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and carry arms in the cause of the usurper. was now that his faith was to be tried. His little Bible was his companion, and almost the only one, of his melancholy way. For a season he was diligent in reading and prayer: but he was finally led by the wicked companions, with whom he was compelled more or less to associate, to discard his studies, and abandon a throne of grace.

In this situation years passed away. He served in many campaigns, and received numerous wounds-still, however, protected from death, and guided in eventual safety by an unseen hand. There was an eye over him for good. His iniquity was visited with the rod; but the loving kindness of a Redeemer did not suffer his faithfulness utterly to fail. He was brought back to his Bible-to his retirement—to his knees. His sins were placed in the light of God's countenance; but, through the riches of Divine grace, they were not hid from his own. He threw himself at the looked on him whom he

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had pierced, and mourned:' but his sorrow was of a godly kind, and wrought a repentance unto salvation not to be repented of.'

The writer has often found it sweet to talk with this humble and 'devout soldier,' and listen to the simple narrative of his sufferings, and his

mercies. When I was acquainted with him, he resided in Ferney, where he had occasionally the benefit of hearing a pious minister. He was much broken in constitution from his wounds and hardships, but appeared to be journeying in tranquil expectation to his eternal home, earning

his bread in the sweat of his brow', and wishing to pass his days, unmolesting and unmolested. A little present I made him of a few religious books, which are scarcely to be met with in the French language, was very gratefully received: and I afterwards learned, that he had expressed himself as having been much comforted and edified by the perusal of them.-I was thankful to be permitted to help this poor outcast of Israel on his way.

NOTE p-(Permitted to retain the inheri, tance of their fathers.)

The author, while rambling with a friend along the banks of the lake on the side of Savoy, at the distance of twenty or thirty miles from Geneva, accidentally came upon the premises of a nobleman as we conjectured, though we could not ascertain his rank. He was then far advanc ed in years, but of a most dignified appearance, carrying in his exterior the man bred in courts.' He had, at the period alluded to, just returned

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from exile; and it was truly melancholy to see him wandering like a shade amidst his dilapidated possessions. His chateau was in ruins, his grounds uncultivated, his garden over-run with weeds, his walls broken down, and himself in poverty, and tottering to the grave. He received us, however, with the utmost courtesy, took us through his demesne, shewed us its favourable points, walked with us through his vineyard, which was beautifully situated on a declivity by the water-side; then, turning to his once-comely mansion, said: "I was going to repair it, when the French came."

We left him, grateful for his attentions, and pitying his misfortunes.

NOTE 9-(Alarms the unsuspecting villa

gers.)

It not unfrequently happens in the severity of the winter, that thewolf of the evening' will extend its predatory incursions to the very gates of Geneva. A friend of mine informed me, that he had himself seen the traces of one of these dangerous visitors in the neighbourhood of his residence.

Some few years ago three peasants coming to market were met in a wood, which covers the sides of a hill a league or two distant from Ge

neva, by a troop of these ferocious animals, which attacked and devoured them, leaving only some faint vestiges to tell the melancholy event.

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NOTE (And repeat it to a thousand echoes.)

The following description of a storm, con. templated from the banks of the lake, will present those of our readers, who may not have had an opportunity of witnessing a similar scene, with some faint idea of the magnificence of such a spectacle, viewed from such a place.

"The sky is changed! and such a change: Oh, night
And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong;
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
Of pardon to the spirit! Far along
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder! not from one lone cloud,
But every mountain now hath found a tongue;
And Jura answers, through her misty shroud,
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!"
"And this is in the night: most awful night!
How deep thy voice of warning! Let me be
Humble, and thoughtful, at so dread a sight,
As if my soul might pass to God in thee!
How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea,
And the large drops come trembling to the earth!
And now again 'tis black-and I would flee

From the loud hills, and their appalling mirth.

Not so the morning-stars did joy them o'er their birth !"

"Now dark and dreary, where the rapid Rhone
With Arva blends,* the tempest rides in wrath ;
Yet turns, and looks upon his way, anon;
And back the lightning shoots along his path-
As it would show what energy it hath.

Again it thunders on the Jura's crest ;

That you would think she scarce could fetch her breath, 'Midst the wild uproar rolling o'er her breast.—

Now all is hushed and still :-the storm has sunk to rest!"

Though the Arva falls into the Rhone at but a short distance below Geneva, their waters, which are of a totally opposite nature, the one being clear as crystal, the other dark and muddy, run far together, side by side, before they amalgamate, furnishing a spectacle well worthy the con templation of the naturalist.

[See p. 231-2, Vol. I.]

(Lay mangled in the Louvre by the dagger of Ravaillac.)†

Amidst the eulogies which have been lavished on Henry IV. of France, it may, perhaps, appear presumptuous in one, so little qualified to Speak upon the subject, to offer an opinion,

† After his assassination, the mangled corpse was laid bleeding and uncovered in the Louvre, where it remained until the ferment of the public mind had in some degree subsided.

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