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cond wife, with whom he had.not been very happy, and lost a
girl, who, it was supposed, had wandered under derangement
of intellects, and that the gentleman resided now.near Lewes,
in Sussex. We had no doubt the right clue was obtained,
My solicitor went down to Lewes, and found Mr. Amherst ‘
residing upon a small farm; he was in a state of great dejection.
The business was cautiously opened by my agent, who, finding |
Mr. Amherst to be the party he was in search of, gradually un- |
folded the history of his wandering daughter. .
“© Sir!” ejaculated Mr. Amherst, rising from his chair, and
grasping my friend’s hand, “ tell me at :once, is the poor dear
child living? if not, a dreadful retribution awaits me, She was an
angel in her disposition as her poor mother was, and I suffered
her to be ill-used by an imperious woman, by-whom I was de-
ceived, and who became jealous of my poor Emily.- Is that
‘lovely child well, or must I close the wretched remnant of .m)
life in horror and despair? ‘Yes, sir, despair of forgiveness,
vand ‘horror of ‘that future doom which I have called upon
myself.”
Mr. Amherst quitted my agent's hand, and clasped his to-
gether, and casting his agonized countenance upwards, with a
looh of supplication, cried, ‘Can there be mercy for me?”
‘His hands then dropped, whilst’ bis eye searched -my friend, as
‘if doubting his answer.
My agent led him to his chair. “ Be composed, sir, your
daughter is safe in the hands of kind friends. ;She is well.”
“ Heaven be praised,'l shall thea not die in agony of mind!”
cried the assured father.
My friesd then.recounted all the particul.rs up to the period.
Mr. Amherst ‘listened with attention, accompanied with great
excitement. “When he became more calm, it was arranged with
him to wait until the advice was sent him that the medical
attendant deemed -her:sufficiently recovered to:be prepared for
<an interview with-him,-when he was-to be-intr
Two months-elapsed after this ‘before Emily:was deemed 20
entirely convalescent as ‘tobe able to -bear the news of her
father’s intention of folding her in his arms. “She had become
daily more interesting -to us all, and Julia appeared to have
xiveted her affections to-her. As the-reason-of poor Emm:
came gradually restored, she ceased to sing her affecting songs
relating.to her mother, and would -only converse in a melan-
choly manner of past events. ‘At last -my wife prepared ‘ber
by degrees, and at long intervals, with information about her
family, and for the approaching interview. The knowledge
that her parent’s affection was unbounded towards. her, enabled
her to expect him with-composed feelings. >
“The appointed day at length arrived. 1 went into Exeter
as arranged, and there met Mr. Amherst. His expression o
gratitude for our care of -his beloved daughter-was unbounded
I conveyed him to B—d—e Lodge, and first introduced him to
my wife and daughters ; he looked round for Emmy.
“‘ Where isimy angel?” cried he, almost fearing a disap.
pointment, “ I.will go for her, she is in my room, sir,”
swered Julia with delight, and she skipped away like a fawn.
“In two minutes she returned with the lovely “ wanderer,”
and certainly a more graceful.and elegant girl never-entered a
room. She was greatly agitated as Julia led her in—her father
became pale as death—she rushed forward. “ My dear fa-
ther,” was all that escaped her as she rested upon his neck, and
a flood of tears relieved her acute feelings.’ Julia ran up, and
clung to Eramy. “The scene overpowered us.all. for some mi-
nutes. Mr. Amherst led his daughter to the sofa, and -seated
himself by her—he looked intently upon ‘her face. : ‘You are
indeed an angel,” :said ‘the happy father, ashe clasped the
beautiful Emmy to his heart, and again kissed her, and poured
forth his fervent blessing upon her.
It was a day that my latest memory will treasure as one of
the happiest of my life, it passed without any renewal of the
“fair wanderer's” excitement froma retrespect of her past sor-
rows. It closed serenely upon all in ;projecting the future.ar-
rangements for Emily, and her old friends, who were assured
by Mr. Amherst of his making a comfortable provision for
them, in testimony of their continued kindness to his ‘restored
daughter.
Mr. Amherst staid a week with us. Emily had become too
dear,to us all to allow of our separating. “Her “father found
that.a emall estate contiguous to our.own ‘was upon. ‘sale—he
became the purchaser—settled the old blind man and his wife
comfortably in one of the cottages upon it, and by this happy
‘arrangement our lovely -protegée was enabled ‘to be:our daily
inmate, and little Julia was gratified in being retained «as her
constant companion. Emmy’s reminiscences of her ‘ mother’s
tomb” .bave subsided to an occasional melancholy, in which
her affectionate heart indulges, without her reason losing its
empire.
