The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-07-28

cannot describe the beauty and SuOllmlty OF
these lucid orbs ii, miniature, with which
nature has endowed the queen of the insect
kingdom.
TEE FAITHFUL DOMESTIC.
When was, last autumn, at my friend
Colonel Caustic's in the country,I saw there,
on visit to Miss Caustic, children of neigh
bour OF the Colonel's, with whose appear
ance and manner | was peculiarly pleased.
-"The history of their parents, said my
friend. is somewhat particular, and love to
tell it, as | do every thing that is to the
honour OF our nature. Man is SO apoor thing
taken in the gross, that when l meet with
an instance of nobleness in detail, I am
fain to rest upon it long, and to recall it
often: as, in coming hither over our bar
rem hills, you would dwell with double de-
light on a spot of cultivation or of beau
ty.
"'Ihe father of those young folks, whose
looks YOU were SO struck with, was a gen.
tleman of considerable domains and cXten-
sive influence on the nothern frontier of our
country. In his youth, he lived, as it was.
tho more fashionable than it is now, at the
seat of his ancestors, surrounded with Goth
ic grandeur, and compassed with feudal fol-
lowers and dependants; all of whom could
trace their connection, at period more or
less remote, with the family of their chief.
| Every domestic i'll his house bore the family
name, and looked OIL himself as in certain
degree partaking its dignity, and sharing its
fortunes Of these, one was in particu-
lar manner the favorite of his master. NJ
bert Bane (the sirname, you know, is gen.
orally lost in name descriptive of the indi-
vilual) had been his companion from his in
fancy 0F an a Gil, much advanced
as to enable him to be a sort of tutor to his
Youthful Lord. Albert had early taught him
the rural exercises and rural amusements,
in which himself was eminently skitul; he
had attended him in the course of his edu-
cation at home, OF his travels abroad, and
was still the constant companion ot his ex-
cursions, and the associate OF his sports.
"On one of those latter occasions, favor
lite dog of Albert's whom he had trained
himself, and of whose qualities he was proud,
and happened to mar the sport which his
master expected, who, irritated at the dis
appointment. and having his gun ready cock
ed in his hand, fired at the animal, which,
however, in the hurry of his resentment, he
missed. Albert, to whom Oscar was
child, demonstrated against the rashness Of
his deed, in manner rather too warm for
his master, rui1icd as he was with the ac-
cdent, and conscious of being in the wrong,
to bear. In his passion he struck his faith
full attendant, who suffered the ndignity i'll
silence, and retiring, rather in grief than in
anger, LETT his native country that very night,
and when he reached the nearest town, en-
listed with recruiting party OF regiment
then on foreign service. 1t was in the be-
ginning of the war with France which broke
out in 1744, rendered remarkable for the re
bellien which the policy of the French court
excited, in which some ofthe first families
of the Highlands were unfortunately en-
gagged. Among those who joined the stand
ard of (Halfs, was the master of Albert.
".After the battle of Culloden, so fatal to
that party, this gentleman, along with 9th
ers who had escaped the slaughter of the
field, sheltered themselves from the rage OF
the unsparing solderY, among the distant re-
cesscs of their country. To him his native
mountains offered an ASYLUM; and thither
he naturally fled for protection. Acquainted
in the pursuits OF the chase, with every Sc
cret path and unworn track, he lived for
considerable time, like the deer of his for.
est, close hid all day, and only venturins
down at the fall of the evening, to obtain
from some of his cottagers, whose fidelity
he could trust, a scanty and precarious sup
port. ! have often heard him, for he is ole
of my oldest ac1uantances, describe the
oSSHS VI iiia PiaSS, az a iatCi l)SIiOO,
when he could recollect its sublimity,
without It's horror.-s'At times" said he
"when yentured to the edge of the wood,
among some of these inaccessible crags
which you remember few miles from my
house, have heard, in the pauses of the
breeze which rolled solemn through the pines
beneath me, the distant voices of the soldiers
shouting in answer to another, amidst their
inhuman search. have heard their shots
rec hoed from cliff to cliff, and seen reflect
ed from the deep still lake below, the CLEAN
of those fires which consumed the cottages
Of my people. Sometimes shame and indie-
nation well nigh ovcrcame my fear, and
have prepared to rush down the steep, I'M
armed as was, and to die at once bv the
swords of my enemies; but the instructive
love of life prevailed, and starting as the
roe bounded by me, have again shruns
back to the shelter had left"
Zone day." continued he, ''the noise was
nearer than usual. and at last, from the cave
in which lay, heard the parties so close
upon me, that could distinguish the words,
they spoke. After sometime Of horrible sus-
pense, the voices grew weaker and more
distant; and at last heard them die away
at the further end of the wood. | rose and
stole 10 the mouth Ct the gave: when sN.-