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“[TauU THE PHILAUKI.rill* BATOltDAl CDUHIEH ]
TO MISS R. J.
g*e,where are thy fanciee, lliett beautiful one,
Whhaclieek like the ro*e,and on eye like tho aim;
Oh' whither are wandering those atray thought* of thine,
Xheu crealuro of Love, half of cnrtli, half divine I—
I’ll lay thee a wager, I know where thou art
I* fancy now roaming, ewcol queen of the heart I
tad where lh. young apirit again yearn* to be :
ji it nol.fairoat maiden,in bright Italy 7—
Though its skica lie o'er bright aa the Heaven* above thee,
Anil beneath them a heart that beam only lo low thee;
And etra that flaeh brightly but when thou nit nigh;
And a bosom that only lor thee lieavoa a aigli,—
Yet would*! thou for theac again croB* the broad waters,
Tbou brightest and fairest nf Baltimore's dutigliters,
Aad bounding o'er ocean'* broad
gty adieu “anna regret," to thy t
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8r
i nntivo shore ?—
of praise, a quiok, vivid blush would burn and fude
in her pure cite*It so suddenly that il Hauled him.
i frownod, the gru«b(;ful lip would quiver, nnd
tlio soft eye* close,fas if lo shin out some terrible
unu overwhelming spectacle.
At lust ho wearied of being kept so constantly
on the “ qui tive". Me tried to pursuade himself
llml lilt* lovely, innocent and affectionate wife was
n very unrrusottnblo person, a pulled and spoiled
child, whom ho ought, lor hor own sake, to discip.
lino a little. And so, gradually, ho bccumo caro.
less, and frequented his club, and grow fond of
gay purlins, and wilfully blinded himaolf lo Iho fact
that his Port was perishing of cold, nnd starving
for want of food, or, in other words, that hi* wifo’s
heart need sustenance and attention and care, quite
as much as iter physical frame. If “ the winds ol
Moaven should not visit” (lie latter “ too roughly,"
noilhur should the chilling blasts of neglect or tin.
kindness from horothor heaven, himself he suffer
ed lo full upon the former. But mon forget that
hearts can break, nnd that Peris were meant lo
fly.
In tho gay world he mot ono night a brilliant
and Impassioned creature, to whom he was, at hor
own request, introduced. Henrietta Hurley had
been in early life a worm hearted, generous and
guileless girl; but, disappointed in iter dearest
hopes, slio had becomo almost reckless of bur fu
ture fale. Sho was now, at twenty.five, a gny,
willy, cnpricious nnd captivating woman, who seem
ed to have but one object in life—excitement for
Iter rostloss mind—and that sho was determined lo
obtain at any cost.
Honrv Errington was just in lito mood to be
caught by this contrast lo his troubla at homo, and
he was soon u willing victim to the beautiful co-
quotte.
Tito slighted wife now nnd then caught an oclto
of the rumors which wero circulated concerning
litem ; but site resoiutoly shut her soiiscb, her heart
lo the fact, nnd would not doubt. What could
doubt have boen but death to one so constitulod ?
One day an anonymous letter was pul into liter
hand, by a person who hinted that it enclosed one
from her husband to the lady in question. With
rial as a dream of heaven, there was a superhu
man loveliness in the picture which might well
make us tremble. Suddenly, with a sharp, ago
nized dry, her husband sprang from his soat and
rushed loward her. The lorrible truth flashed up
on us all, Sho wnsdeud! Life had left her even
ns she stood " tho unobserved of all observers !”
Her husband took the inanimate form in his arms,
staggering beneath its light weight, in tho enfee
bling anguish of tho blow. The curtain fell, and
we saw hor no tnoru till we saw Iter in her shroud.
Dear, lovoly Florence Errington ! Thou wert
admitted sooner than tboy dreamed " bayond the
gate” where thou hadst stood "disconsolate I”
Tatliy siattr* and brother*, to thy home and thy mother.
Totha frii-nd* of thy youth, for tho aakoof unotlicr:
Lm»e alt tliou haat cjierialicd,—leave all thou host known,
For him, in whose lioarl, Love hue reared (ho ihrouv.7—
Or does lie hut live in thia fiincy of mine—
Aad ha* no one conquered that young heart of thine,
Ard art lliou aa freo, Ijnlll in feeling and heart,
Aa Hopa in my cur fondly whispora thou art 7—
] pause for thy answer,—nor pause I in vain:
Fur though 1 perceive thou art pensive again,—
Yet thy thoughts are not spanning tho emerald son—
They are not nf another,—oh! are they olmej
Philadelphia, IB45.Justus
MISCELLANEOUS.
[most graham's magazine tor February-!
FLORENCE ERRINGTON:
«• An o'er true Tale.”
BY FRANCIS 8. OSQOOD.
“ Ho entertained an angel unaware.”
“A story for Graham! Oh,Caroline ! you dark
eyed rogue-! you litllo Oriental beauty, ‘with sloop
in your eyo and passion in your heart!’ Oh, An
na! with your Siddons lip and glance of fire ! do
something ridiculous, or pathetic, or sublime, and
furnish mo malorial for a story ! You are oither
of you quite pretty enough to follow iho whispers
of your own sw- ct will. Do take compassion on
i poor itorylees author, and give tho reins to whim
■ad wonder forthwith 1”
Upon this hint, Anna dons nt onco a boy’s cap
and cloak, in which she looks bcwitchingly beauti
ful, springs into the street, and shouts at the top of
her rich, musical voico, just as the torch-light dem
ocratic procession turned tho corner—“Hurrah for
Harry Clay!” Three or four indignant boys
spring after her, but sho reached the shelter of tho
house in safety, and reappeared at the window,
beaming with smiles, and looking ns innocent and
unconscious as if she had never seen a cap or a
cloak in her life.
