luxury and who fhould in a metropolis two former monarchies of France like this ever he diftinguifhable for the chafte yet fashionable fimplicity of their attire, rather than be defirows of attracting by fingularity and fnow. UNDER the idea that the following curious prediction may afford amufement to your readers, I beg leave to offer it for infention in your magazine. It is a circumftance peculiarly ftriking at this time, and hows how the difcriminating eye of mr. Semple had difcovered, fo long ago as the latter end of the year 18c6, or beginning of 1807, the univerfal hatred which prevailed among the Spaniards towards the French and the kindling fparks of that flame, which has buift forth with fuch glorious energy and patriotic enthufiafm. In a work entitled, Obfervations on a journey through Spain and Italy, to Naples, &c. &c. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1807. By Robert Semple.' In the preface to the first volume, dated 25th of March, 1807, is the following remarkable paffage. In the prefent political flate of Europe, and, indeed, at all times, the propriety of England's cultivating a clofe and friendly intercourfe with Spain is fo apparent, that we cannot but feel furprifed it fhould have been fo long neglected. On enquiry we find the caules of this to be various. Ancient wars; alliances between the and Spain; and the interefts of the latter country and of England, badly understood by both. Yet, I affirm, that fuch are the difpofitions of the Spaniards' towards the English, that with a little care on the part of the government, the two countries might become indiffolubly united. It is here that we ought to look for a great balance to the power of France in the weft. It is in this country, perhaps, unfavçurable as appearances may now be, that the freedom of Europe is defined to conence. The Highlanders of Bri may ftill roufe to arms in a kindred language, their Celtic brethren in the mountains of Leon, Bifcav, and Gallicia; and even extend their enthutiafm over the plains to the cen ter of the country, and the mountzios of Arragon and Guadarrama.' I am, fir, Defence Your obedient humble fervant, JOHN ADAMSON. of Matrimony; or, how ig Marry Happily. MR. EDITOR, CLERICUS deferves the grateful thanks of the moral part of the community, for his fenfible letter in defence of marriage. It is a lamentble fact, of which he appears fully aware, that many young perfons in the prefent age, feem entirely to difregaid matrimony. Heathens and S1vages have not lefs refpect for the holy inftitution, than many of our modern Chriftians: our prefent raceof young men-aye, and women too, are foolishly impatient of reafonable controul, and madly rufh into the vortex of unlawful pleafuresthey risk all that is dear to reputati on, and feek no enjoyment beyond momentary gratification hence the virtuous are hourly annoyed by the the difgufting ribaldry of impertinent debauchees, and the feelings of the benevolent are perpetually harrowed up with pictures of diftrefs amongst wretched, feduced, and abandoned females. The state of fociety, in confequence of the laxity of morals, is lamentable, and the vigorous exerti ons of the truly good were never more imperatively called for; the remedy is in their hands. Let every virtuous perfon endeavour to recover one from the ftrayed flock-let every clergyman emulate the excellent example of Clericus, and by recommending marriage, difcountenance immorality. The pleafures of a married life are indefcribable---they are pleafures which none but the married feel. I am a competent evidence in the affair-I married young, and with the pureft and beft of motives. I was defirous of making a fellow-creature happy, and looked around me for the moft wretched amongst females, that I might refcue her from extreme mifery, and have the fatisfaction of beholding perpetually the good effects of my zealous endeavours. I married-not one of thofe, whofe irreproachable character is a fure paffport in the family of any to whom by marriage the might be allied; but one apparently forta. ken-one neglected by the unforgiving-an outcaft from modeft female fociety-one who was dejected, broken-hearted, and penitent and have, for the last fifty years of my life, (excufe the gairulity of an old man) had the enviable joy of beholding a perennial fream of gratitude and love, for having conterred a benefit or an unfortunate tellowcreature. My children have the best of mothers-and, Heaven be praifed! I have the beft of wives. ber of the wretched will be diminished, and what Clericus, and every religious character wishes to fee, will take place-Marriage and happiness. will be fynonymous terms. Let the young men who prefer lawless liberty to domeftic happinefs, follow my example; then the num The Wife. NESTOR.. THE form fill raged, and Ellen's heart fill beat with terror.