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the candlesticks, which ou closer inspection, || midnight tempest. I cannot tell you what a
will prove to him the truth of the axiom, that shuddering it creates in your whole frame, as
all is not gold that glitters,' nor even silver. it comes booming through the darkness. I
The next morning, on relating my can have no conception of any thing to equal
adventure, I was told that I was fortunate in it for solemn and awful majesty. The first
having escaped cold steel; and many comfort- clod throw upon the coffin of an aged man,
able instances were recited, of the robbed who died with the prospect of a happy rising,
being stabbed in attempting to secure the sends a thrill of awe through the soul; and
robber.'
the notes of a muffled drum mourning for a
patriot warrior, and the tolling of a distant
bell at midnight, (for instance, a Convent bell
among the mountains of Spain and Italy,)
have much sublimity in them; but they are
nothing compared to the sound which travels
from the deep-throated cannon, to announce
the death and peril of the mariner.

Involuntary Dancing.

On arriving at Tuli, I was surprised to observe, as I looked down upon the village from a hill above it, that all the people who had assembled to gaze upon us, were jumping and skipping with the greatest activity and in the most grotesque manner, striking their bodies on several parts, and performing such strange antics, that I conjectured it was a national dance got up in celebration of our arrival, not supposing it likely that a stray sect of jumping dervishes could have established themselves in so out-of-the-way a spot.

to look over the way. 'Do you see,' said he, 'that large hotel opposite? That fellow, the landlord of it, is my sworn rival, and nothing can keep this story from his ears, in which case I shall never hear the last of it. Now, my good fellow, you are not only welcome to your entertainment, but I will instantly give you a five-franc piece into the bargain, if you will promise on the word of a soldier to attempt the very same trick with him tomorrow, that succeeded so well with me today.' Our veteran took the money, and accepted the conditions; but having buttoned up the silver very securely in his pocket, he took his leave of the landlord with the following speech, and a bow that did no discredit to Leipsic. Sir, I deem myself bound to use my utmost endeavours to put your wishes in It is with ridicule as with compassion-weexecution; I shall certainly do all I can, but do not like to be the solitary objects of either; must candidly inform you that I fear I shall and whether we are laughed at or pitied, we not succeed, since I played the very same have no objection to sharers, and fancy we trick with that gentleman yesterday; and it can lessen the weight by dividing the load. is to his particular advice alone, that you are A gentleman who was present at the battle of indebted for the honor of my company to-day.' Leipsic, told me a humorous anecdote, which may serve to illustrate the above position.

Anecdote.

As I approached the village, however, I found that not only my servants, but my brother and myself, in spite of our fatigues, were unconsciously joining the dance, and striking It will be remembered that the British ourselves in good earnest. I thought of the goverment had despatched a rocket brigade electric eels in some river in Africa, and to assist at that action, and that Captain fancied a similar phenomenon hung over Tuli. Boger, a deserving young officer, lost his life The mystery was too soon cleared up; we in the command of it. After the signal defeat had entered the precinct of the most venomous of the French at this memorable action, little insect I had ever met with; it is a Leipsic became full of a mixed medley of miniature wasp, scarcely larger than a sand-fly, soldiers, of all arms, and of all nations; of with a green body, and a pair of forceps that course, a great variety of coin was in circulainflict its wounds unmercifully. We have lost tion there. A British private who was attached all chance of rest, and it is ludicrous in the to the rocket brigade, and who had picked up highest degree to observe the effect of the bite a little broken French and German, went to upon the people. They break suddenly off, in the largest hotel in Leipsic, and displaying an whatever occupation they may be engaged, English shilling to the landlord, inquired if and after jumping and beating themselves for that piece of coin was current there. 'O yes,' a few moments, resume their work, in which, replied he, you may have whatever the house however, they are soon interrupted for more affords for that money: it passes current here exercise. They are covered over with black at present. Our fortunate Bardolph, finding spots, in which I am bidding fair to rival them, himself in such compliant quarters, called for these little insects never fail to leave their about him most lustily, and the most sumptumarks. We are situate on the slope of a hill, ous dinner the house could afford, washed surrounded on all sides with pine trees, and I down by sundry bottles of the most expensive imagine that circumstance may be the cause wines, were dispatched without ceremony. of so many insects, for the heat is not particu- On going away, he tendered to the bar the larly great; the thermometer stands at 74.-identical shilling which the landlord had inadSkinner's Excursions in India. vertantly led him to expect was to perform such wonders. The stare, the shrug, and the exclamation, elicited from mine host of the garter' by such a tender, can be more easily conceived than expressed. An explanation, It is very mournful any where, and at any very much to the dissatisfaction of the landtime, to listen to sounds which attest the lord took place, who quickly found, not only distress and agony of our fellow creatures; that nothing more was likely to be got, but it is so amidst the dying on the field of battle, also that the laugh would be tremendously or the deck of a ship, as I know from experi-heavy against him. This part of the profits ence, for I have heard both; but far more he had a most charitable wish to divide with terrific and heart appalling is the sound of a his neighbor. Taking therefore, his guest to signal cannon, heard at sea in the pauses of a the street door of his hotel, he requested him

