The Beauties of Chess. "Ludimus effigiem belli".... ............ VIDA. SOLUTION TO GAME XIII. White. 1 Queen....C-5+ 2 Castle....D-8+MATE. [NO. XIV.] Black. 1 Pawn..C-5 as fine as any in this collection," which all, who are not tainted with envy, will understand to mean as fine a landscape as any in the collection, and that it is so I am not ashamed to pronounce as my opinion; nor do I think such an acknowledgment will at all impeach my judgment. S. farther informs us, that his sole motive, when he commenced writing, was to answer that part of my letter which complained of the want of criticism, and very candidly acknowledges that himself and other able critics, whose lucubrations would have enriched the columns of the Kaleidoscope, have been deterred from writing, from the fear of bringing down upon them the condign vengeance of the united body of artists. Truly I sympathise with White to move, and to give checkmate in THREE moves. these chicken-hearted gentlemen, and begin to be no little alarmed on my own account; for, if this threatened vengeance has so appalled the sensitive S. as to prevent his offering any opinion on the pictures, how shall I escape who have so largely offended? But I trust, if any thing should occur, the liberal part of the public will shield me from these arbitrary men, who have thus infringed upon the liberty of the press, and robbed us of large treasures of literature and criticism. Having thus answered your correspondent's sneers, I beg to take a final leave of him, since no reply shall draw me into a controversy, for which I have neither time nor inclination; and I will now, with your permission, resume my notices of the pictures. Black. D E F G H Fine Arts. No. 49. Dove Dale (E. Goodwin.). Coloured with much warmth and good effect. It is well pencilled and possesses considerable merit. Nos. 50 and 57, being copies, should not have been admitted into the exhibition. The subjects are unworthy a lady's pencil. No. 55. Christ healing the Blind (W. Spence.) A bold and noble design, and such as we might expect from the classic pencil of this master. No. 121. Dead Hare (Richardson.) This is so naturally painted, that you may gaze upon it until you fancy the real object itself actually hangs before you. This it deserves, and more cannot well be said in its praise. No. 134. Landscape (F. Hofland.) Beautiful, clear, and brilliant, handled with great force, and a strong though rich effect. No. 136. A Storin (S. Williamson.) This is a rich picture, and for force and natural freedom excels all he has before exhibited; but he has dwelt too long on the same subject, and a man of his talents ought not to be content to contribute but one picture to the exhibition, and that a repetition of one he had before exhibited. No. 138. Portrait of himfelf in a fancy dress (W. Allen.) A spirited little portrait, well coloured, with a pleasing effect, and without labour. No. 143. Portrait (W. Patton.) The painting of this is much better than the drawing; it is naturally coloured; but the attitude is stiff. No. 158. The Fisherman's Family (J. Pennington.) This is painted in Mr. Pennington's best style, and is a a good effective picture. I have now noticed every picture in this room that I consider deserving; and a notice of the casts I must leave for some one better qualified for the task than I am. I beg to return you my thanks for your kind insertion of my letters, and am, Sir, yours, &c. Great George-square. A CONNOISSEUR. Correspondence. TO MR. Y. Z. So it turns out, Sir, that we have both been in the same No. 56. Study for a Picture, Evening (C. Barber.) predicament; have both been misunderstood or misprinted; There is a rich effect produced in this artist's water-co-rection. Upon this community of misfortune you found, and that you did not mean "Hac si qui è" &c. for a corloured sketches which far eclipses-his oil paintings. The present is a spirited and masterly sketch. No. 92. A Frame containing Miniatures (G. Hargreaves.) These miniatures have to me sufficient attraction to constitute an exhibition of themselves. I could dwell for hours upon them, and leave them unsatisfied. What W THE LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, &c. could be more beautiful than the centre miniature in this frame? or how is it possible for painting to come more speakingly true to nature than in those of the gentlemen on each side, when, if it were possible to conceive a face breathing from the ivory, we might indeed imagine we saw it here? If there is one better than the rest, it is that of the elderly gentleman on the right-hand side, with powdered hair. The sharp touches in this, which denote in a delicate manner the muscles of the face, are delightfully produced. TO THE EDITOR. SIR-I was a little surprised to find myself attacked in last number of the Kaleidoscope by your correspondent who appears disposed to quarrel with me for the enorous offence of appending to my criticisms the