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AND LADIES' LITERARY GAZETTE.

VOLUME VII. NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1830.

NUMBER 32. ORIGINAL POETRY..

Ye have my last best gift, my tears,

manly graces and a superior mind, she had early discovered, Therefore in peace farewell;

for Nannette was in no way deficient in observation; and her To the uncharnelled woods afar,

kind heart tenderly pitied, but she meant not to love James. ADORA TE SUPPLEX.

With my last friend I flee,
His love the only guiding star

Nannette was not the lawful inheritor of the title of bar-iaid BACK-back again to their holy fount,

-she was the daughter of a French officer, a prisoner of war, The dreams of being run :

That lope has left to me. From the skies kindled, they remount

Flowers--that have grown beneath my hand,

who had died and left his accomplished child to poverty and As the eagle to the sun.

Bowers-of the woodbine shade,

the care of heaven, As the pure flame burns towards the heaven

Lake--by the summer rainbow spanned,

But Nannette was as amiable as she was lovely, and anxious In its intensity,

Lawn--where my free foot strayed ;

to make herself useful where she was dependent. She was

Birds--of the sweet familiar voice, Is there a power which thou hast given,

grateful too, for the gratuitous attentions paid to her departed That should not rise to thee?

Elms—where the zephyrs dwell,

father by the worthy pair with whom she resided ; and, with

Home-of my heart's remembered joys, Oh stronger is that eagle's gaze

Graves-of When his was high in air,

my kin-farewell !

all humility and cheerfulness, she gave the sparkling cup to And purer glow the living rays.

Now to the forest's shadowy depths,

each new-comer through the week, and cast up the scores on When their light is kindled there.

By thy fond side I'll roam;

Saturday-night to the perfect delight of Halkin, who would
Yet chide not, love, her faltering steps,

rub his hands and cry, "lear me, what a fine creature ! pity Ind the spirit is brighter when its thought

Who leaves her childhood's home: Is lit from the shrine of heaven,

it were not a boy, to look to my out-door affairs too."

And chide thou not the gushing tear, The prophet fire is o'er it brought,

That dins her parting gaze;

On Sundays Nannette shone the star of the morning, for And the prophet mantle given.

then her attendance at the bar was dispensed with that--she

When grief's dark shower has passed, more clear We sip of the bubbles by passion led,

Love's bosom light shall blaze. PROTEUS. might go to church to lay in a stock of edification to fortify her As they flash delusively,

young heart against the machinations and assaults of the But the thirst of the spirit is only fed

evil one, to which lier exposed situation might render it a By living waves from thee.

HINDA. ORIGINAL MORAL TALES.

prey; and Nannette continued to walk in piety and purity of

conduct, (a refined nature is not easily perverted) notwithA DREAM.

TIIL REFORMATION.

standing the many toils she had to encounter. High sounds of festal gleo

Nor was Ilalkin and his gourl wife losers by the protection
Broke forth upon the midnight air ;

About a century ago I think I am not much out of the they extended to the beautiful orphan; for half their custom
And in the throng I wandered there,
Thy form to see.

way as to the time, for it was in the "honey-years" of my was drawn thither by the light of her countenance. She was

good great grand parents—I say "honey-years," for, in those the real sun of which their gilded sign presented only the I saw thee not that hour ! Soft music's voice was on the wind,

primeval days, people, even of the first society, were in the fainter rays. Nannette was intellectual too, in spite of the bar; All eyes were bright, and hearts were kind

habit of numbering by years, and not as now by moons, that for even amidst her daily avocations, so entirely mechanical, í felt their power.

blissful season of marriage, when all is as new and creative of there was little to disturb the workings of fancy; and il "the

joy to the happy pair, as the genial opening of spring is to proper study of mankind is man,” she had certainly an onI beard the joyful laugh; The flashing cup like jewels beamed,

the tuneful nightingale and his confiding matc. It was in portunity of acquiring knowledge. Indeed it was surprising And every drop with pleasure teemed

those happy days then that there came to New Town, a vil- | to observe how she would turn all things to good account ; I could not quaff!

lage not far from this city, a stranger from "the mother coun-even the spectre at the bottom of the mug conveyed to her The rose and leaf were there,

try;" he was a young man, uncommonly handsome in person, || mind a deeper lesson than was intended by the artist. And With freshest violets entwined,

and of prepossessing manners, and his complexion was soll she profited much more by the moral than did many of those In many a beauteous wreath to bind

dazzlingly white, that lie was called Fair James by all the in- who exainined more frequently the singular device-justly The fair-one's hair.

habitants far and near. As to his sir-name, that was a secret eliciting the approbation of the aged and thinking part of the The merry dance went by,

none could ever persuade him to reveal. His education was little world around her. And woman seemed a spirit fled ;

so far above lis avowed calling of "wool-comber," that he As for lovers, they came in swarms--many vowed cternal A happy thing from heaven sped,

Wüs generally supposed to be a wandering prodigal son of faith, a few offered marriage, and all sighed from the bottom
With man to vie.
genteel parentage.

of their hearts. Even the young clergyman of the villago
The song was heard no more-

Dressed in a white fleecy habit, with his hat slouched upon would lay greater stress upon “heaven be with you!" and The harp unstrung-its echoes spent

his temples, he went from farm to farm pursuing his occupa-pray with more fervour whenever Nannette graced the church Methought all steps were homeward bent

tion with great industry, and would, after a day of hard labour, with her presence. And there was the wiser soul of EsculaThe feast was o'er.

pocket at sun-sct his copper pence with persect sang froid, topius too, who would oftener than need, bare her beautiful arm I was alone and spoke!

tell them out at evening in a very different humour to the tunc and feel her healthy pulse, that he might judge with more I call'd aloud thy cherished name,

of the potent mug--and he could not choose but feel its in- certainty of the improvement of liis patients; and then he Then trembling, forth thy spirit came! fluence, for then

would pat her soft and rosy check, and marvel how the crimson I wept! I woke!

* The mugs wero largo, tlic drink was wondrous stron: !" current could flow so readily there. THE MAIDEN'S ANSWER.*

and again and again it was replenished, until his wits began But all these things made little impression upon the lcart of to turn.

Nannette. In fact, shc forgot them the next moment. But,
And wherefore should I linger here,
Like summer's latest rose,

And love too, was in the cup when mingled and presented in regard to Janes, it was not so. She could well remember Where every object wakes the tear

to him by the hand of Nannette, the pretty bar-maiu; there whatever he said or sung, for he was musical as well as literary, From memory's urn that flows?

was something so attractive, he said, in the little toss of her and to every look and action of his, her bosom bore record. The friends that made life's vernal day

head-one of the finest in the world—and in the ingenuous || There was something, she thought, so novel in his appearance, All music to my mind,

expression of her dark eyes when she staid the cup to entreat | so superior in his person and manners to any one she had Have passed like autumn birds away,

the young wool-comber to beware of the spectre at the bottom, | seen he was so gentle and persuasive in his language-had And left no note behind. Ilome, with thy free, unsullied mirthi,

which Halkin, the witty publican, had graven there in rude|| such depth of feeling, that, in spite of his failing, sho felt Ilow sadly changed art thou !

device to prevent Susan, his tasteful spouse, from sipping too greatly interested in his happiness. Then he was a stranger, The voices of thy household worth, deeply.

an offcast, of fortune, like herself, and had a claim upon her Where may I list them now?

But of small avail was Nannette's gentlo counsel to James;| sympathytherefore she could not but pity him very sincerely I wander to the narrow bed,

for the oftener he saw her, and tasted the seductive beverage,ll-and very sincerely, too, did she love him; but more of that In dreams to catch them there;

the dearer he loved the one, and the deeper he quaffed the hereafter, But silence, as if carth were dead, Awakes me to despair.

other; altogether regardless of the frightful spectre, till weary At this juncture she was sorely disturbed by his increasing

and overcome, he would sometimes sink to sleep with his inebriety. Each successive night (Sundays only excepted) Lead on-lead on-I follow thee, Friend of my wintry day!

head against the counter. It was then that Nannette could beheld him still the insatiate votary of the odious mug, while And though from home my path shall be,

contemplate, without embarrassment, the beauty of his features || the hideous figure at the bottom, instead of repulsing him, I will not longer stay.

and complexion, and the dark luxuriant curls which surmount- || seemed to have acquired the fascination of an angel. And Thou too shalt go, lone, grave-grown rose,

ed his high and polished forehead; and often too, she would || when a friend kindly interfered to admonish and warn him In thee

my soul shall find

draw near that she might look upon the silken lid wherein of his ruin, he would gaily answer, “nay, now, why bid me A fit memorial of those

an eye rested that could open to the morning brilliant as its despair when there are but twenty-nine lives betiveen me and Left blighted here behind. own beam.

a title, a time-honoured name, and a large estate ?" This Scenes of my youth's unclouded years, I break your binding spell ;

This contemplation, though one of great interest, conveyed was often repeated by James in his hours of delirium, but

no hearts-ease to the simple, yet amiable Nannette. She small respect was paid to his pretentions by the motley groups * Seo the Huntet to his love," published in the last number of the sighed to think that so fine a specimen of human nature should that gathered nightly about him, while all pronounced him to New-York Mirror.

be so lost to the virtue and charms of sobricty. That he had ll be a lost man.

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devoted his exertions and his property. For this he gave upples which have no foundation in morals, and rebellious on the ground, and had no idea of the use of a bed. His legs all that men usually desire—distinction, rank, convenience, movements that have no provocation in tyranny;” and that were bent, as the roof of his dungeon was so low that when and wealth. Placed in society by his birth among the fa- it will equally resist the attempts of ultraism on the other he grew up he could not stand erect in it. Having lived voured and the distinguished, he descended to natural equali- side. With popular institutions nothing stagnates ; intellect

, || so long in obscurity, he could not endure the full light of day. ty, to become a man and a citizen. Favour and hate, tempted virtue, ambition, knowledge, selfishness, must be perpetually On approaching a church-yard, it was observed that he seemhim equally in vain, and in a stormy and agitated time, he active; they seem, from time to time, to be tumultuary; buted to feel an indescribable kind of horror, from which it has changed neither his opinions nor his principles, and hope left their action does not affect the organic parts of the system, || been conjectured that his prison was beside some buryinghim equally unchanged with fear. A friend of justice and ) while they animate or disturb the machinery, Nat. Guzette. ground or tomb. He relates that his keeper brought him truth, under whatever climate he found them, he always ren

out of the dungeon by night, and sometimes carried him, bedered homage and assistance to these highest benefits of hu

cause from, want of practice he could not walk far. They manity. He defended freedom against arbitrary power, and

SESSIONS HALL.

travelled only at night, lying under bushes during the day, lawful power against anarchy. He would have saved France This is the new appellation given to the rotunda, since it and at last, after several nights had elapsed, they reached Nuand the king, if France and the king had trusted him. A citi-has been fitted up for the trial of criminals. The shape of the remberg. zen of every state that honoured the citizen, a friend of men dome, instead of assisting the voice, divides it into a number

The letter which the lad presented in Nuremberg stated, where they showed themselves human, he remained true to of echoes, which are distributed throughout the hall

. For that he had been christened by the name of Kaspar; the surFrance. Every thing noble seemed to him natural, the full instance, when the prisoner is asked the usual question, "are

name Hauser was given him in Nuremberg. His manner is filment of the most arduous duty an impulse, and as he never you guilty or not guilty ?” officious echo, without giving the agreeable, and he converses with much propriety in a tete-aviolated right, nor denied the truth, so he never deviated prisoner time to reply, immediately answers" guilty !"

tete ; but in mixed company he becomes embarrassed, as the from the path of honour, and his virtues, with all their severi

Counsel.—What was the prisoner's reply to the demand act of speaking is still new to him. He has made extraorties, retained a certain chivalrous grace. Although he stands of this Letty Dunn?

dinary progress in music, drawing, and languages. He has distinguished, and alone in his time and nation, we remark

Echo.-Let her dun.

also learnt to ride, in which he takes great pleasure. The in him no feature of harshness, partiality, or affectation. We

Counsel.—Who was it advised the prisoner to strike her?

burgomaster treats him as if he were his own son, and he lives. may ask whether there can be a greater triumph than fifty

Echo.-Riker.

with the professor of the gymnasium, who superintends his years of a life, such as he has passed from his early youth,

Counsel.—What was then said by this Dina Hoffman?

education. where he devoted himself to the liberation of America, to the Echo.-Off-man !

On the seventeenth of October last, between eleven and present day. Àmbition, you will say, is the soul of all his

Counsel.—What kind of goods are sold in the fancy store ||twelve in the forenoon, while the professor was from home, the exertions. A strange ambition, which in fifty changing years, of the Messrs. Fosters?

house bell was rung. The professor's mother, who was weak in youth, in manhood, and in age, has followed the same ob

Echo.-Oysters.

and unwell, desired Kaspar to answer the door. He no sooner ject, constantly sacrificing himself, and seeking his happi

Counsel.-Now tell the jury, on your oath, who was it

opened the door than a man, the same person, he believes, who. ness only in the welfare of others. Modern times can only that stole the jewelry in question, or as you call it—who brought him to Nuremberg, ran at him with a knife. After display one public character, who claims our love and admira- | made this “bold raise ?"

receiving several wounds about the head he fell

, and would, tion in the same degree-his brother in arms-Koskiusko.

Echo.-Old Hays.

probably, have been murdered, had not the assassin believed Counsel.-Did you see any one with his hat filled ?

that he had killed him, for he said aloud, "I need be afraid THE INFIDEL. Echo.-Hatfield.

of you no longer !" However, on hearing a noise in the house, It is an awful commentary on the doctrine of infidelity, ally insulting court and jury, from the judge on the bench to effects of this dreadful attack.

And so they go on to the end of the chapter; echo continu- the murderer fled. Young Hauser is recovering from the that its most strenuous supporters have either miserably falsi-| the constable at the door, making confusion worse confoundfied their sentiments in the moment of trial, or terminated ||ed. What is to be done we know not, but some remedy must their existence in obscurity and utter wretchedness. The|| be applied, or our worthy Recorder will be compelled to ex

CONSTANCY-A FABLE. gifted author of the " Age of Reason” passed the last years claim, like one of his learned predecessors, “I have tried a In the ancient times, when flowers, and trees, and fairies of his life in a manner which the meanest slave that ever

dozen causes this day, without hearing a word.” Scrutinizer. were on speaking terms, and all friendly together, one fine trembled beneath the lash of the taskmaster could have no

summer's day, the sun shone out on a beautiful garden, cause to envy. Rousseau might, indeed, be pointed out, as in

where there were all sorts of flowers that

ye

could mention, some degree an exception—but it is well known, that the en THE FOUNDLING OF NUREMBERG.

and a lovely but giddy fairy went sporting about from one thusiastic philosopher was a miserable and disappointed man. In the month of May, two years ago, there appeared in the to the other (although no one could see her, because of the He met death, it is true, with something like calmness. But streets of Nuremberg a youth, apparently between seventeen sun light) as gay as the morning lark; then says the fairy to he had no pure and beautiful hope beyond the perishing and eighteen years of age, in the dress of a peasant, and the rose“ rose, if the sun was clouded, and the storm came things of the natural world. He loved the works of God for holding in his hand a letter, addressed to a captain of cavalry, on, would ye shelter and love me still ? « Do ye doubt me ?' their exceeding beauty, not for their manifestation of an resident in that city. The letter, which was without signature, says the rose, and reddened up with anger. “Lily," says the overruling intelligence. Life had become a burthen to him, stated that the young man was desirous of enlisting in the fairy to another love, “if the sun was clouded and a storm but his spirit recoiled at the dampness and silence of the sepul- cavalry, as his deceased father had served in that corps; that came on, would ye shelter and love me still?! " Oh! do you chre—the cold, unbroken sleep, and the slow wasting away the writer of the letter was a poor day-labourer

, with ten think I could change ?» says the lily, and she grew still paler of mortality

. He perished, a worshipper of that beauty children ; and that he had received the lad, when a little with sorrow. «Tulip," said the fairy, “if the sun was cloudwhich but faintly shadows forth the unimaginable glory of child, from a nurse, whom he did not know, to bring him uped, and a storm came on, would ye shelter and love me still ?? its Creator. At the closing hour of day, when

the broad west secretly. The letter also contained several palpable untruths, « Upon mny word," said the tulip, making a very gentlemanwas glowing like the gates of paradise, and the vine-hung hills and among the rest asserted that the boy could read and like bow, " ye'r the very first lady that ever doubted my con; of his beautiful land were bathed in the rich light of sun-set

, || write. The captain of cavalry declared that he would have stancy;" so the fairy sported on, joyful to think of her kind the philosopher departed. The last glance of his glazing nothing to do with the business, and sent the young man as a and blooming friends. She revelled away for a time, and then eye was to him an everlasting farewell to existence—the last vagrant to the guard-house. He was afterwards carried be- she thought on the pale blue violet, that was almost covered homage of a godlike intellect to holiness and beauty. The fore the officers of police, who looked upon him as an impos- with its broad green leaves ; and although it was an old comblackness of darkness was before him--the valley of the sha-tor. It was soon ascertained, however, that he could scarcely rade, she might have forgotten it, had it not been for the dow of death was to him unescapable and eternal—the better speak a word ; that he had been totally neglected, and had sweet scent that came up from the modest flower. "Oh, violand beyond it was shrouded from his vision. Whittier. Il received no education whatever.

let!" said the fairy, "if the sun was clouded, and a storm An official notification was then published, requiring all | came on, would ye shelter and love me still ?" And the violet SENSATION.

persons who might be able to give any information respecting | made answer~" Ye have known me long, sweet fairy, and Much is said in the British newspapers about agitation in this mysterious casc, to communicate what they knew. About in the first spring time, when there were few other flowers, ye France, in the Netherlands, and in the free states of Germany. four months after, an old woman, said to have come from the used to shield yourself from the cold blast under my leaves; now We are not in the least alarmed for the cause of order or hu- neighbourhood of Nuremberg, waited on the burgomaster, (ye've almost forgotten me—but let it pass-try my truth, if manity, by the movements and discussions which particularly and made a communication to him, under the pledge of se- ever you should meet misfortune—but I say nothing." Well attract the notice and excite the " prophetic souls” of the crecy. The youth has since been treated with great atten- the fairy skitted at that, and clapped her silvery wings, and London writers. They are pleased, at times, to be apprehen- tion. Several teachers were immediately engaged for him, whisked, singing off, on a sun beam; but she was hardly. sive, from the same cause, about our “ turbulent democracy," and as he is not deficient in capacity, they soon taught him gone, when a black cloud grew up out of the north, all in a as Captain Hall styles the republic par excellence. Wherever to converse and read, and thus enabled him to give some in-| minute, and the light was shrouded, and the rain fell in the representative system prevails, and there is a popular in-|formation respecting his former fate.

slashings like hail, and away flies the fairy to her friend the fusion in the political constitution, a certain degree of intes His whole life, as far as he could recollect it, had been spent rose—"Now, rose," says she, “the rain is come, so shelter tine heat and ferment will exist

, always more or less salutary.in a small obscure dungeon, faintly lighted from above. He and love me still." “I can hardly shelter my own buds," The long-lived republics of antiquity and the middle ages, slept on straw, and was fed with bread and water, which says the rose ; " but the lily has a deep cup.” Well

, the poor were constantly perturbed—the clouds which hang on used to be brought to him at night by a man ; and as he was little fairy's wings were almost wet, but she got to the lily

. freedom's jealous brow" were generally of the most threaten- often asleep when it was brought, several weeks often passed “Lily," says she, “the storm is come, so shelter and love me ing aspect. Before the French revolution, the changes of over without his seeing his attendant. The only occupation still."=" "I am sorry," says the lily, "but if I were to open ministry were frequent, but they seldom had reference to any of his childhood, as far as his contracted prison would permit my cup, the rain would beat in like fun, and my sced would be public opinion ; now, it is the working of that opinion which him, was riding on a wooden horse

, and almost the only spoilt--the tulip has long leaves." Well

, the fairy was downmainly produces the substitutions or fluctuations in the king's words he could speak when he came to Nuremberg were

, hearted enough, but she went to the tulip, who she always councils

, whose responsibility to the chambers secures the horsey-ride." national liberties. We believe that opinion in France is now On his arrival at Nuremberg he refused meat and vegeta- not look as bright as he had done in the sun, but she waved

thought a most sweet spoken gentleman. He certainly did sound enough and strong enough “ to crush rebellious princi.ll bles, and would eat nothing but brcad and water. He slept|lher little wand, and said, “Tulip,” says she, “ the rain and

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heaving of indignation, The whole mass presented an throng, the greater portion of them unarmed, rushed im- punishment due to their crime, you send heralds to announce, animated picture of human misery, in its various shades (petuously to effect the rescue of the maidens, so gallantly that to please them you are willing to violate a sacred treaty: and expressions.

begun by young Ansures. He was already surrounded and “Holy saints of heaven !" ejaculated Father Veremundo. But amid the crowd of spectators whom the occasion || closely pressed by his enemies, who aimed many a blow to

“Sacred treaty, call ye this most infamous transaction ? Moor! had assembled, there was a man, in the bloom of life, whose || level him with the ground. But the prize for which the profane not that word in a christian country, and in the precountenance evinced deeper emotion than the rest. It was young christian fought was too great not to stimulate himsence of a christian king. Vows and promises, and treaties

, neither grief nor pity, despair nor indignation, that filled | to almost supernatural exertions. His friends meantime which are in themselves unlawful, cannot be kept. It is not his soul, and imparted such strong expression to his fea- came to his aid, and a skirmish commenced, in which the a sin, but a virtue to break them. By what right could a tures ; but an overwhelming sensation, produced by the christian combatants, though far superior in number, seem- shameless monarch thus dispose of the honour of future combination of them all. His dark and brilliant eyes wereed scarcely a match for their adversaries, who were on men? If cowardice or infamous sentiments prompted Mauriveted in eager gaze on one of the maidens who were horseback and completely armed; while they, on the con-| regat to adopt a conduct unworthy of a king, of a man, is it about to cast lots for a life of slavery and dishonour. Hetrary, were on foot, subject to no discipline, and but indif- an imperious consequence that every one of his successors seemed to follow her every motion, and watch with fond | ferently equipped for battle. The conflict, however, was

must act in a manner equally disgraceful ?" and mournful enthusiasm her every turn and look; nay, it continued with equal vigour and hatred on both sides. The

“Our holy confessor bath spoken well,” cried Don Ramiro; might appear that he caught the breath of her sighs, and christian functionaries, and the men under their orders, re

“his words express our sentiments most becomingly. Among that her warm tears had a magnetic influence in producing fused to interfere in a quarrel which had not the sanction of other deeds, my reign shall be known to posterity by the aboa

At length the moment arrived when the fate of the king, and seemed only solicitous to retire unhurt from lition of the maiden tribute :—my royal word is passed ; and his beloved was to be decided. The trembling maid ad- the field of strife, on which two or three Moors, and twice if Abdulrahman will not desist from his pretended right, let vanced, supported by an aged woman, who vainly endea- | as many christians, were already weltering in their blood. him support his claim by arms, I will dispute it in the field voured to administer words of consolation to one who ap By this time, Ansures had extricated himself from his as best befits me ; and may God withhold bis mercy from me, peared unconscious of passing objects, and whose whole foes; but, in the confusion, his sword was lost. This acci- if

, during my life, another christian maiden shall quit her soul was absorbed in the contemplation of her presentdent, however, served neither to damp his courage nor

home to satisfy the wishes of an infidel.” calamity. The roses of her cheek had faded, and a sad check his impetuosity. One of the Moors, who saw him

"And is this the message we are to carry back to the paleness had usurped the soft and lovely spot where they unarmed, rushed against him, willing to remove, by any caliph ?". had bloomed. The fire of her eyes was quenched, save means, the first cause of the disturbance; but Ansures,

“It is," answered the king; "and nothing now impedes that which sparkled from the tears that hung on her long who possessed an agility inferior only to the strength of his your departure." silken lashes. Excess of terror and disgust seemed to have arm and the resolution of his heart, ran swiftly to a fig-tree

“The christian king may, perhaps, too late repent this vioparalyzed her exertions, and deprived her of the powers of that grew near the place, and, with a vigorous exertion, lation of a treaty, and the destruction of so many gallant volition. Motionless, like a beautiful statue, she stood till wrenching one of the boughs from the parent stock, pre

moslems." she was led, or rather dragged, to receive from the fatal urnpared to renew the combat.

Infidel, begone !" cried the king with warmth. “What! the sentence of her future irremediable misery,

The din and uproar had meantime continued unabated. dares a Moor attempt to intimidate me, and utter threats

within The feelings of her afflicted lover at this terrible crisis | The number of combatants increased every moment.

my very court? Begone! or death shall be the rewere wrought to a pitch of delirium. His frame shook con- the confusion, many of the maidens effected their

ward of thy insolence. Begone! and bid Abdulrahman as

escape. vulsively. The flush of indignation gave place in his coun- | Among the first of these was Orelia, who, filled with alarm semble his forces and meet me in the field.” tenance to the paleness of fearful suspense. All his thoughts and affright, ran swiftly towards the palace of the king, as

Ramiro, courageous and enterprising by nature, now and feelings were closely concentrated in one object. His the fittest place for shelter. When out of the place of strife, turned his thoughts towards the preparations for a war, which soul seemed to hang upon a thread; every feature and limb she was pursued by some unworthy christians, who consi- appeared inevitable to all. He issued the necessary orders to partook of the painful character of that deep absorption of|| dered her the cause of a revolt, which they imagined would collect men, as well as means, to begin a campaign. The agony. He carnestly watched his desti bride-she be severely punished by Don Ramiro.

people received the intellgence with enthusiam; and every tremblingly drew the decree of her wretchedness, and ut. The king, who was still sitting in council, after he had re

one burned with impatience to signalize his courage against

the Moor. tered a piercing and agonized shriek. The nerves of her solved to refuse the maiden tribute, was surprised to find unfortunate lover relaxed from their unnatural tension, and that the noise which had startled him in the first instance, the christian king to fulfil the treaty, resolved to exact the

Abdulrahman, in the meantime, indignant at the refusal of he appeared suddenly to gain composure and tranquillity. was growing more overpowering every minute, and ap- maiden tribute by force of arms; and to this effect

, his lieuThat shriek rang the death-knell of all his happiness. He proaching nearer to the entrance of his royal mansion. had nothing now to fear; whatever else might happen would Suddenly, the very door of the council-chamber was flung || collected a numerous and gallant army, far superior to any

tenants, with much zeal and activity, in a very short time be an immeasurably smaller evil than this; and, secure in open, and a girl, scarcely sixteen years old, rushed in, and that Ramiro could then bring into the field. News was soon the recklessness of despair, he experienced that sort of panting for breath, sunk exhausted at the feet of Don Ragloomy joy and ferocions satisfaction, which are sometimes miro. For some time she could not speak, but remained received that Abdulrahman in person was advancing, at the the attendants of supreme misery. trembling in the posture she had assumed. Two or three

head of a formidable army, to meet the christians. Don RaHe now approached nearer to the stage, with a degree of of her pursuers were now ushered in, and, with officious miro hastily assembled such forces as he could command, and

ordered them to hold themselves in readiness against the calmness that astonished those who were acquainted with | zeal, proceeded to lay their complaints before the king. the secret of his love. The lot of most of the maids had by “What maiden is this, and what boon hath she to crave of the day, and with his mind wholly bent upon the approach:

morrow. He then retired to rest, overpowered by the fatigues this time been fixed. Wailings and lamentations incum- of our kindness ?" demanded Ramiro, moved at the sight of

ing contest. He was aware of the disadvantages under which bered the air. The curses of despairing fathers were united the poor girl. to the tokens of distress uttered by their children. The mur " Senor !” answered a man, " she is one of the maids to the noble sentiments which prompted him to provoke the

he laboured, but scorned to harbour a single idea derogatory mur of indignation was ripening into confusion; symptoms destined for the tribute to the caliph of Cordova. The lot wrath of the Moorish chief. of opposition and revolt were discernible in the assembled fell upon her; but, instead of submitting to her fate, she

Don Ramiro was visited in his slumbers, by a very singular crowd. It was a mine which only needed a spark to cause has been the origin of great confusion and much bloodshed vision. A venerable person, with a long silvery beard and its explosion. The functionaries concerned in the disgrace- among the people.” ful business of the day, began to look around them with “Sir king!” cried Orelia with eagerness, “ perhaps I am the brightness of a celestial light. The king contemplated

pilgrim's stafl, appeared to stand before him, surrounded with fear and anxiety, and the troop of Moors appeared to be guilty of disrespect; for a poor girl, as I am, is not well the venerable man in silence and surprise, till at length the preparing for approaching danger. The moment of awful versed in the usages of courts ; but you are the father of pilgrim declared himself to be the apostle Santiago

, the tutelar suspense between the gathering and bursting of a popular your poople—to you, therefore, I fly for protection. Oh, de-|| patron of christian Spain, and said that he came to encourage storm is dreadful, and not easily described. The christians liver me not up to those barbarous Moors, the sworn ene- the king to persevere in his good intention of waging war gazed on each other ; and their expressive glances betoken. mies of thy country! Can it be, that a christian king will against the infidels

. Having promised him the aid of God in ed a consciousness of uniformity, feeling, and resolve ; but consent to pay tribute to “an infidel – a tribute, too, so dis- this undertaking, as well as his own help during the contest

, yet they were motionless, for the want of one to give an sgraceful as this ?”

the vision vanished; but it was only to make room for another impulse to the bursting of their fury. "Fair maid,” quoth Don Ramiro, “ calm thy fears ; for, by still more singular and propitious, in appearance

, to the chrisThe Moorish leader began rudely essaying to separate the four holy dame! this unworthy tax is now abolished for ever. tian. Ramiro thought himself suddenly transported to the victims from their friends, who clung round for a parting You, Don Alonzo, and you, Don Frucla, go to my discontent- field of battle

, when, in the midst of a furious engagement

, embrace. “ Where art thou? Oh! Ansures, where arted people, tell them my resolution. Enjoin them, in my he perceived a tall warrior, riding a milk-white charger, and thou, in this moment of terror?" frantickly exclaimed one name, to keep the peace. The cause of their discontent bearing a red cross on a banner surmounted by the arms of of the devoted fair ones. “Oh! free me-free me from being removed, let them resume the character of dutiful sub- the kings of Oviedo, sweep by with overwhelming impetus, these ruffians.” Her impassioned appeal was heard ; but || jects. Bring the Moors into our presence, that they may and falling upon the Moors, cause a terrible carnage among what help could the unfortunate lover afford ? hear our resolves, and report them to their master."

them, and at length completely put them to the rout. Ra"I am here, my love," exclaimed young Ansures, who Order was soon restored upon the announcement of the miro, astonished at the superhuman prowess of the mysteri

, was now close to the spot. Yes, I am liere, my own king's determination ; and those of the Moors who survived ous knight, rode up to thank him for the great service he had Orelia, to die in attempting to rescue thee from these bar- the skirmish, were brought before Don Ramiro, according to rendered the christian army. But his bewilderment increased barians ; for death is the only satisfaction and comfort 1|| his desire.

when, in the strange warrior, he recognised his patron saint, can now expect.”

King Ramiro," said one of the moslems in an angry tone, Santiago. With this he drew his weapon, which till that moment had 4" we came into your kingdom in the spirit of peace, to collect "I promised thee my help, Ramiro,” quoth the saint, "and been concealed, and furiously attacked the Moor, who was a tribute granted by one of your predecessors for services ren-behold how I have

kept my word. Always put your trust in struggling to separate Orelia from her relatives. The Moor

| dered to him. In the fulfilment of our charge, we were at. God, and never submit to vile conditions with the infidel.". reeled and fell. This was the signal for the rising of the tacked by an unruly rabble, and the greater part of our troop Upon this he suddenly vanished from the sight of the astocrowd. A tumultuous shout rent the air, and the motleyslain. Instead of visiting your rebellious subjects with the nished Don Ramiro, who, meeting the usual fate of less digni

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And if with joy I heard them praise

The beauty of thy bride,
Twas but because I dearly prized

My husband's glance of pride.
But then a dreary time came on,

I often wept alone;
And when we met, thy voice had lost

Its former gentle tone.
I never did repine ;
And if my pale cheek chided thee,

It was no fault of mine.

I loved thee for thyself alone,

The world reproved my choice;
Yet wellthou know'st I claimed thee still,

With no unsteady voice.
They called thee fickle, oh I bow blind

Fond woman's love may be !
I blamed the not for broken vows,

Rejoicing thou wert free.
My father told me thon wert oor,

Improvident and wild;
He said that want and pentury

Would kill his gentle child.
I answered not; but Eccretly

I scorned the tale he told;
And then stole forth to offer thec

The heiress and her gold,
My mother said, “I do not heed

Thy lover's want of wealth ;
But will be fondly cherish thee

In sickness and in health ?
He has the resuless eye of one

Who leads a roving life; Ile loves not as thou shouldst be loved,

O do not be his wife !" My father's anger moved me not, Nor yet my mother's tears;

I smiled at such a loss;
My hustand's love was more to me,

Far more than hoarded dross.
And was it only this that caused

“We shall be hapry now."
Vain hopel for thou dost shun the home

Thy folly rendered poor ;
I know not how to win the back,

My cheek has lost its lure,
I have no mother now to soothe

My soridws on her breast;

My father, is at rest.
I do not say I love thee not,

No, false one, come what will,
Return and be but kind to me,

And I should love thee still i
A broken mirror still reflects, In every shattered part, In this poor broken heart.