MISCELLANY.

The Signal Gun.

Select Proverbs of all Nations. He that waits for dead men's shoes may go long enough barefoot.

He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolves.

He that will have no trouble in this world must not be born in it.

He is an ill guest that never drinks to his host.

He that knows himself best esteems himself least.

He that speaks me fair and loves me not,
I'll speak him fair and trust him not.
He who eats the meat, let him pick the
bone.-Spanish.

He that wad eat the kernel maun crack the nut..

He that cannot find wherewith to employ himself, let him buy a ship or marry a wife.— Spanish.

He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.-Scotch.

Hide nothing from thy minister, physician, and lawyer.—Ital.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Hopes delayed hang the heart upon tenter

hooks.

Honor and ease are seldom bedfellows.
Human blood is all of one color.

Selling a Dog. Dick Lazibones was the owner of a large dog, which it cost as much to keep as it would two pigs; and the dog besides was utterly useless. Nay he was worse than useless, for in addition to the expense of keeping, he took up house room, and greatly annoyed Dick's wife.

Plague take the dog!' said she Mr.

Lazybones, I do wish you would sell him, or kill him, or do something or other with him. He's more plague than his rotted neck is worth —always lying in the corner, and eating more than it would take to maintain three children.

virtue. In the simplicity of ancient times, it || East Bridgewater, must be peculiarly favorable to flourished as a vigorous plant. The traveler the Flowers of Literature; original matter seems found beneath its wide spreading branches, a to abound, and the columns of the Amaranth wax shelter from the noon-day sun, and a covert brighter and brighter as it increases in age. from the storm. But nations in their ap

I wonder you will keep such a useless animal,'proaches to refinement, have been prone to
'Well, my dear,' said Dick, well, say no neglect its culture. They have hedged it
more about it. I'll get rid of him one of these about with ceremonies, and encumbered it with
days,'
trappings, till its verdure has faded or its roots
perished. Like the stripling shepherd, it hath
drooped beneath the gorgeous armor of
royalty, while it would fain have found among
the smooth stones of the brook the strength

This was intended as a mere get off by
Dick, but as his wife kept daily dinning in his
ears about the dog, he was at length compelled
to take some order on the subject,
'Well, wife,' said he one day, as he came it needed.—Mrs. Sigourney.
in, I've sold jowler.'

Have you, indeed? says she, brightening up at the good news,-'I'm dreadful glad of it. How much did you sell him for, my

dear ?'

'Fifty dollars.'

Fifty dollars! What-fifty dollars for one dog?-How glad I am! That'll almost buy us a good horse. But where's the money, my love ?'

Money!' said Dick, shifting a long nine lazily to the other corner of his mouth, I didn't get any money-I took two puppies at twenty-five dollars a piece.'

HIGH ROAD TO SUICIDE.-Foppery begat a spruce shop-boy-a spruce shop-boy begat a pair of half boots—a pair of half boots begat a little stick-a little stick and the half boots begat ambition-ambition begat credit-credit begat a shop-a shop begat a horse-a horse begat a chaise-a chaise begat a curricle-a curricle begat expences-expences begat a hazard table-a hazard table begat losses losses begat a bankruptcy—a bankruptcy begat a gaol—a gaol begat want and misery-want and misery begat a disregard for life-and disregard for life begat suicide.-Sic transit gloria mundi!

WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsakes me; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.-Addison.

The Rural Repository.

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1833.

