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managed feftivities of the board, Lord C requested the Chaplain to fhew his fair vifitant, the pictures in the gallery, which comprehended fome of the moft perfect performances of the ancient and modern masters.

As no illuminated mind can conceive, nor pen exprefs, the delightful perturbation of the young ecclefiaftic's heart, on receiving this injunction, I fhall imitate Apelles, and pafs over what I cannot delineate-he modeftly arofe to convey his lovely charge to the promifed fcene of contemplation, and had led her to the door, when the benevolent Nobleman, arrested their progress for a minute (and minutes infuch circumstances are whole hours of delay) to exact a promise from Julia, that he would use his houfe, as her peculiar home, until her business or wishes in the metropolis were fulfilled-Julia bowed affent to his hofpitable defire, and the parties gracefully receded from each other.

If there are any perfons fo imperfectly initiated in the mysteries of love, as to believe that the fond twain amused themselves with the divine conceptions of a Raphael; the grace of Corregio, or the majelty of Michael Angelo, I pity

their want of difcernment-when the reader recollects that this was the first time that Julia had been alone with her young Chaplain, fince her deliverance from the licentious fury of an honorable ruffian, he cannot be amazed, that he fhould feel the richest difplay of the beft artifts abforbed in the fuperior merit of her preferver,, who was fo nobly active in a fitu

ation, where few would have ventured to offer an opinion in favor of diftreffed virtue--fuffice it to fay, that the tender and unfophifticated heart of Julia, was warmed in the furvey of her gallant and moral companion-fhe heard his argument with attention, and eagerly gave him credit, even for advantages he did not poffefsher cheeks were flushed with crimfon, whenever he preffed her lily hand between his own, and the ftood confeffedly the victim of her feeling, though her language was delicately chafte, and her ideas unvifited by a licentious thought.

Oh! love, thou tyrant of the foul !-through what devious paths you often tread, to allure impaffioned youth to woe-to draw"Hearts after you, tangled in amorous nets;" yet, for thy kindly influence here, fhalt thou be forgiven-it is from the coincidence of fuch events, that Hymen is enabled to maintain his dignity, and blend felicity with moral law.

Here I muft neceffarily abridge the hiftory of three days, during which the most unreferved communication of fentiment was indulged between the enamoured couple-yet was the important event not divulged to Lord C-, and the only motive to this forbearance originated in Julia, who would not confent to that particular measure, until her dear father had ratified the propofal with his confent-a special.. meffenger was dispatched to Elmwood, and the answer was aufpicious to their common defire.

How fupremely happy is that ftate of truth, when mutual confidence is the refult of mutual virtue-in what portion of his being, can the voluptuary derive an enjoyment, equal to thofe fenfations which arife when duty fanctifies paffion?-- How weak are the arguments of the Materialiftshow futile the fubtilties of Epicurus and Spinofa, when opposed to the force of thofe emotions, which uplift the guiltlefs, and affuredly demonftrate that we shall be rewarded in proportion as we are juft-that our free agency is infeparably connected with refponfibility; and that to pass through life fafely, we must act wifely, and to be bleffed, we must be inno

cent.

When, by the indirect movements of chance, it came to the knowledge of Lord C--, that his fon had behaved with difrefpect towards the pure daughter of his old friend, he manifefted emotions of furprise and indignation; and ordered that he should be acquainted with the return of his fon, in the inftant that he arrived-those orders had not been delivered many hours before his arrival was announced-he commanded him into his prefence, and with an air of parental dignity, addreffed him thus: "My Son, for fuch I am compelled to believe you are, I require you to tell me, upon what principle you think our reciprocal duties are to be maintained towards each other?""This question, my Lord, is fo very fingular and unexpected, that I fcarcely know how to frame an anfwer, adequate to your defires."-"Why then, Sir,

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I will relieve you from this embarrassment, and inform you, it is Justice;"- Certainly, my Lord."" Then, as you admit the principle, give me leave to afk you, if you hold it as juft, that the powerful fhould opprefs the defenceless ?" "Affuredly not, my Lord.” "Perhaps you

will not confider it as unreafonaable, that the aggreffion fhould be expiated by punishment?"-"To what do all these unufual queftions tend? you appear to me, my Lord, to be drawing me into a state of responsibility in which I am not interested." "Indeed you are, Sir; and interested in a very great degree."-" How, my Lord ?""I will tell you Sir you have had the meanness and the audacity to infult an amiable young lady, under my roof, and I infift that you immediately write her a letter of atonement, and afk her forgiveness.

