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SKELETON.
It Wills the gayest heart to eee ; ,
The playthings which the revelling v/Qrur» _i
Make of the good heat human forma—
* * * * ' ' *
Behold the skeletons of wit—
Of Shakspear, Milton, Gray, or Pitt!
Think (fancying that thou aee’st them) how
Burn’d once the orbs so vacant now!
The first!—how spiritually fired
With all the sacred Nine inspired!
Diffusing, in his earliest youth.
By Avon’s stream, the light of truth;
And after, when experience taught,
TV light of nature and of thought!
Pull from his mind, over History’s page
P'-uring enchantment’s mystic spell;
The gifted Bard of every ago—
Imagination’s oracle!
ie serond '—yet* no second he—
Ivjff' brig! x. the eye' that could not see,
~ xyansive Vow when shone
rtt gloricfle-sti.ilhis own!
old trat kthat spirit’s (light
meal h^veris on high,
.y’jnetea^d light,
"'Idthe jngolio fight?
ispired soul and lifted eye,
’ird, thnough chaotic nighty
;11 where the damn’d spirits lie!
•onnrJJj ,f Satanic pride;
i fiend dkclose his subtle plan,
lit) ;T of Glorytwas defied,
y was ..roughtthe prin.al Fsdlof Man!
■ie third!—within that hollow space
\v glow'd the fire of minstrel grace! V d
(ttnd, ever and anon, how came f
►The thunderbolt oflyrie (lame !
To li link >hnse eyeless holes contain’d |
The oalls wlere wit and genius reign’d—
'J'l at niused.o'ci Eton’s distant towers,
That wept o’er ruthless Edward’s powers,
That contemplated wrapt in shale,
4 • garden, where the dead are lad!
pic fourth !—how Britain’s senate hung
On4 very, accent of his tongue!
Hot every eve to him was turn’d , / ;
Wlil' from Jus lips those accents burn’d! j
T ; iftas—(our country’s gcn.us knows, •
T'Vough all disguises, her friends and foea)-**
Tine was, our country’s gopius lit . . r ’ *
Tfp ores of her immortal Pitt. - r ,
T. : friend of freMom!—fpr « he ;
IILl chain’d the wing of^’bertv, 1”; ' ?
Hav .sullied but one hi aven >l) plume,.
J’d w itc my “ shame? upon his tomb;
ShV .ir-were he n - (he champion true*
Of,a free toorv and freedom too!
Alas ' th * ie * w ^° nc ’ er can die,
Should ceer tlms in bondage lie;
Forget tho an ^ *^at gave him birth,
Forget th ( .t ntere9tB cmrt h,
Forget his own Bur F aB3 ' n £ fame—
Glo- v ' ial beckon’d him to stay,
anr»t. with Kin mnoic nnmft
JR
behina, and evidently did not exert half hist.he
strength
thousand telescopes that
water had but one object, the extraordinary
boatman. To the general surprise, he j it in the foftrandJwepW. Money is not a
seemed scarcely’to touch the oars; he sat, j bad thing m its way, neither-but
throwing an occasional look back at the if men were not three-fourths fools, there
crowd of gilded vessels that were ploughing would be no physicians in the world. I
the sea into foam far behind, then dipped would not have the gout or the dropsy for all
I his oar into the water, and then paused j the jstrmgs or starsjjhat ever littered^ pn
again, while the boat absolutely shot along
over the surge. „
rvignt raus rapidly in the south; the scene
below had been gradually darkening; for
some time, and the boatman had scarcely
darted in and disappeared under one of the
little wooded hills at the foot of Puzzuoli,
when the whole royal show sank in shade,
and but for the innumerable lamps that
twinkled on their tops and rigging, would
have been invisible. But they were still at
the Chiala—no, not tpr a pile of gold as high
St. Elmo. Drink, friend, and thank
as
your night’s work, bad as it was, that you
are both hungry and thirsty.”
