under Government:

But he did not chufe to

accept of either, informing the Queen, that he had fifty pounds out at use, and he apprehended, that the number of people he faw about her muft be very expensive. The Queen, however made Lady Duddlestone a prefent of her gold watch from her fide, which my Lady confidered as no fmall ornament, when fhe went to market, fufpended over a blue apron.

THE WAY TO HAPPINESS.

OW long, ye miferable blind,

How

Shall idle dreams engage your mind;

How long the paffions make their flight
At empty fhadows of delight?

No more in paths of error stray,
The Lord thy Jefus is the way,
The fpring of happiness, and where
Should men feek happiness but there?
Then run to meet him at your need,
Run with boldnefs, run with fpeed,
For he forfook his own abode

To meet thee more than half the road.
He laid afide his radiant crown,

And love for mankind brought him down

To

To thirft and hunger, pain and woe,
To wounds, to death itself below;
And he, that fuffer'd thefe alone
For all the world, defpifes none.
To bid the foul that's fick be clean
To bring the loft to life again;
To comfort thofe that grieve for ill,
Is his peculiar goodness still
And, as the thoughts of parents run
Upon a dear and only fon,

So kind a love his mercies fhow,
So kind and more extremely fo.

Thrice happy men, (or find a phrase

That speaks your blifs with greater praise)
Who moft obedient to thy call,

Leaving pleasure, leaving all,

With heart, with foul, with ftrength incline,

O sweetest Jefu! to be thine.

Who know thy will, obferve thy ways,
And in thy fervice fpend their days:
Ev'n death, that feems to fet them free,
But brings them closer ftill to thee.

ANECDOTE

A

ANECDOTE.

BOUT eleven years ago a fubaltern of the regiment of the Prince of Nassau Weilburg, was impeached with a crime of great atrocity. He afferted his innocence with a firmaefs and composure which none but the guiltless can affume: however a Court Martial was demanded, and after a fair and impartial trial, he was convicted, and condemned to fuffer death.

He was two and twenty years of age, brave, fincere, engaging in his manners, and handfome in his perfon; had lived beloved by his brother officers, and respected by the whole corps. The regiment at this time lay at Nimeguen; all ranks were interested in the fate of the young man, bɔth on his own account, and that of his family. He had an only fifter, who loved him with all the tendernefs which the ties of confanguinity and the warmth of affection, peculiar to her age, could inspire.

Distracted with forrow on hearing the fatal news, the rushed forth into the ftreets, her hair hanging loofe on her fhoulders, and regardless of the delicacy of her fex, bewailed the lofs of her beloved brother, with all the horror of the moft frantic woe. It was a fight too much for humanity; the hearts of

all were touched with pity. Unknowing what she did or whither fhe went, fhe approached the parade in an agony of grief; the evolutions of the troops. were, for a moment, fufpended; the eyes of the officers were fuffufed with tears, and compaffion appeared in the looks of the foldiery.

She then turned towards the prison, and with an eager voice, demanded to fee her brother. The guards, without any interruption, fuffered her to pass; but what language can exprefs the grief and defpair of two fuch hearts! The remembrance of their former happiness oppofed to their present mifery, overwhelmed their fpirits and they funk motionless in each other's arms: they were with difficulty reftored to life, but not to tranquillity, for their recovery was only a renewal of their forrow.

It was neceffary to have the fentence of the Court Martial confirmed by the Prince of Orange. The unhappy fifter flew to the Hague, and threw herfelf at the prince's feet: a woman young and beautiful, is always eloquent; but her tears and fobs would only allow hers, in broken accents to beseech the prince to fave her brother's life and honour. She defended his innocence, and in terms the most pathetic, pleaded, that a foul which always

delighted

delighted in virtue, could never be guilty of the crime with which he was accufed. The whole court were moved at the mournful scene.

The Prince, himself a young man, and of fentiments congenial with the feelings of youth, was melted into tenderness. His tears flowed with thofe of the difconfolate girl. He foothed-he comforted her, and promised all the aid which the circumftances of the cafe would admit,

The

But it was found there was no alternative. prefumptive proof was ftrong. The rigour of the law demanded a facrifice, and the sentence of the Court Martial was put in execution.

The paffions of the people, interested by fo fingular an event had scarce fubfided, when all their fympathy and concern were again awakened by a full discovery of the affair.

The real delinquent, pierced by the enormity of his guilt, aggravated by the defolation into which he had plunged an innocent and respectable family, made a full confeffion of the crime,—which, from a fatal concurrence of circumftances, that fometimes happen in human affairs, was laid to the charge of the amiable youth who had fuffered.

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