“But, Anna, that wont make n story !”
“Liston to me Fanny," said n friond, who had
orerhenrd my first pathetic adjuration—*• I cannot
do a story; but I will tell you ono. So just take
your pel seat on this tabourent nt my feet, and look
right up ir, my eyes, and leave off turning that rest-
less little head about in every direction, to sec what
other peoplo are doing, and for once listen quietly
sod patiently without interrupting mo ; and pray
don’t, as you usually do, burst into tears, when I
sipect you to smile, or laugh, and set every one
else laughing just when I think I have touched that
fickle,‘will-o-iho-whisp, heart of yours, that never
h *RfteC d ! Jo—an8 e l tfSM'WXl
then—I begin”—
The first time l saw little Florence Fearing she
presumed as lovely a picluro as tho imagination of
painter or poet evor couceived. Sho was leaning
orer the vine-covored Imlustrado of a bulcony, rest
ing one hund upon it, holding a pipe, and with the
other shading from tho sun Iter largo, light gray
•yes, in order lo gazo nftor a brilliant bubble which
she had just set floating ovorhend. Sho was the
NoitdolieMo, clhcrinl looking croature I ever sow.
Tho bubblo itself seemed Imrdly more frail or more
nssutiful. Tho inmost leaf of n while Province
“use has sometimes tho faint, soft coloring that
warmed her dolicate cheek ; but hor lips wore rod
*• ths wild wood-berry, nnd hor fair hair, of the
•wy pnilest goldon hue, fell round her snowy shoul
ders like a veil woven of tho starlight. So light,
•°pure,sn airily gracoful did *he look, that I al
most trembled lust she should suddenly spread u
f*if of hitherto invisible wings and vanish from my
gsze.
But the bubble burst, and little Florence Btarted
,B d let full the pipe ; it lay shivored at her feet,
*cd the child flew in tears, to confide her first grief
10 her mother.
Ah, Florence ! many a radiant hopo, in after
kts.tent thy heart into tho sunny world—beautiful
•cd frail as ihnt souring “ circlet of light”—was
“Siloed like that to tlio !
She grow up lovely, loving and beloved ; but still
iJJlendcr and so dclicato, that'nil who saw her
f**“' e d- At the age of seventeen she was wed-
d to tho man of her choice. Henry Errington
I .pH handsome, t n tel loot ual and affectionate,
I |[| pS* 1 too much a man of the world to be o sull-
I a V lu, fi a od for hor. He rogarded his wife with
1 dnoaiond admiration ; but sho was fur too pure
,er '»l, too finely organized for his regular tom
I Ho did not know what to make of the
Wm**' 1 * fni e i| i»y. Iho timid sensitiveness of the
in?' Ur ° Cun( i ,led 10 hi* keeping; ho had wooed
j j won anti wedded the fir*t being that caught hi*
, “yi and now that tlio plaything wn* ull his own,
n “t toll wlint to do with it. If ho had
Us * *' er ' an< * ca 6 ed her ho could hardly have
I n mote at a |o»*. Evory flutter of her epirit’s
| j/d'^ghtened Itini.a* that of the Pori’s would.
I fiat j lc,r " in li,ne * b y conilant »tudy, how to
I »« „ e AkAe hi* dninly captive spirit ; but tltorc
1 'tntnorlal yearnings,” to which lie could
* •' "iini.ter.
or mo m,n *y *°' c ® took unconsciously n colder
IW n»i^A* r8 * 0 "* lone ' , * 10 * 8 8 ro# * 8 r »y «y<>* wou ' d
I liao'^L •’^•dit’B'yi imploringly to his, alowly fil-
” *nn“unbidden tears." If lie breathed • word
flash itt her oyo unwonted there, and a curvo of
disdain on hor beautiful lip, site tore the packet
scaled as it was, into atoms, and flung thorn from
tlio window whore she stood.
But the poor child was destined, in spito of her
self, to know all that she dreaded but to dream.
At a birtli.doy/e/e givon at tho country-seat of
one of llieir friends, Floronco was wandering alone
through the grounds when site suddenly heard the
voico of her husband in n shaded walk close by.
“ My own beautiful Henrietta !” it passionately be
gan. Florenco would not for worlds have hoard a-
nothor sylable. She glided swiftly away by the near
est path, nod locking herself into iter chamber and
gavo way to a wild and long suppressed burst of
fooling, so violent that hor frail frame shook be
neath it, like a flower in an autumn storm.
Site never betrayed by word or sign the cause of
tho intense suffering which from that hour was vis
ible in every look. It wasonly by Iter ptivatejour
nttl that tile tarriblo secret was long afterward re
vealed. But, Huy after day tlio faint color puled in
iter youthful cheek ; day by day tho spiritual eves
grew more spiritual, and the slight form wore away.
Yet she was still exquisitely fair and graceful, and
her husband, proud of the wonderful and unearthly
loveliness which attracted ail eyes, and thinking
that site needed excitomont urged Iter into society,
for which she was little fitted to exert herself.