signature A Connoisseur," to which title he would insinuate I ave not any pretensions. Of my abilities for the office of entic, S. is perfectly at liberty to form his own judgment, nd I assure him I shall not dispute it with him; but, if am to be accused of presumption, it should be for writing, ad not for assuming a signature, to which, if my letters e to be considered as criticisms, they give me a title: for ar correspondent, had he consulted a dictionary, would e discovered that a connoisseur is, in fact, no other than itic; and I being, or assuming to be, a critic, do, in assumption, take upon me the other title. If S. had ught no other charge than that of presumption against or had he contented himself with fairly examining opinions I have given, and proving their fallacy by ering opinions of his own, I should not have intruded your columns by replying to him; but, in order to deorate from my remarks, and cause me to commit an urdity, he completely changes the sense of my observaon No. 1. and makes me pronounce it as fine a picture any in the collection. My notice of this picture runs s: "A most delightful landscape, and in my opinion No. 95. Miniatures (S. Hargreaves.) This artist has considerably improved himself within the last twelve months, and promises, in time, to rival his father. No. 95 possesses much more force than any he has before painted, and is less artificial in the colouring. 98. Heartscase, is a delightful little picture; there is a vast of sweetress and simplicity in the design, and the colouring is rich and natural. No. 100. Boy with a Lap-dog (W. Lovat.) This miniature is very ill placed, since, in its present situation (though not destitute of merit) it serves merely as a foil, to show greater advantage those of the Messrs. Hargreaves. "From underneath so many lifted clubs" "Alas! I should not an Antæus rise." Some of the inaccuracies you mention are the result of inattention. I confess to the phrase "from whence," and the ambiguous use of "it is," which merit animadversion. The long, mysterious, intricate" sentence has been slightly miscopied, or misprinted: it is, perhaps, somewhat too long; but the insertion of "so," before" difficult," and proper punctuation," will render it intelligible. With respect to the use of the verb "obtain," have you consulted your dictionary, good Mr. Cobbler? I fear not; or surely you would not have been so hasty in condemning what is neither bad English nor without sense. I know obtain" to be an active verb; but Johnson would have told you that it is likewise neuter, when it means to continue in use," "to be established" and that it is used in this sense by standard authors, without requiring to be followed by "place," or "any equivalent." Besides your taste for quotations," you have, it seems, some small taste for cadences;" and I am truly sorry to find that I have, in this particular, disappointed you of your expected to" treat." If the style of an essay on taste ought to be "delicate and beautiful," a criticisin ought, you will grant, to be particularly free from the faults it censures. I have, Sir, considerable respect for "a cobbler who patches and mends up a sole ;" and, in the hope of pleasing you in future, looked through your letter for some harmonious and sweetly-falling cadences," from which to take ny model. Though I looked in vain, the eye of the author will, I doubt not, find many such thickly sown in No. 102 is well painted, but a little too gaudy. your elegant sentences. Will you oblige me by selecting amongst them that cadence, the harmony of which you most particularly approve? What is the signature to your verses? I think well-intentioned industrious poets merit almost as much encouragement as industrious cobblers. Though I am pretty certain you are "no cousin of mine," yet I subscribe myself, with respect, your friend, [SEE A NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS.] Z. dence might have suggested; and, at a precarious season | THEATRE DU PETIT LAZARY DE PARIS, DE MESSES THE A melo-dramatic Spectacle in three acts, in imitation of the At the funeral, which took place on Monday morning, there were present upwards of four thousand individuals, anxious to show respect for his memory by accompanying his remains to the grave. The church (Christ Church) was crowded, and the solemnity of the scene was heightened by an impressive dirge, which was sung by the choir. The coffin, which was of oak, was studded with brass SIR,-On behalf of myself and friends, I return you inscription:" William Wyndham Sadler, died 30th of nails, and, on the top, was a brass plate, with the brief our thanks for the very obliging manner in which you September, aged 28." After a most impressive funeral laid the grammatical query respecting the lovers' quarrels service, read by the Rev. Mr. Smyth, the coffin was carbefore your readers. The able arguments of L. K. Anti-ried to the church-yard, where, after the usual ceremonies, barbarus, and