all the other virtues of his excellent father; and Louisa felt for him a predilection which she had never felt for any of her gay admirers in the days of her prosperity, because he had shewed so much attention to her when abandoned by all her former friends to poverty and distress.

MR. SIMPSON, in whose house Louisa was now received, was a gentleman whose estate was not very large, but who, by cultivating it himself, as he had a thorough acquaintance with, and had gained much experience in, the nature of farming, having successfully Not many weeks elapsed before the adopted many new improvements in admiration and esteem which George agriculture, made it produce him a very Simpson had conceived for the charmample income. He was a very intelli-ing Louisa ripened into the most ardent gent and truly worthy man; industri- love, which he could no longer either ous and frugal, but at the same time com- repress or conceal. Having found an passionate and generous. He receiv- opportunity, he made a full avowal of ed the distressed wanderer, when he had his passion; but the answer he receivheard her story from his son, in the most ed was; "Alas! how can I think of humane and benevolent manner, and of-making so ill a return to the goodness fered her every accommodation his house could afford, till she could be placed in some eligible situation.

This offer Louisa gratefully accepted not merely because her distresses were relieved by it, for her heart was too noble meanly to accept the gift of every ostentatious giver; but there was something so good, so friendly, so benign, in the manner in which the elder Mr. Simpson made this proposal to her, that was not in her power to refuse.

and generosity of your father as to permit his son to bestow his hand on a hapless girl, destitute alike of fortune and of friends? No; believe me, my gratitude to the most generous of benefactors, and your duty to the best of fathers, must eternally forbid our union."

This reply threw the youth into a profound melancholy, which by degrees preyed upon his health. The father soon perceived the alteration which had taken place in his son, and divined the There was also another reason of a cause. He questioned him, and he more secret nature. Her heart overflow-confessed. Old Mr. Simpson, howeved with gratitude to the generous er, far from immediately turning Louisa youth who had found her on the road, out of doors, or bitterly upbraiding his and who, by a thousand little assiduities, son for his folly, as the world would ashewed how much he admired and es-turally expect him to have done, thus teemed her person, her accomplish- addressed him: ments, and her manners. He was himself a very handsome young man, and inherited the integrity, generosity, and

"You know, George, that I always encouraged you to communicate to me all your thoughts and wishes, with a full

confidence that I am your best friend; || ing their gin at the bar-rogues were

labouring to ornament their necks with halters-and pot-houses vomited forth their dead-drunk!-

you know too that I have never imagined it necessary to increase wealth beyond that of competence which alone can bestow happiness, and which I It was an awful hour!The urthink, we have acquired; you know gent solicitations of my landlady, for likewise that I think highly of the cha- the reduction of my enormous score, and racter and disposition of Louisa. Why her threat of turning me out of doors, then all this reserve and mistrust? As in case of my non-compliance, added to your friend and hers, I would wish you the information that I had received at to examine your heart carefully, and the grocer's shop that I was to have be sure that you entertain for her that nothing more upon tick, filled my mind ardent and lasting affection you suppose with gloomy apprehensions.-Fantasyourself to feel. I will be the last per- tic forms of unpaid creditors rushed son to obstruct your happiness." before me, and tortured my ears with Restored to new life by these cheer-loud cries of "pay me !"-Horrid phaning words, George hastened, on the toms (in the shape of constables) assailwings of rapture, to communicate the ed me, and, in menacing attitudes, predelightful intelligence to his dear Loui-pared to grasp my trembling arm.sa, whose transports at the news, though Methought a jail opened its craving the delicacy of her sex would not suf-jaws to swallow me; Light fled from fer her to express them so forcibly, the wick of my exhausted candle, and were not less real than his own. Their I sunk upon the floor.-My senses were marriage followed soon after, and Lou- benumbed with horror. isa enjoyed in the peaceful shades of retirement a happiness of which she had scarcely entertained an idea in the gay scenes of affluence and profusion.

-I am ignorant of the length of time that I remained in this dreadful situation: I was awakened from it by reiterated cries of "MURDER !" I made an effort to raise my feeble frame, but my tottering legs refused to assist me.

Some years after, the churlish miser who had succeeded to Mr. Harcourt's estate, died childless, his two sons dy-The cry was repeated, and I distinguishing a short time before him: And, there being no nearer claimant, Mr. George Simpson succeeded to it, in right of his wife. This circumstance, however, is only mentioned to complete the history; for it could not increase, nor, happily, (it is necessary to remark) did it diminish their felicity.

ed it to be the cry of a female. The thoughts of succouring a female in distress, added strength to my efforts; and, with some difficulty, I rose from the floor, and reached the portal of my garret, from which I descended to the chamber whence the dismal cry issued; I tremblingly opened the door.

I shall not insult my readers by attempting to describe my feelings when I discovered-a drunken cobler treat ing his amiable rib with the discipline of his strap!

THE GOBLER-A Fragment. My wooden clock struck two! The watchmen were nodding o'er their dim tapers.-Grimalkin on the tiles, was squalling in pathetic concert -Like a knight errant of yore, with his favourite, whilst the pale illu- prepared to succour the distressed dam minator of the night was behind an ac-sel from the rude assaults of her merci commodating cloud. The votaries of less tyrant; but judge of my surprise dissipation were finishing their consti- when I was assaulted by her in the fol tutions at the tavern. The Bon ton lowing elegant language, "Master were finishing their fortunes at the gam- Scribble," she exclaimed, "I vonders at ing table, and the haut ton were finish-your impudence; it's very ard if peo

ple may'nt do as they likes in their own room, vithout hoder people's poking their noses in! If my ould man chuses to lather me, nobody han't nothing to do with it; so brush up to your cockloft, and mind your own business."

