The National Register. — London, England, 1821-01-08 00:00:00

, , . ~- THE SACRIFICE. [Front Gold's London Magazine] The Count Cherie was a powerful Italian nobleman, Who possessed, in en eminent degree, the peculiar charac teristics of his nation. Proud in his disposition,liberal in his establishment, hat revengeful in his nature; his temper was perpetually nailed. from the want of that mumble propen sity a hick induces its possessors to regard the petty failures of inniikind, as object. rather of pity than disgust. Though naturally high-spirited, and even magnanimous when his prejudices did not interfere to thwart his better feeling+, he was subjected to occasional fits of the darkest malevolence, runt the dereliction of his favotirite daughter, Maritsa. who had placed her affections upon an object iotinitely beneath the Count's consideration. had iutlamed his mind to a mate of irritation that bantered upon phrenxy. Rankling with the remembrance of her last interview, when with tears and ! burning blushes she confessed her atinchinent, he called her how an leparimetit remote from the intrusion of strangers, and imprecated on her head the bitterest anathemas of 'revenge, if for an instant she withheld her compliance of discarding her lover fur ever from her sight. Terrified at the menaces of her father, and shrinking from the malicious expression of his dark countenance, the poor girl knew scarcely what reply to make. The thoughts of the young Juan Sba:zarro came across her imagination; she recalled his last looks—the insineating tenderness of his voice—tile respectful deference of his attachment, and ..he reflection inspired her with addit Mani cuurage. to a voice faulterin; with emotiou, sod a ith eyes bent towards the earth, the eitil-avoured to mitigate the phrensy of her isuliAnant parent; but when site found that even the tears of n favourite child were not proof against the pride of a parent, she refused ter comply with his request, sad left the apaitineuts, with the imprecations of the Cuunt Cuero) haunting her imagination At she a ithdrew. On crossinl the Orr-6114dd of the great palace-wall, the was addressed by Joan, alto eagerly in. quired what success she had met with from her father.— NV hen informed of his barbarity, and the cruel request that accompanied it, he poetised his beloved still closer to his bosom; and as she codjureo hint by all that he held mo,t dear upon earth, to avoid the pekoe of her father, as he would the resort of an enemy, promined implicit obedieuce, and with a soul deeply lacerated with the fears of eternal separation, telactlantly withdrew. Time, that soother of alliction, rolled on, but brought no balm to the depressed spirits of Marion. She lied received no intelligence of Juan ; and her desponding Soucy, sad dening every thing with its own gloomy colours, suggested the probability of his departure. Iler family cool and in , - different to her happiness or misery provided her marriage brought with it an accession of wealth and honour. were but 11l calculated to wean her from the care that hung nrouud her ; and as the Count, whenever he addressed her, spoke with the voice and command of a tyrant, her situa tion son because irretrievably wretched. Such was the stale •f her mind, a hen, tale morning, a bile the rest nt the fa mily acre employed in their different occupations, a message was delivered to Marina, commanding her immediate at tendance in the library of her father. On entering the room she diveuvered him seated in a moody sternness by the win. claw. He had scarcely noticed her oil her entrance, but motioned with his hand to a seat After a short pause he again addressed her on the subject of their late interview, wad wills mute 6oftnem than he had hitherto used, gently seised her band. and besought her compliance a ilk his a ilk% Deward that base-bolo churl, my Marion," he exclaimed, and the Iseart ut a fattier will be satisfied. Tit-eight you will be intro laced to the only soil of the powerful Duke Di Armour; and remeniber"—his countenance darkened co he Coat nued,—" and remember, Marion, I expect that you should receive bins us your husband. He is