town a perfon who could confirm her words beyond fufpicion! but alas! poor Joe! fhe knew not where to find him. "Joe! (faid one of the juftice's men, who ftood behind Julia)--what, is your name Julia, Madam !"--"Yes," (replied Julia) The man immediately ran out, and brought back in his hand the Daily Advertifer, in which he read the following advertisement : "If a farten young lady, Mifs ful lia, (whofe name is nothing to nobody, and which I doan't mention here, becaife I doan't think it proper)---fees this, this is to let you kno, Mifs Fullia, Joe dufn't kno where you be, and that you dufn't kno where Joe is, for he is to be found at the fine of the Swain with two Necks in Lad Lane, and no where else, as witness my hand, by me, JOE ******" This very extraordinary advertifèment is copied verbatim et literatim from the real paper, which I have now in my poffeffion---Julia liftened to it with attention, and confeffed her feelings in her eyes, which gliftened with expectation. Not contented with aural information; the fnatched the paper, and devoured the precious morfel with her own eyes. In fhort, the fimplicity of the thing fpoke for itself, and Joe it was moft undoubtedly. But it may be neceffary to explain this affair. I again fummon the of memory my readers back to that time of our history when Joe and Julia unluckily parted in Holborn Joe did not look for her till the coach ftopped in the inn-yard, and then he waited at the door of it for her appearance. He thought her long in coming, but his patience was not exhaufted.. The reft of the company had been out of the coach fome minutes. At length he ven tured to thrust in his head---but the was not there! He ftarted back on his heel, and gazed wildly round the yard, but in vain. Oppofite to him he faw the door of a public room open, and he rufhed in without ceremony: From thence he fallied into the kitchen, ftrode into the parlour, threw his eye into the bar, and peeped into the larder. He marched into the ftables, and in door open to receive him--but all fhort, every place where he faw a would not do: She was not to be took one peep more into it, but all found. He returned to the coach, was folitary!"God blefs my heart faid Joe to himfelf, fidgetting and fcratching among his auburn hair) protect and fave me from all temptations and evil fpirits! I wish I could fee Mifs Julia again." Now, at laft, he bethought himfelf of what he ought to have done at firft, viz. to queftion the coachman concern. ing the affair, and the coachman informed him of the whole truth. This information in no degree abated his anxiety." Didn't the leave no word with you for me?" (faid he to the coachman.) "No." "Don't you know where the went ?”* "No?""Don't you think he'll come here this night?"-" I can't tell you, upon my word."-Joe, with downcaft looks and folded arms, meafured the fpace across the yard with long and melancholy ftrides. He walked into the paffage of the houfe, and marked the clock-He counted the hours as they rolled, flow and heavy, but he faw not his miftrefs---It was now ten o'clock, but no Julia came. They are not the fevereft, but they are the most anxious moments the mind knows, when the poffeffor of it, fimple, timid, and honeft, feels himfelf far from home, and forfaken, The friends thus met, the juftice politely afked Julia how he could moft effectually ferve her? She replied, that her only bufinefs in town was to deliver letters to Lord C▬▬, and that if he would favour her with a guide thither, fhe would always remember him with the most unfeigned gratitude---This fhe obtained; and, once more acknowledging her obligations to the juftice, they all fet off for Berkley-square. -60 in the midst of ftrangers---Thefe moments Joe now felt in all their bitternefs-He went to bed without hope, and he arofe in the morning with defpair---He grieved inceffantly, and he wished for the bofom of a friend to receive his forrows---At length he difclofed his mind to the hoftler, and the hoftler gave him his advice---It was this: To advertife--"Every body (he faid) did it, upon every fubject. Always, when he loft a horfe, he advertised for it; and Here they foon arrived, the guide why might not Jce do the fame leaving them at the door.---Joe imnow for Julia?--It would certainly mediately took off his hat, for he lay open the whole affair, for adver- thought it high treason to be covertifements could do any thing.' ed within fix yards of a Lord's door At this time Joe flood too greatly They knocked, but were told by in need of comfort not to take any the porter his Lordship was not at advice that was offered to him.... home---Julia faid fhe was forry for But he thought this advice excel- that, because she had letters of importlent. He accordingly wrote, with ance for him. "I can't help that, great care, the advertisement we (anfwered the porter) he's not at have already repeated, and the hoft home; and he'll not be home---I ler fent one of his boys with him to don't know when he'll be home." the Daily Advertiser. And this is "But could not you guefs, Sir?--the hiftory of this extraordinary ad- becaufe a great deal depends upon it.” vertisement. "Lord, Ma'am ! (replied the liveried Cerberus) I tell you I know nothing about it."