memory, and, what pleases me above all, it has an air of undiffembled fincerity. Go on, my beft and amiable friend, to fhew me your heart fimply and without the fhadow of difguife, and leave me to weep over it, as I now do, no matter whether from joy or forrow." April 19th, 1770. "Alas! how do I every moment feel the truth of what I have fomewhere read, Ce n'eft pas le voir, que de s'en fouvenir; and yet that remembrance is the only fatisfaction I have left. My life now is but a perpetual conversation with your fhadow-the known found of your voice ftill rings in my ears there, on the corner of the fender, you are standing, or tinkling on the piano forte, or ftretched at length on the fofa. Do you reflect, my dearest friend, that it is a week or eight days before I can receive a letter from you, and as much more before you can have my anfwer; that all that time I am employed with more than Herculean toil, in pufhing the tedious hours along, and wishing to annihilate them; the more I ftrive, the heavier they move, and the longer they grow? I cannot bear this place, where I have spent many tedious years within lefs than a month fince you left me. I am going for a few days to fee poor N invited by a letter, wherein he mentions you in fuch terms as add to my regard for him, and exprefs my own fentiments better than I can do myself. I am concerned,' says he, that I cannot pass half my life with him; I never met with any one who pleafed and fuited me fo well the miracle to me is, how he comes to be fo little fpoiled, and the miracle of miracles will be, if he continues fo in the midst of every danger and feduction, and without any advantages but from his own excellent nature and underftanding. I own I am very anxious for him on Ed. Mag. July 1799. this account, and perhaps your inquietude may have proceeded from the fame caufe. I hope I am to hear when he has paffed that cursed sea, or will he forget me thus in infulam relegatum? If he should, it is out of my power to retaliate.' Surely you have written to him, my dear Bonftetten, or furely you will! he has moved me with thefe gentle and fenfible expreffions of his kindness for you: are you untouched by them? "You do me the credit, and falfe or true it goes to my heart, of afcribing to me your love for many virtues of the highest rank. Would to heaven it were fo! but they are indeed the fruits of your own noble and generous understanding, which has hitherto ftruggled against the ftream of cuftom, paffion, and ill-company, even when you were but a child; and will you now give way to that ftream when your ftrength is increafed? Shall the jargon of French Sophifts, the allurements of painted women comme il faut, or the vulgar careffes of proftitute beauty, the property of all who can afford to purchafe it, induce you to give up a mind and body by Nature diftinguished from all others, to folly, idleness, difeafe and vain remorfe? Have a care, my ever amiable friend, of loving what you do not approve. Know me for your most faithful and moft humble defpote." "May 9th, 1770. "I am returned, my dear Bonftetten, from the little journey I made into Suffolk, without answering the end propofed. The thought that you might have been with me there has embittered all my hours: your letter has made me happy, as happy as fo gloomy, fo folitary a being as I am is capable of being made. I know, and have too often felt the difadvantages I lay myfelf under, how much I hurt the little intereft G 1 have I have in you, by this air of sadness fo contrary to your nature and pre. fent enjoyments: but fure you will forgive, though you cannot fympathize with me. It is impoffible for me to diffemble with you; fuch as I am I expose my heart to your view, nor wish to conceal a fingle thought from your penetrating eyes. All that you fay to me, especially on the fubject of Switzerland, is infinitely acceptable. It feels too pleafing ever to be fulfilled, and as often as I read over your truly kind letter, written long fince from London, I ftop at thefe words: La mort qui peut glacer nos bras avant qu'ils foient entrelaces." BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED IN LONDON IN JUNE 1799. Hiftory. 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THE FORTUNATE HINDOO; A TALE *. the dark ages of antiquity, before Plenty had poured her cornucopia into the lap of Commerce, or Arts and Sciences had illumed the mind of Induftrywhile Manufactures yet were in a flate of infancy and imperfection, and men were unfkilled in difcovering and improving the gifts of Nature-on the golden coaft of Hindoflan, in one of the moft fertile and picturefque tracts of that country, the Hindoo, Vendrapedroó, railed his hut, and cultivated a little spot of ground, which had been granted him by the Rajah, on account of fome fignal fervice formerly rendered his family. Here he funk wells, and bordered his tanks with spreading trees, for the comfort and convenience of the weary traveller, who conftantly fought their refreshing fhade amidft the fervent heats of noon. At a little diftance, the ocean-like Ganges rolled his mighty torrent, in which the oriental beauties performed their morning ablutions, and rose, like the poetical divinities, dripping from the waves, with their vases on their heads to fupply the contiguous temples with the