their coadjutors, have convinced the party the earth covered it up for ever. who supported the use of the singular verb, that they had We are gratified to learn that a subscription for the beingly, agreed to pay their half dozen of wine at the Eagle nefit of his family has been set on foot by the most respec winter season, the rigours of which are extreme in that part the weaker side of the question; and they have, accordand Child Inn, in Bury, on Monday next, at eight o'clock in the evening, when and where Philo-Abstemious will be so doing give the lie direct" to the signature he has welcome to join us in pushing about the bottles, and by adopted (but which, judging from his P.S. we think egregiously out of character) if he choose to come. Yours, &c. Bury, October 1, 1824. DURYNG. table inhabitants of Bolton, and that the Mayor and other their generous feelings can be evinced,-the relief of his SUBSCRIPTIONS ALREADY RECEIVED. Mr.T. D. Lewis..... The Mayor....... 1212220 0 22.0 0 Mr. T. Muncaster 1 220 LOSS OF THE BALLOON. 1 0 In the second Act will be seen the superb View of the Savage Mountain, according to the fine description given of tor will perceive in this admirable picture the most elevated It by Mr. D'Arlincourt, in his celebrated work. The specta Mountains of the Helvetia, upon one of which Charles the Rash fixed his solitary abode; and what enhances the effect produced by this picture is, that the scene represents the of Switzerland. The third Aet presents to the astonished spectators an ad mirable coup d'œil. It is impossible adequately to describe the effect produced by the multiplicity of the different dir ations which animate the scene. to commence at half-past Eight precisely. Doors to be opened at half-past Seven, and the performance To Correspondents. Friend to Good Order is informed that the Kaleidoscope is not the medium through which we are accustomed to draw the public attention to nuisances. Such complaints are mete suitable to the Mercury or to the Liver. The letter of our correspondent shall be forwarded to the Mayor of the town. reminded of his promise to favour us with a certain compe sition for our poet's corner. "Bis dat qui cito dat." ALLEGED EDITORIAL BULL-A correspondent inquires whether or not we have seen a paragraph in the British Travels, relative to the Kaleidoscope. Our reply is in the affirmative; and we notice the subject here in order to show the editor of the British Traveller that there is neither bull nor confe sion in the paragraph he has quoted. It appeared amongst our notices to correspondents in the Kaleidoscope of Septem ber 21; and the following is the passage on which we have been good-naturedly rallied:-" Ashtonian's letter, in the present Kaleidoscope, was printed from so very indistinct a manuscript that there were some passages wholly legible." Now, there is neither bull nor blunder here. Ashtonian dressed to us a letter, written so very indistinctly that our compositors were obliged to guess at certain words, and to supply them by the context. Apprehensive that we might have supplied the hiatus incorrectly, we, by anticipation, pleaded the indistinctness of the writing of our correspitedent as our apology. From the number of ascents recently made by the lamented Mr. Sadler, an idea, we are grieved to find, has [CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 117.] gone abroad, that he had acquired some property; but we made his last successful ascent, about two weeks ago, the know that the original cost of the balloon, and the numerous 4 Mayor, who, on that occasion, had acquired a warm heavy and indefinite expenses of an ascent, have left but friendship for Mr. Sadler,-most sincerely condoled with little for the object which gave rise to his recent excursions: the mourners; and, with a number of gentlemen, received namely, the paying of the debt which had been contracted them in a manner which bespoke the utmost sympathy and in fitting up the expensive baths, in Hanover-street: an regard. The hearse arrived here at eight o'clock on Satur- establishment which had he lived, might, under his ma- LATIN VERSES. Our young friend, A Westminster Scholer, ia day, morning; and the remains of the unfortunate aero-nagement, have yielded some provision for his family. The naut were deposited within that mansion which he had present is therefore an appeal to the generosity of the public, so lately quitted in the gladness of domestic comfort, and that they may testify their commiseration for the fate, and in the bloom of health. respect for the memory, of an individual who has often conMr. Sadler was in the prime of life, having scarcely at-tributed to the delight of his townsmen,-in the only way tained his 28th year. As a chemist and civil engineer, he possessed talents of no ordinary cast; and he was, some years ago, employed by the first Gas Company which was established in Liverpool, and contributed to the advancement of that establishment