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creased with my respect for his character. There was no softening his horrid history, even though, as he said, it might be "the worst of him." To me he had been an entire falsehood, one deception following another, for purposes that all his barbarous story could not develope.

[We shall here omit some particulars of the narrative of inferior moment, and pass on to the action of the story.-Henrietta had now retired into the country.]

We had not been in the country eight days before the papers were filled with rumours of the dangerous indisposition of the King of France.

My anxiety increased. I dispatched nurse for intelligence, who returned terribly disconcerted, at so late an hour, as alarmed me for her safety.

St. Herman had been at our lodging late the night before. He had brought a man and woman and two coaches with him. His companions waited in the hall. He did not enquire for me, but his object was the Paris trunks; and he raved, the cook said, like a madman, when he did not see them in the usual place. After opening all the drawers, and taking several things out, he went away, imprecating me, the nurse (who he found moved the trunks), and all mankind.

The next morning an execution was put in the lodgings, and bailiffs so beset the house, that, afraid of bringing me into danger, she had walked from street to street two hours to avoid being watched.

"Alas! poor St. Herman!" I exclaimed, "The King is dead, and all is over." "Yes, Madam," replied nurse, the King is dead; not our English King, God be thanked! For my part I never loved the French; and indeed, I believe, if the truth was known, my master is no better than a French bite himself, and I cant't think how any Christian can pityOh, God!” she shrieked, “ there he is !—we shall be murdered !"

It was indeed his voice, too well known to be mistaken; and, had I not perceived he was intoxicated, my heart would at that moment have been open to his distress.

guard; if the intruders searched his house, it must be with a civil officer by day-light; and if they did not immediately retire, he would send for a constable.

St. Herman was outrageous; but his companion advised a retreat. He spoke low and in French; I could not hear all, but understood they were apprehensive of some pursuit. They soon drove off, and all was again quiet.

The gardener then came up. 1 found nurse had forearmed him. He apologized for taking the liberty;" but the gentleman himself was so much in liquor, an!, begging my pardon, his companion so ill looking—”

In that moment a single low rap renewed our alarm. The gardener encouraged us. He had not reached the door, before it was entered, by first one nian, then another. They were sheriff's officers, in pursuit of St. Herman.

Notwithstanding nurse's repeated assurance that she would tell at once, and glad if her master had been there, they were not satisfied till the house was searched, after which they civilly left us.

To expect repose after the occurrences of this evening was vain. Spite of my injuries, spite of the contempt which the duplicity of my husband's character inspired, my heart bled for the unfortunate St. Herman; and I felt the most poignant regret, when I considered that the provident care of my servant, in removing the trunks, had probably deprived him of the means to escape, not only confinement, but what I knew him well enough to feel, would be a still more bitter affliction, contempt, from those with whom he had no longer power to associate; and insult, from many who had been slaves to his pride, and hanger on his purse.

[We must here likewise, for the sake of our limits, hasten over some particulars, and proceed to a scene which is wrought up with great animation]

It was the season of the hay-harvest. The sun was setting, and the chearful labourers had just quitted the field. A few, very few steps were

"I wish," whispered I," you had left the enough to fatigue me. I sat down on the hay,

trunks."

"God be praised, I did not," returned she in the same tone; <. they will stop a gap."

Mis voice became more loud; his wife was in the house, he would not be denied entrance.

The gardener with his man resolutely opposed him. I now distinguished another voice, insisting, in broken English, that Monsieur's lady certainly occupied part of that house.

The gardener denied.

"Let me search," cried St. Herman.

The landlord called for his gun.-An Englishman's house was his castle, and the law his

while my delighted child bounded round me, and hunted for the few flowers the scythe had spared.

The still serenity of the evening, the dead silence, only broken by distant voices floating on the passing breeze, no moving object near, soothed by degrees the restless anxiety of my soul into a quiet and hopeless resignation; I felt as if in this peaceful spot I could lay down an existence, insupportable to myself, and of value to no earthly being, save the playful infant, who was indeed all that bound me to the earth. It was long since any coincidence of circumstance had brought

near me.