noble, chivalrous, and patriotic, and has r undescended to honour our family with the utterof his alliance. Accept him, and the blessings of an affectioinue parent, the gratitude a food family, will smwereterstal happiness on your head; but dare fur an in stout to reface, and take with you in your exile from the bowie, for no rebellious ingrate than ever lodge ander the ime roof with Cheri°, the deepest curses of your father of that father, *Nue existence the ingratitude of his child will bow to the tomb. But no, any Marion, I cannot, will not believe, that the murder of a parent cum be perpetrated by his child; yowl averted countenance, your tearful eyes, read a tale of softness i and to cantina the favourable int. preplan, to restore a daughter to tier duty, the proud, tile haughty Übertu, whine knee was never yet bent to mortal woo , now a m iably mi pplicates obedience from his child. See, an Ms knee, he uses,' —e' Father, dearest father," frantically •actainied Machu)," bend not (hub to me, l cannot, wi I ant hear its I am wholly y oanymilie of me what:yaw will; for say widowed heart has nu sours to louse, nud lute no mote to to idler. I will discard Juan; amid grout as is ahe sti toggle, will accept Di Magnate fur my husbioid. Have you any fut. titers:la-dice to exact Speak! nod I will perform it all.— But oh, dearest, dearest fat her, authar of my being, ;rod sill that li e 10114 sa red, ;Ise from that supplicam posture, and let ri daughter sue forgiveness, and humbly implore compassina. 4. Now, my Marion! you are indeed the daughter of atherta," he replied, us he folded her affectionately al Isis embrbi ta " and thus let me seal our remnion a it Is a kiss.— Dui swear to the fulfiltuesit of your pron;i6e, for duly. my love i.blit a freak battik,. a hen the betialoilil uur nature is °mimed to it." Trembling, and a lilt r)et WK.(' aWI tears the poor girl sealed the penance that tore her for f . ,s'l' tr Juan, and, with a soul racked a ith anguish retired to aulitude of her chamber. j o the evening are aus introduced to Won who was heltre. forth to hr her loohand He 61116 cone nutting and gallaut ; but oh I huts unlike that softiies., tempered with amity dig pity ; gramroily, regulated by transit, that delighted her in tile disposition of Juan, In spite of her end. uvours to the contrary, etimparisolis detrimental to Aranla wire perpetually thorn' tau her mind ; and while she dwell on her lost love and blights d prospects, her fair and delicate fie m aunt: daily beneath the suniggle, tier eye lu,t it. brightness, stud her heart it. manse elasticity ; site was never happy but alien u'one I and vs lien alo n e tam always in team Wie bad borne much ; but tiam. tide loon OA cut her to the heal I, was the apparent deal 'ion of hi t liner. To leave, tool at sut moment, trio, when friends mid relativeb. and est a her own family, bad cualnicil sls neAlret her. Tar worm++ ood, and sewed the first seeds of that dasoroci vsh ich death i.his r could tcuut ;file. P 1111( in-vidril use doild i•f Munn CITP the min— ling or lovelmess, luau talk 1:111:n3 vs 111'1: !11.! 111111:3 1111te rp Ibiue 114 , 01 Otritleellaitt Ihum 1!:$1.t it 111'011 ail It rl, nod a mind Out lau isopui attar henitt. He a vors thee it. the wuntuu zephyr that foloc- a nit the suntan r rase, unit tarn teases it to a film r till it, 6irai I and a hell lie Mr ins:ion-it Slice wtllu setilimemb 1/1 111 Yr. e,k11.1.11, 1111'1:1 to 1 1 11.1110 a users they 1111 , ks Iliat ti.e a /al ti tear is lai• tartiLhedatl.. lo aplnuasL ..$ t lie haat I that hi tudilltscut to h THE NATIONAL REGISERT attentions, the hand that Mares la his grasp, may be united with • love that is entwined with the lieuutrings , though the pride of virgin modesty prevents its avowal. Lovely, hut misguided woman! the tear that has nsver vct been abed for titan , can glisten in the eye, w pile it trellis the memory of thy a orth, thy beauty, and ill) sorrows. 