when in its infancy. On leaving that service, Mr. S. from his enterprising spirit, and his uniform success in many perilous aerial voyages, was induced to devote himself more closely to the hazardous pursuit of aerostation; gratifying the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood by his frequent, bold, and well-managed ascents. Of his skill and presence of mind, under circumstances the most threatening to human life, thousands have borne testimony, as well as the intrepid adventurers who have been the companions of his excursions. He has almost uniformly alighted without sustaining the slightest personal injury, after voyages of astonishing rapidity and altitude; and the same balloon from which he met his death, has, uninjured, borne him safely aloft on sixteen aerial expeditions. He had acquired indeed, facilities in managing the unwieldy bulk of his floating carriage, which even inspired the otherwise Captain Fegan, of H. M. Revenue Cruizer, Lapwing, timid to adventure their lives under his pilotage; and now in Scarborough Roads, has favoured us with the fol the fatal catastrophe which has terminated his exis-lowing: "Yesterday (29th instant) at twenty-five minutes tence, can but be deemed one of those accidents which past four in the afternoon, when lying to under our stormsometimes defy the foresight of the most skilful and sails, in a strong gale at south with a heavy sea, Flambro' wary. In his death, science is deprived of a perse- Head bearing S.W. by W. eight leagues, we observed a vering votary, whose studies in the properties and ap- balloon coming directly towards us, in a gradual descent; plications of gases, and in other branches of chemistry, at five o'clock it fell into the sea about two miles to the promised to supply important facts to the speculative phi- windward of us, and five minutes afterwards totally disaplosopher. Mr. Sadler, some time ago, as a more solid peared. The sea running too high to attempt getting our reliance for the benefit of his family than the precarious boat out, we used every exertion by making sail to the life of an aeronaut could supply, formed, in Hanover windward, in the hope of saving the unfortunate adven. street, a handsome establishment of warm, medicated, and turers (if any;) but, I am sorry to say, our endeavours vapour baths; and, by his own industry and attention, proved ineffectual.' together with those of an amiable wife, he had a fair prospect of increasing comfort and easy circumstances. In private life Mr. Sadler was warm-hearted, gentle, and unassuming; and by his cheerful ard agreeable manners, he had endeared himself to a large circle of respectable THEATRE OF MAGIC, GOLDEN-LION, DALE-STREET. acquaintances, who, on occasion of his ascent, never failedHIS PRESENT EVENING (Monday) and every warmly to interest themselves in his behalf, and to welsome him home to the festive board, which they invariably prepared in celebration of his return from his perilous expeditions. He commanded the same respect and consideration from the several Gas companies, who, on many occasions, gratuitously filled his balloon. As a husband and a father he was devotedly affectionate and attentive; and his late successes as an aeronaut, urged him, in hopes of meliorating the condition of his family, to pursue his dangerons expeditions with more frequency than pruThis passage (which several contemporary papers have introduced into their account without acknowledgment) we take from the notice we first supplied in the Liverpool Merc. " Advertisements. OMR. SADLER'S FATE.-We have this day devoted a considerable space to this melancholy subject, with the view of prano ting the subscription just set on foot in behalf of the widow of Mr. Sadler. The subject has come unexpectedly upuć us, and has somewhat disturbed our arrangements friend G., L. Man, and other respected correspondents, ve not object to the temporary postponement of their e munications on such an occasion Printed, published, and sold, EVERY TUESDAY, E. SMITH & Co. 75, Lord-street, Liverpool OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. UTILE DULCI." This familiar Miscellany, from which religious and politicalmatters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles: comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners, Amusement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annual Volume, with an Index and Title-page.—Its circulation renders it a most eligible medium for Literary and Fashionable Advertisements.—Regular supplies are forwarded weekly to the Agents. No. 224.