With few and fleeting tears I left
The haunts of early youth,
And placing this weak land in thine,

I trusted to thy truth. My chosen dwelling would have been

Some updisturbed retreat ;
But led by thee, I trod the halls

f the poor allusion is made in the libel actually prevailed, it was lawful No half measures will apply to the case. The precedent y was to in him to print them. He (Lord Tenderden) must say, that must be obviated, or New-York will be compelled to hide her cetera, et he was surprised at hearing a gentleman who had conducted confusion and disgrace amidst the indignant reproaches of all

his defence with so much tact, ability and talent, advance so who hear of the unavenged shame which has been fixed upon the coun- untenable a proposition. No man was at liberty to circulate her reputation. nan, with rumours which are injurious to the reputation of another; Pure water. Of the numerous high and important trusts ear, who much less can the editor of a newspaper give circulation to confided to the municipal authorities of a populous city, the large sil- them by placing them in print; for many persons who preservation of the public health is one of the most prominent ots. His would otherwise not be acquainted with them, would learn and responsible. À negligent or careless indifference to this ry town, through the medium of his newspaper. If an imputation great object, betrays a want either of humanity or of knowttend an be cast upon an individual in a newspaper, it matters notledge in those who preside in the edile chair, and should be the next whether the editor learned that imputation from rumour or promptly punished by the displeasure of those who have This man not, for he makes it his own by printing it, and so imps the elevated them to office. In this city complaints have been fredy jour wings on which slander flies."

quently and loudly made, on account of the very inferior quafficers at

lity of the water ; but until lately, little or no attention has abouring THE HEIRESS.

been paid to the outcry. Mr. Bowne, the mayor, has, however, od of his

finally invited the discussions of the common council to this

subject; and the assistant alderman of the first ward has, in се. Не

consequence, introduced a series of resolutions, calculated to s and a

carry proper measures into effect to supply the city with pure Ps house

I uttered no complaint, thou knowest and wholesome water. We have often raised our voice in lis drink

strong appeal to the public authorities in behalf of the pressNovem

I heard my boasted wealth was spent,

ing demands of our fellow-citizens, and let us not be disap

pointed in the hope we are now flattered with, that they will utmeg.

| be effectually and promptly granted. Let not this measure bned as

"That wealth has been his bane," I cried, || be allowed to undergo the course of wilful procrastination to ne East

which the so long talked of demolition of the jail and bride-
well was shamefully doomed.

Maelzel's exhibition.--Seldom have we been more delight- laister, ork) or

Thy fascination wenned my heart

And he, whose counsel I despised,

ed than in witnessing the curious display of ingenuity at this From love, the growth of years!

novel scene of attraction in Broadway. In fact, we were forcibly 1 porch

reminded of the high-pressure dream of our facetious friend C. house round

published in the Mirror of the sixth instant, in which we are

introduced to "locomotive men” of a very respectable chahes of

'Tis thus love seems but multiplied Wbere pleasure's votarics meet. ods of

On the present occasion, we once more saw the in

tricate game of chess scientifically played by an automaton, ARTS AND SCIENCES.

who moved his head, eyes, lips, and hands, with the greatest

facility, and distinctly pronounced the French word for Cules,” uke of COLOSSAL STATUE OF WASHINGTON.—Howfully, says the check! We were next regaled with a select piece of music, nicle,” | National Gazette, the term colossal is in unison with the cha- || by Rossini, performed on an instrument called the melodium Lions : racter of the being! His public virtue had dimensions, After this an artificial French oyster-woman came forward and a like those of the Apollo of Belvidere, above the ordinary | with a graceful obeisance, and very dexterously opened pod human figure. The inscription on the base might be the line oysters for the company. This figure was succeeded by one vithin of Pope

in the character of an old French gentleman, of the ancient "Eonobled by himself-by all approved."

regime, who drank all our healths with great glee. A won hrist

His zeal was as comprehensive as inexorable ; his dignity derful Chinese dancer closed this part of the entertainment. wing of manner correspondent to his rectitude and elevation of An automaton trumpeter, of full size, and dressed in the uni

purpose; he stood firm and superior, on the solid base of form of the French lancers, was the next candidate for aphung

true patriotism, of which justice and honour are principal probation, and well did he deserve the loud plaudits he re

materials. The statue should be translated from Baltimoreceived. But the best of all was the troop of equestrians, conchar

to Washington, and so placed that it must be often passed || sisting of twenty-one figures, who executed all the various court

by the members of all branches of the government. All might | feats of horsemanship and dexterity, usual at the tournaments adges read salutary lessons on the sublime brow and in the serene of the European courts, together with many of the most

aspect; there is that in his port, life and character combin-difficult evolutions of the circus, with beautiful accuracy and ed, which no familiarity would deprive of its force as coun- grace. This was followed by figures that pronounced the sel or rebuke.

words papa, mama; the whole concluded with automatons ir in

Patents.—The number of patents for inventions granted who performed the most elegant and astonishing feats on the sent, in England, since the reign of Charles the second to the slack rope. But it would be vain to attempt a description ther.

present time, exceeds five thousand five hundred, of which of this astonishing exhibition—it must be scen to be duly hout nearly two thousand having been granted since 1815, are still appreciated.

Years of speculation are remarkable for increase here of patents, the number obtained in 1818 having amounted has just been published, and presents results which must be

Savings bank.—The eleventh report of this institution ent, to one hundred and thirty, while that year of extravaganza, exceedingly gratifying to its benevolent founders and zealous sun 1825, produced no less than two hundred and forty-nine.

supporters. Six hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hunk to

dred and three dollars and fifty-eight cents have been depositTHE NEW-YORK MIRROR.

ed in the bank during the last year. A list is given containand

ing a description of the occupations of the depositors, which Abductions. If the paradox somewhere advanced be true, is sufficiently curious. 1

Domestics constitute the greatest that increase of crime in cities keeps pace with their progres- | number, there being four hundred and twenty-five of them;

sive improvement and refinement, then are we warranted in labourers are next, three hundred and forty-four ; clerks are ally inferring a high degree of advancement in this same city of third in order

, seventy-four

. There are fifty-seven bakers and ) to

Crimes, the very mention of which would have made six butchers, only four physicians, and no lawyers ! our forefathers shudder, and of which the possibility seemed ns, doubtful not very many years since, are now committed with

General commissioner.—The commercial intercourse bemy impunity in our most thronged thoroughfares

, and in open tween this city and Georgia has been greatly facilitated by the "Can such things be?” And are women no longer recent appointment of William H. Maxwell; esq. as "icommisurd

safe, even at broad noon-day, unless protected by the strongersioner for the state of Georgia in the state of New-York."

sex? So it would appear from some very recent instances. The standing, talents, and worth of Mr. M. are sure guaranin

And it would further seem, that the arm of the law is too tees that the contidence of the legislature of Georgia has not weak, or its eye too dim to ferret out, and bring to condign been misplaced. This gentleman now represents five states, punishment, the insolent and audacious perpetrators of the and is rendering the office above-named very useful.

most heinous wrongs which can be inflicted on a community. Clara Fisher.—There were sixty-two boxes taken for this on No means should be left unresorted to, no pains nor expense || lady's first appearance at New-Orleans before the doors were as spared, by which the rights of an injured female and an opened in the evening. The papers pronounce her the most ch Wafflicted family might be fully and satisfactorily redressed | attractive actress that has ever visited that city.

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WRITTEN BY PROSPER M. WETMORE, ESQ. OF THIS CITY.
“It was a scene of strange and thrilling interest--they stood there to oppose an anthority

What power hath stayed that wild career ?
Not mercy's voice-or a thrill of fear;
'Tis the dread recoil of the dooming wave,

There was a fearful gathering scen

On that eventful day;
And men were there who ne'er had been

The movers in a fray:

With darkling brows and flashing eyes ;
And breasts that knew not glory's flame,
Burned for the patriot-sacrifice !

Tis the fearful hour of the brooding storm,

The shock hath come, and the life blood warm,

Congeals on the breast of the dead! The strife--the taunt- the denth-cry loud-

No brazen trumpet's sound

As fitfully the contest wages ; While hand to Irand, the meek-the proud-

But firm, with port erect, austeri
As men will look and speak in fear;
Yet coursed no coward blood

Rock-like, but spirit-wrough- A strange unwonted feeling crept

Through every breast-all memories slept,

While passion there a vigil kept
To live a fettcred slave,
Or fill a freeman's grave!
Though many an arm was weaponless,

The clenched fingers spake full well

Wo! for the land thou tramplest o'er,

Denth-dealing fiend of war ! Thy battle-houfs are dyed in gore,

Řed havoc drives thy car ;
Wo! for the dark and desolate,

Down crushed beneath thy tread-
Thy wn hath been as a withering fate,

To the mourning and the dead !
Wo! for the pleasant cottage-home,

The love-throng at the door ;

Their cherishad comes no mord :
Wo! for the broken heartal,

The lone-one by the hearth ;

The Pleiad gone from earth!

action, and sometimes grace, to his representations of ani- cannot offer you payment.” The greffier, moved with the customed to do chiefly, if not entirely, upon horseback. It mals. He had never seen a camel hair pencil, when he made || artless narrative, immediately verified the alleged facts, is certainly very reasonable to suppose, that this circumuse of the hair of wild animals for his brushes. Some of his and not only granted the petitioner's claim, but, by begging stance may have had a very beneficial influence upon their productions discover a considerable practical knowledge of|| of the veteran to accept some money, proffered an exam- health, and have aided not a little in prolonging their lives. perspective; but he could not have formed rules for this. The ple, which was immediately followed by all present. A sub It has been supposed by some, that riding is a more salupainters in the early ages were many years coming to a know-scription has also been opened at Rouen, which, in all pro- tary exercise, and ought to be preferred to walking. This ledge of this part of their art, and even now they are more bability, will be productive.

London Times. however, is by no means the case, under ordinary circumsuccessful in the art than perfect in the rules of it. The man

stances. Riding occasionally is confessedly a very power-, ners of the American Cadmus are the most easy and his habits

PRIZE POEM.

ful aid to health ; as an ordinary means of exercise, it is, those of the most assiduous scholar, and his disposition is more The committee to whom were referred the several poems however, inferior to walking—the latter being in general lively than that of any Indian I ever saw. He understood and and tales presented for the premiums offered in the Craftsman, ||much better adapted to promote an equal distribution of felt the advantages the white man had long enjoyed, of having report: that they have selected “Lexington,” as the best the fluids to the different parts of the body-to impart to the accumulations of every branch of knowledge, from gener-|| poem presented, and therefore entitled to the highest premium. the fibres their due degree of elasticity, and in this manner ation to generation, by means of a written language, while Of the poems selected, the first was chosen for its combined || to augment the health and strength of the whole system. the red man could only commit his thoughts to uncertain tra- excellencies. It has more beauties than can meet the view of In those cases, however, in which a debilitated constitution, dition. He reasoned correctly when he urged this to his friends a casual reader. As a work of art, the drapery which floats or the presence of disease prevents a sufficient amount of as the cause why the red man had made so few advances in around it is charmingly graceful, but there are beauties in exercise from being enjoyed on foot, riding on horseback is knowledge in comparison with us; and to remedy this was | every line and lineament which can be discerned only on in- | to be preferred. As a general rule, it may be said, that one of his great aims, and one which he has accomplished be- spection, and which will be more perfectly developed at every walking is best adapted to the preservation of healthyond that of any other man living, or perhaps any other who new perusal. The oftener the lover of genuine poetry reads riding to the relief of chronic disease. In active diseases ever existed in a rude state of nature.

this little emanation of genius, the more he will admire it, and neither of them are adviseable. It perhaps may not be known that the government of the the higher/will be bis gratification.

Crafteman. By the dyspeptic, and those predisposed to pulmonary United States had a font of types cast for his alphabet; and

consumption, in particular, riding on horseback is an exerthat a newspaper, printed partly in the Cherokee language,

cise which should never, if possible, be neglected. and partly in the English, has been established at New Echota, | which they had been taught to fear, if not to venerate. Many were armed but with eletrinco

Though we are not prepared to assert with Sydenham, and is characterised by decency and good sense; and thus in ever boul.comht and in haste tie rude weapons of the chase; but there was determination Cullen, and some other physicians, that “horse, exercise is many of the Cherokees are able to read both languages. After shall the doings of that day be remembered. It was the opening scene of a glorious drama.” an effectual antidote to the consumption,” after it has once putting these remarks to paper, I had the pleasure of seeing

become seated in the lungs; yet we have seen sufficient to the head chief of the Cherokees, who confirmed the statement

Ere it sweeps the bark to its yawning'grave convince us, that when, from predisposition, the disease is of See-quah-yah, and added, that he was an Indian of the

The peaceful and the silent came,

Ere the lightning-bolt hath sped ;

to be feared, or the individual already experiences its rapid strictest veracity and sobriety. The western wilderness is

approach, riding on horseback, persevered in daily for a not only to blossom like the rose, but there, man has started

No pomp of march-no proud array

Are pealing through the salpburous cloud, length of time, in connexion with a well regulated diet and up, and proved that he has not degenerated since the primi- As Boleranly they took Uheir way

proper clothing, is the best, perhaps the only means by tive days of Cecrops, and the romantic ages of wonderful Sadly, as if some tie "vere broken

in effort and god-like renown.

"Tis the least of death where the conflict inges! which its attack can be avoided or its further progress comKnapp's Lectures. Dark glances passed, and words were spoken,

pletely arrested, and a comfortable existence enjoyed for a Where that lone phalanx stood, AN UNFORTUNATE SOLDIER.

In riding for exercise, or to preserve health, eight or ten A short time since, a man named François H. Dennell,

miles a day are sufficient; but for the purpose of restoring

For one consuming thought whose garb and demeanour denoted that he had led a

health, these little excursions will avail but little. It is not military life, called on the grefier of the court of assizes at

Vainly they think his step will come from the fashionable half hours' ride, morning and evening, Rouen, to request he would deliver him a copy of the judg- || The stern resolve, the fearlessness,

in which the same ground is travelled over, for the most inent that had sentenced him to ten years imprisonment. Yet some, with hasty hand

Wol for the bliss deparud

part, every day, and the surrounding objects cease to interSuch a demand, expressed in a tone of voice equally free Had snatched from its peaceful sleep 'Twas a day of changeful fate,

est, from being too frequently presented to the view, that from impudence and humility, excited a degree of surprise, A freeman's lite should be dearly sold

the invalid is to anticipate any decidedly beneficial effects. which led the persons present in the room to inquire into

Were a broken curange re ele sun's decline; To produce these, hours must be daily spent on horseback, the circumstances. The petitioner's answer was in sub

And many a noble spirit crushed

—the mind must be free from depressing or intense reflecstance as follows:-“I have been twenty years a soldier,

and in the company of an agreeable and judicious Their banners unfurled, and gaily streaming-- Wreaths for the living conqueror ! and have fought in many battles under the orders of Custine, Their burnished arms in the sun-light gleun. No tropical stone nay their deeds restore,

companion, such portions of the country should be visited, Dumouriez, Kellerman, Lafayette, Jourdan, Brune, and Na Fearless of peril, of valour high,

in which the novelty or beauty of the scenery is calculated poleon. I was promoted to several grades on various occa Of a bloodless triumph nigh:

They gave no thought to the gory pall, to interest the mind and elevate the spirits. Long journeys sions, on the very field of battle ; and, on retiring from ser

The heavy tread of the war-horse prancingBut

pressed to the fight as a festival !
The lightning-gleam of the bayonets glancing-

They bared them to the sabre-stroke, Nor quailed an eye when the fury broke;

have hence, with great propriety, been recommended to invice, I was allowed a pension of three hundred and ten

As the columped fue in their strength advanc. They fought like men who dared to die valids. To such as can afford it, a ride at a proper season of

For freedom" was their battle-cryfrancs. In 1814 I ran to defend our threatened frontier, but

Up with a nation's banners! They fly

the year, to some one of our remote watering places, or victory had abandoned our colour, and I was compelled to

springs, presents a very excellent means for recruiting For England gathered then her pride,

To the far blue skyreturn to my humble roof through an invaded country. My

health. Let not the indolent and irresolute object to this wife and daughter had accompanied me; and one day, havThey came in their panoplied might,

latter jaunt, in consequence of the distance, or the roughing perceived a party of foreign troops, whose sight created

For deeds that gild the oldeu age, ness of the road over which, in many instances, they would within me sensations of intolerable pain, we took a by-road,

Britiu, with swelling pride shall heru be obliged to travel. These circumstances are to be viewwhich led us to a less frequented part of the country.

As
On the red carnagc-field was their altar of or Cressy's field, and old Poictiers,

ed rather in a favourable than an unfavourable light. We

They came as the occan-ware comes iu its Fair Gallia, point with a kindling cyo we met with no inn whither to obtain refreshments, my

To the days of her belted chivalry,

can conceive of but little benefit that would be derived, in wise took a five-franc piece, and went to a distant farm to They came as the nountain-wind comes on its Old Scotia, too, with joy shall turn

the way of exercise, from a journey of any distance, upon

Where beams the fight of Bannockburn, procure some bread. The farmer, mistaking her intentions,

a rail road, and ir, one of the new self-propelling cars. cut a very slight morsel of a loaf, and throwing it to her they were not as the rock ineets the wave,

Earth may not boast a nobler name:

Against a species of passive exercise, in which many are in a disdainful manner, ordered her rudely to depart. My They were met as the foe should be met by the Platea’s splendour is not thine-**

fond of indulging, we beg leave here to protest—we allade

With hearts fuis the condict, but not for des. Yet look where lives in glory's line, wife attempted an explanation, which was answered only

to the practice of lounging on horseback-in other words, by repeated insults, and a threat to drive her away with a

moying at a snail's pace over a smooth road, with the exterweapon, which the inhospitable host brandished over her

RIDING ON HORSEBACK.

nal senses but halfawake, and the mind in a state approachhead. I heard my wife's shrieks, and hastened to her re In some of the former numbers of this journal

, we haveling to complete apathy. It is true, that the individual who lief. 1 reproached the villain for his behaviour, and struck taken notice of those species of exercise which are within practices this gentle kind of riding, may enjoy the benefit of him in the face. The blood issued from his nose. Alas! the reach of almost every class of society of the poor as the fresh air ; but as to bodily exercise

, he experiences he was the mayor of the village! I was soon arrested, im- well as the rich; we proceed now to the consideration of even less than the child does upon his rocking horse

, or the prisoned, and condemned. The scar of infamy covered the others, which, as they involve considerable expense, must rustic in his favourite swing upon the barn-yard gate. glorious wounds I had received in the defence of my coun. necessarily be confined, in our cities at least, to individuals

Exercise

upon horseback should be taken, during sumtry. Eight years have I lived in chains. My services, the || in affluent circumstances.

mer, in the cooler portions of the day--in general it is better nature of my crime, the incontestable testimonies of my First upon the list, is riding on horseback : one of the adapted to clear weather in the more temperate seasons of conduct while in the ranks, had won the interest of my most manly

, innocent
, and useful kinds of exercise of which tlie year, than to those seasons

accompanied by extreme
jailers - they petitioned in my favour, and obtained the re- any one can partake, and by the use of which, the invalid | heat or intense cold.
mission of two years' imprisonment. Since then I have has not unfrequently been surprised into health.
been deprived of my small pension, and am grown old and Bishop Burnet, in one of his works, expresses his sur-

OLD CUSTOM. unable to labour for myself and my wife. Some charitable prise that the lawyers of his time enjoyed, in general, better There is an old custom in Scotland, never to grant a light persons at Abbeville, where I now reside

, have advised me health, and were longer lived, than individuals of other of fire to any one out of their houses upon the first day of documents they intend addressing to the king in my behalf; this entirely to their being obliged to " ride the circuito in Nelson-street, Glasgow. A stucco-manufacturer went and I am come on foot, with the help of my wife, to beg you almost constantly, in order to attend the various courts held from door to door among all his neighbours, but could not will deliver me the necessary paper, for which I confess I || in the different parts of England; and which they were ac- obtain the light of a candle.

For the foc of the bannered line;

'Twas courage stern and deep!
Proudly, as conquerors come

From a field their arms have won,
With bngle-blast and beat of drum,

The Briton host came on,

Where the crimson tide of battle rolled,

And the avenging legions rushed!

But the hero names are cherished ;
When the summons flew for the patriot-call,

With a joyous glee they were idly dreaming

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Kettle drunis sounded, golden armour glistened, downy “She is changed, she will think no more of me!” he in- sportsman to see the bleeding quarry, so will it delight you feathers waved in costly turbans; cavaliers bearing silver bat- voluntarily exclaimed. But at that moment her dark eye to see your victim writhe with pain, while she endeavours to tle axes rode proudly on their prancing milk-white steeds, and glanced towards his hiding-place.

conceal the wound. If you are learned, read Shakspeare, princely ladies were borne in glittering palankeens on the backs She spoke to her attendants, and the procession paused as and you will find a good model in an excellent fellow called of elephants.

she approached the tree alone, and affected to gather some of Tachimo. Ada was there, pale and sad; her stolen mysterious interview | its leaves.

Lastly, much may be done, in your way, without saying a with her unknown lover, was so recent, so unexpected, so un "Are you faithful ?” said she, in a low tone; "nay-Iword—by yielding a ready assent to what is said by others of likely to end happily, that she lay on her rose colour cushions, wrong you by the question ; I have seen that you are so ; if a similar disposition ; for a willing listener to a tale of calumny fanned by her favourite slave, without taking the trouble to you have courage, as you have constancy, you are mine, and I does as much service to Beelzebub as the narrator himself. draw aside the amber curtains of her litter to look upon the || am yours—hush-where is your steed ??? festivities which surrounded her.

Selim held its bridle rein. Towards evening the gardens were illuminated with thou

CARRIAGE RIDING. “Then in your hands I place my happiness,” she added; sands of many coloured lamps; she raised herself and looked “these gems shall be our wealth, and your truth my trust Riding in a carriage is among those species of passive exaround her, but glancing hastily over bright vistas and radiant || away! away!”

ercise most ordinarily resorted to for the purposes of health, bowers, her eyes rested on a wide spreading tree beneath Selim in an instant bore Ada to the back of his Arabian, but from which less advantage is to be anticipated than from whose overshadowing branches a comparatively dark space and ere the rajah and his attendants were aware she had almost any other. We, of course, have more immediate reremained. She there saw the fora of her unknown lover : quitted the cavalcade-swist as the wind he bore her from the ference to what are termed pleasure-carriages, the cushioned he was leaning against the tree, with his eyes fixed upon her; i gardens.

seats and well-adjusted springs of which are devised for the she told her slave with assumed levity that she had vowed to The pursuit was instantaneous, and uttering curses and very purpose of guarding the muscles of those who occupy gather a cluster of the blossoms of that tree, alone to gather indignant reproaches, the rajah and a hundred of his armed them against that exertion with which the preservation of th:em, and desiring her to await her return, she hastened be- followers were soon close at the heels of the fugitives. health is so intimately connected. It is greatly to be lamentneath the canopy formed by its boughs.

“Follow ! follow!" cried the foremost, “we gain upon them, | ed, that the class of persons by whom this mode of conveySelim was indeed there.

we will tear her from the grasp of the Mahommedan. They ance is commonly resorted to, are those who stand most in "Speak not,” she earnestly whispered. “I must not stay || approach the river's bank! and turbulent as it now is, after I need of active exercise. for an instant, I dare not listen to you—but mark my words, | the storm of yesterday, they will either perish in its waters, or

Were, indeed, the luxury of a family-carriage to be very and if you love me obey them. I do not doubt your love, I we shall seize them on its brink.”

generally dispensed with in our cities, we are persuaded that do not doubt your constancy, but I shall appear to doubt both Still they gained upon them; the space between the pur- it would tend, in some degree, to reduce the annual amount when you hear my request.”

suers and the pursued became smaller and smaller, and the of suffering from dyspepsia, hypochondria, nervousness, and "Speak lady, I will obey you,” said the Moor.

re-capture of Ada seemed certain. When, lo! to the aston-gout. "Go," whispered Ada, “buy the swiftest of Arabian stecds, | ishment of those who followed him, Selim's well trained steed

Resorted to almost constantly by the females of the family, ride him across yon plain three times in every day; in the plunged into the foaming torrent, battled bravely with its in their out-door excursions, the carriage thus deprives them morning, at noon, and in the evening; and every time you ride waves, bore his burthen safely through them, and bounding of the little exercise they would otherwise enjoy, were their him, swim the Jumna on his back.” up the opposite bank, continued his flight!

tours of shopping, or their visits of duty, ceremony, and "Is that all ?!' said Selim; "it shall be done." The pursuers stood baffled on the river's bank ; their horses friendship, performed on foot. By the head of the family

, the " It is all,” replied Ada ;“ to prove your love you will I know having been trained to no such feat as that they had just wit- carriage is most frequently ordered to the door at that period readily do it, but to prove your constancy, or rather to ensure nessed, it would have been madness to have plunged amid of life, when increasing wealth enables him to withdraw our safety, it must be done three times every day for the space the eddying whirlpools of the swollen Jumna.

from the every-day bustle of active business; and when it is of one year!"

Every tale should have its moral. What then will be said | all-important, for the preservation of health, that some kind "A year!"

of mine, which records the triumph of a disobedient child in of regular exercise should be resorted to, in the absence of Yes, and at the expiration of the year, at this festival, on a secret, unauthorised attachment? A temporary triumph | even that which, previously, his avocation forced upon him. this very day, if neither courage nor constancy have been which so rarely leads to happiness! For this part of my It is true, that a ride of some distance in a vehicle, the wanting, meet me again on this spot. I can wait for no reply story I have no apology to offer; but from the little history of motion of which is communicated to the body of the occu-bless you, bless you."

Selim and Ada, this small grain of moral inference may be pant, may have a very excellent effect in the case of those who Ada, with a few leaves of the tree in her trembling hand, | extracted : Ladies will do well to try the integrity and prove are too debilitated to partake of a sufficient amount of exerfiastened back to her palankeen, and Selim again, alone, gazed | the constancy of their lovers ere they marry; and lovers cise on foot, or upon horseback. But, under such circumfrom his shadowy hiding-place on the gay festival, in which should endure trials and delays with fortitude, and thus provestances, this kind of riding is, in general, the one most carehis eyes beheld one form alone. How brief seems the retro- the unchanging truth of their affection.

fully avoided. spect of one year of happiness! How sad, how interminable

Riding in a carriage has been supposed by many to be an seems the same space of time, in anticipation, when we know

DESULTORY SELECTIONS. admirable means for exercising in very cold or rainy weather. that at its close some long Jooked for bliss will be obtained,

The reverse, however, is the fact. Carriages, excepting in some cherished hope realised !

HINTS TO JANUSES.

the case of the invalid, whom urgent business calls abroad, at Selim bought a steed, the whitest and the swiftest of the

a period when all unnecessary exposure is to be guarded

Man is a back-biting animal, and yours is a vocation older | against, should never be employed, excepting in clear weather, province, and he soon loved it dearly, for it seemed to be a living link connecting him with Ada.

than free-masonry, if that be as old as Solomon. You need || and at those seasons of the year when one or more of the He daily three times traversed the valley, and thrice he forded never be at a loss for subjects ; they are always at hand, and blinds can be kept open during the ride. In so small a space the deep and foaming river; he saw not his love, he received rather ungracious traits that will well apply to all. No man more than one person, the air very quickly becomes contami

were they not, if you look within yourselves

, you will find some | as the interior of a carriage, especially when occupied by no token from her ; but it his eyes did not deceive him, he || is perfect, nor woman neither

, and lest others should forget this nated by respiration, and prejudicial to those who continue to occasionally saw a female form on the summit of her father's tower, and a snow-white scarf was sometimes waved as he fundamental principle of your order, impress this fact upon inhale it

. them unceasingly, for virtue would grow proud were she not speeded rapidly through the valley.

For many reasons, a chair or gig, driven by the individual reminded of her weakness. Let your commendation be like himself, is preferable to a covered carriage. Fresh air, occuTo Ada the year passed slowly, anxiously; often did she | Mrs. Candour's, so that men would rather suffer your re-pation, and a considerable degree of exercise, may be obtained repent of her injunction to the Moor, when the sky was dark proach than your praise. Though your assertion is as good by riding in the former, while all of these, as we have seen, and stormy, and when the torrents from the mountains had as another man's proof, it is well enough to give colouring to are, in a great measure, precluded in the latter. rendered the Jumna impetuous and dangerous. Then on her what you affirm, and if you can contrive at the same time to

During youth, and a state of health, walking, either alone, knces on the rajah's tower, she would watch for her lover: mix calumny with ingratitude, it will advance your character or alternated with riding on horseback, should invariably sudreading at one moment lest fear should make him abandon for consistency. Therefore, if the friend who took you up a persede the use of a carriage; and even those who are inboth her and the enterprise, and then praying that he might foundling in the field, as the countryman brought a similar || duced to ride, for the prevention of a threatened disease, or indeed forsake both, rather than encounter the terrors of that protege to his winter fire, if this benefactor should have an for the recovery of health, if their strength is not too much foaming flood !

Soon she saw him speeding from the dark unlucky pimple on his face, begin your approaches by an ac-)exhausted, will find, on horseback, the object they are in forest ; he plunged fearlessly into the river : he buffetted with knowledgment of his favours , and your grief to report any search of, much more certainly than in any of the carriages

, its waves; he gained the opposite sliore ; again and again she thing of him but good, but that you have suspicions of in-) to the invention of which convenience or luxury has given saw him brave the difficulty, again he conquered it, and again temperance. If another friend, equally weak, bas lent you | rise. it was to be encountered. "At length the annual festival arri- fifty dollars, which you have kept till gratitude has become a

Sleighing, which, in the northern portions of our country, ved, the gardens were adorned with garlands, and resounded burden, and the lender distasteful, let the rogue endure some affords during the winter season so attractive an amusement; with music and gladness : once more, too, Selim stood beneath of the inquietudes his long and inquiring face has inflicted on

can scarcely be considered an exercise, in the trifing motion the shadow of the wide-spreading trcc.

you. Turn the tables upon him; give out that his affairs are it communicates to the body. As a means, however, of drawHe saw crowds assemble, but he heedcd then not ; he heard in disorder, and that he withholds from you the same suming forth into the bracing air," many who for want of this the crash of cymbals and the measured beat of the kettle that he was fool enough to lend.

inducement might, probably, never quit for any length of drums. The rajah passed near him, with his officers and But your favourite objects, like Mark Antony's, will be the time the atmosphere of a stove room, it is not unproductive of armed attendants, and these were followed by a troop of dam- ladies. They are too pure, and must be reduced by your benefit

. sels; then came Ada the rajah's daughter. She was no alloy; and purity would be too happy for your turn of mind, We would, however, admonish all our readers in those states longer the trembling bashful girl he had seen at the last festi- without a little detraction. Besides, in this there is no dan in which sleighing is more frequent than it has been, of late val. Proudly and self-possessed she walked the queen of the ger

, and none but a brute loves that, though in dealing with|years, in our more southern clime, to be cautious, that while procession, her forn glittering with a kingdom's wealth of men there might be a little peril. But you can wound a fe- partaking of this amusement, their feet, as well as the rest of diamonds. Selim's heart sunk within him.

male as the fowler

lacerates a dove; and as it gives joy to thell the body, be preserved comfortably warm, by a sufficient cover

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to the further extremity of the rock, the surface of which is "Stop, stop, massa! me no stay here ahind you for all from the pit, which they did, dragging Arthur with them to about an acre. Here Rob and Sambo had erected a fishing- Kidd's money!"

sôme distance. hut, and some of their implements could be discerned hang So saying, poor Trial trod so quickly in his master's steps In a moment a tremendous explosion took place within the ing against the wall, by the moon-beams that shone through as to merit several severe rebukes. They had walked about pit, and a shower of small stones and fragments of earth and the crevices and open door of their badly constructed little shed. | fifty yards when they came to a small valley, or rather a hol-sticks came down upon their heads. Whole volumes of

"We are here before them," said the foremost of the two low; here they found the mulattoes, Rob and Sambo, waiting | black smoke again filled the air; and, to add to their alarm, & men, who had just landed, as he returned froin reconnoitring for them.

dreadful bellowing was heard, and immediately after the the interior of the hut,

Rob, the moment he saw Arthur, came towards him with a demon himself appeared among them, like a walking bull, "Dat likely enoup, massa,” replied the other, “ for when slow and measured step, bearing in his hand a hazle-wand; with hide and horns, and his tail switching around on every Rob and Sambo promise, no knowing when dey perform— and, raising his hat, he said,

side, in the most alarming manner. dey deal wid de debble—and pity--but he was neber honest, “As ever, true to your word, my master?"

Arthur, for an instant, was really disturbed; but, as the massa, but always broke he word when too late to seek anoder's 'Surely so, Rob,” replied Arthur ; are all things in readi-| enemy approached too near him, he collected his fortitude, and -go home, dear massa, don't trust the debble or his imps-ness to commence the work ?"

boldly bade the wicked one get behind him. At this the dey are all bad alike."

"All,” was the answer.

demon vanished. “Foolish boy!” cried Arthur, "are you afraid of demons? Sambo was seated on a rock, with his head between his " He demands more gold !” said Rob, “ before he will yield if so, take to the boat and begone—the gang will be here knees, muttering a sort of unintelligible jargon,

us this; but such an immense treasure as lies here, is worth presently—they will see me safe home. I have nothing to

“Look, massa,

look !" cried Trial angrily; "dat conjure spending an estate for.” fear from men who have shared my kindness so frequently man 'bout no good !-he call a name in vain. I hear him say "I shall give no more,” replied Arthur, calmly yet firmly; as they have. So, go your ways, Trial.”

debble; and wise man tell you, ony talk o' him and he ap- and, as if he had made oath to the same, they understood his “No-Trial no stir a foot, massa." pear. Massa, better come away."

final purpose, and moved off, vexed and disappointed. "I will compel thee, then, boy. Go, or I will strike thee "Be silent, Trial, I command you to be silent. And now, Arthur turned towards Trial, who still lay extended along with my paddle, else.”

Rob, let thy art discover the hidden treasure which but for the earth, convulsed with terror; and, not until his master “Ah, massa, my oar longer den your paddle ; but Trial no thee might remain for ever in the bowels of the earth, and repeatedly assured him that all was safe, could he be perleabe you now, if he die for it—but see, see! dey hab been be of use to no one. One man sows and another reaps. Sosuaded to look up. Large drops of sweat stood upon his face here already! Here's Sambo's foot, massa ; neber was dare it is even now; but the harvest must be gathered, and why like dew, and his eyes seemed starting from their sockets. such a big foot in all creation afore !'' not we as well as another? So let us to work."

