The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-05 00:00:00

inflicted mid surprised at the source of his uneasiness, •eis
anew not what remedy to Mier; hut weeping, mid moat)le
to artiftlillte hh et ply, she sunk iu silence on his 1 'isms.
As they drew never to the town of Lyons, the dries
lion of Sir lanoare increased ; and even the sweet vol. e
rf I.aus a, and her numerous little kindnesses, wli;:ls
evinced en affectionate disposition, failed of their wonted
effect. Tue fire of irrepressible potation which had be.
Cute spite kled in his eye, now gave way to the calm-Axe
look of despair; and, except when lighted op by oceo
sional sallies of cheerfulness, had stork into a settled me-
lancholy. Finch was the gloomy situation of the two tra-
vellers, when, alter hoariest passed the boundaries of the
Papal ten Rorie*, and crossed the Itilll2Clotis unttsgmeutut
roses of the A permits's, they arrived in safety at the
tommitic loon of Siisa. Front this. place Lallla date,' a
letter to her husband, informing him of the circonistar .ws
of her flight, mid appointing a time and place for
• re-union.
The sun was rising in all the pomp and splendour of ;,*9
eastern track, when the travellers ascended the lost elm: a
of Alps that shine divided them from the Fiends !mitt,.
ries. The time was now come that they should part—pea-
lisps for ever; and that the wile, so long estranged, should
again be restored to the emir' aces of flee husband of Jar
clioxe. It had been agreed that the °uncial should meet
them at the foot of the Cenis mountain, and the English.
man should pursue his rout homewards. .%a they del
scended t he winding declivities of Mount Cents, a distane
sound, as of a chariot in rapid advance, arrested !bet t
attention. Laura's eyes glistened at the idea of whit-
might be the casts,; but the pallid conntena nee, and tear-
ful eye. ofSir Enstacr,clainred her sympathy. " And are
you ro willing to leave me t" he exclaimed, " I thought
that you had at least some trifling friendship; but no—
friendship is idle now. I hail once deluded myself with
the hope that"— " Dear gruel our la tenet.' repli.
Laura, is tlrere any thing in the power of woman tO
effect, that I will shrink from performing. You have
been my protector—any saviour ; and 1 must indeed be
cruel if I Arnold hesitate in—"
" Your kindness is unavailing. tunilatni answered the
Englishman; but a few hears, and 1 shall he ported fr
sour sight; let me trete employ the time that I have yet
left, in confessing, and repenting my preuinittion. While
I thought you lietpl-ss and unproteeteit, my honour forbade
Inc mention of it; but now, i hot you are to Ise iestorvil than
Wive. ilia ale husband, nod Pt parmted fruit. me for ever. I.
may surely be excused in in (Apure...ion. The sateen iiii the
, tenderness of yetis disposition, and the usiequAte4 truces Pit
your person and ones, have created ih my !yeast a semi,
anent of admiration, iir I should soy of love, that Call never
be extinguntird, lit., with the absenre of the person Chet
inapireit it. Nov ! start mit, nsoktrr, ut wy cenfession;
think you, that I, wins hake sustained a streggle greater
than man ever yet endured, who have traveiled anti you
wider circumstances oh it—whit have listened to your
voice, who have twee you recline on my breast, and
clioging close to Inc fur protection; think you that 1 will
now story to rumpsumise au hosiers that leis been putchawd
by my existence. OM little, Lady, do you know of the heart,
or the feelings of on laietishosan, if you eau swipe t fur an
instant either his principles or his frienilphii.. I have but
few a wilt tumid, and shall than hid you fate%
This miiiiature ;', here he drew a portrait from his his rest,
" a 4, drawn fur me by a fi icing, who was the de:nest and
the best 1 ever bad ; and I now present it to one alto is
dean r than even tireitreif. It may Si rye to remind bee -
of him, when tired with the vale tumult and beat liminess
of society, she turns fur amusement to she pleasiue ie.
inellthrallee* of the past. And UOW, dearest lure- .
well, yon tumid me a poor blighted flower, ; yon rains
Inc.,',r my path hke the wain' sitoles of spring, wlien she
starts frolD the embrace of wittier ; and have. left site, need
I dd.' it, Ilitne desolate and mute disconsolate than be-
fore. 1 go, Lady, without a friend; aidiont a thought
that can cheer my path, or enliven my solitude; and the
first wishes of my Lwait ate, that the same feelings
that now rack my breast with micessing anguish,
may never gold their bai.efill influence to'--. At
this iustrio a Cali iage mispratrd in signi, mid drove to-
wards them it'll the velocity of iightitiog. A tall
fled stranget leaped out of it, amid a faint shtiek was
un-
wediately heats. It was LAMA t she had fainted on the
!mum of her litivliand. The Englishman, who had kept
aloof -to witness this inlet estilig interview, staid not shoe
the congiaitilotimis of the parr ; hot orris ring lii• pnsti-
mins to triton to Suss, waved his hand gently to Loma,
011 the brow of the hill.

He has nice returned t., Bnglena, *heir, hammed I.y
:he atfecti..n of his fries:4lx and Isle aisprolseita, of his
own el)ll•CleCce,he is .1 gills( ei.eamite iesla.e.l Iu It..
fat 'tier boat ver, alien 111. it cal, the
meollorui.ee of the fascia:ilia, liali.on, mid the eirl.lllll.
issuer lllal (seem tea it, 11. e huh'. eutta.s Of 111 e nem.-
u shnde of 110114/N dal kt us Ilia brow. and a V
alleelloll gllsle its in his sle. Inteu.r S&lleum', hes t.o,
ai..l Ilse 10 s r, a i e 1101 Io br use's.(, it 4 ••••
are u. br sofirnrd ooh bs th. It ste•Pl ham! of lisle ;
lilleM lli EaslaCe (tot sse 11111,1 %till cal.:limy his fit this's
naive/ Wel; ; and he knots a.s.), that w'halet,F
may have P.toeis the fume. smut, 01 his We, 16is mi:gle
example of lelagnamiusly :MA 11.11411 and mill, 1111.
sarrdly Wive him a plat, th0....e. *loom Ike goikleas
,t 1 uuuwrtalnv Ilea NCle.Cllti h.'. 1141 tkitl Irvoulnrs Lind
tbsciplex.
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%. F. P.

The Gazelle of last night contunis the appoint-
ment of Gen Sir Simnel Iltilse to he Governor a
('l►e•lsca llo•pital, in the room of the late Sir D.
Dinkins, and Sir 11. Calvert to be Lieutemmt Go-
vernor.

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