he was for the task when he discovered that it was his wife-his long-deserted wife, who was stretched pale and emaciated, and seemingly lifeless, at his feet. It was long before she recovered her self-possession, sufficiently to be enabled to comprehend his brief and hurried explanation of the causes of his absence and unlooked for return. This painful, but pleasing duty, having been performed, he was made acquainted with the situation of the respective families. The old man by the fireside was the remains of the proud fatherin-law, at the age of ninety, reduced to the extremity of dotage, and wholly insensible to every thing around him. He had survived all his family but his injured daughter, to whom, in his old age, he had made all the reparation in his power for the sorrows he had occasioned her in former years. "And who may this young maiden be, who was my hostess last night "" enquired Lennox, turning to the pretty mistress of the mansion. "The wife of a son who has also married without his father's consent," replied the elder female with a smile. "My own boy, who is what?" eagerly demanded the agitated exile, nearly sinking to the ground from the tensity of his feelings. "First mate of the Sparrowhawk-" "Merciful Heaven!" exclaimed the father, dropping on his knees. "Yes," continued his wife, "and as little did I know that the stranger whom I last night warned to fly to the hills was my husband, as my dear boy Malcolm could have been aware that he whom his kindness has protected was his own father." All this really occurred, precisely The mother as we have narrated it. of the young Malcolm had, the day before, been on a visit to her son in the king's cutter; and having casually ascertained from him that he had received orders to go ashore and arrest a suspicious-looking gentleman who was supposed, on very insufficient grounds, to be a French spy, she became involuntarily interested in his fate; and encountering him accidentally, had accosted him as we have already described. The gloom of the twilight prevented them from recognizing each other; and she was afterwards ferried over the frith in the very boat which would have conveyed her husband across, but for the vexatious interruption he experienced from the Procurator Fiscal. The story is scarcely worth pursuing further, Malcolm Lennox found only one of his sisters, and a brother's family alive; but he disturbed not the settlement of his father. Young Malcolm is still in existence; a distinguished and active officer in the British Navy. LACONICS. As lamp burns silent, with unconscious light, And she who means no mischief does it all. After all, the most natural beauty in Shaftesbury. hazard en AUX DAMES. Qui fait le bonheur de nos jours, Dont les vertus servent de guide. I rend tous nos momens heureux, C'est le trésor de la nature. Graces, douceur, tout est pour vous, A Translation of the above will oblige. No. 8. PALESTINE, OR THE HOLY LAND. SEID Eben Batrik, an Arabian historian relates, that the caliph Omar, applied to the patriarch Sophronious, and enquired of him, what would be the most proper place at Jerusalem for building a mosque, Sophronius conducted him to the ruins of Solomon's Temple. The caliph Abd elMalek made additions to the buildings, and enclosed the rock with walls. His successor the caliph El Oulid, contributed still more to the embellishment of El Sakhara, and covered it with a dome of copper gilt, taken from a church at Balbee. The Crusaders converted this temple of Mahommed into a Christian sanctuary, but Saladin restored it to its original use. Such is briefly the history of this splendid monument of Saracenic magnificence, which the especial good fortune of Dr. Richardson, in being allowed to enter the sacred enclosure, has enabled him to describe. Laying aside his white burnouse, that he might not be detected to be a Christian by his colours, he put on a black abba of the Cape Verde's, and, escorted by a black interpreter, ascended the southern slope of mount Moriah, passed the house of the cadi, and entered the Haram Schereeff. "This" continues the doctor, "is the name which is given to the whole space enclosed about the mosque, and is interpreted to mean the grand or noble retirement for devotion. Proceeding forward a few yards, we ascended a flight of steps, and got upon the Stoa Sakhara, an elevated platform, floored with marble all round the mosque; from the door of which we were now distant but a few paces. On our arrival at the door, a gentle knock brought up the sacristan, who, apprized of our arrival, was waiting within to receive us. He demanded, rather sternly, who we were; and was answered by my black conductor in tones not less consequential than his The door immediately edged up, to prevent, as much as possible, own. As the light from shining out, and we squeezed in with a light and noiseless step, although there was no person near who could be alarmed by the loudest sound of our bare feet upon the marble floor. The door was no sooner shut than the sacristan, taking a couple of candles in his hand, shewed us all over the interior of this building; pointing, in the pride of his heart, to the elegant marble walls, the beautifully gilded ceiling, the well at which the worshippers drink and wash, with which we also blessed our palates and moistened our beards, the paltry reading desk, with the ancient koran, the handsome columns, and the green stone, with the wonderful nails. soon as we had completed this circuit, pulling a key from his girdle, he unlocked the door of the railing which separates the outer from the inner part of the