“Arise, be of good cheer, my poor snow-ball," cried Arthur, "Well, if it be so," replied Arthur, "we may as well take Sambo rose, and placed in Trial's reluctant hand a spade, endeavouring to comfort him ; "they are all gone, and I will to our boat again. We will follow and overtake them at the and taking another in his, was prepared to follow; at the never hold council with them more." north side of Barn-island; for thus it was agreed between us, same time observing the strictest silence, notwithstanding the “Dat make me berry grad, massa ; bery grad, indeed, masin case I did not find them here." thousand questions of his lagging companion.

sa ;" and Trial sprung upon his feet, and followed to the boat, Oh, massa ! but dat Little Hell-gate is a scarish place at Rob, with his wand carefully poised on his fingers, led the which still lay snugly moored beneath the sheltering willow. night. I. no like him at best o'times—and den, half-tide over, way, with the solemn step and air of a thorough adept in the Safely seated in their little bark, Arthur, well wrapped in he foams and he bellows like some mad bull you may hear art ; while the aged Arthur, evincing an entire respect for his his cloak, gave himself up to meditation, while Trial plied him now above all de rest."

deep proficiency, cautiously followed, his unerring eye sharply the oar, and whistled at intervals an old continental air. "Have you no confidence in your master's prudence and fixed on the secret talisman.

The night was pretty far advanced when they reached their long experience in the navigation of these waters, Trial ?" “We are near the treasure,” said Rob, suddenly pausing. habitation, and over-fatigued, each retired to his rest.

“At anoder time, massa, I'd no fear a rush; but when bad | "So indicates this rod;" and he waved it three times in the Arthur had slept tranquilly for about an hour, when a men are abroad on ebil work, and when dem crecch-owl cry air, each time repeating an incantation, to strengthen the strange noise in the chimney of his apartment awakened so in dat dark wood, massa, steering too near against, I tink charm. The wand, obedient to the power of attraction, at him, and rising on his elbow he distinguished, by the flickering it bode no good to white man nor nigger.”

length, like the mind of man, bowed low to the alluring of his taper, the huge demon he had seen on the island, stand“Slender foundation for your fears, my good Trial,” said metal, to the complete gratification of Arthur, and the joy of|| ing in the broad fire-place ; his eyes glaring strangely through Arthur, kindly ; “but pull a quick and steady oar, my man, || the mulattoes, who fell to work with the greatest industry, enormous eye-let holes, and his horns and tail much discomand we will soon leave behind us this patch of wood, and its throwing up the earth with their spades, chattering the while, || posed and out of place, owing to his intricate descent through noisy but harmless tenants.”

and making their calculations respecting the quantity of the chimney. "He no harmless, massa; he big rogue as Rob or Sambo, wealth they were about to disentomb. Even poor Trial stood

“In the name of heaven, why came you here ?" demanded . who fetch away our lame chicken last week! You know it looking on, in the pleasing expectation of beholding those Arthur. was one night-walker or l'oder."

promises verified which hitherto he had so often reprobated as "I come to demand my right,” returned the demon. “'Tis "Poor bird,” sighed Arthur ; "but slacken your right oar, || abominably false and wicked; while the good Arthur, com- your gold that I want !" Trial, and pull briskly with your left

, so as to bring the skif"|| pletely duped by their arts, stood, with folded arms, and the "In the name in which I questioned, I now bid you desnugly round.” air of one who had realized his best expectations.

part in peace,” cried Arthur, as he slipped from his bed, and They had reached Little Hell-gate, and, beneath the bright “Listen, master!" cried Sambo, raising his head exulting-snatching an old rusty sabre, that hung near the chimney; moon, all the wildness of the place was visible; broken ledges ly, “here is a box or chest beneath my spade.”

and, finding that the fiend vanished not at the sound of the of rock, which appeared to extend through the centre of the "Strike again,” cried Arthur, as he inclined his ear over sacred name, on the contrary, that he stood his ground, decurrent, and others which ranged with the shore on either the hole. "There, I heard the sound distinctly;" he added, termined to possess himself of the gold he came for, the old side, wero covered and white with foam from the turbulence || sct your spade once more, Sambo.-oh ! 'tis there ! 'tis there warrior darted a pass at his mercenary enemy; at the same of the waves amid them.

to all intents and purposes!" and clapping his hands, he bade time warning him to leap from the window, if he wished to In a narrow space, apparently no broader than their little them raise the treasure ; which they had scarcely attempted, preserve his forfeited existence. The devil wisely took the bark, the tide flowed smoothly, but with alarming swiftness, when flashes of fire and sulphurous smoke were seen to arise hint, and, with one spring, reached the casement, preferring as if it were hastening, with quiet dread, from the scene of from the ground within, blackening the whole air above them, || to risk the dangerous leap rather than encounter the ventumult and danger; on this the little skill kept its rapid || and choking them almost to suffocation.

geance of old Arthur, who, as the monster flew from the wincourse, directed by the skilful hand of Arthur, who sat with The face of the moon, but a moment before unclouded, dow, caught fast hold of its tail, which had before appeared his eye steadily fixed on a certain mark, while the quick dip-was now invisible ; all around them was dark, save when so formidable, and thereby retained in his grasp the entire ping of the oars was scarcely perceptible in the undimpled lighted by unnatural flashes, which ceased not to burst from disguise, which proved to be nothing more than an old ox's race of waters.

different parts of the earth, attended by rumbling sounds like hide and horns ! "That was handsomely effected, Trial, my man,” cried | those of an earthquake.

“What a dupe I have been !" exclaimed Arthur, as he threw Arthur, as his servant brought the little bark neatly round, The blacks threw themselves on their faces, and remained the skin into a corner of the room, which he paced three times and laid it alongside of a flat rock, under the shadow of a jin a state of great agitation for a time. Arthur alone stood around in his customary circle, and then stretched himself luxuriant willow, that grew on the bank of the island, whose undaunted ; and, after five minutes had elapsed, all again be- upon his

bed to slumber in quiet till the early dawn of the long sweeping branches swung gracefully to the light breeze, camc quiet ; the dense fog of smoke and flame had dispersed, morning. and, at intervals, wooed the fleeting waves.

and the moon shone forth in all her splendour. “Here our little vessel may lie unobserved, for scarcely the "Thank heaven !” said Arthur, “the difficulty is over;

THE DRAMA. eye of the moon beholds it,” said Arthur, as he stept from the arise, Rob and Sambo, and recommence your labours." boat.

"We work again, my master, when the devil has shown “De moon a man, massa ? I always tought he had been a how angry he is ! Did you not see his blue lantern rising

THE PARK THEATRE. green cheese ; he so round, he no shape like a man." like a flaming sword ?”

Since the pleasant days of Paul Pry, there has not been “No, you foolish boy, nor does it always wear its present “I do not fear him nor his works,” said Arthur resolutely. a more amusing piece imported than the new three-act appearance ; it is constantly changing; at times it is but half “There is but one that I fear, and he is above all, and over farce of Snakes in the Grass, now in the full tide of popu: that size."

all! We will make one more trial for the money ; should larity at the Park. It is a dramatic version of one of « Well, massa, I know dat too; but den I tought it was a that fail, I will pursue it no further.”

Theodore Hook's clever Sayings and Doings, and the situa. The mulattoes reluctantly raised their spades, and striking) tions, the exits, and the entrances

, are managed with "Some other time, Snow-ball, I'll explain it to you." them suddenly into the earth, the same sound was returned much skill and effect; one of the best proofs of this is

, that “Oh, I tank you, massa ; but if you beat him into me as which had before convinced Arthur of the presence of the || it would be impossible to curtail the piece in the smallest you did dat catechise, I no care what he be ; I roder not valuable treasure he had risked so much good money to| degree, without

injuring it. There is no feeble and whole know, for he ony make my brain topsy-turvy."

acquire. "Be silent, Trial, and as soon as you have fastened the They at length attempted to pry up the box, when a flame, affair goes off as glibly as the author, actors, or audience boat, follow me," and Arthur ascended the bank.

preceded by a strong sulphurous smeli

, warned them to hasten I could desire. To be sure there is but little humour and less

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" It drinks the life-blood from the veins."

be beyond the necessity of pursuing business for his support. has the merit of being correct and to the purpose, though the in New-York; this, however, appears to be a malicious and The self-same organ told the rise and fall of stocks, and blank verse does occasionally “hobble in its gait.” It would unfounded assertion, for the popular melody of “Coal-black occasionally informed his fellow-citizens of the honourable probably have had a stronger dramatic effect if the author had Rose” continues to be received with the most flattering and stations he filled in the public bodies he was attached to. introduced a few more of Shakspeare's youthful irregularities : gratifying marks of approbation. Seriously, we think this

We must further do him the justice of stating, that he at he has made the poet too perfect, and has even assigned a hu- || stuff would be more in place amid the sawdust and quadrutimes dips into the magazines and other light periodicals of mane motive for his deer-stealing. Though we believe Shaks- peds of a circus than on the boards of the Park theatre. c. the day. The last novels also claim his attention ; and a peare was really and truly a good man, yet in his early days standard volume of sermons form the usual provocative for he was by no means impeccable.

The first scene discovers

ENGLISH THEATRICALS. his Sunday's after-dinner nap.

his father and mother, the former of whom rails bitterly at the It must not be supposed that the extent of knowledge thus manner in which his son Willy wastes his time; and the next

A petit comedy was produced at this house last night obtained is suffered to be idle ; on the contrary, no one can

scene shows us the poet himself, sleeping on a bank, when | under the title of “A Husband's Mistake; or, The Corbetter tell the last written opinion on the floating trifles of the " coming events” are supposed to "cast their shadows before," poral's Wedding.” The piece inet general approbation. day than he can, and the last reviewer is ever his authority. and those glorious crcations which will hallow his name through it is a translation from one now playing at Paris, with equal He also deals plenteously in sage apothegms and indisputa-|| all ages, fioat before him in a vision. This might have been success. The outline of the plot is this: The father of ble truisms ; these are disseminated as occasion requires, with made much more effective. Then comes the affair of shooting Count Frederic Lousenstein, some years before the period at all the gravity of profound wisdom and erudite research. the buck, for which he is brought before Sir Thomas Lucy, which the circumstances of the comedy are supposed to They form rules for the guidance of his family, and serve as whom he rates most soundly; he is dismissed upon paying||have occurred, had rendered essential service to the father text-books for the ever ready advice he liberally furnishes to the fine, and Sir Thomas, who can neither read nor write him-|of Henrietta, who afterwards became an inmate in the house his friends.

self, orders his retainer, Slyboots, to draw up a “thundering of the Baron ; an affection sprung up in the breast of HenThus he calmly floats down the stream of time, unruftled proclamation” against deer-stealing. Slyboots is in a similar | rietta for the young Count, who subsequently went into the by those adverse winds and stormy tempests which more predicament with his master, and secretly applies to Shaks- || service of the Russians, and was absent for several years, ideal men are exposed to, and at last attains the “bournepeare to do it for him, who consents, but instead of a procla- || he having fallen in love with a young lady, who subsequently appointed unto all men,” and leaves behind a character which,mation writes a copy of the verses which he hiniself in reality is united to the Baron Saldorf, who is one of those goodif not marked with any rare virtues, is at least unstained with affixed to the park gate of Sir Thomas Lucy, commencing,

natured sort of elderly gentlemen who are anxious to look any great crimes.

A parliament member, a justice of peace, Do you not envy this picture of calın and unintellectual

At home a scarecrow, in London an asse;

at every occurrence in its most favourable light, and holds character, you host of high imaginative beings? You who Slyboots highly elated with his supposed proclamation, returns || a colonel's commission in the militia. The comedy opens, pass your lives in one unceasing whirl of bounding fan-| with it to Sir Thomas, who looks it over, and unable to dis- when it is fixed that Fritz shall the next day be married to cies and untiring pursuits, can the phantoms you pursue cover the trick played upon him, commends it highly, and Henrietta, who had latterly, having been left in a state of afford the solid and real enjoyment which the individual orders it to be read aloud in presence of the whole village. ) destitution, by the kindness of the Baroness Saldorf

, been have described possessed ? No! It is true, that endowed as This is one of the most laughable situations in the piece. Then placed with Madame Gigot, a dressmaker and milliner. The you are with the divine attributes of genius, you soar above we have the arrival of the youthful poet in London with his Baroness was subjected to much indisposition, which was your fellow-men, and hold "high coinmunion" with the tragedy of Hamlet in his pocket, where he saves the life of not a little increased by the intelligence of the return of brighter intelligences of animate and inanimate nature; but Lord Southampton, and meets his fellow-townsman, Richard Count Frederick Lowenstein from the Russian army. The it is this very sublimated state of existence that is your tor-| Burbage, (the Garrick of his time, and the original Richard Baron, on the evening in question, goes to a party, leaving ment, and frequently your destruction. III.) He then repairs to Dr. Orthodox, an old pedant, for a

Henrietta to take care of his wife. Henrietta, however, warrant for the enactment of his tragedy, which is refused on || finding that the latter grew better in the course of the evenDiscard, then, the countless myriads of ideas with which the ground that it does not conform to the rules of Aristotle, |ing, resolves on not sleeping at the Baron's house, and reyour teeming brains are fraught. Sink into the dull plodding and we are favoured with the sapient doctor's criticism on turns home to her own bed, leaving, whilst she ran across character we have attempted to delineate, and truly you shall

Hamlet. In answer to Orthodox's question at what college the street to ascertain whether the door of Madame Gigots meet the reward of approbation which ever attends the man

Shakspeare graduated, he makes this happy and spirited reply : house was fastened, the private-door of the mansion open, with one idea,

D.
Creation's boundless temple was my school;

and ere she had returned, the Count, who had concealed
Mankind my study; 'tis a royal college,
Endowed nost nobly by the King of kings !

himself behind a balcony, enters for the purpose of obtain

ing an interview with the Baroness. The Baron, at length THE DRAMA.

Than in an age your Greek and Latin lore.

comes from the party, and after knocking several times is Nearly the whole

of the dramatic personæ finally meet in the admitted. The Count is then seen endeavouring to make

court of Queen Elizabeth, who makes trial of their skill by his escape, and all hope of retreating down stairs being cut The managers of the Park must really put a stop to their requesting each one to express the wish nearest to his heart off

, he resolves to get over the balcony into the street. This uniformly respectable way of getting up new and amusing in rhyme, on the instant Shakspeare of course bears away || he does by means of tying his sash to it, but unfortunately pieces, or there is an end at once to dramatic notices. It is the palm, in the following neatly turned lines, which, we in his descent he places his foot on the shoulder of Fritz, impossible to go on week after week, using sugared words and believe, are a translation from the Persian :

who, though an upholsterer, was on guard as a corporal complimentary phrases, touching the merits of the play and When born thou wept'st, while all around were smiling, fritz gives the alarm, and the Count is secured; the Baron the excellence of the acting; we lack something of "good,

To sec pure joy thy mother's woes beguiling :

Heaven grant that when in death thou sink'st to sleep, comes out in his roba-de-chambre, and on learning the scrape worthy Mr. Janus's” talents in that particular. It has been Tbou may'st serenely smile, though all around thee woep.

the Count has got into, desires him to hold his tongue, the unhappy nature of man, ever since Eve ate apples, to the queen places her picture round his neck, takes him into imagining that the visit had been paid to Henrietta, and he delight in fault-finding ; and this is easily to be traced to the favour, there is a flourish of trumpets

, and the curtain falls
. will manage the affair for him. The Count is set free

, to pride and vanity with which he is impregnated. In praising The picce was very well played. "Hilson, Placide, and Mrs. the great annoyance of Fritz, who is excessively indignant any thing he tacitly acknowledges his own inferiority, and Hilson, made the most of three trifling parts

, and Barry, as that his activity should not have met with more encouragem places himself in an attitude of respectful admiration ; but in Shakspeare, gave many of the speeches with much spirit and ment or a reward. The Count failing in his attempt to see fault-finding he assumes a tone of conscious superiority, and effect ; the lower tones of this gentleman's voice are uncom- the Baroness, then requests Henrietta to convey a messages fulminates his condemnatory decrees with the air of Jove him-monly rich and mellow. It appeared mighty strange to see in answer to which he receives a note, imploring of him not self. The public too, generally like an ill-tempered writer , William Shakspeare treading the stage in the flesh; and we to force himself into her presence until he shall have

united and give him credit for spirit, sincerity, and a number of other sincerely pitied the poor people who were unfortunate enough himself to one worthy of him, and thus secure her home fine things, when frequently all his sneering and carping merely to live before him. Before Shakspeare! It seems now as if as well as his own.

The Count's consent to this, according proceeds from the acidity of his disposition : thus many a duit before his birth there must have been some huge “ gap in na- | to the words in the Baroness's note, is to be written and not allow him to admire merit or see good in any shape, passes from the most authentic drawings of his house at Stratford

, jin a pavilion in the gardens

. In the meantime, the jealousy for a gentleman of exquisite taste , whose perception of the the Falcon tavern, the Globe theatre, &c. In the latter view, of Patz has been

excited by a conversation he overheard beautiful is so acute as to render it impossible for him to be which is well executed, the artist has introduced one of those in the garden between the Count and Henriette, in the covering pleased with what pleases other people. But, though we our silent and eloquent touches by which painters frequently of which the former gives her a gold chain, as a token of his selves lay claim to an exuberance of good-nature, there is a heighten the illusion of the scene, namely, on the playbill friendship ; and a kiss, as a remembrance of former time limit to human patience, and the managers must really do | attached to the walls of the Globe he has announced Shaks- Fritz

relates this to Madame Gigot, who, having a strong something they ought not to do, play some bad pieces

, or good peare's Hamlet for

representation

, though in that very scene | hankering after Fritz's money, urges him on until he des pieces badly, displace the legitimate drama and introduce the poet produces the manuscript of that tragedy for the first clines the honour of an union with Henrietta

, and consents allow opportunity for a trifling display of fearless independence "Park theatre, Saturday evening, Tom and Jerry, with a Baron of his attachment to the Baroness, and Henrietta sulfers and an indignant spirit of outraged morality. During the last powerful cast.”

The new piccc of the Brigand is founded on authentic | Who says he will prove his innocence, and offers oberts his

the scoffs and slurs of Madame and Fritz, until the Count, propriety, and the two new pieces that have been produced are anecdotes of one of the many famous robber chieftains in riage by doing whichi

, he conforms t» the wishes files Beatly Days" we were indeed rather disappointed on the first composed of the old materials, love and murder

, interspersed rettet fritz, when he hears that the latter is geschidere

, Fepresentation ; but this was owing to perhaps unreasonable with singing and dancing. The scenery

is entirely new

and ciests of " Madame, and vows to live the life of a bracelet any lack of merit in the piece itself.

. is in favour him with . affair ; but the characters and situations are scarcely broad ment is unrivalled. and sarcical enough to suit the taste of the times; the language

It has been insinuated that musical taste is on the decline || greatly relished by the audience.

There nature in one hour teaches more

espectations created by the nature of the subject

, rather than very beautiful

, particularly the opening view of the Brigand's en remembrance of the new Countess, and trusts that allo

This comedy presents several good situations which were

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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCII.

for and settle a minister of their persuasion in the city; and

As I said, it was a glorious autumn evening when I'teached in February, 1669, Jacobus Fabricius arrived for that pur The First Presbyterian Church, in Wall-street, between my native village. The golden sun shed his parting rays pose. In the year 1771, the Rev. Samuel Driscus, a Dutch Broadway and Nassau street, was founded in the year 1719, upon a spot that had long been fondly treasured in memory

, minister

, applied to the governor and council to have two and enlarged about thirty years afterwards. The present and which latterly had seemed so much a picture of the imagi. years' arrears of salary paid up; but as he had been sick one edifice

, which was erected in 1810, is ninety-seven feet in nation that it almost startled me to look at last upon the reality, year they refused, and only paid him one hundred pounds length and sixty-eight in width. It is built of brown free- and find it so like my day-dream for many a year. As I strollsterling

, recommending the elders and deacous to help hin stone, and the front is ornamented with pillars of the same, ed along and looked around, the unforgotten scenes of many further.

in demi-relief, with corinthian capitals. The spire is orna a youthful frolic successively presented themselves to my The second place for worship, built by the Dutch, was a mented with pillars to correspond, and is finished with a low recollection, and through the dim vista of sixty years, I recall chapel, erected by Governor Stuyvesant on his bowery or cupola and gilt vane. The yard is small, but neat, and ised the days of my childhood. farm, at what date we are not informed. But on the eighth enclosed with an iron railing. The congregation of this “I will go to the spot,” exclaimed I aloud, "where I used day of December, 1691, a piece of ground was granted for the church is under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Mr. Phillips. to meet Mary.” purpose of erecting a church in Garden-street, now Ex

And thither I went. It was still the same: a kind of natural change-place, “ for one hundred and eighty current pieces of This well-known edifice, generally distinguished by the ap

arbour formed by nature in the little wood that skirted the eight, at six shillings per piece, to be paid upon sealing the pellation of the Brick Meeting, was erected in the year 1767. village for the accommodation

of lovers who might chance to lot not to be appropriated to any other use or assigned to any been recently repaired and newly painted. The main building but perceiving two persons approach, i concealed myself bethe city selling only their right and property; the said it is constructed of brick, and has a lofty spire

, which has be overtaken in a shower in their evening walks. I began to

I stood within it; other person." This grant was accepted by Aldermen Johannis is eighty-three feet in length by sixty-five in breadth. It ap: hind some bushes until they should have passed on as I did Kip and Brandt Schuyler

, in behalf of the Dutch church; pears by the city records, that in 1766 the presbyterians peti: not feel in the humour to be accosted by any one in my present the size of the lot being “one hundred and seventy-five feet |tioned, in a long and eloquent appeal, “for the angular lot, on the north, and one hundred and eighty feet on the south, lately called the vineyard, stating the great increase of that state of mind. Unluckily the pair turned directly into the English measure." The first church erected on this spot persuasion ; the land asked for was unanimously granted indicated in what relation they stood to each other. I could

arbour, talking in a melting tone of voice, which sufficiently was completed in 1693; although the project, from first to l to them, at a rate of forty pounds per annum." last

, was strenuously opposed by the “ down-town members," was made to John Rogers and Joseph Treat, ministers, and not refrain from looking. The girl was extremely pretty, and on account of the location being “ so far out of the city! In John M. Scott, Peter R. Livingston, and others, as trustees. able to my eyes after the dusky tints I had been so long ao

her delicate complexion and rosy cheeks were peculiarly agree176 the building was enlarged and improved; and, in 1807, | Its dimensions were thus defined : “one hundred and fiftygave place to the present handsome and commodious edifice, |two feet on the southwest, two hundred and fourteen on the customed to in other latitudes. The youth was a fine, handwith a view of which our present number is embellished, and north-west, sixty-two feet on the north-east, and two hun- some stripling of about nineteen or twenty, with an open, which is called the

dred on the south-east side." The Rev. Gardiner Spring has | glowing, and good-tempered countenance, mixed with a dash the pastoral charge of this society.

of reckless daring that became it well, just such another as I

was myself about his time of life. This building, more generally known by the name of

"What's the matter, Mary?” tenderly inquired he. "Garden-street church,” is a plain neat substantial house

The Murray-street Church was erected in 1812. It is built of stone, eighty-six feet in length and sixty-six in breadth. lof freestone, and is ninety-two feet in length by seventy-seven

How can you ask after what you have told me ?'' It contains one hundred and twenty-two pews on the first feet in breadth. The front is faced with hewn brown stone, || is to be found. It is of little avail to linger in this dull spot."

“But you know, dear Mary, I must seek fortune where she floor and fifty-four in the gallery, together with a large and and is ornamented with pillars of the same in bas relief. The fine-toned organ. There is an open balcony on the tower, in building is surmounted with a handsome spire, rising the Mary.

“But where will you go? What will you do ? murmured which is the same bell that belonged to the primitive edifice, height of near two hundred feet, and is separated from the

any where do

any thing--go for a soldier, or a sailor," and which was originally brought from Holland, and was

street hy a neat iron railing. The late Dr. John Mason was —the poor girl clung closer to his arm at the idea--" or to used to convenc all public meetings of the civil authorities the officiating clergyman for several years. The Rev. Mr. India, where I have a rich old uncle—any where so that I and citizens. The Rev. James M. Mathews is the present William D. Snodgrass now occupies the pulpit.

make money, and then I will return again to my dear, dcar officiating clergyman.

In conclusion, it affords us much pleasure to statē, that Mary."

since the practice of burying the dead within the populous To this very definite, feasible, and promising scheme, poor This ancient and spacious edifice, which fronts on Cedar, || parts of the city has been abolished, our church-yards have Mary could only reply by tears, which the young rogue took the Liberty, and Nassau streets, was erected in the year 1729. It | undergone many important and tasteful improvements

, to liberty of kissing away very freely, but at the same time is constructed of plain stone, with a lofty hip roof, and an which we have alluded on another and very different occa- tenderly and respectfully; and after mutual vows, promises, antiquated tower, lighted by loop holes. Its size is one hun-| sion, in the following homely couplets :

and protestations, they took their departure. dred feet in length by seventy-five in breadth, containing one

"Our church-yards too, where death no more invades,
Are changed to blooming sylvan promenades;

When they were out of sight I crept from my hiding-place lundred and eighty pews on the first noor, and cighty in the

No more profaned by collins, mounds, and bones,

very much affected by the scene I had just witnessed, and not a

Sepulchral rites and sorrow's dismal moans, gallery. Its organ is said to be excellent. The tower, which

little apprehensive of an attack of the rheumatism from lying is on the north-east front, in Liberty-street, is divided into

so long concealed upon the damp grass. I repaired to the four stories, the highest of which contains a well-regulated

principal village inn, anointed my limbs with some patent clock. Above this is an open balcony, with a bell, the whole

ORIGINAL TALES.

preventive rheumatic liniment and retired to rest, determinsurmounted by a cupola, gilt-ball, and weathercock, traversing

ed in the morning to make known to the inhabitants the arriabove the four cardinal points of the coinpass. The latter is

AN OLD MAN'S STORY.

val of their wealthy townsman. But alas! in the morning I a correct representation of " bright chanticleer,” in the ancient

It was a glorious evening in autumn when I reached the found I was amongst strangers. Nearly all who had known Dutch taste. In front of the tower, at its base, is a neat por-||outskirts of my native village after an absence of nearly forty we were dead, or dragging out the remainder of their existtico, leading into the main building, and on each side is a years, during which time I had been roughly tossed about the ence elsewhere

.

A few of my schoolmates indeed calledsemicircular apartment for the use of the consistory, &c. On rough world

, and had contrived to increase my wealth and to withered old men—who expressed their regret at my bad the south-west front, in Cedar-street, is a neat portico, or colon. | impair my health to a considerable extent. long sojourn looks and infirmities; asked a number of impertinent ques. nade, surmounted by a plain balcony. Here is the principal in hot climates had broken my hale constitution and mend- tions, and then went about their business. My father 1 entrance, and as the area in front is no longer defaced by ed my broken fortunes, and after years of hard struggling, knew had long ago paid the debt of nature, and even my little graves and tombstones, but has recently been converted into money and the liver-complaint came into my possession to brother Ned had grown up to a man, married, died, and been å verdant promenade

, it has a very pleasing effect. The whole gether; for the former I had long cherished a sincere regard, buried in my absence, and a handsome young fellow was preis enclosed by a handsome new iron railing. During the revo- but to the latter I had many objections, upon which it is un sented to me as poor Ned's lineal descendant. I was not a lutionary war, while this city was in the possession of the necessary here to dilate. I began to be afraid of being cut oft | little surprised, and a good deal pleased to find it was the same enemy's forces, the Middle Dutch church was converted

into in my prime, (sixty-three) and I disliked the idea of dying for youth I had overheard the preceding evening "Welcom & riding-school, to instruct the British cavalry in the art of several reasons. For many years I had been in death's way, thought I, “ this is at least some comfort

, I will dry up poor horsemanship; and the large stone sugar-house

, which stands but always avoided him as much as possible ; when on the Mary's tears." Ned was glad enough to find a rich uncle near it in Liberty-street, was used as a prison for the incarce-field of battle I have thought it would be better to meet him and doubtless indulged in all those pleasant visions of the ration of prisoners of war.

quietly and serenely on a sick-bed, and when tossing and future which young people are so expert in creating. I bought

tumbling on a sick-bed I have thought it preferable to be in a large house, took him home with me, and soon found there This elegant structure, which fronts on William-street, be-troduced to his notice amid the hurry and confusion of a field | was no living without the rascal. He completely wound himtween Fulton and Ann streets, was founded in 1768. It is of battle ; in fact, in whatever way he seemed likely to approach, self round my old heart, and no wonder. He was the merbuilt of plain stone, and is one hundred feet in length and in that way I disliked him most. In the country in which i riest, hardiest, heartiest fellow in création; could do every seventy-five in breadth. A square tower ascends two stories resided , his usual mode of intruding himself into the company thing-dance, sing, hunt

, shoot, sail a boat, drive a gig, crack above the roof, from which springs a handsome spire to the of people was through the medium of his rascally agent, yel- a joke, or tell a story better than any one. height of about two hundred feet from the ground. This low-fever

, and so I determined to depart and enjoy the re- so good-natured, and without the slightest approach to start spire, which was not added until the year 1823, is corisidered mainder of my days in my native land. Enjoy the remainder vility, put up with my whims and ill-humour in a way that a very elegant specimen of architecture, and contains a gal- of my days! alas? how we misapply words. The time was made me like him ten times more than ever, the moment they fery that commands a fine and extensive view. The church when the mere consciousness of existence was enjoyment; were over.

The truth was, I had a most unfortunate temper yard is enclosed by a neat substantial iron ruíling, and the when a scamper over the fields, a match at cricket

, or a fox- such as no one could acquire except those who have lived tout ensemble is highly ornamental to the city. The conchase was superlative delight; but now age, that is, middle-among slaves and under a tropical sun. I was at times a pergregation of this church and that of the Middle Dutch | age, had overtaken me, and all the artificial stimulus that||fect hurricane-a whirlwind—a tornado, (described above) are under one organization, and form a riches could procure, afforded but a fleeting and transitory “Ned," said I, one day after dinner while we were taking collegiate charge, now under the pastoral care of the Rev. feeling of something that resembled enjoyment, yet fell far|our wine together, “ Ned, my boy, I think it is about time you Drs. Kuypers, Knox, Brownlee, and Dewitt, short of the original. But I will not moralize.

had a wife."

But dress'd in smiles-such smiles as Eden wore,
When man first knelt his Maker to adore."