-VOL. V. Men and Manners. NO. XXVIII. LEGHORN. FROM L'HERMITE EN ITALIE, THE LATEST WORK OF M. JOUY. {Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.] TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1824. PRICE 34d gross and extravagant satire. It is to be regretted that All the republics of Italy have been indebted for their | l'Aretin. Never did man indulge with less restraint in prosperity to commerce; and l'arte della lana, a branch of it in which the house of Medici were singularly successful, was the principal source of our power. Cosmo the Great, the son of Giovanni di Medici, united to the virtues of his fathers the most extraordinary talents; he was possessed of an immense fortune, and his munificence was the means by which he acquired influence and power over I was preparing to leave Florence, when I accidentally his fellow citizens. Europe beheld with astonishment the learned that the Chevalier Angiolini, the last Envoy of same man hold the reigns of government, and attend to Tuscany, in France, had just arrived from Paris, and I the pursuits of commerce; maintain factors and corresponThe resolved to defer my departure until I had had an opportu-dents in all parts of the world, and entertain the ambasnity of seeing him. He was a tall thin man, of about sixty sadors of princes. He contended successfully with the years of age. He was of an excellent frank disposition, Pope, made peace and war, cultivated literature, amused and the occasional bursts of his natural vivacity, formed an the people with shows and exhibitions, and afforded a odd contrast with the sedateness of manner peculiar to Eu-home to all the learned Greeks whom the barbarity of the ropean diplomatists. He had with him a very pretty young Turks banished from Constantinople. The Medici reigned person, who passed for his niece, and whom he carefully during more than two centuries, and would be the object concealed from all observation. On the arrival of any of our eternal regret, but that we now fondly revert to the visitor, be always dismissed her to her chamber, and more memory of the good and excellent Leopold. He reigned than once reminded me of the Florentine of la Fontaine. only in the affections of his people; it was irksome to him I have known few men better informed in the history of to be surrounded by a pompous retinue of guards, geneItaly than the Chevalier Angiolini; he loved his country rally so much the delight of sovereigns. "My court," with enthusiasm, and often regretted her former destiny, said he, "conceals my people from me;" and he dismissed although perhaps he was not without some share in the his court. He suppressed all unnecessary imposts, estabtransactions by which the French government attempted lished manufactories, founded hospitals, and indulged in to cover her usurpation. I went with him to see the old all the luxury of benevolence. If happiness consists in palace, which he wished to show me himself, although being beloved by our fellow-creatures, no man was ever I had before seen it cursorily. We walked for some time happier than he. The possession of nobility of four hunin the great hall, where the assemblies of the republic dred years standing was not the necessary passport to his were formerly held. It is a hundred and sixty-two feet favour. His children were not educated in a palace, but wide, and a hundred and seventy-four long; and its walls, in a house. "They are born princes," he used to say, painted in fresco, by Vassari, represent the principal traits and I will endeavour to make men of them." of the history of the republic. Among the curiosities My friend Gottlieb proposed to me to return to Pisa which he pointed out to me, I must not forget a folio with him by way of Arezzo, and as I had left part of my work in two volumes, containing the pandects of Justinian, luggage at Pisa, and wished to see Leghorn, which is only commonly known by the name of the Florentine pandects, at four leagues distance from it, this arrangement suited written upon vellum. This precious manuscript is pre-me perfectly well. We left Florence after an abode of served in a casket not far from the golden box containing four months there, although we had visited it with the inthe decrees of the council of Florence, held under Pope tention of stopping there only a few days. Eugene the Fourth, for the union of the Greek, with the Latin church. The Florentines affirm it to be the origial copy which belonged to Justinian. It appears certain that it is of no later a date than the period when this Em peror made a collection of his statutes and ordinances. The library of Saint Laurent contains a manuscript of Virgil, written in the reign of Theodosius. We set out in beautiful weather; but as the conductor of our hired carriage drove us hardly at the rate of three miles an hour, the journey was very tedious. Arezzo was one of the twelve principal towns of Etruria; it is of its name is said to be derived from Aretia, a name of Vesta, so great antiquity that its origin can hardly be traced, and the wife of Janus. It is the country of Mæcenas. ToThe Chevalier Angiolini enjoyed the admiration Iwards the beginning of the eleventh century, it gave birth expressed at the sight of so many valuable treasures. Deus nobis hæc otia fecit" said he to me, "and that God Liberty. Liberty is the source