A man of letters, who disdained to use the simple milk and water language, which is becoming so fashionable at present, asked for a pinch of snuff, in the following pompous, and very learned manner: "Permit me, Sir, to introduce the summits of my digits into your spacious receptacle of odoriferous atoms, that I may satiate the cravings of my olfactory nerves."

The concluding part of Mrs. Jobson's sublime oration, impressed itself on my mind, and I brushed (to adopt her ele-came to the Marshal de Toiras, to ask permis

gant language) into my garret, crept into bed, and forgot my cares in the arms of the snoring deity.

THE STORM.

On the evening before a battle, an officer sion to go and see his father, who he said was at the point of death, in order that he might pay his last duty to him. "Go," replied the General, who readily guessed the cause, "honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land.”

"My love is torn from me, which way did they take her ?"

A voice instantly replied from the pit, in the

exact tune.

"Towards Long-Acre,

In an English opera, a young hero is in"Good heaven, have mercy up-troduced, whose mistress has just been forcibly carried on me!" exclaimed Amelia, as she was away. He entered in an agony of perturbation singing, carried from the cabin to the deck "Will my troubles never have an end, yet why should I murmur since it is the will of heaven, I should be miserable -But oh! my poor mother." Here she was stopped by a heavy sea, which washed over the deck, and took off one of the men that supported her. Amelia had the presence of mind to cling to something which prevented her from sharing the same fate.

It was expected that the vessel would not hold out long; they had got the boat along side, and urged Amelia to make haste into it-"But where is my mother," said she, "I cannot leave her to perish alone." They told her that her mother was sick, and could not bear the fatigue of being removed. "I'll stay, then, to comfort her-and die with her, if it must be so, God's will be done. Farewell, my friends" continued she, as the boat was pushing off, May God be merciful to you, and send you to some place of safety." Here the boat was swallowed up in a wave, and she never saw it more.

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Towards Long-Acre."

The audience were struck with surprise. but, fortunately, collecting presence of mind, The player was for a moment disconcerted .. instead of endeavouring to finish his song, he replied,

"Oh ho! did they so? Then I'll soon overtake her, I'll soon overtake her;"

and ran off, amidst the loudest plaudits of the whole house.

merchant's shop, bought a number of articles An illiterate country gentleman, trading at a of the same kind, but of various qualities, the gentleman requested a bill of the goods, which was readily complied with-and on examining tions of the word ditto, and immediately began it, was much surprised to find several repetito rail at the merchant for his mistake, the merchant assured him that he had made no error, and desired him to call again when in town, at which time, if he could not find out the meaning of ditto he would explain it to him. But a short time had expired, when he again called at the store- -"Well friend, (said the

merchant,) are you now satisfied that I was in no error?" Yes, (replied the gentleman,) I am convinced that I am a fool, and that you are ditto.

When the French first settled on the banks

Amelia hastened to comfort her sick mother The storm abated-There were two men, who had preferred stay- of St. Lawrence, they were stinted by the ing behind with her-They shortly af- intendant, Monsieur Picard, to a can of spruce ter saw a ship not far off that had suffer- beer a day. The people thought this measure ed but little during the storm-They very scant, and every moment articulated, Can-a-day" It would be ungenerous in any made signals of distress, and were pro-reader to desire a more rational derivation of vidently relieved.

the word Canada.

PHILANTHROPY REWARDED.

it, into that delightful unison of pity, -HE was in a military dress: and that is only felt when the finger of charihis figure, his face, and his walk, evinc-ty touches the sympathetic cords of the ed the gentleman; yet poverty contract-heart. ed his countenance; and a succession of blushes, which flushed into his cheek, while he travesred the coffee-room, and to which deep sighs were the harbin-not curiosity, induced me to inquire afgers, shewed that his heart suffered

He at last leaned upon the bar; and whispered to the mistress of the coffeeroom-a good natured creature-and she instantly curtesied, with a degree of respect, that induced me to believe I had mistaken the index of the officer's mind, and that instead of standing in need of a favour, notwithstanding his appearance, he had been conferring an obligation.

On quitting the bar, and taking his seat, the mistress of the coffee-room ordered coffee and toast to the table where he sat.-His eyes sparkled at the sight; and the toast was devoured with an avidity, that indicated, not so much a wholesome appetite, as the keenness of actual want. He ate with every mark of real hunger.

The officer having finished his breakfast, and taken leave of his hostess at the bar, an impulse, which certainly was

ter his name and situation. On these particulars the woman was ignorant, she had never seen him before; she knew nothing of him but this: he had ordered a breakfast at the bar; and assured her he would call and pay for it, at some future day.

Till the day arrived when he should be able to pay, she desired he might constantly call, and breakfast on credit.

"And he is welcome," she said, though that day should be the day of judgment."-"And when the day of judgment arrives," said I, "you will hear of this matter. You have done that which will stand in account, and gain you credit in the book of fate. If your sins be even multitudinous, your charity has covered them. But let us see if something more cannot be done The first plate of toast being dispatch-for this poor officer-Lend him," said ed, the mistress of the coffee-room or- I, "these few guineas, should he call dered a second to be placed before him; to-morrow, as if coming from yourself." but she gave her orders privately and The next day he received the cash. I the waiter laid it on the table with a never heard more of the money for six look the most pitiable. The officer years. At the end of that time, the misseized the toast: the waiter wiped his tress of the coffee-house told me, that eyes with his napkin; and the mistress ensign W now a lieutenant-colonel, of the coffee-room, drawing up her had returned from abroad-had repaid breath, sighed it out again in a tone so her the sum borrowed-and given her, soft, so tender, and so sweet, as harmo- by way of interest, a ring worth an hunnized every nerve of those who heard dred pounds.

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