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and Mary were married, and it made me feel quite young rect. The manner in which they have haggled and bargainence among again to look at the fair and blooming bride, dressed in virgined about the price of Mr. Inman's portrait of Van Buren conI will look white, and blushing “celestial rasy red-love's proper hue!” | clusively shows, that however bounteous and unsparing they

And then the bridesmaids skipping about like young fawns ;| may be when choice viands and cookery are concerned, yet but have and smirking, giggling, and laughing if a male creature did in such a mere mechanical art as painting they are detera

but so much as look at them. I kissed them all around, and mined to save as many dollars as possible. We do not know

was pronounced the most gallant old gentleman ever seen in whether there is any truth in the report afloat, that one of ?!?

those parts, walked a minuet with the bride's mother, told long || the fathers of the city, noted for acuteness, compared that

incomprehensible stories, and was conveyed to bed in a high is measured—the picture with others in the room, and found rned to real. state of excitement; my head ached in the morning, but got that it lacked three-quarters of an inch in length, and half an

better as the day advanced. I leave the moral of this tale to inch in breadth, and that upon this being reported to the ope," said I. || the ingenuity of the reader. ZACHARIAH HOWARD. whole body, they unanimously agreed that a deduction ought

to be made in consequence of there not being the full quanin a frenzy,

tity of canvass contracted for. This is probably the ground on THE DRAMA.

which the corporation inake a stand, as the picture is universal

ly allowed, by the best judges, to be a capital likeness, and an ot been for THE PARK THEATRE.

admirable work of art; but this, of course, all goes for nothing, might have

Since our last two young gentlemen have exposed them- if it is not full-sized ; and we presume that no one will dispute ble behavi- selves before the public in a way calculated to draw forth the the axiom laid down by the corporation—that there ought inarkled--he

commiseration of their friends and acquaintances. We had variably to be more paid for a large picture than a small one.

hoped that the forcible eloquence of thin houses would have Seriously, the late discussion was disgraceful to the city. We he world.”

put a stop to those first appearances; but the nuisance conti- are always making a noise about the encouragement of paintpassion. I

nues unabated, and no kind of discouragement secms able to ing in this country, and contending that its advancement rent of op-extinguish the tragic fires of the "young gentlemen of this does not depend upon aristocratic patronage. Perhaps this at checking city." If these immodest aspirants, in consequence of an im- | is true—but painters must have patronage of some kind, and if Eed myself. || perfect education, or keeping bad company, have been visited in these United States there is neither aristrocratic, nor fede

with an histrionic malady, why do they not go and work it off| ral, nor democratic patronage, it follows that United States' e to depre- in some barn or spouting-club, and not disgrace the boards of artists must be very badly patronised ; and it is this that drives che paused a metropolitan theatre with their crude conceptions, awkward | all that rise above mediocrity to seek fitting remuneration in ed—you gestures, and distressing elocution ? Do such people really | Europe. Hundreds of New York merchants are richer than for it, but imagine that their efforts will afford instruction or gratifica-Italian princes; but where is there one amongst them that life, good tion to the spectators ? Men of eagle genius-Kean, and takes a young man by the hand, and smooths his path to fame pendant,” Cooke, and Kemble—had to undergo years of preliminary and fortune? Mr. Inman bids fair to be the first portrait

drilling before they were thought worthy to appear upon | painter this country has produced ; but we presume in a little me expla- the boards of a decent theatre; then by what spell—"what time he also will take his departure for England to return no case stood conjuration, or what mighty magic," do those misguided more. Genius cannot be measured by the square foot, or paid ed I loved, and ill-informed young men hope at once to attain perfection, according to the ordinary computations of time and trouble ; or fancied and successfully personate the highest characters of the drama and no man who feels it within him will submit to the petty her opini-Ion the boards of the first theatre in the Union ? Yet within a bargaining of those who have neither taste nor liberality. ad a great

few months, no less than six persons, answering this descripaperior to tion, have made their debut as Octavian, the best of whom, to

ARTS AND SCIENCES. -sively on speak in moderate language, was most execrable. We never nsinuated remember to have seen the tragic more completely burlesqued Miss Jen-than on one of these occasions, after listening to one of Flo

I left Leyden with regret, and pursued my journey to he was a ranthe's glowing descriptions of the godlike form and features Haarlem. The canal between the two towns is thought very nothing. of her lover, to behold one of nature's most insignificant pro

fine. The greater part of my stay in this place was spent in nd I took | ductions come waddling across the stage, who looked more a to show like an unfortunate cobbler that had seen better days, than the listening to the famous organ, the finest in the world. It seems

of the very soul and essence of musical harmony, reconcili- | proud and lofty Spanish grandee; and whose voice, when he

The variety of its tones is astonishing; and its power of imico under-spake of love, sounded like a man's that had been brought up tating all instruments, tihether single or combined, can neither that the in a swamp-or like an old fisherman's, a strange combination be conceived by those who have not been in Haarlem, nor deRussell

. of fog and brandy! In the present case the gentleman that scribed by those who have. The warlike flourish of the Elenge, – attenpted Othello failed in the very casiest part of it

, namely, trumpet

, the clear note of the octave, and the mellow tone of in colouring or discolouring his countenance ; instead of a the flute, are heard in beautiful succession, when these appear to have genuine blackamoor, he merely looked like a white man with

to swell into a thousand instruments, and the senses are nearly another a dirty face. of his personation of the “ wrong'd Othello

” overpowered by the united effect of a most powerful and har. ut I was

we say nothing, excepting that Othello was never so "wrong’d” | monious military band, which again sinks away in those more -rath for before. And then, it is also exceedingly disagreeable to see the females of the theatre hauled about in the clumsy embraces duce. The organist

, whose naine is Schumann, played a very

gentle and impressive sounds which an organ alone can promyself

. / of all sorts of people that choose to make themselves ridicu: fine battle-picce, in which every imaginable sound of joy and dignity | lous; such things are very easy in private, but it requires taci

sorrow, fear, courage, misery, and despair—were combined Em. He and practice to embrace a lady with decency in public. What with the rouring of musketry, the thunderous sweep of can

we wonder most at is, how the manager l'econciles it to his y struck conscience to allow of these proceedings. We are informou non, and the loud and irresistil:le charge of a thousand horses:

and commingled with these, during the clread intervals of contact that the other night the worthy treasurer really felt as if he conparative silence were the shouts of the victors, the lameny brains was doing an act of injustice to receive the money that was tations of the wounded, and the groans of the dying. No already proffered him for admission ; and, moreover, that on a stran- | painting could have presented so clear and terrible a picture ger inquiring the price of tickets, and being answered one

of two mighty armies, advancing in battle array, iningling Bed, the dollar, Mr Barnes, who happened to be in the box-office, inade ) in the mortal conflict, and converting the face of nature into or opena precipitate retreat-his cheeks sulfused with blushes! The

one universal scene of confusion, dismay, and death. Rarely erfeited

manner in which the audience applaud every three words | does music produce an effect upon the mind so permanent as

that happen to be plainly spoken, is one of those unaccount- either poetry or painting; but, in my own case, there is, in 2W, It

able mysteries which it is vain to endeavour to solve. d Ned,

C.

this instance, an exception to the general rule. I have liscovery,

tened to the “notes angelical of many a harp," but never were e know THE FINE ARTS.

my ears seized with such ravishment as on the evening 1 longer.

passed at Haarlem. The organist afterwards took me up to ed, and

INMAN'S PORTRAIT OF VAN BUREN. the organ-loft, where I was favoured with a near inspection. ken for It has been insinuated, at divers times, that our worthy I thought the appearance of the keys very diminutive, when

I was corporation were not over and above economical in their ex-contrasted with the sublime effect produced by them. There -you penditure of the city funds, and that the appropriations for are about five thousand pipes belonging to this organ. The our old suppers, Sing-sing excursions, turtles and wines, were uncom- || largest is thirty-eight feet long, and fifteen inches in diameter. ne and monly liberal. We have always maintained that these were There are many pleasant country residences near Haarlem, irting, only the pleasant and indispensable perquisites of office, and among which Hartkamp should be mentioned, being more ken to that upon proper occasions the corporation would be found particularly interesting, as having been at one time the abode comb, | as pinching and parsimonious as they were at other times of Linnæus and the place where that famous botanist laid ; Ned" frank and free-hearted, and this opinion has proved to be cor-!! the foundation of his immortal system.

Blackwood

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ORIGINAL POETRY.
And thou hadst no kind guide, no home

POPULAR TALES.
To shield thine orphan head; CAROLINE.

And loved thee with far deeper stress
Than in thy summer morn,

TIIE GUARD
"She is not very beautiful."
For thou wert then all joyousness,

A merrier man
I've known a fairer form than hers--a face

1-nameless and forlorn.

Within the limits of becoming mirth
Of more surpassing loveliness—and eyes

I never spent an hour's talk withal.--Shakspeare.
Of deeper tint cerulean--and a presence,

I flew to thee when nobler friends,

“Begone, dull care, I prithee begone from me," sung out a Prouder than hers to grace a shrine for worship;

Far from thy sighs removed;
Yet when I look upon her innocent features

And hid thee in my own warm breast,

deep sonorous voice behind me, as, having just exalted myself Lit up by an effulgent intellect

My first and only loved !

to the top of the York mail, I was busily at work composing And trace the windings of the purple stream

And bade thy tears and ills depart,

myself in my place. "Begone, dull care, thou and I shall Through its thin covering, eloquently speaking

Life's springs of gladness flow

never agree.” In language to the heart intelligible,

Nor wilt thou e'er forget the heart,

I looked round and soon discovered that it emanated from The thoughts that crowd into her artless mind,

Unchanged through weal and wo. PROTEUS.

our guard, as a kind of accompaniment to the exertion for I do forget myself in the sweet theme;

pulling off his huge dreadnought coat,

He not only sung
And wayward fancy fashions her as one
Lovely as houri-forms that poets dream of,

ENIGMA.

heartily, but his appearance well answered the burthen of his Feigning their Eden songs.

"Solve me this riddle, if you can.

song, for he was a good, fresh looking man, and certainly reShe's but a child ! Our whole is a community of fame,

joiced in as happy and cheerful a countenance as a man would And yet a pleasant study for my thoughts.

Of fourteen members--can you guess the name?

wish to be blessed with; he also was very smart in his man. I've led her by the hand through the green fields, Jewelled with nature's own luxuriance,

We form a city-yet, upon a pinch,

ner and dress, wore a ring on his finger, tied his neck-cloth When the blue sky hung o'er us like a garment,

The space we occupy is scarce an inch?

quite in style, and cocked his hat as if he thought no small And bright-bued flowers sprung up beneath our steps;

And yet, within so limited a spot,
Is found an inn, a castle, and a cot;

tride of himself. By-the-by, I have a prodigious fancy that And with a deep, unspoken joy have watched

the character of a man, or at least of what he thinks of him

A tent, a seat, an antiquated pile;
The expanding of her mind, when first awoke

A sloop, a nation, continent, and isle ;

self

, is to be known from merely observing the physiognomy, Its young imaginings-intelligence Floating like incense on her gentle breath ; A sea, an ocean-still, you'll understand,

if I may so term it, of the cock of his hat. Be that, however, Methought that sweet unfolding of the spirit

There's neither building, water, ship, nor land!

as it may, the gentleman (I am sure he thought himself as Was like the birth of fragrance in the flower.

But Spain is there, the east, and both the poles,

much so as any of them who travelled with him) seened little

With planets, pilots, cattle, plaice, and soles ;
There is a sweet and placid temper writ

disturbed by my observation, singing blithely on as he proceed

A coast and cape, a sail, a game of loo;
Upon her brow, type of the soul within :

A sect, a saint, and one apostle too;

ed to adjust his dress with great care and exactness.
I dwell with doting fondness on her looks
That brighten on my heart, amid life's cares,

Lions, and cats, an insect, tea, and ice,

" That man's a character," said I to myself, not slightly Like sun-beams on the wave-tost mariner,

Toast
, onions, peas, and pie, a goodly slice ;

amused by his operation; and considering that the sign, which

A snipe, a seal, an ant, an asp, a snail,
Desolate on a sea of storms! And then

his face held out, promised a certainty of good cheer and enThe bird-like melody of her low voice,

A pot, a pan, a plate, with cans, and ale; Breathing the accents of untaught affection,

Yet there is neither beast, nor bird, nor fish, tertainment, I spread my coat on the roof of the coach, and Or mingling in harmonious cadences :

Nor food, nor drink, nor vessel, nor a dish! leaning back upon it, at once commenced parlance with him. Blest sounds, that may be in an after year,

True, there's a pint, a spoon, soine oats, a stool,

“Good old song that of yours, guard.” An unforgotten music to the heart !

A plane, a nail, a staple, and a tool;

“It is, sir," returned he in a good-humoured tone, "especiBut when at eve my laden brow she Soap, pins, and paints, with caps, and coats, and lace;

" for I hold it one of presses

And he tuned up,

ally as 1 sing it."
To her pure lip, and, with most sweet endearment,

But not a thing for body, head, or face!
Twining her slight and delicate arms around mg

We've pens and pencils to address a card,

the wisest things to drive dull care away."

An attic and a tenant-not a bard!
Seeks to beguile my very weariness

Fond of music, I

Umph! rot far wrong," thought
And cheat me of a smile--I lose all sense

Coins, cents, and notes--but, ah! no cash is ours !

presume.". Of sorrow, and my eyes are filled for joy;

Plants, aloes, sloe--but neither shrubs nor flowers;

" Ye-es, sir~well enough in its way helps one on a bit It is an ecstacy that hath no words.

A fertile soil, with aspen, satin, pine,
You'll smile and say this is a rhapsody----

Without one tree, and yet we boast of nine, occasionally, when there's nothing better to be done; but I
In very sooth it is—I'm most content

And though our place has no disease in't,

never studied it—quite a natural talent-ti-tiddle-tom." That you should call it so. My heart is full,

You'll find a lancet, seton, and some lint ;

I could scarcely avoid smiling at my new friend's comfortaTo overflowing,

Dedelightful dreamingsThough we're no soldiers, whole platoons are found,

ble opinion of himself, it was so perfectly comfortable. SHE IS MY DAUGHTER !

And though no lawyers, clients still abound; M.

We've spite, and plots, and noise, a strong police, sirous, however, of not offending him, I diverted the impulse

A slap and contest, without breach of peace; by inquiring how he liked his mode of life. STANZAS.

A sin, a pit, and pain, without a groan,

“I daro say, guard, it would require much to make you " Ninfa, ya de amor solo,

A sonnet on content, with taste and tone; Solo canta mi lira,"

change it ?!
I saw thee in thy life's young spring;

A smiling aspect, and a sprightly pace,

“And why should I wish to change it, sir? I know of no A lip of sweetness, and a step of grace. Of sylph-like form and air,

All these are in our whole, with many more,

objection to it; though to be sure, it may not sound very grand Ere thou hadst known one venom'd sting

And yet we're not three-quarters of a score !

to be a mail-coach guard; but, you know, sir, it all depends Of wretchedness or care; But if you analyze our various parts,

the

upon I loved thee then, but durst not think.

of doing the thing—there is a way of doing every E’en o'er the joyous wine,

Still greater wonder must possess your hearts.

thing." That I might ever hope to link

For if our ninth, and third and tenth you take,

And he twitched up his neck-cloth, and pulled in his chin You will a house of entertainment make, y destiny with thine.

Where oft our sixth, thirteenth, and fourteenth, join'd, with a very superlative kind of finish, thereby giving me an I saw thee in thy summer moin,

Refresh the frame, and elevate the mind ;

opportunity of observing, When time had all refined

Our fourth, fourteenth, and sixth, in order, form

* Truly." Tlıc graces of thy matchless form,

The scene of many a desolating storm;

“But perhaps, sir," he inquired with quick eagerness, "you The beauties of thy mind;

Our sixth, our fourth, and twelfth, united, show,
And loved thee then as warm and well,

have never considered philosophically what a guard is, for you

The remedy for Cleopatra's woe; As e'er the good may be ;

Our first, and second, with our fifth combined, must know that I'm a bit of a philosopher myself." But had not power to break the spell,

Construct a dwelling of the humblest kind;

In much amused surprise at this specimen of the march of Nor tell the tale to thee.

Our tisth, eleventh, with our seventh, make

intellect, I mentally exclaimed, I saw thee oft in festive hall,

A greater burthen than you'd choose to take.

“A mail-coach guard a philosopher! What will the world Where birth and beauty shone,

Lastly, our eighth, fourteenth, and sixth, reveal

come to next?”
And in my loneliness of love,

Á wliolesome beverage for your evening meal.
I gazed on thee alone;
Solve me this riddle, ye wise-acre swains,

I briefly, however, admitted that I never had.
Nor thought to mark in that rich blaze,

, And you shall have sweet kisses for your pains. Sophia. "Well, sir, then permit me to tell you-maintain that my If brighter beauties were

(A solution is requested.)

situation possesses, in a very great degree, all the charms of It was enough that I might gaze

life. Pray, sir, what may you consider life to be valuable fory On one so sweetly fair.

Mr. Editor-1 had the pleasure lately of receiving from a I answered that I really did not pretend to be a philosopher,
But time, that hath a change for all--
Darkness, or bloom, or blight-

young lady the following lines, enclosing a safety-chain. Will || nor was I at the instant prepared to answer so difficult a Threw clouds upon thy sunny hopes,

you have the goodness to give them a place in the Mirror ? B. question without first well considering it. I thought each in'Tis not a chain of slavery,

dividual had á peculiar way of thinking, and what was happiThat I have dared to offer thec

ness to one might be almost misery to another, Yet would I bid it closer bind

"Excuse my interrupting you, sir, but you speak of the obThe power of friendship on thy mind;

ject

, I of the principle."
And thus in silken fetters hold,
What's of more value far than gold.

“Then pray," said I, smiling at his distinction, " what may Such bondage thou mayst own to me,

be your idea of the principle of happiness ?" And wear the chain and still be free! Eliza. !! "Why, sir, I will tell you--I think that the whole charm of

And veiled thy path of light;
While me he sought in lowly cot,

Where want and scorn attend,
And raised to fortune's proudest lot

To be misfortune's friend.
I saw thee in that wintry hour,

When spring's bright dreams were fled,

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THE NEW-YORK MIRROR.

their former contracted accommodations for others more ample
and worthy of their increasing influence and operations. The

Till feeling's tide o'erfowed in rapid words;

And from her lips rushed forth a sudden stream Eloquence of the United States.-Seldom has a legislative new City Dispensary, Clinton-hall-the Rotunda, converted

Of the heart's deep unstudied eloquence. assembly listened to strains of more impassioned and impres- into a sessions court--the opening and widening of Ann,

"Speak, stranger, speak those thrilling words again. sive oratory than those elicited by the late discussion in the Cedar, and Liberty streets, which formerly threaded their "Oh, tell me of sweet Italy, my own, national senate, on the resolution introduced by Mr. Foot, re-sinuous courses between piles of rookeries, but are now en My native land! What mighty magic lies specting the disposition of the public lands. How far the de- larged and graced by splendid rows of stores and dwelling "In those three simple words, my native land!

"It brings associations to the heart, bate was confined to the subject which gave rise to it, or pre- houses the elevation of Justice on the cupola of the City

"Of love, and hope, and happiness, and home; served a character of unity and dignified consistency, we are hall, making way for the introduction of a mnonitor of time,

“Of childhood's halcyon days; the gladsome hours not disposed to inquire. We allude to the speeches of indi- which shall speak to the eye by night as well as day--and “Of careless mirth and youthful innocence. vidual members, considered abstractedly in themselves, in so sundry other improvements, which we have not time to men "Oh Italy, dear Italy, my joy, my pride!

"Far dearer than the spirit-stirring scenes far as they developed the intellectual energies and resources, tion, attest the advancement of New-York in architectural

“Of this gay city. What is this to me? the moral strength and purity, and the political sagacity and decoration and beauty.

"This land of commerce and of interest patriotic aspirations of the representatives of the American N. B.-The Jail and Bridewell still adorn the most public "Can it compare with that bright spot of earth people. And we advance the opinion, without fear of con-promenade and thoroughfare in the city.

"Where poetry and genius seem to breathe tradiction, that never was there displayed in any other popu Miss Elizabeth Bogart.--Abounding as this country does

"E'en from inanimate things ?-where every breeze lar theatre rhetorical talent of higher order, literary taste more with female poets of the first stamp of merit, we think we

" Which sighs o'er fragrant flowers, whispers some tale refined, wit more sparkling, satire more poignant, repartee may without vanity claim the very best among the contribu

"Of high-wrought fancy-while the classic streams

"And rivers, as they glide along their course more keen, knowledge of human nature and of human history | tors to the New-York Mirror. Of these, and we have had "In murmuring music woo the muses' smiles, more profound and philosophical, or jealousy of the rights of repeated occasion to express admiration of the successful ex

"Where mountains are the storied monuments men and freemen, more severe, watchful, and zealous. Tri- hibition of their talents, Miss Elizabeth Bogart of this city,

"Of ancient greatness; and each verdant vale umphant and exalted must have been the rapturous delight deservedly enjoys a conspicuous rank. Her pieces are fre

"A fitting home for beauty and for love. of the speakers, as they beheld gathered around them the most quently transplanted to the British poetic parterre, and ac

Begin again-repeat what you have said-

“In glowing language paint the picture o'er, brilliant assemblages which wealth, intelligence, beauty, and knowledged there to be delightful and exquisite exotics. We "Till every object lives and breathes before me. fashion could concentrate, and all enchained in one unbro-|| are pleased to perceive, both for the sake of the public and

" Tears will flow afresh, but heed them notken, continued, and almost worshipful silence. Discordant|our own, that she is a frequent writer in some of the most

My heart would burst without them.” as were the opinions, varied the constructions of the import || popular of our periodical journals. When we say our own,

Suddenly

Another entered, with a haughty eye, of the great charter of our rights, and reciprocally sarcastic we refer with pride to the circumstance that the columns of A question in his glance-'twas he whose love the rejoinders of the several antagonists in this political foray, the Mirror first introduced the gifted Estelle to the acquain First won the young Italian from her home. the grand and gratifying effect upon the audience, and upon tance and admiration of the poetical reader. Individual praise

The scene was soon explained--the husband spoke. all who read the recorded words however enfeebled their im-ll of our own correspondents we seldom indulge in; but where

And at his voice a change came o'er her thoughts; press-must be to draw stronger the bonds of attachment of merit is so conspicuous, it were insensibility and injustice not

The images, raised by the stranger's words,

Melted away, and she was all the wife. every citizen of these states to the present constitution, which to notice its worth. Neither do we intend any disparagement Why weeps my dear Emilia? Sighs she still secures the union, and with it the liberties of his country. Dif- of the claims of generous rivals, of whom Miss Bogart may "For the bright scenes of childhood, for the things ferent constructions may, indeed, be put upon its written let-be proud to number not a few-nor will these misunderstand

"Which once, weighed in the balance with her love, tor, but its spirit that spirit to animate and immortalize the nature of the homage paid to a kindred spirit. Jealousy

"Were light, compared to it? What feeling now which was the aspiring and pure wish of the great father cannot rankle where a noble enthusiasm burns. In justifica

"Has wrought this change? Am I not still the same,

And all your own, as in that blissful hour of his country, and his noble compeers, the Jeffersons, || tion of these remarks we confidently refer the reader to the "When you exchanged your parent's love for mine? the Hamiltons, the Madisons, the Jays, and the Clintons— following beautiful production, which we have copied from the "My country is your country tell me, then, is acknowledged in every bosom to be one and the same, Rochester Craftsman :

“Which of the links is broken that so long identified with political elevation and independence, with

"Has bound our hearts in one?!'

She could not tell
moral and civil freedom, with intellectual advancement and general welfare. Such has been the impression left on our

She sat alone and busy thought went back,

She had forgotten all, in those few, brief,
A faithful traveller, to her native clime-

And happy moments—all

, but the one sense minds, after an attentive perusal of the speeches of Webster, And memory's magic wand touched every scene;

Of her heart's young idolatry. Italia's streams;
Hayne, Sprague, Benton, Woodbury, &c.

Well may, our
And flowers, and trees, and rivers rose to view,

And vales, and mountains, with its azure skies, common country be proud of her sons, and well may she Beneath Italia's sunny skies. Her heart

Its bright luxuriant flowers, its palaces, point to them with the exalted dignity of the Roman mother,

Leaped in her bosom, as the vision grew

And fanes, and temples-e'en its poetry,
More bright to fancy's eye-and suddenly,

And eloquence, and music, all were lost
who, as the chief ornament of her life, and the most precious

She swept the chords of her neglected harp,

In that one dream-and such is woman's love. ESTELLE. jewel of her family honours, pointed to her virtuous, her pa And "home, sweet home," re-echoed to the sound.

The American press.-All who are in the babit of reading triotic, and her gifted offspring,

Gently it died away--the swell was gone ;
And murmurs sweet and low, fell on the car,

the newspapers of this country must be struck with the truth Boston Courier.—Mr. Buckingham has much cause to As if Æolus had just wandered past,

of the following remarks from the National Gazette : complain of the liberties taken with his original articles, and And stirred the strings--so sad the symphony,

"It is to the disgrace and injury of the American press, has every editor who labours incessantly in mind as well

And yet so full of untaught music. Hers

that even moral and literary criticism should be subjected to

Was nature's science; 'twas the soul itself, as body to render his pages instructive and entertaining, not

slander; and that the defence of sound morals, or the exercise with borrowed but self-attained light; and deep is our regret

Breathing in harmony with the deep voice

of impartiality, cannot escape the most ridiculous and enor

Of earth, and air, and ocean; all things fell that we should have been led into an unconscious act of un

By the pure spirit's innate sympathies.

mous personal imputations, which the whole true history and fairness towards so able a contemporary. But the fault was A wondrous gift it was, that few possessed,

position of the individual thus assailed may utterly belie." The article entitled ." Hints to Januses," we

Of thrilling melody; and with the power, never saw in the Boston Courier; we took it second-hand from

But seldom equalled, she had often held

The Count de Rossi.—The Count de Rossi, who has mar Thousands in listening silence, till the charm

ried Mademoiselle Sontag, is a native of Corsica, and a rc2 country periodical. Were we to punish with a refusal of ex

Grew to such ecstacy 'twas almost pain,

lation of Bonaparte by the Romalino family. He was a staff change every journal that voluntarily robbed us of the credit Columbia's children heard, and wept, and smiled,

officer of Jerome at the court of Westphalia, where his sister due for our articles, our list would soon be reduced to one-third As her soft foreign accent gave a tone

was married to the Prince de Salm. its present size. Mr. Buckingham himself, not long since,

More sweet to English words—but when she sang

Within the walls of her own splendid dome, copied into his columns, without credit, a poem which appeared

Countess de Genlis.— The Countess de Genlis, (the cele

To silent pictures, and the gilded things
originally in this gazette. We did him the justice not to en-

of art and luxury, her voice refused
brated authoress of romances and novels,) attained the age

of tertain a suspicion for a moment of there having been an in Its compass to the strain, and breathed forth, ilien, eighty-four years on Monday last, when her pupil, the Duko tentional injury done us on his part, because we knew and ap Those broken notes

of Orleans, paid his respects to her. preciated too highly his honour, honesty, and independence.

A stranger entered-one

We

copy the paragraphs below from the National Gazette : Should he not have visited us with the same courtesy ? In con

Of her own countrymen, who came to bring Tidings from her forsaken home. He spoke

There are about forty newspapers in London, and in the clusion, however, we would recommend to every editor the

The language of her infancy—the first

country of England one hundred and thirty-seven; the wliole propriety of striking from their exchange-list all those papers In which she learned to speak, and more, to think ; number in the British isles is two hundred and sixty-two. It that wilfully and habitually purloin their articles in other The first her heart had understood and loved.

appears that eight persons, on the average, are engaged 01 words, republish them without acknowledgment; and when

He told his tale with classic elegance

each publication, as literary assistants; and that some papers

“He'd come from Rome, and from her fathers' house, Mr. Buckingham, or any other of the corps, convict us of such

“Her mother was no more—she slept in peace

have from fifteen to twenty persons of education and respecoffence, we are ready to submit most cheerfully to the infliction

56 With her long line of ancient ancestry,

tability thus engaged. of their chastisement.

"Her sister had grown up most beautiful

The London Morning Chronicle records it as "a saying in "And rich in genius, the bright heritage

America,” that no Englishman can have an insight into busiLate city improvements.--Despite of the awfully dull times,

"Of her dear country—and her brother's name,

ness till he has lost all his money.
the depression of trade, and the scanty circulation of money, " Was crowned with glory in the martial field,
the external aspect of this metropolis continues daily to re "And laurels fitted well his lofty brow.

Pickersgill is now declared to be the first portrait painter ceive new features, which replace its more ancient gloomy

" There were some palaces and temples yet

in Great Britain. In’exquisite small pictures Etty is thoughi character, and approximate it, in our conceptions at least, to

Remaining there, unbroken but by time.

to be without a rival in his generation. "The muses' seats were on the mountains still,

In the year sixteen hundred and sixty-three the legislature the splendid capitals of Europe. Streets, formerly narrow,

" Their favourite haunts, along the river's banks

of Massachusetts passed the following law: "And hereafter short, and dingy, are widened and prolonged, and the light of " The climate was as pure, the sky as blue, heaven made to shine upon quickly rising ranges of new and

no person whatever shall make any garment for women with

"The trees as shady, and the flowers as bright lofty edifices. Our public institutions, likewise, exchange

"As when she left the soil."

sleeves more than an ell wide."

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Colonel M'Leod received a deadly wound, the whole was cut be glad often to see this planet illuminating our world of/ and half a dozen dignitaries of the church were summoned

Colonel M'Leod, forined themselves into a square, and by a

NEWSPAPER POETRY.

“When the king grew weary of courts and camps and batbrisk fire forced the Egyptians to retire behind the heights of Hamed; but being repeatedly harassed, he began to retreat to A fair correspondent, says the New-York American, whose tles

, the observing artist took new ground, and appealed to the main body, under Major Wogelsand. No sooner was this and natural lines, told a tale, that all will read, and none of the king a series of pictures on the progress of revealed reli

name is as a star to our readers, has certainly in very pretty the religious feelings of his royal patron. He suggested to movement made than the Egyptians rushed from every side.

course, believe--at least none of the sterner sex. We should gion. A splendid oratory was projected for their reception, to pieces; only Captain M‘Kay and seven men escaped to Major Wogelsand, who having formed his troops into a square,

to consider the propriety of introducing paintings into a place types

and

paper. on unequal ground, was after an obstinate resistance com Ma. EDITOR-I send you the newest words to a favourite of worship. When I reflect,' said the king, that the re pelled to surrender. General Stewart on the news of this air

. You can assure your readers that nothing personal | the parliament in the unhappy days of King Charles I, did

formation condemned religious paintings in churches, and that disaster, spiked his cannon, destroyed his ammunition, and is intended, for none will believe that a girl of seventeen can the same, I am fearful of introducing any thing which my peobegan his retreat. In this he succeeded, though not without be found desirous to be married. I am sure I am not; and being harassed by the Egyptian troops. He however arrived although I may sing thus—it's all a “hum,” I assure you.

ple may think improper. Will you give me your opinion on at Aboukir, where he embarked for Alexandria, and on his The winds of March are humming

the subject ? After some deliberation Bishop Hurd delivered, arrival they cut the dyke which connects the city with the

Their parting song—their parting song,

in the name of his brethren and himself, their unanimous mainland, to secure their position. Finding they had to deal

And summer's skies are coming,

opinion that the introduction of religious paintings into his with a spirit not easily subdued, it was resolved to send

And days grow long--and days grow long, majesty's chapel would in no respect whatever violate the laws General Frazer to treat upon the evacuation of Egypt. The

I watch, but not in gladness,

or usages of the church of England. We have examined,

Our garden tree-our garden tree; answer of the pacha was, that he was going to Demanhour,

too, continued Hurd, 'thirty-five subjects which the painter

It buds, in sober sadness, where he would treat with the English; there was no alter

Too soon for me-too soon for me.

proposed for our choice, and we feel there is not one of them native, and general Sherbroke was dispatched with full powers.

My second winter's over,

but may be treated in a way that even a quaker might contemHe demanded the release of the English prisoners, which was

Alas! and ]-a lass! and I

plate with edification. The king conceived this to be an ironigranted, on condition that Alexandria was forth with evacu

Have no accepted lover;

cal allusion to West, and was a little nettled. "The quakers,'

Don't ask me why--don't ask me why. ated, and left in as good condition as it was found. The pacha

he replied, “are a body of christians for whom I have a high on the last visit of general Sherbroke, presented him with a

'Tis not asleep, or idle,

respect; I love their peaceful tenets and their benevolence to

That love has been that love has been fine Arabian steed, and his officers with suitable presents.

one another, and but for the obligations of birth, I would be a

For many a happy bridal “The friendship of England,” said this crasty politician,

quaker.' The bishop bowed and retired.” The year has seen-the year has seen.

Of the violent and irascible Barry, Mr. Cunningham gives was of high value to hin, and he hoped in future that a

I've done a bride's-maid duty more friendly disposition would exist towards him.” Thus end

At three or four-at three or four;

a favourable account, and pronounces him to be "the greatest ed the first and inost dangerous exploit of this renowned inan.

My best bouquet had beauty;

enthusiast in art which England ever produced !"

Its donor more-its donor more. We are not of opinion that Mehemed Ali will break with

One of the most interesting portions of the present volume My second winter's over,

is Mr. Cunningham's account of Blake, the artist and poet. the ottoman porte, unless driven to that course by the sultan.

Alas! and I-a lass! and I Ile will rather strengthen his interests with the people, attach

Have no accepted lover;

of this strangely constituted man it may be said that he had them to his person, and establish an independent kingdom for

Don't ask me why-don't ask me wliy,

the power of acting rationally during the day, and going mad his son in preference to himself. This son, Ibrahim Pacha, Ilis flowers my bosom shaded,

in the evening. He could keep for twelve hours on the windcelebrated in the war in Greece, has all the talents of his

One sunny day-one sunny day.

ward side of the verge of insanity, and then walk deliberately father with a much better education : and to him is ascribed

The next, they fled, and faded,

over it. He was evidently afflicted with that disease of the

Beau and bouquet-beau and bouquet. 1he inerits of advancing the agricultural interests of that

nervous system which causes visual spectra to arise before the In vain at balls and parties

eye, and was without the knowledge or strength of mind to country. Egypt from its vicinity to the Persian Gulf and the I've thrown my net--I've thrown my net;

know his disease. He believed in his own visions, and paintEast Indies, is highly important to the United States, and we This waltzing, watching heart, is should endeavour to cultivate a friendly understanding with

Unchosen yet-unchosen yet.

ed portraits of the characters whose apparitions he thought he My second winter's over,

This singular man was a poet

no mean order, and the pacha, in case political events should throw us out of the

Alas! and I-a lass! and I

had he lived in times when poetry was less common or better regular trade beyond the Cape of Good Hope.

S. Have no accepted lover ;

appreciated, might have had his name and fame. Don't ask me why-don't ask me why,

The following beautiful passages are quoted by-Mr. CunDESULTORY SELECTIONS.

They tell me there's no hurry

ningham. They were written when he was under twenty, For hymen's ring—for hymen's ring, And I'm too young to marry

and occur in a dramatic poem, entitled Edward the Third. TIIE PARTERRE. "Tis no such thing--'tis no such thing.

Explore the circle of English dramatic poetry, and it will be A SEMI-MONTHLY publication in Hartford, Connecticut, The next spring's tides will dash on

found difficult to surpass them; for, strange to relate

, his bearing the above title, has been discontinued for the want of My eighteenth year-my eighteenth ycar ; youthful poetry, in which he might have been expected to be

It puts me in a passionpatronage. In his valedictory, which we give below, the edi

found wildost, seems to have been the most perfect and best

O dear, O dear --O dear, 0 dear! cor has hit off the miseries of editorship to the life. Не

considered of all he did, whether in authorship or painting,

My second winter's over, deserves a better fate, and will no doubt gain it if he sticks to

Alas! and I-a lass! and I

Sir Walter Manny, on the eve of the battle of Cressy, is his resolution, and makes no more attempts to obtain editorial

Have no accepted lover ;

conversing with Sir Thomas Dagworth: celebrity

Don't ask me why-don't ask me why.

"O! Dagworth, France is sick. The very sky, “ If I am so quickly done for,

Though sunshine light, doth seem to me as palo I wonder what I was bogun för."'.

As is the fainting man on his death-bed,

Whose face is shown by light of one weak taper. We will fiddle no longer without pay. Here we have been PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS.

It makes me sad, and sick unto the heart-

Thousands must fall to-day!" "moiling and toiling” to enlighten the world for the last four

Sir Thomas answers : inonths, and how many of the world, think you, reader, have

MR. CUNNINGHAM is right to strike while the iron is hot, sabscribed for our periodical? Twomon our veracity only and it is with feelings of real pleasure that we record the pub

" Thousands of souls must leave this prison house

To be exalted to those heavenly fields troo subscribers (and they have not paid,) did we have to sup- || lication of his second volume. Mr. Cunningham will not lose

Where songs of triumph, psalms of victory Since we have port our publication through four numbers.

Whero pence, and joy, and love, and calm content, ground in this his second step, inasmuch as his second volume

Sit singing on the azure clouds, and strew issued a prospectus, seven have been added, making a grand is fully more entertaining than his first.

The fowers of heaven upon the banquet table. Total aggregate of NINE! Let us sce. Nine times one dollar

Bind ardent hopo upon your feet like shoes, With the characters of the artists whose lives are here re

put the robes of preparation on, and fifty cents, is thirteen dollars and a half per annum. The corded, we are most of us familiar. With their works many

The table it is spread in shining heaven.