Ignorant that she was aware of his heart’s ttans-
cient fidelity, he did not think it necessary or ben
eficial to tell her lie had broken with tho brilliant
nnd dangerous woman who had so lightly lued him
his allegiance ; but he was now devoted to his ev
idently suffering wife. The sight of that patient
suffering, by touching his pity, Imd nwakoned his
love, and he watched over Iter as fondly und ten
derly as a mother over Iter first born babe:
But the shaft had flown and could not be recalled,
tho heart was breaking silently, yet surely, and the
purn spirit within was already pluming its wings
for a flight through etornity.
One night, reluctantly yielding to his wish, which
she never dreamed of disputing, site had consented
to take part in somo tableaux, which was to be rep.
resented at their own house; Florence Imd all day
a presentiment that some awful event was about to
happen, and as evening approached, site grow more
nnd more timid md nervous, nnd would have given
worlds to havo lain hor weary head on her hus
band's bosom in poacc and quiet—to have told him
once more how fondly, how dearly sho loved him
—to have lhankod him for his tender care, and
slept or died she scarcely cared which ; but site had
not strength to reason with him upon her fears,
and so she allowod herself to bo dressed liko a vic
tim tor tno saermuu.
Slio was lo appear in the Inst tubleuux as the l’cri
at tlio gate of Paradise, and in tlio otto immediately
preceding, Henrietta llarley was to personate
Cleopatra at hor toilet, nltirod by Clmrmion and
Iris.
A brilliant and fathionnble circle of which I was
one, had assembled to witness tho tableaux, and all
had now been represented but tlio two last.
The curtain suddenly rising rovealed the gorge
ous chamber of the Egyptian queen, and gloriously
did the Henrietta personate tho character.
Arrayed in a rich undress, site lay luxuriously
pillowed on a splendid couch, with hor rich black
hair unbound and partly gathered in tlio hands of a
dark but beautiful girl who was braiding it with
jewels, while another knoll by tlio couch und tied
the sandal on a foot of exquisite proportions. Mag.
nificont drapery, flowers and gems were lavished in
rich profusion around, and tile whole scone was
redolent of beauty, grace and splendor.
••The rare Egyptian" lay in an attitude of charm,
ing languor. Her dark eloquent eyes, wltero love
seemed to be drouming, were half closod. Her
full crimson lips were partod slightly, and her clenr
brown cheek, « most passionately pale,” was pil
lowed on an arm round nnd gvnceful as that of Ju.
no. But tho lightly veiled bosom wus seen to
lienvo, and, or tho first symptom of rosllossncsi on
the part of the performer had boon agreed upon as
the signal for dropping tho curtain, tho rudieut vis
jon vanished from our view.
Again the curtain rose. The whole stage was
in profound darkness, except just in the centre
whore a flood of rosy light from somo invisible
source illumined a shape, thul I hold my breath to
ace. Attired in a transparent, flowing robe, with
drooping wings and bunds clasped languidly be
fore hor, whilo hor fair shining hair fell waiving lo
her waist—the graceful l’eri leaned against what
seemed to bo a cloud, bending her head and listen,
ing with Iter largo lustrous eyes upturned as if in
wondering rapture, wltiio a strain of low delicious
melody rose softly on tho air and died away, and
came again and went till our very souls came and
„o..t with it almost ! Never lo my dving day
shall I forget that thrilling moment / lou could
have heard your heart heal, so profound, so wrapt
was tho stillness that prevailed. But at last delight
and wonder changed to awe, *o motionless, so slat
ue. liko she seemed ! Not a breath—not a sigh
[from THE court JOURNAL.]
CLUED AND SUNSHINE.
What a fuss have people made about the Pleiad ;
ns if the ubsenco of one star could impair the glo
ry of Heaven, Who, on a clear night, thinks the
firmament wants lustre? Yet havo men passed
ull its brightness by to look for ono pale spangle,
which attracted the gazo of poets and astronomers
of old. Thus it is with tlio tilings of heaven and
earth, that what is lost to us becomes of greater
value and importance.
The world of fashion was in dospoir when lady
Normnnvillo suddonly shot from hor glittering.
So lovely, nublo, wealthy nnd admired, what could
ha her motive for quitting London in May? Say,
there wuro whispers against Iter reputation, could
slie not afford to slight them? Was it necessary
she should lose tho delights of a London season—
tho triuinpii of conquest—tlio incense of adulation
—the breath of worship—the enjoyment of all the
world can show luxury and splendor, because ft
light cloud, which slio might have laughed away,
began lo collect about her name ? How absurd to
think of burying herself ut Dresdon, because her
husband had taken up witlt a passion of diplomacy.
Why, it was reasoned in tlio lightest and gravest
circles, might situ not seek pleasure in iter own
way, as her eccentric lord was bent on pursuing it
in his I Sho was formed for society; ail her
friends declared slio could not live without it.
Had site not departed so hastily, thoy would assur
edly have prevented lier making so great a sacri
fice. What was a husband in comparison with St.
James’s, Almack’s, the Opera, tho brilliant fetes,
tlio delicious excitement, tlio ovor-varying round of
delightful dissipation that courted hor presonco in
town ; and when the Emperor, loo, the most mag
nificent monarch of his age, came to heighten the
fustivities of tlio Court, and increase the lustre of
the innermost orbit of it.
