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COSSET- 'T 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&lten * 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*