Let those who fight, fight in good steadfastness ; expense of each number is about twelve dollars. Twelve of us are well acquainted ; and anecdotes of them or theirs

And those who fall shall rise to victory." times twenty-six is three hundred and twelve dollars a year. I sound to our ears as tales of persons and things with wlich

These poems are little known, and yet " the schoolmaster is Bright and cheering prospects, really. It needs no very pro- we are, more or loss, familiar. This is no slight " ground of abroad," forsooth! He has forgotten one of his implements, found logic to discover that our profits would be all the wrong 'vantage.” In hearing a good story of a celebrated artist, one of the child of nature, Opic, Mr. Cunningham speaks bard,;» • J. O. R." our affairs would " soar downwards.” speak a truth) a three-fold interest. It adds a grace to the nature; and as she ever does by those who worship her, she Here then we stop. Stick a crowbar there, neighbour. Mr. artist

, to the picture, and, last

, though not least, to the posses- amply repaid him. Opie's pictures were drawn from nature, Public, we have done with you: we shake our fist at you— sor, a matter not to be overlooked ; and as some of the pic- and from nature only, and the children which she owns do ves, you great lubberly old follow, we shake our tist at you. tures or engravings of the artists recorded in the present not die. His admirable portrait of Holeroft was in the exhi

. We now flourish our pen on the last editorial article that we volume belong or are well known to most of us

, we suspect bition of ancient masters, in this town, which closed the other shall ever indite. Perhaps the reader may respond-—" for that they who have read Mr. Cunningham's first volume will day. this and all other mercies we give thanks." But we care not. I read his sccond, and that they who have read neither may now, of Georgo Morland—that sad proof that the greatest talent: If necessary we will dig ditches for a living, or go on a mis- probably, read both. sionary tour, but as for editing a paper-we have done with It is time, however

, to give our readers some insight as to speak—he is best known by his works, and well by them only.

may be vnited to the most debasing vices, wo wish not to it--for ever. When we ever take up the editor's quill again, the contents of the present volume. They comprise the mo The last name in this volume is Fuseli. He was a "touchy, wayneddle not with it a second time. We had frequently to show the pleasant manner in which these several worthies greater wit than scholar

, which is saying a great deal.rules may our right hand forget its cunning. Let what will come moirs of West, Barry, Blake, Opie, Morland, Bird, and Fuseli

. testy, pleasant fellow," a better scholar

than a painter, andre read long and dolorous articles on the miseries of editorship, || are treated of, we must go to the book itself.

partook a little of the Barry school-and, to confess a truth, but

of West, who, for a quaker and an American, was a good we prefer his fancy to his imagination—and would rather shought of, there is no parallel to it. Cunningliam relates a pleasant anccdote :

gallery of his sprawling, impossible ideals.

way. In the “ beautiful” language of that " distinguished of whose pictures hangs in our dining-room, there is (to much and well

, though not more than enough. "opie studied

graph; but
in all the miserable dogs' lives that ever man courtier, and his good-natured patron George the Third

, Mr. Wear one of his keen

, laconic witicisms,

than see a whole

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AND LADIES' LITERARY GAZETTE.

IN TWO CHAPTERS-CHAPTER THE SECOND.

LINES,
TVritten after reading Miss Benger's Anne Boleyn.
Sue gat within that dismal tower, and leaning on her hand,
Watched the departing sun go down, and gazed o’er that fair land;
Like it, she too was beautiful, and in her spring's soft bloom,
To-morrow, and that setting sun must look upon her tumb!
Oh, dreadful is the thought of death! tho ceasing of our life!
How with our every feeling is’t eternally at strife!
Yet was she calm, to ontward show, and, musing o'er her fate,
Recalled once more to memory her former high estute.
She thought how long, how ardently the king for her had strove ;
With what impassioped words and looks he tried to win her love;
How oft escaped from regal pomp, all joyfully he few
Towards her fathrer's peaceful halls, to seek her and to woo!
She thought too of her plighted troth, to brave Northumberland,
And how their mutual vow was riven by Henry's storn command;
Perchance affection's latent spark still lingered in her heart!
For it had cost her many u pang with Percy's love to part!
The youthful Pcrcg! what a host of pleasure and of woes
With that well-recollected name upon her mind arose;
The sweet exchange of tender words, the walk, the smile, the kiss,
And then the harsh awakening from that bright dream of bliss !
And memory brought again to view that noble, gorgeous scene,
in which conspicuously she shone a beauty and a queen!
Ay, in this very tower she sat, but three short years before,
While a whole nation round her came to gaze, and to adore!
The chango, thechange-alono, condemnd, to-morrow shemust bleed,
Imperious in bis love and will, the king hath thus docreed;
Another maiden young and fair has charmod her husband's eye-
Jane Seymour must become his bride, and Ann Boleyo must dic!
But oh! with crime's most horrid stamp, to sully her high famo,
And give to her, the noble ! proud! a vile and guilty name!
She almost gank-but she had vowed to bear unto the end;
And tho' her strength had well pigh fail'd, her features did not bond!
But softer feelings now come o'er that tried and conquering breast-
Her parents in their tenderness - now with dark wo opprest!
Could she behold them yet once more !-but, no! it must not bem
T'le king has willed--a kindred face she pe'or again shall see!
And then, her child no more to clasp !--lier fixed resolve is broke!
And in that groan so fearful, deep, a mother's anguish spoke!
The mad'ning thought at once has roused--in piercing accents wild,
With streaming eyes and tortured soul, she cries, my child! my child!
'Tis past! no more shall grief assail that pure and noble heart;
In earthly foelings, from this time, she has no lot or part!
To God she turns, a refuge sure, from fears, or grief, or hate,
ind calmly waits ibe coming morn, to yield her to her fate! Iser?!

If sound it might be called that passed all note

POPULAR TALES,
Of sound erst heard beneath the babbling spheres ; Till Echo, frighted in her hollow cell, Shrieking expired at her own mimic cries.

CONFESSIONS OF A SUSPICIOUS GENTLEMAN.
Minim or quaver, breve or semibreve,
Minor, or alt, or octave, had it none;
Or rather all it had, all notes and times,
And tones, save naturals, flats, sharps, shakes, swells, In this state of mind, having determined to make myself
Lentos, and prestos, and fortissimos
All touched at once upon a different key,

utterly miserable, I had not rightly determined how to set

about it, when I obtained the assistance of a neighbouring Untimed, untuned, and unconcerted all. Still on it rolled, whilst from the startled roost

lady. She wrought not her mischief in the ordinary vocation The poaching owl swept booming with affright, of her sex-she was not a coquette; nor was she of an age to To his dark cloister in the time-worn oak;

do any mischief at first sight. She was not malicious, like The fox stole trembling to his hidden hole;

some, nor jealous like most. But yet she was one of a tolerably And e'en the house-dog at his master's door, A stern and faithful sentinel, dared not growl.

large class of mischievous persons. She was one of those Men shuddering broke from sleep at that wild cry, who, from the most amiable desire to be agreeable and useful Deeming the day of reckoning was at hand,

in the world, make all people's affairs their own; who delight And making genuflections low, with tears,

in getting hold of a story, and usually get hold of it by its Whispered quick prayers between their blanched lips.

wrong in preference to its right end; then benevolently impart But morning came anon, and finding now That death had presented his subpoen,

their hold of this wrong end to the very person whose happiThey ventured forth, with cautious steps and slow, ness is the most likely to be involved in the distinction between To learn the wherefore of the dire alarm;

the right and the wrong, and have accordingly often to lament When lo! within the hamlet's bordering fields, the becoming the “innocent cause” of some sad piece of Ten thousand times ten thousand husky frogs,

work. She was a gossip; this was her only folly—a great Whom tippling Sol had drank from house and home, Marshalled in thick array, hopped croaking on,

one. My much greater was the eagerly accepting from her With visage sad, and dolorous lament,

that fruit of knowledge which it was the first vice of greedy To seek a better, more congenial clime,

man to devour upon the offer of communicative woman. In some dank marsh, or pool, or coolly pond,

I would not that he who loves his wealth should gamble Where summer's heat should parch their pipes no more,

with sharpers, nor that he who values his life should drink Nor burn to bronze their sky-set brows sublime.

PROTEUS,

with bravoes. But with a far deeper dread let the suspicious

man eschew all converse with a well-meaning gossip! THE DUELLIST.

This lady, from a desire to set me on yet better terms withı Ask of the wasting heart that lies Beneath the pressure of the sod;

my wife, was kind enough to hint that Lady Anne had, for Ask of the soul, that through the skies

my sake, refused an alliance with a younger and a richer man Rushed, unannointed, up to God !

than myself. The name only, from motives of delicacy, she Ask these-of honour's boasted fame,

postponed. And thus, though her love of imparting all was The blended bay and cypress wreath; What is the glory of their name

quite as strong as mine of hearing all she could impart, was I When withering on the brow of death! kept seeding, versatisfied still, and my hunger increasing, on

the stimulating food of vague and incomplete information. At Ask of the mourners, gathering round gory victim's place of rest ;

length, after extorting the strictest promises of secresy, she In grief's all-shadowy durance bound,

confessed that my unsuccessful rival was Sir Felix While labouring anguish thrills the breast; That he had proposed soon after I had been accepted ; that he Ask ye of them, what balm can pour

had been rejected, but not with severity; that, on the conIts soothing influence midst the throng, Whose earthly hopes can bloom no more,

trary, as Lady Anne considered his proposal a strictly honoura

ble one, she had allowed him afterwards to write to her ; that As sweeps life's sullen tide along !

she had, in her turn, behaved with a most commendable discreBut yesterday! and on the brow of a familiar friend there played

tion, for that, to prevent any unpleasant feeling between us, she The smile of feeling's ardent glow,

always retired from company to read his letters; that the difUntouched by sadness or by shade:

ficulty which, up to the last moment, she had to struggle with His heart beat lightly in the spell

from his importunities was shown by her having, carly on the Of opening manhood's reckless glee; He sought the field —"and fighting, sell,"~

very morning of her marriage, given him a letter, which he Death claimed his own and where is he? kissed, and not only it but the hand which gave it; and that

she was not insensible to the pain it had been her duty to inLate have I seen him in the hall Where pleasure's orgies all were kept;

flict, for she at the same time wiped a tear from her eye with Where shone youth's flowery coronal,

the vory handkerchief which, an hour after, performed the Where cares were hushed, and sorrows slept : same office at the altar. "I do not repeat a word that I canWith friends around him in the dance,

not swear to," said my kind informant, “all these particulars And sisters in the glow of youth,

I had from my own maid, who is cousin to Sir Felix's groom's
Rich in young life's inheritance,
And stirred by dreams he fancied truth!

wife, who lives in Sir Felix's own house." Hurror, upon

horror! I gave full belief to a gossip, a groom, and a groom's But passion which he roused not, came To dim the glory of his eye;

wife, and her cousin who was the gossip's own maid; and then And for the phantom of a name,

entered judgmont on the whole, first against the affection, and False honour's field he sought-to die !

then against the honour, of my wife !
With kind affections in his breast,

To bring to open proof what is unproveable, because un,
That cowered beneath uprising pride,
He sunk, untimely, to his rest;

true, is a very desperate undertaking, though in the affairs of Loved and lamented—thus he died !

life a very ordinary one; and, in the eagerness of this pursuit, And friendship hath no voice to call

I quite forgot that my success would be my shame. But, Back to her arms that faded one;

though I failed of the proof, I ensured the dishonour. I asHe sleeps in death's low silent hall,

sumed different disguises in which I daily watched Lady In dust-in darkness—and alone!

Anne. I wrote her anonymous letters, in the style in which But the soul's fate that passed away

I fancied Sir Felix might address her. I hid myself to obThrough the void ether—who may tell ? "Tis mystery all-a clouded ray

serve the effect they would produce. I have seen her counThou lost and loved-farewell -farewell! tenance mark surprise and anger, as she committed them, Philadelphia, April, 1830.

W.G. C. half perused, to the flames. I have seen her weep, when, as

she believed, she was alone; and still I deemed that her tears TIME.

were faithless to my honour and her own, and that, if amid 'Twixt promised joys the wheel of time moves slow,

those tears she thought of me, it was only that she wept over The hour-glass' ebbing sands scarce seem to flow; But ah! when once attained, how swiftly steal

my vigilance which deprived her of the society of her lover. The bright sands onward, and revolves the wheel ! P.ll Do not detest me, reader, more than is my due. I felt my own

The sun had sunk in darkness to his sleep
Mid shadowy forests towards the distant west,
And not a star had lit its taper beams, To watch the day-gou's cloud-encircled couch: While still the moon, forgetful of her task

To reign in beauty o'er the shrouded world,

Dreamily slumbered with her Latmian love.
The winds had died amid the sultry air,
Eurus, and zephyr, and the sweet south-west,
All fainting died beneath the summer's glow;
And all around that forest-cinctured vale, The drooping leaves hung dewless from their bouglis, Like train-band banners at an August noon, Or silent fell into the pebbly bed

Of rnished streams that murmured now no more.

The woodland uninstrels waved their wings for breath,
Then fluttering gasped and toppled from their perch ;
And cattle panted in the withered fields,
With sides that like a stithy's bellows played ;
While men lay tossing on their restless couch,
Bedrenched with dews of perspiration vast, Dreaming of torrid tenperatures, perchance,

Or Etna's Names, or stygian Phlegethon.

Dead silence awed the world, save now and then 4 groan of smothered thunder died away,

Amid the blackness of the sulph’rous gloom,

That shrouded midnight in its murky folds.
But now within that sleeping vale arose,
Upon the stifled air, a rattling din,
A rude and stunning olio of sound,
Ilarsh as a host of braziers ever rung
Upon an einpty cal-lron's groaning sides.
It seemed as screaking discord had broke loose
With all her scrannel goblins at her heels,
'To serenade that haggard hag, the night,
Vith mingled bruit of gong and rebec crack'd,
And gibbering note of unproportioned tongues.
Onward it rolled--that pandemonian sound Tradition

says that some fifty years since, during an August night of
a very hot summer, the frogs of a “ dried-up" pond in the vicinity of a
hamlet in Connecticut, migrated en masse for a better shore ;”—a thing,
by the way, not particularly uncommon among the bipods of that goodly
commonwealth-and that the din which attended This coacuationary novement, falling at midnight

“Oo many a conscience ill at ease,

Brought its scared victim to bis kaees,"
under the impression ibat the last trumpet was actually sounding.

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=ty of nati? inguished lau Doleon, hasta me, and cele e diraindia

e fine art 2 i is visible la

The artificial spirit is that which is produced by particular la figure which shall preserve itself, not by neglecting any of can is not his friend, and not proud of claiming his genius and an eminence which commanded a view of the entire field. it is devoutly to be hoped, form an invariable guide for the on their benefit nights without taking into consideration any instinctive dread of the enemy in his front. The panther or to be attended with less usefulness to the rising generation.lled him the respect and admiration of the frequenters of the

honour in gentlemen of the navy or army would seem to be, knife gleaming in the morning sunbeam, and, with the rapidity Boston, Courier.--The editor of this journal misunderstands carneztness for the attainment of all the knowledge and skill, of lightning leaving the cloud, it was buried in the heart of the tenor of our last card. We did not intend to convey the and the force of resolution, conducive to excellence and effi- the panther.''

Ibid. remotest suspicion of his having knowingly copied an original ciency in their professions. So far as fighting belongs to their

production from our columns without due credit. His well career, it is for their country, and not for themselves; they

THE FEMALES OF AFRICA.

known sense of honour and justice, and his uniform conduct have their own lives less at their disposal than mere citizens, Among the usages of the females of Africa, the following is towards his contemporaries, forbid the idea. We have not a because they have specially pledged themselves to their govern- related by Richard Lander, in his narrative of Clapperton's file of the Courier, or we would point out the number in which ment. Honour must be something positive and universal last expedition :

the article alluded to appeared. We agree with him in opinion theirs cannot be different from that of other gentlemen ; or if

“When an infant dies, the mother invariably wears sus- that the custom so prevalent among editors in this country, of it differs, the variation arises from the obligation under which pended from the neck, and reaching to the bosom, a figure of designating each other in their public intercourse by name, is they labour, of being particularly tenacious of their lives on a child, about six inches in length, and of proportionable an odious one, and ought to be reformed. By no single cirother occasions than professional battle or service. It is, there-thickness, which is carved in wood, and regarded by the peo- cumstance has the American press been more degraded. It fore, quite an error or superstition in them, to suppose that ple as a token of mourning. This is worn for an indefinite has thus been converted into an engine of personal warfare, they are required to resent slighter personal affronts, or to length of time, according to the inclination or caprice of the in the management of which all considerations of self-respect, fight duels for slighter cause than other people. The sound bereaved parent; and many women do not cast it aside until mutual forbearance, and the honour and dignity of the profespart of the world must view their case in the contrary light. the expiration of sis, eight, and even twelve months, duringsion itself, are frequently entirely banished from the recollec

Plato understood true honour, when, on being informed that which they chat to and caress the wooden figure, as if it hadtion. The promotion of public good, the advancement of codigality do

certain persons had spoken ill of him, he observed, “We will been instinct with life and motion, possessed of all the play- knowledge, as well as the gratification of intelligent curiosity,

lead such a life that none shall believe them." zsity of enesta

fulness and endearing manners which distinguished their off-| which does not delight to dwell on individual and trivial disThe honour of youth is to be, in the language of Solomon, spring when alive, and capable of enjoying the effects of ma- putes, are lost sight of, and the great end of an enlightened s as the morning light, which shineth more and more, unto ternal tenderness. This singular custom is confined exclusively press is thus left unaccomplished. the perfect day." The unostentatious pursuit of operative to Yariba.”

Metamora.-Our readers have probably all laughed merrily ne most und

worth is their proper business; they cannot be justly said to
have any reputation for which to fight or to bluster, until they

FEMALE BEAUTY.

over the humorous and broad caricatures of Johnson, as ex. have qualified themselves, or have begun to serve or to adorn

To sum up the whole, the charms that are really indispen-hibited with masterly skill in his annual " Scraps.” They the community to which they belong. Duels, if to be endured sable to being beloved may be possessed by every one who is are as little prepared as we were to admire his excellence in lante and les ches of Latte

at all, are tolerable only in persons of a certain maturity of not personally, or mentally, or morally deformed. Let us enu-| the more serious department of his art. He has, however, age, character, and station; who have, as it were, surface and

merate them. Firstly-an eye, whether black, blue, or gray, succeeded in representing our favourite native tragedian to = gezier en depth of credit and interests to be wounded or outraged.

that has the spirit of kindness in its expression. Secondly, the life, as he appears in his admirable character of the red bhy of water.2 There are several kinds of valour, very distinct. Mere

a mouth that is able to say a good deal, and all sincerely. Its hero, in a most beautiful print. The execution of this lithoanimal courage is common to brutes, and to a large portion of teeth, kept as clean as possible

, must be an argument of clean- graph is spirited, and does full justice to the noble and comthe vulgarest, the most savage or vicious of the human race. and friends that come in unexpectedly to dinner. Thirdly

liness in general; it must also be very good-natured to servants, manding person, and the dignified attitude of Forrest. of theu la

comes further recommended to his friends and what Ameriposition, necessity, or other combination of peculiar circumbut present stances. Oftentimes, or in most instances, its immediate

its duties, but by good taste, exercise, and the dislike of gross talents for his country ?--by the exact likeness of the picture. source is fear, the dread of punishment, or disgrace. The living. A woman may be fond of almost any pleasure under

Green-room chit-chat.-A new opera, from the pen of a celebrated orator , Wyndham, a nice critic of human nature

, tation. Fourthly—the art of being happy at home, and making for some time in active preparation, and bids fair to surpassa the sun, excepting those of tattling, and the table, and osten- gentleman celebrated for his wit

, tact, and talent, has been remarked, that this is the principle of discipline; that discipline is essential to the very life and action of armies, and, of that home the

abode of peace. Where can peace dwell if there in success and eclat, every previous production of the kind course, that “all the high military merits, whose character- is not piety? These qualities will sway the soul of man, when offered on the American boards. We have been favoured istic is courage, grow, like flowers in a hot bed, from what

the shallower perfections would cease to charm. A good heart with the perusal of the manuscript, and feel fully warranted is founded in fear.” He carried the doctrine too far; for love is, after all, the best beautifier.

Ladies' Magazine. in asserting that for neatness of dialogue, and general brillianof glory, the sense of duty, the alacrity of emulation, are,

cy and cleverness of execution, it stands unrivalled by any perhaps, the chief impulses with the higher officers in the

THE NEW-YORK MIRROR.

original production that has ever fallen under our notice. As But no writer has questioned the theory that

an evidence of the high estimation in which it is held by the the courage of duelling or suicide is generally artificial, and Ducls. It is with sincere pleasure we record the fact, alike managers, we learn that they intend to bring it forward in resolvable into some sort of cowardice. According to high honourable to the character of the country, and auspicious to the most splendid manner, with new scenery, dresses, and authority, “the only genuine, comprehensive, and invincible | the future repose and substantial glory of the American navy, || decorations. The music has been composed, selected, and courage, is inseparably connected with universal rectitude and that all the officers engaged in the late duel at Philadelphia, arranged by a gentleman distinguished for his science, taste, religious hope”-that is, moral courage, guided by reason and have had their names struck from the roll

, and been dismissed and skill; though of a very different description, it is said by philanthropy, and looking to the future as well as the pre-||the service. Into the merits of this affair we do not intend judges to be fully equal to that of the Caliph of Bagdad in sent life.

to enter—they are of no consequence except to the parties many respects, and from its wild and romantic character,

themselves—but with the general influence which personal greatly superior in dramatic effect. Mrs. Austin, for whom A PANTHER HUNT.

combat, hitherto indirectly permitted by government, has ex- we believe the piece was written, will sustain the principal A British traveller in Brazil gives the following account oferted, and might still exert over the country at large, we are female character

, and the whole strength of the company is a panther hunt near the Villa de Fernaiba :

deeply concerned. Barbarous and bloody in the extreme, the enlisted to support her. In short, a rich operatic entertain"Finding I still persisted in my favourite pursuit, the

relict of dark ages of crime and superstition, and resorted to, ment may be anticipated; and the anxiety of the public, which governor good-naturedly resolved on gratifying me with the

in a great majority of instances, not for the vindication of lofty is quite alive on the subject, will not be disappointed. spectacle of a panther hunt. Accompanied by his sons, we principles, or the defence of female honour and beauty, but

Treasurer's Benefit.-It is not often we go out of our rode out early in the morning to an extensive plain, in the for the most trivial and ridiculous provocations, its practice is centre of which was a jungle ; into this the Vaqueiros had a disgraceful stain on the pages of modern history. Let its way to call attention to the claims of any person connectsucceeded in driving, on the previous night, a large panther, of the United States deserves, and will receive, full credit for pose that sapient personage denominated the public, have cach

record be wiped away as soon as possible. The executive ed with the theatre. Indeed, the different individuals that conpreparatory to the morning's sport. We took our station on his prompt and efficient measures on this occasion, and will

, their particular favourites, whom they make a point of aiding The loud barking of the dogs, the wild cries of the huntsmen future rulors of the land,

paragraph or paragraphs either for or against their merits or as they galloped round the skirts of the jungle cheering on

demerits. Mr. Blake, who makes his appeal on Wednesday the dogs, formed an animated scene. Aroused in his lair, the

Webster's Abridged Dictionary.—Our indefatigable lexipanther , furious with rage, sprang forth to meet its enemies. cographer evinces an unremitting disposition to supply the evening next, is a universal favourite, and deserves to be uni

versally patronized. He is no 'actor, and never aprears in The Vaqueiro nearest to the point from which he had issued, wants of the primary schools. How well fitted he is to ac. now advanced to the attack. He exhibited a beautiful sight, complish the arduous and useful task, the history of educa- public except in the part of a civil, attentive, and gentlewhirling in the air his lasso, and urging forward with the tion in the United States bears ample testimony on its records, manly receiver of cash and deliverer of tickets, in which

character we have never seen his equal. There are a smoothspur the spirited little steed on which he was mounted, whose and the present undertaking, humble as it may appear, is by

ness and polish about him—a judicious mixture of the suaviter klilated nostrils, fiery eye-ball, and erect mane, proclaimed his no means likely to derogate from his well earned reputation,

in modo with the fortiter in re, that have for many years securcrouched in the act to spring on his advancing foe, but he was The large Dictionary is altogether unsuitable, from its dimen

Park theatre. His bill is one of the strongest that has been forestalled by the well-skilled assailant, who, at the distance sions, for the school-room or the counting-house

. The pre- offered

this sca son.
of twenty yards

, threw his lasso with unerring aim. Scarcely sent edition will form a very acceptable substitute.
had it left his hand before the well-trained horse wheeled Bank failures. We have received several communications

The Euterpeiad.--Mr. G. W. Bleecker intends issuing, round and new across the plain, dragging after him the already in relation to the disastrous events connected with the stopping simultaneously at New-York and New-Haven, a semi-monthly disabled panther; for with such beautiful precision had the of payment by certain banks. Deeply sympathising with the paper with the above title. It will be devoted principally to lasso been thrown, that the fore-paw of the animal was fairly distress occasioned by the circumstance

, and anxious to pro

the department of music, and contain pieces original and strapped to his neck. The whole party now dashed forward mote any measures which may obviate its recurrence, and put selected, for the voice

, piano-forte, organ, flute, clarionet, and to be in at the death.

other instruments. The Vaqueiro, slackening his pace, an end to the fraud in which they so often originate, we should gradually shortened the length of the cord till he brought his gladly give a place to some of the articles; but want of room Engraving:--Bourne has for sale a likeness of Pope Pius enemy within a few yards of him, and then, in less time than compels us to decline doing so. In the newspapers they will the seventh, from a drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence, enI can narrate it, I saw huim leap from his saddle, liis broad prove appropriate and welcome subjects for discussion, graved by Cousins.

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his old enemy Aristophanes ten times trebled, without a single l|personality has at least always prostituted humour and ability following day the number was increased to sixty, among

ORIGINAL ESSAYS.
says," their number is fast diminishing. A paper is at pre-

ORIGINAL SKETCHES.
sent lying before us, from which better things might have
been expected, as it is published in a decent neighbourhood, PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED CIIARACTERS,

and contains some good reading matter, in which, amid two"I must speak in a passion, and I will do it in King Cymbyses thirds of a column of abuse, one of the most moderate sentences voin."-Shakspeare. is, that his opponent is “ a liar by nature and a thief by pro- list in the world, notwithstanding all the boasting of the present

The prevalence of superstition and fanaticism which stillexIf Socrates, or any other sensible ancient, could be resusci-fession.” After going on for some time with unabated spirit tated, and have half-a-dozen flaming rhapsodies on the bene- in this strain of unmitigated abuse

, he winds up with the fol- enlightened state of society, is a subject for reflection at once

astonishing and humiliating. It certainly affords matter for fits and blessings of the “press," put into his hands, what allowing magnificent piece of composition. “If the river Amaglorious and mighty change would he suppose had taken zon were made to run through his (his opponent's) soul, more dividuals who seek to revive in their own persons all the in

surprise that in the nineteenth century there should arise inplace in the ordering of public affairs, since the time when time would be taken up in cleansing it of its depravity and credible fictions and gross impositions practised during what the Athenian rabble were led by the nose by every noisy de-ilthiness than was required by the ancient river to cleanse||is termed the dark ages;" and it is no less humiliating to magogue who chose to spout nonsense to them in their mar- the celebrated stables, wherein a thousand oxen had been human nature to find thousands of credulous believers in ket-places. How the good man's heart would be filled with stalled for almost as many years!” This appears to be only these pretended possessors of divine inspiration and supernarejoicing as he read glowing descriptions of the tremendous one of a series of articles on the subject ! and the offence, capabilities of this mighty engine, wielded solely for the be- || far as we can make it out, for which all these hard words are nefit of mankind, and of its unwearied exertions to dissemi- let loose, seems to have been the copying a paragraph without

Among those who have lately taxed human credulity, the nate useful information and correct knowledge of political due credit, or something of the kind of equally vital impor- The miraculous power he has claimed of being able to cure

subject of our present sketch stands pre-eminently conspicuous. events to the meanest citizen of the state! He would suppose

, tance to the community. We have not seen the replication diseases, however distant he may be separated from the objects that with this almost omnipotent power arrayed on the side to this choice morceau, but presume it will be in the same who solicit his assistance

, long rendered him an uniyersal subof virtue, and watching with untiring vigilance over the true style of impassioned and elegant invective. interests of all, that this wicked world must have been trans Now is not this and such as this abominable ? and hundreds ||ject of conversation, and we trust will plead a sufficient cause formed into a sort of Utopia since his time—a place from or instances could be pointed out of still greater magnitude, in for introducing him among our list of celebrated characters, which all prejudice, venality, corruption, and sycophancy were which the personal appearance and family connexions of a

Prince Alexander Hohenlohe is descended from one of the swept away, and where the governors and the governed would man are ridiculed-charges of not having paid his tailor's oldest families in Germany. His ancestors were among the cmulate each other in their exertions for the common weal. bill, or any thing else, no matter what, that depravity can in. first to embrace the reformed religion, but returned to the But if, after perusing the aforesaid rhapsodies, the said Socra-vent or blackguardism utter, are put forth. Opprobrious catholic church in 1667. In 1744 the houses of Hohenlohe tes could have a quantity of newspapers taken indiscriminately epithets from such sources, when applied to those who have were elevated to the rank of princes of the holy Roman emfrom different parts of the country placed before him, there is | been long before the public, and whose characters are well and|pire. They are divided into two reigning families or houses; strong reason to believe that an attentive perusal of their ele- || favourably known, can do but comparatively little harm; they those of Nevenstein and of Waldenburg, to the latter of which gant contents would materially change his opinion. He would exclaim with Brutus,

Prince Hohenlohe belongs. He is one of the canons of Olmutz find the gentlemen presiding over one-half of the press stating

"I am armed so strong in honesty

and a knight of Malta. that the other portion of their editorial brethren were, with

That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I regard not;”.

appears from his biographer, father Baur, that it was nol out exception, the greatest set of rascals

, scoundrels

, rogues, but suppose an honourable and sensitive man, just com- until the year 1821 that the prince gave any indication of posthieves, and vagabonds that ever existed on the face of the mencing his career, attacked by one of those literary scaven

sessing the extraordinary powers he then laid claim to. Being carth ; and that they were the most vile, the most degraded, gers, what exquisite pain must it give him to find himself at Wurzburgh at that period (1821,) he frequently preached the most contemptible miscreants that could, by any possi-dragged forward and slandered in this manner. And he has no

and celebrated high mass, in the ordinary routine of his official bility, disgrace humanity. On the other hand, he would find | redress; he cannot reply, or at all events if he does, it will be duties as a dignitary of the catholic church. In the spring of the party accused in these gentle terms, asserting that their a nost unequal match, for he will be temperate in his language, that year he first commenced the performance of miraculous assailants were well known to be such infamous liars, so to-land anxious not to assert any thing but what is strictly true.

He is described at this period as making the blind to tally destitute of every spark of honesty, so stained with im- It would be like a gentleman neatly dressed in light-coloured see, the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk; of the entire truth saniy, so branded with convicted falsehoods, as to render any unmentionables and white kid gloves, engaged in a combat of of these statements no certain evidence can be given. It is thing they might say unworthy of the slightest notice. Poor throwing mud from a kennel with a ragged and tattered mis-well known, however, to those at all conversant with medical Socrates would be sadly puzzled, and think there was more creant ; his adversary, from being well practised at the game, subjects

, that the imagination strongly acted upon, is capable in this than he ever “ dreamt of in his philosophy," and that throws ten handsfull of dirt for his one, and quickly bespat-||of producing temporary, and in some cases perfect cures

, in truth still kept her ancient station at the bottom of a well

. |ters him all over, while the few additional pieces that he could | many diseases incident to the human species." A knowledge He would find these virtuous vehicles of knowledge and in- send would never be discerned on his opponent's already soil of this fact may perhaps satisfactorily explain most of the formation made up of quack advertisements, dreadful mur-led and filthy garments. The best way certainly for all those wonderful miracles attributed to this extraordinary man. Folders, dreadful poetry, Joe Miller jests and editorial personali

| who are welt enough known to afford it, is to pass all such at- lowing his biographer, we find that on the twenty-seventh of ties; in the latter of which he would see all the coarseness of tacks over in absolute silence. Blackwood's Magazine, whose June, subsequent to his commencing his wonderful mission

,

that thirty-six individuals had been cured, and that on the redeeming sprinkling of his wit and humour, and he would || to make it go off, has never been so enraged by any of the be lost in utter amazement to find that the very worst and || retorts of its adversaries as by the real or affected

contempt

wliom was the princess of Schwartzenberg, who had been most ignorant portion of the people (according to their own of the Edinburgh Review. Notwithstanding the virulent lame from her eighth to her seventeenth year

. This lady is showing) had been, by some strange fatality, elevated to in- abuse that has from time to time been bestowed upon it, the represented as being entirely cured by the prayers of Prince struct and amuse the rest. Edinburgh has never, since the commencement of Black-Hohenlohe. The reigning prince of Bavaria, who was deaf

, There are some subjects which it is necessary to aid by a

wood, let it appear that it was conscious there was such a was also restored to his hearing—the sight of a Madame slight stretch of the fancy, or a little exaggeration of lanjournal in existence.