The Italian acknowledged that he had
earned at least an appetite, add tho wine and
salt fish appeared to him delicious. He re
marked the singular pleasure which he felt
in this simple fhre, and acknowledged that
hunger and fatigue were the true secrets of
enjoyment after all. “ Yet,” said his jovial
some distance from land, when the cloud' entertainer, “ an hour ago you would have
that had sat dining the day, gathering upon
Vesuvius, moved towards Capri, and began
to discharge its thunders and lightnings.
The rapidity and fierceness of a Mediter
ranean storm are proverbial; the breeze had
now become a fierce succession of gusts
that tore up the bosom of the waters: guns
of distress were heard from- time to time,
but all earthly sounds were speedily extin
guished in the incessant roar of the thunder.
The. only light was from tho long flashes
that burst round the horizon, 'throwing a
blaze of peculiar and frightful redness over
the earth and sea. The young Italian gazed
from his height on this conflict of the ele
ments with strange delight: it seemed to
have renewed life within him; he stripped
his bosom to the rain as it burst round him
{. torrents ; he lifted his arm to the burning
and serpent flashes, as if to bid them do their
worst; he cried aloud through the roarings
of the wind, as if 'to challenge and defy the
storm in .his despair. f The cloud which had
been rolling heavily along the bay, at length
sailed towards Solfatora; the sulphurous
vnpourSuOf the hill caught fire, a yellow
flame rushed round ft like a garment; and
I l \c last look,cast upward by one of those
who had,,flpil'Mi terror towards Puzzuoli,
shoved th© Italian sitting calmly in a circle
of c k lagration, ’evidently awaiting his ca
tastrophe. , , T * *
But not, with his ajag
lumiortalize h:a shroud
t 1 •
'' affect,
_ . her smile an
O wnat is so beautiful h
As the smile which aflt
It is sweeter incense!
Anff -v vj„A*—■**>--, •
fts+F'
e namo,
clay!
N,
.ER TEAR.
to behold,
tion bestows; A •
and brighterthwafold,
of a rose.. f **»
tn itWh-ppI®**
H6; friend,; will^ you sleep forever
Here, take n drinks of this, and be a man
again.” The Italian opened his eyes, and
to his astonishment found himself in a low
chamber, evidently hewn out of. the rock
and his surprise was not diminished, when
he saw standing over him the boatman hold
ing wine to his lips! It was evidently to the
activity and courage of this bold fellow tb»*
he owed his preservation. Hi*’. * Jr™'?
tion had been that o' - c1<,ud
tossedyourself down the side of the Solfa-
tara, cr jumped into Vesuvius supperless.
You s«e the advantage of waiting awhile in
the worst of times—you would have been a
cinder already, but for my luck in seeing
you as l stept out of rny boat I had
amused myself long enough with the king
and his fools—long enough to bring them in
the way of the gale—as it happened; and if
the gale does not give a handsome account
of some, it is no fault of mine. He laugh
ed long and loud. “ Aye, by to-morrow
morning there will be something besides
fish to be caught in the bay, and something
to be seen in the palace yonder besides bow
ing knaves covered, over with gold lace and
rascality. _ I saw, aye, it was the very last
look I gave them; l saw,*’ said he, in a low
wild voice, and with one of those strongly
derisive gestures peculiar to the Neapolitans,
“one royal fool less in the world.” The
Italian started and pronounced, “ The king
lost!”—“Well,” said the boatman, “ and
where’s the wonder? there are heirs enough
to follow him. When his time is come,
what is t6 hinder his going, in flip way of
quiet, like yours,—or mine.” lie broke
off, and writhed on his seat, as if with; an in
ternal pang. “ No—notmipe • N*, - never,
novor!” He bw»°4 hji, *‘*"
huge hand, and remained for awhile con
vulsed, but in silence ; th«n» r#.covering sud
denly and completely,, he said, with a ftysh-
iti» eye and a reddened cheek, “ Come, an
other fl*sk, brother, and let me hear what
