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Much Of the chagrin or Inconvenience
resulting to parents from children, is fac
titious that is, produced by ercesaiOe So
licitude. We do not always rely as much
as we ought upon the protection of Pro-
violence, for our oFspring; the curative
power Of Nature, and the safeguard of in
slinct; and we grieve unduly at ineyita-
bic mishaps.
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d
and then of fair Maria, alfred as my bride, and
kneelng with me at the altar; and seldom in my
life have sunk more happily or confidngy to rest
'Quick treadings awakened me above me
the livd Moor; the turbaned Algerine his knee
was pressed upon my body; one bare and nervous
arm grasped fercely at my throat, and with the
other he held naked scimetar and menaced death
but he did not slay. A duskv slave brought iron
manacles and chains. was captive, and to the
Moor
'A!ah Ackbar-Allah Ackbar, was the loud
shout and the poor mariners Of Naples walled bit
terly; and I was bound and dumb
sThey rowed us rapidly away, and their own boat
kept close to us; and they were tawny men, with
scullcaps of red, and hair but the ferocous mus
tache; and necks naked and bullke; and the
butts of pistols and the hilts of daggers. stuck out
from their girdes; and they laughed as they rose
to their oars, and shouted in chorus, Allah Ack
bar
in the pale grey hour of early dawn we came
alongside large armed vessel A golden flower
pot, with green and yellow roses was painted on
its stern; flag hood-red, with the half moon en-
broidered on il. hung calmly floating above; and as
we came upon the deck, the were rising from
their rest and some were combing out the beard
some curling their mustaches; some amounting the
shaver head some lifting water. and performing
the prescribed additions and they locked up at
US, as we were driven forward, with hooking grns,
and cruel ewes and contemptuous hate. All chain
ed and wretched as | was, something novel IN this
sight, something realizing old descriptions. moved
me to a kind of secret pleasure and now the light
broke brighter and one voice loud, deep, and mel
low, was lifted up, and you could not hear any sound
beside, were it even the rustic Of garment; once
nv chains clanked, and eyes glared on me, and
held them still In the short call, my caught SIX
times repeated the Allah Ackbar :; and could dis
tingush 'Mahomed Resoul Allah and elijah Ila-
lah-la lllah Illalah ; and the Moors all rose, and
stood with naked feet, and with the open hands of
peaceful salutation and they raised them to their
shoulders, and crossed them their bodies, and
with soft under voice, they prayed after their
leader; and they burst out at each pause with the
| loud amen and eight times they prostrated them
selves, and with their foreheads humby pressed the
deck The black slave and the Aga in his full tur
ban side by SIDE, and their faces all turned to the
sacred Mecca. Deeply the scene impressed me-
I felt as the great painter, when prisoner among
! bandtti, that it were sight to charm away for
! moment the sense OF misery. As my eyes rested on
the groupe, methought one face was known to me-
large mustaches of thick brstly red, overshadow-
| :+l brC tOOt
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THE STORY OF A LIFE.


THE STORY OF LIFE.
Ea the author of Scenes and Impressions IN Egypt
end Italy-RecoLections ofthe Peninsula, &c.
The author of these volumes having been among
the most successful candidates for popularity as
writer of observations on men and manners IN real
life, has been tempted to embody bis ideas IN the
bolder fight of fiction. The scenes are principal
" laid in the countries he has already painted,
namely, the Peninsula, italy, and Egypt but Al
gers India and other parts of the earth, visited
by the person clothed in the character of the hero
in this story and it is in his delineations Of these
parts that the author is distinguished from others.
The story is one of many vicssitudes undergone
bv Osnan Beauvoir, an English gentleman Of good
family and fortune, who travels to see the world,
and who enters into its vortces with such lmpetu-
ositv as to destroy his own happiness, and those
who are dear to him. This seems to arise out OF a
morbid sensiblty more than actual crime though,
towards the close of his active career, we find hlm
abiurng the Christian faith and (to the life Of
a beautiful girl who loved him. and risked all for
her love- turning Mahommedan.
