The native American., 1837-12-09

The following from the Wonderful Museum,
is of such a singular nature, and filled with such
. train of moving circumstances, that it cannot tal
&c being agreeable to our readers, and warming
their hearts with the most noble sentiments OF
friendship and humanity:
Two Merchants, who lived in the same street
nj Paris. were very intimate friends, concerned in
the same branch OF trade and possessed OF pretty
equal fortunes. The one had son and the other
a daughter, nearly of the same age, whose recip-
rocal love for one another was encouraged and
kept up by frequent visits, authorised by both their
parents, who observed with pleasure the DISPOSE
tons of their children exactly suited to the IN
tention they had of making them husband and
wife. marriage was accordingly on the point
of being concluded between them, when rich
collector of the kings made his addresses
to the young lady. The deluslye charms OF
snner;or fortune soon induced her parents to
chance their resolution of bestowing her on their
NEIGHBOURS son; and the lady's aversion to her
new lover being surmounted by her filial duty,
she married the collector: but the engagement was
fatal to her happiness, and brought on melan-
choly. which threw her into disorder, whereby
her senses were so locked up that sac was taken
for dead and accordingly inferred. The affecting
news reached the ears of her first lover, who re-
Numbering that she had once been seized with a
violent paroxysm of a lethargy, tlattered himself
that her late misfortune might be produced ny the
same cause. This opinion alleviated his sorrow;
and induced him to bribe the sexton by whose as
sistance he raised her from the grave, and con-
viewed her to proper chamber, where, by the
use Of all the expedients he could possibly think
of. he bappily restored her to life. We may ina
pine the lady was not little surprised when she
found herself in strange house, saw her darling
lover standing by her bed, and heard the detail OF
all that had befallen her. The love she haa al
ways born him, and grateful sense OF the oohsa-
ton she was now under to him as her dciiVefer'
pleaded strongly in his behalf; and she justly con,
Guided, that her life belonged to him VINO nad
preserved it. To convince him, therefore, OF her
affection, when she was perfectly recovered, she
went along with him to England, where they lived
several years in all the happiness resulting ron
mutual love. However, about ten years after
wards. thew returned to Paris, imagining that no
BODY would ever suspect what had happened; but
one day the collector unfortunately met the lady
in public walk, and not only accosted her, but,
Notwithstanding the discourse she used IN order
to deceive him, parted from her, fully persuaded
that she was the very woman whom ne had mar
RED. and for whose death he had gone into mourn
mo. In a word, he soon discovered her apart
ment, in spite of all the precautions she had ia
Len 10 conceal herself, and claimed her as his wife
in the court of judicature. In vain did her lover
insist on the right he had to her, arising from the
care he had taken to preserve her. In VAN dia
be uroe. that without the measures he had used,
The ladv would have been rotting in her grave;
that his adversary had renounced all claim to her
by ordering her to be inferred; and all the other
arguments that the sincerest love could suggest:
80 that perceiying the court not likely to prove
favourable to him, he resolved not to stay Tor Its
decision, and accordingly made his escape with
the lady to foreign country, where their love
continued sacred and inviolable as long as lie re-
NAMED.