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My Lord, you may have been mifinformed in this matter; give me permiffion to explain the circumftances."-" I understand fo much of the truth already, Sir, that an explanation may increase, but cannot do away your dishonor, fo, without any hesitation, take up the pen, and write to the lady what I fhall dictate."-"You will recollect, my Lord, that Julia is not my equal."-" According to the laws of politenefs, Sir, every woman is every man's fuperior ; and agreeably to the laws of morality, fhe is an angel, and you are

a

-but I will not be unneceffarily harth in fentiment; fo inftantaneously write."-with a heart overcharged with mortification, almoft to burfting, the hon

erable offender fat down, and, with a trembling hand, indicted the following epistle, from the words of Lord C

• Madam,

IT duly becomes me, as the guardian of my own honor, to implore forgiveness, for an error committed during the fufpenfion of my reafon; I vainly imagined that the advantages refulting from high birth, youth and for tune, could compenfate for the want of virtue; but my reflection has tutored me otherwife; I am now fo thoroughly convinced of my own unworthinefs, that Icannot be happy if you withhold your pardon the purity of your own nature, and the truth you have imbibed from the education of fo good a man as your father, will fuggeft that all are not to be abandoned who are faulty, and that those who forgive moft, the more nearly resemble heaven.With the deepest contrition, and the most ardent hope, I beg permiffion to fubfcribe myself, Your moft obedient,

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Humble fervant,

CHARLES C.

The manly ecclefiaftic perufed
the epifle with a mixture of plea
fure and aftonishment, and when
he had concluded, approached
the young gentleman with an
air of ineffable kindness; and
taking him by the hand, exclaim.
ed, how happy would it be for
human-kind, if all tranfgreffions
were thus underflood, and thus
obliterated. "You must not be
amazed my Lord, (added he,
turning to his patron) if I feel
fenfations nearly approaching to
ecftafy, on this theme, as the ob
ject of this letter has confented to
be my wife."-"Your wife !"
ejaculated both in the fame in-
ftant! "It is even fo, (rejoined
the worthy Curate) provided
your Lordship has no objection
to the union." So far am I, Sir,
from difapproving your choice,
that I must instantly go and give
the bride elect joy; and you my
fon, fhall go too, and prove, by
your prefent demeanor, that you
are ashamed of the past this is
a duty that all will fulfil with
cheerfulness: When virtue is re
warded all that think fhould re
joice."

While the venerable old Peer Here let the reader ponder upwas in the act of preparation to on the undefcribable emotions, feal and fubfcribe this letter, in which played about the fufceptierder that it might be fent to Ju- ble heart of Julia, from the moha, the Curate entered, but, in mentous period that fhe was left fecing the object of his recent re- with the Curate, until fhe was fentment, he was going to retire, congratulated on their return under the apprehenfion that he from the altar, by the man who might be tranfacting fome private attempted to destroy her dignity bulinefs with his father, Stop, and peace- but it was a chain of Sir, (faid the old nobleman,) I events fo diverfified and fo luxwant you to be witness to an act uriant, that no vulgar mind can of retribution; read this letter, accompany the progreffion. and then inform me if the apolo-When a man of honor folicits the gy is proportioned to the offence." hand of a woman of virtue, the

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god of marriage affumes a nobler port than usual, and charms with a reflected grace-then his

fetters are owned to be filken, and his influence derived from heaven.

A HISTORY OF A VOYAGE TO THE COAST OF AFRICA, and TRAVELS into the Interior of that Country; containing particular Defcriptions of the Climate and Inhabitants, and interefting pare ticulars concerning the Slave trade. By JOSEPH HAWKINS, formerly of New-York.

