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Tbe HISTOR Y of V ALVAIS E.
{Continued from our Laft.]
#: "b "ig's'''' " E maid repeated a long and
^ JC^ > deep fetched sigh; then railing her
{M T ''"' head, and giving a tide-glance that
4g I^> entered the heart of the orator,
4 > tell me, Valvaife, said she, lives
there a man upon earth, in whose
suit you would plead so warmly as in that of Adol
phus?—No Madam, not in the universe.—And
yet, she blushingly and hesitatingly returned, there
lives a certain person in whose suit you might plead
with much better success.
Alas, die continued, what is Adolphus to me?
My heart was never formed for pomp or royalty;
it loves the littleness and lowness, the Sweet vales
and defeents of life; it is as a gentle turtle in the
meadows and groves, and seeks not, neither can
find any kind of joy, save in the affections of its
fpecias, and the cooings ofits mate. You, Val
vaife, as I am told, are not of a haughty descent ;
your manners are sweetly mild, your person is con
formable, and it is the most ardent prayer of Ade
laide that you may be mated to a companion
wholly suitable to yourfelf.
Ah! exclaimed Valvaife, whither, whither
wouldst thou lead me, thou perilous beauty?
Alas! I was already but too prone to follow the
fight of the fyren; and wanted not the additional
inchantment of her voice to seduce and to fink me
into a deeper perdition. But honour, virtue,
gratitude, (ball Hand at my fide; they (hall bind
me as with chains of adamant, that Adelaide her
felffhall not be able to loose. No! though heaven
were opened this infant before me, and all the
powers and glories of blefledneis thereof conditi
onally offered me, I would not accept them at the
cost of my friend's happiness, or of my own trea
son. It could not be a heaven to me upon such
conditions; through eternity! should be wretched,
in the condemnation of myfelf.
Unhappy Adelaide! cried the fair one; what
a peculiar severity there is in thy fate—to be ex
cluded from all possibility of hope by the very
vi r tucs that serve to increase thy passion ! Be it so
then, my friend; let us be greatly, let us be no
bly, let us be willingly miserable; and let virtue
be, to us, in the place of all other enjoyment !
Perifti, perish Adelaide, so the faith of my Val
vaife live renowned through ages!
0 Adolphus, cried the youth, you know not
what a facrifice I make you at this instant ! Yes,
thou bright perfection, I mud bida lifting adieu,
while there is will, while strength is left to tear
myfelfaway ! Adieu, fair enchantment, 0, adieu,
for—for ever, O, for ever! is it not so, cried
Adelaide? and her eyes began to fill. Yet, a
moment, Valvaife; you must not debar me of one
short farewel, the memory of which may serve,
through life and in death, to be my consolation.
It is an expreflion of the esteem which I owe to
your honour.
So faying, die broke into tears, and threw her
arms about him. The touch instantly thrilled his
frame, and flew through his brain like a slash of
afeending lightning. But, heroically declining
any return to the dear embrace, he kneeled down,
seized her hand, pressed it silently to his bosom,
hastily rose, and retired.
Adelaide had an only brother, an officer in the
King's guards, whose name was Alleran. He
came on a visit of affection to his sister, when ap
proaching, he beheld Valvaife in her arms. He
instantly laid his hand on his sword, to wash away
the imagined dishonour of his family. But, being
struck with the reserved demeanor of Valvaife, he
deemed it prudent to make no bustle in the business,
till he had called the supposed aggressor to a ftrid
but private account.
During three days, he was in diligent search of
the disturber of his repose ; but, unable to pro
cure any intelligence concerning him, he went in
his impatience, and earnestly besought a private
audience of his Majesty. He cast himfelf with
emotion at the feet of the monarch, and asked,
with a refpedful ardor, if he had authorized Val
vaife in any address to his sister Adelaide ?