Three years have now passed in all the enjoyments of social
and refined intercourse ; and the only anticipations which at
resent engage our minds are of a nature which we have not
Terermined to consider as welcome, or otherwise. Sir .George
‘——, who has lately -succeeded to his baronetey, and the
large domain of ‘Kenton Park, has attached himself -to our
parties with a perseverance, the object of which we cannot
aistake ; and our lovely Emily Amberst shows symptoms of a
consciousness, which indicates that something like an avowal
has been made, and not absolutely discouraged. Her glowing
charms seem heightened, her spirits not quite so fettered ; and
my wife says that her attention to her dress is certainly more
decided—when Sir George is engaged to:make one of our
family circle.
Her father on these occasions only ejaculates, “God -bless
the dear angel, may every bliss be hers !” .
Time will reveal the rest. . Ss.
Lireratore any Art.—Literature and art flourished under
the reign of Louis XIV., and.under the reign of Augustus ;
and it has thence been inferred, that a despotic form of govern.
ment.is favourable to them. Literature and the arts will flourish
so long as they are not opposed to the maxims, civil and reli-
gious, of the goverrment under which they appear. © The same
monarch who could reward the Mantuan bard for his panegyric
on Marcellus, could banish Ovid to the snows of Thrace, and
the deserts of the Euxiue, and compel him to confess that his
genius had been his ruin !—Professor Smythe. .
Panry,—A party does not consist oaly in a difference of opinion
upon an isolated measure; it is a bady of men having one potitical
code, according to which they judge of men and measures, and having
leaders from whom they receive theic impulae more or less biind!y.—
Murat,
Frxpxnick tHe Great.—A prince whoe heart had withered at
thirty. Frederick had no qualities but courage and ambition, And
these, however good in themselves, cannot reconcile us to «character
with which we have no sympathy —a character whose middie and end,
foundation and aim, was ever-acting, increasing, predominate, concen-
trated e¢lfishness — Professor Smythe. -
Tue Currcy —That which makes the clergy glorious, is to be know-
ing in their profession, unspctted in their lives, active and laborious in
their charges, bold and resolute in opposing seducers, and dating to look
vice in the face, though never ao potent and illustrious —Dr, South,
‘time was entirel;
FRANKLINS. MISCELLANY.
THE SPIRIT OF THE EAST;
Mlustrated in a Journal of Travels through Roumeli during |
L
an Eventful Period. By
Henry Colbourn, .
s is a work of no.ordinary interest and ability, and one
eminently calculated to dispel the prejudices and remove the
stumbling-blocks, which pre-conceived and European notions
cast in the path of oriental inquiry. The general reader will
peruse -with interest and delight the animated sketch which
Mr. Urquart has given of his rip through European Turkey,
which forms the groundwork of his masterly disquisition on
the manners and institutions of the East, and their influence
on the moral snd political condition of the people. The opin-
ions which the author has formed arc the result of ten years’
unremitting ‘labour in the acquisition of the necessary infor~
D. Urayart, Esq.—London :
apation for judging of the countries which he in part describes.
During that period, unoceupied with any other pursuit, his
devoted to investigation in detail, or to
general studies collaterally bearing ‘on ‘the laws, history, com-
merce, political and diplomatic position of the East, and more
particularly of Turkey. The result isa body of information
peculiarly fitted to arrest the attention of every contemplative
mind. We would varticularly poiat the attention of the reader
to the chapters on Turkish ‘literature, the habits and education
of Eastern children, the Jife.or-the Harem, and the state of
women, with their influence on domestic manvers and national
character. To .the philosophic ;inquirer, the remarks on the
strong devotional charaeter of Islamism, and-the power which
that faith displays in influencing and moulding habits in -every
stage of soci: advancement, will perhaps prove the most attrac-
tive portion of this able work. “We shall give an extract from
the chapter on contrasts between England and Turkey :—
Europeans commemorate the laying of the foundation stone ;
‘Turks celebrate the covering in of the roof. Among the Turks, a
beard is a mark.of dignity ; with us of negligence. Shaving the
head is, with them, a custom ; with us a i
We take off our gloves before our Sovereign ; they cover their
hands-with their sleeves,
We enter an apartment with our head uncovered ; they enter
an apartmeot with the feet uncovered. ith them, the
men have their necks and their arms naked ; with us, women
have their arms and necks naked.
With us, the women parade in gay colours, and the men in
sombre ; with them, in both cases, jt is the reverse.
With us, the men ogle the women ; in Turkey, the women
og'e the men.
With us, ‘the lady looks shy .and bashful; in Turkey, itis
the gentleman.
In Europe, a lady. cannot, visit a gentleman; in Turkey, she
can, In Turkey, a gentleman cannot visit a lady; in Europe
he can. ,
There the ladies always wear: trousers, and the gentlemen
sometimes petticoats.
with us.the red cap is the symbel of licence ; with them it is
the hat.
In our rooms the roof is white and the wall is coloured ; with
them the wall is white aod the roof is coloured.
