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Poetry. T/ie story of\a French Conscript. In Graham’ Georgies there is the following description of a French Conscript, a basket-maker by trade, who had been made captive by the British arms, and was held' a prisoner a long time in Scotland. The young men of our country, who, but lately, have had £ narrow escape from a similar conscription, will read it with interest. North. pap. “ Once I beheld a captive, whom these wars Had made an inmate of the prison-house, Cheering with wicker-work (that almost seemed To him a sort of play) his dreary hou*s. I asked his story : in my native tongue, (Long use had made it easy as his own) He answeredthus “ Before these wars began, I dwelt upon the willowy banks of Loire : I married one who, from my boyish days, Had-been my playmate. One morn I’ll ne’er forget'. While busy choosing out the pretty little twigs, To warp a cradle for puj child unborn, We heard the tidings, that the Conscript-lot Had fallen on me ; it came like a death-knell. The mother perished, but the babe survived ; -' And, ere my parting day, his rocking cbuch I made complete, and saw him sleeping jsmile— The smile that played upon the cheek of her Who lay clay-cold. Alas! the hour soon came That forc’d my fettered? arms to quit my child'; » And whether now he lives to deck with flowers The sod upon his mother’s grave, or liefc Beneath it by her side, I ne’er could learn : 1 think he’s gone ; and how I only wish For liberty and home, that I may see. And stretch myself and die upon the grave.” EPIGRAMS. On the report of the Royal family of France beingtaken in their flight to Varennes, by the King’s stopping to drink a bottle of Burgundy. : Sire, said the anxious Queen, for God’s sake think, What it may cost ns, if you stop to drink. Ma'am, quoth the King, and tost the bumper down, You know it cannot cost above a crown. Young Corydon, a forward blade, The offspring of a ’squire, Address’d a lovely blooming maid Whose fatlier was a dyer. A dyfcr’s daughter I” cries his dad, What, marry her ! O fie !” Why not, sir, says the honest lad; You know we nil must due. IHtacellaneno. FROM THE riIRT FOLIO. Fragment of a Letter of a Mother to her Daugh ter, on the Education of 1 oung Ladies, and on Literary Women. * * * 15 Coquetry, my dear child, is not the worst of our qualities. It a coquet of sixteen have no other desire than to be thought pretty, site soon learns, that to please, she must be ami able. Afterward, she wishes to be loved : and, as they gfqw older, women often cany their co quetry so far, as to become good. In all conditions of life, a woman has need to please ; it is her only medium of authority, and even of defence. She must lead the will ,of oth ers, in order to enjoy her own ; she must reign, lest she be forced to obey. Indeed, while some restrain all this within the limits of what is re ally necessary, others stretch it to what is super fluous. But, she who goes the furthest in this way, Jias no other object than that of embelishing the circle of her existence; sh§ who desires ad* miration, seeks rather to extend it. The one wishes to be preferred by all who know her ; the primary object of the other is to be known. The first makes those who surround her the* objects of her attention: the second rarely regards them but as the means of propagating her reputation. In a word, if the one make a little too much use of the advantages afforded her by her the other exceeds all bounds. “ 1 have seen those,” says Labruyere, “who wished to be girls, and beautiful girls, from thirteen to twentv-two, and alter this to become men.” * * * * Inmyjiine,however, it was asufficiently'agree able condition in life, to be an amiable woman. Sue was known precisely on that account which it was desirable to know her; people did not <|uote her sayings, but they loved her conversa tion. As she was too much distinguished to be resembled by others, and too inartificial not to be always the same, she was never left but with a desire to be seen again. The pleasure of\ hor company, a! ways expected, And neverforo-knowji, gave to her intercourse that agrceablenessf which charms and that novelty which attracts. Ease give the grace, and a certain restraint the value, leople could not continually say, 1 have seen Mrs. ***, as we now say, I have read Mrs. works; and Mrs. conversation could not be repeated with the same facility as, now, t!te phrases of Miss ***• we did not quit, without re gt et, her of whom we could retain nothing but the remembrance ; and we never sought, but with eagerness, her who never communicated herself but with reserve. I cannot easily understand, how ner conversation can be much desired who ha* deposited lier best thoughts in a book of which there ids been two thousand copies printed ; her, the imest of whose thoughts, and the most ileli cate of whose 'sentiments, every bookseller will giv“ for a little silver ; her who has nothing stri «r ni * n< i> or attractive in her person, which