The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-12-02
From the Boston Pearl.
THE POWER OF ADVERsIT,


Before the hand Of republican power had Ievcll-
ed all distinctions in France, and sunk the proudcst
family to the Illuminating condition of the meanesl
peasant, in the gay neighborhood Of Versailles the
Marquis d'Embevle owned a sumptuous hotel,
where he lived in epicurcan luxury and priuceiy
splendor.-His mind possessed all the inperious
vanity of ancient regime and placed by fortune at
an au fu distance, he looked down upon the caaaiUe
as unworthy to hold with him in rank in the same
scale of being. His only son, Lewis, in the prime
of youth, had made the tour of Switzerland: he
had visited every part of those wondrous regions,
where nature reigns in all her grandeur, and dis
plays to the enthusiastic mind that sublime and ma
esc scenery, which attracts and gratihes the most
unbounded curiosity. So remote from the haunts
of courtly pleasure-so distant from the eddy cir
Gle of high fo-he felt the impression oflhat tender
passion beneath whose controlling power mortas
OF all degrees are indiscriminatey doomed to bow.
The object of his admiration was a lovely Swiss,
fresh from the hand of nature, in all the bloom of
youth and beauty, like the mother of mankind in
state of primeva innocence; honesty was the only
wealth her friends possessed her charms and vir
tue were her only portion. With this lovely maid
Lewis had sought and cultivated an acquaintance
He weighed her mental graces against the frippCyy
of Parstan bellies, and with pleasure saw them pre-
pondcrate. She felt the congcnial passion, but from
disparity OF circumstances, suppressed the kindng
hope. The shaft was fixed too deep in his bosom
TO be cradcated without decorating his yitas Al
though desparing of success, he returned 10 his ia
ther, and on his knee bcsought him to confirm his
happiness 10y an assent to this unequal union.
Degrading information Should the honorary
tide of prncely blood, long flowing down the chan
nelS of an ilustrious ancestry, be contaminated bv
mngllng with plebian streams No He spurned
him from his feet, and, with nggard hand, rcluc-
family comforting scanty annuity, bade him retire
ngain to ali ignominous exile, and see his face no
more. He was too well acquainted with the nhex-
billty of his fathers temper when once arrived at
certain point; he knew thnt the moment expostu-
ation forever past. He was forbidden to return
and seek pardon, even by the narrow path of du-
y; Inc therefore felt himself not unhappy, that,
without direct breach of parental obligation, he
could by the trivial sacrifice of his fortune obtain
the object of his desires. lie babe adieu TO the
scenes of departed ailuencc, aud flew TO repose him
self on the faithful bosom of domestic affection
The inhabitants of the happy valley celebrated
their nuptlals with the usual ceremonies and Lewis
soon forgot that he was born To- higher expectations
The storm which had long been gathering over
devoted France, at length descended, involving in
one general ruin all the pride of prerogatve title
and family. The sangunary streams that flowed
from the throne, swollen by thousand rils had
deluged the nation, aud the horrid engine of death
the guillone-siill frowncd tremendously over its
innumerable victims. Not with less terror than the
trembling traveller when he sees the nccumula,ine
oralanehe laundering from Alpine precipices. in lis
progress tearing up towering pines and crushing in.
to atoms the obstructing cottages the MARQUIS En-
blcyillc bcheld the approaching desolaiion Ills
lady died of broken heart, to observe the spendor
Of her family eclpsed and rescuing comparative
triRe from the wreck of afuence, he hastily left his
prescribed country in disguise, and fed towards tn,
regions of ancient Helvec liberty, where after long
and weary wandering among those eternal p,oup
fain ,~t,f f,r,,, ft,o a
heads, crowned with old as The creation ,ic,,
the turgid clouds rolling round their base amid the
widest scenes Of naturc he experienced the bitter