of commerce, and commerce is the father of all prosperity and happiness. The bardy Swiss peasant, inured to the labour of cultivating a sterile soil, under an inclement sky, enjoys all the blessings of peace and plenty, while the wretched Sicilian languishes in misery and poverty, in the midst of the Profusion of nature. The cause of this difference is obFicus, the Swiss are free, the Sicilians are enslaved. Indolence and indifference are inseparable from despair, and the latter may justly exclaim, with the most ingenious of ur authors, "A quol bon charger notre vie Des soins d'un avenir qui n'est pas fait pour nous?'" to the Benedictine monk Gui d'Arezzo, who substituted a UTqueant laxis, REsonare fibris, The characters called notes were invented in the year I sailed down the Arno from Pisa to Leghorn, and saw the town and port, which are both modern. Cosmo the First ought to be considered as the real founder of this city. Liverpool. (To be continued.) PROCRASTINATION. A. W. FROM THE GERMAN OF BECKER, BY L MAN, OF LIVERPOOL [Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.] During my stay at Rome, I often went to see a young painter who was enthusiastically fond of his art. We used to talk about what we had seen during our travels, but still more about what was to be seen in Rome and its neighbourhood. My friend led a retired life, and he had withdrawn from the crowd of other artists, who divide their time between business and pleasure. His works showed talent and feeling, and I derived both amusement and instruction from his company: my visits seemed to frequently interrupted by the daughter of the house, who be likewise welcome to him, but our conversations were seldom failed to come into the room under some pretext or other. She generally looked at the work in hand, and made jocose remarks about it; the young man replied in the same tone, but never indulged in any impropriety of expression, although there appeared not much danger that the fair visitor would take offence at trifles. The maiden seemed to be between nineteen and twenty years of age, decidedly handsome; but there was something in her manners which appeared to me not altogether amiable. I had formerly suspected that my young friend had merely momentary amusement for his object; but since our nearer acquaintance, I had found his principles strict, and his ideas about domestic happiness so solid, that I could not conceive how he made them correspond with the connexion which was likely to be the result of his apparent intimacy with that girl. She leaned so tenderly on his shoulder that I could not but take it for granted she would go still further if it were not for my presence. I sometimes took an opportunity to hint my astonishment at the apparent delicacy of feeling on one side, and the equally conspicuous levity on the other; but my remarks were received and answered with so much unconcern that they did not lead to any explanation. a most lively interest in her fate, and that I was extremely tormentor to have a short conversation with his intended anxious to meet with her again: in this I succeeded but but, probably, he had bestowed more time upon it than once; and the friendly, but modest manner, in which she he was aware of, and the enemy had come upon them answered what little I had time to say to her, increased, unawares. He had just been assuring his lovely maid if possible, the interest which I had already felt for her, how much he longed to accomplish her freedom, and to and I resolved to become her protector; yet, when I began accelerate their mutual felicity, when they both heard the to think of the means to carry my resolution into effect, I hysteric half-suppressed laugh of the fiend, who stifled One morning, I called rather earlier than usual, and I found that the task was not an easy one. her disappointment in the forced exultation of antici then found another young woman in the room, whose I could not apply to the magistrates; for I was not pro-pated revenge. His companion wrang her hands in charms of figure and countenance it would be impossible vided with any legal proofs in behalf of my client; and I despair, whilst he determined to come to a final expla for me to describe. I had never seen a form which had, in fact, no right to interfere with family concerns. I nation with her rival: he opened the door, but nobody approached nearer to what the Greeks called the model of was an unknown stranger, and had no claims on the young was to be seen; the young woman left him with sad fore perfection, and the clean, but homely and scanty dress of person: the warmth with which I entered into her con- bodings, and he saw nothing more of the family during the damsel served but to enhance the modesty of her appear- cerns might be ascribed to the most improper motives the whole of that day. He passed a sleepless night in con ance, without concealing her elegance. The pure heavenly imaginable; and my being a heretic did