All this wondor was soon changed to pity. The
tnelunclioly truth was disclosed before Lady Nor-
mativillo had left town a week. Ruin had over
whelmed hor noble house- Tito estates were mort
gaged, and tlie debate tvero enormous. Horses,
plate, carriages, furniture, jcwols even, must como
to tile hummer. All the treasures collected with so
much cost and care must bo dispersed—to bo sold
without reserve. Tho auctioneer was a happy
man ; he could never adequately express his satis
faction at the honor conferred npon him. This
wreck of a princely fortune was to him as perfect
ly providential as a flaw in a will seems to a hungry
proctor, or tho death of a monarch to the court
undertaker. He catalogued tho costly articlos of
art and virtue with the same pleasure that the ono
files uflidavits, and the oilier chases coffin handlos.
Poor Lady Nnrmanville ! No ono could men
tion her name without the raising of oyes nnd the
clasping of hands, with a desperate expression of
sympathy • Some had fotesaen in what such a ca
reer of extravagance must eud; but still they
could not help pitying her. Such a change—to
fall from such a height, and to fall so low. Every
ono pitied her , tlio feuling became as general as
influenza. Pity was tlio prevailing epidemic for a
fortnight at least. It extuuded to the servants’ hall,
and beginning with butlers and ladies’ maids, end-
ed at last by even footmen and scullions exclaiming
‘Poor tiling !’
Tlio luxurious and indolont lady of Ilallingdon
House, as slio reclined on a piie of eider-down
cushions, said quite utmfl'eciodly, 'How dreadful it
must bo to live in a German liouso, with sofas and
cliuirs stuffed as hard und us shitting as un oaken
floor-’
‘And worse still,' broke in a fnir epicure ; ‘think
of the misery of a German cuisine, with every dish
smothered in groaso and gnrlic !’
‘How horrible ! No balls, and early hours,’ ad-
ded a young benuty in Iter first season.
•1 do not know how people can live without com
pany,’ said an experienced coquette, who had been
(lie cuuso of a couple of duels und half a dozeu
separations.
A lovely young Amazon, in hat and habit, with
eyes sparkling and cheeks glowing with animation,
. ...j, »’- • - c. „ii h or beautiful hors
es are to be sold. 1 am sure that worn* >--o a u mu
heart. ™
/Ah !’ sighed they all, intimating that Lady Nor-
manvillu’s tinluro must bo of a very stony kind,
und quite different from their own.
‘Well,’said the Lydia Languish of tho party, in
tho tone of a judge, who having summed up a-
guinst a prisoner, points to the wretchedness as a
warning to criminals—‘well after all, 1 will say
sho i* much to be piliud.’
satioB* that art continually rising in its heart. 'Thus
fbr a time they will laugh, play with and tulk to
each-ether, till at last the mother presses the child
to hor breast, imprints her lips upon its brow, ap
plies to it evory term of endearment, and. shakes
her liund sbovo its lively features. Tho infant
laughs, perhaps stretches out its little hands, and
thon there i*nn outburst of delight half stifled in
blandfshmcnts.
For the moment that child was all the world to
Lady iNormanville. She did not see standing op.
positc lo Iter the mild and benevolent face of tho
good tiurso beaming with satisfaction. Slio did not
see tha t hor lord leant above her with features re
flecting; the happiness of her own. Twice had he
to (ouch her sltouldor before sho looked up, and
than lie- said with pleasant irony,
•This is it dull life for you, Caroiino.’
'Dull! you are jesting, 1 know. But I will not
Itnvo you jest onsucit subjects. Look, does she not
grow n purfocl nngcl ?’
For aver blessed be the bonds that unite the past
with tho prcsonl, and bind nil tlio generations of
mao into one great family. With the self-same
feeling that Hector took his child from Andro
mnebo’s arms, when Troy was an Empire, nnd tho
forces of tho Greeks besciged it, Lord Norman
villu tenderly took tlio bubo and brought its cherub
liko lips, before lie consigned it lo tlio care of the
ready nurse. She withdrew and the noble pair
stepped from the window into the open air of tho
balcony.
‘And do you really forgivo me, lovo, for having
brought you to this retirement ? Roared in splen-
dor.can you be content with a life so quiet and hum
ble V
‘Content!’ she answorod, ‘is not that too poor a
word to express what I have felt since I had tho
courage to escape from a false position 7 Charles,
before I came here, for two years I never know
ono easy mnmont.’
‘Wiiiit„nol nt that foie of Queens, of which I
heard so- glowing nn account, and where you reign
ed chief stnrof tho night?’
•1 knew nothing of puro joy there. Somo min
utes of feverish excitement 1 lasted, which made
my pulses beat quicker ; but how unspeakably bit
ter was tlio penally I paid—how dreudful tile blight
that sottlcd on my ntnne—how agonizing tlio per
secutions of that bad man, who boasted that lie iiotd
my reputaiion, like my jewels, in his power, I dwelt
then on tlio e.lgo of an abyss; and now, Charles,
standing hero in tlio g!ud sunshine, feeling thy
Iteart boat calmly beneath my hand, I look back lo
that time of peril and anxiety as one does to the
hour when in sleep walked to tlio edge of a preci
pice, and woko at tho instant llint another forward
step would Imvo plunged us into the chasm below.’
•Yat to mo, Caroline, your faith never wavered,
though I was the cause of ail your sufferings.’
