"I will tell you, my friend," he replied; "as much, at least, of my inducements, as may countenance my present eagerness to explore this extraordinary business. The person of Schabraco is not wholly unknown to me. The dark and lowering aspect; the ill-conceived malignancy of his sullen eye; that piercing, yet shy glance, which marked this notice of my son, apparently belong to a man, who, many years since, was amenable to the laws for an atrocious act. I was in a court of justice when he was brought for ward to answer a terrible charge. I heard his artful defence; I beheld his stern, collected attitude; a countenance expressive of what I have now described, and a figure the very counterpart of Schabraco's. Should he, indeed, be released to curse mankind by similar practices, I will exterminate the villain from a world he has so long disgraced, Oh, my friend, to him-to him I owe the death of my angelic Leonora!-To his monstrous impiety the peace of a happy family is sacrificed! More than this I cannot say, lest in Schabraco his person should not be identified. In deed, my chiefest doubt arises from his daring to frequent the haunts of mankind, as well as from the certainty I once encouraged, that crimes so vast as his, and so fully proved, could never escape condign punishment. A severe illness which detained me at Florence prevented the satisfaction I sought on his conviction. It commenced on the second day of his trial, owing to some yet undecided cause; and when I recovered, neither culprit nor witnesses were to be ascer tained or discovered. No minutes of the event could be procured. I had but few friends in that city, and from those few I could obtain no information; but they unanimously joined in advising me to leave that part of Italy. Syracuse had its attractions, and I hastened thither. In a fut re hour you shall know the whole of."

The Count's obscure hints were suddenly interrupted by an awful burst of thunder. It bellowed among the mountains with re-iterated strength. The valley before them was wrapt in obscurity, relieved only by successive flashes, which served but to render the scene more horrible. No trace of Schabraco's asylum could be discerned all was gloomy, desolate, and unpropitious. To descend the path before them, promised no hope. They stopped, and, in an interval of the storm, Mercutio, looking up, pointed out to Piozzi, a sulphureous track, which, arising from the south-east, poured a prodigious column of smoke, in a horizontal direc tion, along the upper grounds. It had a tremendous ap-› pearance, and served rather to confuse than elucidate their path.

"Surely," cried the Count, "it cannot proceed from Etna ?"

"Undoubtedly not, my friend; from such a distance it must be impossible."

While they were puzzled to ascertain its cause, the light it emitted came somewhat clearer, and Mercutio suddenly exclaimed-"I see the edifice to the right of us." " And that must be Schabraco's," rejoined the Count, "The storm abates; yonder flame, which I now perceive to arise from some vast trees, fired as is most likely by the lightning, will guide us. Come on, my intrepid friend; my heart beats high; I have a presentiment that some strange event is at hand. Certainly it will now be in my power to exonerate Rinaldo from the burthen of retention."

They now proceeded with tolerable chearfulness. The clouds rolled off in heavy volumes; a yellow streak, which every moment brightened into a purer lustre, illumined the east, and with pleasure they observed a waning mcon slowly unfolding its useful disk; still the valley, along whose upper side they were travelling, appeared dangerous to be explored; yet they must pass through it, as the ancient building in question almost hung over the opposite side. No time remained for consideration, and they rushed precipitately forward. The vast trees which shaded that awful recess entirely shut out the softened rays; no path could be traced towards the house, and they wandered for some time in almost palpable darkness, while torrents of water from the higher grounds streamed on all sides. But Piozzi, who headed Mercutio, suddenly finding an abrupt ascent, joyfully availed himself of it, and in ten minutes regained a view of his journey's termination.

(To be Continued.)

CAMPBELL'S SHIPWRECK AND ADVENTURES.

In one of the steam-boats that ply on the river Clyde, the appearance of a poor young sailor, who was playing on the violin for the amusement of the passengers, attracted the notice of Mr. Smith, the editor of the present volume. He had lost both feet; and from the unskilful manner in which

the amputation of them had been performed, the wounds were still unhealed. The answers which this poor man gave to some questions put to him, excited so much curiosity, that Mr. Smith took him home, with the intention of making a few memoranda of his story, for his own information. The modest and intelligent manner in which he told it, and the curious information which it contained, created a strong interest on behalf of the narrator; and the hope that an account of his voyage might be of service to an unfortunate young man, and not unacceptable to those who take pleasure in contemplating the progress of mankind in the arts of civi lization, gave rise to the present publication.