The work is full of episodes and Ike the Chinese
balls of ivory, we have story within story, cot out
clcverly enough. But what the book is, may be
made to appear better by extract than criticism and
we shall therefore select such passages as will serve
hest to illustrate it for orr readers In this, from
the length of the connected stories, must be
guided by the space spare, and therefore
leg 10 give in the first instance, the account OF
capture by an Algerine pirate. in the bay OF Naples
sThe breeze blew soft-the mariners sung their
evening hymn most cheery-pathos at every closes
but vet most happy was the sound
sit is fine night for SAIL Senior, said the Pa
drone; shall we stretch out of the bay ? night
sail had so commonly been nv pastime, that it was
hs wont to ask this yes and TO myself thought
that would thus wear out the night and watch the
sfsrs. and listen to the waves. We had lust cleared
the bav. when suddenly it fell quite calm, and the
sail happed heavily, and the sailors lowered it with
laughings. and asked me if would let them sleep
till the morning breeze. did not like the idea OF
giving them long and tiresome row, so bade them
do as they would they smoked and sung, and told
their little tales and at length heard no sound but
the breathing of tired men, thankfully sleeping
For long time continued lying recumbent with
NV ewes fixed on those distant worlds, of which we
shall know more hereafter. At ieogh | murmured
NV confessions mournfully and poured nv thanks
gvngs, and breathed my pray and felt forgiven,
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clumsy reluctant effort. Icould not be mistaken
| it was the Lisbon robber-the yioator-he that
murdered the fair girl
THE prayers were sooner over than we cap
tives summoned to the poop. The Rails was
short thin, pale, cruel looking The deck
| crowded but there sounds, al
ternstely his voice. and that of his interpreter, and
| the trembling replies of poor Neapolitan taken
with me, who spoke the Lingua Franca and then,
at times, a long pause and the gurgle of water, as
! the snake-Gke pipe was slowly updrawn. The re-
suit of this the taking off my chains and an as
surance that, when my ransom paid, should
| go free, and promise of freedom for those taken
with me, provided | would pay their ransom, to
which agreed and there came to cunning
looking interpreter, and he gave place, and
carpet separate from the Other prisoners and gave
me coffee and bread, and squatted mquisitively by
my side. During the day could get no privacy
no rest. had no power to think Of my situation,
and in the course of it. witnessed strange scene
of Turkish despotism. There sudden tumult,
and loud cries, and all hurried off; and they drag
ged with them the renegade.
He had struck, it seemed, the black cook, and
had overset the food, and nsuted the serang.-
Again all was silence, as, amid the hushed crowd,
the two accusers told their tale; muttered some
thing fell from the prisoner, but the dead silence
awed him, and he felt fear and the savage eye look
ed apprehension. The Rails drew up his smoke
calmly and slow, and the long gurgle echoed loud;
and then still smile just passed across his face and
he gave a motion with his hand, and they tied the
prisoners arms behind him, and pressed him into
a kneeling posture and large African came for
ward, and his eyes rolled white, and he raised the
shining blade, and the hideous head fell to the
death-stroke, and seawater thrown upon the
bloody spot and the huge body cast into the
ocean, and the fierce head stuck upon spike on
the deck and all DISPERSED and washed their hands,
and gathered round their mats and trays, and Dip
ped their hands into their messes, and laughed as
they looked up at the grisy warning.
TO me the sight gave food for wandering
thought Justice had been delayed; but the eye
of Heaven had followed the shcdder of blood
Punishment had, like bloodhound with wound
ed limb, tracked him increasingly, and found him
IN a den among violent and cruel Spirits like his
own, where he had thought himself secure. No
thing had more asoniShed me, toan the suddenness
of the execution scarce two minutes elapsed from
the waive of the Rais hand to the death, and there
was no implorng, no struggle. Still as forest
beast encircled by dreadful fire, he kDeeled me
chemically to the pressing hand, and gave his bow
ed neck to the expected sword
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came tyrant and imbrued his guilty hands IN
blood, until
g The voice in Rama had been heard;
lamentations and most bitter weeping; ldren,
The daughters of Rachel weeping for their chill
Refusing to be comforted for their children, be-
cause they were not
seThen God smote him with loathsome and hor
rible Diseases. and astonishment of heart and call
ed him to the tribunal of Almighty justice.
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The author of Waverly has favoured the world
with another series Of tales from legend and his
bly, furnish some extracts in our future numbers.
The work is spoken OF III terms Of praise.
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The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-07-14
COT,EErT AM EA.
pROVFRHS.

Many talk like philosophers, and live like
fools. Neither give to all, nor contend with
fools. No one is SO old that he hopes not for
year of life. Never sign writing till you
have read it, nor drink wine till you have
seen it. Purposing without performing, is
mere fooling. Speak well OF your friend, of
your enemy say nothing. Sit in your place
and none can make you rise. The best
throw of the dice is to throw them away.
