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elegance, the happy art of uniting welltimed and requisite expense with a partial frugality, rendered the style of Lady Laura's dress and living superior to that of many who are possessed of double her income.

Lovely in person, it cannot be supposed, that she can have been always entirely free from solicitations of a tender nature: But how soon were they checked, how soon has presumption been over-awed by the mild though firm dignity of her manners!

Her prudence, the elegant turn of her mind, her undeserved fate, her uncommon share of intellectual knowledge, have gained her the countenance of Royalty itself: All the correct and higher classes of nobility, all the eminent in the literary world, are eagerly anxious that she should make one in their most brilliant parties and many there are who feel

Lady Laura's deserved encomium.

proud in saying, that on such an evening, or at such a dinner party, they had the happiness of being seated by that charming woman, Lady Laura Pemberton,

She attends with the most unremitting perseverance to the accomplishments of her daughter, and watches her progress in them with incessant care. The fond wishes of this inestimable parent will not be disappointed; Miss Pemberton promises to crown all her affectionate desires, and to be in many respects the counterpart of her excellent mother.

So pure, so regulated is the conduct of Lady Laura, by the strictest rules of decorum, that the most inveterate calumny has never dared to touch it with her sooty finger. Her unfortunate husband sees too late the intrinsic worth and shining contents of the beautiful casket he has thrown away: he has endeavoured, by the fairest promises and most ardent

Conjugal love is not easily extinguished.

protestations of reformation, to persuade her to again unite herself to him. Though she knows his fluctuating mind and wavering heart so well, yet he is the father of her dear boys, and when he has sought a reconciliation, it gives her severe trials, and sadly injures her nervous system. Conjugal love in so warm a heart cannot be easily, nor indeed never wholly, extinguished: But all her friends, and indeed even the relations of Major Pemberton, warn her to be careful of again putting herself in his power.

Indeed we fear the constant and habitual practice of relaxed and libertine manners in Major Pemberton has confirmed them into principles that have taken root, which now actuate his mind, and will long be the springs of his future conduct: we wish we may be mistaken; but the Ethiopian cannot change his skin, nor the leopard his spots."

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JOSEPH BAXTER, ESQ.

Integer vitæ Scelerisque purus."

HORAT.

THE pride of the lily sometimes adorns the humblest vallies, and it is not uncom mon to gather the modest and shy violet on the brows of high craggy mountains. Virtue and vice, though of an opposite nature, thrive in the same grounds, and all classes of society are open to them. Oh! that all distinctions between man and man were measured upon the quantum of virtue or vice found in each individual! Then, surely, our morals would improve, and the general happiness of mankind would be the desired re-' sult of it!

Joseph Baxter, is a native of Suffolk, and has been an inhabitant of Loudon for these last thirty years. Liberally edu

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