had surely else have been no sorrow; but on one side and the most abandoned desi thou wert too good for me or this poor pair on the other-imagine a husband reworld excuse my tears: my poor Sophia stored to the arms of the most amiable too; my lovely darling-my tender i ird-of wives, after thinking he had beheld the snatched from me just when thy chirping horrid grave wherein she lay entombed. half formed notes stole sweetly on my soul Imagine a wife come unexpectedly to re--just as thy little antics, witty far beyond lieve the man whom she dearly loved, and thy years, came thrilling to my heart and whom she never hoped to see again, from made me snatch thee often to my eager penury and misery-think you behold a arms, and dwell with kisses on thy prat- blooming heavenly cherub, weeping tling lips. Alas, madam, you seem too for joy at the happiness of those who gave much affected-I hope--Oh! sir-Madam! her being-think-think of happiness, I am What Madam?-i am your think of joy, think of ecstacy, think you daugh My daughter! Oh! heavens behold the The Poor Poet of Cripplegate. my child! gracious providence! my dear infant! my sweet Sophia! alas, I fear it is impossible! Speak to me if thou art my child !-Oh God!

The following jingling letter is from the pen of Mr. Cowper, the celebrated poet, to the Rev. Mr. Oh! my father! my dearest, dearest Newton, dated July 12, 1781. father. It is impossible-exclaimed I, I am going to send what, when you have again-did not I see thee perish alas! read, you may scratch your head, and say alas! this is but a heavenly vision; I must I suppose, there's nobody knows, whether shortly awake to misery and woful recol- what I have got, be verse or not: by the lection-and yet thou art an angel? Oh! tune and the time, it ought to be rhyme: God of heaven permit to hope if thou but if it be, did you ever see, of late or be'st my child, thou hast a strawberry of yore, such a ditty before? on thy breast.

I have writ charity, not for popularity, Here it is, my dearest father. but as well as I could, in hopes do good; Almighty Lord, thy mercies are infinite! and if the reviewers should say, 'to be thou art my child-the God of all worlds sure the gentleman's muse wears métho sent an angel to thy rescue. Did I not dist shoes, you may know by her pace and see the horrid chasm wherein both thee talk about grace that she and her baid and thousands were enveloped? Did i not have little regard for the taste and fash fly from Lisbon as from the horrid jaws of ions, and ruling passions, and hoydening but hold-tell me, I tremble while I ask play of the modern day; and though she -does-'tis too much-I cannot hope assume a borrowed plume, and now and does Maria-She lives, sir, she lives and then wear a tittering air, "is only her plan wants but you to make her happy-never to catch if she can the giddy and gay, as till to day could we hear the least tidings they pass that way, by a production on a of you: an honest hearted wretch, whom, new construction; she has baited her trap, three years since, you once relieved, heard in hopes to snap all that may come, with your name, and said he could never forget a sugar plumb." His opinion in this will it he heard you called likewise the char- not be amiss; tis what I intend my prinitable Poor Poet of Cripplegate-my cipal end; and if I succeed, and folks dearest mother by chance heard him drop should read, till they are brought to a se a word; she enquired: be not offended rious thought, I shall think I am paid for that we, made use of a stratagem but all I have said,and all I have done, though hark; she's at the door: I know her tread; I have run, many a time, after rhyme, as she's coming-she's flying she's here- far as from hence, to the end of my sense, she's in your arms. and, by hook, or by crook, write another

Spare me, gentle reader, do not expect book, if I live and am here, another year. me to describe what heart can scarce I heard before, of a room with a floor, conceive Imagine two people who had laid upon springs, and such like things, the tenderest, the sincerest, the most in- with so much art, in every part, that when violable affection, lost to each other for you went in you was forced to begin a 6 years, after the most diligent enquiries minuet pace with an air and a ghos

a swimming about, now in and now out, hinted that no great price would be given with a deal of a state, in a figure of eight, for the performance. Hogarth however without pipe or string, or any such thing, agreed. Soon afterwards he applied for and, now I have writ, in a hyming fit, payment to his employer, who seeing that what will make you dance, and as you the space allotted for the picture had only advance, will keep you still, though against been daubed over with red, declared he your will, dancing away, alert and gay, had no idea of paying a painter when he till you come to an end of what I have had proceeded no farther than to lay his penned; which that you may do ere mad-ground. Ground!' exclaimed Hogarth, am and you, are quite worn out with jig.There is no ground in the case, my lord. ging about. I take my leave, and here The red you perceive is the Red Sea.you receive, a bow profound, down to Pharoah and his host are drowned as you the ground, from your humble nie- desired, and cannot be made objects of sight, for the sea covers them all.'