certainly not mend tinual anxiety, and was still undetermined on the next innocence of a Madonna seemed to unite, in her counte- the matter. Open proceedings were, therefore, out of morning, when the daughter of the house came suddenly nance, with the irresistible attraction of one of the Graces. the question, and I had to accomplish my purpose by pri- bouncing into his room, to tell him (with apparently great Had I met with her in the ruins of a temple, I should | vate agreement:-but how? I could, indeed, make in- alarm) that her cousin had just been found dead in here certainly have taken her for the apparition of a resusci-terest with a respectable lady of my acquaintance, and ob- bed. He entertained not the least doubt of her having tated vestal. The suddenness of my entrance seemed to tain an asylum for the poor girl; but would she go with been poisoned; but it would, perhaps, not be easy to prov confuse her for an instant; but she soon recovered, fi-me? she scarcely knew me at all; and she certainly knew it; and, even if it were, he would not be the less miserable nished her occupation in the room, without looking at me me not enough to be convinced of the purity of my intenI had, unfortunately, no comfort to offer; but I related a second time, and then withdrew in silence. Not a word | tions : besides, an elopement is always wrong in itself, and what I had been willing to do myself, and the unhappy had been said during her presence; but when she was a truly virtuous woman must ever feel considerable reluc-young man embraced me as heartily as if I had actualy gone, I said to my friend," Well! I declare you know tance to have recourse to it; the very equanimity and ange. done something. In the mean time, I was made to unhow to choose your quarters: with two such patterns of lic patience of the fair sufferer proved sufficiently the con-derstand, that his love had enabled him to judge with beauty as you have daily before your eyes, you can never sciousness of her innocence and rectitude; how then could more acuteness of the existing circumstances than 1 want a model for the exercise of your art; but you I think of disturbing that peace of mind which had sup-could do with all my considerations. If I had attempted appear to me like Hercules at the cross-road!" He made ported her under the most trying circumstances? to release the faithless and profligate guardian from his an unmeaning reply to my observation, and excused him. It would have afforded me much satisfaction if the responsibility in money-matters, and to give him a few self (a little dryly) from accompanying me to the rooms of young painter had paid his addresses to her, instead of pieces of gold besides, he would not have hesitate the Vatican. I went, therefore, alone, and was sorry that throwing away his affections upon one who did not deserve a moment in giving up his niece; but the painter himsel I had hurt his feelings by an allusion to the fable of Her-them: but as it was out of my power to control his love, could not make such a proposition, because the man had cules: in the mean time, I was more surprised than ever I could only try to place myself, to a certain degree, in destined him to be his son-in-law, and would not have at his encouraging the forwardness of a visibly wanton his situation, by taking an apartment in the same house: dared to act in opposition to his malicious daughter, whots girl, whilst he neglected another who was so evidently su- this would, at all events, enable me to become better ac- he knew capable of going to any length in satisfying her perior in every respect: if I had never heard the assertion quainted with my protogée, and to act in conformity with passions. that love is blind, I should have made it for the first time the exigencies of the case. myself. I kept musing all day over the circumstance, and, in the evening, I met a friend, who has long been considered as one of the principal artists in his line, and of whom I knew that he entertained a great respect for my painter. I communicated my thoughts to him, and he told me, in his turn, that the very same circumstance had prevented him from having quite as much intercourse with the young man as he could otherwise wish. He knew the family with whom the painter lived, and he might have had the coquettish daughter himself, if he had been so inclined, since it was plain enough that she merely sought a husband for form's sake, and in order to be the more at liberty after marriage. "I have warned your friend," he continued, "and the girl, as well as her father, seem to be aware of it: they have now contrived to prejudice him against me, and we meet but seldom; this I regret the more, as I am anxious to direct the attention of the youth to another female in the house."