-‹a the paufes of the thandering elements, the raven's fhricks alone were heard, and to her flartled car they founded like the fhrieks of death. She preft her burning forehead, and leaving the tremendous foreft, rufhed over a drawbridge, fwift as her feet would bear her. The place the entered was an ancient defolated hall, where many a tattered trophy hung around, which flapped with folemn murmuring to and fro, as the winds whistled through the broken cafements. She ftopped for breath, and, trembling, turned her eyes to fee if fill the atfaffin followed-but all was dark.. Scarce knowing how to act, the leaned against a mutilated pillar and, clung, like the ivy's tendrils, round it for fupport. Awhile the thunder ceafed; but ftill the rain poured down in torrents-linking on her Ences, her lips breathed holy withes, and the addreffed herfelf to Heaven; but foon again the thunder rolled, and as the lightnings darted round, once more the faw the ruffian whom the dreadeduttering a convulfive cry, which fortunately was buried in the raging of the tempeft, fhe clung fill nearer to the pillar, and fear cely, dared to breath-her eyes were fixed upon him; at infervals the fathes made him vifible-he advancedagain-till nearer-the now heard his footfteps-he was within a ftride of where the lay-in fufpentive agony the watched he was oppofite her, muttering fome words of dark intent-another flaik, more vivid than than the reft, glanced o'er a dagger the upper apartments, and difappear which he held; it met her eye, and ed. Again her thoughts were chaos. the fank infenfible on the pavement. Stab him while he fleeps!' fhe When Ellen awoke to feeling, the cried, Oh God! A fudden thought ftorm fiend' howled no more, the gleamed upon her brain, and quick thunder's burlts were hushed, and the as her trembling legs would carry feeble moon appeared attempting to her, the followed the murderers' break through the heavy clouds that track. Paffing the heavy portal, the ftill encompaffed and almost concealed liftened, but heard them not, wildly her. The hapless lady looked around, the ruthed on; the winding steps but no forbidding object met her fight, flew beneath her; the afcended an She prefied her beating heart, and immenfe height, in pitchy darkness, tried to recollect her felf, but her fearful every moment, in her hafte, thoughts were all confufed.-Oh! of dathing down fome broken chaim. what a night have I encountered,' fhe Atlength alight glimmered on the rug. exclaimed. A groan was heard in ged floues, of which the tower (for anfwer and fhe ftarted up-it feemed, fuch appeared what the was now en though diftant, to come from an un- compalled by) was formed, and prefortunate-another followed, and fently fle beheld thofe whom the put then fome words, which the could fued. Slackening her pace, the breathe not perfectly diftinguith, though ed awhile though fill keeping them in their import was of murder. She view. Seeming to have gained the heaved a thuddering figh, and the height, they forced open an iroa warm blood icicled in her veins. And door, and entered. Regardless of her now at the extremity of the hall, danger, (for the events of the night there beamed a glimmering light- had followed in fuch quick fucceffion, the looked-a man, whofe eyes that they had nearly unthroned her fcowled cruelty and malice from be- reafon) the fill continued on, net neath his bushy eye-brows, bore it, ftop fill the had alfo reached the eand in the other hand he grafped a trance. Beyond appeared a difina poniard. Again the looked and be- prifon, and in the niche, fome on: held, oh heaven! the wretch who ftretched on firaw, in flumber-n had traced her through the foreft, doubt the murderers' victim. No. and caufed her terrors-he fpoke, the dating to advance further, the law eagerly liftened, and faintly caught but imperfealy, though understandthefe words The form is over, ing that their intentions was to murand doft thou ftill tremble, Maurice? der while he flept, the was furprizal Art, theu fill afraid, daftard to hear Maurice, as his companie But to fiab him!' muttered the other, named him; awake the firanger. --and Ellen's brain throbbed. And why not ―he fleeps. They pauled, and gazed upon each other; the one who bore the lanp feemed to thudder, for it trembled in his hand. • Sleeps?' murmured he. 'Ave, determined? what has his malice # foundly too. And in fuch a night as this, Irwan. Oh God! oh God! when fhall I fleep Thou tool!' -Ellen heard no more; for they had crosed the hall, and unbarring a ponderous door, they flowly afcended fome feps which, apparently, led to Are ye then come?' in feeble acents he exclaimed. She thought the knew the founds, but remen.brance told her not whole they were. has the curft, the cruel baron, the An! length invented? Am I to be huris! from the cafement of this tower, daln from rock to rock, until I reach my grave-the waves that wash its bale or has he ftill more lingering tormens for me? The baron is mercitu. you may fill live,' cried Ellen's per f क्र 17 ecutor, but on this condition-con- her husband's fide, and fnatched her Henry from his threatened death, and, finking with him to the ground, was raifing her eyes towards her God, when they encountered Maurice, who at that moment plunged his dagger in her husband's heart! Uttering a dreadful piercing friek, theawoke-finding herself encircled in her beloved Edmund's arms, while her fweet boy lay calmly flumbering by her. Her joy was unutterable imprinting a kifs upon his rofy cheek, and enfolding her husband fill clofer to her heart, fhe breathed a filent, grateful prayer to Heaven, that 'twas but a-dream. P. G. ent to let the baron poffefs your wife, he beauteous' and Ellen ftarted, or herfelf was named.