Are you then the brother of the fair Adelaide,
said the King? if so, I think I may fafely put my
confidence in you.—Yes, Alleran, I did autho
rife Valvaife to address your sister ; yet, notin his
own name, but in the name of his matter, in order
to exalt and make her the beloved of my bosom,
and the partner of my throne.
Then you are betrayed, most basely betrayed,
rejoined Alleran: By all that is sacred to the foul
of truth and honour, these eyes beheld that Valvaife
fondly circled and caressed within the arms of my
sister.
There wanted no more. A cloud of sorrow,
black and pregnant with thunders, inftantlyin
volved the spirit and.afpeft of the monarch in
darknels. His Valvaife had been too deeply
rooted in his affections to be torn thence without
many rueful pangs at the parting. But jealousy,
disdain, and the uprifingi of rage, at finding him
felf so ungratefully, so cruelly deceived, turned
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his bowels into bitterness ; and he consoled him
felf with the idea of feeing his late favourite ex
piring in flow agonies and vengeful tortures be
fore him.
He sent pressing orders to have him instantly
seized. But, being informed that Valvaife had
abfeonded, he issued hot and hasty mandates,
throughout his dominions, to have him proclaimed,
pursued, and brought alive to his presence; for
he deemed a simple death to be infinitely beneath
the fatisfadion that was due to his injured friend
fhip; and he wished for the power of prolonging
his life, that he might thereby prolong and perpe
tuate his torments.
Thus Adolphus continued in a state that might
envy the most wretched of his vassals, his bosom
torn with a variety of diftra&ing and conflicting
passions ; when, on the fourth day, he received
the following letter from his detested, though late
his so dearly beloved.
"SIR E,
" I am now fifty leagues removed from your
presence, and trust soon to be past the justice of
your refentmenr.—But no, I cannot fly it.—Would
to Heaven I had rather stayed, and atoned my
crime in part, by fuffering the pun ifhment that was
due to my perfidy.—Death would surely, at last,
have delivered me, from you, from myfelf, from
the gnawing of the worm that dieth not witbin
me, that no abfencecan mitigate, no diftanceevade!
—Yes, Adolphus, your image, your friendship,
cling faft to my memory; they continue to load
me with insupportable favours, and my foul groans
and struggles under the unremitting oppreflion.—
And is it then poflible that I should have betrayed
you? I can scarce think it poflible.—Did I not
love you with a love palling that of felf preserva
tion ? Would 1 not have bled, have died for you,
have fuffered all extremities to bring you any ac
ceflion ofhappinefs? Yes, most assuredly.—Alas!
how is it then, that my will, against my will, has
injured you, my master; has mortally wounded
youin the most vital part, in your love for the
adorable, the too fafeinating Adelaide ! —Ah,
why did I enterprise the perilous talk enjoined me ?
While I wished, while I endeavoured and strug
gled to serve you, I fell in my own weakness; I
fell myfelf a prey to her all-subduing beauties
Thus, while I constrained my tongue to plea+the
cause of my King, my eyes mart have pleaded the
cause of the traitor Valvaife. There, there lies
the heart and pith of my transgression against you.
I will not deceive you; I will not conceal from
you, that I have robbed you of a portion of the
affections of your Adelaide.—But I will avenge
you, my matter; I will do you ample justice upon
my own head. I tear myfelf away for ever. No
more shall mine eye behold the heart chearing face
of friendfllip, or the seducing face of love. I tear
myfelf forever from Adolphus, from Adelaide,
from the two, the onlyobje&s within the circling
moon, that could cast a ray of comfort upon my
benighted spirit. All else is a vacant wild, a vale
of horrors and defolatidn.—O misery! But I
embrace it ;my foul shall brood and dwell upon it ;
it is the portion, the only portion, that I chufe on
this fide of eternity.
" In the mean time, my Lord, be you your
own advocate. Appear, in your native attractions,
before the eyes of the deluded beauty, and the
memory of Valvaife will quickly fleet away, as
the gleam of a transient meteor before the riling
light of the fun.
