The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-05-01

which no had found in the captured
baggage. In il was volume which had
belonged to some lnckless italian in the
retreatlng army. 1t was my own his
tory mine, compiled by some roman
Ger, but told word for word with frag-
ments Of Iny wife's letters, and every in
cident and feature of the whole transac-
ton given in tho utmost detail. Ro-
nance had done nothing in il. For
what exaggeration could il have found in
romance 7 But It's perusal that night
changed the whole course Of my misfor-
tunes. IT brought back 5outh, passion,
misfortune, misery, in full tide upon me
again. The cold and unnatural fierce
ness of the january ehieftain was thaw-
ed away at once. The haired of man.
or that more than hatred, the contempt
of human nature, which locked upon its
joys and sorrows, its struggles and sue
cess, as the sport of flies, made only to
be brushed away, or the malignity Of
reptiles, fit only TO be trampled into
death; all was gone, saw before me, in
my solitary tent, that night. the coaa-
tenances Of every friend of my carly
years-I heard the voices once faailiar
to my heart-I breathed the beloved and
balmy air of my native 6elds-l exult-
ed in the unrivalled spiendOrs of my ma
tive sunshine, my native shores, my ma
tive hills. First and last in every land
scape, in every proud saloon, in every
spot of peace and beauty, ! saw the two
figures that had decided on my fate, and
shut the door of happiness upon me-
But time had extinguished tho intensity
of my passions, and with it Of my pains.
] felt that ! longed only to forgive and
be forgiven, and lie down and die.
"While was feasting on my lonely
banquet Of sorrow the thunders Of the
Ottoman drums was heard. The con-
trast was fatal to my soldiership. felt
an instant and irresistible reluctance to
the trade of blood. Thought with won
der and with loaihing on the savage de-
light which had hurried me so long
through the furics of war. i had shed
gore in torrents--and that too, was
Christian gore. On my knees pledg-
cd myself 10 the Heaven which had SO
long endured me, never 10 aid the fero-
city of king or people again. loosed
the scinitar from my waist, took the
poniard from my sash, the tarban from
nay brow, and, throwing over me the
cloak of one of the Greek followers of
the camp, took my solitary way, and
left camp, glory, wealth, the vinero'e'
and the world behind.
81 never rspcnted this step, I never
turned back my tread. ] fixed myself
among the Thessalian cotiagers, aud
there led life oflabor and con,snsmens.
When the war rendered life there pre-
carious, / returned to the hills. for life
had become valuable to me, from tho
time when found that it could be made
useful to my fellow-men. | had been,
like the great King Of Babylon, driven
out from my kind, q prond madman. de-
generating into the savage. had, like
him. fed on the dross and weeds Of hu-
man life. I had spurned, and ragged.
and raved !: and in the deepest moral
humiliation, in the widest insanity OF
the heart, had deemed myself Lora Of all
around me. But the terrible dream had
passed, with oil its hnntoms the con-
vuIsed and fearful distress of tbs soul
had subsided. The hair, wet with the
dew of heaven, and the nails like eagles
claws had passei 4 from my na,urs. l
was man again I; and. in the JOY OF
my recovered faculties, / resolved to live
in future only for the sake Of giving help
to man, and homage to Him in whose
lhand man is only the dust of the bal
ance.
~ am now, I belisve dying; and !
die with the hope that the evils Of my
career may be forgotten, the coed re-
me mbered, and the fraihies forgiven
The Italian prince, the Mongol captain,
the famous Hasenn Carmata, the OBJ
scure Marabout, all have finished theiI
career, and all Are now stretched upon
the straw bed of an humble brother VI
the bnre-foeted Carmelites- have, like
/, Solomon, tried the sorrows, the wisdom
and the glories Of life--like Solomon
found them all VANITY or vANlTiES
y A Munekausen Siory.-We copy The
s following rather large story from Jere
: my Lewis. The narrator is one Ser
, geant Splint, who ought ia justice TO b,
: the successor Of Major Longbow -"
: was standing in the front rank Of som'
: COMPOUNDED engagement or other--th,
Q name has slipped my memory-when
! saw q fellow among the enemy taxi
$ aim at me and apply the match to hi
i. cannon. So watched, and just as tn
: ball came skipping along ! opened m.
j legs--when it passed through, cuttin!
4 off the lower limbs of three general Off