The best of the game is, to do ones business
and talk little of it. Three things only are
well done in haste; flying from the plague
escaping quarrcls, and catching fleas. The
more YOU court mean man the stateler he
grows. To believe a business impossible, is
the wav to make it so. The man that is
| cheaply bought costs but salutaton. True
valor is fire; bullying is smoke. Use soft
words and hard arguments. Would you
know the value Of money, SO and borrow
some. When a mans coat is threadbare, it
is easy to pick-a-hnle in it.-Tour looking
glass will tell you what none OF your friends
will. You may know by penny how a
shilling spends. At the gate which snspi-
cion enters love goes out. AS the good man
saith, so say we; but as the good woman
saith, it must be. A little house well filled.
land we'll titled, and little wife well willetl.
An obedent wife commands her husband.
Bare walls make gadding house wive,.
Chuse wife rather by your ear, then your
eye.
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which bubbled by his dwelling, afforded him
a wholesome beverage-Every evening be-
held him sinking peaceably to reposse on his
bed of leaves; and every dawning day saw
him rise refreshed and cheerful. In a short
time he discovered that he was happy--The
discovery astonished him. He was isolated
an outcast-depending on the spontaneous
products of the earth for sustenance, and
only sheltered from the inclemency OF the
weather, by cabin, over which the den
of the wild beast possessed many advanta-
ges-Under such circumstances that he
could be happy, was to him incomprehen-
sible.-After musing for some time on the
strangeness of the fact, he found out that all
the miseries of his past life were to be I'M
puted to himself; that they arose from his
own restle.seness and ambition; and that the
true philosophers stone, which converts
every thing it touches into gold, the real
scource of all human happiness, is Content
ment.
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excited universal joy and congratulation, as
a prelude to the close of a merciless war: it
now awakens sober reflections on the insta,,
bilty of empire, the sorrowful destiny of
this aboriginal race, and the mysterious
ways OF Providence. The patriotism OF the
man was then overlooked in the cruelty OF
the savage; and little allowance was made
for the natural jealousy of the Sovereign, on
account of the barbarites Of the warrior.
Philip, in the progress of the English Settle
ments, foresaw the loss of his territory, and
the extinction of his tribe, and made some
mighty efforts to prevent those calimities.
The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-07-14
LITERARY LOVE.

The age of investons and improvements
is very productive, not in steam contrivanc-
cs only, as the following literary efforts
plainly Indicate. 1t is an exact copy OF a
love letter, written in this present year 1925,
and sent soberly and seriously by the author
to a. Young lady of responsibility, not one
hundred miles from Baltimore.-Fed. Gaz.
,Resh!endcm Nymhh-My pericranum,
for Il hebdomanal season, hath been fascin-
ated with the imagery of your immaculate
personality. When the arrived contem-
plation of your mental faculties would lila
queate in ecstacy the divine particles of an
anchorite, your benign philanthrophic dis
position induces me to supplicate ilialebra-
tion under your patriocination. When CO.
agnlate on the ascending, descending and
horizontal motion Of your refulgent optics,
ard construe them to the malehc, my heart
is laccrated and my cheeks innovated by a
continuation of lachyrmation; but when IL
lusively apprehend then to be portentous OF
benevolence, | am instantaneously soaring
OH the pinions ofhope, exalted to the sum-
init of terrestrial beautude and feel an APP
Proclamation to the inimitable joys of futuri-
ty. But oh the mutabikny Of. feminaHty!!-
The autopsy OF your autographv, addressed
to an Oriental swain, in exclusion OF your
vestal dcyotee, bids me despond and die,
not 8, Outstanding your immoveable antipathy
to a disconsolate inamorato; yet honour
ihcabilitudinity impels me to make this dec
laration On the pre-sconomy of your amuse-
ment of behaviour towards me, and that
your exterior deportmelt as well as con-
f.bulaton, makes them compatible with the
most refined condignity and urbanity. am
fair spoken and shall through all the hour
ly crcumvolutions of eternity be your re-
spondent adorcr. No doubt BY this time you
perceive / am more than pretended to be.
The hetrogenousness, heteroctitital and mis-
celaneous effusons of my prolific imagina-
tion, this partial evacuation and disembosue-
ment of my sentiments and disposition to-
wards you, have afforded inefiabe satisfac-
ton and tranquility to my extravasred and
revolutionzed system.
My contiguity to your local habitation will
supereede the necessity of my writing to a.
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MOUNT HOPE AND KING PHILIP.