" Be happy, 0 Adolphus, be happy in vour
Adelaide, be happy above conception ! —When
I hear that you are so, a beam of returning joy
may once more inform the bread: of
VALVATSE."
Adolphus, in entering on the firft part of this
letter, was instantly flung with vexation and dis
appointment by the fear of being defeated of his
revenge on Valvaife. As he proceeded, however,
his heart began to be foftened by the condemnation
which the criminal denounced against himfelf.
But again, when he came where Valvaife dared to
avow his paffioh for Adelaide, and her answering
regards, the flame of his resentment rekindled and
role aloft. Yet this fire was much allayed by the
subsequent sentiments; and he found himfelf, at
the close, inconsistently agitated by a variety of
tumultuous and opposite passions.
He wished not that any eye fliould fee how he
was affeded. He took th? letter apart, and shut
himfelf in; he scanned it over and over; and,
paufingly, over again. At every revifal, his
Valvaife appeared more acquitted, more innocent,
more excellent; while the virtues of humanity
descended on his foul, as dewon a nightly tempest,
and bid the storm be still.
Ah, he cried, Valvaife also, I find, is a son of
the fallen Adam ! —Were any exempt from frailty,
he surely had been the man.—Yet, he fought, he
refilled ; and, when he found he could not prevail,
he tore himfelf from temptation, though the
temptation was Adelaide.—He does more, he
detests himfelf for partaking of the human fallibi
lity of our nature ; he denounces endlcfs venge-
O R, THE
ance upon his own head, for having involuntarily
injured the friend, whose happiness he prefers to
his own existence.—This is more than to have con
quered : Such frailty rises even above perfection !
—Return then, my brother ! Return, my Val
vaife ! —You grieve for having reluctantly bereft
me of my love; bereave me not of friendship also,
for so should your King be without confutation.
—Return I fay, my brother ! and I will strive to
to be your competitor in honour and generosity.—
You would deprive yourfelf of your beloved, for
the fake of your friend : But your friend shall
return the boon ; he will endeavour to be happy,
in the happiness of his Valvaife.
The desolate Valvaife had dispatched the fore
going letter from a house that flood far on his
rout to the frontiers of Norway. In his early
years at the academy, he had contracted an in
timacy with two young fiudents, the one named
Duplaife and the other Chriftiern; and when he
came into favour, he prevailed on the Minister to
prefer his two friends to two lucrative employ
ments in the north of Sweden. He, therefore,
justly inferred, that he had a right of afTylum with
those who were indebted to him for their honours
and emoluments.
Duplaife received his benefaCtor with transport,
and entertained him with magnificence. On the
next morning he cautiously entered the chamber
of his guest before day. Having gently awaked
him, —Pardon, said he, my dear patron, this ne
cessary intrusion ? Yesterday, toward noon, a he
rald arrived and fixed a writing on the town-house,
whereby you are proclaimed a traitor, and twen
ty-thousand ducats proposed for your head. I
will not ask how von incurred the displeasure of
your King; it is fufficient to know, that he builds
upon hollow ground who lays the foundation in
the favour of Princes. I trust that you are not
known here to any save myfelf; it may be other
wise however, and the temptation to betray you
is great.—l forebore to apprize you of these mat
ters last night, for fear of difeompofing you.—
Alas, while I endeavoured to appear chearful, in
honour of my guest, my heart was wrung on his
account Haste, mv beloved friend, escape for
your precious life ! —A short repast, with some
other matters, are prepared for your departure ;
and my three fwifteft horses, by the morrow's
early noon, shall convey you and your faithful
followers—fuch I trust they are—quite clear of all
danger.
Though Valvaife, at the time, regarded not
his own life, yet he gratefully regarded those who
approved their regard for it. He straitly embra
ced his host. I thank you, my friend, said he ;
but I will not take the advantage of your hospi
tality. You are a fubjeft, you are in office ; do
your duty to your Sovereign, and the laws of
your country: I resign myfelf to your custody. I
knew I was a loft man; but I will console myfelf
in hoping, that my depreflion may be the means
of exalting the generous Duplaife.
