gressed admirably, when an unexpected circum- should bloom and rejoice in his presence—a resostance completely metamorphosed both our future lution in his principles which nothing but a giant destinies. influence could ever have effected. Howard returned: he grasped me by the hand. "Farewell to the highwayman's life," said he." I thought him frantic. "I am not alone in the world," continued he― my dear cousin is not dead." Then dropping my hand, he stepped on tip-toe carefully up to my ear, exclaiming, as low as he could, with his whole being in commotion, “I'm married! yes! married!" and then sinking back, he elevated both his hands, crying with all his might-" Yes, I'm married!" I thought my cousin dead—but no—I'm married--farewell to the robber's life now. I was astonished: I thought him delirious; but his burst of feeling, like a troubled sea, soon rocked itself to rest, and he related the whole particulars in a calm and settled manner. We both returned to the great city. I was taken to his father's princely residence-I saw his lovely bride-Heavens! who could look upon her, and deem himself a villain-Satan in the courts of Heaven; no wonder Howard was transformed. But the parents, or, indeed any of the family, never suspected the course of life their son had been pursuing. He excused himself on that score by pretending a mercantile business for many years in New-Orleans. All was a piece of perfect and successful deception. This was something ambiguous. I sent my fancy on the wing, to contrive what could be the fever. However, I finally settled myself down into patience. I loitered idly round the streets, exposing The last scene now follows:-Howard and mymy burlesque of human nature-sometimes think-self were to repair to "Head Quarters," and suring of my unnatural parents--sometimes musing render in our accounts for the last month, as well on the past love of my departed sister; but that as to present our resignations, (for I too, had been was too holy a reflection to burn long in my guilty prevailed on by him to abandon my demoralizing bosom, and I let it die away, even as a fallen angel course of life.) At the witching hour of twelve, would drop the righteous writ of God. we once more found ourselves in our reservoir of spoils for the last time. We were received with a cordial salutation, and a bottle of Madeira drank at our return. But what was my surprise, on casting my eyes more particularly around, to perceive numbers of strangers, who sat about carelessly in silence. I looked at the captain inquiringly—“ Only some of our pensioners," whispered he lowly, "who wait for their month's allowance." I found that I was, as yet, quite a novice in the ramifications of villainy. Upon further interrogation, police-officers, clerks, constables, and other ministers of justice, appeared to compose the party. I must confess I was startled. They, however, soon received their dues and departed. Then came the acquired treasures of the last month. The city reIt appears the correspondence between Howard ceipts had been unusually heavy, but nothing had and his love, had been attended with some hints on been accomplished equal to our fleecing of Johnny early parentage. The circumstances which are Bull in the pine plains at the north. Tho' accudetailed in another portion of this paper, were also mulated letters from the Orleans establishment represented to the young lady. The consequence were more closely perused, as the Captain during was, that she proved to be Howard's own cousin, the stir of the month, had but just glanced at them; and the interesting little orphan, who, many years one, I recollect, proposed a new establishment at before, was immured with him in the Alms House. Cincinnati; another, a sad account of the unlucky It further appeared that Howard's parents had incarceration of one of the bravest of their band for traced their son as far as the Alms-House, but six years-"money" they remarked, "had been could not get intelligence of the gentleman who spent in profusion to save him, but his case was so had removed him from thence, as it proved he had glaring, it had no effect." They also spoke of given a fictitious address, probably that the child having freighted a vessel of plunder to the West might not be disturbed in his possession. The other India Islands. After this our profits were calculachild, their niece, was adopted as their own, and ted by the Captain, which being delivered over and grew up with every feminine beauty and accomregistered in the "Black Book," our resignations plishment. What the transport was on meeting, is were with silent ceremony presented. All were not for mortality to paint. Howard had found a astounded at the intelligence, but as we gave satisfather and mother, who had thought of him as of factory reasons, they were granted, though with the dead-and a wife, who had cherished his me-regret. At our departure, we were shook affecmory as something holy. On his hasty departure tionately by the hand, at the same time tearfully to New York, he was immediately united to the ob-raising with the other a goblet to our lips, for sucject of his adoration. cess and prosperity from this to the sepulchre. Thus closed eight months of the life of a Hunchback. But the stain of guilt was deep on the heart of Howard: he was wedded to virtue. This, it was evident, deeply affected him. But he quieted his conscience in a measure, by determining to he henceforth a reformed person; he resolved to unite his genius and wealth in building up the temple of virtue and happiness. He would smooth the hill of life to the poor-every thing in future he said, H. H. R. