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MISCELLAITEOUS.
an excellent dinner, and wal not at
all depressed; Because tile more.Ire
lost, the more his couragfi*
source seemed to
he had li
The Bpron was least Changed. Tom a bittle-fleld, and orrtamerited at its
crirts wm base with carvings of arms and fes-
novr I
its fr
mined
At
thousand pounds. "AfTaitS
to he serious. Hi| i
hearty. While trie’
ing he walked about
began to limit his a
ry, and’not to gain,
to »i» back, the fod l:
nothing to recompense
bodily tortures arid you
seems to your cowed midd
On they played, and the Dulteliirt
more. His mind was jaded." -He
flouoder.ed—he made desperate *ef-
orts, but piimged deeper in the slough*
Feeling that, to regain his ground,
each card must tell, he acted on
each as if it must win, and the con
sequences of this insanity (tor a
gamester at Such a crisis, w really in
sane,) were that his losses were pro*
digious.
Immense as this loffT^as, he was
more struck,—more appalled-, fat me
say,—at the straugenss of thb Sur
rounding scene, than even by his own
ruin. As h® looked upo%bis fellow
gamesters, he seemed for the first
time in his lifi
those hideo;
read. He
himseH^
The following powerfully sketched
f ambling scene is from the Young
)uke, a new novel, by the Ai^tjor of
Vivan Grey.
The young Duke had
the invitation of the Baron dql _ _
cm for tomorrow, and acdbjilingly
himself Lbrds Castle fort ana Dice,
and Temple Grace, assembled in
Brunswick Terrace at the usual ltbur.
The dinner was studiously plain,: and
very little winb wasfirunk; yd! every
thing was perfects Tom Copt step
ped in to carvev in hfaos«wl.«ilent
manner. , He afw#y# came to and
i.rly to T.«j>le %«.!«*«#
presumed to bow to the Duke. He
was very busy about, dhe wine, and
dressed the wild fowl in ‘a manner
quite unparalleled* Tab® C^git wafc
the man Air a sauce for a brown,.bird.
What a mystery he made of it!
Cayenne, and Burgundy, and limes
were ingredients, but there Was a ma
gic in the incantation, with which he
alone was acquainted. He took par
ticular care to send a most perfect
portion to the jejmg puke, and he
did this, Mhh paid all attentions to
influental at rangers, with the most
marked consciousness” of the suffer
ance which permitted hi$.j|yesence:
never addressing his Grtce, out audi
bly whispering to the Servants.
‘Take this to the Duke;’ or asking
the attendant, ‘whether His Grace,
would try the hermitage?’ .
After dinner, with the exception of
Cogi k , who was busied in compound
ing some wonderful liquid for the fu
ture refreshment, they sat down to
Ecarte. Without having exchanged
a word upon the subject, there seem* ewce
ed a general understanding among all w
the parties, thayo night was to he a
pitched battle *and they begair at y
once, very briskly. Yet, in spite of
their u^faersal determination, mid-
Slight arrived without anything very
decisive. Another hoUfSpasAi over, t ^.^ r of youth,
ond then Tom Cogit kept fouchiag the t, e en marked upon his
BaronY elbotypaim a€*7-jmk<
•voice which every bedy could un
derstand. All this meant, that sup
per was ready. It was brought into
the room.
Gaming hat one advantage—U gives
you aij appetite; that, is iff: say, as
long as you have a chance remaining.
Tb® Duke had thousands,—tor at
present, his fO»ources were unimpair
ed, and he was exhaled by the
constant attention and anxiety ‘or ihve
hours. He passed Over the dei.ca'
ties, and went to the side table, and
began cutting himself home cold roast-
beef. Tom Cogit ran up, not to his
Grace; but. to Baron,‘to announce the
shocking fact, that the Duke of St.
James was enduring great trouble;
and then the Baron asked his’Grace
to permit Mr Cogit to terve him.
Our hero devoured—1 use the word
advisedly, as fools say in the House
of Commons—he devoured the roast
beef, pud rejecting the hermitage With
disgust, asked for porter.
They set to again, fresh as Eagles.
At six o’clock accounts were so com
plicated, that they stopped to make
up their books. Each played with
his memorandums and his pencils at
his side. Nothing fatal had yet hap
pened; The Duke owed Lord Dice
about five thousand pounds, and Tem
ple Grace owed him as .many hun
dreds; Lord Castlefort also was his
debtor, to, the tune of seven hundred
and fifty, and the Baron was in his
books, but slightly. Every half hour
they had a new pack of cards, and
threw the used one on the floor. All
this time, Tom CogU did : nothing but
toons of floWersi
- /Tlie 61# va t ion of the
Rock varies
"o perhaps;
Constantinople, which are so much,
prized by the Sulfun’s wiv^s,. that,
they arb usually called Beads of the
Haram. .These poor ladies, have sit
,t, that they sU, for
these beads, tfhrin
h their fingers. They-i
of the petals of the
picked, and pounded
paste id, an $011 vessel,
them quite black, owing
®o»-
,o
paste Is quite smooth, it is made up
little, balls, wfich are perfaratej,
or itrin^
far the shade
and then slovvlf
When hard, they
are
dw
in spite of th
[®d her reign
his revpgft,—
tyhd at the result .-‘-‘had
tWoirid; reebver: fr he pro*
^-Without noticing their «*«*
tnurks, he seated hinrtself at the fable,
andjvfote cheques for their reSpec-
fifri^iiflburitfeVTom Cogit jumping op'
and bringing him the inKtland. Lord
Cast lefort, in the most affectionate
manner, pocketed ‘head raft: at the
same time reccommeiimfig the, Duke
not to be in a hurry, but to Send it
whefi he Was cool. Lord pice re
ceived" .fife;" with a bow,—‘Temple
Grace, With a sigh,—the Boron, with
an avowal of his readiness always to
give him his revenge.