brought you on the hill. J found you, on
my way to this den; the lightning had, I
thought put an end to yoiy troubles; but I
felt motion in you still, and as you seemed
pretty much in my own condition, an out
cast—though I now and then sec good
company too, nay, the first of company—I
rate we have always found it for onnbusi-
ness. Malatesta’s vintage is as well known
in the court of Naples as the king’s coun
tenance, and, between ourselves, I have
known them go together. Now, for a
health to all your hopes and mine, and let
us talk of business.” They drank to each
other. “ I must drink no more,” said the
Italian, “ it gets into both head and heart. I
feel myself fit for any thing now. That
wine is absolute temptation.” “ I don’t
know that if we- were thinking a hundred
vears, we could find a better name for it,”
given to an inferior advocate, whose brother
shaved the minister’s valet. He. felt his
brain turn round—he flew furiously to the
minister—there he was beaten from the por
tico, and had a narrow escape of being run
through bv one of the halberdiers, for his
wrath at ministers and mankind. * He then
rushed up among the mountains, determined
never more to associate with human beings;
the Storm had seemed to offer him an easy
way of escaping from all his anxieties at
once, and he availed himself of it with fierce
■ « Well,” said the listener, with a smile, -said Malatesta, in a half whisper. “ But to
and stretching his large and finely formed - r¥>i : “ xv „ ' * L
limbs across the cell, “if I were not too
sleepy, I think I might put you in a way of
getting the place after all; bat I take it for
granted, you have lost all inclination for it
now.” He looked inquiringly into the
visage of the Italian, which blazed up with
sudden passion. “I have a friend or two
about the court—for I must contrive to have
frieiads in all kinds of places—who, I think,
might in' time -get ydu the appointment, if
you feit inclined to - bestir yourself.” The
Italian silently clenched his handr “S« ”
OAt sheds the K _ tw _ rr _ _
A halo -of rapture and lSTTvi " ’ rr ^ i
AniW!ivi»ely it glows ’neiath the maeical powcf,
. A a a gferri ’ncath the light frotn awJ \ye! ; -
ll S', her iritUtit her tfi&I ?
f v in Tier heart doth it flow« 1
it jg -■ --Hi y sacred, and doubly dear,
Being sued in the both of woe.
Bo! 1 are most exquisite! tiWis the smile
UTiich beams in the seasoh of gladness ;
And blest is the tear which can (sorrow beguile
Or soiten one moment of sadacss. ■ ;
thought you might tlie better for a cup of
nun uau »>w». v , , , -1 Malatesta’s wine. 7 Come, no thanks—but
Operand heavier .oundt - spot where he confess wh oyou are at once—spies are not
satin "loomv e*g erne9s * n ’ 11 broat H;- ri-u:— n. ‘tu i« a i; an hadiatn/l.
burst of itttplerable Ugh ^ross his
So,’
said the boatman, ’
strongly presenting the Italian’s instinctive
effort to draw it badk from the gignt grasp,
“I don’t know but that riiay be the best way
among a thousand—it is, at all events, the
shortest. The stiletto saves an infinity of
trouble, and one half of Naples would eat
the other without it; per BAcco it is your
true peace-maker. Why not stab the rascal
who has tricked you out of your livelihood ?
The Italian obvioilsly shrank, and was
wrapped in thought, . a No,” murmured hs,
almost unconscious that he was not alone,
“ I cannot commit murder.”—“ Ha! ha!”
burst oiit the boatman^ ’ “ you are a rare
Neapolitan; yet you are an honest fellow
at bottom. 1 No, ypu must riot commit mur
der; leave that to the nobles and the friars.
We, though we cut up the king’s customs a
little now and then, never do any thing of
the : kind; all is fair fight, and as little of that
on both sides as we can. The officers are
shy of us, for we give them nothing l?ut the
best-Leghorn powderandball; and we have
calls for a bumper, whenever it is to be got;
artdl have not yet let yoii taste my ‘ friar’s
•He brought out a large golden cup, mag
nificently chased, and sparkling with jewels.