Polzano was recovered, after many years suffering under an guage, in order to give them point and effect ; but to describe, just as it is, the manner in which editorial warfare is carried and effectual change for the better in this world of ours; but in a catholic country, very naturally produced great excitement

We are not very sanguine in anticipations of any specdy entire extinction of that faculty. These miraculous doings the country papers of the United States, other words

we do think the time is fast coming when, with a few and wonder, and the house of the prince was surrounded by than what are to be found in Walker or Webster must be tions, the present race of public journals in the United States thousands, from town and country who implored his interpo

; sought for ; they are too tame, too weak to convey any idea will be regarted with unqualified contempt. There are al sition on their behalf. It is needless to say that only a small of these Billingsgate personalities.

ready symptoms of better things. Most of the city papers in portion of these received the expected aid--a strong proof of

New-York, and indeed in all large towns, have lately amend- the absence of any real power of this self-inspired apostle. Would not bestow such terms upon his callet," 15 the worthy conductors of the press think proper to bestowed their ways considerably in this respect

, though they were The fame of the prince had now spread over the continent

, upon each other. Wherein the utility-the advantage of al|never one quarter so bad as their rural brethren; and there and we find him visiting various places, in all of which he is this to the public, or what is more, to themselves, consists

, is are several journals that are respectable and entertaining re- stated to have left proofs of his healing powers. On his renot easy to discover. If they are what they say they are,positories of news, knowledge, literature

, and fashion, while turn to Wurzburgh crowds of eager applicants awaited his ro would it not be their policy to agree and keep it conceal their trifling disputes are conducted in a pleasant and gentle turn, and numerous cures are related to have been performed, ců, and not blazon forth each other's infamy to the world ? ) manly spirit. Clashing interests and party views will always one of which we will narrate, as exhibiting the extraordinary And what has that world to do with their disreputable quar- preserve some portion of personality in the world; but it cffect produced on the people generally by these pretended rels and low abuse, farther than to laugh at and despise them would be more agreeable to all concerned to settle their little miracles

. Shortly after the prince's arrival at Wurzburg a for it? the public of this day, as of yore,

affairs of the pen by good-natured raillery

, light repartees

, chaise drove up to the hotel in which he was residing, and it and polishıcd sarcasnis , such as pass in decent society, in pre-was immediately ascertained by the assembled crowd

, that it Whether Mossop kick Barry or Barry kick Mossop ;'' and after looking on for some time, and amusing itself with Let such contests he carried on like two gentlemen engaged in old man, by trade a butcher, was carried out of it in she

ference to vulgar slang and porter-house figures of rhetoric. brought some poor creature in need of help, and actually a the noise and sputter of the enraged belligerents, come to the conclusion that they are both contemptible creatures, and pay genuity , in a friendly temper ; and when a “ palpable hit” is he could not be touched

with hands

. Many of the multitude a bout at foils, in which both exert their utinost skill and in-/linto the hotel, for all his members appeared so crippled that no further attention to the matter. In fact, nine-tenths of given on either side, let it be courteously acknowledged, and||exclaimed aloud, " If this man is cured the finger of God wil

. the papers have, by this degrading conduct, in a great measure then try it again; and not like a couple of rigamuflins in the be manifest;" and all were full of expectation for the event lost the power of affecting character either by praise or cen- street

, who fight and tear themselves to pieces for the amuse

. After some time a lady was heard in the hotel calling out on sure : there are many who pay no sort of attention either to

ment of the spectators.

c. the window to those in the balcony of the adjoining house, what they say of public men or of each other; and if there are still those who, making a deduction of ninety-nine per From ill air we tako disease ; from ill company vices and improved below were now more eager with expectation, when

"Good heavens! the man is cured! he can walk?" The cent., think " there must be come truth in wliat the fellow ll perfections.

Nanother lady called out to them, “Clear the way before the

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ORIGINAL POETRY.

Well, thou hast come to me!

human could ever gallop there at all," was another. The Though in this wild and hyperborean sphere; best hunter for twenty miles round acknowledged, that he I would not turn me from thy minstrelsy,

would as soon break his neck at once as follow bird or goat EXTRACT FROM ADOLPH,

Were sweeter songsters near:

there ; and the priest, taking out his breviary, began the For thy loved music falls

“Exhortation against dealing with the devil.” The horseWhen morning looked along the golden east,

Like angel harpings on my raptured ears,
And from the tomb of memory recalls

man had by this time got over the rocks, and, plunging into
Adolph would walk the solitary strand,
Behold the gorgeous sky as it increased,

My bright and sinless years.

the valley, disappeared. Whatever differences of opinion

there might have been as to their appearance, there could be And watch its influence o'er the sea and land;

Joyous and fresh they rise
See every beam upon the sweet dews feast,

With long, long buried names to boyhood dear,

none as to their vanishing. The alcalde, a man of great graAnd hill, and vale, as by some wizzard's wand,

And the far vanished light of radiant eyes vity, and few words as became him, withdrawing the priest a Filled with a million re-awakening flowers,

That lit my pathway here:

step or two from the crowd, and holding council with him, re: And then exclaim, "a glorious world is ours!"

And with them smiling throng,

turned, and declared, that what they had seen was an un"Why do I hear the young and noble heart

The dancing feelings of that stirring hour,

doubted apparition, and that they might expect to hear great Killing its home with misanthropic sighs ?

And many a faded hope, heart-hoarded long,

news, probably of a battle in Portugal. The priest went Why do I see, mid gilded halls, depart

Crushed in its opening flower.
Health from the cheek, and gladness from the eyes?

round, giving his benediction to the merchandise, and the

Therefore sing freely on,
Why do I see some self-tormentor start,

crowd repeated their ave marias with much fervency. Some

Thou living lyre, by nature tuned and taught;
And fret, and foam, by which he daily dies?

Sing for the memory of the years by-gono

had seen the spectres disappear in a flash of lightning, others And these where pleasure falls in golden showers ?

With youth's wild joyance fraught.

could swear that the hollow in the rock, where they plunged, 'Tis strange-o'tis strange-a glorious world is ours !

Oft when the zephyr's wing

had grown visibly larger; and one, a pale youth, with a hec"From the day's birth-hour to the evening's close,

At twilight rocks thee on the whispering pine, tic cheek and a sunken eye, who bad written the last christI can find music in the rushing ocean,

I'll sit beside the forest's curtained spring

mas carol, and was in fact the village poet, silently followed Fruit on the tree, and fragrance in the rose,

And blend my strain with thine.
Pictures in the eve-clouds' panoramic motion,

with a burning glance and an outstretched hand, the motion Peace in the sheltered bower's green repose,

Then come, sweet warbler, come,

of a small gray cloud that rose from behind the hill, and grew And mountain-altars for the heart's devotion ;

And never from my bosom wander more;

into gold and purple as it met the sun. He afterwards wrote Morals in streams that flow, and leaves that fall;

Here shalt thou find a rest and welcome home,
Beauty in cach-Omnipotence in all.

Till life's sad song is o'er.

some lines upon it, saying that he had seen the spirits going

up in a chariot of fire, and they were often sung afterwards rss Qui fit Mæcenas,' et cetera. 'Tis a question

Thus when my days are past,

through the country. But a sudden turn of the road let out Still standing like a cause without effect.

And the high spirit breaks its bonds of clay,
T'he world's unphilosophic indigestion

May I a home and refuge find at last,

the horsemen at once, galloping down with whip and spur to Treats it with most impassive disrespect.

In the bright heavens away.

Proteus. || the river's side. Then came such a scene of confusion as it Mankind! I'm grieved the world has nought to rest you on :

would take Lope to describe ; peasants rolling over peasants; But, as for me, while these fair fields are decked

the alcalde in full flight; the priest on his knees, calling on With feasts of fruitage and with beds of flowers,

THE CRUSADER'S RETURN,

every saint together; and more boar-hams, sheep-cheeses, I still must say, a glorious world is ours !''

The knight had returned from Palestine,

partridges, and eggs, driven into the stream by the general Thus would the orphan Adolph muse and think,

Where his glorious work was done ;

rush, than I suppose ever floated down a Valencian river When mingling with the worlds' complaining throng;:

For the crescent had bowed to salvation's sign,

before. Thus would he weave his thought's unpolished link,

A christian king held sway benign, (For spite of our advice he'd sing in song ;)

And the holy land was won.

The cavaliers were at length recognised to be flesh and Thus watch the rough wave from the ocean's brink,

blood. The alcalde gathered his gown round him, and re

He spurred him fast o'er his native land,
And let his rhymes as roughly roll along.

Where Thames' sweet wateis glide;

treated in Sigor beyond the rabble. The priest put up his Sages! if such were profitless employ,

He came at the head of his gallant band,

breviary in sozne confusion, and the rabble roared with laughAdolph, you know, was but an orphan boy.

Whose hearts and swords were at his command, ter, and clamoured for the news of the heretics and the last Boyhood! the word hath magic in its sound!

To see his promised bride.

battle. The poet, after gazing on the noble figure and handWhen the young laughing heart made holiday,

He lighted at his lady's bower,

some countenance of the Don, pointed out the up-turned boat, Ran through the sunny noon its restless round,

And thought his prize was won;

and offered him a bed in the village till the flood should go Then sank to slumber soft o'ercome with play ;

But another possessed her father's power,
And even in sleep a world of pleasure found,

down. "It is impossible, my friend," said the cavalier; "I

Another ruled o'er her father's tower,
And wandered with his playmates far away ;

And his blue-eyed maid was-gone!

must pass the river to-night, for to-night I must be in Valen. Plundered again the linnet from its nest,

cia. Is there no other boat ?" "No," was the answer; And warmed it with as innocent a breast :

They led him where his loved one lay,

was the only one known within memory; the villagers were

And on her mossy stone
Watched if his kite still caught his straining view;

Daily he knelt him down to pray,

attached to it; it was probable that they never would have The hoop with some chivalric rival rolled,

Daily he wept o'er the late turned clar,

another.” “Is there no ford ?” “None for forty miles." The mimic boat around the basin blew,

Till three long months had flown,

" Then stand out of my way; farewell." Don Francisco Rejoiced when well the long-aimed marble told, Mustered his troop that at each moment grew

And then he took his cross divine,

struck in the spur, and, with a motion of his hand to his serMore uncontrollable and uncontrolled.

And the pilgrim's gown and hood;

vant to follow, darted forwards amid an outcry of terror fron, Oh happy-happy-happyhappy time

And at the foot of the blessed shrine,

the crowd. The flood was high, and had swelled higher withTerque-quaterque” without care or crime. ALPHA,

In the holy land of Palestine,
Died Albert, the brave and good.

in the last few minutes. It now came down, roaring and F. C.

dashing sheets of foam upon the shore. The horse stooped

his head to the water's edge, started back, plunged, and TO THE FIRST SPRING BIRD,

POPULAR TALES.

wheeled round. Tomaso looked the picture of reluctance. Welcome! first bird of spring, To these wild woods and sunny skies again;

Stay where you are, sir,” said Don Francisco; take care of Joy's in the wave of thy returning wing,

A SPANISH TALE.

the horses, and follow me when this pestilent river goes down. Ind in thy long lost strain.

This is my birth-night. If I do not appear at home, it will When autumn's wasted form

The sun was going down upon the ridge of the mountain be taken for granted that a hundred foolish things have hap\Vas laid to rest upon the lonely bier,

Leave the beach clear !!! The next instant he And winter, glorying in his might of storm,

above Majente on a fine evening in July, when my honoured || pened to me. Usurped the conquered year, master Don Francisco de Almorin, and his valet Tomaso, came sprang off his horse, threw the bridle on the valet's arm, and

was rolling away in the waters. We saw thee sadly

in sight of the ferry across the Jucar. There had been some gaze; Like one long prisoned in his wiry cage,

reports of robbers among the hills, and they stopped to see The Don was a bold swimmer, and had once, under the Then warbling out soft melancholy lays,

what a crowd was made of, that had gathered on the river's evil spirit of champaigne and a wager, swam with an EnglishMount on thy pilgrimage.

side. They might have saved themselves the delay, for the man from Port St. Mary's to the Fishmarket-gate at Cadiz, Sweet bird, where didst thou roam

crowd was nothing worse than the peasantry of the neigh- after supper. The Englishman was drowned, and the Spa'Through the long transit of thy hapless stay? bourhood looking on the ferry-boat, which was upset, and ly-niard won his wager, and a fever, which sent him to moun

Hadst thou a loved one, callow brood, and home, ing on a little island in the midst of the stream. The nexttain air and the Biscay physicians for six months. Having
In southern climes away?

day was to be the fair of Valencia, and heaps of partridges, dared the ocean, he, I suppose, thought he might defy a river ; Amid the wild of flowers That nature squanders on her tropic glades,

| hams, eggs, and cheese, lay on the bank, waiting till the flood and, at his first plunge, he rose so far in the stream that the Didst thou all joyous in the spicy bowers,

should pass away. The outcries of the peasants came up to speasants raised a general shout of admiration. Yet the river Chant to the dark-eyed maids ?

the travellers' ears like the clamour of robbers, and the pea- was strong, and to reach the opposite side was the matter in They would not list to thee,

sants themselves were still more puzzled by the travellers, dispute between it and the Don. But the river was on its Bird of the humble plume and roundelay,

who had in their hurry mistaken the road, and were ridingown ground, and, of course, soon had the advantage. The For theirs are minstrels of a prouder key;

within an inch of the precipice. "Nothing human ever gal-waves seemed to tumble over each other, as if to reach the very loped so fast," was one observation of tho crowd ; "nothingll spot where the swimmer was whirling round and round like

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which at that period was kept by the worthy vulcan, who after the adventures at Gretna. Mrs. Ardourly, junior, was We recur to first principles, and boldly affirm, without acted in the treble capacity of lost

, blacksmith, and parson. | received with affection by her new father and mother-in-law; fear of contradiction, that the mayor's enjoying the exclusige We found him a shrewd, intelligent fellow, fully alive to the and the joint interference of myself and some tried friends of privilege of two gas-lamps is essentially aristocratic, and exigencies of our case, and cheerfully prepared to further our Mr. C—, soon arranged matters amicably with that gentle strikes at the fundamental and elementary principles of reviews. An apartment was immediately prepared for Miss | man, who was fully aware that his daughter might have made publicanism and equality. Such things may be tolerated in C, and the necessary materials for ablution, &c. were fur- a much worse match. The marriage ceremony was duly per- enslaved and blood-stained Europe, but not in the new world wished for the intended bridegroom and myself

. The short formed agreeably to the rites of the episcopal church, and a where man walks abroad in the incalculable majesty of his space of half an hour found us all assembled in the well-) full gathering of the respective families and friends of the intellect. Who is the mayor, or what is he more than others, sanded parlour of the inn, and ready for the important cere-ijarties graced it by their presence. My friend Tom has so that he, forsooth, should have two gas-lamps? Is he not the mony. The bride had relinquished her riding-habit for a bered down to a very creditable domestic man, and enjoys a creature of the people? Is he not elected by the people, the simple muslin robe of purest white; her abigail, also, was fair practice in London; where, in my last visit to the metro-only true source of legitimate power? And is it to be endur. arrayed in the same materials

, and was really a very useful polis, I saw him, and found him surrounded by a goodly num-ed that the servant should have a double portion of light while auxiliary on the occasion, in supporting her young mistress ber of young Ardourlys, with whom and his now matronly many of the sovereign people themselves are in total darkness ? during the somewhat trying situation in which she was spouse, I enjoyed many pleasant hours, in recounting our Forbid it, shades of Jefferson and La Fayette! How forcibly placed. The clerical blacksmith was now summoned, and youthful adventures, amongst which the most prominent was in treating of such a question does the sublime apostrophe of the worthy functionary made his appearance, attended by a our trip to Gretna-Green.

D. the poet strike upon the imagination unclouded and unsatursturdy chap, who looked as if he had just been suminoned

ed by the mists and vapours of monarchical or aristocratical from the "smithy,” bearing a huge volume, which we after

CONTENTMENT.

prejudice : wards found was for the insertion of our respective names,

"Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Of all the blessings which it has pleased the Omnipotent to

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye! as witnesses to the ceremony. Worthy Saunders M'T

Thy steps I'll follow with my bosom bare, who officiated as clergyman on the occasion, was more seemly || must rank pre-eminent. The prince is as susceptible of its and in the spirit of that glorious apostrophe we 'exclaim; bestow on us, the creatures of his will, that of contentment

Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky !!! in his exterior ; a white cassock, thrown over his usual dress, beneficial effects as the peasant. Divest the former of it, and “Perish all gas-lamps from the face of the earth, and oil-lamps gave an importance and dignity to his figure, which certainly of what avail is all the luxurious grandeur which surrounds into the bargain, sooner than submit to the slightest innovawas not the most prepossessing. The parties were now ar-hirn? Let the latter possess it, and he will be happy in the tion in the mighty heir-loom of freedom bequeathed to us by ranged, and we were given to understand that a portion of the || niidst of poverty and toil.

the immortal heroes of '78." form used in the episcopal church was to be read over, be

B. But how shall we attain this inestimable treasure ? Are we ginning at that part where the minister demands of the respective parties whether they take cach other for man and poor? Let us use all the just means within our reach of acquiring the antidote for this (generally considered) tremen

DESULTORY SELECTIONS. wife, and ending with the separate declarations of the con dous evil. There are few, perhaps, in this happy country, tracting parties, agreeably to the same form, “I, M. take thee | who by a few years of industry, perseverance, and economy,

NECESSITY. N.,"&c. This being duly gone through, the young couple were do not accumulate all that is sufficient for the moderate re The following is an affecting instance of the extremity to declared lawfully united; the ponderous book I have mentioned quirements of our nature. Do you wish for more? Let me which a man may be driven by want and misery. A gentlesvas produced, and we separately wrote our signatures to advise you-restrain the pursuit ; contentment will oftener man being stopped in the night in a street by a man who few lines, purporting that on such a day the parties therein be found in the cottage than in the palace. Have our views demanded his purse in a very determined manner, at once de named had taken each other for man and wife. Thus ended in life been completely frustrated, our nost sanguine hopes livered it to him. the ceremony. A handsome douceur was the clergyman's disappointed? Hard, indeed, is the lot of that man whose manded the robber. "I know not," was the answer. Upon

"How much money is there in it?" de fee, who quickly doffed his gown, and busily assisted in plac: || case this description suits; but there is a sovereign specific at which the thief opened the purse, took out ten francs

, and ing a substantial supper on the table, to which I alone did hand. Will it remedy thc evil if we repine at our loss? How returned the rest to its owner. justice, and after pledging the happy pair in a magnum of many years of sorrow and anguish are sufficient entirely to nary proceeding, the gentleman followed the man at a distance

Surprised by this extraordiexcellent claret, I left them to seek the public room of our eradicate this grievance ? Rest assured nothing short of the till he saw him enter a baker's shop, which he in a very few hotel, and to have a little chat with the important personage | term of our natural lives would be equal to it; the result minutes left again. The gentleman then went and made inwho was its chief attraction. I found the honest blacksmith would fully demonstrate the fact, that instead of anieliorating quiry of the baker, who informed him that the man in ques: leeply engaged in a bowl of hot toddy, and surrounded by a

our condition by grief, we had augmented the evil by the pro-tion having become indebted to him ten francs for bread, he few select magnates of the village, drinking success and hap-duction of sickness and disease, the invariable attendants on had refused to give any more credit till that sumo was paid

, piness to the couple who had lately become one by his assis

sorrow and discontent. Let us, therefore, improve all the which had just been brought him. After some further inqui. Tance. My wish to join the convivial group was readily acmeans we possess, leave the result to Providence, and aboveries

, the gentleman having discovered the lodgings of his asseded to, and we soon became as familiar as good feeling and all other earthly considerations, strive for contentment.

sailant, went there with the intention of offering relief; but he good liquor make men under every difference of relative posi

had scarcely entered the miserable garret when the poor fellow; tions. Our host boasted of the importance of his functions,

THE TWO GAS-LAMPS.

imagining he was on the point of being arrested, threw himand enumerated the many matches he had cemented, which, without such aid, never could have taken place, and told A correspondent informs us that he wishes, and feels luim-self out of the window, and was taken up lifeless! French paper. many laughable anecdotes that had occurred in his house in self perfectly competent, to conduct the editorial department

POOR LITTLE JANE. { he way of his profession; and as the liquor began to operate, of any party political journal devoted to the interests of the

There is not a flower that blooms in the valley, liis previous reserve on the profits arising from his clerical people

. He sends us the following for insertion as a specimen employments became relaxed, and I gathered sufficient infor- of his abilities, and desires that after its publication all appli Or heath, or the mountain, a stranger to me;

Each morning at dawn, with my basket I sally, ination to establish the truth of what our worthly entertainer cation to secure his services may be addressed “ James Sniggs,

To gather fresh nosegays, light-hearted and free: had before hinted at, that he laid by a pretty "nest egg,” oui Harman-street, New-York.” We were not before aware of the

I cull fragrant posies of lilies and roses, of the profits of his employment; and to which he added, | fact on which he animadverts, namely, that the mayor of this

And every sweet flow'ret that modestly blows, that “a thousand, or it may be, twal hundred punds sterling city has, for an unknown quantity of years, been allowed two I've rne for gay rovers, hearts-ease for true lovers;

And bachelor's buttons for testy old beaux. money would na kiver the incomings in the course of a year." || lamps before his door; but we were immediately struck with the About midnight I left the jovial party, still deeply engaged | enormity of the case, and fully concur in our correspondent's

0! lay out a penny with poor little Jenny,

Nor let me solicit your kindness in vain, in their libations, and sought that repose necessary for under-cool and philosophical view of the subject.--Ed. Mir.

I've sweet pretty posies of lilies and roses, {aking the rapid journey to town, which we had arranged to Exclusive privileges !~Fellow-citizens look out!!—The Come buy them, o! buy them of poor little Jane: commence early on the ensuing morning.

old federal leaven is not extinct. Though the overwhelming In winter when tempests are dreadfully blowing The sun had scarcely glanced his first beams across the tide of democratic principles has broken down the feeble bar

And every green meadow is covered with snow, Solway Frith, when I was roused from a sound and refresh-riers of federalism that opposed the majestic energies of the I trip to the village, my locks wildly flowing, ing sleep by the deep notes of Saunders MT-, inquiring people, still the lurking seeds of aristocracy

, like the whale

To ask of the rich what they choose to bestorv.

In search of fair flowers to deck ladies' bowers, whether “ I was na stirring yet?" and begging permission to from the depths of the Pacific ocean, vvill occasionally rise to

I traverse the mountains, the valleys, and glades ; si speak a few words wi' me;" which being obtained, he was view; the monster, however, has only to show itself to be in

And oft are my rambles impeded by brambles, quickly at my bed-side. No traces of the “deep drinking” stantaneously harpooned by that vigilant palladium of the rights When seeking wild wormwood for pettish old maids. of the preceding night tvere now visible, he soon entered upon and liberties of man--the public press. We are not one of 0! lay out a penny with poor little Jenny, his business, which was to caution me on the subject of his those who start at trifles, but when we see an open and un Nor let me solicit your kindness in vain, communicative information respecting the profits lie had blushing assumption of exclusive privileges by the first magis

I've sweet pretty posies of lilies and roses,

Conic buy them, o! buy then of poor little Janc. trate in the first city of the first state of the first country of made in his clerical capacity. “You kon, sir,” continued he, "you Englishers hac athe terrestial globe, in having two lamps put before his door

RUSSIAN HIGH LIFE. proverb, that when the liquor's in the wit's out;' I wasna when no other citizen has more than

many

citizens Preccesely mysel the last nicht, but gin I can trust my memory no lamp at all-and when we know that this is done with ruary, contain the following account of a splendid entertain

Private letters from St. Petersburgh, of the fifteenth of Febthe morn, 1 taulked a wheen trash about the siller that 1 money raised by taxation from the people—and morcover that ment given to the Emperor Nicholas and the imperial family, shouldna weel like to hae spoken of; sae, sir, you'll mair than such proceedings are countenanced by the votes of a corrupt) by the Duke de Montemart, ambassador of France : obleege me to a . corporation, we cannot but tremble for the purity of the instiLe promised not to betray hia confidence , and the blacksmith (utions of our beloved country, and feel that the time

has honoured by the presence of the emperor and empresa elo

On the fifth his excellency gave a grand ball, which was retired , well pleased to find so ready a compliance with his arrived when it is our duty to speak out

, as guardians of the Grand Duke Michael, Prince Albert of Prussin, the duke of do not betray the trust reposed in me by the present narration. that one lamp more or less can be but of little consequence

, the first distinction. The Grand Dutchess Helena was pret There is "ittle more to add to my detail that can interest but we would tell such shallow pretenders to reason-such / vented from altending by indisposition, but sent to everyone

any readers. Our bridal party reached London in two days|innocuous drivillers after common sense-1hat we do not think| roce e at all former similar entertainments, none of the

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mark of our bargain, and I will give you a inonth's time." || cruel father, or the song of the caliph as he went down the

The Gitana knelt and kissed her hand, with an ardour that ** That will do," said she ; “I took you for a Jew, I confess, Alpuxarras, or the life and death of Juan the flower of Gra- made the donna blush. but you have the proper respect for a lady's word. She then || ada, or the death of the Abencerrageor"

"These are the wild manners of your mountain life," said took off her ring and gave it to him.

" I protest," observed the duenna, “this girl has a marvel- || she, raising the Gitana ; "but, duenna, you will teach her. “And your lady's too,” said he.

lous memory. I don't think I could ever repeat three verses moderation.” “She must not be disturbed now," said the duenra. But||of the Asno de Plata ;” and she walked away a few paces,

This she said with a faint smile, and the Gitana, singing her lady silently took off the ring, and gave it to him, without counting them on her fingers.

her-scarlet mantle round her shoulders, hastily withdrew to attering a word.

"Sing,” said the Donna Rosanna, ti something about the consult her father the conjuror. The pedler put his knee to the ground and kissed the ring, Mæstranza, if you have any ballad of that kind.”

"Do you know," said the donna, throwing herself back into and then, with many low bows, quitted the room. The duen The girl took out a small theorbo, and, throwing back the | the chair, and reclining her head over its arm, as if she were na still stood with one hand holding her lady's forehead, and thick hair from her forehead, and fixing her eyes on the wes- reading something on the carpet," that girl pleases me exwith the salts close to her in the other.

tern sun as it shone through the trellis, sang, in a sweet, deeptremely." "Did he say nothing at going away ?!said the lady, after voice, the following stanzas :

She then spoke no more for a minute or two, but continued a silence of some minutes.

Lady, if you love to hear

humming the tune that she had just heard. The duenna

Tales of lofty chivalry, “No, my lady, but he took leave as gallantly as ever Don

Stealing beauty's sigh or tear;

stood by in silence, not knowing what turn all this might take Quixote did; and though he did not like to show his face,

List not, lady sweet, to me.

and perhaps not much pleased at her lady's new liking. probably because it is as brown as mahogany, I begin to doubt

But there is a gentle sight,

"I say, duenna, this same Gitana would make a useful that he is a Jew. I wish I had my purse, however, with my

Roselike, always born with May,
Full of arms and glances bright,

assistant to you.” The duenna was silent. “Not, of course, " hree duros, my~"

'Tis Granada's holyday!

continued she with some emphasis, “as a duenna." "You shall have ten in place of them," said the donna,

Twilight on the west was sleeping,

“Heaven forbid !" said the duenna, "she would make a

Stars were sliding down the sky, rather impatiently; "but now help me to my chamber, for I

Morn upon the hills was peeping

strange protectress of your ladyship from the snares of Satan; im wondrous weary."

With a blue, half-opening eye.

she will, if I am not much mistaken, have enough to do t And so she was, for before she had gone three steps she sat

When a silver trumpet sounded,

take care of herself."

And beside the castle wall, down on a couch at the window, and, laying her cheek on

Many a ribbon'd jendet bounded,

“Why, yes," replied the lady, and sunk into a reverie: some vine leaves that grew into the open casement, seemed to

Sparkled many a lance-head tall.

Then after a sigh or two, “I should have asked her whether fall into a heavy slumber.

In the plain, balconies proud,

she had ever been in love."

Hung with silk and flowery chain, It was the afternoon of the next day when the old Walloon

Like a statued temple, show'd

“The saints defend us,” cried out the duenna, "of what is came to inquire whether it was his lady's wish to see any of

Rank o'er rank the dames of Spain.

my lady talking ? the tricks of a scholar of the renowned Abuelo, who had stop

Soon the tapestried kettle-drums

"I see no crime in it after all,” suddenly observed the lady

Througli the distant square were pealing ; ped at the gate on his way from Granada.

Soon was seen the toss of plumes

Rosanna, raising her head, with both her hands on the arm of

By the viceroy's palace wheeling. “If he comes from Granada, heaven be praised,” said she,

the chair, and fixing her eyes on the duenna's countenance, ? for it is my own country, and I love every branch on its

Then, before the portal arch,

"it may be sorrow; it has often been ruin--but it may be vir

Every horseman check'd the reln, frees,”

Till the rocket for their march,

tue, honour, and happiness.” This she pronounced in a

Flaming up the sky was seen. Soon after the sounds of a pipe and tabor were heard in the

lofty, melancholy tone; the duenna reckoning her fingers over

Like a wave of steel and gold, servants' hall.

Swept the lovely pageant on;

rapidly. "Eighteen this month," she murmured, "eighteen“Those will be glad tidings in Valencia,” said the duenna;

Many a champion young and bold

not an hour more. What will the captain-general. say? the

Bearing lance and gonfalon. will not my lady consider the matter ?"

next news will be, I suppose, that the rock of Aranjuez is

At their sight arose the roar “I will consider nothing,” replicd the donna. “I am strange

From the people gazing round

blown away.” She rang the bell. y unhappy."

Proudly came the squadrons four,

"What's the matter now, my dear duenna," said the lady,

Prancing up the tilting ground. “Had not my lady better send for the priest to confess ?"

fondly catching her gown.

First they gallop where the screen "Can solitude confess?") returned the lady in a deep tone;

With its silken tissue hides

“I must go to confession,” was her answer.

Fair Valencia's jewell'd queenand then, as if speaking to the clouds that lay like gold piled

"Then take something more to confess, and tell the priest

Helmless every horseman rides ! upon the sky, “what can anguish confess ? can the weary life

that you think me in love."

Round the barrier then they wheel, and the willing death confess ? Duenna, there is a load upon

Troop by troop, and prir by pair;

"Can that be possible ?" cried the duenna, startled, and tak

Bending low the lance of steel my heart that is sinking me into the grave;" and with

ing out her rosary.

To the bowing ladies there. he word she sank upon her knee, her strength seemed sud

Hark! the trumpet long and loud,

“I don't know but it may,” sighed the lady, and again bu: denly melted, and with her forehead on her lifted hands, she

'Tis the signal for the charge!

ried her face in her hands.

Now with hoofs the earth is plough'a, prayed aloud to the virgin. Suddenly there came bursts of

Now are clash'd the lance and targe.
Before the duenna had gone through above ten beads

, a low merriment to the door, and she had scarcely time to throw

Light as roebucks bound the steeds,

tap was heard at the door, and the Gitana came in, to say that herself into the great chair, and cover her face with her veil,

Sunny bright the armour gleams;

her father could not spare her for the present, as he was en

Gallant charge to charge succeeds, -when the mountebank marched in with the Gitana, who car

Like the rush of mountain streams!

gaged to be in Castile by the fair of San Ignacio, but that in a ied his conjuring boxes and other implements. The duonna

Noon has come-the warriors rest,

month he should be passing back by Valencia, and then

Each dismounting from his barb; kept guard on one side of the chair, and the Walloon on the

“And then,” said the donna hastily, "I may certainly ex

Loosening each his feathery crest, other, for conjurers are at best but of doubtful honesty; and

Weighty sword, and steely garb.

pect you." all his tricks would not have been worth the repeater at her

Then are shown the lordly form,

The Gitana took out a little tablet, and wrote her name, and

Chesnut locks and eagle eyes, boson, or the pearls in her hair. The conjuror was very

Cheeks with tilting crimson-warmi,

under it the words, " Piel a la muerte." She then put it to clever, and made cups and balls, cards and glasses, dance

Lips for lovers' perjuries !

her lips, and, kneeling, would have given it to the lady Roabout in a very surprising manner. As the servants were in

As they wander round the plain,

but the duenna snatching it from her, and taking it

Sparkle cross and collar gemm'd,
The passage, crowding round the open door, there was nothing

Sparkle knightly star and chain,
to the window, held it up to the light from side to side

, as if to be seen among them but eyes and hands turned up every

On their tunics golden-soam'd.

she suspected something concealed. moment, with now and then a sharp look for the cloven foot,

Till again the trumpets play,

"I am perfectly astonished at you, duenna," said her lady,

And the mail again is worn; but the conjuror wore huge horseman's boots, which kept them

And the ring is borne away

suddenly rising, and taking the tablet from her hands; “ this

And the Moorman's turban tori. as much in the dark as ever. At length, after he had devoured

suspicion is offensive to my feelings of propriety. I dare say

Closes then the tournament, several yards of fire, and poured out ribbons to suit every face

And the noble squadrons four,

by this, you have known something of clandestine corresin Spain, he called the Gitana, and bade her sing a ballad.

Proudly to the banquet-tent

pondence, and that the cavaliers of Segovia did not find you She was a tall, dark complexioned girl, with a handsome

March by Turia's flowery shore.

altogether intractable." countenance, a crimson cheek, and an eye that, when she be

Lovely as the evening sky, Ere the golden sun is down,

The duenna looked as if a thunderbolt had fallen beside her

, gan to sing, sparkled like polished jet. The conjuror tuned

March Granada's chivalry,

when she heard the voice of contempt and authority in which his rebeck, and the Gitana sang two or three pretty seguidil

Champions of the church and crown!

these words were expressed, and saw the beautiful-figure of

“I protest," said the duenna, " it is a very pretty (une, and her mistress, with her veil up, the white wreath on her head 'as, chiefly in praise of Valencia, at every one of which the servants applauded loudly, but the duenna, as became her I have heard a worse voice."

"Tell the Gitana to come near me, and the servants to|milion.

and her pale cheeks at once glowing with the colour of verstation, only bowed.

"Duenna," said the Lady Rosanna feebly, “ that girl sings || close the door," said the Donna in an under tone.
vell, but I am not so much charmed with her subject as you The girl came near, with her eyes cast on the ground.

“Leave the room, duenna," said she; but the duenna sat seem to be. Did you not tell me they knew something of “Where did you learn that song, Gitana ?" said the lady; tinued the lady, "I am tired of all this'; you are forgiven;"

down at a distance, and burst into tears. “Well, well," comGranada ?"

“I have a great wish to know the name of the composero Then turning, and taking the theorbo from the Gitana, she The duenna replied by a sign of affirmation. is it indeed your own ?"

walked towards the casement, to recover her agitation, and ran “Well, then, let me hcar a Granadia'n song. But let the The girl courtsied. Gitana sing alone. I have heard enough of the rebeck.” “ You lead a dangerous life, Gitana," said she ; “ with your the wind, which blew the ringlets in wild clusters over her

her fingers over the strings. As she drew back her head fron The girl gave an arch look at the conjuror

, and tried to re- | taste for music

, and your appearance, you may spend many beautiful face, she made a sign to the Gitana, who had, howstrain her laughing, as he, evidently chagrined, slowly put up | sorrowful years for some delightful days.”