‘Oil ! never, never; it tvas our mutual lovo that
sustained mo. But think how dreadful to live al
ways in tlio fear of exposure, to have calls made
upon my purse I could not moot, yet dared nut re
fuse ; often to havo at my sidu a living uimess of
my disgruco ; to hear taunts hurled ut others which
I knew applied with tenfold greater bitterness
to myself; nnd, nt last, to have my fame as
sailed, the motives of my economy misrepresented.
But now let us think of tliul as a dream, and speak
of other things.’
‘Yet, tell mo truly, nre you happy now ?’
'Must 1 in very sooth reveal all my thoughts to
t y°u V
•Yob, for once I must he mastor of your mind
as you tell me 1 am of your heart.’
‘Then I must avow 1 have one cause of unessi.
ness.’
‘That I can remove ?
‘Nay, that I know not. It is this. Lntcly I have
observed a cloud upon your brow. You rise ear
ly ; you are tit your desk constantly; 1 seo signs
of impatience and caro upon your features, when
you think I do not nolo you. You are troubled even
in sleep. Something, I am certain, bus gone
wrong with you. The intricacies of diplomacy
arc new to you ; perhaps you havo been entangled
in them, and designing men havo taken advantage
of your open nature und clear honor. Is tlio uffuir
sodclicule that I cannot be trusted wilh it?’
‘Wliat, shall 1 bolruy to you slate secrets ! Say
I am vexed, dis ; no, disgraced I cannot lie
er without alloy ; if it were, »e might becomo too
soft aad ductilo for it* duties,’
‘Oil there ia no alloy in moments of happinoss
liko this. 1 never foil so blest as in this hour.—
What can those want who possess the most pre
cious gifts of Heaven—love and honor V
Upon that scene of exquisite pleasure it is fit
that the curtain should fail. Umota.
iPAIN—Her rower and Declluc.
BY MACAULEY.
but overreached. Shall 1 be easier bccauio my
wife knows my simplicity V
‘It is then us I feared. You are too honest to
be a match for those old statesmen.
‘Hush ! my love, I used to think ns you do, that
diplomacy was n game of croft and cunning
am now wiser; in my intercourse with tlio minis
ters of all but onc9tute, witlt which in truth, 1 have
had but little to do, 1 have found only Ilia most open
candor, the purest honor. If I have failed it must
be from iny own luck of ability, and not from un
fair opposition, not even from want of generous us-
■dstance.’
‘ rt *i will you not loll mo the causo of your un -
easinoss i y ou j 0 no( f oar t0 {rust vour m j m |
with tho impression, 0 f y 0 ur eyo. My soul shall
be as secret as you, nwn.’
‘Well, I will be more 0 |“-u to you than Hotspur
was with his Ivato, though, indeed, if tho vexatious
ftflair was not closed, I could not trust it oven to
The scntonco was chorused witli unanimous op- I your onr. A dispute, disastrous, perplexing, nris.
It was too perfect ! almost painfully *o. We
loused to speak and hid Iter move! No I—all I
tho vision remained, without the .lightest percept.-
bl V«ihed!u that pale, ro.y light,eoft, radiunt, ao.
proval—‘Yes, she’s much lo bo pitied.'
How false are often tlio world’s verdicts, and
tho world’s estimates of felicity. Splendor is not
joy. The circling coronet, that Aashos radiance
abioad, is known to tlio wunrer only by its pressure
on the brain. Act ns wo will, our existence must
still be passed within ourselves. Tho soul of cacti
being must be the fountain which gives to tho wa
ters of life llieirsweet or hitler flavor. Great but
neglected truth ! when will mankind be wise en
ough lu nourish it within their breast ?
In a room, large and lofty, but very scantily fur
nished.and utterly destitute of luxuries, sut tho much
pitied Lady Normnnvillo. '1 hero was not much
to attract attention within, hut without all was sun
shine and clicorfulness. The houses in viow wore
large enougli to lodge the generations of a family,
from the groat-great grand-parents downwards.
When in tlio distanco you caught a view of the
street, you could see tlic people were not too busy
lo greet each other us thoy passed, nor too affect-
od to print on well-loved cheeks a loving kiss. Tho
men did not look worn by toil and anxiety, nor tlio
women faded by caro and confinement. Each face,
however humble, wore an air of content. A Lon
doner meeting them would at onco have said, ‘These
people ore not in haste to be rich :’ nor wore thoy ;
tor they thought life Imd other objects than woalth.
Farther off was n sweet country. Over moun
tains and plains swept the pure air, entering that
room witii a grateful rustle through the screen of
flowers and plants that shaded the window. Lady
Normunville held a child in her arms. Sometimes
they looked at each other in silence, and then broke
nut into romping play. Surely there U ft language
of the eye* winch only mothers know : they .peak
with ilto llieir offspring before words are under-
stood* The child, witli it. large, clear and beau
tiful orb*, answers to its mother', joy and careue.-
When together they are huahed in (ilence.and Mem
perfectly, etill, their eye. meet with glance, of in
telligence ; the mother’e .oft and liquid with holy
love, the Infant’, aparkling with the joy of axl.t-
ence, and the ptouurc. of the new and .went mo-
g out of family matters, and involving all the
northern courts, was referred to for an opinion, as
the representative here of England. Hud tho
question, Caroline, been one of territory or of debt,
a clear mind might soon have fathomed its intrica
cies, and have come to a just decision ; but here
wore delicate considerations of personal honor to
bo adjusted ; I had lo reconcile opposing feelings,
which are much more difficult losootho than inter
ests. At evory stop 1 took toadjust this quarrel,some
now and unexpected difficulty rose up before me.