It flawed a sudden light r through the cave
as be thok it from its case; to the Italian it
seemed 1 an altar cup, and he felt reluctance
at drinking from what might haye been 5a-
critegious spoil. The boatman held it
closer to the light. “ What offence is there
in my cup?” said he, laughing: “it does
not come from Ijoretto.” The Italian had
answer to make—the chasing, which
arid felt
THE CFP OF HONOURS. lW -
It was one of the finest evenings that ever
shone on the shore o'f Naples. The sea lay
'Under the sun-beams like a huge golden
plateau, edited with the innumerable builds
•jn,?s of the city and the suburbs, that looked
.in the. distance like incrustations of silver.
"TUo echoes Of music from fhe varioas boat-
•US parties, and even the sounds of the city
that came up softened and mingled, filled
Tho air with harmony. The eye ranged from
Miseno. wi*h its bold purple promontory
overshadowing the waters, to Vesuvius on
tlie opposite side of the most lovely of all
bays sitting like a gigantic guard of this fairy
region, crowned with a diadem of cloud and
fire. A11 the heights were filled with travel
lers enjoying the magnificent landscape in
the cool of the sea-breeze; even the pea
santry. accustomed as they were to the sight,
stopped on their way home up the hills, and
.exulted in tKeir-having a country which the
world could not equal.
Butin the midst of all this beauty and
exultation there sat a man, who seemed nei
ther to see the one nor share in the other.
Ho was evidently young, and As evidently
under some heavy misery of mind; for, as
he sat on the side of the So1fatara,he was ob
served to start up frequently and hurry for
wards, as if he bad forgotten the hazardous
height, or had intended to throw himself
down the precipices on whose very edge he
Was treading; be would theft lift his eyes to
heaven, beat his forehead, and tear his hair,
with the. violence of Italian passion. Those
extraordinary gestures naturally caught the
eyes of the strangers, on the different points
o r Hie mountain: but the difficult spot on
which he had fixed his seat repelled the
generality, and those who at least reached
him received such repelling answers, that
tliev soon left him to himself.
Tho general eye, too, was new fixed upon
a more amusing object; there was a felucca
race from the point of Capri. The king’s
barges were on the water, followed By a
large train of the nobility in their boats, and
the whole,swept and sparkled along like a
flight of flying-fish. But as they came to
wards the centre of the bay, a boat with a
einglfe rower suddenly took the lead, beating
^1; th.e ten and twenty-oared chaloupes. bar-
*P nrorm r0S8. every thing. The sea-
breeze had now sprung up, aU the feluccas
-hoi- tod their sails ; they were not a foot the
nearoc, the vigorous rower alone kept them
eves, and he foil, smote «'
no mOrtn He now at, ^ ed to mu..^
preserver, but was , roug hly, by
••.Come, come, no words, L not
for talking now. Here yoir^ gafe for a
while against every thing but su,- _ »y he
Douaniers will look twice before the*, come
after their old acquaintance Malate^ a .u
The Italian recognized the name as that of
a famous contrabandist, who had riither
eluded the vigilance or defeated the bree
of the officers of the customs for many yqirs.
“ Malatesta!” repeated he in suiprise.
“ What!” said the boatman, “ yoV know
Mklatesta then ? Do you expect^ get the
information money for giving me up to the
sharks in the king’s pay ? Bui, no—though
I defy them, the rascals generally contrive
to keep clear of me; and when, now and
then, we have come athwart each other
about the bay, I think I have given them
pretty good cause to steer another course in
future. I suppose you saw the dance I led
them this, evening?” The Italian express
ed his astonishment, though lie acknowledg
ed that he had been too much absorbed in
his own griefs to have looked long. “ Aye
that,” said the boatman, “ was a specimen
of what I could do any day in the week, the
fkshion here.’V The Italian hesitated.
