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immediately after I quitted Paris, so that facts will serve to explain all the circummy wife experienced an accumulation of stances of the sequel. A modest tablet misery and abandonment, which it is appears in Pere la Chaise and not far from difficult to imagine. Letter after letter it another; the one indicates the spot was despatched, informing me of her where the remains of the comtes and his melancholy state. Such, however, was unhappy lady are deposited, the other the rapidity of the emperor's movements, perpetuates the memory of Chiffonier and and the consequent difficulty of corres his worthy spouse. To this spot. Albert and pondence, that these letters did not reach Josephine from time to time repair, bearme till my wife had fal na victim to her ing in their hands each a "chaplet which fate. Six days subsequ ntly to her part- they place upon the graves of their parents ing with her infant, she ceased to exist. aud benefactors. Heaven knows what pains I have taken what anxious days and nights I have passed in endeavouring to discover the offspring of my beloved wife, among the hundreds of children received at that tryYou that sit easy and joyous amidst ing period in the Hospital des Enfans Trou- your commodious apartments, solacing ves. I have been able to collect th se yourselves in the diffusive warmth of your melancholy particulars respecting my un- fire, be mindful of your brethren, in the happy wife from various sources, and my cheerless tenements of poverty. Their feelings have been rocked with a degree shattered dwelling are open to the rude of anxiety and regret which I felt too blasts of heaven a tattered garment well convinced would accompany the re- scarcely covers their shivering flesh, and maining days of my life: the bitterness of a few embers rather mock than, warm destiny is suddenly, and I may say, mi- their emaciated limbs. While, you are raculously softened, and my heart is now surrounded with all the comforts and luxrelieved from a portion of the weight uries of life, O remember that many of which preyed upon its peace," your fellow creatures, amidst all the rig

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After an interchange of the most tender our of these inclement skies, are domin affection Josephine and her foster parents sickness, benumbed with age, and pining separated for the first and last time; and with hunger.-Let them bless you for the comte having embraced them with the comfortable clothing; restore them with most lively cordiality they resought their medicine: regale them with food, and homely but now comparatively, deserted baffle the raging storm; so that you may mansarde. They had not been at home never know any of these distresses but by more than half an hour before. Albert, the tender feeling of commisseration. made his appearance, bearing a letter from the comte' which contained directions for THERE is a sorrow in the world that the receipt of an annuity of fifteen hun deserves little or no pity, and there is dred francs which was to continue as long a sorrow too deep to be soothed but in as both or either of them might live. the grave.. That is the sorrow felt by The union of Albert and Josephine is an her who sees a drunkard's grave! We event which the reader will consider al- can see our friends suffer; we may stand ready decided by the incidents we have by and pity; but when we see the being related, and the count consented to it that we have loved deliberately sacrificing without the slightest reluctance: a few both body and soul to a denon that has weeks afterwards therefore, the marriage slain his thousands, and delights in car was celebrated in the presence of the comte

Jacques and his wife, at the altar of that page and blood, it is that will cause sorsame Eglise St- Merri, where Albert had row that mocks all consolation. first seen the features which he then felt

convinced and that conviction was in no

way diminished-he could gaze upon for MR. HAMPTON, in the Third Auditors Of ever with rapture. fice Washington, is general gent for the Our story must here close; the following Visiter for the District of Columbia.

Orphan Ellen.

O, LADY, buy those budding flowers,
For I am sad and wet and weary;
I gathered them ere break of day,

When all was lonely, still and dreary;
And long I've sought to sell them here,
To purchase clothes and food and dwelling
For valor's wretched orphan girls—
Poor me and my young sister Ellen.

Ah, those who tread life's thornless way,
In fortune's golden sunshine basking,
May deem my wants require no aid,
Because my lips are mute unasking.
They have no heart for woes like mine;
Each word, each look, repelling
Yet once a crowd of flatterers fawned,
1. And fortune smiled on me and Ellen

O, buy by flowers fair and fresh

As mine and morning's tears could keep them. To-morrow's sun shall find them dead,

And I shall scarcely live to weep them.
Yet this sweet bud, if nursed with care,
Soon into fullness would be swelling ;
5.And nurtured by some generous hand,
So might my little sister Ellen.