--Heaven's! was it poffible? could it be her idozed Edmund they were going to murder? Where was the? Who was he baron? And how came her ufband there? All paffed over her houghts, and the vainly tried to collect. Never,' cried Edmund, never will I confent--fooner ould I cherish the envenomadder in my bofom, than fee er reft on his !-fooner would I ck the poifon with my lips, than e him fteal a honied kifs from hers! Confent!-No, no, ere my tongue tters fuch a word, may lightnings lifter it! You have pronounced our doom,' exclaimed the favage. -Yet,' faid Edmund, fpare, oh! are my boy, my fon, my Henry? -Ellen ftopt no longer-Henry! hat name was madness! Her fon here too! She ran, and found her. lf in her startled husband's arms, ho preffed her fondly to him, while he big tears tricked from his eyes upn her bofom. Tear them afunder,' ried Maurice. No, never,' arieked Ellen. Here, here in my Edmund's heart have I lived, here will I grow, and when you pierce is breaft, mine too fhall bleed. Irwan, what must be done? afked Maurice. There is no time to conder,' replied Irwan, our deeds nuft be inftantaneous-this, this,' ontinued he, fhall effect it.'-Eln gazed, and saw her child in the ell monster's gripe-her head whirled ound, and madness raged within. The cafement was thrown open, and he waves, fwelled By the late ftorm, vere heard, in hollow chilling founds, o dash against the tower. Already ad Irwan raised the boy, who cryng, ftretched his little arms for fafety o his mother. Already he appeared o caft him from him, when regardefs of every other tie, the darted from November, 1808. ་ - Matrimony. The married man, whom all these dainties cel, Harleian Mifcellany, Vol. ii. p. 181. 1808. MR. EDITOR, 6 I AM not furprized that your correfpondent Clericus, (Sep) fhould fo zealoufy recommend marriage; few parfons have the leaft averfion to marrying-their motto being the more the MERRIER,' whether it be marrying or burying! Clergymen are a very facetious and good fort of people-the poffefs many recommendatory qualities-from them we de:ive infruction and entertainment -we we are benefited, in proportion to our mutual grace, by the admonitions of the pulpit-we are enlivened by the gaiety of their difcourfe-they ride they nunt--they fing--they drink the cheerful glafs with us-they act fully up to the apoftolic maxim, and readily become all things to all men,' and, when occation offers, they alfo ingratiate themfelves with ladies, by exhorting the fexes to unite in the filken bands of wedlock,' and not to neglect the great injuncti4 Q Marriage has been very justly compared to a lottery-here and there a capital prize, and many thoufand blanks. He, therefore, who marries, is a defperate adventurer-one very uncertain of augmenting his happinefs, but quite fure of increafing his cares. No doubt, No doubt, poor young damfels are always ready,' (as Clerricus tell us) at the risk of various inconveniences, derived from their original ancefirefs; to undertake the task of being mothers: but whilst nurfes,.doctors, fchoolmasters, pap, pills, rods, and all the etcetera of family expence are to be defrayed (in thefe hard times) by the father, I am apprehenfive that reading ingenious and delightful wedding fermons,' fuch as a wife MISTAKEN,' A WEDDING RING FIT FOR THE FINGER,' or THE BRIDAL BUSH,' will not prove fufficiently cogent to prevent prudent bachelors LEAVING POPULATION ΤΟ OTHERS, as far as it refpects matrimony. Still Shakespear fays, that, the forehead of a married man is more honourable than the oare brow of a bachelor.'-He fays this in As like it.'-I do not. you Dr. Johnfon has told us, that in marriage there are many inconveniences, and I believe a hoft of Benédicks might be brough to prove it; but he adds, that a jingle life has no comforts, which, faying your reve Solution of the Myflery, Whea لله the man who Beheaded Charles when GEORGE II. on his return to London, after the battle of Dettingen could with difficulty bear the figli d lord Stair. He could not forgive h lordthip's reproaching him for t danger which threatened the Engl army in cafe the king had obftin perfifled in leaving it in the which it occupied, and where would have been completely defea if the duke de Grammont by his raf nefs had not faved it. Lord Stair, a proud as he was kilful in w having foon perceived the king's de like, and being little difpofed to be the fhame of a formal difgrace, w on the point of retiring to his eft in Scotland, when he received me. following letter: 13 Your bravery is well known, but will you have the courage to to morrow night, to the entrance Sommerfet-houfe, where you wildcat one who (if you dare follow ha will conduct you to a part of town not much frequented, where you will find one who is in patient to fee you, and to discover w cicts which are of more importa than you imagine, and which ca be difclofed in a letter. If you afraid this fhould be a plot on fu purfe, bring nothing valuable al you.' We may conceive his lordh furprife at the reading of this notAt first he took it for a trick of fut fecret enemy; or fome affair of g lantry, the heroine of which had p bably her reafons for fo acting: he ever, he determined to therefore, alter providing hik ge. 餐 .1 ป |