My reputation, 1 saw, depended on my conduct of
tills dcllcute aituil , auU ) - 1 wet-aim# i.w|—i- —«- -
successful result. In prospect, 1 saw all my hopes
ot eminence in diplomacy blasted, while I had to
itbor unceasingly, and to keep up a correspond-
enco wilh half-u-d<>zen different cabinets, expect
ing eacli hour somo angry answer, which would
Lave rendored my toil worse than fruitless, because
il would Imvo thrown discredit on my skill. Can
you wonder I was uneasy ? Had 1 not a thankless
office to fulfil ?’
‘You had indcod ! And the result—that has
bsen unfortunate ?’
‘Read!’
He handed her a despatch received that morn-
iig. It was an autograph letter from tlio Empe
ror of Austria, expressing in tlio strongest terms
his higli sense of the eminent zaai, talents, and
honorable feeling Lord Normanville had shown in
bringing a most difficult and complicated question
to an arrangement ontiroly satisfactory lo all par
ties concerned. In this letter, too, there were ex
pressions of personal esteem and regard for his
iord.I.ip’s high character, firmness, and pure sense
of justice, a. well as of respect for hi. ability and
hi. services. It was accompanied with the highest
decoration of the empire.
The lady’s eyes filled with tear.—tears of deli
cious joy, a. she read this tribute lo her loved hue-
band’s worth. They clasped each other in a dear
embrace.
'I em afraid,Caroiino,’ said he, ‘that your Lon
don friends will pity you, Tito gold of life is nov-
Wbocver wishos to be well acquainted with the
morbid anatomy of governments, whoever wishes
to know how great Stales may be made feeble and
n retched, should study the history of Spiin, The
empiro of i’hilip the Second was undoubtedly ono
of the most powerful and splendid that ever exist,
od in tlio world. In Europe, he ruled Spain, Por
tugal, tlio Netherlands on both sides of tho Rhine,
Franche Comte, Roussilon, the Milanese; and the
Two Spains, Tuscany, Parma, nnd the other small
States of Italy, wore as completely dependent on
him as tlio Nizam und the Rajah of Berar now aro
on the East India Company. In Asm, the King of
Spain was master of the PhilUpines, und of ull tbe
rich settlements which tho Portuguese had mutlo
on the coasts of Mafnltor and Coromandel,in tlio
Poninsula of Malacca, and the Spice Islands of the
Eastern Archipelago. In America his dominions
extended on each sido of the equator to the tem
perate zone.—There is reason to believe that his
annual revenue amounted, in tho season of his
groatest power, to four millions sterling—a sum
eight times as large as that which Englund yielded
to Eliznbetli. Ho Imd a standing army of fifty
thousand troops, cxccllenltroops, at a timo when
England had not a single battalion in constant pay.
His ordinary naval force consisted of n hundred and
forty galleys. He held what no other prince in
modern limes has hold, iho dominion both of laud
nd of tlio sea. During iho greater part of his
reign he was supremo on botli elements. His sol
diers marched up to tho cnpitol of France, bis ships
menaced tlio shores of England.'
It is no axaggeralion to say, that during several
years, his power over Europe was greater than
ever that of Napoleon. The influence of the
French conqueror never extonded beyond low-wa
ter mark. The narrowest strait was to his power
what it was believed that a running stream was to
tho sorceries of a witch. While hi* army entered
overy metropolis from Moscow to Lisbon, the Eng
lish fleets blockaded every port from Dantzic lo
1'rioste. Sicily, Sardinia, Mnjorca, Guernsey, en*
joyed security through the whole course of a war,
which oudangerod every throno on tlio continent.—
The victorious and imperial nation which Imd filled
its museums with tlio spoils of Antwerp, of Flor
ence, and of Tome, was suffering painfully from
tho want of luxuries, which use had rendored neces
saries. While pillars and arches wero rising to
commemorate tlie French conquests, tho conquer
ors were trying to mako coffee out of succory, and
sugar out of boet-root. Tlio influence of Philip on
tlio continent was as great as that of Na
poleon* Tlie omperor of Germany was his kins
man.
France, torn by religious dissensions, was never
n formidable opponent and was a dependont ally.—
At the saino timo, Spain bad what Napoleon desir
ed in vain—ships, colonies and commcrco. She
long monopolized the trade of America ami the In-
diuu ocean. All the gold of the West, and all the
spices of the East, were received and distributed
by her. During many yours of war, hor com
merce was interrupted only lie tho predatory enter,
prises of a few roving privateers. Even after the
defeat of tho Armada, English statesmen continu
ed to look will) great dread on tlio maritime power
of Philip. “Tho King of Spain,’’ said tbe Lord
Keeper to the two Houses, in 1593, “since lie hath
usurped npon tho kingdom of Portugal, hath there
by grown mighty by guining tlio East Indies, so ns,
how great soever he was before, ho is now thereby
manifestly more great. lie keopeth a navy armed
to impeach all trade of merchandise from England,
Gascoigne and Guienne, which ho attempted lo do
last vintage ; so ns lie has now become ns a frontier
enemy to ull the West of England, ns well as all
tlie soutli parts, ns Sussox, Hampshire, and tho
Islo of Wight. Yes, by means of his inlorcsl in
St. Maloeg, a port full of shipping for the wsr, he
is a dangerous neighbor to the Quoen’s Isles of Jer
sey and Guernsey, ancient possessions of the crown,
and never conquered in tlie greatest wars wilh
France.’’