Why,” said the boatman, lifting up a heap
of clothes that lay in a comer of the cell
and Shewing a oapuchin’e habit, “ I have
been a confessor myself—nay, within these
four arid twenty hours—nothing is to be
done in pur trade without it. The douanieifs
wife knows more than the douanicr all the
world over, and what shp knows the capu
chin knows: if you doubt me I can teli yon
more than that : the unlucky king might
have been this pigbt safe and sound in his
your affairs. This fellow who has supplant
ed you t”
“ He is deputy treasurer of the first Roval
Tribunal.”
“ And of course, as in Naples the prin
cipal never does any thing, the deputy is the
acting man. A cheat, too, we may fairly
presujne.”
“ No; I believe, honest, as the world
goes.”
“ Well, but if he was supposed to filch
the tribunal money, the lawyers seldom like
to have the tables turned upon them and bo
under apprehension of being robbed. Now
a little insinuation to that effect—nothing
direct—but a mere hint, a look, a gesture,
has done good service before our time; and
besides, ten to one but the fellow is from his
trade,—I beg your pardon, Mr. Advocate,—
not remarkably clean-handed already. N ow
listen to me. I happen to know the very
man. I know him to have, fingered the pub
lic money; and we may be pretty' safe in
saying, that when once a man begins with
that, he is a long time before he tires of the
amusement. Denounce him to the minis
ter, and you are sure of his place.”
The Italian’s countenance flushed with
tW thought, and he lifted his eye to Mala
testa’s, which he found fixed on him with a
Strange intenseness. Under his dark brows
it looked like a fire-ball from the skirt of a
cloud. , , > ;
“ It will be disingenuous, nay, may be
thought dishonourable.in me; of all men. to
turn his accqser.”—He hesitated, “Be
sides, I have no proof,” said the Italian.
T ' -rrfrrf:, VM «’pn.r\ni is enough
where the purse is concerned. The fellow
is too cunning to leave proofs to be picked
up in the. streets against him- I take an
interest in you. You have been atrocious
ly treated in this business. Leave it to mo
to find proofs.—In the mean time, all you
Will have to do will be to write a note—ano-
nymous, if you like—to the Minister, warn
ing .him of the rascal he has to deal with.
Leave the rest to me, and now for a health
to his successor.” The cup was filled
again—— * * * «*
To bt continued.]
_ . -■ • W^o/4^ T ^jO(fDy.#»IUa4ir aN
had at a distance seeifted to represent sacred\ vey, Aubrey says—“ I.have/heard him so ^
subjects, was obviously on the nearer view, 'hat after his book of the circulation of the
bed, in spite of Winder and lightning, but
he had a ; friend af his elbow who.ga^’ him a
longer sleep. J confessed, not three hours
ay<£ the th e excellent and trust
worthy minister who plungetLpn over the
poop. To-morrow the Count Jtntteo Flores
would have beiri brought to Kook for robbing
the Exchequer, and looked through the bars
of a dungeon; bu\to-morrow he will be ap
pointed prime m*fi/^ cr to the new king, for
reasons to each other and the
bay ofNapi^” *
“And you kept this horrid treason to
yourself Why not,”, was the reply;
“ I should Aot have been bqljeved if I had
told it:—no guards would have^ kicked me
out; thecourtiers would have marked me
for a felyw not to be trusted in an emergen
cy ; th<fking wopld have never troubled his
iut me;/Count Matteo would have
wind on an end. or larboard or starboard, i
aye, or in the teeth, it is all the same to Ma- j ^d mifassassiirited for half a ducat; and if
latesta—all the same to Malatesta.—All - 1 - - r -
I escapd his bravos, the Capuchins would
rown me between four walls, with
o live is long as I could upon a
a pitcher of water.—Excellent
winds, hours, seas and times, all tho same •», •
to Malatesta. . fc
The repetition of the name came with, a loaf _ ^
tone of voice which struck the Italian as the ! thanksper Baqco, I should have had of it,
most peculiar that he had heard in his life— j and deerved them too, for meddling with
but in what the pecularity consisted he was : mattes out of my line. But you see I can
unablRUi define; ithowever roused him out' keep 5 secret, at least when there is noth-
of the half slumber into whicTi lie Wf»d T<en * ihtr irii® tmthy telling it, and .that is the
from exhaustion, and made him look in the
man's face. “ Malatesta!” said he, “ why,
can you be that prince of smugglers ? Impos
sible ! I have been hearing of him since I
tag t ,
moorish lav from Ireland to Indostan.