-" And, pray, who is she?" I interrupted him." Alas, poor thing!" he replied, "she is the landlord's niece; but she is as much kept in the back ground as her cousin is brought forward; she is treated worse than a servant, and watched like a prisoner; for her uncle has, probably, spent the little property which he had in trust for her; and he is afraid of her meeting with a lover, lest he be called to an account; whilst his daughter trembles for her conquests in the full consciousness of her own inferiority: the consequence of all this is, that the interesting aud innocent young person has to undergo every species of suffering which avarice and envy united can invent; and that even a cloister would be preferable to such a stay with relatives." There are few men so callous as not to sympathize with an oppressed fellow-creature, and hardly any who will not be roused into something more, when the sufferer happens to be otherwise attractive; it is needless to examine how much the unfortunate girl's beauty might have to do with my own feelings in this case, but certain it is, that I took I had to make an indispensible excursion to Naples: but the image of the fair sufferer haunted me during the whole of my journey; and I returned with the firm purpose of saving her. My first visit was to the painter: but, alas! I found him sitting in the middle of his room upon his trunk, and all his luggage lying around him in the utmost confusion. He raised his head at my entrance; and I was terrified at the alteration in his countenance: he gave my hand a convulsive squeeze, and burst into tears. It was some time before he was able to speak: but, after many fruitless efforts, he said, "It is all over with me. You were in the most fatal error; and now your assistance comes too late: your pity is unavailing." I gave him time to recover, when he entered into an explanation which I certainly had not anticipated. Thus had the object of our mutual solicitude fallen a sacrifice to a want of timely confidence; and we beheld a lamentable proof of the dire effects which procrastination is apt to produce when the urgency of the case requires immediate assistance. Literature, Criticism, &c. CLARENDON'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION-DEATH and make a pause, in this place, to take a view with what "It will be requisite, at least it may not be unfit, to r countenance the kings and princes of Christendom had their eyes fixed upon this sad and bloody spectacle," "Alas! ther was scarce a murmur amongst any of them at it; but, the made haste and sent over, that they might get shares in the bellion, book zi. vol. 5, p. 263, in Edit. Ozon. anno 1717. spoils of a murdered monarch.”—Clarendon's History of the s It was love for the modest female that had brought him to the house: but, unfortunately, her cousin had taken a fancy to him; and he had been obliged to feign a corres- Though I am far from agreeing with Clarendon in many ponding sentiment, in order to have any chance of be- of his opinions on moral and political right, yet I am, t coming acquainted with the real object of his love. The many reasons, a warm admirer of his writings. The latter had been studiously kept out of sight, until the rits of his History of the Rebellion are so universally at landlord and his daughter had thought him sufficiently knowledged, that it would be both useless and presump secure; but from that moment, the niece was made to tuous in me to attempt to point them out. The master! perform all the menial offices in the family, which afforded style in which he delineates the men and manners of th him opportunities to confirm himself still more in his at- time; the bold, spirited, and discriminating touches wit tachment, and to inspire a corresponding passion. He which he sketches the predominant features, and draw had, nevertheless, to act with the utmost caution, as the the more minute distinctions of character, with equa host and his daughter desired a speedy conclusion of the freedom and success, rivet the attention of the reade affair; and the latter watched all his motions with the powerfully, and almost transport his imagination to th lynx eye of jealousy. He endeavoured to delay the fatal | periods of which he wrote. And these delineations ar moment, of a decisive declaration, by hints at the uncer- most valuable, when there is least chance of his opinion tainty of his prospects, and the impossibility of his main- being tainted with those prejudices which party partial taining a family without an increase of income: this seemed ties and antipathies excite in nearly all historical writers to produce the wished-for effect; and, as he deemed him- prejudices, which naturally existed, in the greatest fore: self a little more at liberty, he relaxed in his precaution, in times of civil war; which must have adhered, wil and brought on the catastrophe which ruined his earthly double tenacity, to all who attached themselves to th happiness. losing party; which must have flourished, in their utmost vigour, in the mind of so prominent an actor, in the whole He had profited by a momentary absence of the jealous |