I rent the air with cries so loud, so piercing and deep, as, reverberating by the echo, frightened myself.

My brain was on fire; I had just recollection enough to deprecate my father's malediction in the hereafter.-Here my desolation was complete!

to my recollection the happy harvest evenings || dead I had seen him, and my child was no longer and beautiful vintage of Lorraine, where Julia and Henrietta were the arbiters of merit, dispensed rewards, and led the dance; remembrance too of my dear father, with a thousand recollected instances of his paternal indulgence, had scarce succeeded before his malediction filled me, as it always did, with terror; the sweet tear that accompanied the memory of dear Lorraine, suddenly chang d into drops of scalding anguish. Again I made an effort to rise, and again my I clasped my hands together." Oh, my best shrieks resounded through the air. Lights glarof fathers!" cried I, "deprived of inheritance, ing through the foliage, and a confused sound of an exile from thy native land, reduced to depend-approaching voices, stopped my breath. Life ence, nothing left to console the widowed hovered betwixt a faint ray of hope and deep, heart but one beloved child; was it for her, for deep inexpressible despair. thine only child, Oh, unhappy Dunbar!-"

A movement near, a sort of indistinct sound, half sigh and half groan, alarmed me, I hastily arose, A figure, whose air and character of countenance thrilled every sense, seemed moving to avoid my earnest gaze. I followed; but had not proceeded many steps before I shrieked "My father! Oh, my father!" and fell senseless to the ground.

Merciful God! what were my sensations when I recovered, and returning sight could discern only "darkness visible," I listened, but heard only the slow lavings of the river. No star lighted the firmament, no human being was near.

I heard my faithful nurse in loud lamentations I heard my name repeated; but, Oh misery, misery! I neither heard or saw my son!

Wild and incoherent were my demands for my child, and no less so were the replies of his foster mother: she instantly concluded what had hitherto escaped me, that he was drowned, and running to the bank, plunged into the river.Providentially the tide was low, and I had not her loss to add to my other calamities. My mind was a chaos. I would not be removed. My son, my son, was the sole object for which I wished to exist. I implored the aid of heaven and earth; offered rewards, Heaven

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I attempted in vain to rise. A shower had fal-knows, above my power; called for the commislen; my clothes were wet; my limbs were stiff-seration of all who had borne a child, and so inened, I was unable to move.

terested the bye-standers that the labouring part of the bye-s anders were drawn together, torches procured, every part of that and the adjoining

It was only by slow degrees I became collected I remembered coming to this fatal spot. My father's image was still present: but, Oh, Al-meadows searched, and boatmen engaged to drag mighty God! my boy, my beautiful boy, my innocent cherub, whose auburn curls floating in the air, whose blue eyes, darted the pleasing sensation that animated his agile boundings, were my last recollections, what, Oh! what had be come of him? What time can eradicate the misery of that hour from my memory!

Frightful were the figures that now crowded on my brain, I had seen, and no effort of reason, no argument of religion or philosophy with which the idea has since been combated, admitted the smallest doubt, I had seen my father, living or

the river; but day broke on their unsuccessful zeal; and pains, which, while there was a ray of hope I had a resolution to conceal, now encreasing, I submitted to be carried home, and a second time became mother of a living infant; but in my weak and supposed dying state, my soul hanging on my lost boy, she excited no interest in me. If I was prevailed on to swallow nourishment, the motive was to regain strength to search the world for my son. If I submitted to medical prescriptions, still it was not life, but my child that was my object.

STATE OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS.

AN ENGLISH ENTERTAINMENT.

FRAGMENT OF AN UNPUBLISHED TOUR IN ENGLAND, IN 1804, BY PICTET, OF GENEVA.