She's sleeping in a hollow tree

Her only home-its leaves her bedding,
And I've no food to carry there,

To soothe the tears she will be shedding.
O, that those mourner's tears which fall,
That bell which heavily is knelling,
And that deep grave were meant for me
And my poor little sister Ellen

When we in silence are laid down

In life's last, fearless, blessed sleeping, No tears will fall upon our grave, Save those of pitying Heaven's own weeping. Unknown we've lived, unknown must dieNo tongue the mournful tale be telling Of two young broken-hearted girlsPoor Mary and her sister Ellen.

No one has bought of me to day,

And night is now the town o'ershading; And I, like these poor drooping flowers, Unnoticed and unwept am facing. My soul is struggling to be free,

It loathes its wretched earthly dwelling My limbs refuse to bear their loadO, God, protect lone orphan Ellen.

A PUZZLING QUESTION.-A German bishwho happened a'so to be a prince, was op, so profligate, that one of his equals ventured to hint the scandal which he brought on religion by immoralities, "You mistake," he replied; "I do this as a prince, not as a bishop." "But" rejoined the other," if the prince goes to h-ll, what will become of the bishop!"

The Sleeping Infant.

How calm thy sleep, my little one-Gift of a hand divine;

Care has no wreath to place upon That little brow of thine.

Yet on thy cheek are tears of grief,

Like pearl-drops on a flower;" Frail emblems of thà sorrow brief,

At evening's lonely hour.

Yet thou wilt wake to boundless glee
When dewy morn appears,
Nor e'er remember'd more will be
Thy bitter evening tears.

But what are these thy hopes which share-
Thy feeble hands which fill?·
Tho'rt grasping with a miser's care
Thy little playthings still.

Come yield to me each useless toy,

Till morn's young beams shall peep:--Nay, struggle not can'st thċu enjoy

Those trifles in thy sleep,

Slumber her silken plumes has furl'd

Around thy placid brow,
And yet an emblem of the world

Thou pictur'st to me now.

'Tis thus with man, when old age brings

To life's declining vale,—

He weeps at Time's stern call, and clings To trifles just as frail.

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Note. This tragedy is founded upon strength of this penchant has latterly abaincidents in the early pages of French ted very much. I formerly preferred the history. Act. 2, Scene 2, is similar style of blank-verse to either that of prose very similar, to the same act of Shak- or poetry-my taste has changed-I now speare's Macbeth. I would have avoided prefer either of the latter; consequently the coincidence if possible, but found it im- I have composed the following pages in practicable without materially injuring prose. I am not however without a prehistorical truth. cedent;-Pizarro by Sheridan, and The It was written, not with the slightest Gamester by Edward Moore are welldesign for theatrical fepresentation, but known productions which are deservedly merely as pastime to rescue the hours popular upon the stage. from ennui during the summer days of 1836. After its completion it was perused by a circle of intimate friends and subsequently laid upon the shelf where it THE KING OF FRANCE. would have remained in manuscript ob- DE LARA, scurity till the day of judgment perhaps MONTALT, had not the earnest solicitations of one or LOTHAIRE, the King's favourite two of the above mentioned friends in- ST. PIERRE DUVAL, abbot of a convent. duced me to revive it in its present form. UBALDO, It is as it is-I do not expect to reap any laurels from the publication of it, but in- Tue QUEEN. tend, in familiar language, merely to let it go for what it will fetch.

While yet very young I imbibed a strong prediliction for dramatic literature. I was a constant yisiter at theatrical representation and read with avidity every play, comedy,melo-drama,farce or tragedy that I could lay my hands upon. The

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

BONAVENTURE,

a nobleman of France.
another,
the intimate friend of the King.

captain of the guard.
THREE MONKS, belonging to the convent:

Guards, officers, noblemen, ladies, monks, nuns, ci izens, soldiers, sentinels, &c.

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