times inclined to regret having embarked in a profession so arduous and so poorly remunerated.

But this is wrong. I thank God that there is a home under my roof provided for my mother and sister. I thank God, too, that my gentle Julia continues faithful to me, in spite of the little prospect which is before us of coming speedily together. Ah, my friend, if you knew that girl as I know her, you would not wonder that she thus engrosses so many of my thoughts; vay, that she sometimes comes between me and my Maker, so good, so pure, so sensible; who would account any labour too severe which promised to secure her as its final reward!"

of tuition, that, no doubt, is wearisome enough. It is but an uninteresting occupation to go continually through the pages of Aristotle and Livy, or even to point out the beauties of Pindar and Horace but that might be endured. It is the breaking up of all family comfort, the utter annihilation of home the constant restraint imposed upon your conduct, your words, and your very thoughts; these are the circumstances which to me, at least, are most grievous, in the duties of tutorizing. Then, again, there are the thousand chances that young men of seventeen and eighteen years of age will involve themselves in scrapes, not, perhaps, discreditable in the eyes of the fashionable world, but exceedingly hurtful to the morals of a country pa

Some time after the receipt of this vletter, I heard of his having succeeded in obtaining a couple of pupils, and Irish, and to the influence of him who naturally wrote to inquire how he relished his new employment. I give his answer to that question at length, as a just reproof to such as consider a private tutor amply remunerated, provided he receive his two hundred, For two hundred and fifty pounds per sannum with each pupil.

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who returns when his work is done to his own fire-side, and to the bosom of his own family, leads a far happier life than your private tutor who is largely paid for receiving strangers into his house."

"The only consideration at all capable of reconciling me to the task vwhich I have undertaken, is the prospect which it holds out of providing for my mother and my sister, and ulti-that the daily labourer in the fields, Imately for Julia. Trust me, my friend, that he who has never acted the part vof a private tutor knows not, and cannot know, one twentieth part of the -annoyances and inconveniences to which that occupation gives birth. In the first place, you are necessarily ignorant of the kind of characters which you are about to receive into your faamily. If there be nothing notoriously bad against a young man, you must -accept him, otherwise you are called fastidious, and no more offers are e made to you. And granting that you are fortunate granting that your puvpils are all youths of correct conduct -and proper feeling, from the moment they cross your threshold, your home is no longer your own. You live, as it were, continually in a public thovroughfare; even during meal-times you cannot converse with your nearest * relatives, except on common-place to -pics; you never walk abroad when I your pupils are within, nor remain within when they walk abroad, with an easy mind.: I

"With respect to the mere labour VOL. XVIII.

In spite of his dislike to the employment, Williams continued, however, to labour in his vocation as a private tutor for upwards of three years. To his parish he was, as may be supposed, most attentive all the while; and he never murmured at his lot, let happen what might, because the approbation of his own mind, and the affectionate letters which he regularly received from Julia, more than com. pensated for all his daily and hourly grievances. Nor did the contemplation of a mother and sister, made happy through his exertions, fail to increase that holy calm which was upon him. Perhaps he was never more happy thau during these years; he certainly never enjoyed so much happiness after they departed.

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much i I am sure that I think 0035 09789 than I think of of my religion, of of my God, But he knows how frail and weak, we are; and I pray that he will forgive me, if indeed there be any sin in suffering the mind to dwell conti nually upon the most perfect of his creatures. Enough, however, of this, You beg of me to be explicit, and will be so, though I had determined to defer my communication a little longer, and to spare you the pain which I fear it will occasion, till things had assumed a more decided aspect. "Be not alarmed, my beloved Abraham, when I inform you, that my health has not of late been so robust as usual; and that my medical attendhave assured me, t that there some risk that I shall not recover say, be not alarmed perhaps I ought rather to have said be noted wholly cast down. If it be the will of God to remove me, your image will be the last that shall fade from my memory and I will only go before, to prepare a place for you in a world where, when we meet again, nothing can part u But I cannot myself believe that it will end in this. True, I am ill, very ill, I have not indeed quitted my bed for these ten days past; but I am not yet willing to die, because I am not