11did indeed most be the heart that can indict on thee who art so lovely nod so gentle, one pang of remorse, title sentiment of aux irly ; but harder still the disposition of that seducer, who can deface by his unholy passion the mold beautiful work of God. It seas evideat, from the depression of her spirits, and the hreasing languor of her frame that the poor girl was gradually dying away. I ler constitution took its time of action from her mind, and their united operation hurried the lovely vic tim insensibly to the tomb. With her family she was ever quiet and uncomplaining, and it was only when left alone in the solitude of her room, that she wept for the desertion of her lover. Her former favourite antisem.iits were neglected with a sigh, or continued with indsfference I but she would stand fur hours in the shrubbery where she had lust met Juan, listen as the night wind moaned among the trees, and stud the twilight crept over the face of the landscape...— Each circumstance of their former love was then recalled, and atth it the gulling reflection, that they had parted to nice, no more. The evening before her intended marriage with Di Aratiza, w bile the palace rung with the sounds of festivity, and the light tones of music echoed from a numerous bridal assembly, she hastened from the scene of gaiety, cult retired to her favourite summer-house, that termi nated the shrubbery, where she loved so much to wander. It was a clear cloudless night, sparkling in all the heath!) of an Italian sky, and studded with a million tints of rich ness. The nightingale had commenced her song of me lancholy, and the evening breeze, as it wafted on its wings her distant notes of softness, struk with a sensation of Lath to the widowed heart of the mourner. She re called the past with a sigh ' and remembered, a lien hang ing fondly on the arm of Joan, site had discoursed with him on the silvery loveliness of the night landscape. But 'talk ! a well known voice arrested her attention ; the sound olapproaching footsteps was heard, and in an in stant her lover wan at the feet of his Marion. " And did you think," he passionately exclaimed, as he kissed the starting tears from her eyes." " Did you think, sweetest girl, that Don J/1411 would desert you ? He retired indeed fur a time, but it was only to return with honour and sa tisfaction. The death of an uncle has left him the un contested heir of a title and estate, and the noble Count Juan Shogarrow sues fur the honour of an alliance with the beautiful daughter of IJOerto." " Joan, my beloved," replied Marion, it mast not— cannot be—an oath of horrid import has been sworn, and to-morrow most the penance be fulfilled. Anotherpos. seises the rights that I have so often promised should be your's only ; and thong's my heart will be for ever thine, nay person must belong to Di Aranga. But he will not re tam it long—for if there is trolls in my dying words, the boar of my detested nuptials will be the hour of my de cease.',—" Marion, deceitful Marion," replied Sborrago, as his countenance glowed with indignation, " is this the reward you promised me when last we met and parted?— Is this the gratitude 1 exported. wneli I gave up life and fame, and hope ; and all for you?—Cruel, deceitful %v -illa!), we here inert fur the last time to converse in the accents of kiuditess. Me yon will see uo more. I shall roam to other climes, and in the presence of other women.. may forget the one who has deceived me." Stan me—annihilate me—forget ate—fly from me for ever. But lel us part at least in kiudness. Oh 1 Juan, did you know then, ts that have been practised to wean me hum thy side; a father kneeling at my feet, and swing for obedience, you would pity, but you would not condemn me.. And must we part Manger, here, even here., where we have we have so ofteu 's e t in fa:Massif Look around, my beloved, and gaze on the scenes of oar former happiuess; here is the sweet shrubbery where we first met, and beak is the terrace where we last parted. -Here too is the .summer-liouse that first echoed with the transports of our udectiun, and replied to the sound of our deiroirs' • " Yes; here indeed they are," rejoined Sbngarro, softened by this appeal to his affection;" and here will they ever remain, mute emblems of the inconstancy of woman. The The moon still rolls oil unchanged tiwou4li the firmament ; the breeze still sighs amid the slumbering acacias; the stars still shed their mild influence on t he night season; but the heart of Marion is changed, and the sweet'' , Is of her love departed."