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question;-Why she had hesitated to pass the night in that village; whether it was because she suspected that she might not be safe in her house? and swore, at the same time, that there was not a man in it. Our courageous female traveller, well acquainted with the character of the Nation, displayed the most perfect confidence sat down with the utmost composure to take some refreshment, brought out a bottle of brandy from her case in the sledge, called down the fellows who were lying on the stove and divided its contents among them. The bottle of brandy and the friendly looks of the donor, had their due effect. The slumbering, but not stifled sentiments of humanity awoke, and the good-natured, careless and joyful humour, peculiar to the common Russians, soon broke out in noisy songs. The traveller, seeing she had attained her aim, laid herself down to sleep in an adjacent room. Her departure, at break of day, from the band of robbers was a moral caricature of a most singular nature. With the confession of their criminal way of life she, at the same time, received, from these people, the assurance, that she and all the passengers that should make use of her name, should be well received, and be lodged in safety: a promise which was accompanied with the rude but undisguised, testimony of a hearty affection.

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Et ne voir d'autre jour que cette clarté sombre!
Ah cette vie horrible est semblable au trepas
Où suis je? un songe affreux!—non, non, je Le
dors pas!

De mon cœur sonlevé c'est un secret murmurg;
Je m'entends appeller meurtrier et parjure,
Je le suis.. mais quels cris, quels ingubres accens!
Une sueur mortelle a glacé tous mes sens......
Ne me trompe je pas? Je crois voir mes victimes
Je les vois les voila! Du fond des noirs abimes
S'elancent jusqu' a moi des fantômes sanglans!
Ils jettent dans mou sein des flambeaux, des

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AN HYPOCHONDRIAC.

THE Hypochondriac is commonly one who has unfortunately more time, and possibly, more money than he can employ to any useful purpose; and is a living example, that prosperity may be harder to be borne than adversity. This disorder of course belongs to the higher and middle orders of society, for such as depend on mental or corporeal labour for support, have neither leisure nor inclination to indulge it.

The Hypochondriac has a sickly mind, and fancies the infirmity is in his body, he takes all kinds of nostrums for the purpose of expelling the worm engendered in his brain; but as no vermifuge hitherto invented will reach that part, he remains the same: the less he understands of physic, (as is commonly the case in other concerns) the stronger is his faith; so that he readily swallows the poisonous composition of Empirics, until he becomes in reality what he at first only dreamt of. The fumes and vapors that rise from his splenetic humours, sully his brain like a smoky room, so that he has no right perception of any thing. He expects that his friends and associates who are witnesses of his daily croakings, will commiserate his case; but affected wee will only excite afected sympathy, which is nothing more than contempt in disguise. When a man is thus bewildered, the best thing that can happen to him is, that his occasions may compel him to the exertion of his faculties both mental and corporeal, for the song says,-" Labor's the price of our Joys." It has often been observed that Fortune in depriving a man of his property, is not always as cruel as she appears to be, for in so doing, she restores him to a right mind, and knowledge of himself; for adversity is the most unerring of all tutors. Those who are never exhausted by fatigue, can never know the sweets of repletion and repose. From all this it will appear that the laboring classes have less reason to repine at the dispensations of Fortune than they are aware of; for it is no uncommon thing to see the servant a happier being than the master. The poet says

"In all misfortunes, this advantage lies,
They make us humble, and they make us wise;
And he that thus acquires such virtue, gains
An ample recompense for all his pains."
The Hypochondriac is deeply read in
Pathology, or the history of diseases,
and is so anxious in his search after
pains, as others are after pleasures.

Mordeus during a long sea voyage,
amused himself with Pott's treatise on
the Fistula, and read himself into a
firm belief that he required the cure!
Immediately on his arrival in port, he
took a journey of 300 miles, for the
purpose of being operated on by that
eminent surgeon!-but who soon pro-
bed the foolish fancy, and coolly ad-
vised him to lay aside the book, return
to his family, and betake himself to
some useful occupation. Should the
Hypochondriac not put an end to his
woes by a halter or pistol, but die by
his splenetic humours and his nostrums
in his bed, this may be his epitaph,—
"I was well, I would be better, and
here I am!"
P. P.

