anfwered the end of beauty by exciting love and admiration.

The company at Bareges foon became acquainted with each other, and the ladies always took notice of Madelaine when they met her in their walks, which however did not happen very often, for her father was frequently unable to go out. When he did, he was fupported on one fide by Madelaine, and on the other by his fervant. It was impoffible to fee with infenfibility the attention which this interefting young woman paid her father, whom the never quitted one moment. It was remarked with what careful tenderness she used to lead him along the ftreet of Bareges, walking the floweft pace The could, and watching his fteps as he moved feebly on. And when, he was not able to venture out, fhe was feen at the window of their little parlour reading in order to entertain him. Her looks and manner announced that her difpofition was naturally frightly, and that fhe would have been gay, if her father had not been fick. But all the cheerfulness fhe could affume while he fuffered, was exerted to amuse him, and fhorten the tedious hours of languor and debility.

Though Madelaine was handfome, the obfcurity and feclufion in which the lived preferved her from the envy of the women. They knew well enough that the gentlemen at Bareges were for the moft part men of the world, who, though they may admire beauty, and approve of virtue, are never fo far the dupes of any tender or moral fentiment as to let it interfere either with their vanity, their ambition, or their intereft. Although the French revolution had not yet happened, thefe ladies were aware that, with refpect to marriage, the age of calculators was already come, and therefore no rival was to be feared in Madelaine. The ladies joined with the men in admiring the graces of her perfon, and the amiable qualities which her conduct difplayed. Madelaine in fhort became the object of general efteem.

Augufte, for fo I fhall call our young Parifian, who has loft his title fince the laws of equality have been eftablished in his country-Augufte fpoke lefs of Ma

reges; but it was because he thought of her more. Sometimes in his folitary morning rambles he used to make comparifons between her and the Parifian ladies among whom he had paffed the winter, and the comparifon generally ended with a deep figh. The fcene of thefe meditations was certainly much in Madelaine's favour. Perhaps at Paris or Verfailles, Augufte might have been dazzled by the polished graces of a fine lady rouged, powdered, perfumed, and equipped for conqueft. Thefe artificial attractions might perhaps have accorded well enough with clipped trees and angular walks. But Madelaine's fimple manners, Madelaine's natural miles and unftudied blushes were far more in unifon with the Pyrenean mountains.

One evening, when Augufte was walking in the town of Bareges with fome ladies, he saw Madelaine at a little diftance affifting with great difficulty to fupport her father, who appeared to be feized with a fit. Augufle darted like an arrow toward the fpot, and held up the officer till he found himself fomewhat recovered; and then Augufte, with a fort of gentle violence, obliged Madelaine, who was pale and trembling, to let go her father's arm, and fuffer him to affift the fervant in leading him home, which was but a few steps farther. Augufte entered the houfe, where he remained till the old officer was a little revived; and, after prevailing upon Madelaine to take a few hartfhorn drops, he retired.

The next morning he felt that common civility required he fhould pay the old officer a vifit, and learn how he had paffed the night. It happened that Madelaine had the very fame idea. • Surely,' thought the, it will be very strange if this young man, who was fo kind, fo careful of my father, and who made me take fome hartfhorn drops, fhould neglet to call and enquire after us.' This idea had come acrofs her mind feveral times; and he was meditating upon it at her father's bedfide, when Augufte was announced.

The old oficer, who had all the finifhed politeness of his country and his profeffion, received him in the moft

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courteous manner; and, though he spoke with fome difficulty, yet he was profufe in acknowledgments for the fervice Augufte had rendered him. Madelaine's thanks were few and fimply expreffed; but the tone in which they were uttered was fuch that Augufte felt he could have facrificed his life to have deferved them. The old officer ftill continued fick, and therefore Augufte ftill confidered it as an indifpenfable mark of attention to go every day, and learn the ftate of his health. He alfo began to feel that these vifits became every day more neceffary to his own happiness. That happiness was indeed embittered by many painful reflections. He well knew that to obtain his father the count de -'s confent to marry Madelaine, was as impoffible as it was for himself to conquer the paflion she had infpired. He knew exactly the order in which his father's enquiries would run on this fubject. He was aware that there were two interrogatories to be answered. The firft was

How many thousand livres has fhe a year? And the fecond- Is the noble? And nothing could be more embarraffing than that the enquiry concerning fortune would, he was fure, come first; fince that was the only article which could not be answered in a fatisfactory manner; for to Madelaine's family no objection could have been made. By the way, though the former nobility of France would not abfolutely contaminate the pure ftreams of noble blood by an union with the daughter of a roturier, they had always fufficient generofity to abate fome generations of nobility in favour of a proper equivalent in wealth. Augufte, while he was convinced of the impoffibility of obtaining his father's confent to his marriage, did not pay Madelaine one vifit the lefs from that confideration; and when the ufual hour of his vifit arrived, he often fuddenly broke a chain of admirable reafoning on the imprudence of his attachment, in order to haften to the dwelling of her he loved. In a fhort time he ceafed all kind of reafoning on the fubject, and abandoned his heart without referve to

the most violent and unconquerable paf fion.