The Duke; though sick at heart,
would not leave the room with any
evidence of a brokfah spirit; and when
,. s find
tahee
more f
abrupt descent, fill
“ pnn ! b^MPwed|e;
* ted by the Wn, 1 rubbed between the hands,
le length, of rose, ttlA quite smooth. They
by heavy| always ptfoserve their fragrance*
there ii a Species of
Lord Castlefort again repeated ‘Pay
us when vie meet again,’ he said,’ 1
hauation
^career
’|sgd bqen tpei
ijgrea
,tL
had s
r
•puff the candles, stir the fire, bring
ick, and occaasionally
them a new pad .
nuke a tumbler for them.
At eight o’clock the Duke’s situa
tion • was worsened. The rj
greatly against him, and pei
losses were doubted. Re pulled up
again the next hour or two; but never
theless, at .ten e’cldjck, oyred every
one -something.—No one offered to
T‘ v ® fveri every one, perhaps,
rewing care? when K
before been slumped v
this angofab. this baffl
strange, unearthly sco
him even, trembler
passible?—it could i»6t
lime he was to be like those awful,
those unea^Wr lb®*® unhallowed
things that' were around him. He
felt as if ho had fallen from his state,
—as if he had dishonored his ances
try .—as if he had betrayed his trull
He fell a criminal. - In the darkness
li bit meditations, a flash burst from
his lurid m?nd,—a cbleslial light ap
to .m&t* lhi » tbicldifiing
and his auui felt as it were
bathed With the softening wdianey.
He thought of Mary Dac.*e»
thought of cveryiUitig that was puio,
and holy, and beautiful, and luminous
and calm. It was the innate virtuq
of .the mar. that made the appeal to
his corrupted nature. His loss seem
ed nothing; bis Duke-dom would be
too flight a ransom of freedom, from
thoile ghouls, and for the breath'of the
sweet air.
Another morning came, and there
they sat, ankle deep in cards. No
attempt at breakfast now—no affec
tation of making a loiletter, or airing
the room. The atmosphere was hot,
to t be sure, but it well became such
a bell. There they sat, in total, in
positive forgetfulness of everything
but tbe hot game they were hunting
down* There was not a man in the
room, except Tom Cogit, who. could
have told you the.name of the town in
which they were living. There they
sat, almost breatbless,patching eve-
turn with the fed leok in their can-
think it very improbable that we shall
meet again, my Lord. I wished ts
know what gaming was. ! had heard a
great deal about it. It was not So
very disgusting; hut 1 am a young man,
arid cannot play tricks with my Com*
dexion.’
/.He readied his house. The bird
put. He give orders for. himself
' be disturbed, and he went- to
in Vain he' tried to sleep.-—
ok exceeds the torture of an
brain and an exhausted body?
jnds and feet were like ice, Ids
like fire; his ears rung with su-
.roaring; a nausea had seiz-
on Him, ami death he would have
In vain, in vain he churl
ed repose) in vain, in vain he had re*
course to every expedient, to wile
himself to slumber. Each minute ha
startefffrom his pillow with some
phrase Which reminded him of his
fearful society. Hour after hour
moved on with its leaden pace; each
hour he heard strike, and each hour
seembd an age. Eaclrhour Was only
a signal to cast off 8o$<| covering, or
shift Ids position. It was, at length;
morning. \Vith a feeling that he
shbuld go mad if he remained any
longer in bed, he rose, arid paced his
chamber. The air refreshed him.
He threw himself on the floor; the
nibs! eyes, which showed their total
cotu ct'ej** <E>ver kia senses, and he
slept.
, From the Spectator and phronicle-
the
GIBRALTER.
Ltifr-hook of
a Cruiser.
Ffom
# * # tr*.
It was a sunny morning, and the
current was setting us rapidly through
—not a breath of wind to aid or baf
fle, Tbe Spanish shore is bqtd and
• ugged, but shrinks into tameness
before the sterner features . of tbe
African—a vast assemblage o# dusky,
barren peaks and ridges, whence
steps forth into the Straits, Mount
Abyla, one of the Pillars of Hercules,
like a giant to dispute your passage.
