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. Et ne voir d'autre jour que cette clarté sombre! De mon cœur sonlevé c'est un secret murmurg; 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, Mordeus during a long sea voyage, 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 At Monut-Charles, the lady of Humphry Will- At Trevince, the wife of Michael Williams, Esq. of a son At St. Austle, Mrs. T. S. Smith of a daughter Mrs. Collins of a daughter At Yeovil, the lady of Major T. Mills of a son of a son. At Buckfastleigh, Mrs. J. Powning, of Falmouth of a son. At Falmouth, Mrs. Tilly of a daughter. MARRIAGES IN JULY. At Lanivett, Mr. John Rosvear to Miss Gint MARRIAGES IN AUGUST. At Redruth, Mr. T. Nicholls to Miss J. Reynolds At St. Columb, Lient. Liddell to Miss Symons At Falmouth, Mr. J. Marrack to Miss M. Pearce At Penzance, Mr. John Cornow, aged 77 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 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 Their choice nobility!" 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 I knew thee well, when beauty's bloom I saw thee, when thy cheek was pale, How oft thy sweet melodious strains, But I shall hear those sounds no more, were harsh and disagreeable; her eyes One day, as she sat musing by the Farewell! then dear departed shade, Till the loud trumpets awful sound Shali wake the steeping dead, ROYAL FEMALE PIRATE. M. AVILDA, daughter of the King of He |