Archibald Campbell was born at Wyndford near Glasgow, in the year 1787. On the death of his father, who was a soldier, his mother removed to Paisley, when he was about four years of age; here he received the common rudiments of education, and at the age of ten, was bound apprentice to a weaver; but before he had completed his time, a strong desire to see foreign countries induced him to go to sea; and in the year 1800 he entered as an apprentice on board the Isabella of Port Glasgow, in which he made three voy, ages to the West Indies; after this he sailed in a coaster, and then again for the West Indies.

At Madeira, he was pressed into the Diana frigate; ran from her at Portsmouth in 1806, and entered on board the Thames Indiaman, Captain Riches, bound for China. At Canton, the Captain of the American ship Arthur, bound to Rhode Island, endeavoured to seduce him from the Thames by an offer of high wages and a bounty of twenty dollars; but he resisted his proposal. Being afterwards in company with a comrade of the name of Allen, they were met by another American captain, who also tried to seduce them by offering still higher wages: they however held out; till learning that the ship was bound to the South Seas, and the north-west coast of America, the temptation became irresistable; and they were concealed in the American factory till the ship should be ready to proceed on her voyage. This was the Eclipse of Boston, commanded by captain Joseph O'Kean, and chartered by the Russian American Company for their settlement at Kamschatka, and the nerth-west coast of America, with a cargo of nankeens, tea, silks, sugar, &c.; the crew amounting to 28, four or five of which were seduced from the Indiaman.

(To be Continued.)

THE SPIRIT OF OUR FORE-FATHERS.

It is recorded by John Fog respecting the dif ferent characters and proceedings of two parliaments, in the reign of King Richard the Second, that no Prince ever came to the crown with a more universal love and good will of his people than Richard II. yet by the wicked and blundering administration of those he had the misfortune to employ, he at length entirely lost all esteem and affection among his subjects for all the politics of these men had no other tendency, but to squeeze money from the people at home, while the true interest of the nation was miserably neglected.

The parliament thought it inconsistent with their trust and duty to bear any longer with the ministers. Wherefore they sent a message to the King, at Eltham, declaring, that De la Pool, Earl of Suffolk, the chancellor, and Robert de Vere the treasurer, ought to be removed from all office and trust, &c. What exasperated the people and parliament more particularly against the Chancellor was, that he had in the King's name demanded of the Commons an extraordinary supply for the King's household, or in other words had pretended a deficiency in the civil list, and demanded that the same should be made, good by the Commons; to which they returned this brave answer, "They neither could, nor would proceed in any business in parliament, nor dispatch the least article, till the King should come in person amongst them, and remove the chancellor from hist office."

The next day the parliament, by common consent, (or nem. con. as it is now expressed) dispatched the King's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, and Thomas De Arundel, Bishop of Ely, to Eltham, to deliver to the King the sense of both houses; which they did accordingly in a speech, in which were these words: :

"That it was established by antient custom in this realm, that the King ought to call a new parliament every year upon many accounts.

"Secondly, that if the King did by ungovernable will, estrange and withdraw himself from his parlia

ment for the space of 40 days, the members were at " liberty to return to their several habitations without any farther proceedings.'

The ministers being a little alarmed at these things, thought to intimidate the parliament, by advising the King to tell them, "That he perceived his parliament as well as people intended to make an insurrection against him, in which cese he was resolved to call in the assistance of his cousin, the king of France, and even to submit himself to him, rather than truckle to his own subjects." But so far was the parliament from being terrified at these threats, that they returned this severe answer, "That they had an antient constitution, which was not long since put into execution, that if the King thro' evil council, obstinacy, contempt of his subjects, &c. should alicuate himself from his people, and not govern by the antient laws and statutes of the realm, and should precipitate himself into wild designs, and abandon himself to an arbitrary will, that from that time it should be lawful for his people, to depose that King from his throne, and to set upon it another of the Royal Family."

This speech brought the King a little to himself, so that in a few days he came to the Parliament, and suffered De la Pole to be impeached by the Commons: and having gratified them thus far he thought fit to ask a supply, to which the Commons returned this answer. "That he needed not to want supplies from his people, while he might so easily supply himself from those, who were his and the nation's just debtors," (meaning the ministers and other placemen.)

The public robbers (i. e. the ministers) found it would be necessary to go a little farther, and therefore the chancellor and treasurer were removed from their employments; but this was but a mere grimace, it being done by their own consent and advice, to see it would put the parliament into a humour of granting the supply; and indeed it had that effect.

One thing in the nature of this tax must not be omitted, because it shews the tenderness our parljaments had for the circumstances of the people: for it was resolved that the trading people should be entirely exempt from this tax, and that none should pay towards it, but persons distinguished by the following ranks, viz. Dukes, Earls, Archbishops, Bishops,