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.-Addison. Cap Patterns, &c. Two of the demi neglige caps have baloon crowns gathered full, and pointed fronts formed with three bands of wired narrow ribbon, and trimmed with a double ruche of tulle; bands also encircle the crown, the brides are white gauze ribbon, edged en suite with the bands. The other cap has a narrow straight crown, and deep fall of blond behind; the brides and bows are citron color satin ribbon, and a novel kind of ornament formed in this material, rises from the forehead bandeau, and supports the deep ruche of tulle in front. means by which she had been recalled from the grave. As soon as she was sufficiently recovered, the lover laid his claim; and his reasons, supported by a powerfal inclination on her side, were too strong for her to resist; but as France was no longer a place of safety for them, they agreed to remove to England, where they continued ten years, when a strong inclination of revisiting their native country seized them, which they thought they might safely gratify, and accordingly performed their voyage. The lady was so unfortunate as to be known by her former husband, whom she met in a public Marriage after Burial. walk, and all her endeavors to disguise herself Two Parisian merchants, strongly united in were ineffectual. He laid his claim to her before friendship, had each one child of different sexes, a Court of Justice, and the lover defended his right, who early contracted a strong inclination for each alleging that the husband, by burying her, had forother, which was cherished by the parents, and feited his title, and that he had acquired a just one, they were flattered with the expectation of being from the jaws of death. These reasons, whatever by freeing her from the grave, and delivering her joined together for life. Unfortunately, at the time they thought themselves on the point of completing weight they might have in a court where love prethis long wished-for union, a man, far advanced in sided, seemed to have little effect on the grave sages years, and possessed of an immense fortune, cast of the law, and the lady, with her lover, not thinkhis eyes on the young lady, and made honorable ing it safe to wait the determination of the Court, proposals. Her parents could not resist the temp- prudently retired out of the kingdom. tation of a son-in-law in such affluent circumstances, and forced her to comply. As soon as the knot was tied she strictly enjoined her former lover never to see her, and patiently submitted to her fate; but the anxiety of her mind preyed upon her body, and threw her into a lingering disorder, which apparently carried her off, and she was consigned to the grave. As soon as this melancholy event reached the lover, his affliction was doubled, being deprived of all hopes of her widowhood; but recollecting that in her youth she had been for some time in a lethargy, his hopes revived, and hurried him to the place of her burial, where a good bribe procured the sexton's perinission to dig her up, which he performed, and removed her to a place of safety, where, by proper methods, he revived the almost extinguished spark of life. Great was her surprise at finding the state she had been in, and probably as great was her pleasure at the To Derwent-Water. I bless thee, but thou canst not know RUPERT DE LINDSAY. A TALE. THERE is one feeling which is the earliest born | Marmontel, was applicable to him. He was loved with us-which accompanies us throughout life, in for his adventitious qualifications, not for himself. the gradations of friendship, love and parental at- One loved his fashion, a second his fortune; a tachment; and of which there is scarcely one third, he discovered, had only listened to him out among us who can say, 'It has been realized ac- of pique at another; and a fourth accepted him as cording to my desire.'-This feeling is the wish to her lover because she wished to decoy him from be loved-loved to the amount of the height and the her friend. These adventures, and these discovefervor of the sentiments we imagine that we our-ries, brought him disgust; they brought him also, selves are capable of imbodying into our passion. knowledge of the world; and nothing hardens the Thus, who that hath nicely weighed his own heart heart more than that knowledge of the world which will not confess that he has never been fully satis- is founded on a knowledge of its vices, made fied with the love rendered to him, whether by the bitter by disappointment, and misanthropical by friend of his boyhood, the mistress of his youth, or deceit. the children of his age. Yet even while we reI saw him just before he left England, and his proach the languor and weakness of the affection mind then was sore and feverish. I saw him on his bestowed on us, we are reproached in our turn return, after an absence of five years in the various with the same charge; and it would seem as if we courts of Europe, and his mind was callous and all-all and each-possessed within us certain im- even. He had then reduced the art of governing mortal and spiritual tendencies to love which noth- his own passions, and influencing the passions of ing human and earth born can wholly excite; they others, to a system; and had reached the second are instincts which make us feel a power never to stage of experience, when the deceived becomes be exercised, and a loss doomed to be irremediable. the deceiver. He