Auguste made a declaration to the old

officer of the fentiments which his daughter had infpired. The old gentleman mentioned it to Madelaine, and the only anfwered by tears, of which he perfectly underflood the meaning. When Augufte explained his fituation with refpect to his father, the officer defired him to think of his daughter no more. Augufte felt that he might as well have defired him to ceafe to breathe. He continued his vifits, and the officer was foon reduced to that ftate of languor and debility which left him neither the power nor the wifh to forbid them. His complaints increased every day, and were attended with many alarming symptoms. The feafon for the waters of Bareges was now paft, and all the company left the place, except the old officer, who was too weak to be removed, and Augufte, who, while Madelaine remained, had no power to tear himself from the fpot. In a few weeks the old officer felt that his dying hour was near. Augufte knelt with Madelaine at his bedfideher voice was fuffocated by tears; and Augufte had fcarcely power to articulate in broken accents that he would devote his life to the happiness of Madelaine. The old officer fixed his eyes with a look of tender anxiety upon his daughter, and foon after expired. Madelaine mourned for her father with uncontrouled affliction, nor could all the attentions of her lover difpel that anguifh with which her affectionate heart lamented the lofs of her parent.

The winter being far advanced, the propofed to defer her journey to the dif tant province where the and her father had lived, until fpring, and to place herfelf in the mean time in a convent not far from Bareges. Augufte exerted all the eloquence of love to induce her to confent immediately to a private marri age. She hesitated at this propofal; and while they were converfing together on the fubject, the door of the room in which they were fitting was fuddenly thrown open, and Augufte faw his father the count de enter. He had heard of the attachment which detained his fon at Bareges, and had haftened to tear him from the fpot before it was too late. He upbraided his fon with great bitternefs, and began alfo to upbraid Made

laine: but there was fomething in her looks, her filence, and her tears, which ftifled the terms of haughty reproach in which he was prepared to addrefs her; and ordering his fon to leave the room, - he defired to fpeak to her alone. Af ter explaining to her the abfolute impoffibility of her being ever united to his fon, and his determination to difinherit him, and leave his whole fortune to his fecond fon, if Auguste should perfift in his attachment to her-after endeavouring to awaken her pride and her generofity, he defired to know where the propofed going. She told him her intention of placing herfelf immediately in the convent of. He approved of this defign, and left her to go to his fon. No fooner was the door of the room fhut, than Madelaine gave way to thofe tears which fhe had fcarcely been able to reftrain while the count was fpeaking. She had never felt fo fenfibly her orphan condition as at this moment; and the dear remembrance of her fond father was love.

mingled with the agony of difappointed . Meantime the count de declared to his fon, that his only chance of ever obtaining his miftrefs depended on his abfolute unconditional fubmiffion to his commands, and that he muft inftantly attend him to Paris. Augufte eagerly enquired what was to become of Madelaine; and his father told him that the had determined to take refuge in the convent of. Augufte abfolutely refufed to depart till he was allowed an interview with Madelaine. The count was obliged to confent; but before he fuffered them to meet, he obtained a promife from Madelaine not to mention to her lover any particulars of the converfation which had paffed between her and the count.

Augufte, in this laft interview with Madelaine, atoned for the cruel difdain of his father, by the moft folemn and paffionate affurances of fidelity, not to be fhaken by time or circumftance; and then, after attempting to leave the room feveral times, and returning as often, he at length tore himfelf away. Madelaine, when the faw him depart felt that every earthly hope had vanished. with bim.

· Hib. Mag. Sept. 1792.

She fet out early the next morning for the convent of; but not till after the had fat for fome time weeping in the chair which Augufte ufed to occupy,

Madelaine paffed the remaining part of the winter in the convent of during which period the received frequent letters from Augufte; and when fpring arrived he conjured her, instead of removing to her own province, to remain a little longer in her prefent fituation; and flattered her with hopes of being able ere long to fulfil thofe engage ments upon which all his happiness de-. pended.