THE LITERARY TABLET.-The publisher of this

periodical, G. M. Buckingham, New Haven, has also commenced a new volume. We always receive the Tablet with pleasure and hope it will

meet with complete success.

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A. Warner, Chaumont, N. Y. $1,00; E. Sprague,
Castleton, Vt. $1,00; V. Tuthill, Trenton Falls, N. Y.
$1,00; Z. G. Allen, Enfield, Ct. $1,00; S. Haywood, P. M.
Lunenburg, Ms. $5,00; W. Lord, jr. Saratoga Springs,
N. Y. $5,00; M L. Newcomb, Derby, Vt 81,00; R. Pacon,
P. M. Waterville, N. Y. $2,00; L. M. Hubly, Fairport, N.
Walker, Felt Mills, N. Y. $1,00; E. S. Robbins, Lowville,
Y. $1,00; R. Huntington, Carlisle, N. Y. $1,00; D. B.
N. Y. 81,00; D. M. Seymour, Hartford, Ct. $1,00; A. G.
Parker, P. M. Shirley Village, Ms. $2,00; L. S. Morris,
Ogdensburgh, N. Y. $1,00; L. Walrath, Chittenango, N.
Y. $0,811; A. R. Williams, New Baltimore, N. Y. $1,00:
1. Thompson, C. Romme, & E. Parsell, Kingston, N. Y
$3,00; F. Sheperd, Bethel, Ct. $1,00; G. Thorne, P. M.
Attlebury, N. Y. 84,00; L. Norton, Painesville, N. Y.
$1,00; A. Baker, Durham, N. Y. $1,00; W. Griggs, Alps,
N. Y. $1,00; D. D. Shumway, Ware village, Ms. $5,00; B.
Sexton, Warehouse Point, Ct. $6,00; D. Clement, Water-
vale, N. Y. $1,00; G. W. Dille, Chagrin River, O. $1,00
A. F. Bill, Trenton Falls, N. Y. $1,00; J. Ward, Westfield,
N. Y.; $1,00; A. S. Ford, Red Rock, N. Y. $5,00; 8. Cady.
Pittsfield, Ms. $1,00; A. M'Glasham, Kennedy's Mills, N.
Y. $1,00; J. P. Brocket, Brocket's Bridge, N. Y. $1,00
J. V. Schaick, Buskirk's Bridge, N. Y. $1,00; J. Smith.
Naples, N. Y. $1,00; R. Robinson, Pike, N. Y. $1,00; W.
C Tyler, Bradford, Vt. 80,874; B. Cook, Fitchburg, Ms.
$2,00; E. D. Baker, Sandy Hill, N. Y. $7,00; W. R. Cook,
Cornwallsville, N. Y. $1,00; C. B. Hoard, P. M. Antwerp.
N. Y. $7,00; J. P. Johnsou, Pompey Center, N. Y. $1,00

L. Bristoll, Ransomville, N. Y. $1,00, C. Marsh, Dalton,
Ms. $1,00; N. Smith, Augusta, Ga. $5,00; B. Hine, Cairo,
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Sandusky, N. Y. $1,00; J. W. West, Seneca Falls, N. Y.
$0,624; C. B. Potter, Alps, N. Y. $0,90.

SUMMARY.

COMMENCEMENT.-The public are respectfully informed
OUR WHALE SHIPS.-A letter received at New that the Annual commencement of Union College, will

commence at 10 o'clock A. M.-Schenectady, July 2, 1833.
A. D. Williams, Esq. Lieutenant Governor of Liberia,
arrived at New York in the ship Jupiter.
and J. J. Roberts, Esq. Sheriff of the same place, have

voted a sword to Com. Chauncey, as a token of the high
respect they entertain for his character as an officer and a

The Common Council of New-York have unanimously

Bedford, states that the ship Washington, Capt. take place on Wednesday the 24th inst. Exercises to
Barret, of this port, touched at Payta on the
18th of Jan. last, having on board 1400 barrels of
sperm oil, which nearly completed her cargo.-
The ship Henry Astor was spoken 10 months
out, with 900 barrels of sperm oil.—The ship
Martha from Holland, where she was sent in
February last, to dispose of her cargo, has
arrived in New-York, having made an excellent
voyage.

citizen.