New for youi story.”
he Italia 1 had been
- — y twasJieUeyed )>y, the vulgar that
hunting^-—and ffas cra^k-brained ; tmd alt r ky-i-
cians were aja'nst his opinion, and envied
him ; with much ado at last ip about twent/
or thirty years time, it was received in all
the universities in . the world, and as Mr.
Hobbes sayfriAn his book, “ De Cor pore,”
he is the only man, perhaps, that ever lived
to see his own doctrine established tin his
life time.”.' . 1 ; *>
There was(a time when the greatest: phi
losopher would have been puzzled at the
question of supplying a whole town with
water up to the tops of the houses ; and
within a very few years the idea of convey
ing the materials of flame, would in the same
manner have been termed v.isionary. But
greater improvements than these may be ex
pected in a future generation, which will
have gotten rid ,of all our stupid and idle
prejudices in favor of war and its miserable
heroism, and be devoted to better pursuits,
in the improvement of the moral qualities of
men, and the rendering of the earth servi
ceable to his comforts, not to his destruc
tion.
reckless famliarity
startled by the
with which crime was
was in the cradle, and then they talked of talked <if. But tho customs of tho
him as a very old man : he must be ninety Itonfessional were notorious; the man before
or a hundred by this time.—The boatman. [fin was his preserver, and he himself felt
laughed out loud, “ Aye, those are Neapoli- Wq much out pf sorts with life to care about
tan stories: give the honest people there pneealment. His story was, in fact, but
enough of sun-shine, macaroni, and noth- *. hjef and common. He was an advocate in
ing to do, and they will find tongue for the ^ of the royal courts of Naples, and in the
world. Look at me, do you take me for ^eipt of a moderate competency for his
ninety or a hundred ?”
“ Quite the contrary,”
of Kfe ;but he had been for some years
said the Italian, solciting a superior appointment in the
“ you loQk scarcely as old as myself; but court, and it had been alternately promised
I;have bad troubles enough to make me old to hxnyid given away to others with higher
nt An/1 t# 1 n r>/\ f* miM/l nfVnM aII *Un* ! HPU a 4 a . 1 I
at thirty, and it is ease of mind after all that j interest. The disap
keeps one young. Yet you are remarkably' his patierce, and
active, strong looking, and fresh-coloured.” being snatched
ent had worn out
ivery occasion of its
im, the place had
“ Aye, ease of mind,” muttered the boat-. grown upbn bis 'ima-; na fi on un ta it was
man, atid his countenance lost its open ex- equivalent (0 death jj e fi a( j a t length
pressiori. “Words, words, hiunai) folly; mustered up all his Merest andhope for a
but this is no talk for us. Come; let us see final effort; he had/uc^ally seen the instru-
what provision there is on board.” Ho. paent of the appoihttneit made out for him,
now pulled down a few stones from the side and had receive Jon th\t moraine the con-
of the cell, and shewed a rude receptacle of gratulations of Is’brotl^r advocates^ On
wine flasks and sea stores. “ HeYe,” >qkl returning to hisffionie, a rumour reached
be. is the true receipt for good looks pf^dl j him thatit was again lost; he soon ascer-
kuds. Look at the sallow faces of Naples;, tained tha^o' rumour was true • it had been
taken from Ovid: arid wliat had appeared flood came out, he fell mightily in his prac-
crosses and virgins in the cloud, had and ’twas hnlieveH hv th/.
banquetings
nymphs. But the sculpture was incompara
ble ; and the Italian, a man of native taste,
broke out into loud admiration of its beauty.