---Sounds so ungentle, uttered by fo rude a voice, frightened Julia effectually, and fhe haftened away from the door; and Joe, forrowful enough, was preparing to follow--when the porter beckoned him back with a bem! and the motion of his finger. "Pray, my lad, (faid this dog in office) who is that?” When the juftice found fo many circumstances fpontaneously confpiring to vindicate her innocence---that her amiable fimplicity fubjected her to fo many dangers, and that the was the object rather of a polite humanity than of perfecution, he refolved to intereft himfelf in her fafety-and, in the first place, he ordered one of his men to go and conduct Joe to his Miftrefs--As to the fat woman, the Magiftrate told her that her money fhould be taken care of; and the highwayman was remanded to prifon. Joe arrived---Suffice it to fay, that Julia preffed him warmly by the hand, and half cried with joy; and Joe took faft hold of the skirt of her robe, as if he dreaded her running away from him once more. "My miftrefs" (anfwered Joe.) "Aye-From the country, I fup pofe." "Yes (replied Joe) : from the country too." I come "O---fo I fee---fo I fee.---You are not acquainted, I find, with the ways in this town?" "No, Sir, (faid Joe)---not with all of them. "Why, ers for a very important era in the life of my heroine, it may be neceffary to relate what this noble youth was--A foolish grandmother had left him three thoufand a year, independent of his father and of his age; all which, with, three thousand more, he gallantly spent like a man of fpirit, long before the year was expired: "Why, then---(come hither--your ear a moment) I have the honour to be Lord C's porter; and my mafter has ordered me... that is, I and my mafter have agreed ---to receive no letters here, unless the bearer gives me a crown.---However, as you and your mistress are ftrangers, and I am a man of honour, I'll be more merciful to you, and foHe afferted, that every kingdom confent to take only half-a-crown--But mum-fly---not a word for your life---for if my mafter was to hear I take fo little, he'd turn me out of my place." "Sure I am, Mafter, (anfwered Joe) indeed we are both very much obliged to you for being fo kind.-But then what can you do for us, if fo be that my Lord a'n't at home?" "Phaw, man! (faid the porter) run after your miftrefs and bring the money, and I'll fatisfy you about that." "O---an' that be all (replied Joe) I can pay the money myfelf." He drew out his last half-crown, and gave it. He then ran after Julia, and as he went he murmured to himself." Icod though, wern't that a Lord's houfe, it looks hugely like bribery and corruption." Our travellers now returned, and were received by the porter with a more gracious complaifance. He now informed them, that, though his Lordship was out of town, he was only at his villa, and would certainly return to town to dinner; but that if they were in a hurry, the young Lord was at home, and that he had leave to open his father's letters in his abfence. Julia delivered her pacquet to the porter, and they were ordered to walk into the antichamber. The letters were sent up to the noble youth in his dreffing in Europe contributed to furnish his Such was the youth to whom the letter of the father of Julia was carried. He opened it, and on reading the following paragraph, "I have prefumed, my Lord, to fend my daughter as the bearer of this petition," &c. On reading this, he rung his bell with great haste, and inquired if the bearer was below? Being informed that she was, he flew down the stairs, and, looking in Julia's face with the moft polite courtefy, defired her to walk up ftairs while he confidered the tenor of her letter. The fervants were ordered at the fame time to conduct Joe into the hall, and be civil to him. Julia afcended after her noble patron. Hic pauca defunt. We muft here pafs over the hiftory of half an hour, because it is not yet ripé för relation. In the mean time Lord C's Chaplain, who had been with his Lordfhip in the country, arrived at the houfe-He came home before his Lordship, to finish fome bufinefs of importance to himself before din ner-time---When he entered, he obferved Joe ftaring about in the hall, and' perceiving him to be a ftranger from the country, entered into converfation with him--He had not many queftions to afk, for Joe, with his ufual frankneís, told him the whole hiftory--about himfelf, about Julia, and Julia's bufinefs, and where fhe was now, and with whom. Now this Chaplain was plain in his manners, and equally plain in his drefs-fo plain that he fcarcely appeared to be of the cloth. Though an enemy to bloodshed, he was far from being a coward; though a churchman, he was no hypocrite; and though he would not fubfcribe to the Thirty-nine Articles, he was allowed to be an exemplary man." The Chaplain having finifhed his interview with Joe, was retiring to his own apartment. He had not opened his door, when a loud thriek faluted his car then another-and another. A thoufand ideas rufhed upon his mind. He knew Julia by report, and he knew his young lord by experience. There was no doubt of the business below-He haftened down the stairs, and liftened a moment at the key-hole; he