The consumption of Cotton in Great Britain, the first 4 months of 1833, was 325,984 bales, averaging 19,015 bales per week. The consumption of the first 4 months of 1832, was 294,888 bales, averaging 17,202 per week. The consumption per week, in all 1832, was 14,761 bales.

THE BOOK OF NATURE.-Two numbers of this query, as follows: He is a GENTLEMAN, in large capitals,

of which we have received as a specimen, and
can assure our readers that it will fully answer

any expectations that may be formed in its favor
by a perusal of the prospectus, on our last page.

A DUTCH SIGN.-At, or near Schenectady, many years ago, there lived a stout Dutch farmer, who was famous for grubbing, unearth-valuable periodical have already been issued, one ing, or pulling up the roots of the pines, which abounded in that region. He afterwards opened a house of public entertainment, and, in order to have a characteristic device on his sign, he had himself painted in the attitude of tugging with might and main, at a large pine tree. But lest the thing should not be properly understood, and therefore the skill of the painter, as well as the invention of the designer, be thrown away, he had the following lines placed underneath :

'Here I pe

Bullin up dis pig Bine Dree.

HANS KOPEHLER.'

YOUTH'S LITERARY GAZETTE.-We have also just received a specimen number of this pleasing little paper. It is published by T. T. Ash, Philadelphia, and is intended expressly for children and youth, being made up of articles adapted to the tastes and capacities of little people from the age of five to fifteen years. The Gazette is published weekly, at $1 per annum,

The Cholera is stated to be inflicting terrible ravages in Lisbon, and to be spreading to all parts of the country. Who is a gentleman? The N. Y. Constellation concludes, a long and entertaining article in answer to the above. who subcribes for this paper and pays in advance. The Belfast Whig of the 9th ult. says: Lord Granville, now very old, is seriously indisposed. On his death, the secret respecting the author of Junius Letters' will be disclosed, his lordship having long been in possession of it. ingham; who is also ill.'

The documents are at Stow, the seat of the Duke of Buck

MARRIED,

In this city, on the 3d inst. by the Rev. Mr. Andrews, Samuel Borland, Esq. to Mrs. Martha Coffin, all of this city. At Claverack, on the 3d inst. by the Rev. Mr. Sluyter, Jacob Shultus, to Miss Catharine Coons. On the 4th, Mr. Alexander Rorabacker, to Miss Nancy Benedict.

On the 4th, by the same, Mr. Joseph E. Clark, to Miss Catharine E. Seeling, both of Stockport.

At Columbia Ville, on the 13th inst, by the Rev. Mr. Sturges, Mr. Isaac Bogardus of Coxsackie, to Miss Eliza At Albany, Ezra S. Whitney, to Miss Lydia A. Tabitha Vanslockenhausen Ducher.

Warren of Columbia Ville.

At New-York, Colonel Aaron Burr, to Mrs. Eliza Jumel. At Philadelphia, Joseph R. Chandler, Esq. Editor of the United States Gazette, to Mrs. Maria H. daughter of Ben

THE AMARANTH.-The proprietor of this in-jamin Jones, all of that city, HOSPITALITY.—The voice of inspiration||teresting miscellany, which we have had occasion has enjoined hospitality as a duty. The heretofore to notice, has commenced a new dictates of nature concur in pronouncing it a volume. Truly, friend Brown, the climate of R, and L. G. Hathaway, aged about 9 months.

DIED,

In this city, on the 9th inst. Francis William, son of J.

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For the Rural Repository.

Hypocrisy and Persecution.

HYPOCRISY,--its name I hate,

Or cloaked in church or robed in state;

It is, indeed, a heincus sin,

A saint without, a fiend within ;
For public good a clam'rous elf,
Concerned for none but niggard self;-
Behind your back, litigious wiles,
Before your face, all nods and smiles-
To slander then, to flatter now-
A falsehood base, an humble bow;
Like toad that's perched on stump or trec,
Its color does exact agree
With objects near, whate'er the hue,
Or black or white, or gray or blue.

When it o'eracts its borrowed part,

Or flogged by truth, it feels the smart,
Phoenix like, it then expires,
Consumed by self-engendered fires.
Soon from its ashes does arise
A monster of gigantic size,
That stalks the earth with ghastly mien,
Disturbing ev'ry peaceful scene;

Where'er it moves, its nauseous breath
Spreads far and wide the seeds of death;
Fair Virtue hides her modest face
To shun aspersions foul and base,
And to evade some dark pollution,
That might proceed from Persecution.