mosque, which, with an elevation of two or three steps, led us into the sacred recess. Here he pointed out the patches of mosaic in the floor, and the round flat stone which the prophet carried on his arm in battle; directed us to introduce our hand through the hole in the wooden box to feel the print of the prophet's foot, and through the part of the wooden rail to feel as well as to see the marks of the angel Gabriel's fingers, into which I carefully put my own, in the sacred stone that occupies the centre of the mosque, and from which it derives the name of Sakhara, or locked up; (over it is suspended a fine cloth of green and red satin, but this was so covered with dust, that, but for the information of my guide, I should not have been able to tell the composing colours;) and, finally, he pointed to the door which leads into the small cavern below, of which he had not the key. I looked up the interior dome, but there being few lamps burning, the light was not sufficient to shew me any of its beauty, further than a general glance. The columns and curiosities were counted over again and again, the arches were specially examined and enumerated, to be sure that I had not missed or forgotten any of them. Writing would have been an ungracious behaviour, calculated to excite a thousand suspicions, that the next day would have gone to swell the general current of the city gossip, to the prejudice of myself and my friend. Having examined the adytum, we once more touched the footstep of the prophet, and the finger-prints of the angel Gabriel, and descended the steps, over which the door was immediately secured. We viewed a second time the interior of the building, drank of the well, counted the remaining nails in the green stone, as well as the empty holes; then having put a dollar into the hand of the sacristan, which he grasped very hard with his fist, while he obstinately refused it with his tongue, we hied us out at the gate of Paradise, Bab-el-Jenné, and having made the exterior circuit of the mosque, we passed by the judgment seat of Soloinon, and descended from the stoa sakbara by by another flight of steps into the outer field of this elegant enclosure. Here we put on our shoes, and turning to the left, walked through the trees that were but thinly scattered in the smooth grassy turf, to a house that adjoins the wall of the enclosure, which in this place is also the wall of the city, and which is said to contain the throne of King Solomon. Here there was no admittance; and from this we proceeded to a stairs which led up to the top of the wall, and sat down upon the stone on which Mahomet is to sit at the Day of Judgment, to judge the reimbodied spirits assembled beneath him in the Valley of Jehosaphat. Descending from this seat of tremendous anticipation, which, if Mahomet were made of flesh and bones, would be as trying to him as his countenance would be alarming to the re-imbodied spirits, we walked along the front of El Aksa, the other mosque, which occupies the side, as the Sakhara does the centre of the enclosure, and arrived at another fountain, where we again washed our beards and tasted the water. We continued our walk round to the house of the governor, where, having made the circuit of the Haram Schereef, we retraced our steps, passed out by the gate at which we entered, and regained the house of Omar Effendi. Here I laid aside the black abba, resumed the white barnouse, and walked into the room as gravely as if nothing had happened. The noble Turk participating in my joy, received me with a smiling countenance, made me sit down by his side, and enquired if I had seen the Sakhara. I rejoined in the affirmative; and perceiving that the cause of my absence was no secret to those who were now assembled around him, I expressed my high admiration of its beauty, and my sincere thanks to him for having permitted me the envied gratification of seeing what had been refused to the whole Christian world, during the period of its appropriation to the religion of the prophet, with the exception of De Hayes, the ambassador of Louis the Thirteenth, who did not avail himself of the permission. IL SOGNO. Imitated from the Italian by the son of a This Morn at break of day as gentle Sleep, snow, In her own favorite Lap-Dog's form I stood !-- LOVE. Is there no remedy not one When a poor suffer'rs heart is gone You ask me what is Love? I Knew, If still inquisitive yon prove You have it, and will find of Love, H H A LOVER, Is one who in his ardent desire to obtain possession of another, commonly loses possession of himself. Pomfret says No choice had ere so happy an event, If this assertion be as true in the commerce of the sexes, as in other worldly concerns, what a woeful warning it is to lovers! A man who has lost both his heart and his wits, may be properly denominated a person beside himself; and as a proof of it, he applies to the last person in the world likely to restore his lost property: after prayers and protestations, whimpering and whining, he is at last obliged to compound the matter, and take up with another heart in lieu of his own; after a time he awakes as from a delirium, and wonders at his own folly ! In affairs of love, the nymph it is well known, is generally an overmatch for the swain; for when fairly hooked, she plays with him and his passion, as an angler with a trout, or a cat with a inouse for to subdue the weakness of love demands the strength of a Lion; and while the lover is dreaming, or raving the perfections of his mistress, he often sees but with one eye; and as it requires nearly as much sense to take advice as to give