof day, 
 oceed, what 
 
 lire him, la- 
 list in'his de- 
 led by all th« 
 
 lublmie vikergy religion or patriotism can intpire, acted up 
 to hii word. He had married, and ww rich ; and he im- 
 mediately made his will, dictated by justice and piety. 
 He confessed, and at midnight received the sacram^ts. 
 
 A man had died in hin fiouse within four-and'twenty 
 hours. Guyon, at day break, shut himself up in the same 
 room ; he took with him ink, paper, and a |[ittle crucifix^ 
 Full of enthusiasm never had he felt more firm or more 
 collected. Kneeling before the corpse he wrote — " Moul- 
 dering tenement of an immortal soul, not only can I gaze 
 on thee without horrw, but even with joy and gratitude. 
 Thou wilt open to me the gates of a glorious eternity. 
 In discovering to me the secret cause of the terrible plague 
 which destroys my native. city, thou wilt enable me 4o 
 point out some salutary remedy ; thou wilt render my sac- 
 rifice useful. Oh God ! (continued he,) thou wilt bless 
 the action thou hast thyself inrpired.'' 
 
 He began—he finished the dreadful operation, and re- 
 corded in detail his surgical observations. He then left the » 
 room, threw the papers into a vase of vinegar, and imme- 
 diately sought the Lazaretto, wl ere he died in twelve 
 hours— a death ten times more glorious than the warrior, 
 who to save his. country, rushes on the euemy's ranks— 
 since he p^lvanc^s with hope, at least, and is sustained, ad- 
 mired,' and seconded by a "whole army. 
 
 Physicians who remain firm in the discharge of their 
 duties, while the fears of their fellow citizens are prompt- 
 ing them to fly from contagion, display that moral couragd 
 which is as far superior to the physical energy which iuu- 
 tains the soldier in batlte, as mind is superior to matter. 
 
 \. 
 
 THE BOOK OF NATURE. 
 
 How wonderful is the book of nature ! In all oth«r vol-* 
 
 umes except one by the same Author, we discover traces 
 
 of human imperfection— but here every page is faultless., 
 
 1^0 one who bej^ns to read it can everbe \^eary ; and yet, 
 
 strange to tell,lnen can pore forever over the productioue 
 
 «>; 
 
 4 
 
 
 -4W' 
 

 m'^ 
 
 Tllld Bobi^ OF IMkTUBJB!. 
 
 6f t^yfiiiia^ genius, , and seldom, iook into thiu. Whettiei* 
 > lire liifk^with the eloquent flowers, or the busy tribes of* 
 Jtbe animal world, or the quiet subjects of the mineral kiag- 
 dom,-44D^is interesting and b^utiful. 
 - No wonder the naturailist ilPlilways an enthusiast. It 
 is the itfevitable result of his pursuits. It is impossible to 
 d||tudy into tlidi operations of Nature, in cither of her three 
 Ttingdcyns, without being carried away with the jojrpus 
 feeling which men call enthusiasm. It itrvaid, " the|dind 
 makes its own place ; the mind of a naturalist ce^ptinly 
 
 pev- 
 
 tnay, for he can never get away frq|ft nature, and cai 
 er be at a loss for agreeable employment in watching h«r 
 operations. 
 
 ' t We will take, for example, a tree, and recollecting what 
 vegetable physiology tells us, we will, in order to see 
 theseoperations, imagine the trunk and branches are trans- 
 parent. We see, in the centre of the trunk and of every 
 branch, a slender column of pith ; around it we see a cyl- 
 inder of heartwood ; next comes alburnum, or new wood. 
 This wood abounds with minute longitudinal veins for the 
 passage \of the sap, which wo observe is passing up, on 
 the principle of capillary attraction, till a portion of it 
 reaches the extremity of every leaf. The *lea,Tes are 
 furnished with small pores for transpirdtion.il Through 
 these a part of the sap escapes, and if our eyes weili open- 
 , ed, vWe should see a litt'e pillar of fog constantly resting ^^y oatui 
 
 -^ ^ mer work, 
 
 different re 
 is found th 
 
 on every leaf. 
 