could only perceive that fome perfons were engaged in a violent ftruggling, and that the chairs were knocked against each other. He tried to enter, but the door was locked. Placing his fhoulder against it, therefore, he forced it forward with gentleness and with eafe. He entered; and lo! innocence was once more in diftrefs! The hair of Julia was difhevelled, and a hankerchief" was drawn clofe over her mouth, which prevented her cries. Her cloak and hankerchief lay upon the floor, and the arms of her ravifher were twined clofely around her. A fhoe had dropt from her foot, and many of the pins had quitted her bofom. Unfortunate girl! continually doomed to be the prey of cowards and fcoundrels! The noble youth quitted his hold when the Chaplain appeared, and, advancing to him, exclaimed, in a threatening tone, "How dare you, Sir, force your impertinence upon me in my own dreffing-room?" My lord (returned the young man, putting his left hand in his bat om, and giving him a full but indif 'ferent lock)---My lord, does it fuit your high fpirit to be told, that you are the meaneft---O by far the meaneft creature in your father's houfe? Noble, without worth--and proud,, without dignity--you are beneath the mifcreant who caters for your appetites. Poor, pitiful, wretched animal! I do not pull you by the nofe ---I do not kick you on the breech--I do not lafh you round the room--I do not in any degree deign to chaf tife the wretch, who has ftooped to infult a beautiful, an unoffending woman, Go then, you boafter! retire into your clofet; blufh in private; and remember that you have reduced yourself to be forced to hear thefe ftinging truths, even from fo humble a man as your father's Chaplain. I fcorn, Sir, to tell your father that you are a fcoundrel; but do not forget that for the future I confider you as my inferior." He finified; and taking Julia by the hand, he led her out of the room, and drew the door behind" him. The dignity of manhood is refiftlefs; the peerling reddened, and the paftor triumphed. (To be continued.) LITERARY No. V. THE LITERARY REVIEW. THE CHILD'S LIBRARY. Part First, and Second, by WILLIAM BIGLOW. [Salem, Fofbua Cufbing, 1800.] 1 WHILE the attention of our citizens is engaged, perhaps too much, in affairs beyond their duty or control, it may not be improper or ufelefs to defcend to the more tranquil fcenes of our schools, on which depend, in great meafure, the future destiny of our nation. The inftructors of thefe are virtually the legiflators of the rifing generation. The manner in which the minds of youth are moulded into manhood, and the books from which they receive the earliest impreffions of fentiment and science, though they may feem trivial in their nature, are, in their confequences, of the utmost importance, and claim the highest attention of the public. Convinced that the laborers in thefe vineyards are not only "worthy their hire," but of the most liberal encouragement, we esteem it a duty we owe to them and the community, to appreciate the merits of thofe works which are calculated to form the morals and manners, and facilitate the acquirement of useful knowledge in our schools. The author of the work before us, whofe fugitive pieces of poetry and profe have often delighted the amateur, has for fome time past turned his attention from the pleafing to the more useful walks of literature. Aid. ed by feveral years experience in teaching, he has begun a number of volumes for the use of schools. far as we are able to judge, from those which have appeared, (part first and fecond) we think the work does credit to the author, and promifes much utility to the public. So In the Child's Library, the young pupil is led from eafy and common U u words of one fyllable, to fhort and familiar fentences, compofed of monofyllables. From thefe, he is grad-: ually introduced to leffons, containing words of two, three, and more fyllables, and longer and more variegated fentences. At the clofe of the first part are added the numerals, and the principal stops, marks, and abbreviations, used in reading and writing. The fecond part confifts of lef fons for reading, in profe and poetry, for the further exercife and inftruction of thofe, who are already verfed in the first elements of this useful art. In both, the progress from the first rudiments to the more difficult leffons, is eafy and natural. The ftyle is fimple and confpicuous, and the precepts happily adapted to the capacity of youth, and well calculated to form them for useful and virtuous manhood. While we applaud the judgment of the author in his felections and arrangement, we cannot withhold our approbation from the original parts, which we presume were written by himself. Perhaps the author may be accufed of innovation for departing fo far from the prevalent mode of teaching the orthography of our language. It is to be confidered, however, that it is not long fince the general use of fpelling-books was an innovation in our fchools. It yet remains to be determined, which will most facilitate the progrefs of the pupil, the common method of confining a great portion of his time to a dry table of words, arranged in an arbitrary manner, without any natural connexion, and to |