it, it would be as easy to drive a pig upon a straight line, as to divert a lover from a pursuit, when the accomplishment of his wishes might be the seal of his ruin. That the passions are implanted in the breast of man for the wisest and best purposes, none can deny, and the passion of Love when under the controul of reason and discretion, the greatest boon of Heaven; but if on the contrary suffered to run into rank weeds and wild excrescences, instead of being our best and warmest friend, turns out but too often our bitterest enemy, and that for life. For the lover must remember that an error in love, or war, is seldom to be repaired; all that reason can do, is to guide us in our choice of a partner for life. Love in youth is a god, but in age a satyr. Let an old man therefore beware how he falls into the trap of connubial felicity. After all, life would be but a melancholy pilgrimage without this great bond of society; the severest satirists of woman,-Swift, Pope, and Johnson, owed the happiest hours of their lives to their society; and had Gray, Collins, Cowper and many more, been husbands, and fathers, their cares it is true might have been multiplied together with their joys; as nothing comes unmixed in this world, but they would probably have lived and died like other men. The Chloe of Prior it is well known was a vulgar drab. Petrarch's Laura was said to be the wife of another, and mother of eleven children; a strange subject for amatory verses! Stranger still, that this man, and Sterne and Werter, should have published their moral turpitude to the world! The fact is, when passion takes possession of the man, reason keeps aloof, Penzance, July, 1826. or only interferes when too late to produce any thing but repentance. It happens unfortunately (at least as far as prudence is concerned,) that the passion of love is strongest in the human breast, precisely at that period of life when the judgment is weakest. When embarked in Hymen's gay and gilded galley, he swims for a while in a state of delight. Yonth in the prow and pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway. So that unless ballasted with discretion, she may soon founder. LACONIC. P. P. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit goodnatured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Addison. ON THE FINAL THE SELECTOR. A NATIONAL example of a refusal to bear arms, has only once been exhibited to the world; but that one example has proved, so far as its political circumstances enabled it to prove, all that humanity could desire, and all that scepticism could demand in favour of our argument. It has been the ordinary practice of those who have colonized distant countries, to force a footing, or to maintain One of the first it with the sword. objects has been to build a fort, and to provide a military. The adventurers became soldiers, and the colony was a garrison. Pennsylvania was however colonized by men who believed that war was absolutely incompatible with christianity, and who therefore resolved not to practice it. Having determined not to fight, they maintained no soldiers, and possessed no arms. They planted themselves in a country that was surrounded by savages; and by savages who knew they were unarmed. If easiness of conquest, or incapability of defence, could subject them to outrage, the Pennsylvanians might have been the very sport of violence. Plunderers might have robbed them without retaliation, and armies might have slaughtered them without resistance. If they did not give a temptation to outrage, no temptation could be given. But these were the people who possessed their country in security, whilst those around them were trembling for their existence. This was a land of peace, whilst every other was a land of war. The conclusion is inevitable, although it is extraordinary-they were in no need of arms because they would not use them. These Indians were sufficiently ready to commit outrages on other states, and often visited them with desolation and slaughter; with that sort of deso lation, and that sort of slaughter which "But whatever the quarrels of the The security and quiet of Pennsylva nia was not a transient freedom from war, such as might accidentally happen to any nation. She continued to enjoy it" for more than seventy years," and subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a militia for her defence." "The Pennsylvanians became armed, though without arms; they became strong, though without strength; they became safe, though without the ordinary means of safety.-The constable's staff was the only instrument of authority among them for the greater part of a century, and never, during the administration of Penn, or that of his proper successors, was there a quarrel or a war.' I cannot wonder that these people were not molested—extraordinary and unexampled as their security was. There is something so noble in the Supreme Protector, in this utter exclusion of "slavish fear," in this voluntary relinquishment of the means of injury or defence, that I do not wonder that even ferocity could be disarmed by A people generously such virtue. living without arms, amongst nations of warriors-who would attack a people such as this? There are few men so abandoned as not to respect such confidence. It were a peculiar and unusual intensity of wickedness that would not even revere it. And when was the security of Pennsylvania molested and its peace destroyed?-when the men who had directed its counsels, and who would not engage in war, were out-voted in Clarkson. 201dmixon, Anno 1708. 3 Proud. 4Oldmixon. Clarkson's Life of Penn, |