Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-06-30


Have mot seen what human things could do
From the loud roar Of foaming caumny,
To the small whisper Of the as paltry few,
And subter venom OF the reptile crew,
The Janus glance Of whose significant eve,
Learning to lie with silence, would seem true,
And without utterance, save the shrug or sigh,
Deal round to happy fools, its speechless oboquy
Have not
Hear me my mother Earth behold it, Heaven -
Have not had to wrestle with my loi I?
Have not suffered things to be forgiven
Have Ino, had my brain scared, my heart riven,
Hopes sapp'd, name bghted, Lhfe's life lied away?
And only not 10 desperation driven,
Because not altogether OF such clav
As rots INTO the souls OF those whom survey"
BYKoN's CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv.
few days since, IN esteemed friend placed
in our hands the series of letters which we
shall soon proceed to copy, with request
that they should be published; and remarked,
that their publication could not injure the feel
ings Of the parties concerned, as one of them
had buried his griefs in the bosom of wife,
and the other, the female, had become vol
untary recluse, abjured society, and vowed to
spend the remainder of her days, in state Of
unnatural widowhood. We confess, that at
the onset, we felt some reluctance about pub
fishing them, but after having been satisfac-
torly assured that the lady would not take
any exceptions to such course, we resolved
to lay the letters before the public.
The parties are we'll known to US, though
they are probably strangers to most of our
readers; and well do we remember, the many
happy hours we spent in their society, when
their hopes, like ours, were new, and when we
knew but little Of the cares of life, and with
the gay companions of our early joys, sported
in life's merry stream, and dreamed not of the
vexations which tins world affords.
The lady, at the time we enjoyed the pleas
ure of her society, was about fourteen years of
age, and the gentleman was but few months
older. They were near relatives, and at an
early period in life, contra cted fondness for
ach other; an alta chment which will proba-
bly, exist whilst they remain on earth; and
when their young hearts were rent asunder,
the hopes of both were cut off; and though
they now strive to forget each other, still do
they love, and linger with fondness, over the
recollection Of those blest days, when they
were happy, and the world seemed to afford
them nothing but continual season of bliss
The lady-we shall distinguish her hereafter
by the name Of Rosalind Villars---was incom-
parably beautiful; she was the pride and Joy
of her parents, and modestly received the adu-
lation of the world, though it was heapcd upon
her with the hand of prodigality.
She was graceful in her department, though
sometimes giddy, and the sportiveness Of her
soft blue eye, and the dimple Of her flushed
cheek, were enough to captivate all that be-
held her. Endowed by nature with talents of
the happiest order-and they had been liber-
ally cultvated-she held pre-eminent rank
among her sex, and the love she looked, could
charm the heart of misanthropc. With all
her other excclences, she united the noblest,
and tcnderest feelings, and her young heart
often bled for the sufIerings of others; and
when she read Of the msfortunes Of the hap
less and distressed, the tear would start from
her soft blue eye, and the throb of anguish,
and the tender ejaculation of pity, would es-
cape from her agonized bosom. She was the
nobest and gcntlest of her sex; and often
when we gazed upon her, we could not re-
frain from exclaiming, in the language Of Jaf-
fer to his Belvidcra:
"Angels are painted fair to look like you,
There's in We all that we believe in Heaven:
Amazing brightness, purity and truth,
Eternal JOY and everlasting love-"
The gentleman, who we shall hereafter dis
tinguish by the name Of Henry O'Conncr. was
the son ofa poor, but respectable mechanic,
the brother of the father Of Rosalind, and at
an early period in life, was placed in count
ing-room, TO receive the benefits OF mercan-
tile education. Pleased with the pursuits TO
which he had been introduced, he paid unre-
mitting attention to his business; and after hav-
ing scr,y,i five years with his employers, they,
confidni in hs integrity, and abilities, deputcd
him TO the Bay Of Bengal, to trasact impor-
tant business for them at Calcutta AT the
time he left his native country, he contompla-
ted beng absent two years; but having resided
in the Indies some time, he discovered that