mountains, to escape from service in the French army. The gendarmerie are employed in the arduous and dangerous service of pursuing the refugees. On one of these occasions, a conscript presented himself to a shepherd of the interior, begging for concealment. The shepherd said," My house is at your service, but I think that of my son better adapted to your security; go to him, tell him I send you for protection The conscript departed, and was received by the shepherd's son. There the gens-d'armes soon discovered him; and the old shepherd learning that his son had been treacherous to the conscript, and that he had yielded to the temptation of a bribe, went to his son's house, and his suspicions being confirmed by actual confession, he destroyed his child on the spot. I have not the least doubt of the truth of the above anecdote: it was related to me by a French Gentleman, one of the chief functionaries in the island. TO IBLA. From the Arabic Romance of Antar. (From the Oriental Herald.) By love taught to dare, I adore thee prond beauty, And to see but thy shadow's a blessing to me; My heart is thy vassal-I pledge thee its dutyEach pulse as it beats owns no sovereign but thee. Oh! how can I picture thee? how be forgiven, If in painting perfection to language I fly? Did I liken thy face to the pale queen of heaven, Oh! where in her face is thy antelope eye? Did I liken thy form to the palm tree beside me O! where in that form is thy steps' airy sway?, In thy forehead I search for a loadstar to guide me, But the sight of thy tresses bewilders my way. THE WARNING. (From the New Monthly Magazine.) THERE is a curse that Heaven hath flung On the badge and name of slave, A malison that no human tongue Hath ever learn'd to brave: Ages roll on and still its shame Gains depth with flow of years, And the scorn of time on the hapless name, Like the brand of Cain appears. And wherefore! save that the captive's chain For bonds could not hin fer this- He may bend the yoke if he cannot break- He may conquer'd be, and the death he dies But his cause is just, and his dying cries Ask vengeance for his woe. He may not hug his chain and live; With a life where all virtue is negative, Where the free sun shines on the will-less man, If such be the law for all slavery made, If the plant, deep sown by flagitious trade, That drop before summer's height; Then thy teeth-Oh! a string of white pearls they May not all earth's sons in their first best cause resemble, If unliving things may with living compare; And thy bosom-to say what it pictures, I tremble 'Tis Eden!-May angels still make it their care! E. C. Claim the prize of liberty! Since Nature enacts no partial laws, But commands the world-" Be free!" Shall perish ere long in the thunder-stroke A CORSICAN ROB ROY. LEAVING Vivario, we heard from the lips of the poor curé, that the celebrated bandit chieftain, Gallucchio, and his followers, were in the náquis of a range of mountains to our right, and from which we were only separated by a ravine. The curé was busy in his vineyard when we passed, but as soon as he recognised our French companion, he left his work a few moments to join us. "Sir," said he, addressing himself to Mr. Cottard, "I feel myself in imminent danger; Gailucchio and his band are in yonder mountains, and only a few evenings ago, I received a peremptory message from him, requiring three hundred francs, and threatening my speedy assassination should 1 delay many days to comply with his demand. I have not the money, and I have sent for some military to protect me." With all the outrages of which Galluchio and his followers are guilty, he is by no means devoid of moral feeling, and is quite a polished character when he enters into private society, as I learnt from a French gentleman, who had met him at breakfast at the house of a mutual acquaintance. My friend, when he found himself in such company, naturally betrayed a little alarm, but Gallucchio re-assured him, saying, “ You and yours have nothing to fear at my hands." I should add, that this gentleman has the supreme direction of the public instruction of the Corsicans, which Gallucchio knew; indeed, the people generally are so anxious for education, and set so high a value on its advantages, that there is no part of the island which my friend does not travel in safety-His office protects him from every attack. To return to Gallucchio; I am really afraid to extract from my notes many of the wild adventures of this Corsican Rob Roy. Not long since a shepherd, personating him, violated a female peasant. The chieftain soon obtained information of the gross outrage that had been committed on his character, and finding the shepherd, took him before the mayor of Bagniola, and this at a time when Gallucchio had six sentences of death hanging over him. At the chieftain's instigation, the shepherd was compelled to espouse the poor girl. Gallucchio, after the marriage had been solemnised, said to the shepherd, "Remember that you make a good husband. I shall keep a watchful eye over your conduct; and, should I learn that your wife receives any maltreatment from you, yourself and your family shall pay with their lives for your misconduct." The man little attended to Gallucchio's warning. The chieftain adhered to his threat; and the shepherd, with