C. P. V.

For the Rural Repository
To a Young Friend.
Or all the flowers that form life's wreath,
O choose the living, verdant one,
For others all feel winter's breath,
But this will bloom when all are gone.

'Tis Virtue's flower, unscathed 'twill last When wealth takes wings away to flee; "Twill rear its crest above the blast,

And as a beacon ever be.

And life will glide as limpid stream,
When thunder's storm is hushed to sleep;
Or like the mariner's sweet dream,
That bids him smile and rapt'rous weep.
This floweret fair will deck thy barque,
Tho' boist'rous waves are raging high,
And hope affords but flick'ring spark,
This little flower 'll attract thine eye.
Tho' victor's chaplet fades away,

And warrior's plume is waning fast;
This peerless flower knows not decay,
Its brilliant tints will ever last.

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The poor and the lowly-ah! ah! where are they?

I have been to the North, in the cold, chilly blast,
The noble and peasant, beneath me were cast;
The lord in his palace in agony died,
His servant, recumbent, is close by his side.

I have been to the South, in the soft sunny air,
And few that may tell you, my impress is there;
My flight-it is rapid, and fatal my train,
And hundreds, and hundreds of thousands I've
slain.

I have been to the West, o'er the billowy sea,
And death-it has follow'd, nay kept pace with

me;

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SELECT TALES.

The Criminal,

AN ENGLISH NARRATIVE.

BY MR. HARRISON.

Ar the summer assizes, in a year which it would be highly improper to mention, the facts having so recently occurred, Sir Edward Markland, as I at present choose to denominate him, was appointed for the nothern circuit. His character for the most acute discernment, and the most inflexible integrity, had been established by an experience of many years; and his decisions were, at once, the dread of guilt, and the consolation of innocence.

Sir Edward was, on this occasion, accompanied by his son Charles-Henry; who had long been esteemed as great an ornament to Lai, as his father was to the bench. Both possessed the most persuasive eloquence, and both enjoyed the most unsullied reputation. Never were persons better qualified to detect or punish vice; never human beings created, more capable of shielding, or consoling virtue. They had gone through what is called the Long Circuit, and had now reached Lancaster, the last place of their destination, with a reputation which must have increased, if it had not long been fixed beyond the power of augmentation; and, most of the trials there being likewise ended, began to anticipate the domestic felicity they should experience, in the relaxation which they had promised themselves to enjoy, after the fatigues of business, at their family mansion in the vicinity. At this period, however, a circumstance occurred, which required the full exertion of all their great qualities; and had nearly, for ever, cut them off from the enjoyment of future tranquillity!

A youth had, during the assizes, been taken into custody; and a bill of indictment was instantly preferred, and found against him by the grand jury, for the murder and robbery of a gentleman of the name of Archer, who was of an ancient and respectable family in the county, and himself universally beloved.

The resentment of the populace against

HUDSON, N. Y. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1833.

this wretched culprit, was so excessive, that
the officers of justice had with difficulty
preserved him from their fury; and he was, at
last conveyed into court almost covered by the
filth with which their inconsiderate zeal had
loaded the miserable being.

NO. 5.

I am,' cried the collected youth-in a tone of the most powerful eloquence, lifting up his languid eyes, as if to prevent the gushing tears from disgracing him, by overflowing their channels- the forlorn child of misfortune. Every one is my enemy; and I have no friend on earth! My life, therefore, is of little importance; but my innocence I have been taught to value; it is that which has comforted me in all my distresses, and it is that which now supports me. This was the lesson which a dying mother printed on my lips, whom, if I could forget, I were, indeed, no longer innocent!-O, thou dear saint!' he then most pathetically exclaimed, 'I follow thee! thy child-the child of thy misfortunes!' And thus saying, his agitated frame seemed cenvulsed; he was unable to proceed; his spirits were exhausted; and he fell motionless on the floor.