sac has not generously sacrificed tb the reputation of her work ? * A .woman printed, is like a wo nan posted ; a person whose adventures are public: it would be pediculous in her to appear timid; she is at the utmost, allow ed to be mod edst. If you approach Ker, to speak of her wit, she must understand you at the first word. It is anoint settled that she has it. She has publish ed her knowledge of it. It is evident that, she wishes for the reputation ; that she is anxious to be congratulated upon it. She has given all the world a title to afford her that pleasure. As she has asked for notice, she ought to manifest her gratitude, to feel flattered by every species of and honoured by every specietfof praise; but all these timidity shuns, modesty re pels ; and thev often cannot be accepted with out great humiliation : we are hymbled by them, my child ; and who would ever have thought hu miliation one of the results of self love? 1 am riot sure, indeed, that there was not rather more pride than modesty in that custom which women for merly followed, of publishing their works under the names of their friends. They would have themselves degrading their dignity in appealing to court the eyes of the public, and losing it by fixing them; like that woman who, having always her bosom much uncovered, never failed to wear a kerchief before her servants, were it only in go ing down to her carriage ; “ because,” said she, “ic was not made for those people.” It was thus that, not for those people Madame de la Fayette desired to shine. Hence she chose amongst her friends, him whose species of genius would ren der it most easy to believe him the author of the works she published. It was riot to M. de la Ro chefoucafiit that she gave her Zaide and Prin cess of Cleves, her romances appeared under the name of Segrais ; those of Madame de Tencin were attributed to Pontdeveyle; and, what is singular, the comedies of Pontdeveyle were attri buted to Madame de Tencin. The women of those times well knew how to establish the reputation of their wit, without publishing it in their works. Without ever having seen Ninon, every one still knows how beautiful she was. ■ The women of the present day imagine that to be convinced of their beauty, we must absolute ly have seen it; and that no one will believe their wit who has not heard it. from their own lips. They extend, therefore, as widely as they are able, the number of occular witnesses; they cause themselves to be printed, some with their names better known than their wit; and others who, while they lay bare their wit, refrain, at least, from put ting their name at hazard. As to the latter, their sincerity is not believed, and, apparently to com pensate for their silence, it is said, in the jour nals, that there has appeared such a work, of Mrs. such-a-one, who has not given her name. The name appears in the catalogue, where it is soon sought for as an article of a dictionary ; for you know there has appeared a Dictionary of French Literary .Women, comprehending all who have existed from the beginning of the monarchy to the present day, and to to-morrow, if you please; for there are to be found in it the names of some who, hitherto have printed nothing. With respect to these, there is joined to the lists of the works they have in their port-folio, an eu logium on their modesty. How delightful it must be, for a woman to see her modesty printed 1 It is nearly as if they painted her blushes. You must be aware after this, with what officiousness they give you the name and the catalogue of the works of such or such, who has never given any thing hut under the veil of anonym a; and who, in the obscurity of her name, consoles herself a little, perhaps “for that of her work. * * * What a charming noise such a work as this would have made in Madame de Sevigne’s time! * * * It is true that, during the current year a thousand and six productions have appealed, and that we have about an hundred arid fifty liv ing female authors. * * * FROM THE DARTMOUTH GAZETTE. Quid staffs? Nolint; atque licet esse beatis.—Hor. Neither riches, honours, nor applause, can pur chase true enjoyment; it is above price, yet it is free for all: we have only to open the door, and the smiling form enters, brightening and cheering all within. Although happiness is thus easily ob tained, although it solicits admittance to every heart, many are complaining of their wretched ness, or envying the seemingly happy condition of others. Envy is a viper that preys upon the sonl. Whenever it enters the breast, farewell to al! the. tender feelings of friendship, all the nobler enjoyments of the present, and all the pleasing prospects of futurity. Such as cherish this se cret, this deadly poison, are truly unwilling to be. happy. ' • Religion is a fountain of enjoyment which ne ver fads. Had the man of pleasure, the coxcomb, or the coquette, ever tasted of this fountain, all other enjoyments would become insipid. Reli gion elevates the soul, disarms the king of ter