At first a large circle in which are xenanged a few words, extremely insignificant

when the matter is neither fair nor foul. Then ennes the entertainment, at which, when the

appetite is satisfied (and every one knows how limited the faculty is) all the delicacies that luxury has accumulated become perfectly indifferent; and the conversation, which generally turne

"And it is thus that you live in society in this country!" said I, with mortification to my excellent hosts, when the company had retired; "it is thus you employ your time, your fortune, your faculties physical and moral, in communicating reciprocal languor for the benefit only of the wine merchant, the butcher, the poulterer, and so forth!" "Alas! replied they, thus is society organized amongst us. We frequently ex

upon these dainty dishes, is consequently desti- || At length about eleven o'clock the gentlemen tute of every kind of interest. At the third pe-again made their appearance: they took coffee riod, the ladies retire into the drawing-room, and and tea; the carriages drew up and they departed, the gentlemen seat themselves round a highly not without making an engagement to meet polished mahogany table, on which is placed be- again in the course of the week at the house of fore the master of the house a battery of decan- some one of the guests, who of course prepared ters full of different sorts of dessert wines. These an entertainment equally agreeable. he circulates one after the other, from hand to hand among the guests, from right to left, for an indefinite time. I felt neither the disposition nor the ability to sit it out; and after patiently drinking for two hours, without having the least inclination to drink, a species of question to which, if I am not mistaken, persons accused of any very atrocious crime were formerly subjected, I availed myself of the privilege of being a foreigner, supposed to be ignorant of their man-perience the sentiment with which you appear ners, to steal away into the drawing-room. Alas! I only escaped from Charybdis to Scylla. Here the circle of ladies was at the freezing point; and had it not been for the slight noise and motion occasioned by a few cups of tea which were handed around, I should have imagined myself alone, || at the Curtius's exhibition of wax-work figures which I had formerly seen at Paris. The mistress

of the house in vain made several meritorious efforts to set on foot some general conversation.

to be so deeply impressed; many rational people would gladly change this mode of living; but no one is bold enough to fasten the bell; they would be accused of interested motives by a class of fashionables of whom they stand in awe. We are therefore obliged to pay the social tax as well as many others, and to think ourselves fortunate when we can come off, as to day, with only five

or six hours murdered."

DESCRIPTION OF PHILADELPHIA,

Its Public Buildings, Books, Library, Theatre, Hospital, Poor House, Society, Manners, Costume and Amusements of its Inhabitants; from unpublished Travels in the two Louisianas. This Extract has been expressly sent by the Author to the Proprietor of this Magazine.

PHILADELPHIA, in every point of view, de- in front of which it is erected. This street, fifty serves the title of the first city of the United feet wide, exclusive of the pavement which oc States. It is built on the right bank of the De-cupies ten more on either side, is indisputably laware, from which, according to the plan of its one of the finest in the world. The markets founder, it was to have extended to the Schul- from which it has derived its name are 120 kyll, a smaller stream, the distance at this place fathoms in length; they are built with elegance, not exceeding two miles. But the inestimable and are superior to any thing of the kind that I advantages of proximity to a river navigable at have seen in Europe. They are daily provided almost every season of the year, induced the with all that the appetite of the epicure, or the people to keep near to it, and to build in a dif- valetudinarian can desire, and it is difficult to ferent direction. The rich, and persons who have forin a conception of the regularity and cleanretired from business, alone inhabit the upper liness which prevail in them. I should not inpart of the city; consequently, instead of form- sist so much on cleanliness, were it not, in a ing a perfect square on every side, it extends three populous city, so intimately connected with the miles along the Delaware, and not more than health and comforts of the inhabitants. three quarters of a mile towards the Schulkyll. According to the water-works, which in Mr. Penn's plan were to have been placed in the centre of the city, in order to distribute water to all its parts, are still at a great distance from its western extremity. The building which contains them is of elegant architecture, and is a pleasing termination to the superb Market-street, No. I. Vol. I.

ter.