The ascendency which Spain thon had in Eu
rope was in ono sonso well deservod. It was an
ascendoucy which lind been gained bv unquestion
ed superiority, in nil tho arts of policy and war.—
In the sixleenth century, Italy was not more decid-
dly the laud of bold theological speculation, than
Spain wus tho land of statosmen ami soldiers'—
Tiie character which Virgil has ascribed to hi*
countrymen, might have been claimed by the grave
und haughty cluofs who surrounded tlio throne of
Ferdinand the Catholic, and of iiis immediate suc
cessors. That majestic art “premere imperio pop-
uloswas not better understood by tho Romans
in the proudest day* of their republic, thun by Gon-
salvo and Zimmcs,Cortes ami Alva.
The skill of tlio Spanish diplomatists was renown
ed throughout Europe. In England tlie name of
Gondomar is still remembered. Tlio sovereign
nation was unrivalled both in regular and irregulur
warfare. The impetuous chivalry of Franco, tile
serried plialanz of Switzerland wero alike found
wanting when brought face to face with the Span
ish infantry. In the wars of tlio Now World,
where something different from ordinary discipline
in tlie soldier—where it was every day necessary
to meet by some new expedient tlio varying taelics
of a barbarous enemy, the Spanish adventurers,
sprung from tlio common people, dnipluycd n fortil-
commnnd, to which history scarcely affords a par-
allel.
Tlie Castilian of tlioao times was to the Italian,
what the Roman in iho days of tin: greatness of
Rome was to tlie Greek- The conquerors bus less
ingenuity, loss taste, less delicacy of perception,
than the conqured ; but more pride, firmness, and
courage ; a more solemn demeanor, a stronger
souse of honor. The one had more subtlety in
speculation, tlie oilier more energy in action. The
vices of the one were those of a coward ; the
vices of tlie oilier were those of a tyrant. It may
bo added that tlie Spaniards, like tiic Romans, did
not disdain to study tlio arts and lauguugc of llioso
whom he oppressed. A revolution took place in
tlio literature of Spain, not unliku lo that revolution
which, as Horace tells us, took place in the poetry
of Lotium ; Capta Jaclum viclorcm cepit.’ Tlie
sieves took prisoner and enslaved. Tlio old Castil,
iau ballads gnve place to sonnet* in the style of
Pelrurch, and to heroic poem in tlio stanza of Ari
osto ; us tho national songs of Rome wero driven
out by imitations of Theocritus, and translations
from Menander.
In no modern society, not even in England dur
ing tho reign of Elizabeth, has there been so great
a number of men eminent at once in literature end
in the pursuits of active life, as Spain produced
during Iht sixteenth century. Almost every dis
tinguished writer was also distinguished as a sol-
1 dier and politician. Boscan bore arms with high
reputation,
tho awtofoat aad
modem Oniae, after Wshort M ,
career* fell eword hi bond at tbe hMpflRP
party Afoaso da Braille bore «
pari.lo that war of Araueo, "* ‘
celebrated in tbe best tx
produced, liortado da
bare bead compared to thoea of
whose charming little novel la
model of JSII BJaa, ha* been
to ut by history a* one of the ster
proconsuls, who were employed
Austria to crush the lingering pt
iy. Lope Miled io tba Armada t Cervantes we*
woundod at Lepanto.
It is curious lo consider with how rnnab awe ear
ancestor* in those limes regarded a Bpaatawl. fie
was, in their apprehension*, a bind of dawion* hor*
ribly malevolent, but withal moat Mgaeloo* aod
powerful, “They be verye wysa aad politick#,”
says an honest Englishman, in a memorial addraaa
to Mtry, “nnd can thrown theyr wysdorae, reforms
and bridell theyr owne natyves fbr a tyme, aod ap,
plye theyr conditions to the manners of thoo* men
with whom they meddel gladlye of friendthippe ;
whose mischievous manners a man shall never
know vntil he come voder the svbjectioo ; bvt then
shall he perfectly# pareyve and tale them ; which
thynge I prays God England never do; for ia die-
simvlation vntil they hare theyr pvrpoias aad af
terwards in oppression tiri tyranny a, when they
can obtayne them, they do exceed all other nations
vpon the eanhe.
This is juet such language as Arminiu* would
have used about the Romans, or um as Indian
■talesmen, of our times, would um about the Eng
lish. It is the language of a man horning with
hatred, but cowed by thoM whom h* hates ; and
painfully sensible of their superiority, not only ia
power, but io intelligence.
But I vow art thou fallen from Heaven, oh Luci
fer, son of tlie morning ? How art thoU'CUt down t»
the ground, that didst weaken the nations ! If wo
overleap a hundred yeari, and look at Spain to*
wards tlio close of the seventeenth century, whet
a change do we find ! The contrast b as great aa
that which the Rome of Gallienue and Honoriou*
presents to tlie Rome of Mnrius and Csaiar. For
eign conquest has begun to oat into every part of
tlio gigantic monarchy on which the sun never set.