Penzance, August, 1827.

LACONIC.

WHAT stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing, is to land, that, thinking, reflecting, examining, is to the mind. Each has its proper culture; and as the land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long time, will be overspread with brushwood, brambles, thorns, and such vegetables, which have neither use nor beauty, so there will not fail to sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated mind, a great number of prejudices and absurd opinions, which owe their origin partly to the soil itself, the passions, and imperfections of the mind of man, and partly to those seeds which chance to be scattered in it, by every wind of doctrine which the cunning of statesmen, the singularity of pedants, and the superstition of fools shall raise --- Berkeley.

NOTICES.

EXPECTING his Royal Highness the Dake of Clarence would have again visited Falmouth, on his return from Milford, which he was however prevented from doing, we delayed noticing that event in or last number; we have now, however, the pleasure of extracting an account of his visit from the Panorama of Falmouth.

THE LORD-HIGH-ADMIRAL, after having visited Pay month, and surveyed the whole of that mageidcent establishment, the Dock Yard ani Hator, sailed from thence on Saturday July 21st, 18-7, and a rived in PALMOUTH HARBOUR that evening, anchoring in Carrick Roads, close to the Astra a Frigate, the Guard-ship of that Port; the thunder of canon from Pendennis Castle, from al te Slips of War, Packets and other vessel-, anaonuced the arrival of the liestrions visitor! The Lient. Gov. of Pendennis, Col. Fenwick, and Cipt. W. King, R. N. of the Astra 4, and the other anthorities paid their due respects; directly after, the Lord-High-Admiral in his barge proceeded on board His Majesty's Packets, viewing them all in succession, and was pleased to express bis unqualified approbation :-on Sunday Doruing the Mayor and Corporation, with the principi infrabri mits, went on board the Royal Yacht, and presented a congratulatory Address, and were most graciously received. The Royal Sovereign Yacht departed the same evening at S P. M: on her voyage, amid the fond appianse of a motitude in the vessels and uam.erous sarFounding boats, and on shore, and the roar of cannon as on his entrance proclaiming the usual

salute.

PANORAMA OF FALMOUTH.

A little work bearing the above title has just made its appearance; as it is our own produc tion we shall reftain making any comments, hat extract from the many critiques which have appeared, the following.—

WEST BRITON PAPER, AUGUST 17th.

BIRTHS IN JULY.

At Falmouth, Mrs. Clatworthy of a son
BIRTHS IN AUGUST.

At Monut-Charles, the lady of Humphry Will-
yams of a daughter

At Trevince, the wife of Michael Williams, Esq.

of a son

At St. Austle, Mrs. T. S. Smith of a daughter
At Truro, Mrs. Stansmore of a son

Mrs. Collins of a daughter

At Yeovil, the lady of Major T. Mills of a son
At Phalleigh. Mrs. Martyn of a daughter
At Chacewater, Mrs. Wharham of a son
At Hayle, the wife of Mr. J. T. Millett, surgeon,

of a son.

At Buckfastleigh, Mrs. J. Powning, of Falmouth

of a son.

At Falmouth, Mrs. Tilly of a daughter.
At Carharrack, Mrs. Gregor of,a daughter.
At St. Day, Mrs. Thomas Chegwidden and Mrs.
Thomas Perry of sous.

MARRIAGES IN JULY.

At Lanivett, Mr. John Rosvear to Miss Gint
At Newlyn, Mr. T. King to Miss Moore

MARRIAGES IN AUGUST.