Market-street, which divides the city from east to west, has caused the parts thus separated to be called the North Quarter and the South QuarAll the streets that intersect it in a direction parallel to the course of the Delaware, are denominated first, second, third, &c. of the south or of the north. They are all parallel, regularly laid out in right lines, and provided with good

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pavements. The brick houses are in general ter defraying the current expences, is applied to embellished with a plinth of fine white stone, the purchase of such books as the directors may which the Americans call marble, but the grain || think necessary to the promotion of the arts and of which is too coarse to deserve that appellation. sciences. The external cleanliness of the houses is a farther addition to their beauty. The Saturday is regularly devoted to the scouring of them from top to bottom, as well as the pavements and the steps, which are cleaned with as much care as the interior of our apartments.

The population of Philadelphia comprises about seventy thousand souls, of every religious sect and profession. It is my opinion that there is not a religious persuasion in Europe but what has its church or meeting here. These numerous places of worship, most of which are capacious and elegant, contribute not a little to the embellishment of the city. In some streets you may count six of them, which are well at ended on the days set apart for divine service. The people, it is true, are not obliged, as with us, to hear the word of God in an uneasy posture, by which they cannot fail to be soon fatigued. In all of them there are benches kept perfectly clean, and on this account the most capacious churches can scarcely contain eleven or twelve hundred persons.

The palace formerly inhabited by the President, the Hall of Congress, the banks of Pennsylvania and the United States, the hospital, the poor-house, the library, the theatre, and the museum, are all structures which either for their beauty, or the utility of their construction, are deserving of the attention and curiosity of travellers.

I shall not enlarge on the two first which since the translation of Congress to the Federal City have been sold at a cheap rate, and are now an academy. All that can be said of them is, that being erected for a temporary purpose they were worthy, the former of the great inan by whom it was inhabited, and the latter of the majesty of that assembly for whom it was intended.

The Bank of Pennsylvania, the first institution of the kind in this part of the world, would be a splendid edifice, if it were less crowded. That of the United States which has been recently erected may be considered as the most beautiful structure in Philadelphia. These two banks are still more remarkable for the credit they enjoy than for the beauty of edifices which contain them. Their bills from five to five hundred dollars are accepted in business preferably to money throughout almost the whole extended territory of the United States.

The arsenal, begun during the presidency of Mr. Adams, on occasion of the war with which this country was threatened by France, has been totally neglected by his successor. At some future period his fellow-citizens or posterity will probably reproach him for his economy. However secure of peace a state may be, it ought still to be on its guard; none are safe from the ambitious activity of a turbulent neighbour, or the destroying genius of men born for the calamity of the nations to which they belong. The arsenal, situated at no great distance from the skirts of the city, displays a grand and well-conceived design; the architecture is elegant; and on surveying the portion that has been finished, the spectator cannotforbear regrettingthat this superb edifice should have been abandoned almost before it was begun.

The theatre is large, well built, and the interior embellishments are pleasing; but like all the fine arts, comedy is in its infancy here. The plays which are acted are of English production; America has not yet given birth to a performance of that description. The actors, some of whom were formed on the English stage, cannot divest themselves of a phlegmatic character and the uniform equality above which they scarcely rise. The Americans prefer tragedy to comedy, in which they do not appear to take real delight, unless it presents a contrast to their own character in the extravagant levity, the ridiculous foppery, and excessive impertinence of a loquacious French petit maître.

In the interior of the play-house neither order nor decorum are attended to. The noise of peo

In the front of the public library is a statue of Dr. Franklin, to whom it seems to be peculiarly dedicated. No person can be ignorant of the obligations which natural philosophy owes to him, and America will never forget the part he took in effecting her independence. The library contains from thirty to thirty-two thousand volumes, most of them are selected with judg-ple coming in or going out is continually disment and preserved with care. A provision is made for its maintenance and augmentation by means of an annual subscription of such of the inhabitants as are lovers of literature, or are desirous of contributing to its progress. Each subscriber may take away any books that he has occasion for, upon promising to be answerable for the same. The surplus of the subscriptions, af

turbing the attention of the spectators, who, notwithstanding the prohibitions expressed in the advertisements, has frequently much to endure from the abominable smell of segars, which are continually smoaked there. The men keep their hats on, and in this manner plant themselves before the ladies; very rarely indeed are they suffie ciently gallant to offer them their places. Every

thing demonstrates that democracy and politeness are seldom found in each other's company.