his native vale only once. That visit occurred about twelve months after his removal into Kent. It was a short; but a delightful one, because it was spent under the roof of Mrs Evans, and in a constant and unrestrained in tercourse with Julia, If anything, indeed, could be said to embitter it it was the extreme delicacy of the maiden's health who exhibited even then symptoms of that fatal disease, which in two years after brought her to an untimely grave. Abraham could not but observe the change in her appear ance. Her for wasted to a shadow; her cheek was sunken and hollow, and alternately pale and ruddy, as the fever went and came Bu But she laughed at his expressions of alarm, and be returned home, if not quite at ease, at least determined to believe her own assertion that love was her only ma lady and that love never yet caused death as long as it. It was not slighted. s In perfect accordance with her words were all Julia's letters during the entire space of eighteen months which followed their last parting At the end of that time, however, her style became somewhat more gloomy. She spoke of the worthlessness of earthly enjoyments, and of the wisdom and necessity of her lover's fixing more of his affections upon Heaven, and less upon her. She talked of her utter inability to fulfil the expectations which he had formed, or to render him hap P who was far too good for her or for any woman living. To this topic, indeed, she recurred so repeatedly, that Abraham became seriously alarmed, and at last urged her to satisfy his fears by stating the true cause of those expressions, which, instead of comforting, tormented him with a thousand apprehensions too horrible to be named. He had not seen her for nearly two years, when the above letter was written. due course of of which I Post an answer att

Immediately on the receipt of this distressing intelligence, Abraham set off, by the most ready conveyance, to the Vale of Abberquate. Of the circumstances which attended and ensued upon that journey, he has self drawn so vivid a picture, that I readily avail myself of it, in Taying the detail before the reader. The folsubjoin a copy o poredbe vibest slowing is the substance of a long letbug will not blame you, dearest ter, which he forwarded Abraham, for the impatience in which months into Kent your last appears to have been written, far less will I insult you, by supposing that you could seriously suspect your Julia of inconstancy or fickle ness. Oh, no God is my witness, that you are the subject, and the only, subject, of my thoughts by day, and of my dreams by night. I fear,

became more and more attentive every dimitted to the dust both his mother day. His chief amusement was garand mother-in-law? Of his sister it is dening; and to diversify that, he was needless to takeofarther notice, than in the habit of noting down all such do that she is the mother of my children; events as appeared worthy of record and that nothing gave my poor friend within the circle of his little district.so much comfort on his death-bed, as Thus were his sorrows sanctified to the knowledge that she was provided him, and he died at last, composed for Peace to his ashes! and happy; having previously come to 'nstail baA

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REMARKS ON THE PROGRESS OF STEAM NAVIGATION.

By William Bain, Master in the Royal Navy, and Commander of the
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ALTHOUGH the art of navigating ening, served only to strengthen Mr vessels by steam may still be consiBell's enthusiasm. Possessed of an dered in its infancy, yet no invention active mind, he is said to have crosswe know of has, in so short a time, ed the Atlantic to America, where this made greater progress towards perfec- system was readily adopted, insomuch, tion. It is no doubt true, that nearly that by the year 1821 that country a century has elapsed since Mr Jona- could boast of not fewer than 300 than Hulls, an ingenious mechanic of steam-vessels in full operation, while England, under letters patent, first others to the extent of 5995 tons were made the attempt of applying steam also then building. No longer uncerto the purposes of navigation. The tain of the result of his scheme, Mr late Duke of Bridgewater, and Earl Bell, like a dutiful son, returned to Stanhope, and others, were occupied his native country with the fruits of with this subject; and we have also his well-earned adventure; and, in to record the labours of Lord Dundas 1811, constructed the Comet steamand Mr Miller of Dalswinton, assist- boat of twenty-five tons register, with ed by Mr Symmington, engineer, all an engine of only four horses' power, of whom displayed much public spirit to navigate the Clyde between Heand talent in the accomplishment of lensburgh, Greenock, and Glasgow, the same great object, without their Alas while every one through his having, however, arrived at the result means understands the construction sought after, viz. the application of and management of the steam-vessel, steam to the general use of navigation and exults in his mighty invention, This, in so far at least as regards this its great promoter unrewarded is fast country, was reserved for Mr Henry sinking into years, and is borne down Bell of Helensburgh, in Dumbarton- with poverty. shire, who, in the year 1814, practically The spirit of enterprise soon beheld succeeded in constructing and propel the impulse which this astonishing ling a vessel by the application of steam power was capable of affording to the It is believed that this gentleman, socapitalist, and though opposed by every far back as the year 1799, produced circumstance which ignorance, prejuthe model of an engine for this pur- dice, or interested motives could sugpose, which, though it was not approgest, Great Britain can now boast of ven of by the persons to whose inspec-not fewer than one hundred and fifty tion it was submitted, instead of weak- steam-vessels, of from thirty to five

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