added to his former indignation The simple, but singular story which I am about at the vices of human nature, scorn for its weakto narrate, if of a man whom this craving after a ness! Still many good, though irregular impulses, love beyond the ordinary loves of earth, was so. lingered about his heart. Still the appeal, which powerful and restless a passion, that it became in to a principle would have been useless, was trihim the source of all the errors and the vices that umphant when made to an affection. And though have usually their origin in the grossness of liber- selfishness constituted the system of his life, there tinism; led his mind through the excess of dissipa- were yet many hours when the system was forgottion to the hardness of depravity; and when at ten, and he would have sacrificed himself at the length it arrived at the fruition of dreams so weary- voice of a single emotion. Few men of ability, ing and so anxious, when with that fruition, virtue who neither marry nor desire to marry, live much long stifled by disappointment seemed slowly, but among the frivolities of the world after the age of triumphantly to awake; betrayed him only into a twenty-eight. And De Lindsay, now waving near punishment he had almost ceased to deserve, and to his thirtieth year, avoided the society he had once hurried him into an untimely grave, at the very courted, and lived solely to satisfy his pleasures moment when life became dear to himself, and ap- and indulge his indolence. Woman made his only peared to promise atonement and value to others. pursuit and his sole ambition: and now, at length, Rupert de Lindsay was an orphan of ancient arrived the time when in the prosecution of an infamily and extensive possessions. With a person trigue, he was to become susceptible of a passion, that could advance but a slight pretension to beau- and the long and unquenched wish of his heart was ty, but with an eager desire to please, and a taste to be matured into completion. the most delicate and refined, he very eagerly In a small village not far from London, there learned the art to compensate by the graces of manner for the deficiencies of form; and before he had reached an age when other men are noted only for their horses or for their follies, Rupert de Lindsay was distinguished no less for the brilliancy of his ton and the number of his conquests, than for his acquirements in literature, and his honors in the senate. But while every one favored him with envy, he was, at heart, a restless and disappointed man. Among all the delusions of the senses-among all the triumphs of vanity, his ruling passion, to be really, purely, and deeply beloved, had never been satisfied. And while this leading and master desire pined at repeated disappointments, all other gratifications seemed rather to mock than to console him. The exquisite tale of Alcibiades, in dwelt a family of the name of Warner, the father, piously termed Ebenezer Ephriam, was a merchant, a bigot, and a saint; the brother, simply and laically christened James, was a rake, a boxer, and a good fellow. But she the daughter, who claimed the chaste and sweet name of Mary, simple and modest, beautiful in feature and heart, of a temper rather tender than gay, saddened by the gloom which hung forever upon the home of her childhood, but softened by early habits of charity and benevolence, unacquainted with all sin even in thought, loving all things from the gentleness of her nature, finding pleasure in the green earth, and drinking innocence from the pure air, moved in her grace and holiness amid the rugged kindred, and the stern tribe among whom she had been reared, like Faith, sanctified by redeeming love and passing over the thorns of earth on its pilgrimage to heaven. from it. Amid all his sins, and they were many, let this one act of forbearance be remembered. Day after day went on its march to eternity, and every morning came the same gentle tap at the post office window, and the same low tone of inquiry was heard; and every morning the same light step returned gayly homewards, and the same soft eye sparkled at the lines which the heart so faithfully recorded. I said every morning, but there was one in each week which brought no letter-and on Monday Mary's step was listless, and her spirits dejected-on that day she felt as if there was nothing to live for. In the adjustment of an ordinary amour with the wife of an officer in the regiment, then absent in Ireland, but who left his gude woman to wear the willow in the village of T, Rupert saw, admired, and coveted the fair form I have so faintly described. Chance favored his hopes. He entered one day the cottage of a poor man, whom, in the inconsistent charity natural to him, he visited and relieved. He found Miss Warner employed in the same office; he neglected not this opportunity; he addressed her; he accompanied her to the door of her home, he tried every art to please She did not strive to struggle with her love. She a young and unawakened heart, and he succeeded. read over every word of the few books he had left Unfortunately for Mary, she had no one among her her, and she walked every day over the same relations calculated to guide her conduct, and to ground which had seemed fairy land when with win her confidence. Her father, absorbed either him; and she always passed by the house where in the occupations of his trade or the visions of his he had lodged, that she might look up to the window creed, of a manner whose repellant austerity belied where he was wont to sit. Rupert