In the fummer of this year an event took place which will render that fummer for ever memorable. The French nation, too enlightened to bear any longer thofe monftrous oppreffions which ignorance of its just rights alone had tolerated, fhook off its fetters, and the revolution was accomplished.

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Madelaine was a firm friend to the revolution, which fhe was told had made every Frenchman free. And if every Frenchman is free,' thought Madelaine, furely every Frenchman may marry woman he loves.' It appeared to Madelaine, that, putting all political confiderations, points upon which the had not much meditated, out of the queftion, obtaining liberty of choice in marriage was alone well worth the trouble of a revolution; and fhe was as warm a patriot from this fingle idea, as if he had ftudied the declaration of rights made by the conftituent affembly, in all its extent and confequences.

The count de, who was informed of the correfpondence between the two lovers, and who faw little hopes of his fon's fubduing a paffion which this intercourfe of letters ferved to therish, contrived means to have, Augufte's letters intercepted at the convent. In vain Madelaine enquired with all the anxiety of tendernefs for letters. In vain fhe counted the hours till the return of the poftdays. Poft after poft arrived, and brought no tidings of Augufte. Three months paffed in the cruel torments of anxiety and fufpenfe, and were at length fucceeded by defpair. Madelaine believed fhe was forgotten--forgotten by Augufte-She confulted her own heart, Gg

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a will, leaving him his fortune upon condition that his father confented to his marriage with Madelaine.

When her lover and the municipal officers departed, Madelaine retired to her apartment, to give way to thofe delicious tears which were poured from a heart overflowing with wonder, thank fulness, and joy. When her firft emotions had fubdued, he began to pack up her little wardrobe in preparation for leaving the convent on the following day. I always loved the revolution, thought Madelaine, as the laid afide the white gown in which the was to be married the next morning; and this last decree is furely of all others the beft and wifeft-but if it had come too late

At this idea Madelaine took up the veil for her novitiate, which lay upon her table, and bathed it with a flood of

tears.

→The next morning, Augufte and Madelaine were married in the parish church of, and immediately after the ceremony fet out for Paris, where they now live, and are, I am told, two of the happiest people and the best patriots in

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Some Account of the People of Barbary.

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By Major Jardine,

(In a Letter to a Friend.)

HESE people fometimes take fits of riding, which they perform in the extreme of rude exertion, using the poor horfe with a roughness and violence fitter for a wild beaft that they wifhed to tame, with a bridle and fpurs of a tremendous and cruel construction, which presently make his mouth and fides run with blood. Thefe ridingfits which they fometimes take, feemingly without meaning, they confider as a kind of war-exercife: the moment any of thefe fellows gets upon a horfe, he thinks of fighting, and begins to go through the motions of it, brandifhing and attacking in their way, fo that you would think him half mad. Individually they may be confidered as tolerably good light-horfe, or rather as materials pour en faire, if they could be brought

to any regularity and uniformity in their movements, in fome of which they are fingly very dexterous: their methods of attack, with their crooked fwords, the variety and frequency of their char ges, might be made to have great effect, efpecially on troops unaccustomed to them. I believe general Seidlitz borrowcd many of his excellent ideas of cavalry from Turks and Tartars, fuch troops as thefe. They have no idea of any regular drill or exercife. They fometimes fire and throw darts at a mark---generally at an earthen pot or a blown bladder, very near, under fifty yards. But their boar-hunt is a fine manly diverfion. Their foot-ball. or pallone, as in Italy, is good exercise. Some jugglers and ftory-tellers, who exhibit fometimes to the crowd on a market-day, form the fum of their pub

lie diverfions.

The beft part of this government is the continuance of the old and warlike practice of the prince or chief appearing frequently among his people on horseback: it is now become a regular audience or levee two or three times a week; a thing quite unexpected in fuch a country. This cuftom ferves to check fo many abufes, and to keep fo many people in awe, that I fuppofe this kind of government could not go on without it. Under a really great and wife prince it might be made the means of doing much good; arts, industry, public virtue, might thereby perhaps be confiderably promoted, all in their own fimple and direct manner. If it were poffible for uncontrolled power to be fteady, uniform, or confiftent, in its proceedings; if thefe general orders of the emperor, iffued verbally at levees, proceeded from a wife and connected plan, and were firmly carried into execution; they might in time have almoft the force of laws, and might extend much farther throughout the country, poffeffing the great advantages of military orders, in promptitude and obedience; but, alas! no human individual, and ftill lefs a fucceffion of them, can probably ever be found equal to fuch a fituation as his. To do any good feems to require all the wisdom of the most en

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