What a change was in a moment effected! Every eye now streamed with compassion for the unhappy youth, who had a few minutes before been so universally detested, and the loss of the good Mr. Archer, so universally, so justly regretted, was for an instant forgot, while the surrounding spectators all hastened to restore the miserable existence, which they were so lately desirous of sacrificing to their

The minds of even the most enlightened were filled with the idea of the irreparable loss which all ranks of society had sustained, by the shocking murder of the deceased gentleman, and possessed, therefore, no room for compassion, had the loathed object been, in their estimation, more worthy to receive it. There was, indeed, hardly an eye that did not scowl at him with indignant abhorrence, while it traced, in his dark, lank visage, some proof of innate barbarism and ferocity; hardly a tongue, that did not load him with the bitterest reproaches, while it pronounced its satisfaction, at ending him about to suffer the punishment so abundantly due to such an atrocious offender! The youth had, in his whole deportment, a majestic, but not haughty reserve, mixed with a noble yet humble resignation: and he had refused to discover any more of the transaction-than, that he had found the gentleman expiring, and that he was by no means accessary to his death. But he had been taken near Preston, riding away with the deceased's horse, whose watch, pocket-rash indignation. book and cash were likewise found upon him: there could, therefore, be little doubt of his guilt, in minds less prepossessed than those of the persons who were to decide his fate. Even the upright Sir Edward, on this occasion, assumed a severity very different from his The barrister-who had, perhaps, been less usual character; while his celebrated son. softened by the affecting scene before him whose prodigious talents were never less than any other person present-instantly needed, exerted himself in favor of the prose-began to expatiate on this new proof of guilt, cution to criminate the unhappy victim; and which he insisted was not a little aggravated the jury waited with impatience for the opportunity which they were about to enjoy of evincing their love of justice, by giving an instantaneous verdict against him. In short, all were prepared to act in concert for his destruction, and it was from mere matter of form alone, that he was at length asked, with a stern and unbecoming austerity, what he had to say in his defence.

In their efforts to recover the young man from the state of insensibility into which he had fallen his neckcloth being removed, a miniature portrait, surrounded with brilliants, appeared pendant from his neck.

by the criminal's artful address to the passions, and which, in all his practice, he had never seen equalled! Artful as it was, however, he observed, that it promised nothing of which the prisoner could avail himself;-and as his guilt was abundantly manifest, he begged the jury might be permitted to give a verdict, about which there could not possibly be two opinions. The culprit, he allowed, might be

These expressions, so conclusive of guilt, gave rise to what had before been unaccountably neglected-a minute examination of the portrait, by the friends of the deceased. But none of them had the smallest recollection that Mr. Archer ever possessed it.

affected by remorse-and well he might for and brought on his devoted head the execution of tears- My picture! my picture! But for the commission of so horrid a crime: but it of a sentence, which has afterwards appeared that, they could not have hurt me!' was not, at the same time, by any means to be unjust! I mean not, however, to insinuate unlikely, that he felt far more concern at the that there are no circumstances of guilt under prospect of impending punishment; and to which we must venture to decide, though it that was most probably owing the not uncom- behoves us to be always circumspect and mon distress into which his apprehensions tender where we are reduced to that sad had thrown him. However, he would not necessity. The unhappy youth, who now lies labor to aggravate the offence; it was, heat our mercy, has asserted his innocence in a truly said, quite unnecessary! Pity, he added, language which bears no resemblance, in my was a laudable passion; and it would have opinion, to that of guilt; and though we must spared him the not very agreeable office in not be deceived by a manner which we are which he was unhappily engaged, if the prisoner told arises from mere artifice, yet as that is had himself possessed the smallest portion of certainly mere assertion, and that not of the that divine quality; but, however estimable most liberal or humane kind, I see no good compassion might be, it was necessary that it reason why his appearance of innocence should should be directed to proper objects, and be admitted as a proof of his guilt. Could exerted on proper occasions; they were only the youth have proceeded in his defence, the the servants of Justice, and Justice had commencement of which is said to have so solemnly pronounced-that 'blood should be powerfully fastened on our passions, he might, the price of blood!' possibly, in the conclusion, have laid some During this time the prisoner had suffered hold on our judgments. I shall, therefore, a severe fit; his whole frame was convulsed; wait with patience till the prisoner may be able and beginning to revive, he gave a loud shriek to proceed; for to condemn him without just as the barrister sat down. This acciden-hearing every syllable he wishes to say, is in tal circumstance produced an inconceivable fact to condemn him unheard!' effect on the auditors: but the idea which had been thrown out, that his distress might be merely the result of consummate artifice, assisted by the dread of a merited but ignominious death, soon repressed the amiable sensation in almost every bosom.