found, that the real warmth of his affections, supplied but im- landed property, where farmers are not left to settle perfectly the place of an anxious and tender moth- their own leases, and stewards to provide for their er, nor was this loss repaired by the habits still little families, is not altogether a sinecure. He coarser, the mind still less soft, and the soul still had lived abroad like a prince, and his estate had less susceptible, of the fraternal rake, boxer, and not been the better of his absence. He inquired good fellow. into the exact profits of his property, renewed old leases on new terms; discharged his bailiff; shut up the roads in his park, which had seemed to all the neighborhood a more desirable way than the turnpike conveniences; let off ten poachers, and warned off ten gentlemen; and as the natural and obvious consequences of these acts of economy and inspection, he became the most unpopular man in the county. And thus was thrown back upon that gentle and feminine heart all the warmth of its earliest and best affections. Her nature was love; and though in all things she had found wherewithal to call forth the tenderness which she could not restrain, there was a vast treasure as yet undiscovered, and a depth beneath that calm and unruffled bosom, where slumber had as yet never been broken by a breath. It will not, therefore, be a matter of surprise that De Lindsay, who availed himself of every opportunity-De Lindsay, fascinating in manner and consummate in experience-soon possessed a dangerous sway over a heart too innocent for suspicion, and which, for the first time, felt the luxury of being loved. In every walk, and her walks hitherto had always been alone, Rupert was sure to join her; and there was a supplication in his tone, and a respect in his manner, which she felt but little tempted to chill or reject. She had not much of what is termed dignity; and even though she at first had some confused idea of the impropriety of his company, which the peculiar nature of her education prevented her wholly perceiving, yet she could think of no method to check an address so humble and diffident, and to resist the voice which only spoke to her music. It is needless to trace the progress by which affections is seduced. She soon awakened to the full knowledge of the recesses of her own heart, and Rupert, for the first time, felt the certainty of being beloved as he desind. "Never," said he, "will I betray that affection; she has trusted in me, and she shall not be deceived; she is innocent and happy, I will never teach her misery and guilt!" Thus her innocence reflected even upon him, and purified his heart while it made the atmosphere of her own. So passed weeks, until Rupert was summoned by urgent business to his estate. He spoke to her of his departure, and he drank deep delight from the quivering lip and the tearful eye with which his words were received. He pressed her to his heart, and her unconsciousness of guilt was her protection One day Rupert had been surveying some timber intended for the axe; the weather was truly English, and changed suddenly from heat into rain. A change of clothes was quite out of Rupert's ordinary habits, and a fever of severe nature, which ended in delirium, was the result. For some weeks he was at the verge of the grave. The devil and the doctor do not always agree, for the moral saith that there is no friendship among the wicked. In this case the doctor was ultimately victorious, and his patient recovered. "Give me the fresh air," said Rupert, directly he was able to resume his power of commanding, "and bring me whatever letters came during my illness." From the pile of spoiled paper from fashionable friends, country cousins, county magistrates, and tradesmen who take the liberty to remind you of the trifle, which has escaped your recollection, from this folio of precious conceits Rupert drew a letter from the Irish officer's lady, who, it will be remembered, first allured Rupert to Mary's village, acquainting him that she had been reported by some d-d good natured friend to her husband, immediately on his return from Ireland. Unhappily, the man loved his wife, valued his honor, and was of that unfashionable temperament which never forgives an injury. He had sent his Achates twice during Rupert's illness to De Lindsay Castle, and was so enraged at the idea of his injurer's departing this life by any other means than his bullet, that he was supposed in consequence to be a little touched in the head. He was observed to walk by himself, sometimes bursting into tears, sometimes muttering deep oaths of vengeance; he shunned all society, saint of the same chapter as Ebenezer Ephraim Warner; his voice was the most nasal, his holding forth the most unctuous, his aspect the most sinis and sat for hours gazing vacantly on a pistol placed before him. All these agreeable circumstances did the unhappy fair one (who picked up her information second hand, for she was an alien from theter, and his vestments the most threadbare of the conjugal bed and board) detail to Rupert with very considerable pathos. whole sacred tribe. To the eyes of this man there was something comely in the person of Mary Warner: he liked her beauty, for he was a sensualist: her gentleness, for he was a coward; and her money, for he was a merchant. He proposed both to the father and to the son; the daughter he looked upon as a concluding blessing, sure to follow the precious assent of the two relations. To the father he spoke of godliness and scrip,-of the delightfulness of loving in unity, and the receipts of his flourishing country house; to the son he spoke the language of kindness and the world-he knew that "Now then for Mary's letters," said the invalid; "no red hot Irishman there, I trust;" and Rupert took up a large heap, which he had selected from the rest as a child picks the plums out of his pudding by way of a regale at the last. At the perusal of the first three or four letters he smiled with pleasure, presently his lips grew more compressed, and a dark cloud settled on his brow. He took up another-he read a few lines-started from his sofa. "What ho, there! my carriage and four directly?