HAV

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ITAVING chofen our lodgment, and kindled our fires, we fupped as ufual; I determined to keep the first watch; Hurdee had lain down to fleep, and I was parading clofe to the fire, when Hurdee, who had heard the found of steps on the ground, fuddenly started up, and ran to his gun: I directed him not to fire but at my order, and fhould I fire, not to difcharge his piece, till I fhould have loaded. We could hear the trampling of a foft foot, and the ruling of the busheofe on our left, but could not determine whether it proceeded from man or beaft. We were foon fatisfied however that it was our morning visitor, whom we could fee croffing and recroffing an opening in our front, where the fire was low: we therefore renewed our fire, and threw feveral pieces of the lighting wood in the track of the animal, who we found retreated, fnorting and growling. Finding ourselves thus fuccefsful, we kept our fires alternately well lighted, and obtained a troubled fleep, but fufficient for a moderate refreshment.

In the morning we pursued our

route rather to the eastward, the mountain fide bending off in that direction. The morning fun shined extremely hot through the thickets, and we could difcern a variety of wild animals, fuch as I had never feen before; the monkeys were very numerous, and feveral leopards beautifully spotted pafied us affrighted, moftly in pairs.

About noon we had gained higher ground, the woods grew thinner, and we had an occafional profpect of an open, but mountaineous tract of country, extremely romantic, but dreary in the dif tant appearance. We loitered through the heat of the day in a fhady ravine or glen, worn thro rocks and fands by ftreams from fprings in the bofom of the mountain; here we enjoyed the pleafure of bathing, and an agreeable repaft of wild fruits.

The courfe that we had hitherto puriued was tedious, and tho not deftitute of pleasures, was fatiguing, and attended with danger. We had calculated the dif tance we had come as well as we could, and concluded that we muft not be far from the Little

Congo river; we determined to follow the courfe of the ravine, to the place into which the water discharged itself; often were we on the verge of retracing the path we had come up to the fummit, the fatigue was fo exceffive, and the heat which reflected from the rocks and a chalky loam on the fides of the ravine became intolerable; it became neceffary to take up our nights reft in this glen where we refted well, but with our fires as ufual.

Early in the morning we purfued our route downwards: the defcent became lefs fteep, and the water accumulating, gradually formed a deep rivulet. About ten o'clock we had the fatisfaction of feeing the winding of a beautiful little river, flowing with gentleness along the fkirts of the hills. We concluded it must fall into the Congo, and accordingly refolved to conftruct a raft to crofs. After fome labor we effected our purpose, and gained the oppofite bank about eight miles down. Here we could perceive the track of human feet; we, in confequence, determined to change our courfe directly S. E. through the champaign lands, and to keep the fhade, which was but light, confifting of trees,thinly fcattered andof flender growth, interspersed with a tree like the wild date. and the palm tree in great variety. About five o'clock, when we had walked about an. hour and a half after dinner, we came unexpectedly upon a town of the natives. The huts ftood fcattered irregularly in our front, and the appearance of fallow land ftretched off contiguous to them

on the right and rear. Fort nately, the village was deferted, but we could obferve on an open elevation the smoke of domeftic fires at the dufk of evening, a confiderable way to the eastward. We were obliged once more, with reluctance, to feek the woods to the fouthward of us; and en camped that night amid the horrors of the defart the roaring of the tyger, and other beasts that haunt the neighbourhood of the innocent favage.

We flept none this night! Its horrors are fill awake in my memory, and I fhudder when i recal them; our fires appeared fcarcely fufficient for our protec tion. We heard the step of the heavy breathing tyger, his hor rid, broken, panting afpiration: this with the thrilling fcreams of the jackall, the yell of the wild dog, and the rustling of the leaves and branches, on feveral fides, kept us in a state of terror that cannot be conceived, but by thofe who have experienced fuch fituations, and feen the glaring eyes of the moft ferocious animals rolling within a few paces, and ready to pounce upon and tear the trembling victim to 2 thousand pieces.

Thinking it beft, when day joyfully broke in upon us, to quit this neighbourhood, where the vacated village already pointed out a warning that we had neglected, of the dangerous course we were pursuing; we determined to prefer the rifque of expofure to our own fpecies, than to the monsters of the wood, and again bent our course to the eastward.About 11 o'clock, we were fur

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