 Presently we observe a counter current; the sap is re 
 
 ^es in CO 
 the form 
 After 
 satisfied, 
 mass of 
 is not all 
 pores on 
 gas. As 
 surfiuBe ol 
 face of ih 
 cavbob gc 
 evaporate 
 per surfac 
 Throng 
 busy in tl 
 calving fr 
 not afford 
 In the ni{ 
 gen and tl 
 have a p] 
 apartment 
 The pri 
 ble substai 
 in solution 
 Every 
 
 a 
 
 J^. 
 
 V \ 
 
 tiiraing again to the root ; but not in the channels lu 
 which it ascended. It ascended thtough the young wood, 
 but its homeward passage is thiough the bark. As it pro- 
 ceed*, we observe that it is continually robbed by littii 
 ab^rbents stationed all along the way, who secrete iroi 
 it the various substances which they require, to (t^jm^th 
 oils, resin's, and gums. « 
 
 !n consequence of these repeated depredations, the sa{ 
 is generally quite exhausted by the time it reaches t^i 
 fOo| again. But this is no matter, for the extremity 
 ^eacii fibre in a 'root is furnished with a l^tle sponge w 
 
 iRh— ' 
 
 Every soil 
 insoluble ii 
 and accum 
 progress, a 
 tooied noui 
 
 :'*i.* 
 
 Wl^ieh it sucks up the juices from the eaffh — or, to speal 
 j^ore philosophicativ. through the pores of which sap ril 
 
 itisioti 
 ous, where 
 
 ■hr.' 
 
 
 v^h-'^i 
 
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 7HB WHIBLPOOL. 
 
 307 
 
 ^es in conieqaence of the vacuum farmed by the asceni of 
 the former sap. 
 
 After watching the ascent of the vital fluid till we are 
 satisfied, we turn again to the leaves — we have noticed a 
 mass of vapor rising from the upper surface of each-^ihis 
 is not all ; we see also a volume of gas pressing into the 
 pores on the under surface of the leaf : it is carbonic acid. 
 gas. As this is a heavy gas it it naturally rests on the 
 surface of the earth— hence the propriety of the lower sur- 
 face Dif the leaf being prepared to receive it. Part of the 
 cavboo goes to form t|ie substance of the leaf, and part is 
 evaporated during the night, through the pores on the up- 
 per surfactj of the leaf. 
 
 Through the day, every leaf of every tree and plant is 
 busy in throwing off oxygen, which it is as constantly re- 
 ceiving from the sap and the carbonic acid — but they can- 
 nches are r ■ ^^^ afford to be always so lavish of this vital principle^ 
 k and o e yi ^^ ^^^ night the order is reversed, and they absorb <'xy- 
 
 it we se ^,1 fTAn nnd thrniw off r.»r1tnn. Piir thin reaBnn. tilanta ahnMli 
 
 wood. 
 
 a. WhetheiJ 
 usy tribes of 
 mineral king- 
 
 [ithusiast. It 
 impossible to 
 r of her three 
 th thejoypus 
 id, " thej^ind 
 ralist ceipttly 
 J, and ca| ^lev- 
 \ watching her 
 
 collecting what! 
 in order to see | 
 
 I, or new 
 lal veins for the 
 passing up, on 
 
 gen and throw off caibon. For this reason, plants should 
 
 have a place in our parlors, but never in our sleeping 
 
 apartments. 
 
 f iti '^'^^ principal result of decomposed animal and vegeta- 
 
 a portion Ible substances is carbonic acid. This, with water holdine 
 
 in soluticMj^ the various earthy matters, constitutes the sop. 
 
 Every autumn we observe the leaves wither and fall, uod 
 
 \\f3Xj naturally suppose they are worn out with thtir lUBi- 
 
 mer work, and die of old age ; but botanists give^a vtfry' 
 
 I different reason for their fall Instead of a natural death, it 
 
 is found that the poor things absolutely die by starvation , 
 
 Every soil contains more or less sUtx. This earth being 
 
 insoluble in water, f ises with the sap in distinct pairtielw. 
 