The hospital is a splendid building, distinguished for careful attendance and cleanliness, where the patients of both sexes are waited on by women, and visited daily by physicians reputed the most skilful in Pennsylvania. The beds, to the number of 120, are divided into several wards set apart for different diseases. They are kept continually aired, and are only warmed to such a degree as to prevent the patients suffering from the cold. The Council-hall, and that for surgical operations, are exceedingly beautiful. The library is furnished with all the works that can be interesting to health, and no pains are spared for its embellishment.

After visiting all the apartments of the patients, and others destined to contribute to their comfort and relief, I was conducted to the subterraneous corridors, where the unhappy wretches who labour under mental derangement are confined. It is particularly on account of the treatment which these unfortunate persons experience, that this institution deserves to be admired. Placed separately in small clean chambers, and attended with as much care as their situation will permit, they are deprived only of that portion of liberty which might prove detrimental to society. Through these chambers, 80 in number, pass flues which keep up a degree of heat always equal. Their food is good, and though they are always at liberty to ask, they obtain what they want without difficulty. Struck with the great number of unfortunate creatures contained in this dreary abode, I inquired of the physicians to this institution, who accompanied me, to what cause could be ascribed the great disproportion which 1 conceived to exist between the vast number of individuals afflicted with this dreadful malady and the comparatively few who appear to labour under it in Europe. He acknowledged, without hesitation, that it originated in the abuse of spirituous liquors, in which the inhabitants of this continent indulged. From the remarks made by his predecessors, and confirmed by hi, own experience, it was certain that half the num. ber owed the loss of their reason to excessive drinking. Out of the other half the malady of one-third might be ascribed to love or jealousy; that of another third to religious fanaticism; and the derangement of the remainder proceeded from different maladies, and had no particular

cause.

The revenues of the hospital are daily increasing by the benefactions of individuals and the improvement of the lands belonging to it. They are managed by respectable citizens, who are ap. pointed annually by the state of Pennsylvania.

The physicians and surgeons are likewise nominated by the state, and exercise their functions gratuitously for one year, and sometimes for

two.

The same humanity which provides for the sick, watches likewise over that wretched class whom misfortunes, accidents, old age, and even vice, have incapacitated for procuring a subsistence. All these live retired from society, in the poor house, where they are employed in the simplest occupations, and are decently cloathed and fed. There is a hall for the incurables; to these belong the old men, the maimed, the blind, and all those who are afficted with any of the Inaladies which conduct men by slow steps to certain death. There are halls of the same kind for the female sex; the men's side being separated from that which contains the women.

The employment of those who are able to work, consists for the most part in unravelling the old junk, in washing and cleansing it from the tar, to render it serviceable again. The women card or spin cotton or wool; tailors, shoemakers, weavers, too infirm to earn a livelihood in the world, here work at their trades when their health permits: in a word, every thing is regulated in such a manner, that no person who is able to work can remain idle. It nevertheless appears that the produce of their labours does not exceed one fourth of the expenditure, either on account of the small number of persons who are employed, or the little real advantage which results from their industry. The revenues of this house, like those of the hospital, are under the management of respectable inhabitants, appointed annually by the assembly of the state of Pennsylvania. No person dares to refuse this honourable office, or to treat its duties with indifference and neglect.

The yellow fever has committed greater ravages at Philadelphia than in any other city of the United States. In 1793, it broke out in such a dreadful manner, that upwards of fifteen thousand persons were attacked by it, and of that number more than one half perished.. It again appeared in 1798 and 1799, but with less alarming symptoms, though it swept off great numbers of the inhabitants. Since that period, government has adopted the most judicious regulations for preserving the salubrity of the air. It has likewise taken all the precautions that prudence can suggest, for cutting off communication with infected places; but notwithstanding its care, it could not prevent the re-appearance of this scourge in 1802, with symptoms of malignity which cost the lives of a great number of persons.

In respect to the society and manners of the people of Philadelphia, something remains to be said:

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