W. C.

gures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, which we had served many years at Tangiers, after now employ, have not been very long in his return to England, was pressed by use. They are said to have been brought James the Second to become a proselyte to Europe from Arabia; and the Arabs to the Romish religion, as the most acare stated to have obtained them from ceptible means of recommending himself the Indians about the year 900. to favour. As soon as the king had done

They made their appearance in En- speaking, Kirk expressed great concern gland about the year 1250, and were at that it was not in his power to comply first used in astronomical, mathematical, with his majesty's request, because he was and geometrical works only. Their use really pre-engaged. The king smiled, and was little valued apparently till after the asked him what he meant? Why, truly, discovery of printing, when it was soon answered Kirk, 'when I was abroad, found that a stripling at school, in a coun- promised the emperor of Morocco, that try village, could by the help of these fi- if ever I changed my religion I would gures, in a few minutes, work a sum that turn Mahometan; and I never did break the most eminent mathematician of the my word, and beg leave to say I never twelfth century could not have reckoned, will."

perhaps in a whole day, with Roman nu

merals.

The earliest occurrence of the present "Arrah, Pat, and why did I marry ye? vulgar figures upon a monument, in a date, jist tell me that, for its meself that's had to is said to be 1454. In common accounts maintain ye ever since Father O'Fiannathey were not generally used till the time gan sent me home to your house." of James the Frst.

The French, in allusion to their origin in Europe, call them Arabic cyphers.

The Roman numerals, M. D. C. L. X. V. 1. appear to have been used throughout Europe for many centuries.

"Swate jewel," replied Pat, not relishing the charge, "and its meself that hopes to live to see the day when yc're a widow, wapping over the cold sod that covers me; then, by St. Patrick, I'll see how ye get along without me, honey dear."

PHAROAH IN THE FED SEA. A nobleman, A big negro has been discovered on the not remarkable for generosity, sent for coast of Africa, so large that he purchas Hogarth and desired that he would repre-ed a ship's chain cable for a watch-guard, sent on one of the compartments on his and used the achor for a trinket hung to stair-case, Pharoah and his host drowned his watch chain with the real seal and in the Red Sea. At the same time he key.

GERMAN PRIDE.

For the Philadelphia Visiter.

The Mother's Lament.

These lines were written upon the death of a son and daughter, only children of a doating parent.

The late duchess of Blankenburgh, great grand-mother to the hereditary prince, who died some years since, at a very advanced age, had the singular happiness to reckon among her posterity, six- Who sighs for thee, thou precious one! thy troubles ty-two princes and princesses; (fifty-three now are past,

cast.

Thine azure eye hath lost its ray, thy voice its boyant tone,

of whom she saw at one time, alive,) and And o'er thy once joyous face death's sickly hue is amongst them, three Emperors, two Empresses, two kings and two queens; a circumstance that probably, no sovereign house except that of Brunswick ever produced.

The night after King Charles the First was beheaded, Lord Southampton and a friend of his got leave to sit up by the

And, like a flower the storm has crushed, thy beauty's past and gone.

Another pang thou wilt not feel-thy pulseless heart

is still

Meekly, though sad, thy mother bows to the Allmighty's will;

Grief weighs heavy on my heart, my tears fall thick and fast,

But

thou-thou art in heaven, dear child; life's varied scene is past.

greet;

body, in the banquetting-house at White- The busy steps that gladly ran thy mother's smile to hall. As they were sitting very melan- The cholly there, about two o'clock in the

pratling tongue, that lisped her name in child

hood's accents sweet

snowy brow;

are they now?

morning, they heard the tread of sombody The glossy curl that beamed like gold upon thy coming very slowly up stairs. By-and-by The lips, meet rival of the rose-Oh Death, where the door opened, and a man entered, very much muffled up in his cloak, and his face quite hid in it. He approached the body, Withered beneath thy icy touch, lock'd in thy dull, considered it very attentively for some While all the joy a mother knows, is silently to weep, time, and then shook his head, and sighed Or start, as fancy's echo wakes thy voice to mock out the words, "Cruel necessity!"-He then departed in the same slow and concealed manner as he had come in.-Lord

Southampton used to say that he could not distinguish any thing of his face, but that, by his voice and gait, he took him to be Oliver Cromwell.-Spence.

REPUBLICAN PRAYER.

After the death of Charles I. the Court of King's Bench was called to the Court of Public Bench: and some republicans were so cautious of acknowledging monarchy any where, that they even, in repeating the Lord's Prayer, instead of saying, Thy kingdom come, &c. they chose to have it said, Thy commonwealth come!

PAST LOVE.-I have loved another; and in that thought, as in an urn, lies the ashes of all affection.

CHAPTER XIIII.

ISABEL AND THE JEWISH MAIDEN.