—a Oh 1 do not speak so cruelly," replied Marion; " I am thine—for ever thine. The moon may change in her course of brightness; the matinee breeze may dy for away to the hills of the west, and return to us no OMIT —hut my beast will be sun unchanged—true in life as desth," --.4 Then rove with me Marion, to some score beautiful Chow.; where, removed from the scenes of our aflietiou, we w forgeittliat weever sorrowed, and live alone (or love." " a cruel struggle, Juan, but it wPI be over soon—l have not 1011 g to live, and my el • g tuumcals must never be by disobedience. Farrwell—forgive—tor;:et me if plosible, and, in the mom of some happier wontaii, think Ware ml Atrium Ilut if you should ever recall her to ,our mind, speak of her with fundntu , and say that she died to act Ve y slut bark ! the lights arc in the golden 101.1•11Ve is discovered. Fly, ,Jaaii, fly. mid be tiiis food this patting his the lust I shall ever imprint upon )our lips, Joan had hilt surhiclent Bute to efliTt hls eseape, a hen the paa. featured I ivas discovered, and conveyed in a wow leas . condition to the crowded hall of the palace. ime following morning KM ushered in by the ringing of the bolls of the palace of 11.1berto ;toil tile unhappy Marion was led to the altar by the gay Duke Ili Atonal, and the ceremony proceeded, interrupted truly at times by the stilled sighs of the victim, The ceremony wnsnt length concluded, and Marion was was the v ife of I)i A ratan. As the party was itreparin4 to quit the chapel, she motioned then; to stay ; and addressing it. r father with sole 'ty, eselnimcd, " Ifeatest author of my bciaf ! the roan'e is fulfilled, and the vit•li - n may re tile %sit!, Miaow ! I have ncrforined your ui+hr,—l have warned 1)1 ANION , ; hut there is a sttonger pow, r th,st claims are, mid tell, me 1 am the bride of d:•.sth.•' She ceased, rend casting on her fdllier our look of the most resi:otri rtpn•ssinn, dropped lir, less :it his fret, They roi-ed In r "..10111.d, but her gentle mart %s at broke, and her pu:e had missed awn,. . . NATURAL CUIIIOIIITY.—it tenant of the 11ev. J. Cottle, of 11 arwiek, has just presented to hint a part of the solid butt of an 2251) tre, containing within it the skull of some anno4l (on'.nown.) It %vit, in the pat of the tire, Low k t ;.!..)%,- the wound, and wits petltxtly ent.iu.‘il iu :•ulid tnaba. J, ;": •a‘mLa; :A.`,.r Puntse APoLoov.—ln consequence of the i terference of mutual friends, the violent and unpro voked asoault committed by Thomas Horton, EN. one of the magistrates of the West Riding, upon Mr. Lewis Alexander, solicitor, of Halifax, has been compromised without an appeal to the King's Bench. By this arrangement Mr. Horton was required to make a public apology to Mr. Alexander, on Satur. day se'nnight, at mid-day, in the magistrates office, and to pay the sum of 501. to the General Dispen. nary• in that place. As the hour for making the apology approached, the inhabitants of Halifax (whom this ornament of the bench had lately stig. matixed as cobblers and tinkers, fur presuming to dissent from an ultra-royal address of which he was the author) began to assemble in considerable num bers, and at twelve o'clock the office was crowded to excess, when Mr. Horton entered, and read aloud the following apology : " I do hereby acknowledge, folly and nnegaivocally, that I acted in a most Improper manner, in assaulting Mr. Lrwis Alexander, as I did on Saturday, the 2d Decembe►, 1.40, in this town, he having given me no provocation to call forth such violent and unjustifiable conduct. And am anxious this may be accepted as an apology, as strong as one gentleman can make to another."