his father, and several other members of the same family, fell victims. It was shortly after one of his most desperate exploits, that my friend was cast into his company. He appeared composed, his manners were exceedingly easy, and no one could have conceived so peaceable an exterior enclosed so rugged a heart. WOMEN OF Yeddie, A TOWN IN BORNOU. THE Kaid sitting by me, and Maramy keeping the door, so that not more than three or four came in at a time, I received upwards of one hundred of the softer sex. Some of them were beautiful, unaffected, children of nature. I had nothing to show them but a lookingglass, and probably nothing could have pleased them more. One insisted upon bringing her mother, another her sister, in order to see the face she loved best reflected by the side of her own, which appeared to give them exquisite pleasure, as on seeing the reflection they repeatedly kissed the object of their affection. One very young and intelligent girl asked if she might bring her child, and who, on gaining permission, quickly returned with an infant in her arms she absolutely screamed with joy, and the tears ran down her cheeks when she saw the child's face in the glass, that shook its hands in token of pleasure on perceiving its own reflected image.African Discoveries. Peace, Love! the cherubim, that join The heart alone can make divine To incantations dost thou trust; That man can bless one pile of dust The thicket wood worm mocks thee man! The faith, that bigots dare not bow Its roofed star-pictured nature's ceiling, The harmonious spheres Fair stars! are not your beings pure? Ye must be heavens that makes us sure And in your harmony sublime I read the doom of distant time: That man's regenerate soul from crime And reason on his mortal clime HOW TO DISPERSE A MOB. In the year 1792, the women of Toulon declared themselves in a state of insurrection, and assembling in crowds, threatened to hang the magistrates. The procurator syndic at first laughed at their threats; but the multitude refusing to disperse, he assembled the council general of the commune, and ordered the fire-engines, with a plentiful supply of water, mixed with soot, to be drawn out in battle array; by a vigorous discharge of this smutty artillery, the insurgents in petticoats were completely routed, and quietly returned to their homes. THE DESERTER. Malcolm Lennox, (for such was the name of the young recruit to whom we And his wife--by turns she wept and smiled, refer), was a native of one of the north As she looked on the father of her child Returned to her heart at last. WILSON. It was in the summer of 1774, that a recruiting party, belonging to a Highland regiment of infantry, were marching through the streets of a city in the west of Scotland, displaying all the paraphernalia of war, and having suspended from the spears of their ensigns long silken purses, through the netted interstices of which were exhibited the tempting guineas ready to be tendered as a bounty to all able young men who felt disposed, or could be persuaded, to mount a cockade in the king's service. It was impossible to avoid seeing the glittering gold, for it was a bright sunshiny day, and a tall, lusty corporal, with Stentorian lungs, kept bawling out in a louder key, and in a tone more wild and screeching than that of the bagpipes which accompanied it, the amount of the bounty, as it jingled over his head, and to which he was continually pointing with very significant gesticulations. The rear of the procession consisted of a long line of military probationers, in all the disorder of civilian awkwardness, and in all the disarray of partycoloured clothes; some huzzaing, some singing, some apparently happy, and not a few seemingly mad from inebriation. In the foremost file of these recruits marched a tall, fair-haired, handsome young man, to all appearance about twenty-one or twenty-two years of age. He was attired in a blue coat and trowsers, and a scarlet waistcoat; and wore a pair of buckles in his shoes which bespoke a better condition than is usually the lot of one who can be induced to volunteer as a private soldier in a regiment of the line. He took no part in the gambols of his comrades, but seemed rather disposed to avoid the public gaze; whilst on his features there was impressed an air of dejection which betokened feelings far from being in harmony with the uproarious clamour, ribaldry, and yells of vulgar mirth, that rang around him. western counties of Scotland, where his family had settled, and where his father by following the occupation of an extensive stock-farmer, and by introducing the improvements and the habits of industry peculiar to the low countries into the high-lands, had acquired considerable wealth. Malcolm was the youngest of his four sons. Unfortunately for the youth, however, he had contracted a marriage without his parents' consent, the consequence of which was, that he was thrown almost entirely on his own resources; his spirits sank before the repeated acts of contumely which were heaped upon him; and, anon, his heart became a prey to those mingled emotions of wounded pride and sorrow which the sufferer oftentimes refuses to unbosom either to the gentle solicitations of friendship, or the wild entreaties of affection. Her Poverty, nevertheless, bitter