refrigerant element. His excurfions were feldom extended beyond the gunget, whence he procured the neceffaries of life. His mind was untainted by envy, as was his body by intemperance. His humane and generous difpofition, his decent deportment and hofpitality, gained the love and admiration of all who knew him. In this neighbourhood refided an avaricious Chief, named Shamarauze, who, as they lay in the vicinage of his own lands, caft a covetous eye on the little poffeffions of this worthy individual. Vendra This tale has for its foundation a tradition in the Mufulipatam Circar. † Or market. Vendrapedron, rambling one day on the confines of the jungle, with his hunting fpear in his hand, beheld his proud neighbour taking an airing in his palanquin, attended by his flaves; when a royal tyger, fuddenly fpringing from his lurking place, overlet the carriage, and difperfed the attendants; but before he could feize his prey, the intrepid Hindoo rufhed upon the brindled beaft, and plunged his weapon into its heart. The bravery of this action refounded throughout the country, and Shamarauze long fhewed every mark of kindness and gratitude to his deliverer. In procefs of time Vendrapedroo fell ill of a climacteric disease, in which he was advised by a wandering Bramin to make a voyage to sea, as the only method of accelerating his recovery. The envious Shamarauze could not refift the impulse of his predominant paffion; he was impatient to put into practice a project haftily formed; and for this purpote he offered his galley to the unfufpecting man, according to the cuf tom of the times, to coaft along the fhore for a few days; and, to navigate it, put on board fome of his trufty flaves, to whom he gave fecret orders to run into an uninhabited ifland, and there to fet the poor valetudinarian on shore, in order that he might perish. A ftranger himself to artifice, and unfufpicious of others, Vendrapedroo fell into the foare, accepting the proffered kindness with confidence and thankful nefs. Every neceffary preparation was foon made; and after proftrating himfelf at the pagoda, and imploring the favour of all the benevolent deities, he embarked, under the aufpices of a cloudlefs fky and a reviving breeze. Towards the evening they beheld the floping fhores of the deftined ifland; and, as the unhappy man's malady increased, they propofed to difembark and reft for the night under the thick foliage of the over-arching banyan. For this purpose they ran up a creek, moored their veffel, took fome refreshment, and, making a foft bed of leaves, laid their charge a little diftance from the fpot where they betook themfelves to reft, under a feigned anxiety for his quiet. Waiting till the dead of night, the treacherous crew ftole away, got on board, and put off to fea with the greateft expedition and filence, rejoicing in the accomplishment of their purpose, and confident that the unbappy victim muft foon inevitably perish. Many days they coafted along the fhores of the continent, in conformity to their orders not to return till a certain portion of time had elapsed, at the expiration of which, a fabricated ftory of the natural death of the fick man might bear the "faireft femblance" of authenticity. At length, excited by an irresistible curiofity to afcertain the event of their artifice, they refolved to return by the fame track, and go again on shore, to feek the remains of the deferted exile. It is not easy to conceive how greatly they were confufed and aftonifhed to find him not only alive, but enjoying a better ftate of health than they had ever before known him poffefs. They concluded that he muft have been fupplied with the means of fufiftence by fome fupernatural power; and, having no apology to offer for their perfidy, endeavoured to divert his attention by curious interrogations. "Come along with me," faid he," and "I will fhew you how I have been fup"plied with food and medicine." They followed, and he led them to the centre of the island, where they entered a little thicket of Sugar Canes. He took one of them, and, bruifing it with a large ftone, expreffed the juice, faying, "Though you left me here to perish of fickness and hunger, from hence have I obtained health and nutriment." The confcioufnefs of their guilt ftruck them dumb; but the generous man relieved them from their embarraffment, by obferving that he knew they acted only from compulfion, and was too well convinced that their Lord was the grand projector of this infernal plot. They acknowledged the truth, and deprecated his pardon for the part they had taken. He as readily forgave them, and propofed, that fince a failure in their expedition would inevitably fubject them to the rage of a violent mafter, on whofe caprice their lives depended, they fhould return without him, as faithful to their truft, while he patiently fubmitted himfelf to his fate. This inftance of unexampled fubmiffion overcame them; and, at their de parture, they invoked Heaven to shower bleffings on his head, and favour him with a speedy release. On their return, their mafter received them with every mark of fatisfaction, and applauded their fidelity in the work on which he had employed them, shortly after taking quiet poffeflion of the lands of his late injured neighbour. Some months had rolled away, when a ca |