But the lady ordered him a duro, and The Gitana coloured, but said nothing. the rebeck in its case.

ever, been on the point of following her, but for the duenna's he seemed not a little pleased with his mortification. “I like your modesty," continued the lady, “' and, if you practice

. Tako it, Gitana, and let me hear that song of the

actually seizing the corner of her mantle. "I have lost my illustrious ladyship choose ?" said the Gi-) have no better prospect, wil take you into my service. You Mæstranza again. "What will

your Will you have the loves of Maria de Fonseca and the will be useful to my spirits with your sweet voice and your ballad ; the duenna sitting with her back to them, and more

The girl obediently went through the poble cavalicr Delpinos, or the fair Moresco's escape from herstheorbo, and I will not be ungrateful."

and then putting both her hands to her ears: “It is well

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And can its falling streets compare,

With love of faithful bosom 1
Then of the fatal tree beware,

There'a poison in its blossom.
Each thought and wish in him confide,

No secrets frun him cherish;

On matrimony's sickle sea,

I hear thou’at ventured fairly,
Though young in years it may not be

Thy bark is lanchd too carly. Each wish of mine to heaven is scat

That on the stormy water,
Thou'lt prove & wife obedient

As thou hast bien a dangheer. If every wish of mine were bliss,

If every hope were plasie,
Thou wouldst in him find happiness,

And he in thee a trusure.
For every wish and hope of mine,

And every thought and feeling,
Is for the wel of thet and thine,

As tre as my revealing.
3 know thy youthful heart full well,

Thou thoughtless romping devil ; But pardun, if ray vers should tell

My mind in terras tucivil:
For the advice which I indite,

Pray thank me not unruly; 'Tis from the heart each word I write,

O mayst tbou nark nie duly.

the fervour of undying love. Months passed away and I left figure lying across him in the same position. To add to the of which the following is an example. A considerable land. the city. The picture was the last object to which I bade wonder , on putting his hand forth to touch this form, he founded proprietor, in Dumfriesshire

, being a bachelor, without any adieu, and

, on turning from it for ever, I wept with all the the uniform, in which he appeared to be dressed, dripping near relations, and determined to make his will, resolved, pres agony of a heart-broken child.

On the entrance of one of his brother officers, to whom viously, to visit his two nearest kinsmen, and decide which Years have done their silent work upon my heart, but they he called out in alarm, the apparition vanished; but, in a few should be his heir, according to the degree of kindness with leave unchanged and undimmed the image that was shrined months er, he received the sta intelligence that on which he should be received. Like a good clansman he first there in my boyhood. I have sought in vain for its resemblance that night his brother had been drowned in the Indian seas. visited his own chief, a baronet in rank, descendant and Fe among lovely and gifted creatures. In the presence of mourn. Of the supernatural character of this appearance Captain Kidd presentative of one of the oldest families in Scotland. Un ers and the company of the mirthful, my eyes have wandered himself did not appear to have the slightest doubt. Moore. happily the dinner-bell had rung, and the door of the castle anxiously over beautiful faces, till at length I was forced to

had been locked before his arrival. The visitor in vain anclose them--close them in bitterness to hide the tears, that, in

nounced his name and requested admittance; but his chief spite of pride and manhood, were gushing wildly upward from

A late writer has astonished the philosophical reader upon the adhered to the ancient etiquette, and would on no account their fountain. Often in dreams upon my midnight pillow, 1 subject of insanity, by asserting that madness or insanity is suffer the doors to be unbarred. Irritated at this cold recephave, for a moment, realized the dear object of my early love, | indicted on human beings by Almighty God as a punishmenttion, the old laird rode on to Sanquhar castle, then the resi but, while gazing upon it , it would melt away into the air for their sins. For my part , I consider insanity in the nature dence of the duke of Queensberry

, who no sooner heard his and leave me to mourn over the bitter mockery

. Fancy too of a diseased function of the brain, and have observed what I pame, than, knowing well he had a will to make, the drawhas pictured it before me in my waking hours. I have seen it have considered very wicked and abominable characters who bridge dropped and the gates flew open-the table was coversoftly floating upon the blessed moonbeams as they lingered) have shown no signs of madness, unless, indeed, their being ed anew--his grace's bachelor and intestate kinsman was rearound the distant streams—it has come and stood before me wicked should be admitted as an à priori evidence of their ceived with the utmost attention and respect, and it is scarcely in its unearthly beauty when I have been sitting silent and being so; and, on the contrary, other persons, who have ob- necessary to add, that, upon his death some years after, the alone beneath the quiet gloom of twilight-and, many times, served all the duties of life, have become the unfortunate vic- visitor's landed property went to augment the domains of the as I have been leaning upon the tall cliffs of the ocean, fancy tims of this walady. We always lose our discretion when we ducal house of Queensberry. This happened about the end has pictured it as a holy naiad of the sleeping waters. I am arrogate to ourselves the office of a cabinet counsellor to the of the seventeenth century.

Note to Old Mortality. getting old, I cannot find the being of my first, my lasi, my | Supreme Being, and attempt to account, religiously or morally, only love, among the daughters of men, and I feel that the for his inscrutable dispensations. last blossom of my heart is stricken by disappointment.

The following jeu d'esprit appears in the "Age." Having Shall I see that remembered face in the spirit-land ? It must

EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND JUST MARRIED. occasion during the past week to explore the file of one of the be so. The imaginings that wander over the earth unsatisfied, and return to fold their faint and weary wings in the vacant

The following very pretty lines are copied from the Courier morning papers for an advertisement, several singular notices heart, will find in that land the holy realities for which they and Enquirer. They bear the initials of James Lawson, Esq. to correspondents caught my eye. Their true meaning you

can perhaps explain. Yours, have so long pined in loneliness and sorrow,

one of the editors of that journal:

That form, it is a flower, that opens in the dews of some purer spherema por

“Common sense,” if possible, in our next. tion of some bright but invisible Eden-and I long to go away

Christianity” must be deferred for more temporary matter. and gaze for ever upon its immortal youth and purity.

"Scandal" has already appeared in a former paper: As surn as thou hast aught to bide,

"Truth” is inadmissible.

"Honesty'' would be unintelligible to many of our readers. CLOTHING OF CHILDREN.

We know nothing of "Good Manners," therefore the writer When we observe the extreme anxiety of mothers to im

must be mistaken in his conjectures. prove the beauty, and impart grace to the forms of their

A Friend to the Administration" must be paid for. daughters, we cannot but pity the ignorance and infatuation

Scurrility may depend upon being inserted in the course which induce them, in too many instances, to resort to means

of the week. calculated much more effectually to defeat the object so ardent

Decency'' must be altered to make it fit for our columns. ly desired, than to promote it. A very slight knowledge of

A Patriot is at present rather out of date. the human frame, and of the manner in which it is influenc

"A Statesman” is too full of errors for publication. ed by external agents, would teach them the absurdity of all To pleuse thy husband in all things,

“Reformation" must be better authenticated before we can attempts to supply, by artificial means, what can result only

venture to insert it as truth. from the unassisted efforts of nature, In infuncy as well as

“An Honest Lawyer,” with other originals, in a day or two. in adult lise, the first and most important object of considera

“Matter of Fact' does not come within the circle of newstion should be preserve and promote the health and vigour

paper intelligence.

British Travellor. of the body-since with its health we necessarily maintain its symmetry and improve its beauty.

GENEROSITY TO A RIVAL. Bodily deformity, in particular, unless congenital, or the effect of unavoidable disease or accident, is in the great ma PORTRAIT OF A VOLUPTUARY IN FRANCE.

The following is an extract of a letter from Paris to a young

lady in London. jority of cases produced by nursery mismanagement, and the If contempt were not an unchristian feeling that should be gentleman of the name of M., and Miss H.

, the daughter of

“Banns of marriage, between a French employment of the very means which are resorted to in order checked on every occasion as soon as it arises within the mind

, the Rev. Sir. John H., had been published at the church of to prevent it.

I know one character, at least

, by which it might be excited in a St. Philippe du Roule, under very strange circumstances. A The fact cannot be too often repeated, nor can it be too se- very forcible degree. It is that of the voluptuous man, who, in British officer now here was paying his addresses to the young riously urged upon parents, that the foundation of a graceful the vigour of his health

and manhood, caters for his comfort like lady in question, and with her father's approbation. He die laid in infancy. A light dress

, which gives freedom to the with the weight of frame, a set of muscles capable of uphold- whose disqualification in the estimation of the Rev. Baronet functions of life and action, is the only one adapted to permit ing a weight that would strain the back of a young horse

. Was want of fortune ; ascertaining also that the possession of perfect unobstructed growth-the young fibres

, unconstrained he shrinks like a blasted

nabob from the slightest breath that one hundred thousand francs would remové all objections to by obstacles imposed by art, will shoot forth harmoniously agitates the perfumed atmosphere of his apartment

, and stuns the favoured lover, Captain D., with a rare generosity, ad. into the forni which nature intended. The garments of chil- your ears with accounts of draughts from the windows and vanced the money, and thus proved, in a way that cannot be dren should be in every respect perfectly easy, so as not to|| from the doors

, together with expedients for their modification

, questioned

, that the happiness of the object of his affections impede the freedom of their movements. With such liberty; || until you fancy you are speaking with a poor terrified Italian was more to him than his own. the muscles of the trunk and limbs will gradually assume the of the malaria. He makes a greater preparation for shaving fine swell and developement which nothing short of uncon- his beard in the morning than a sensible man would use bestrained exercise can ever produce. The body will turn casily fore the amputation of a limb, and considers the keenest edge

MODERATION. and gracefully upon its firmly poised base~the chest will rise no finer than a handsaw. He inquires of his man, ere he

In former days there was a professor in one of our Nerin noble and healthy expanse, and the whole figure will assume descends, which way the wind blows, and takes his seat on England colleges, who was remarkable for moderation in that perfectness of form, with which beauty, usefulness, and the lec side of the

screen
, least he should be blown away by all that he said or did

. One of the quizzical students in health are so intimately connected. Journal of Health. one of those awful parlour hurricanes while he is eating his order to caricature this characteristic

, so far as words conta potted shrimps and chocolate. To excess, indeed, of all kinds caricature, told the following story. The professor walkhe is a stranger; but the love of virtue is not the safeguard

ed out one day very deliberately from his house to the presi: Lord Byron sailed to Lisbon in the year 1809 with a Cap- of an intense enjoyment is the rubicon which he will not pass. which protects him. He is thoroughly sensual ; but the labour dent's

, a distance of some thirty rods. He there knocked

, as tain Kidd, of whom he used to mention a very strange story. Ho creeps, and shrinks, and shivers himself into a permature

was customary, at the president's study door, was bidden to This officer stated, that, being asleep

one night in his berth
, old age ; and is at length moulted
out of the world by dyspepse salutations passed

alternately between the president rutiny,

come in, went in, shutting the door after him. The usual he was awakened by the pressure of something heavy on his

and hypochondria. limbs, and, there being a faint light in the room, could sec, as

fessor, such he thought, distinctly the figure of his brother, who was at

sir ?" with the usual reply, “Pretty well, I thank you; much that time in the naval service of the East Indies, dressed in

as usual, I thank you,” &c. “Then,” says the president

, his uniform and stretched across the bed. Concluding it to

"please to take a chair

, Mr. Professor." "I thank you, sir, I be an illusion of the senses, he shut his eyes and made an time of dinner, probably arose from the

family being anciently ) that your house is in a blaze, and it is expected you will get the

The custom of keeping the doorof a house locked during the cannot conveniently stay to be seated. I called to inform yang effort to sleep

. But still the same pressure continued, and assembled in the hall at that meal, and liable to surprise. Buy have the key which leads to the water engine for extinguish still

, as often as he ventured to take another look, he saw thell it was in many instances continued as a point of high etiquette, ling the fire."

The better feelings perishi.
In whatsoe'er ye do or say,
O never with him palter

i.
Remeraber too, thou saidst " obey,"

Before the holy aluar.
Bear and forbear, for you may find

Uncounted things to tease ye,
And should thy húslund sem unkind,

Averse to finile or please ye ; Think, that amidst the scenes of life,

He much ha- found to Joer him ;
Then sinile as it becomes the wife-

With music strive to cheer bim.
Aye answer him with kindly word,

Be each toue sweetly spoken,
For often is the mairiage cord

By angry accents broken.
Then curb thy temper in its range,

And fretful be thou never,
For severed unce, a fearful change

Hangs over both forever, Upon thy neck light hang the chain,

T'or Hymen now has bound thee;
O'er the aud thine inay pleasure reign,

And siniling friends surround thee.
'Then fare thee well, and may each time

The sun stuiles find the wiser; Pray kindly con the well-meant rhyme Of thy sincere adviser.

J.L.

For ever be thou zealous ; Aye bear in mind that love has wings,

Then never make him jealous.
For if love from his prrch once fies,

Hy wou are lwauty's jesies !
In vain would cd thy streaming cyes,

And thy dishevelled tresses. Be prudent in thy thoughts of dress,

Be sparing of thy parties; Where fashion riots in excess,

O nothing there but art is;

Tales of the Five Sensos.

LOCKING THE DOOR DURING DINNER.

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A. CUNNINGHAM. that you are impatient for a specimen of my poem, and I will down of the thick walls, the écroulement, as the French

Tradition's lyre he plays Clothed in the rainbow's

beams. therefore recite a few lines from the introduction, the metrecall it

With firm and skilful hand,

Mid strath and pastoral glen, “The ponderous walls that circum-rock

Singing the olden lays of which is intended to represent the bustle and animation of

He sees the fairies gleam, Of his dear native land.

Far from the haunts of men. a siege. (how do you like that compound epithet to express rocky so

KEATS.

BLOOMFIELD.. lidity ?) Now Alaric's standards are proudly unfurled

Fair thy young spirit's mould Sweet bard, upon the tomb: Round the seven-hilled city, once queen of the world ; The ponderous walls that circum-rock the town,

Thou fromwhose heart the streams In which thine ashes lie, The siego is close pressed-round the ramparts are poureri, Slow crumbling, stumbling, tumbling, rumble jumble down." Of sweet Elysium rolled

The simple wildflowers bloom Gigantic and grim, a barbarian horde,

Over Endymion's dreams, Before the ploughman's eye. Who scowl on the grandeur of Rome with amaze, Now mark the difference when a lofty tower falls with a sud

J. MONTGOMERY.

HOOD, And on palaces, castles, and fanes as they gaze, den velocity and clutter.

Upon thy touching strain

Impugn I dare not thee, In her strength and her beauty they bid her not trust,

Religion's spirit fair,

For I'm of puny brood; For her turreted head shall be dragged in the dust.

Heaved by the writhing earth the towers creak, crack,

Falls down like drops of rain, And thou wouldst punish me But the Romans confiding in bulwarks and gods, Then with a crash slap-dash, smash helter-skelter whack !

And blends divinely there. With pungent hardihooD. Not an obolus caring for enemies odds, Think the battering-ram a ridiculous flam,

The tide of risibility which now "burst its continents,"overAn assault a mero hoax, and a capture a sham.

whelmed the astonished bard. In vain did he attempt to proSo they giggle and laugh, dance, revel, und quaff,

MAY DAY IN NEW-YORK? As, for sacrifice moant, does a garlanded calf."

cced;

; every effort was quashed by a quotation of his own last " Fine! beautiful ! exquisite !" ejaculated several voices at line, repeated in every possible variety of accent, gesture, and During the last winter the law relative to the inspection of once. intonation ; and when Jibe procured a momentary silence, he anslaked lime was brought before the common council

, laid “Do you observe the effect of the lively metre when I come undertook the defence of his friend with an irony so solemn on the table, called up again, and again postponed, so often to express the festivity of the besotted citizens? 'So they | in appearance, and at the same time so ludicrous in intention that we cannot tell who the inspectors are, nor the degrees of giggle and laugh, dance, revel, and quaff,' —does that strike and effect, that the merriment became more obstreperous than pulverization through which this May-day commodity must

As their host repeatedly emptied his glass in the heat pass-legally, we mean. Laws, however, relating to such re"Oh, inimitable! and inimitable imitation !" exclaimed Mr. of his poetical furor, some of his company as regularly re-bellious articles as lime and city dust, are set at defiance on Jibe; "but I do not exactly see how a calf can be said to gig. filled it, until he alternately hugged his defender with a maud- and about the first day of May in each year. Already the pe gle, and laugh, and dance."

lin fondness, and hurled defiance at the others with all the riodical whirlwinds without, and the bleaching steam within, “But it bleats, Mr. Jibe; which under such circumstances, vociferation of an irritated and punch-inflamed poet. Jibe have announced to the uttermost dwellers in this goodly city, as it is a pleasurable sound, may be deemed equivalent to fostered his animosity by burlesquely arraigning the bad taste the advent of this day of general commotion. The spire of laughter."

and delinquency of his assailants, and a scene ensued upon Trinity church, recently painted a Carnarvon siate colour, has "Very likely, very likely; you must know much better than which we deem it prudent to drop the curtain, contenting already visibly changed its hue, and fairly turned pale, under I what a calf means, and what sort of sounds it makes." ourselves with stating, in the concluding lines of a well the influence of the Rhode Island sirocco. The corporation "Then as to dancing,” resumed the poet, “what says Pope? i known song:

tank, at the corner of the Bowery and Thirteenth-street, has not "The lamb that riot dooms to bleed to-day, " Then a quarrel arose, some reflections were cast,

yet been supplied with its steam engine, so that the dust canHad he thy reason, would he skip and play ?'

But for decency's sake we'll not mention what past, Derry down, down, down, derry down." New Monthly Mag.

not be laid--the city-hall clock dares not show its illuminated Now, though I object to the word riot, since there is no such

faces--the figure of justice has tottered from the cupola—the mighty excess in a leg of lamb with mint sauce, or a fore-quar

criminal court has returned from the Rotunda to the pro

POETICAL PORTRAITS. ter with asparagus, you see he makes the animal skip; and

tection of the white house and divers other 'portents have

“Orient pearls at random strung." if a lamb may skip, surely a calf may dance."

announced the coming of this fearful day. Red and white

SHAKSPEARE. "I sit corrected,” cried Jibo, bowing with an air of bur

His was the wizard spell,
A solitary rock

lead are doing their best on the exteriors of our edifices; and lesque conviction.

The spirit to enchain;

In a far distant sca,

the latter and lime are working their marvels on the wainscotHis grasp o'er pature fell,

Rent by the thunder's shock, In the following passage I have endeavoured to delineate

Creation owned his reigo.

An emblem stands of thee!

ings and walls of the interiors, while a Manhattan deluge is the deep stillness and repose of the night that witnessed the

preparing for the windows and floors, from garret to cellar. assault.

His spirit was the home The passions are thy slaves;

Already the things called carts—the last invention, one would
Of aspirations high ;,

In varied guise they roll
Drowsy Tiber lagging laves

A tomple, whoso hugo dome Upon the stately waves

think the spirit of destruction could devise for the demolition of The city walls, its winking waves

Was hidden in the sky.
One another scarcely pushing,
Of thy majestic soul. furniture—begin to groan under the motley burdens of beds,

and, With low-breathing hushing gushing,

chairs, sofas, pots, kettles, cribs, and looking-glasses; Till the whole stream with muffed bead

Black clouds his forehead bound, In garb of sable hue
Lies stretch'd asleep within its bed."

And at his feet were flowers; Thy soul dwells all alone,

flanked by servants, with chandeliers

, pictures, plate, and other Where the sad drooping yew

valuables, and followed by others, with the pet parrot

, cat, "The best place it could possibly have chosen,?). cried Jibe. Mirth, madness, magic found

In him their keenest powers. Weeps o'er the funeral stone. " Zooks! sir, you must have written that passage under the

canary, and dog, one or all

, move in dire confusion through direct inspiration of Morpheus, and ought to be crowned for He sings, and lo! romance To bid the big tear start,

the broad and narrow ways of Gotham, like so many pedlers

' it with a wreath of poppies. You were full of your subject | While Chivalry's bright

lanco Starts from its mouldering urn, Unchallenged, from its shrine. caravans, or travelling menageries. “Soon as the evening

And thrill the quivering heart when you set about it. It is a perfect soporific—an absolute And nodding plumes return. With pity's voice, are thine.

shades prevail,” the tramp of horses, the crashing of dumped. ópiate, so somnolent and lulling that-yaw-aw-aw!-excuse

furniture, and the anathemas of contending cartmen are

Within the enchanted womb me, but I cannot pay you a greater compliment than by show

On zephyr's amber wings, hushed, and the belles of the city, disguised by cosmetics com

Of his vast genius, lie [glooin Like thine own Psyche borne, ing how completely I sympathise with its influence-yaw-Bright streams and groves, whose Thy buoyant spirit springs

pounded of dust, cobwebs, and lime, are seen with their geraaw-aw!"

Is lit by Una's eye.

To hail the bright-eyed morn.
niums, roses, and other plants

, flitting like startled ghosts from Mr. Quill took up this note as soon as it was relinquished

the old to the new family mansion. The long cherished forv

Romance and high-souled love, by Mr. Jibe ; Mr. Snake succeeded; Mr. Ferret followed, and| Hop hung bis harp upon

Philosophy's pure shrine ;

Like two commiogling streams,

ers may not be trusted to any hands but those that have tendMr. Briggs had recommenced half a dozen lines with the And placed by nature's throne, Glide through the flowery grovo

ed them. The careful housewife who has had the good for: Composed each placid line.

Of thy enchanted dreams. words "dread omens," and been as often interrupted by an

tune to obtain possession of a single room before the move-all audible gape, before he could proceed with his recitation.

Ilis strain like holy hymn,
Crowned with perennial flowers,

hour of twelve to-day, might have been seen sitting in her “ Dread omens, inauspiciously reveal'd,

Upon the ear doch floni,

By wit und genius wove,

armed chair in the centre of the room, directing the handAnnounco her futo-the city's doom is seal'd.”

Or voice of cherubim,

He wanders through the bowers
Of fancy and of love.

barrow men where to locate the chamber furniture, while with “This is nothing," resumed the minstrel, “nothing what

one jewel in the cradle and another on her knee, she listened ever to my description of the clash of swords, the clank of Soaring on pinions proud, Where necromancy flings

for the signal by which the ins and outs rush from each other's armour, the rolling of the machines, the groans of the wound The lightnings of his eye

O'er eastern lands her spell,
Scar the black thunder-cloud, Sustained on fable's wings,

presence. ed, the cymbals and shouts of the victors. Talk of music

Ilo passes swiftly by. His spirit loves to dwell.

Night will throw her sable and grateful curtain round many of the Siege of Belgrade, or Steibelt's Storm! I will give any man one of Tomkinson's grand pianos with three pedals, and He seized his country's lyte,

a dwelling that, looking to-day like a place for and of departed Waked into mimic life,

With ardent grasp and strong ; will undertake to beat him by language alone, so stimulating

The passions round him throng,

spirits, is destined to put on to-morrow the semblance of a hu

man habitation, and will in the course of a week be joyous the imagination through the ear, that the whole scene shall

song Thrills through his startling song with social life. The tiny tack now vexes the maid, as the become as visible to the eye as if I had painted it upon a white

With all that naturo's fire

hammer glances from its head to her fingers-the glistening wall. I do paint in fact, only dipping my tongue in pictu- | Magician, whose dread speil,

Can lend to polished art, resque words instead of my brush in representative colours-From superstition's cell

Ile strikes his graceful lyre

stair-rods slide suddenly into their eyelets—the portraits smile

Invokes each satellite ! that's the whole secret! But you shall hear the effect of my

To thrill or warm the heart.

from their new elevations, the gold glitters from the chair explosion when Alaric sets fire to the train of gunpowder."

backs, the wax lends its polish to the mahogany side. board, Religion's light is shed

The seasons as they roll Gunpowder!" ejaculated several voices at once ; surely Upon his soul's dark shrine ;

Shall bear thy name along;

and the tenants take their first sitting repast in a lower room, And vice voils o'er her head that's an anachronism; have you not got the start of Friar

And graven on the soul

Another day will roll round, and the papillottes will lose their

At his denouncing line. Bacon some five hundred years or so ? and will not the critics

tenacious hold of the filletted locks of matrons and daughters

, blow you up with your own combustibles ?" Involved in pall of gloom,

the windows receiving a last ablution, will be garnished with

On every gentler scene "I little thought,” replied Briggs with a complacent smile, The murderer's midnight tomb,

He baunts, with footsteps dread,

That moves the human breast,

the damask curtains, which in a short month must give place

Pathetic and screne, " that such a company, 'fit audience though sew,' would have

And calls upon the dead.

to a lighter fabric-the hall bell will announce the visit of

eye delights to rest. forgotten that Milton introduces artillery some thousands of

neighbours, who by a time-honoured custom, if domiciliated O! when we hear the bell' Of " Sabbath”' cbiming free, Soft is thy lay-a stream before the new-comers, must pay the first visit

, to be returned "Egad," quoth Jibe, " so he does, and Alaric doubtless took

strikes us like a knoll,

Meand'ring calmly by,
Beneath the moon's palé beam

once by way of etiquette, and oftener, if fashion or friendship the hint from the blind bard. You see, gentlemen, 'It is not

And makes us think of thoc! Of sweet Italia's sky.

delight in the association. Such are some of the precedent [lomer nods but we that dream.' Now for the explosion, but prithee have mercy upon our persons.” From nature's flowery throne

and concomitant circumstances attending the annual boule His spirit took its flight,

Wouldst thou his pictures know, "Pray observe," resumed the poet, " the gradual rolling

versement of many of even “the best regulated families."
Their scenes of wrath or woe?
In soft, sad, tender light. Go guzo on haploss "Rutb,"

of a day like this is ineffable, and has a marvellous effect on

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NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1830.

One smile becomes the sunlight, which can cheer ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE LANCH.

Thy darkest hour, and bid all gloom depart;, Those who have ever witnessed the spectacle of the lanching of a ship

And when the brightest scene seems dark and drear
COLONEL BARTON AND GENERAL LAFAYETTE.

of the line will, perhaps, forgive me for adding this to the examples of
the sublime objócts of artificial life.-Campbell's Essay.

And wearisome, unless that smile is near,
Colonel Barton, a hero of the American revolution, after having been The city's doors were open'd. Forth there came

Then tremble-for thy heart hath now become immurcd in prison for debt, during the period of twenty years, in the A mingled multitude, whose hearts were moved

An idol's altar, and the hopes and joys,
state of Vermont, was released from his confinement on the fourth of
July, 1826, by the Marquis Lafayette, who cancelled the claim against

As by a common impulse. There was seen

And feelings fresh that made it once their home, his old companion in arms, and thereby afforded him an opportunity of The man of many years, like him of old,

The youthful elasticity that buoys joining in the festivities of the American independence! Who after this Resting upon his staff, while the glad ear

The spirit up, all, one by one, shall be will dare to assert that republics aro ungrateful ?- English paper.

Caught the loud laugh of childhood, gushing out

Sacrificed to thy wild idolatry.
WakĐl for the morning's purple fold
From the deep fount of joy within the soul.

And vain will be each offering! never yet
Is drawn from the orient arch ;
And there the young and beautiful of earth

Did mortal bosom such excess requite
Wake-for the sun in his robes of gold
Mingled with those who bore the three-fold seal

And other forms will enter; grief, regret,
Comes forth on his monarch march ;
Of sickness, want, and sorrow, graven deep

And disappointment, shutting out the light
Joy for the cannon's thunderings free
Upon the furrow'd brow and pallid cheek.

Of hope and gladness from that dreary cell

, Oer the echoing mountain sent; All hasten'd onward till their course was stay'd

Thy heart, will every brighter guest expel.
Joy for the drum's loud reveillé,

By the unfathom'd deep, whose broad expanse
With the clarion's music blent-
Display'd no angry frown or whelming wave,

This deep devotion, this undying trust,
Joy for the millions' stirring shout
But smiles of peace and beauty.

They were not meant to rest on aught below,
On freedom's birth-morn bursting out !

There they stood,

To cling to frail and perishable dust :-
But hush-a stern yet smothered groan
While the spread wing of silence hoverd o'or

How blest were we could we on heaven bestow
And hush'd all sounds of life. Why were they all

The love which now too oft but sorrow brings,
Steals forth upon the air,
So motionless and mute? Had the hour come

Unwisely lavished upon earthly things. THYRZA, Deep as the forest's solemn moan

In which the mighty deep should render up
When the midnight winds are there.

Its hidden treasures? did they wait to clasp
Whence comes that note ? a painful jar
Their friends beloved who slept beneath the wave ?

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
In freedom's swelling chime-

Or had their spirits flown to scan the depths
Why comes it too the mirth to mar

Where diamonds gleam upon the hidden sands
of this all-joyous time,

In ocean's farthest caves? Or did they mark
When for earth's proudest jubilee
The surface of the sea ? its light and shade,

The picture which accompanies this impression of the
Have met the gallant and the free?
Its deep ethereal blue--its mirror broad?

Mirror presents a view of six more churches, five of which
Look to yon rough and massy walls,
Saw they the snowy sails, that to the eye

belong to the protestant, and one to the catholic persuasion.
Where joy no music wakes
Hung midway in the sky, and seem'd the throne

This plate completes the original design of furnishing the Forth from its melancholy halls

Of bright celestial spirits ? No! not this

readers of this journal with correct delineations of the most That startling discord breaks;

The spell that bound the soul.
Pierce to its lone discoloured hold,

But 'twas that the proud ship

conspicuous architectural features of our growing city; and With chill damps circled round; Broke the strong fetters that so long had held

the future subjects of our embellishments will consequently There, like a felon, worn and old,

Her form majestic in ignoble bonds

be more picturesque and various. Almost every public edifice The patriot chief lies bound

At first she moved with slow and queenly grace, in this emporium, which has any pretensions to celebrity for He of the lion-hearts, that broke

As if her spirit saw with conscious pride

classical taste or architectural beauty, has already been exhi- In their stern might, oppression's yoke!

A presage of her greatness. Then she flew

bited to our readers, and every new one which may be hereWhy groans he

As on the wind, and plung'd into the wave now,

while every tongue
With gladness overflows,
That rose to bathe her form, and circling round

after erected of a similar character, shall be given in its turn; Who erst defiance sternly flung

The eddies stretch'd away, as if to bear

but for the present, this series of engravings must give place To freedom's island foes ? The joyful tidings to the ocean's bound.

to others of a different description.

Then there broke Why lies he there whose fettered foot

The plates intended for the eighth volume of the Mirror Leapt proud the fight to meet;

From the assembled host a deaf'ning shout The foremost in the fierce pursuit,

Of triumph and of joy. Nor this alone,

will comprise views of the scenery which characterizes the Last in the lorn retreat ? The mighty deep responded to the sound,

city and its vicinity. Among these the bay and harbour of Has guilt thus bowed that lofty brow? And join'd the wild halloo and loud acclaim,

New-York, with the numerous islands which adorn the de. List, for the warrior speaketh now :

With echo's magic voice.

lightful prospect, will not be forgotten. A sketch of this me

Then on the mind "'Tis sad that one whose blood has welled

Rose the dim future, and the eye essay'd

tropolis from the adjacent heights, will also be published, to- Full oft on freedom's plain,

To scan its hidden depths, to mark the path

gether with some of our most imposing street views, one of
Should, on this hallowed morn, be held
Of the proud ship across the trackless deep,

which is now in the hands of the artists.
By aught of bolt or chain!
Her nights of danger from the winds and waves,

In presenting to our readers the engraving which adorns
Not that bis crimes have reft from him
And days of battle, when her country's foes

the present number, we shall accompany it with a few reThe right heaven gave at birth,

Should gather round. All this rose on the mind,
To tread with bold unshackled limb

And when the words "Speed, speed thee! gallant ship!") attractive) of the subjects it embraces. We have said that it

marks that are naturally suggested by one (and not the least Proudly his native earth;

Burst from the lips, it seem'd a thing of life Put that he clasps not in his hold

Received the benediction.

Cora. comprises a view of five churches appertaining to the pro'The worshipp'd dust which men call gold?

testant and one belonging to the catholic persuasion; as the "Stand from my grated bars away,

STANZAS.

institution of the latter in America is comparatively of reAnd let the cheering light

Lean not on earth, 'twill pierce thee to the heart,

cent date, we are induced by feelings of hospitality, as well as That beams on this immortal day

A broken reed at best, and oft a spear.-Young.

courtesy, to assign it the first place in our brief description of Steal in upon my sight;

Love is heaven's attribute, therefore to heaven these several edifices. In this arrangement we are also in-
Ah! hush the prison court beside;

Should its deep fervency be lifted up,
That I may catch once more

cited by other considerations, which will appear in the course

And not to earth or earthly things be given
My country's pæan-burst of pride,

The rich profusion of affection's cup;

of the following observations.
Trumpet and cannon's roar;
Like music on my heart it falls,

Oh! not on things which perish should be poured

Apart from all doctrinal and controversional speculations,

The wells of love with which the heart is stored. (with which, as editors and current historians, we have
Though heard within these frowning walls. ::
But who, with quick, yet lofty tread,

Let the wide spirit of benevolence,

nothing to do,) there are many interesting and classical assoThe captive's cell draws nigh?

Young enterer upon life, pervade the heart ; ciations connected with the term “ Roman Catholic Church.'' The light of glory on his head,

And let affection, calm but not intense,

From this ancient and venerable establishment, poesy and

To all around its gentle worth impart ; Of pity in his eye:

romance have drawn their richest materials, their most startThat port may well beseem a soul,

But single not from earth’s frail creatures one Whom thy undoubting heart may rest upon.

ling incidents, and their most enchanting scenes. The beauFor angel actions nursed

tiful annals of chivalry owe half their fascination to the pecuHis name on fame's unfolding scroll

Make not his voice thy music, nor his eye
Shines radiant with the first;

Thy light of life—the thunder-peal of doom

liarities of the religion which characterised the age in which 'Tis Gaul's high chief, whose far felt worth

Soon shall that music sound, that light shall be

it flourished, Links the wide severed realms of earth.