-lose not a moment!-Do you hear me?-young men had expenses-he should feel too happy Too ill, do you say !-never so well in my life!— Not another word, or-My carriage, I say, instantly!-Put in my swiftest horses! I must be at T-to night before five o'clock!" And the order was obeyed. to furnish Mr. James with something for his innocent amusements, if he might hope for his (Mr. James') influence over his worthy father; the sum was specified and the consent was sold. Among those domestic phenomena, which the inquirer seldom takes the trouble to solve, is the magical power possessed by a junior branch of the fam the perverse direction taken by the aforesaid branch. James had acquired and exercised a most undue authority over the paternal patriarch, although in the habits and sentiments of each there was not one single trait in common between them. But James possessed a vigorous and unshackled, his father a weak and priest-ridden mind. In do To return to Mary. The letters which had blessed her through the livelong days suddenly ceased. What could be the reason?-was he faith-ily over the main tree, in spite of the contrary and less-forgetful-ill? Alas! whatever might be the cause, it was almost equally ominous to her. "Are you sure there are none?" she said, every morn ing, when she inquired at the office, from which she once used to depart so gayly; and the tone of that voice was so mournful, that the gruff postman paused to look again, before he shut the lattice and extinguished the last hope. Her appetite and col-mestic life, it is the mind which is the master. or daily decreased; shut up in her humble and Mr. Zacharias Johnson had once or twice, even fireless chamber, she passed whole hours in tears, before Mary's acquaintance with Rupert, urged his in reading and repeating, again and again, every suit to Ebenezer; but as the least hint of such a syllable of the letters she already possessed, or in circumstance to Mary seemed to occasion her a pouring forth in letters to him, all the love and bit-pang which went to the really kind heart of the old terness of her soul. 'He must be ill," she said at man, and as he was fond of her society, and had last; "he never else could have been so cruel!" no wish to loose it; and as, above all, Mr. James and she could bear the idea no longer. "I will go had not yet held those conferences with Zacharias to him; I will sooth and attend him; who can love which ended in the alliances of their interests,him, who can watch over him like me!" and the the proposal seemed to Mr. Warner like a lawkindness of her nature overcame its modesty, and suit to the Lord Chancellor, something rather to be she made her small bundle and stole early one talked about than to be decided. Unfortunately, morning from the house. "If he should despise about the very same time in which Mary's preme," she thought; and she was almost about to posed escape had drawn upon her the paternal inreturn, when the stern voice of her brother came dignation, Zacharias had made a convert of the upon her ear. He had for several days watched son; James took advantage of his opportunity, the alteration in her habits and manners, and en- worked upon his father's anger, grief, mercantile deavored to guess at the cause. He went into her love of lucre, and saint-like affection to sect, and room, discovered a letter in her desk, which she obtained from Ebenezer a promise to enforce the had just written to Rupert, and which spoke of her marriage-backed up his recoiling scruples, predesign. He watched, discovered, and saved her. served his courage through the scenes with his There was no mercy or gentleness in the bosom of weeping and wretched daughter, and, in spite of Mr. James Warner. He carried her home; reviled every lingering sentiment of tenderness and pity, her in the coarsest and most taunting language; saw the very day fixed which was to leave his sisacquainted her father; and after seeing her de- ter helpless forever. barred from all access to correspondence or escape, after exulting over her unupbraiding and heart broken shame and despair, and swearing that it was vastly theatrical, Mr. James Warner mounted his yellow Stanhope, and went his way to the Fives Court. But these were trifling misfortunes, compared with those which awaited this unfortunate girl. There lived in the village of Tone Zacharias Johnson, a godly and a rich man, inoreover a It is painful to go through that series of inhuman persecutions, so common in domestic records; that system which, like all grounded upon injustice, is as foolish as tyrannical, and which always ends in misery, as it begins in oppression. Mary was too gentle to resist; her prayers became stilled; her tears ceased to flow; she sat alone in her "helpless, hopeless, brokenness of heart," in that deep despair which, like the incubus of an evil dream, weighs upon the bosom, a burden and a torture |