Some dark'ning clouds there seems to be,
Just heaving from the Northern Sea;
Their edge is ting'd of fiery hue,
And pil'd up thunder heaves in view.
Now flies the zigzag lightnings there,
And pierce with fire the murky air,
And like a lamp they burn, they blaze,
And flash along the stormy ways;
But now the gloom is gathering round,
And deaf'ning thunders jar the ground;
The raven clouds are rent in twain,
And plunging torrents 'whelm the plain ;
But now a more terrific gloom,
Frowns o'er the heaven's a deeper doom
A jet black cloud of latent fires,
Just pendent o'er the Castle's spires,
Three dreadful peals of thunder there,
And lightnings three more horrid glare.
When lo descending from above,
A thunderbolt right onward drove
His plough share on the Castle brow.
And fir'd the Magazine below;
When earth at centre 'gan to moan,
Then belch'd her last expiring groan.

FEMALE CONSTANCY REWARDED.

In Everard's Letters, published in Italian in 1778, he gives the following interesting account of an adventure which he met with in the quicksilver mines of Idria.

"After passing," he says, "through several parts of the Alps, and having visited Germany, I thought I could not well return home without visiting the quicksilver mines at Idria, and seeing those dreadful subterranean caverns, where thousands are condemned to reside, shut out from all hopes of ever seeing the cheerful light of the sun, and obliged to toil out a miserable life under the whips of imperious task masters. "Such wretches as the inmates of this place my eyes never beheld. The blackness of their visages only serves to cover a horrid paleness, caused by the noxious qualities of the mineral they are employed in procuring. As they in general consist of malefactors condemned for life to this task, they are fed at the publie expense; but they seldom consume much provisions, as they lose their appetites in a short time, and commonly in about two years expire from a total contraction of all the joints in the

of the most affecting scene he ever yet beheld. A person came post from Vienna, to the little village near the mouth of the greater shaft. He was soon after followed by a second, and by a third. Their first inquiry was after the unfortunate Count, and I happened to overhear it, gave the best information I could.Two of these were the brother and cousin of the lady; the third was a fellow soldier and intimate friend of the Count; they came with his pardon, which had been procured by the general with whom the duel had been fought, who was perfectly recovered from his wounds. I led them with all the expedition of joy down to his dreary abode; presented to him his friends, and informed him of the happy change in his circumstances. It would be impossible to describe the joy that brightened upon his grief worn countenance; nor was the young lady's emotion less vivid at seeing her friends, and hearing of her husband's freedom.

Some hours were employed in mending the appearance of this faithful couple: nor could I without a tear, behold him taking leave of the former wretched companions of his toil. We soon emerged from the mine, and Alberti and his wife once more revisited the light of the sun.

"The empress had again taken him into favor, his fortune and rank are restored: and he, with his fair partner, now have the pleasing satisfaction of enjoying happiness with double relish, as they once knew what it was to be miserable."

EXTRACTS FROM BARTRAM'S TRAVELS.

Mr. Bartram's researches and adventures in the wilds of the southern states before their general settlement.

INTELLIGENT readers, who attend to the following extraordinary narrative, will naturally enquire into the degree of credit which is due to the relator. It is necessary therefore to inform them, that Mr. JOHN BARTRAM, the father of our present author, of the profession called quakers, was botanist to the king of Great Britain, a fellow of the royal society, and a person of a very respectable character. His son, WILLIAM BARTRAM, at the request of Dr. Fothergill, of London, in 1773, undertook to search the Floridas, and the western parts of Carolina and Georgia, for the discovery of rare and useful productions of nature, chiefly in the vegetable kingdom. He not only manifests an inviolable regard to truth, for which the quakers have always been remarkable; but an uncommon degree of piety towards God, and philanthropy towards his fellow creatures; qualities rarely to be found among modern travellers. He acknowl