Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-11-28

yourself created Th,s was spoken with .u
eaergy and enthusiasm, as though he had
himself experienced all the pleasures be now
painted for her.
"With q glance OF indescribsbe supplica-
tion, she released herself from that glowing
fold which would have pressed her forever to
a heart where she must inevitably have ruled
unrivalied."
| shortly after received from her the fol
lowing letter:
FRoM THE CONVENT.
"Roberia Bruce. Queen of Scotland. will
now sit down 10 address the mimic Of """'rS !;
but it is the last letter he ever will receive
from her hand, as she will soon return to the
and Of her sires. She does not pretend TO
censure the quacks Of Virginia for not afford
ing relief, as they are ignorant Of the constl-
tuition of a queen. She will now proceed to
give him some of his own glowing words
Her fancy Is sometimes dazzled by the bril-
liant flashes OF native genius. Her heart is
touched by the strokes Of nature, or her soul
elevated by subimity of sentiment from o
vivid fancy, susceptible feelings, and q cult.
waited mind. which are never 30 fully tasted
as in the sweet sunset Of the day; then the
influence of sentiment 10 buoyan. over pas
slon--the soul, alive to the sublmest impress
sion, expands in the region Of pure and elc.
vated meditation-the passions, slumberlDe
in the soft reposs Of nature, leave the heart
iree TO the reception Of the purest, warmest,
tenderest sentiment, when all Is delicious
melancholy, or peDslve softness, when every
vulgar wish is hushed, and a refined and
Iindefnable rapture thrills with sweet vibra-
tion on every nerve. But, y! royal queen I!
was led To believe, fatal convction,) that
the virgin rose Of the fair queens affection,
had already shed it's sweetness Oh former
happier lover that the Partially had fiat
tered myself IN having awakened, was either
the result Of intuitivs coquetry, or, in the
long absence of her hearts first object, a
transient beam Of that fire, which, once llu
mined, is so difficult to extingulsh, and which
was nourshed by my resemblance to him
who had first won her heart. What! | re-
ceive to my heart the faded spark, while
another has basked in the vital flame. |,
contenledly gather this after-bloom Of ten
derness, when another has inhaled the very
essence of the nectarious blossom. | will,
with single effort, tear this late adored i'm
age from my heart, though that heart break
with the effort, rather shan feed on the rem
nant of those favors on which another has
like every other feeling of the heart, loses It's
poignsncy by reiteratioD, its fragrance with
It's bloom, let me not, while the first fallen
dew Of pleasure hangs fresh upon the flower
of your existence, seize upon the preclou,
moments which hope rescued from the iangs
of dependence. When | heard the fatal
news, felt like being Of some other sphere
newly ahghted on distant orb She is like
fha 4 hau MI do.
parteth, and when the winter is over and
gone. She resembleth the cypress in the
garden. She may well say now, she rises
IN the morning with the orient sunbeam OF
brightness, and slunIbers with the western
gale"
She was true to her promise Of not writing
me another letter; but she continued 10 write
on various subjects, and had her manuscripts
locked up IN hsr bureau. She would some
times read them to me,-nt other times she
could not be prevailed on to do so. Toward
The close Of her disease they assumed more
| did not procure some Of them, as they
would have discovered the astonishing pow
ers Of her mind. The style of her last com.
positions, though somewhat turgid and occa
sionslly too quaint, was considered very fine.
She sometimes made me read them to her.
II in doing so, made the smallest mistake in
u word, or in the pronunciation, or even en-.
phssls, she would correct me, and would offer
discover the shire widest critical acumen thai,
have ever witnessed. frequently thought
discovered misapplcation OF words, or bad
spelling, and would refer to the dictionary
and other authorities on the subject, and in.
variably found her correct. Ii there was an
unusual word, or one which coulI be spclt
IN different ways, she generally used it or
spelt il IN the obsolete way, as if to entrap
persons disposed to criticise, and to enjoy
the pleasure Of confoundlng them. In girl.
who had scarcely left school, this critical
accuracy would appear astonishing it i.
not half SO much SO as many other things
with her disease, by which she
gained an ascendency not only over the SER
wants, but over her brothers and sisters and
parents, and even tho neighbors, many Of
whom were impressed with a belief that she
could divine events. and knew the secrets Of
their hearts. A Jew instances will suffice
to show her gifts in this way. The family
were always very cautious ABOUT impartiDg
to her any unpleasant news, and ! had par
ticularly enjolned 1t upon them not to hold
conversations on any such subject in her
presence. During one Of her long pa
roxysms Of catalepsy, in which she was cur
we'd like hoop, and apparently entirely in
sensible to every thing aronnd her, news Of
the death Of an aunt was received by letter:
the family, ] believe, were not appnsed of
her previous illness, as she resided far from
them. Of course great care was taken to
keep her from knowledge Of SO distressing
an event-and all who could not appear CON-
posed were enjoined to keep from the room
So soon as tho spasm left her, she called for
her sister, and asked her if she knew tha
aunt II. was dead-and who had informed
her. Her sister used the pious fraud OF deny.
ing that such calamity had occurred. She
told her that it was useless for her to deny
it, that she had seen her distinctly, and told
them the very day Of her death, &c.
There is, perhaps, no person who believed
more firmly than myself in the aphorism, mil
est in inteilectu quod non prius fuit in sensu. y
therefore instituted the strIctest inquiry to
discover whether there had been conversa
ton in the room on that subject, while she
appeared insenslbe, so that the sense Of hear
ing might have conveyed the impression to
the sensorium, while the other senses were
locked up. could by no means discover
that this had been the case yet my theory
but nothing else,) lead me to the belief tina
such must have been the case.
During her illness was sent for, in con
in the case of young gentleman,
who had been lonV laborino under n diseosed