(To be continued.)
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by Benjamin Rush, M.D. and loon alter published
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HAT- MAKER,
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Vendue-ftore,
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branches. Those that will please to favour
him with their custom, may depend on his utmost
endeavours to furnifh them with neat and good
work, either by wholesale or retail.
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Satan County, Abril 18, 17-4.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN- AWA Y yesterday morning, from the
fubferiber, living in Alloway's Creek Neck,
an English servant man named WILLIAM
RICIIARDSO N, about 5 fct 4 .or 5 inches
high, red hair, a little knock knee'd, has loft one
of his upper fore teeth, and has a lore on one of hi#
legs, just above his ancle joint; Had on when he
went ors, an old felt hat, a Striped lin^y jacket, old
Spirt, a new pair of horae-lpun trowfers made aprorl
falhion, a pair of old deep olue yarn Hockings, and
a pair of plated buckles in his shoes : He is about
22 years of age, by trade a Sweep chimnev, and
very mulical. Whoever apprehends and secures the
said servant, so that his master may have him again,
shall have the above Reward, and if brought home,
reafonabie charges, paid by
ISAAC RA IN.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in
Manheim townlhip, York county, on Latter
1 uefday last, a German servant man, named
GOTTLIEB FUHRMAN; he is a miner,
5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, well set, and one of his
little fingers is rendered useless by a Shot, wherefore
he hides it as much as he can: He is a native of
Eifleben, in the county of Mansfield, in Saxony,
is a great lover of Strong liquor, and a great fmoaker
of tobacco and Snuff-taker: It is supposed he is gone
towards the Jerseys or New-York, and probably
makes use of a formed pals. Whoever takes up the
said servant, and brings him to the fubferiber, or
secures him in any gaol, so that his master may
have him again, shall receive the above Reward,
and reasonable charges, paid by
LEONHARD JENAWEIN.
TEN POUNDS REWARD?
WAS STOLEN, out of the fubferiber's
liable, at Christiana Bridge, last night, be
ing the 21st inst. (April) a red roan HORSE, with
a large blaze in his face, white main and tail, h #
two bind feet white, has a small wound on bis off
Shoulder, occasioned by the kick of a horse, he is 14.
bands and an half or three inches high, lofty car
riage, trots well and canters. Whoever takes up
Aid horse and the thief so that the thief may bo
brought to jaftice, shall have the above Rewaid, or
FOUR DOLLAR S for the horse, and reafen
able charges, if brought home, paid by
GEORGE HI I.L TS.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RA N AWAY from the fubicribers, living
in Funk's Town, two indented English servant
men; one named WILLIAM PALMER,
about 26 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, short
black hair, dark complexion, lame in one of his
legs, which is a little crooked and bigger than the
other; had on and took with him, a pale blue coat
with fdver twist buttons, a dark brown waiftceat,
a pair of drilling breeches, and a pair of breeches
and waistcoat of a buff colour, without buttons,
three fine shirts, three pair of stockings, and a
cocked hat, but it is probable he will change his
dress. The other named RICHARD PEN
DERGRAST, about 25 years of age, has short
curled hair, a smiling countenance, is very talka
tive, fays he has formerly been a sailor, and walks
very much like one ; had on when he went away,
a short blue coat with white metal buttons, lined
with white Scotch plaid, fnuff coloured waistcoat
about half worn, a pair of good leather breeches,
a pair of brown ribbed dockings, a pair of old shoes,
odd buckles, sne a large brass and the other a heel
one, a pretty good hat which he mostly wears
cocked, and had an iron collar about his neck,
which he may have taken off. Whoever takes up
the said servants and secures them, so that their
mailers may have them again, fhaii receive a Re
ward of FIVE POUNDS for each, paid by
THOMAS BROOKE, and
WILLIAM I EE.
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Charles ALLEN.