“ Well, then, since you like my cup” said
the boatman, “you'shall taste of my wine.
I toll you, however, before I draw it, that
it is heady, and with some people, of
weak brains and idle consciences, has play
ed strange tricks; but you have no fears of
'that kind.” The Italjan had already taken
more wine than was usual with his tem
perate countrymen, and he felt no reluctance
to further hospitality. In. a kin4 of frolic
of acquiescence, he raised the empty gob
let to his lips r :. casting his glance into the
bottom, he saw it, to his astonishment,
covered with sculptures resembling an in
cantation ; a young figure, naked, was
kneeling in the centre of a circle of fearful
forms, and above him stood a colossal shape
with its lower extremities covered with a
cluud—a fiery crown was on its forehead,
whose flashes seemed pointing down to con
sume the victim. The flashes were so vivid,
that the Italian thought that he saw them
actually blaze, and felt their heat—he set
down the cup with a trembling hand. “ Why,
friend, what is the matter now; you look as
white as my main-sail. Come, try my wine.”
He held up a large golden flagon. “The
cup, the cup!” “Folly!” said the bold
boatman, “ you have not had wine enough
to bring back your senses yet. My cup,
what could you see in it but the reflection of
your own frightened face ? its inside is as
smooth as the queen’s hand—look again!”
The Italian stifl drew back, but the strong
hand of his entertainer was suddenly press
ed upon his forehead, and he forced to
glance in. The inside was, to his wonder,
perfectly smooth—there were absolutely no
sculptures or figures of any kind to be seen.
While he was still gazing, a dash of rich
Burgundy-coloured wine was flung into it
from the flagon held dbove hts head, and the
cup was all but forced upon him. He
swallowed some drops—the flavour struck
him as incomparable. “ This is no native
wine,” said the Italian, almost breathless ;
“ but, 1 wherever it has been grown, it is the
finest T have tasted in the whole course of
my life. Where doe9 it come from ? what
is its name? or where can any more of it be
had for love or money ? By San Januario,
for colour. hp«M TW k» l never tag gravity) had not had a daughter, ihb d*.
saw lta e^ual ” He now drank deep and J - • - * ’
Reform.—He that looks back to the his
tory of mankind, (says the learned and elo
quent PhilopatrisYarvicensis) will often see,
that in politics, jurisprudence, and religion,
and all the great concerns of society, Re-^
form has been usually the work of Reason,
^owly awakening from the lethargy of igno-
rance, gradually acquiring confidence in her
own strength, and ultimately triumphing
over the dominion of prejudice and custom*
Mahommedan Logic.—The laws of Cos,
discountenance .in a very singular man
ner any cruelty in females toward their ad
mirers. An instance occurred while doctor
Clarke and his companions were on the isl
and, in which the unhappy termination of a
love-affair occasioned a trial for what tho
Mahommedan lawyers cnsuistically describe
os 4 homicide by an intermediate cause.*
The following was the case: A young man-
desperately in love with a girl of Stanchio,
eagerly sought to marry her ; hut his propo
sals were rejected. In consequence, he de
stroyed himself by poison. The Turkish
police arrested the father of the obdurate
fiur, and tried him for culpable homicide.
If the accused’ (argued they; with becom-
delighted
I “ Why, Mr. Advocate, since you have
found 'the use of your tongue at last, I will
treat you as a friend, and tell you, that
where this flagon come from is a profound
secret. But don’t take me for a chuirl about
a bottle of win©. You have only to give me
yoor address in Naples, to have a little con
signment of it sent when you want it. The
truth is, that the wine is first-rate, and first*
i
ceased would not have fallen in love ; con
sequently he would not have been di ap
pointed ; xionsequeatly, he Would not have
swallowed poison ; consequently, he would
not have died; hut he (the accused) had©
daughter, and the deceased had fallen inlove,*
«c. Upon all these counts* he was called
upon to pay-the price of the young qian'S
Site: and this, being fixed at the sum of
eighty piastres, was accordingly exacted*