At Redruth, Mr. T. Nicholls to Miss J. Reynolds
At St. Germans, W. Porter, Esq. to Miss S.
Hambly

At St. Columb, Lient. Liddell to Miss Symons
At St. Pancras, Lieut. Saunders to Miss L.
Martyn

At Falmouth, Mr. J. Marrack to Miss M. Pearce
At Gwennap, Mr. R. Launce to Miss Hooper
-Mr. J. Harris to Miss S. Reed
At Liskeard, Mr. Davis to Miss Nancy Crabb.
DEATHS IN JULY.

At Penzance, Mr. John Cornow, aged 77
At St. Neot, Capt. Libby
At St. Austell, Mr. T. Nott
At Redinth, Peter Ponder, Esq. aged 72
At Mylor, Mr. W. Rundell, aged 19

DEATHS IN AUGUST.

At Bodmin, the wife of T. Commins, Esq.

'The voyager on business, and the tourist for pleasure and knowledge combined, always find great assistance in meeting at the places they. visit, with a concise and well arranged little book, containing sich intelligence as will forward them in their plan and destination, as well as contribute to their comfort and pleasure, whilst tarrying at the place; an excellent publication of this sort we have just looked over, At Truro, Mrs Taunton, aged 84 which they have called a Panorama of Fal mouth, or guide to that fine Harbour, Town, &c. This compilation is judiciously inade, and must prove useful to every one that seeks for information, besides ânding a little amusement in the descrip.ive part. The purchaser will not complain of the price, for in addition to the letter-press it possesses several interesting lithographic pictures, with a map of the Harbour and country up to Truro, also the signals used by his Majesty's Post-Odice Packets.-The publisher has it seems received an official letter, that his Royal Highness the Lord-High Admiral is pleased to direct Mr. Philp to insert his Royal Highness's naine as subscriber, and as a special patron to the work,

At Pilton near Barnstaple, the Rev. B. Marshal. At Bosowask in Constantine, Mr. T. Boulderson, aged 50

At Falmouth, John Harris, Esq. aged 72
At Goldsithney, Miss G. Gundry
At Polperro, Mr. R. Rundle
At Penzance, Mr. H. Reynolds
At Rathorn, Mr. J. Vercoe
At Newton, W. Morris, Esq.
At Liskeard, Mrs. Webb
At Torpoint, Capt. W. Loyd, R. N.

Printed and Published by J. PHILP, Falmouth, and sold by most Booksellers in the County.

No. 22.1

The Selector.

"WE CULL THE CHOICEST"

OCTOBER, 1827.

[Price 3d.

It has been remarked by a keen ob- ignorance, sloth, and rebellion; in the server of the signs of the times, that latter general information, industry, those sagacious persons who contem- and loyalty; verily it is not error plate with jealous apprehension the merely, but infatuation.

numerous plans which are now in operation to promote the progress of education among the people, may be thought to proceed on the system of "Antagonist muscles"; and in the full belief that the closer a nation's eyes

LOVE AND JOY,

A TALE.

are shut, the wider it will open its IN the happy period of the golden age, hands, and the more readily submit to when all the celestial inhabitants dethe evils of misgovernment. Or do scended to the earth, and conversed they act on another principle-that a familiarly with mortals, among the state of contention and warfare is the most cherished of the heavenly powers natural relation between the people were twins, the offspring of Jupiter, and the rulers, and that it is prudent Love and Joy. Where the appeared to secure the result of the struggle by the flowers sprung up beneath their blinding the adversary on the outset ? feet, the sun shone with a brighter The Philistines had put out the eyes of radiance, and all nature seemed emSampson, and thus, as they vainly bellished by their presence. They imagined, fitted him to drudge and were inseparable companions, and grind their growing attachment was favoured by Jupiter, who had decreed that a lasting union should be solemnized rived at maturer years: but in the mean between them so soon as they were ar

"Among the slaves and asses, his comrades,

As good for nothing else, no better service," But the state of darkness to which he was reduced, added to his fury without diminishing his strength, and the very pillars of the Temple of oppression

"With horrible convulsion to and fro

He tugged, he shook-till down they came, and
drew
The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder,
Upon the heads of all who sat beneath,
Lords, Ladies, Captains, Councellors and Priests,

Their choice nobility!"