A medical gentleman present, who had voluntarily assisted in endeavoring to recover the youth, now addressed the humane judge, and assured him that it was not at all likely he would be able again to enter on his defence that evening, as a fever had taken place, and

disease. He, therefore, begged permission to
remove the prisoner, and hoped a convenient
apartment might he assigned him in the castle,
where he would with pleasure attend on the
unfortunate young man, and give the earliest
notice of his restoration to reason.

Yet, when he was again placed at the bar-his intellects were evidently affected by the supported between two men, on one of whose shoulders reclined his languid head-and was again asked what he had farther to say in his defence? as he feebly uttered the half-formed words-'I wish only to die! But and then again relapsed into insensibility; there was not a single person present who did not feel for his unhappy situation.

What then was the satisfaction which glowed in every breast, and illumined every countenance, as Sir Edward Markland, rising with all his accustomed dignity, expressed himself to the following effect:

It is my duty-and, I trust, I shall never long forget it-to be of counsel for the prisoner, who, as in the present case, may have no friend to advise him, not, as is the disgraceful and too prevailing practice of mercenary advocates, by laboring to exculpate guilt, at the expense of innocence, but by assisting the person charged, under a possibility of his innocence, to escape the punishment designed only for undoubted guilt. The circumstances I own, are strong against the young man; yet must it not be forgotten that they are only circumstances. Cases have happened—which God forbid that we should be the instruments of increasing! where circumstances still stronger, if possible, as to the robbery, and certainly far more so as to the murder, have pointed to an unoffending man,

Sir Edward, accordingly, gave the requisite orders, and the youth was carried back amidst the tears of the very populace who had before been so violent against him! For the vulgar are, in reality strict lovers of justice, though they do not always discover what it is.

Sir Edward, therefore, directed that it should be immediately returned to the prisoner, whose conduct, on receiving it back again, he begged might be particularly noted, from which he seemed to promise himself some clue, that might lead them to explore the mysterious labyrinth in which this intricate business was involved.—Though the picture had been in his own hands, Sir Edward never once examined the resemblance; and when at last, his son Charles-Henry requested it might be shown to him for that purpose, before it was returned to the prisoner, the upright judge observed, with some severity, that he had already made more remarks on that subject than humanity warranted! Adding that as no one appeared to claim the property, it should not be a moment longer detained from the young man, much less give rise to any new prejudices against him.

When the picture was restored to the miser-, able youth, and he was informed that it had been sent back at the express desire of the judge, he fell immediately on his knees, blessing so much goodness to a friendless wretch, and praying with the utmost fervor that Sir Edward might never feel the smallest portion of that agony which his benevolence had relieved! The portrait, which he held clasped between his hands, he kissed with apparent devotion, and fastening it around his neck, as he knelt, again saluted it, lifting his eyes upwards, and with a deep-sigh exclaiming

O my dearest mother, I am now prepared to follow thee!' Then rising, with a firmness which astonished every one, he begged to be conducted into court. He was accordingly In the mean time, Sir Edward proceeded conveyed thither: and the judge, having prewith the remaining trials, and the last being viously been made acquainted with what had just ended, word was brought that the fever passed at the restoration of the picture-from had left the prisoner, and that they were about which he was, however, unable to form any to convey him into court; but on his missing satisfactory conclusion-mildly recapitulated the portrait, which had been taken from his the charges against the youth, advising him to neck, he immediately began to rave, that he go calmly and deliberately into his defence, was now totally ruined! and with the most and to account, if possible, for the suspicious outrageous madness, fastened on every one situation in which he had been apprehended. around, uttering some incoherent phrases, 'You have been good enough to give me my among which the word 'Mother!' with seem-picture,' said the youth, and I now wish only ingly tender epithets, could alone be distinctly to die. Appearances are strong enough made out. He had, however, been soon against me, to justify you to yourselves; and overpowered, and continued in his bed, nor did when I am gone from a world in which I have the fit last long; and as his senses returned, experienced but little happiness-and felicity the physician sat by him, and endeavored to could never be increased by the remembrance comfort him. He appeared gratefully sensible of my present situation!—the God of heaven of the kindness shewn him, but still sighed and of earth will in his own way manifest my piteously, and exclaimed, shedding a torrent innocence. On him shall I cheerfully rely,

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