The lightning-flash, which shall ere long consume The external pomp and splendour of the papal see, the

Thy heart's best feelings, till it doth become
He speaks—the indignant champion,

gorgeous pageantry which attends many of its religious ex

Blackened and seared--a tempest-shattered dome!
Calmly and yet severe

hibitions, and the imposing effects of the rites and ceremonies Here's gold for that dishonoured one

Alas! how often in an angel's guise

of the catholic worship, in every part of christendom, have Who holds the freeborn here :

Comes to the bosom this insidious guest! Look on his aged breast—the scars

But when thou dost begin to note and prize

always imparted a degree of interest to the subject which has Of glorious fields ye'll find !

The looks and words of one above the rest

never been experienced in contemplating the rise and progress Back with the base degrading bars,

Of those around thee, when one footstep's sound

of any other denomination, whether religious or political. The circling chains unbind !

Thrills more than all the laughter ringing round, The first settlers of this country, being zealous converts to I've learnt to value freedom's worth

One voice brings sweeter music to thine ear,

the doctrines of the reformation, adopted severe and rigorous Brother in arms and heart-come forth !": PROTEUS! One glance a deeper gladness to thy heart; measures against the introduction of any other religious sen

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CHRIST'S CHURCH, ANTHONY-STREET.

A COURTSALP OF FIFTY YEARS AGO.

timents, especially such as favoured the church of Rome. In magnificence

, by ecclesiastical personages, expressly for reli- clock in the tower, which is considered an excellent tinemany parts of the country English episcopacy was looked gious purposes. It is generally admitted by persons of taste piece, and a fine-toned organ in the front gallery. The rector upon with nearly equal abhorrence, if we may judge by a among all denominations, that this style of architecture has is the Rev. James Milnor, who is now absent, having gone to law of Connecticut, forbidding any one to keep Christnias, a powerful tendency to augment the solemnity of divine wor- London, as a delegate from the American Bible society, and Easter, or any Saint's day, or to read the book of Common ship, and excite the attention, awe, and devotion of those who will probably return in September. In the meantime his Prayer! But while the puritans of New-England were per- | assist at it. Where is the mortal so stupid, so dissipated, or so place is supplied by the Rev. Mr. Henderson. secuting the Quakers and Episcopalians, the citizens of New- totally devoid of all religious impressions, as not to experience York were equally intolerant towards the Jews and Catholics. something of pious solemnity, not to say reverence, among the

This is a neat stone edifice, situated in Cedar-street

; beIt was resolved, for instance, in the general assembly, that long-drawn aisles, the aspiring arches, the lofty pinnacles, and none of the Jewish profession could vote for representatives , ramified tracery of an ancient cathedral ? Where is the

being and sixty-six in breadth, with a quadrangular tower rising

tween Nassau and William streets; is eighty-one feet in length, or even be admitted as witnesses, « touching any contested who has any pretensions to taste and sentiment, who will say from the roof, and surmounted with a handsome cupola. The election.” Against the Roman Catholics they exercised this that the boasted paragon of modern art and magnificence, St. narrow spirit of intolerance to a still greater extent, and Paul's cathedral, is so well calculated to dispose his mind to sessions-room is in the rear, and the interior is commodious zealously recommended to the colonists to hold in religious solemnity and religious contemplation, as the cathedrals of and tastefully finished. This edifice was erected in 1807, and abhorrence “the pope, the devil, and the pretender;" three York, Lincoln, and Winchester?

was several years under the pastoral charge of the late Rev. personages whom our pious forefathers abjured as an infernal

Dr. Romeyn. The present pastor is the Rev. Cyrus Mason, trio, the same in purpose, and equal in power and infamy.

This imposing structure, which was erected in the year The following clause of a colonial statute will show the hor- || 1823, on the former site of a theatrical edifice, in Anthony

ORIGINAL TALES. ror and detestation in which the members of this prescribed || street, is ninety-six feet feet in length and sixty-five in breadth. sect were then held :

The sides and rear are constructed of neat gray stone; but the Every jesuit, emissary, priest, missionary, or other spiri-| whole front, together with the quadrangular tower, is faced tual or ecclesiastical person, made or ordained by any autho- | with brown hewn stone. The doors and windows are niched

"You must decide before the moon goes down, Mary," saið rity, power, or jurisdiction, derived, challenged, or pretended

, and arched in the true pointed gothic style. The tower, before John Hageman to his lady-love, as he sat by her side in the from the pope or see of Rome, or that shall profess himself

, or mentioned, projects three feet from the face of the front wall, hall door of her father's mansion, of which she was the sole otherwise appear to be such, by practising or teaching of and is ninety fect in height, surmounted with an open battle

inheritor. “You must positively decide before yon moon others, to say any popish prayers

, by celebrating of masses, | ment and quadrangular pyramids. In the rear of the church goes down!” said John, emphatically; and the maiden raised granting of absolution, or using any other of the Romish cere. | is the vestry-room, which is twenty-eight feet in length by

her lovely countenance rds that luminary which a single monies, or rites of worship, by what name, title, or degree || eighteen in breadth. From this apartment a flight of steps

sentence had coupled with her destiny. soever such person shall be called or known, who shall con- leads to the pulpit. The interior of the main building is

It was at the close of a summer evening at the time when tinue, abide, or come into this province, or any part thereof, finished in a plain gothic style

, and contains one hundred and the air is fragrant with the perfume of early flowers, and after the first day of November aforesaid, shall be deemed and twenty-four pews on the ground floor, and sixty-six in the the opening buds of the apple and the grape, and when the accounted an incendiary, and disturber of the public peace galleries. There is a gradual declivity to the chancel, in front earth is fully crowned and smiling with new verdure. The and safety, and a disturber of the true christian religion, and of the pulpit , and a neat railing excluding the reading desk. moon was scarcely more than a crescent

, but even thus it was shall be adjudged to suffer perpetual imprisonment! And if the pulpit

, canopy, and altar are finished in a style bordering |at moments so transcendantly beautiful, that a pope might any person, being so sentenced and actually imprisoned, shall on the florid gothic, of most exquisite workmanship, and very

have bent his knee in admiration before it, and deemed it no break prison and make his escape, and be afterwards retaken, || appropriate taste. The Rev. Dr. Lyell is the rector, assisted || crime. Unsullied by cloud or vapour, it was descending graduhe shall suffer such pains of death, penalties, and forfeitures by the Rev. Mr. Thomas Clarke.

ally towards the bed of the ocean, that lay extended far in the as in cases of felony !!!

distance like a dark shining mirror. Not a wave was curling

ST. MARK'S CHURCH, STUYVESANT-STREET. During that alarmning period of bigotry and intolerance,

amid that vast expanse of waters, for the wind seemed to ilenominated the “ Negro plot," in the summer of 1741, a Ca- | structed of dark stone, and is one hundred feet in length by happiest dream. The landscape around' was in perfect har

This building, which was erected in the year 1796, is con-|| sleep, and only murmured in its slumber as an infant in its tholic emigrant, by the name of Ury, was convicted, on very sixty-four in breadth. It was originally finished with a mony with the quiet of the ocean and the beauty of the heaequivocal testimony, of contravening the foregoing statute, quadrangular tower rising from the roof, and terminating at and was actually executed on a public scaffold. It was many || the belfry, without a spire. But in the year 1827, Martin E. mansion, extended to the white sand-banks that girded the sea.

A sloping lawn, and field, and meadow, in front of the years afterwards that Catholics and Jews were finally admit- Thompson, Esq. our well-known architect, suggested the idea on one side a wood, deep and sombre

, arose—on the other ied to the full participation of equal rights and privileges. of raising a spire of brick-work, from the summit of the tower, were airy hills

, covered with cattle and the bleating herd. The first edifice erected in this city for public worship, ac to an elevation of eighty-four feet

. This idea was approved | And this enchanting domain must one day, sooner or later, cording to the catholic forms, was St. Peter's church, built in and adopted ; and the spire erected under the direction of Mr. || descend to Mary; but John's eye had not looked to that cir the year 1986, at the corner of Barclay and Church streets

. Thompson, being the first of the kind ever attempted in this cumstance alone when be dedicated his heart's devotedness It is a plain but capacious brick structure, fronting in Bar-| country. It adds much to the beauty of the edifice, and reclay-strect, with no external ornament except the gilt cross flects great credit on the taste and enterprise of the architect

. valley. So all readily confessed, and many a rival swain sighed

to the maiden, for she was herself the fairest lily of that beautiful which surmounts the cupola. The rapid current of emigra- The Rev. William Creighton is the officiating clergyman. tion from Ireland and other catholic countries, soon rendered

for the possession of such an union of wealth and loveliness. another building necessary for the accommodation of this in

Mary's features were of the Grecian cast, to which a procreasing sect; but the want of sufficient pecuniary means de Gracc church, which is situated in Broadway, corner of fusion of bright chesnut curls and a pair of fine eyes, gave a ferred the project until the year 1814, when an elegant edifice Rector-street, occupies the site of a former Lutheran church, | most perfect expression. Herform was of symmetrical beauty;

erected in the year 1671

, and destroyed by fire in 1776, on the but the simple girl was not sensible of this advantage ; she was founded, which is well known by ihe name of

day after the British army took possession of the city. Trinity had never been told so, and therefore had cultivated no grace ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.

church, and most of the lower part of the city, was laid in / of art to heighten her pretentions. Modesty is innate in the This magnificent gothic superstructure is situated at the ashes by the same unfortunate conflagration. Grace church | female breast—this, in its purest light, shed a lustre over all corner of Mott and Prince streets, fronting on the former. it was erected in 1809, as an independent church. It is a neat her actions. She had long been loved, and ardently pursued is said to be the largest religious edifice in the city, being one substantial editice of brick, with a handsome cupola. The by John Hageman, the bravest and blithest of all the swains; hundred and twenty feet in length, by cighty feet in width. rear of the building is of an elliptical form, with a terraced but he had received no definite answer-he could boast of It is constructed of stone, in a massive style , the walls being garden, and the rector's house adjoining. The interior of the nothing beyond a smile or a tear; yet

, from those harbingers several feet in thickness, and seventy feet in height; from the church is elegant, and has four massive pillars at each front of feeling, had the youth drawn the favourable conclusion that sunmit of which the roof rises, in a sharp angle, to the height angle of the gallery, running up to and supporting an arched his affections were fully requited. He resided in a village of of one hundred feet. This aspiring roof, in connection with and pannelled ceiling. The pulpit is in front of the ellipsis

, Long Island, not far distant from the habitation of Mary; as two quadrangular towers on the front corners, and a central with a raised mahogany enclosure, surrounding the altar. In did many other of the youths whose tender minds also cherishstceple, forms the most conspicuous object in approaching the the gallery, fronting the pulpit, is a large and elegant organ, ed with enthusiastic affection the one loved name.

made by Mr. Geib, of this city, which is said to be of excellent city from the east.

John Hageman had every advantage of face and person, The front of the building is faced with hewn brown stone, || tone. The Rev. Dr. Jonathan M. Wainwright occupies the yet he knew less of it than any other man—for a toilette or and several niches are left open for statues, which are to be clorical desk.

mirror were things almost unknown to him; therefore he had placed when the whole is finished, when it will undoubtedly be the most impressive-looking edifice in the city. It is fur This building, which is situated in Beckman-strect, was | in his vicinity could with more certainty attest to than he him;

very rarely contemplated those features which every female nished with a fine-toned organ and a select choir, whose per- first erected in the year 1752, and, with the exception of Tri- self. As I have said before, there was a deep and sombre wood formances are generally and justly admired. The Rev. Johnnity

, is the oldest Episcopal church in this city

. It is con- adjoining the beautiful valley, and those persons who came Power is the officiating pastor. The interior of the cathedral, which is finished and painted feet in length by seventy-two in width. In 1811

, it sepa- | way

. "About midway of this compact forest of trees is a delle in a superior manner , is capable of holding tive thousand peo-rated from Trinity by mutual agreement, and became a dis. Hor Hole, of small circumference, but very deep

. This, by the ple , although it has no side galleries. The whole cost of the tinet parish. In 1814 , in the night of the 5th of January, i good people of the country, was usually called

Buttermilk building, when fully completed, will not fall short of one hun. caught fire from the conflagration of a workshop in its rear

, hollow. There was a legend attached to this spot; the share cathedral in Baltimore excepted) will then compare with it in the interior, roof, clock, stceple, and ail. Nothing but the prisoner fell into the hands of some semi-barbarians war, capacity or elegance. In point of style we think it superior bare walls remained. With the prompt and efficient aid of without a feeling of remorse, decapitated the wretched me to so that of Baltimore ; indeed, the gothic order seems to be the Trinity church, it was again rebuilt, and consecrated in No.1 andhelt him in the wood to tell his own story as he might to when the Catholic church was in tle zenith of its power and I gular tower, with a railing on the top, but no spire. It has a l hawar

, and to such as were lovers of beauty and the moon

. The

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AND LADIES' LITERARY GAZETTE.

NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1830.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

MANGARET.

any individual, however clothed with wealth and honour. While others sing of war's alarms,

The cup of its happiness is filling up to the brim as fast as the The hero's worth, the patriot's duty, nature of hur'in affairs will permit. We are at peace

with VISIT TO THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND.

My strain shall tell the sweeter charms all foreign nations, and blest with prosperity at home ; our "Sit sibi terra lovis, puella dignissima vita.”

Of innocence and beauty.

public debt will be speedily extinguished; the people relieved HERE will I pause to view the hallowed spot

And how, when Margaret is the theme,

from taxes, the comforts of life will flow in abundantly, and Where thou, young loved one, dost in silence sleep ;

Could I refuse to weave the song ?

every common labourer can enjoy his share : palaces and Ah! well I feel thou canst not be forgot,

Who e'er heard music in a dream,

temples are rising around us, roads and canals enrich the While sighs are left, or tears are mine to weep;

Nor would that dream prolong?
For this lone heart will mourn thy hapless lot,

land, institutions for instruction and cheerful recreation are

She bade me write. I can't forget
Long as its core one saddened thought can keep:

growing up, and all is peace."

The witchery of that little minute;
Thou wert so good, affectionate and fair,

“Alas !" said the Genius, “that the highest state of pros

That silvery tone, I hear it yet
I thought not death would aim an arrow there,

Persuasion's self was in it.

perity, the most liberal laws, the best constitution, cannot Twas sweet, when day's tumultuous toils were done,

meet the wants of the people-stil there will be poverty and

And then those eyes, that downward sent To join the circle round our social hearth;

Their diamond splendour !-that was kind;

wretchedness.. Still there may be grinding oppression, which To meet thee there, the gayest, fairest one,

Had they on me their lustre bent,

they can neither relieve nor prevent." And lose awhile our cares in harmless mirth.

“I cannot see," said I, “how this can be. Our country is Twas sweet with thee in gladsome mood to run,

I surely had been blind !
In early spring, along the verdant earth.

The faultless form, the winning grace,

free; we have no privileged classes, no nobility, no aristoWell I remember with what sylph-like tread,

The bounding step, and airy glee,

cracy." And buoyant breast, thy form our path-way led.

The pure mind speaking in the face,

“It is true," he replied, "you have no nobility, who receive

Ah! they have charms for me.
Such scenes are past! and months have fled since I

the direct sanction of your laws, but wealth forms a nobility Followed thee, fair one, to this cold, cold tomb;

Long live that little fairy flower,

almost equally well defined, and with it come power and Then many hearts stood clothed in mouming by,

Blooming and blushing like a roses

privileges."
And many eyes were sunk in sorrow's gloom,

It graces well its native bower,
To see a bud just opening, fall and die,

And round a gladdening freshness throws.

"Every one," said I, "cannot be rich, but the way is open Ere they might gaze upon its riper bloom.

And never may the storms of care

to all. Industry, talent, good fortune, must always obtain adOh! it was hard-when thou wert torn away,

Bow down that modest floweret's head;

vantages, and the materials of society will arrange themselves And death's dark cloud hid virtue's da wning ray.

But gentle dew, and genial air,

according to these after any convulsion, as the waters of o. Here, 'neath this stone, all lonely thou art laid

A constant, kindly influence shed. Conway. tarbid stream when they have been agitated settle down again Sunken and death-sealed are those bright eyes now;

into tranquillity. Poverty must exist in every community. Those raven curls are left in dust to fade,

THE CENSOR.

Some are idle, some sick, and others extravagant or unfortuWhile grave-worms revel on that spotless brow :

nate. It is so in every nation, and cannot be helped.” And that fair form, where once the graces played, Has lost its action, and that breast its glow.

"Thus," said the Genius, "the pampered children of luxu.

THE LITTLE GENIUS.
The hopes—the charms that early youth just gave,

ry and ease smother up their sympathies for the wretchAll, all are quenched, and blighted in the grave.

ed, or they wbo are too weak or too careless to contemplate All? No, not alla soul like thine may dare

One night the Genius came to me with sadness in his face; the abuses which might be redressed, compromise with their The monster death, and triumph o'er his might; for, although he is a spirit, he seems endued with human af- feelings by ascribing them to necessity. You mortals are For virtue cried, and virtue's God was there,

fections. He hates the bad and loves the good, with the fer-selfish beings. Misfortunes make you miserable, and that is To bear thee victor near his throne of light. I'll weep no more! but only seek to share

vour of the young and enthusiastic among my own fellow-| an excuse for t) e cold neglect of others. Prosperity fills you Asleep sa calma destiny so bright,

creatures. When ho bids some delicious scene of nature with rejoicing and what time have you then to go out among Then welcome, grave—thou'll be a tranquil home, spread itself out before me, as the dim mists of the mirror the dwelches of the obscure and unhappy, or to study and act Oer whose dark portal sorrow cannot come. C.C. V.} change into the ruder outlines of the picture, as the forest stirs upon any subject relating to their interests? Statesmen are

its mass of luxuriant beauty to the breeze, and the river comes busy with their own schemes of narrow avarice or personal

winding in among the rich clover fields and around the lonely | am ion. The young and the fair go forth in the haunts of TO THE EDITOR.

hills, I have seen his face lighten up with rapture, as a pain- fashionable pleasure, and will the youth turn away from a Excuse me, that the Mercury

ter's does while he flings in the finishing touches of light and sweet bright face to labour in the cause of humanity ? and will Who carries letters oft for me,

shadow upon some favourite landscape; and then, when these beauty withdraw from the gaze of admiration to waste her I, in my haste, the other day,

warm, sweet images fade away, when the silver stream dis- || silvery voice on the ear of age and affliction ? Perhaps there Forgot to charge the post to pay ; Nay, I forgot to give the needful,

appears in the darkness

, and its sleepy music is hushed, when || are within the circuit of your boasted city instances of anguish (Another time I'll be more heedful.)

the green carth vanishes, and the light of heaven passes from as acute as your nature is capable of enduring. Beautifu! I am ashamed of this neglect,

the clouds, and it becomes necessary in his illustrations of hu- young children are flung upon the world, mere victims of ig. Because I never could suspect

man life to conjure up some unhappy object, some wretched norance, idleness, and guilt; fine intellects are wasted; and That my offences (not a few)

captive in the gloom of his dungeon, the hushed chamber of many a female who, with the factitious aid of dress, would Have e'er provoked a hint from you.

death, beauty withering beneath the poisoned breath of dislead all hearts captive, perishes in the protracted agonies of I know politeness must belong, Of course, to every son of song;

case, or capable and lofty genius bent down and broken-/poverty, guilt, disease, and death. And it is not that this Yet I'm aware that editors

hearted by misery or guilt

, I have marked the expression of is unknown, but that it is not seen. So long as the gushAre forced to add the saving claust

sorrow steal over his radiant countenance, as the shadow of aling tears of female misery are not falling in your sight, so
Which says "all postage must be paid“— cloud darkens the bosom of a sunny hill. It must be this re- || long as the dying shriek is not ringing in your cars, you
It was a rule in wisdom made,
Or else no office could be got

semblance in our nature which has brought him from his spi- || heart is at rest. To a certain extent this is a blessing, for it Half large enough to hold the lot

ritual world to visit so insignificant and unaspiring a student guards you from the pain of dwelling continually upon wo Of wisdom, wit and sentiment,

as myself; and I love him more for those tokens of human which you cannot alleviate. But when any relief is to be affordWhich would from every part be sent.

feeling than for his power over mind and matter, and his free-ed, what in the former case would be weak and unmanly senTheir weight would burst the groaning mail, dom from the laws of time and space.

sitiveness, becomes deep and active benevolence. It pervades Post-horses in their speed would fail; The price of spectacles would rise,

I had been thinking of internal improvement, and what the feelings, it flings a charm and a chivalry around the cha. And editors would spoil their eyes.

course my beloved country should now pursue to ensure her |racter, it expands and elovates the mind with enlarged views. I am aware that poetry,

future safety, and expedite her career to glory and happiness. and pure and generous ambition, and imbues multitudes with However welcome it may be, The Genius knew my thoughts, and smiled.

the spirit of true charity. And when a being inspired by it starts However spirited and fine, Won't help an editor to dine,

"It is sometimes right for you, young student,” he said, forth alone from the thronging crowds who are pressing on to Or pay his bills, or e'en produce

"to exchange the contemplation of personal hopes and fears gorge their appetites and sate their passions, he beholds scenes Once every year a Christmas goose,

for that of the prospect of the world around. He who has to which other eyes are blind, and if the discovery of much sorOr feed the grate, or light the taper,

never endeavoured to make others happy can never be truly sorow shades his mirth with sadness, his heart enjoys an enOr pay for printing or for paper.

himself. In one without power to control great passing nobling satisfaction in the endeavour to relieve it which never All this experience bids me know, And from her school what lessons flow!

events this is a harmless and useful indulgence. It prevents || thrilled through a common heart. But look in the glass.” So I, (the truth I must confess)

the selfish feelings from obtaining a too powerful mastery over There was a neat country house in the midst of a grove. My fine effusions oft suppress,

the heart, because it discovers to us the relations of things The scene had a bright look. The luxuriance of the foliage, Because I've not the ready shilling,

with each other, as well as their relation with ourselves. But the bursting forth of the fruit, the height of the clover, with To pay the postage, though I'm willing.

if thou hadst authority to regulate the actions of the millions || its modest fragrant flower fraught with sweets, and the strength But, pshaw! I hate apologies“ A word's sufficient to the wise,

of thy countrymen, an accurate understanding of the subject of the honeysuckles, which had wound their wreathing ten"T'is for the sake of rhyme, not reason, would be as requisite as a wish to serve."

drils around the columns which supported the piazza, disI send you this excuse in season, Lydia.!! "My country," said 1, "could not be much benefited by || closed the summer, and the sun's expanded disk and horizon

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AND THEIR ACCORDANCE WITH MODERN PRACTICE,

IN TIIREE PARTS-PART THE FIRST.
“I say silver sound, because musicians sound for silver."

DESULTORY SELECTIONS. It may be contended that the mind, which is constantly

It is by, a reference, then, to these well-known into

nations of passion, that the meaning of a combination of employed in the contemplation of every thing beautiful in na

musical sounds is to be ascertained. But the imitation is not ture and valuable in art, cannot but be touched with the subli

THE METAPHYSICS OF MUSIC,

a servile one. The musician, like the poet, is to preserve a mity attached to such subjects, and will be restrained from, rather than inciteủ to, any dereliction from virtue. The argli

rhythmical regularity; he is to conform to certain laws and ments we have before adduced are here equally applicable,

limitations; and, above all, to impart a poetical heightening to only viewing these objects with enthusiastic ardour and at

Were you ever at a concert? If you ever were, the lines bis euphonic delineations, without overstepping the modesty

of nature. tachment ; appropriating them but to one studied end, and lof your expressive physiognomy must have been “worth the

He is to marry the poetical to the natural in considering them only as the works of supereminent excel- marking." As you observed the nimble bows of the musi- sound, neither dividing the substance nor confounding the lence, or as fertile sources for developing the faculty it pos- cians dance

, and quiver, and bound, upon the tortured strings, persons ; a delicate task, and one which exalts the original sesses, there is great danger of losing sight of any reference || the conceit of the player, the affectation of the amateur, the musician into a poet. He is a bard who

expresses himself in to that almighty power, which has created, and from whom is nonchalance and lassitude of the fashionable lounger, the men

musical instead of articulate sounds; and, to read his compoderived the pre-eminence of perfection so adınired ; looking withi pale stone faces, looking half asleep, like busts, the la-sitions, we must learn to sing or play, or else have them read also too frequently to natural causes, and straying amid a mul. dies attentive by starts, and then, ever and anon, relapsing to us by those who can. titude of ingenious, yet wild theories, the revealed author of into chit-chat ; until vainly trusting for impunity to the noise It is this poetical imitation of the natural tones of passion, all things is neglected, and a reverence is consequently lost for of a "tutti,” in some pitiless overture, they are at once be which is the origin and essence of musical expression. Other the observance of those laws which have been accepted as the || trayed, by some sudden pause of a bar, which the composer imitations have indeed been introduced into modern composidivine guide for all mankind.

(who cannot himself tell why) has interposed at so inconve- tion; but they do not deserve the name of expression, and are The characteristics we have already traced as attached to nient a juncture. As you gazed upon all these things, I sus of a nature totally dissimilar. They, in fact, depend, for the genius are also at variance with that prudent and orderly atpect your countenance must have discovered some distin-most part, upon the peculiar tone of the instrument employed, tention to our interests in this life, which is indispensable guishing signs of lurking scepticism as to the merits of so and not upon abstract resemblance

, as the poetical imitation alike for the preservation of integrity of character and inde

strange a scene. Do not be alarmed—the matter is between of the rises and falls of passion must do. Thus we have pendence of mind. Its poverty is proverbial.

ourselves. Far be it from me to attempt to seduce you into storm-pieces for the piano-forte, in which the lower keys are “Genius is praised, but hungry lives and cold," putting your imprimatur upon any set of unfashionable rumbled into a sort of thunder

, and the higher " tipped's is the melancholy truth described by Gray. “Wits live men opinions. That is not your way-still one cannot help think-to resemble drops of rain or hail

. We have shrill fac-similes know not how, and at last die obscurely, men know noting, that had doubts and difficulties not been sticking like a

of the whistling of birds, and battles, in which the great-drum where," is the sarcastic remark of the sage Roger Ascham.remora to the bottom of your understanding, you would ere

is thumped for cannon, and the kettle-drum Unaccustomed to sober calculation, or to a just appreciation of this have put forth an unanswerable exposition of the subli- manner of galloping of horses ; but to what do all these pecuthe gifts of fortune, the possessor of genius is either heed- mities of modern music. You must own it is strange, that liarities amount? Why, to a proof that a piano-forte can lessly extravagant when fortune smiles upon him, or oppress- the admirers and cultivators of modern science have not in- rumble something like distant thunder, and “drip

, drip,” as ed with disgust and disappointment when deprived of the advented any thing like a consistent theory of musical expres

Mr. Coleridge would say, like "water-drops;" that an octavevantages which wealth bestows; he becomes consequently || sion—nay, that the vague ideas of most writers on music, flute is not very unlike the whistle of a bird, and the percusoverpowered by a morbid inactivity, and sinks under the with relation to its expression, embody the very principlession of a double-drum nearly as bad as the “ report of a culweight of these combined feelings, the victim of his own weak-which in their full extent are most inimical to modern prac- verin.” They delineate no passion, nor can they excite any, ness and imbecility. To all these may be added the contume-| tice. Nor will it be less odd, if musical reasoners, as well as excepting indirectly, and by chance. The curiosity they gra. ly and neglect, to which even the most acknowledged geniuses composers

, have just admitted into their works meaning tify is trifling, and it can only be once gratified. One reason have been exposed ; a glance at the lives of a few celebrated || enough to show their abuse of those laws upon which it is certainly, why compositions of this sort must please a certain men, in various ages, will fully establish this melancholy fact. | naturally founded. To come, however, to the point.

class of hearers, is their artful and complicated mechanismHomer, we are informed, was an itinerant ballad monger.

Music may be briefly defined to be the poetry of sound. It but more of this by and by. Plautus turned a mill for his subsistence. Terence was sold seems to be agreed on all hands, that its province and end is Harmony is, or ought to be, the handmaid of melody. It as a slave. Paul Borghese, the Italian poet, knew fourteen | to express poetically, by means of inarticulate sound, certain cannot be denied, however, that it includes in itself the power trades, yet was starved to death.

Tasso struggled through a passions and feelings incident to human nature. This is in of pleasurable excitement. For proof of the existence of this life of poverty, and laboured at times under mental aberration. volved both in the practice and phraseology of all musical peo-excitement we may appeal to facts. The sound of an Æolian Camoens ended his days in an almshouse. Cervantes suf- ||ple. From the earliest times, the lover has interested his mis-harp, for instance, is pleasing, merely from the chords. The fered imprisonment and numerous slights, and at length died || tress, and the general excited his troops, by means of music order in which they are produced is the work of chance. The Corneille endured all the ills of poverty and ne- and song ; and composers have, from time immemorial, affixed || cxcitement would seem to be diréct

, and to act strongly upon glect

. Racine left his family in such distress that they were to their compositions, words and expressions of direction, the nerves as a stimulus. Indeed, sounds produced simultaafterwards supported by a pension, Milton has only been ap- which imply that the pieces to be played either have, or pre-neously

, for the most part, act strongly upon the nerves. The preciated by the age which succeeded him. Spenser, the ad- / tend to have, some connexion with the feelings of the auditor. excitement caused by discords, however, is disagreeable

, and mired Spenser, died neglected and in want. Ben Jonson We have as many marginal hints as in a German tragedy, with some persons so violently efficient as to induce that nersuffered numerous hardships. Fletcher, a cotemporary au- and much to the same purpose, and generally quite as much vous affection, called "teeth on edge." In Mozart, when a thor, says of him,

needed. Now if a tunc is to be “amaroso,” or “maestoso," ||child, it produced convulsions. That chord and discord are “Poorly poor mon he lived, poorly poor man he died." or “agitato,” or “ pastorale,” or “spiritoso;" in plain English, only varieties of nervous vibration, seems pretty evident, in Crichton (the admirable) lived on the supply of a day, and if musical sound is to express sentiment or passion, it can only the fact, that those who are incapable of pleasure from the died in a midnight brawl. Buller was never master of fifty do so in one of these two ways. Either the notes singly, or one, are also nearly, in a like degree

, insensible of pain from pounds. Dryden struggled through a life of indigence. Lee in some known combinations, must, as words are, be under the other. The excitation from harmony has likewise

, in was confined four years in a mad house. Deckan, Cotton, stood to be arbitrary signs of the things to be expressed by some instances, been known to have brought on fainting and and Lloyd, all suffered much from want, and all died in a them ; or else they must express passions and feelings by stupor, with persons of an irritable temperament. From all prison. Sarage is a striking example of ill-directed genius. copying so nearly, that the likeness may be recognised, those this it appears to follow, then, that the pleasure arising from Churchill died a beggar. Bickerstaj" fled for delt. Collins sounds which nature has appropriated to the expression of harmony, be it as intense as it will

, is a bodily rather than a passed most of his life in want, and died reduced to mental those passions and feelings. The first of these modes has mental pleasure. It is a dram taken by the ear, only the fears imbecility. Smollet suffered innumerable privations, and died | never, I believe, been contended for

. Arbitrary significationshilaration is transient like that of the nitrous oxide

. It does neglected in a foreign country. Goldsmith gained but a pre- have indeed been attempted, by fanciful individuals, to be not act through the intellect, but goes directly to the merren carious subsistence. Paul Hiperman died of a jaundice , affixed to the peculiarities of the tones of different musical in- system. We must be allowed, therefore

, to conclude, that the brought on by want.

Chatterton committed suicide, sup- struments ; but these fancies have not been generally received. pleasure of harmony is inferior in its nature to that of melody posed to proceed from censure and neglect. Kirk White fel To the

notes. ur divisions of notes of the musical scale

, how - and that melody ought not to be sacrificed to it, nor put be a martyr to the same refinement and sensibility. The fate of ever, meanings of this sort have been never attributed. | neath it, as has long been the case. The invention of counBurns is well known. We will not extend the catalogue fur-Crotchets and quavers have never been invested with the pow. terpoint has so far been the bane of melody. The mathema: ther; the life of nearly every man of genius would furnish ||ors of letters; neither have they bec:n made to stand for whole tical has over-run the poetical. The mechanical has overlaid materials to support the proposition we have adopted. In the words, like the characters of the Chinese alphabet. It should the intellectual. Nor is this to be wondered at. The thing is present day there is not

, perhaps, so much neglect and apathy seen then, that if melody is expressive at all, it must be so by capable both of explanation and excuse. exhibited towards struggling genius as formerly

, yet how few, imitation—and by imitation of that which is sufficiently fami It is asserted somewhere by Rousscau, no mean judge of even in this boasted age of liberality, attain the eminence they liar to the minds of men in general, to render likely a general such matters, that the musical world may be divided into aspire to. Viewing

, then, the manifest disadvantages attach- recognition of the resemblance. That peculiar intonations of three classes—Those who are capable of feeling the intelee ed to the possession of this faculty, it may perhaps be assert- voice, in the expressions of certain passions and feelings, are tual part of music, who are generally men with something of ed, that mere rational intellect is a higher blessing than tle common not only to whole nations, but, with some varieties, (a poetical temperament

, and no very correct car for harmony gift of genius, however splendid. D. || to mankind in general, is a fact that experience teaches. It is

- Those who have an ear for harmony, and a taste for harmoA NOBLE REPLY.~The cardinal Dubois once sent for Bou has least variety of natural intonation, have been the least suc pressive

melody, and who are, for the most part, men deficient observable , too, that of all others, the people whose language

) nious arrangement, but whose feelings are not excited by en don, an eminent surgeon

, to perform a very serious operation cessful in music–I mean the French. The tones as well as in imagination; and lastly, Those who unite these two qualco. must not expect, sir, to treat me in the rough manner you treat need only to be exhibited by the actor, to be at once fell and ment of the celebrated citizen

of Geneva

, I must own that my those poor wretches at the hospital." "My lord,” replied M. known. Tones, in fact

, are of as great consequence as words, ) limited Observation, as far as it goes, strongly inclines chce Boudon, “ every one of those poor wretches, as your eminence || inasmuch as by varying them, a sentence of praise may be concur. Now, if this idea he founded in truth, the contes is pleased to call them, is a cardinal in my eyes.'' turned into one of irony, love into ridicule

, and rage into hu- /quent changes in the world of music are of natural ocell