Passing Tariffa, a little old village
on the Spanish side—so called from
Tori|f, the leader of tbe Moors—we
at length name in sight “ *
so different, in its a
tion. from all I bad c
so overawed
"
a T fc_._
rather ridge, a thousand feet
the water, is planted a signal*
staff, tended by a Scotch Highldnd
Sergeant; who lives there, and* of
course the comfortable rii/eff
his native mountains from"March to
December. From this point a gun
is fired?dt Sunset— tho band strike
Up at the garrison below—the gi tes
are shut—the din and bustle cease—
and the dim form of the Rock, as
the numberless tapers of the city
are' at once lighted up, looks like a
heavy motionleSs cloud, with the
stars sparkling beloW it and reflected
by tftC water.
Itar most striking feature as a for
tress is its northern extremity, fron
ting Spain. Here the batteries are
carried up to a height of 609 feet,
and the whole is excavated into
chambers lor the guns, and galleries
of communication; and through these
you mu>l wander, in imagination at
least, to forin any adequuto concep
tion of its real strength. It is a sin
gulur fact, that the caverns at the
summit of the Rock sre • tenanted by
moukiesr—the.- only spot in Europe
believe, that ii sow It has even
been conjectured, I'fajf must have
passed ovex,from Africa, by a sub
terranean, and but partly explored
passage; of which St. Michael’s cave
forms the cntraace. A story is told
of a Spanish maiden having been seiz
ed and carried off by one of the
breed, and rescued by iier Knight*
It is satisfactory to learn ih t the
Caitiff was made prisoner, tried and
shot, In this cave are found the
beautiful specimens of Stalagmite,
called One might
spend a month or two very agreeably.
The survey of the fortifications is
alone worth crossing the ocean.—
Then there are the regiments, men
of war, language manners and cus
toms of different -races, European
and African; and fast, though riot
least, the view from Urn pinnacle.
Opposite on the Spanish shore, is a
hill crowned by a wateh-toWer,
which the Queen of Spafa, during
the famous seige, is said to have
•;yorn never to quit till the Spanish
'°td over the fortress; a vow,
from whi< h .fa l “ cki| j' rd<, “ M<l
b,.,kc gatlanlrjr of .i?
who permitted it for a mom*.!)';.
hoisted over the English; othrirwi^
such was the known spirit of the
woman, the tower might at this drlV
have been Her tomb.
SINGULAR MANUFACTURES!
Ip Persia they have the art of car-
ving spoons out of pear wood, which
are so delicate anffse thin, that *
bpwl of the spoon can be folded
like paper, and' ‘opened again. Tim
d their habitations fbur
et high, composed of decay-
bai k, &c, filled np wilk
j bottle half full of Water fa
o these ant-hills", into which
the insects cfeep aijd are drowned;
the contents of the bottle are then
boiled, and a stronger acid is produc
ed, which the inhabitants use for
vinegar.—"Strikert JPisit to her Un*
. t hn .
davit reaii
Fleas in
Ifpl LAWS.
inmCxtract from an eff-
.court of Common
alike illustrative
of the manner.fti which local process
is executed, in ticinml, oml of..the
precision with which 1 legal instru
ments are drawn;—“And this depo
nent further saithr, that on arriving
at the houlfe of the 6aid defendant
Situated in the county of. Galw'ay a-
foresatd, for the purpose of personally
serving him with the said writ, he,
the said deponent knocked three sev
eral times at the outer, commonly
called the hall door, but could not
obtain admission; where upon this dc
ponent was proceeding to knock i
fourth time, when a man, to this
deponent unknown, holding- in his
hands a musket or blunderbuss at this
deponent, loaded with balls or sings
as tbfs'depouent has since heared and
verily believes, appeared at one
the Upper windows of the said house,
and presenting said musket or blun
derbuss at this deponent, said that if
said deponehl did not instantly retire,
ho "would send Ms (the deponent’s)
Soul to hell: which the deponent verily
believes he would have done had «d
tins deponent precipitately escap
ed.—Jour, of Lwsi
TRUE BEAUTY.
It is a low and degrading idea
the sex, which was created to refine
the joys, and soften the Qares of hu
manity,/cod the most agreeable par'
tiiHputioi, to consider them merely
as objects of sight. This is abridg
ing them of tneir natuial extent of
power, to put them on a level will
their pictures. How muefa nobler
is the cottfe<npfali®i> oi beauty height
ened by virtue, and commanding our
esteem and love, while it draws our
observation! How, faint -and spirit
/ess are the cifartne of a coque^e
.When compared with the real favrili
;; ineso of tiraoeence, piety, good humoi
b; virtues which add anew
eft, and even ben uti
and trip
•r mother, thd
/ dfaV® olbei ...
Jthft, modest
of
no
1 artfully •
entertain, tro
faithful with
spread upon canvas,
k ' ^But not effect
»takes no eare
iffal g'^ices of the
I qualitiea*may
amuse as a pic-
" nph as a beau*
nevertheless,
*t..
he
deep blue eyes