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time the sons of men deviated from

their native innocence; vice and ruin overran the earth with giant strides ; and Astrea, with her train of celestial visitants, forsook their polluted abodes: Love alone remained, having been stolen away by Hope, who was his nurse, and conveyed by her to the forests of Arcadia, where he was brought up among shepherds. But Jupiter assigned him a different partner, and commanded him to espouse Sorrow, the daughter of Até: he complied with reluctance; for her features

LINES ON THE DEATH OF A VERY
DEAR FRIEND.

I knew thee well, when beauty's bloom
Had crimson'd o'er thy cheek,
And little thought 'twonld be thy doom
So soon in death to sleep.

I saw thee, when thy cheek was pale,
When languid was thine eye,
But hope then told the flattering tale
That danger was not nigh.

How oft thy sweet melodious strains,
Has charmed my listening ear,
The fond remembrauce still remains
Of sounds that once were dear.

But I shall hear those sounds no more,
Yet sweet, though sad 'twill be,
To picture scenes for ever o'er,
And sometimes think of thee.

were harsh and disagreeable; her eyes
sunk, her forehead contracted into
perpetual wrinkles, and her temples
were covered with a wreath of cypress
and wormwood. From this union
sprung a virgin, in whom might be
traced a strong resemblance to both
her parents; but the sullen and una-
miable features of her mother were so
mixed and blended with the sweetness
of her father, that her countenance,
though mournful, was highly pleasing.
The maids and shepherds of neighbour
ing plains gathered round and called
her Pity A red-brest was observed
to build in the cabin where she was
born; and while she was yet an infant,
a dove pursued by a hawk flew into
her bosom. This nymph had a dejected
appearance, but so soft and gentle a
mein, that she was beloved to a degree
of enthusiasm. Her voice was low
and plaintive, but inexpressibly sweet;
and she loved to lie for hours together
on the banks of some wild and me-
lancholy stream, singing to her lute.
She taught men to weep, for she took
a strange delight in tears; and often,
when the virgins of the hamlet were
assembled at their evening sports, she
would steal in among them, and cap- Flushing, September 12th, 1827.
tivate their hearts by her tales, full of
a charming sadness She wore on her
head a garland composed of her father's
myrtles twisted with her mother's
cypress.

One day, as she sat musing by the
waters of Helicon, her tears by chance
fell into the fountain; and ever since
the Muses' spring has retained a strong
taste of the infusion. Pity was com-
manded by Jupiter to follow the steps
of her mother through the world,
dropping balm into the wounds she
made, and binding up the hearts she
had broken. She follows with her
hair loose, her bosom bare and throb-
bing, her garments torn by the briars,
and her feet bleeding with the rough-
ness of the path. The nymph is mortal,
for her mother is so; and when she
has fulfilled her destined course upon
the earth, they shall both expire to ge-
ther, and Love be again united to Joy
his immortal and long-bethrothed
bride.
Aikin Miscel.

Farewell! then dear departed shade,
We all thy loss deplore,
For in the cold grave thou art laid
Aud we shall meet no more.

Till the loud trumpets awful sound

Shali wake the steeping dead,
And then! Oh then may we be found
With Christ our Living Head.

ROYAL FEMALE PIRATE.

M.

AVILDA, daughter of the King of
Gothland, contrary to the manner and
disposition of her sex, exercised the
profession of piracy, and was scouring
the seas with a powerful fleet, while a
sovereign was offering sacrifices to her
beauty at the shrine of love. King
Sigar perceiving that this masculine
lady was not to be gained by the usual
arts of lovers, took the extraordinary
resolution of addressing her in a mode
more agreeable to her humour
fitted out a fleet, went in quest of her,
engaged her in a furious battle, which
continued two days without intermis-
sion, and thus gained possession of a
heart to be conquered only by valour.

He

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