In Turkey, there are gradations of.social rank without: privi-
leges ; in ngland, there are: privileges without corresponding
social distinctions.
Vith-us, social forms and etiquette supersede domestic ties ;
with them, the.etiquette-of relationship supersedes that of so-
ciety.
With us, the schoolmaster appeals to the authority of the
arent ; »with them, ithe parent has.to.appeal tothe superior
authority and responsibility of the-schoolmaster.
With'us, a student is punished by being “ confined to cha-
pel;” with them, a scholar,is punished by being exeluded from
the mosque. Their chiidren have the manners of men ; our
men the manners of children.
- Amongst us, masters require characters with their servants ;
in Turkey, servants inquire into the character of masters.
We consider dancing a polite recreation ; they consider it a
disgraceful avocation.
In Turkey, religion restrains -the imposition of political
taxes; in England, the Government imposes taxes for religion,
In England, the religion .of ‘the State exacts ‘coutributions
from sectarians ; in Turkey, the. religion of the State protects
the property of sectarians against Government taxes.
An Englishman will be astonished at what he calls the ab-
sence of public credit in Turkey; the Turk will be amazed at
our national debt.
The first will despise the Turks for having no organization to
facilitate exchange ; the Turk will be astonished.to.pereeive, in
England, laws to.impede the circulation of commerce; the
Turk will wonder how Government can be carried on with di-
vided opinious ; the Englishman will not believe that, without
opposition, independence can exist.
-In ‘Turkey, commotion :may exist without disaffection ; in
England, disaffection exists without commotion.
336
STEAM CARRIAGES,
WRITTEN IN 1827, .
J have had a high respect for steam since I first saw potatoes
cooked by it, and thatis five .and-thirty years ago..- I was cons
fident there were yirtues in it of which the world then knew
nothing ; and when J first heard of the steam engine I recognised.
it as the very thing I dreamt of twenty years before. A fool in-
deed might have known that the same force which knocks up the
cover of a tea-kettle, would, if properly directed, make brass
buttons. But the summit of my appiness was to come, for last
Sunday fortnight the Adas gave me the delightful intelligence
that a steam carriage was immediately to start from London to
Southampton. I have rarely talked of anything else since, and
last week positively took one of the stages in Gracechurch-street,
on purpose to tease the coachman.
T took good care to secure the box, and presently a fine young
fellow, who drove four beautiful bays, * accommodated his rib-
bons,” gave his whisght and away. {had much to do to keep
down my favourite topic till we got off the stones, “but the new
bridge and the Custom-house job managed to pass the time, and
we had scarcely passed St. George’s when I began.
“ Well, coachman, you will soon lose your four tits; they
are going to steam it to Greenwich, and you gentlemen of the
whip will be driven from the box just as.you. are beginning
get.respectable.”’—* I don't fear uit,” said the Knight -of ‘the
Ribbons, “it will never answer ; do you. mean to say you would
ever situpon a boiler, with a cistern perhaps over your head, and
your feet in a coal cellar, and roll down to Greenwich in their
smoky boxes, when you-would see the ¢ play’ of foursuch vrett
creatures as these: there’s that near leader, it's worth your i
ling to see the fling of her jowls at starting, as much as to Say £
laugh at your distance.’ “May I'lose “my set out,’ and that’s 2 ~~
good five hundred,if ever a steam carriagekeeps this road a twelve
month, for the insides will be afraid of the bursting, and the flashy
chaps L.take to the city will never leave my four bays as long
as London-bridge is London. bridge.” By the bye, that won’t
belong,” said I ; “ but in good earnest, as you have heard of these
“steamers,” what do you think of them ?”—T Jaugh at them,”
said he ; ** but it would bea cruel thing if they did succeed, for
it would throw hundreds out of bread: there's the coachmen,
the guards, the ostlers, the stable-keepers, the corn-chandlers,
and God knows who.”—* Aye, you forget the whip-makers, the
horse-dealers, the cat's-meat men, and the thousands besides
who get their living by the-wear and tear of ,horse-flesh ; but
you must recollect thousands will be employed by the new
jan.”
I did not. care to follow it further: with the coachman, but on
my return I reflected more seriously on the amazing change in
the property of the kingdom which the steam-carriage project
fect.
One of the most remarkable and important effects will be an
equalization of the value of landed property, for the most distant
parts of the kingdom will be within reach of any market, and
as we may then steam ten niles into the country in twice as
many minutes, who will pay an- extravagant house-rent io Lon-
don .
Mr. Malthus, too, will be.disconcerted, as population may
then goon fearlessly, :for, from the facility . of transporting
manure, the most barren Jands will be fertilized ; and, besides
this, wheat will be grown instead of oats and potatoes, -and
cabbages instead of clover. Stables may be turned into cottages,
and the ‘rich may then give'to their starving neighbours the {
comforts which they are now obliged to devote to their se:
What a chance for the poor! Country bumpkins may then
fairly grin tarough horse-collars, but their grimaces come at
present witha very bad grace, for the beasts certainly now have
the best of it.