The Rev. Richard Recce of England, IN
letter ON the subject Of his late visit to
America, gives the following account OF
King Philip, who for a long time, was
terror to the first settlers of New England
Passing from Newport to Providence he
says:-
On advancing up the river, we had fne
view of Bristol, another large seaport town
on Rhode Island but we did not approach
near to it.-GENERAL DEWoLFE, who was
a m passenger with us from New York, has
his residence in this place. His summer
house is said to be built where King Philips
wigwam stood. KING PHILIP was an IN,
dian Chief; one of the most shrewd, bold, ano
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----FTc that hath beheld
The parting spirit by its fears repcled,
Cling in weak terror to its earthly chain,
And from the dizzy brink rccoll in vain;
He that hath seen the last convulsiye throc
Dissolve the union formed, and closed III woe,
We'll knows the houris awfiil.--In the pride !.
Ofyouth and health, by suffering yet untricd,
We talk ofdeata rs something that 'twcre sweet
In glory's arms exutingiv to meet,
A closing triumph, amajestic scene,
When gazing nations watch the hcro's men,
As, undismayed amid the tears Of all,
He folds his mantle regally TO fall!
Hush, fond enthusiastically, obscure, and lone,
Yet not less terrible because unknown
In the last hour Of thousands; they retire
From life's throng',i path, unnoticed to expire.
As the light leaf, Ghnsc fall to ruin bears
Some trembling insects little world ofcares
Descends in silence--whle, around, waves or
The mighty forest, reckless what has gone!
Such is mans doom--and, ere an hour be tlown
Start not, thou triher!--such may be thy own'
! MRs. HgMAss.
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Bryant.

EXTRACTS FROM "THE SCEPTIC."
tBut thou, whose thoughts have no blest home
above,
Captive of Earth!-and canst thou dare to lore2
TO fix each hope, concentrate every tie,
On one frail idol destined but to die,
Yet mock the faith that points to worlds of
Light
Where severed souls, made perfect, reuntel
Then tremblc!-cling to every passingloy
Twned with life moment may destroy!
If there be sorrow in a parting tear,
Still let ssfrerer" t-vibrate on thy ear.
lfsomc bright hour on rapturc's wing has flown,
Find more than anguish in the thought" tits
gone''-
--Go!-to voice such magic influence give,
Thou canst not lose its melody and live'
And make an eye the load-star of thy soul,
And let glance the springs of thought con-
trout;
Gaze on mortal form with fond delight,
Till the fair vision mingles with thy sight:
There seek thy blessings, there repose thy trust,
Lean on the willow, dolize the dust!
Then, when thy treasure best repays thy care,
Think on that dread "forerer" and "despair!"
"Oh! what is Natures strengthl-the vacant
eye
BY mind deserted, hath a dread reply!
The wild delirious laughter of despair
The mrth of frenzy-seek an answer there!
Turn not away, though PHYS cheek grow pale,
Close not thy ear against their awful tale.
They tell thee, Reason, wandering from the ray
vi Faith, the blazing pillar of her way,
In the mid darkness of the stormy wave,
rorsook the struggling soul she could not save!
Weep not, sad morast o'er deserted plains
D orew'd with the wrecks of grandeur-Inoulder-
ing fanes,
Arches of triumph, long with weeds o'crgrown,
and regal cities, nov the serpent's own'
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GENERAL WASHINGTON.

The following anecdote was furnished by
an old and very respectable citizen now no
nore--onc who was intimately acquainted
with the General and the fact.
Many years ago, and sometimes before the
revolution, Colonel Washington and his la
dy were in the habit of visiting a watering
place in Virginia, at which place there was
a great resort of company, among whom
there always were poor, sick, and lame peo-
pie, who came to seek the benefit OF the
waters with very slender means. An ac-
ouaintance with the situation of the people,
was the constant but secret care OF Colonel
Washington. 1t was observed by the rela-
tor CT this anecdote, that they drew fresh
bread every day, without money. Curiosity
led him to inquire OF the baker how he ex-
pcctcd to get paid; he hesitatcd, and said lie
was enjoincd not to tell; that the very peo
pie who eat the bread, did not know who
paid for it. This but increased his curiosity:
when, with strong injunctions Of sccresy, he
whispered in his ear, he received his pay
from Colonel Washington; that it had al
ways been his practice when at Bath, and
that the bill was Il pretty considerable one
This is that same Washington, who under
God achieved our independence, and, con-
sequently our present national happiness ane
glory, but is himself denied monument
which, suppose would not cost above twt
hundred thousand dollars. But the faith
FIJI historian will raise monument to hi
name, and among the ample materials per
haps this fragment may find place.
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