Holland wus gone, and Portugal, and Artois, and
Roussilon, and Franche Comte. In the East, the
empire founded by tho Dutch, far surpassed
in wealth and splendor, that which their old tyrants
still retained. In the West, England had seiMd
nmliattll hftlrl aAMlnmAiila in ihn mirtal nf fba May!.
and still held settlements in the midst of the Mexi
can soa. The mere loss of territory was however
of little moment. The reluctant obedience of dis
tant provinces generally costs more than it is
worth. '
Empires that branch out widely are often morn
flourishing for a little timely pruning. Adrian
acted judiciously when ho abandoned the conquest
ofTrujati. England was never so rich, so great,
so formidable to foreign princes, so absolutely mis
tress of tlie sea, as after the loss of Ivor American
colonies. Tlie Spanish empire wa» etill, in out-
vurd appearance, great and magnificent. The
European dominions, subject to the last feeble
Prince of the House of Austria,' was for more ex
tensive than those of Louis XIV- Tbe American
dependencies of the Castilian crown still extended
to tlie north of Cancer and to the south of Capri
corn. But within this immense body there was an
incurable decay, an utter want of tone, an utter
prostration of strength. An ingenious and diligent
population, ominently skilled inarta and manufac
tures, had been driven into exile by stupid and re
morseless bigots. Tho glory of the Spanish pen
cil had departed with Velasquez and Murailo.—
The splendid age of Spanish literature had cioMd
with Do Solis and Calderon. During the seven-
teentii contury, many States had formed great mil
itary establishments. But tbo Spanish army, so
formidable under the command of Alva and Far-
nese, hud dwindled away to a few thousand men, ill
paid and ill disciplined. England, Holland and
France, had great, navies. But the Spanish navy
was scarcely equal to that mighty force which, in
tlio timo of Philip iho Second, had been the terror
of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The ar-
soiirIh were deserted. The magazines wore un
provided. The frontier fortresses were ungarri-
soned. Tlio police was utterly insufficient for the
protection of the people. Murders were committ
ed in tho lace of day wilh perfect impunity. Bra-
vocs and discarded serving men with swords at
their Bidos, swaggerod ovory day through the most
public stroels and squares of the capital, disturbing
tlie peace nnd setting at defiance the ministers of
justice. Tlie finances were in frightful disorder.
Tlie people paid much. The Government receiv
ed little. The American viceroys and the farmers
of tlie revenue became rich, while the merchants
broke, while the peasantry starvod, while body
servants of tlie sovereigns remained unpaid, while
the soldiers of the royal guard repaired daily to the
doors of convents, ana battled there wilh the
crowd of beggars for aporringer of broth and a mor
sel of bread. Every remedy which was tried eg-
gruvnted the disease. The currency was altorcd
and this frantic measure produced ilk nover-fad.
ing effects. It destroyed all credit and increased
tlio misery which it was intended to relieve. The
American gold, lo use the words of Ortiz, was to
tlio necessities of the State, what a drop of water
would bo to the lips of a man raging with thirst.—
Henp* of unopened despatches accumulated in the
ofliccs.wliilstthc ministers were concerting wilh bed.
chamber women and Jesuits the means of tripping up a
each other. Every foreign power could plunder
and insult witlt impunity the heir of Charles tbe
Fifth. Into such a state had the mighty kingdom
of Spain fallen while one of its smallest dependen
cies—a country not to largo a* the province of
Kstrcuitidurn or Andelusia, situated under an incle
ment sky, and preserved only by artificial meant
from tlie inroads of the ocean—had become a pow
er ol tlie first class, and treated on terms of equal
ity witli the courts of London nnd Versailles.
Sydney Rigdon, one of the Mormon ‘Elders, who
line separated from “the Saints,” and commenced
the publication of a magazine at Pittsburg, makes
some terrible disclosures in tlie January number of
bis periodical. The brothorhood of fanatics have,
according to his account of tlie matter, been even
tnoro siecpcd in guilt of the most loathsome char-
uctqr than thoy havo heretofore been charged with,
wero upon a scale of almost unbounded licentious
ness. Pol} gamy of more than Turkish liberality
bus obtained, not only among the denizens of the
holy city itself, but the “tairitual wife” system has
extonded to all tho branches of the brotherhood.—
Tlio Saints in this city, Philadelphia, Boston, dec.,
havo nil been called upon to practice its rules lo
iinmenso extent, and whenever any reluetance has
manifested itself—any scruples or remonstrances
urged against this foul and revalting system—they
havo been silenced by the thunders of authority,
and the disgusting practices enforced without mer
cy ! Every ono, says Elder Rigdon, “who was
known lo bo opposed to this system, if he or she
could not bo won over or mads to auccumb bv
thrents, was excluded, and their characters assail,
od in a most outrageous manuer, in order to destroy
llieir influence, that their testimony might not Im
believed.” Sucli disclosure* at this will have no
effect, we suppose, in breaking up th#M nests of
polution ; but they will go on, people will still run
after those creatures, and it will still be considered
“persecution” to apeak of them as they deserv*;
nay, altogether inconsistent wilh the fspirit of the
nineteenth century” to punish them for their abom
inations ; though we think, a* it Moms to us, every
high minded man and woman in the country will
think, that th*M atrocious sinoan should at one*
be made to answer before tho legal tribunal* for
their transgression*. If this Sydney Rigdon knotet
what be charges upon tbe Mormon*, be ought to bo