L'ontinued.

pious mother and a haughty queen. But, despite all the arguments of the friar, she could not be prevailed upon to render up Leila to the tribunal of the Inquisition; and that dread court, but newly establishcd, did not dare, without her consent, to seize upon one under the immediate pro

of Almamen, the Dominican had sought the queen, and had placed before her, in glowing colours, not only the treason of Almamen, but the consequences of the WHILE this scene took place before the impious passion her son had conceived tribunal of Torquemada, Leila hal been for Leil. In that day any connexion be summoned from the indulgence of fears tween a Christian knight and a Jewess which her gentle nature and her luxurious was deemed a sin scarce expiable; and nurturing had ill-fitted her to contend Isabel conceived all that horror of her. against, to the presence of the queen. son's offence which was natural in a That gifted and hige-spirited princess, whose virtues were her own, whose faults wer of her age, was not, it is true, with out the superstition and something of the intolerant spirit of her royal spouse; but, even where her faith assented to persecution, her heart ever inclined to mercy and it was her voice alone that ever coun-tection of the queen. teracted the fiery zcal of Torquemada, Fear not, father," said Isabel, with and initigated the suffrings of the unhappy ones who fell under the suspicion of here- quiet firmness; I will take myself: jo examine the maiden; and, at least, I will sy. She had happily, too, within her a strong sense of justice, as well as the see her removed from all chance of temptsentiment of compassion; and often, ing or being tempted by this graceless * when she could not save the accused, she boy. But she was placed under charge prevented the consequences of his im- of the king and myself as a hostage and puted crime falling upon the innocent royal honour is pledged to the safety of a trust; we accepted the charge, and our members of his house or tribe.

In the interval between his conversa

the maiden. Heaven forbid that I should

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One; but I fear, in this fancy of Juan's this hereafter. Thou wilt not hesitate, that the maiden is more sinned against then, to leave the camp, unknown to the than sinning: and yet my son is, doubt prince, and ere he can again seek thee?" less, not aware of the unhappy faith of Hesitate, madam? Ah, rather! how the Jewess, the knowledge of which alone shall I express my thanks!" will suffice to cure him of his error. You "I did not read that face misjudgingly," shake your head, father; but, I repeat, I though the queen, as she resumed. "Be will act in this affair so as to merit the it so; we will not lose another night. confidence I demand. Go, good Thomas. Withdraw yonder through the inner tent: We have not reigned so long without be- the litter shall be strait prepared for thee; lief in our power to control and deal with and, ere midnight, thou shall sleep in safea simple maiden." ty under the roof of one of the bravest

The queen extended her hand to the knights and noblest ladies that our realm monk with a smile so sweet in dignity that can toast. Thou shall bear with thee, it softened even that rugged heart; and maiden, a letter that shall commend thee with a reluctant sigh and murmured pray- specially to the care of thy hostess; thou er that her counsels might be guided for wilt find her of a kindly and fostering nathe best, Torquemada left the royal pres- ture. And, oh, maiden!" added the queen, with benevolent warmth, "steel not thy

ence.

"The poor child!" thought Isabel; heart against her; listen with ductile those tender limbs and that fragile form senses to her gentle ministry; and may are ill fitted for yon monk's stern tutelage. God and his Son prosper that pious lady's She seems gentle, and her face has in it counsel, so that it may win a new stray. all the yielding softness of her sex: doubt-ling to the immortal fold!” less, by mild means, she may be persua- Leila listened and wondered, but made ded to abjure her wretched creed; and no answer; until, as she gained the enthe shade of some holy convent may hide trance to the interior division of the tent, her alike from the licentious gaze of my she stopped abruptly, and said. son and the iron zeal of the inquisitor. I will see her."

I

"Pardon me, gracious queen, but dare ask thec one question? It is not of myself." Speak, and fear not."

When Leila entered the queen's pavilion, Isabel, who was alone, marked her "My father-hath aught been heard of trembling step with a compassionate eye; him? He promised that, ere the fifth day and as Leila, in obedience to the queen's were past, he would once more see his request, threw up her veil, the paleness of child; and, alas! that date is past, and I her cheek and the traces of recent tears am still alone in the dwelling of the plead to Isabel's heart with more suc- stranger."

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cess than had attended all the pious in- Unhappy child!" muttered Isabel to vectives of Torquemada. herself, "thou knowest not his treason nor "Maiden." said Isabel, encouragingly, his fate; yet why shouldst thou? Igno"I fear thou hast been strangely harras- rant of what would afflict thee here. Be sed by the thoughtless caprice of the young cheered. maiden," answered the queen, prince. Think of it no more. But, if aloud; "no doubt there are reasons suffithou art what I have ventured to believe, cient to forbid your meeting. But thou and to assert thee to be, cheerfully sub- shalt not lack friends in the dwellingscribe to the means I will suggest for pre. house of the stranger.

venting the continuance of addresses "Ah! noble queen, pardon me, and one which cannot but injure thy fair name." word more. There hath been with me, "Ah, madam!" said Leila, as she fell more than once, a stern old man, whose on one knee beside the queen, "most joy- voice freezes the blood within my veins; fully, most gratefully will I accept any he questions me of my father, and in the asylum which proffers solitude and peace." tone of a foe who would entrap from the "The asylum to which I would fain child something to the peril of the sire. lead thy steps," answered Isabel, gently, That man-thou knowst him, gracious "is indeed, one whose solitude is holy; queen-he cannot have the power to harm whose peace is that of heaven. But of my father?"