--.Read and signed in open court, at Halifax, in tie presence of four magis trates. —As soon as the apology was read, Mr. Horton paid to Mr. Alexander 501. which that gentleman ininie diately handed over to William Rawson, Esq. the treasurer of the General. Dispensary, to be applied to the use of that institution. On Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, a gentleman on the top ofthe Birmingham m ail, whilst passing over the Swillgate-bridge,near Tewkesbury, heard the groans of a person in distress, and entreated the coachman to stop, when he proceeded to the spot, and found a man who kad fallen into the brook . - in a state of ii Though it was such an inclement night, the gentleman got into the water, and, with the assistance of the guard, dragged the sufferer out, and took him to the Hermitage turn pike. Here this humane character gave money to some persons to induce them to take the poor fellow to Tewkesbury : he was nearly frozen to death, but with proper assistance it is to be hoped he will reco ver. His name is Probers, late of Cheltenham. On Sunday last the Earl of Belmore presented the Roman Catholic Chapel of Enniskillen with a handsome Cross, curiously manufactured, and orna ' mented with several devices, emblematic of the Crucifixion, &c, &c His Lordship accompanied this rare and valuable present with a polite note to the Parish Priest, the Rev. Mr. Shell, stating, that it occurred to him, on his journey through the Holy Land, that a Cross made by the Christians at Bethle— hem might be acceptable to his Catholic Brethren of Enniskillen, and that he accordingly applied to the Superior of the Convent at Jerusalem to obta'n one. This, his Lordship states, has been made ex pressly by order of the Superior, and trusts will be an acceptable offering. It was received by the con gregation with lively expressions of gratitude, and sentiments of respect for his Lordship's kind remem brance, which stamped the present with additional value. MATCH FOR 100 GUINEAS —A gentleman at New. market has a wager ol one hundred guineas with !Mr. Joseph Bland, well-known on the turf, that he will procure a person to skait a measured mile on ice (to be selected some where within twenty miles of Newmarket) iii the space of three • es. The piece of ice ritt which the match is to be performed is to he selected by the gentleman who backs the performance, and 48 hours notice is to be given by the stake-holder of the ice so selected being in a fit state to permit the party to on. dertake the match. If the attempt is not made within the 48 hours, the money is to be forfeited to Mr. B.— Bets have neen made to a considerable 'WIWIIt aht..ady on the event, and it has, in the dearth of other interest. at this season, strongly excited the spirit of speculation in the sporting world. The greater taunter seem dis po mti sed to back the perfoiace within the givt itlime.— The rate of a mile in three minutes has been ascertained to above two, if not nearly Once parts out 01 four of I thorough bred horse, and far surpasses the b e /t,..1 of the fist foot races. .I'here will no doubt., be a _trim ; ; !lOW. ter Of the rAlley at Newmarket th s week 10 N.I,IICSID the race, which it is expected will take place 011 a well. know,, sheet of ice on the fens, within two or thr..e i!ays COWARDLY ASSASSINATIIiIt IN PARIS.—A young matt, front Nantes, came to Paris, in older to make some purchases for his approaching merriage, and went nue evening to the play. Ile was there instilled by a person next In hint, because he took snuff out of a snuff (MK with the charter on it. A third person interposed, and oil red hints. It to lie second in combat. The young who was itisoltril • .11ISCIIICti Itl have 110 other 11e18011 resell . When they canie to tin. ,4 lin Ille dlOlll. lug, the aggressor, favoured by the lot, drew first and missed los adversity The latter was al/0111 to fire in has torn, as hen the wretch who played the part of second fired a pistol at I which lie hail held concealed.— geodatioes tan up at the time, and Camel the victim of au 1111 1 )(0i:1 0 loyalty al t t xpisitiz• The y a 111111 stirsived fi , e hint,, and was tile to make a declaration sufficiently circumstantial tit Make its hope that the as. sassins shall not escape the vigilance of justice. They Heil so yuelt.':, ,hat the gesitlatines cool.; not perceive them. some 117111eff Vale that the yollllg 111411 was rob. bed at Ilse same note ; others .taw Vita. the iassi.rtiou is without foundation. - -.• `AIM dminl - J - -' 1