as were its inflictions, was not altogether the source of Malcolm's unhappiness. Nor, had his parents' conduct been different, could it have been attributed to misplaced affections, or impetuous or inconsiderate passion, any more than to disparity of condition. His wife's family was, at least, as respectable as his own; and she, with the attractions of a pretty mountain-maiden of seventeen, was all innocence, all simplicity, all truth and devotion_to her husband and his interests. father was a small proprietor, whose estate, influence, and revenues, had gradually diminished as those of the elder Lennox had increased. proud, but petty laird, considered the industry of the lowlander to be a proof of the obscurity of his origin, and himself and family, though tenants of the chief of the clan, the great Duke of Argyle himself, to be little less than intruders. Lennox was sensible of this, and, in his turn, treated his neighbour with corresponding hauteur, which became more studied and distant as his concerns prospered. Thus a mutual dislike was kindled between the two families, which progressively increased The in bitterness, until it reached a height of exasperation that set all attempts to mediate between the conflicting parties completely at defiance. How an attachment could be formed in the teeth of these domestic disagreements, we leave to those learned in the mysteries of the gentle passion to explain. -"A plague on both their houses. !" A modern poet has told us that "whispering tongues can poison truth," and Pope speaks of friends in whose every word "a reputation dies." Such, it appeared, had entered the domestic circle of our ill-starred pair; for scarcely had the first year of their marriage elapsed before discord brooded over their lonely home, and each day ush ered in some idle fiction, come scornful expression, or some exaggerated insult, committed or endured by sister, brother, or some other member of their respective families. Jealousy, too, unavoidably, gave a colour to their disagreements, according to the prejudices of the parties; till, at length, love that had been warm as the sunbeam in the glen, and truth that had been pure as the mountain-spring, and innocence that had been as far above suspicion or reproach as heaven is from earth, became the victims of doubt, despondency, and conjugal misapprehension. Malcolm finding his home a scene of strife, his marriage bed a bed of thorns, and the bands of matrimony bonds of contention between parties to whom he owed the allegiance of a child, but not the subserviency of a slave, resolved, after many agonizing struggles with his better feelings, to leave his young wife and infant son to their care, and to quit his family and his native dell without the formality of an adieu. He accordingly withdrew himself clandestinely from home; repaired to the Lowlands; assumed a feigned name; enlisted in the regiment of foot, and after parading for one day, as already described, was marched on the next, to the west of England, where he was hurried through the usual military exercises, and thence shipped to America. We shall not pursue him through all the active and stirring scenes to which his new but congenial course of life of necessity introduced him. He was at the taking of Long Island and New York, and was severely wounded at the battle of Broad River. In the first skirmish in which he was engaged, after his recovery, he was taken prisoner, and, having experienced extremely kind treatment from his captors, was induced, partly by promises, but chiefly by the fear of being obliged to return home in case of a cessation of hostilities, to join the army under "George Washington, Esquire," (at that time so designated,) in which he received the rank of a subaltern officer. This rash step, whilst it cast a stigma upon his character as an Englishman, for which not even the honourable wounds he had received in the service of his king were likely to atone in the eyes of his countrymen, so far from banishing from his mind the griefs by which he was disturbed, or rendering him less painfully sensible of the claims which a once much-loved wife and her child had upon him in a far distant land, only served to increase his anguish and the distressing perplexities of his situation. The treaty of peace between Great Britain and the now independent States had indeed been signed; and an indemnity offered to such of the king's subjects as had, in a moment of frenzy, taken up arms against their mother realm. But Malcolm Lennox saw no security for him in the stipulations of the contracting parties, in the event of his visiting Scotland; and he accordingly removed into Virginia, and turned his attention to the business of a tobacco planter. He soon realized wealth, and, as he improved in substance, was also enabied to gain friends; but they had it not in their power to minister to the mental gangrene with which he was afflicted, or remove the hated brand of traitor and renegade, which, by deserting his colours and fighting against his country he felt he had affixed to his forehead. He dared not return to Scotland; he feared to announce to any one his real name; and he dreaded the consequences of entering into any communications with his relations, or appearing anxious to learn the fate of |