Taking the speed at forty miles only per hour (aud there is
not.a doubt-that this .rate will eventually be exceeded), what
advantages will these delightful vehicles give. Breakfast in
Devon after a:trip of two hundred miles, spend the day, unfa~
tigued and comfortably, with your family, .and take the back
journey the following morning between breakfast and the hours...
of business. Delightful indeed! It would-prevent all that
severing of family ties which is at present unavoidable, ‘and all
that callousness of feeling which distance from family and a few
ears’ over-attention to ‘business too frequently occasions. ‘It
would enable.the father living in one end of the kingdom to see
and participate in his son’s success in the other, and-enable the
son to perceive and pay attention to those little comforts which
are necessary to soothe the decliniag years of his parent. It
would save the agonised tear of the mother,.who now parts with -
the.conviction that she shall see ‘her child again no more. In
fact, by: bringing all near each other, it would save the number-
lese pangs which distance now occasions.
steam can do this—if it can transport-me in one hour as
far as horses will in six—if it can do for three shillings what
horses expend as many sovereigns on, don’t tell me of innova-
tions. Bas les chevaux, vive les carrosses de vapeur!
«Wuiz.”
.A European, in Turkey, will. consider ,the ion of
justice. defective ; aTurk, in Europe, awill .consider the prin-
ciples of" law unjust.
e first ‘would esteem property, in Turkey, insecure against
violence ; the second would consider property, in England, in-
secure against law.
The first would marvel how, without lawyers, Jaw can be
administered ; .the second would marvel how, with lawyers,
justice can be obtain:
The first would be startled at.the want of a check upon the
Central Government ; the second would .be amazed at the ab.
sence of control over the local administration.
We cannot conceive immutability in the principles of the
State compatible with well-being ; they cannot perceive that
which is good and just capable of change,
The Englishman will esteem the Turk unhappy because he
has no public amusements; the Turk will reckon the man
miserable who lacks amusements from home.
The Englishman will look on the Turk as destitute of taste,
because he has no pictures ; the Turk will consider the Eng-
lishman destitute of feeling, from his disregard of nature.
The Turk will be horrified at prostitution and bastardy ; the
Englishman at polygamy.
The first will be disgusted at our haughty treatment of our in-
feriors ; the second will revolt at the purchase of slayes.—They
will reciprocally call each other fanatic in religion—dissolute in
1 leanly i i 4
of
their sympathies and their tastes—destitute severally of political
freedom—each will consider the other unfit for good society.
The European will term the Turk pompous and eullen ; the
Turk will call the European flippant and vulgar. .
It may therefore be imagined how interesting, friendly, and
harmonious must be the intercourse between the two. “The ob-
server who, from a neutral position, marks this mutual recri-
mination will perhaps conclude, that when men judge harshly
of their fellows, they are nine times wrong in ten,
While our goodly city was in the possession of the English
during the-war of the Revolution, an English-officer of rank
gave an entertainment, to which several American officers ‘who
were prisoners were invited. Among them was a Captain,
distinguished as a brave officer, but uncouth in his- manners,
little conversant with the refinement of society, and not much
given to any “set phrase of speech.” The English officer,
who was the host on the festive occasion to which we allude,
had two daughters—one of them distinguished for beauty, and
a great Ledle ; the other was remarkably plain, by reason of a
defect in one of her eyes. After the removal of the cloth, many
sentiments were drank, and among them several highly com~
plimentary to the beautiful daughter of mine host. Capt.——,
with that devotion for the sex which a brave man ever enter-
tains, feeling that the other had been neglected, when called on
y the host, gave as a-sentiment—‘ Your daughter, sir !””
“Which one, sir?” asked: the hospitable entertainer. “The
cock-eyed one, sir,” replied the well meaning but plain spoken’
captain.— Wilmington Advertiser, f
“ Well Snooks, what luck. to.day—was the cranberries pretty
thick ?”— Yes, I could scramble them up by handfuls.”"—
““Was there any rattlesnakes?”—* Rattlesnakes! yes, about
two snakes to a berry.”
A clergyman in a farewell sermon, observed that during his ,
residence amongst his parishioners he had preached against
every vice but luxurious living, their defect in this particula:
he had no means of ascertaining. Coe
“ Vill you allow me to inquire vy you make up your bed
under that ‘ere deal table?” asked ‘Sam Weller.—* Cause » 4
I was alvays used to a four-posted afore I came here, and I
find the legs of the table answer just as well,” replied the cobbler,
Courtters,—Men who are singularly careless auditors of public ac-
counts, and by no means uneasy in the possession of sinecures, .
. ’