 The *lea^yes are 
 tion.%Through| 
 eyes were open 
 nstantly xestin 
 
 t ; the sap is re^ 
 
 the channels ii 
 
 he young wood) ^ _____ 
 
 )ark. As ** F^jand accumulating at the base of the footstalk, obstractt its 
 robbed by *"*1 progress, and consequently deprives the leaf of its a«cu8- 
 
 /ho secreteiroii 
 [uire, to f^p»*^M 
 
 * 1 
 
 jdations, the m 
 
 ie it reaches tli^ 
 
 the extremity 
 
 ^ttle sponge w« 
 
 th— or, to speai 
 
 of which sap n 
 
 tomed nourishment. 
 
 THE WHIRLPOOL. 
 
 It is in the ocean that whirlpools are pecttliarty danget- 
 lous, where the tides are violent and the tempettf|Jfi|||«e. 
 
 *.V%! 
 
 *i 
 
 
 
[Iff't 
 
 r>t^" 
 
 ir- 
 
 
 r> -y 
 
 If., 
 
 (1^ 
 
 ^ liMtla% OM^' |>ili|, Ipi 
 
 m 9omdt mmUfikj, wkieh it eoniidered m th« B^oit 
 iiWiWM and ▼etsqjiout in th« irdrld. 
 (?fllt IIMM jt hM TMeirad htft the ntives, fignifita the 
 llitfl if the Ma, tinoe they m§f(m» that a great ahare of 
 ttic watMT of the aea ia aueked' up and diacbarged by its 
 Th%bodj' 9f waten that formi thia whirlpool i« 
 
 ,,^..^ ia a drcle about thirteen miles in cifcumlbrenee. 
 
 . '^^ tiie midyt, of this, atanda a roek against which the 
 <li9, In ill ebb» is dashed with inconceiirable faryir At 
 i|iatinieit instantly swallows vp |all things fhaieome 
 |mltt fhe sphere of its riolence, trees, timber, and ship- 
 ^q;^ No skill of the mariner, nor strength of rowing/ 
 0k work att eaeape. 
 
 fls^ iaiior at the helm at fimt finds the ship |;o in a eor- 
 
 ^rt j y es i te to his intentiontf. His vessel's motion, though 
 
 N« Uie beginning, becomes every moment more rapid. 
 
 ||oes round in circles, stijH narrower and nanower, till 
 
 ~^ it is dashed against the rocks, and instantly disap- 
 
 Nor is it seen again for six hours, till the tid« 
 
 M is ironnted forw-hi the same ^violent manner in 
 
 kwia«^wn in. 
 
 noised «his dreadful vortex still furthei eontrib- 
 
 ia#«aae ilt terror, which, with the^ dasbllg of the 
 
 li^wid the dreadfiil valley, if it may be so ealled, 
 
 h^ iftehr eireulafti^n, makes one of the most ^- 
 
 « jMiets in 4iatare. [GoUtmih, 
 
 amaH whieh have come too near the vortex, 
 
 ^« piiS H d Ike utmost terror, when they havn found 
 
 lIvaMa Itfaiiatible. Whiles are frequently carried 
 
 ^^<«id^m moment they feel the force of the water, 
 
 alM»g|le against it with all th«!r might, howlin 
 
 llownig Hi a frightfiil manner. [ Ck^Otrk, 
 
 .■A 
 
 
 
 ^V"**. * 
 
 
 D/u 
 
 i ./) 
 
 
 :i^% ^ 
 
 
 ; ^^ 
 
 . ^ 
 
, tignifits the 
 gnat share of 
 charged by iU 
 i whntpoolM 
 cffcomferenee. 
 Dst which the 
 ible fariir At 
 Qgs fhateome 
 iber, and ^ip- 
 ^h of rowing, 
 
 lip go inaeur- 
 motioD, though 
 ent more rapid, 
 d nanowef, ttU 
 oataDtly disap- 
 g, till the tia« 
 lent Bianner in 
 
 urthei eontrib- 
 daablig of the 
 
 r be ao called, 
 the moat #e- 
 
 lar the Tortez, 
 Mj hare found 
 (fueDtly carried 
 i of the water, 
 night, howfing 
 
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 2,/iig^-, 
 
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