rors, and, while it heightens present enjoyment, conducts the imagination forward beyond the veil ot time to scenes of peace, innocence, and love. It sweetens friendship, and it strews flow ers in the paths of its possessors. The passions, arid other objects, may indeed prevent its effica cy, as clouds ami vapours mav obscure the sun; but it neither admits diminution nor change. Religion ever wears a smile. But the glooms ot Atheism destroy the sweetest pleasures of life. M here is the Athicst’s hope? where his joyful prospects of futurity ? Alas! He knows them not, even in imagination. A dark, cloud hovers over him. The thoughts of God crowd upon his mind: again he drives them from him and shuns their approach, as the awful monitors which warm hiir ol his ruin. Not so with the friends? of religion. Wher ever nature smiles, it smiles fori them. Are any happy, they rejoice. Are any in prosperity, they enjoy the same—ln adversity, thev acknow ledge the hand of God unseen through the veil of mortality. “ As the eye Bears w itness to the light, or the charm’d ear To tuneful undulation; so the hearts Strikes unison to the great law of love, And prove their goodness all divine.” ANECDOTE. A tradesman pressing a gentleman very much for payment of his bill, the latter said “You need not be in so great a hurry, I am not going to run away.” “ I do not imagine you are, Sir,” returned the tradesman, “ but lam'.' ” THE S VICIDE.—h FRAGMENT. '-f******’Twas night; a solemn 'silence perva* ■ ded the. earth, the winds roared in hollow blasts, ■ while the troubled ocean dashed its loaming bil- • lows against the rocks, and reverberated in sounds ; the most tremendous: the sky was dark and trou ! bled, except when the moon emerged in all her ■ splendor from a heavy-cloud: not a star glittered in the firmament, but its r appearance foiboded a ? heavy storm, which the agitated fluttering of the • sea bird seemed also to prognosticate. I gazed around,and beheld, by the light of .Cyn thia (which at that moment shone with, uncom- ■ mon lustre,) a tall, elegantly formed, young man; his head was uncovered, and his hair loosely : on his shoulders: he stood on the brink of the precipice. I approached him, he saw me not. ‘ Great God !’ in a voice so soft that it. melted me into tears, while he appeared to choke articula tion, ‘ pity the unfortunate wretch now before thee, pardon the act 1 am about to commit, and forgive, oh, forgive, the author of my miseries! Ah, Emma! How have I implored your pity! Yet to all my entreaties you have remained in exorable, and drive me to endless ruin, and the abyss of eternal misery; yet ’tis for thee alone I wish to live.’—At this moment the painfulness of the, recollection seemed too much: he he sitated, then franticly exclaimed—•« Coward heart! wouldst thou live the object of her scorn? No, • rather die!’ : —Then, raising his arms he loudly ■ exclaimed,- —‘ Ah. Emma! in a few moments the heart that ever beat for thee alone, ‘ will beat no more. In the cold grave, the blest assylum of the wretched, I shall repose, the victim of injus tice and ambition. Some happier object; I trust, will possess thy love, more ennobled by the gifts of fortune, than the poor deserted object Henry. But I have a soul’—and here his voice assumed the tone of self applause— ‘ noble as thine : an other lingering moment, and Henry will never blast thy sight; he does not fear death, but dares to meet it in the most horrid form.’ At this cri tical moment I approached and seized him by the hand ; his eyes rolled wildly, he gazed on me, while an enquiry of who I was, was bursting from his lips; but I interrupted him. ‘ Rash youth !’ cried I, ‘ forbear to meet thy God thus unprepar ed ; rather bless the hand that lengthens out the slender cord of life, than madly to enter into a world oft spirits.’ While speaking, he looked fiercely at me, snatched a poiniard h orn his bo som, which he plunged into his heart. The w ound was mortal: he fell, never to rise again. The crimson fluid issuing from his side, bedew ed my garments; his fine' athletic form became convulsed, a ghastly smile sat on his noble coun tenance, while drops of agony rolled down his cheeks : he fixed his dying eyes on me, pressed my hand with fervour, and inwardly exclaimed ‘ Farewell—mercy—Emma—farewell for ever !’ He gasped for breath ; nature was quite exhaust ed ; the feeble spark of life diminished fast; he groaned, sunk again to the ground, from which, while speaking, he had raised himself, and expir ed. I stood bending over him appalled with hor ror ; till, roused by a sense of my own situation, I returned home ruminating on “the melancholy event. On enquiry I found he was a youth o“f amiable manners, fascinating person, and pos sessing every requisite to make him a valuable member of society ; unable to brook disappoint ment, dared thus to terminate his existence, leaving his worthy parents inconsolable. PATHETIC. FROM THE SKETCHES OF NATURE. 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