not, gentlemen, you will feel the subject to be one of very great importance, and of a nature to require the very best and most correct information before I can venture to write upon it."

"In what manner was slavery originally instituted? And what are its real effects, both on the white and the black population?"

Scarcely had Mrs. Allen Barnaby pronounced these words, when so many voices were raised to answer her, that for some minutes nothing could be heard distinctly.

"This will never do, gentlemen," cried the Judge, raising his powerful voice to its very highest pitch, "we are one and all interested in this question, or the devil's in it. But if you all keep on gabbering together at this infernal rate, just like so many wild geese, when they are settling down upon a common, I should like to know how the lady is to understand rightly a single word you say? I don't want, or wish, to put myself forward, excepting in fit time and season; but I expect there is no one here that will attempt to deny that the advocation of my principles upon this subject in congress, has done something towards startling the New Englanders off from their infernal abolition nonsense; and if so, I think it is but fair to give me a try, as to whether I can't startle the Old Englanders a little, too. What d'ye say, gentlemen? Are you willing to let me answer the lady, or are you not?"

However much many of the individuals present might have desired to hear themselves speak a little on this very favourite theme, a very decided majority made it understood that they were willing to accept the Honourable Judge Johnson as their substitute; and no sooner was this made perfectly clear and silence obtained, than the judge rose up, and putting himself in the attitude in which he always addressed the members of congress, he thus spoke:

"As to the first member of your requirement, my good lady, I will just take the liberty of saying that you may go to your Bible for an answer. And if you don't exactly know where to look for it, there is that excellent pious Christian, the lady of General Gregory, will show you; for she has got it all at her fingers' ends about Cain being turned black by the hand of the Lord, on purpose that he might become the father of a nation of blackymore nigger slaves; and that's the top and head of the institution, as I take it. However, I will leave that part of the subject to her, because it is well known to every body in our part of the country, that there is no one, be he priest, parson, or prelate, that understands it better. But I will take upon me, in my own person, to make a reply to the other portion of your inquiry, that being altogether in my own way, and touching direct upon points, whereon my principles have been pretty generally received in congress, as standard principles of the wealthiest, the most enlightened, and in all ways the most important, portion of the Union."

The Honourable Judge here paused for a moment, spit, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and then proceeded.

"As to the effect of slavery upon the white part of the population, as that is the way in which you have been pleased to put your question, my good lady, whereas we should say, as to its effect upon the masters, it is altogether a matter too clear to admit of any mistake.

"In the first place, it makes the only real gentlemen in the Union. In the second place, it saves the finest people upon God's earth

from the abominable degradation of having no servants, proper and fitting, as regular servants, to wait upon them. Thirdly, slavery is known on all sides to be the only way in which the glorious fine sun and soil of this noblest of all countries, can be turned to the best account. Fourthly, there is no other way that man can invest, by which such fortunes can be made in the Union, as may enable some among the free-born of our glorious citizens and immortal republic to keep up the credit of the country, both at home and abroad, in such a way as to give us proper dignity in the eyes of Europe. And now, madam, I will leave off speaking upon this head for the present, because I calculate that I have said about as much as you will be able to remember at one go; but I have got not less than fifty-seven reasous altogether, which I can bring forward, when you are ready for thein, to support my principles, but with which I will not now charge your memory, in the fear that you might not remember them all clearly. But this signifies the less, because it is proper, madam, that you keep in mind the necessity of coming again and again upon this part of your subject, it being greatly beyond all comparison, the most important of all. As to your other question, about the niggers themselves, poor filthy varment, it is vastly easy to answer it. Just state, if you please, my good lady (saying, as you safely may, that it is upon the best possible authority), just state that if, for many excellent reasons, the gentlemen planters had not thought it advisable to take these poor wretches under their protection by making regular lawful slaves of them, so that they cannot, luckily for them, get away,-if it was not for this, you will be pleased to say, that it is satisfactorily proved by all the philosophers as have examined the subject, that they would, beyond all question, in a very few years be found running about in the forests on all fours, just like any other beasts-unless, indeed, as some think would have been the case, they would come to an end by eating one another up. This, my dear lady, is what we have saved them from, and this is what ought to be put forward before the eyes of all Europe.” "AND SO IT SHALL, SIR," said Mrs. Allen Barnaby, again rising with an air of indescribable dignity. "Blind, indeed, must those be, who cannot see the light, when it is thus admirably put before them !"

"Madam! you are a thorough lady," replied the Judge, with a low bow. "And now I put the question, whether we should not be the better for a little more of good Mrs. Carmichael's lemonade for the ladies, and whisky for the gentlemen? And then to my judgment, it would be most convenient that we should not remain much longer-there being much desirability in our taking ourselves off before this good lady shall have lost out of her head all that I have been endeavouring to put in it."

THE FOUR PHASES;

OR,

THE LATE DUKE OF ORLEANS.

WHEN first I saw the Duke of Orleans the revolution of 1830 had not changed his title, and he was the happy, light-hearted, joyous Duke de Chartres. He was fifteen years of age. Not a care had ruffled his peace, not a sigh had escaped his breast. Born in Palermo, he had enjoyed a pure climate, refreshing breezes, and all the bounties. which are showered in abundance on high rank, exalted station, and perfect competency. At six years of age, he used to play in the meadows of Twickenham, to row in a small wherry round the island of eelpies and champagne, to gather wild flowers at Richmond, and was the charm of the small circle which collected at the English mansion of his father to discuss the past and to decide on the future.

When the duke of a hundred battles, and the victor at all of them, had brought about by that of Waterloo the settlement of Europe, the Duke de Chartres returned with his adored parents to the French capital, and the Opposition secretly hailed him as a sort of future "Pretender." Lafayette caressed, Laffitte kissed him, Casimir Perier played with his light hair, the duchess smiled benignity itself on her "hope" and her " darling," and the name of the "Duke de Chartres" was on the lips of many a courtier not of the court, but of the Palais Royal circle. His father had known the vicissitudes of fortune. had known none. The sun had always shone brightly upon him-and an unexampled mother had watched over his days and hours with even angelic devotedness and care.

He

His father had studied the revolution of the last century as well as taken part in its events. He felt satisfied that a limited monarchy was the only one possible for France; and he perceived that the Bourbons who had been reinstalled on the throne of St. Louis, by British blood and British treasure, did not sufficiently feel that they must "forget and forgive," if they hoped to retain possession of the crown which once more had been placed upon their heads. In the innermost recesses of his heart, he believed therefore in a comiug, though perhaps a distant, storm, and he sought to popularize his children with the French people. He could not know what might happen, but he guessed what might occur, and he addressed all his actions to the middling rather than to the upper classes. Thus the Duke de Chartres entered [the college of Henri IV., passed with simple regularity through all its classes, and subsequently followed the courses of lectures at the Polytechnic school. It was not that private tutors were more expensive and less valuable, that this line of education was pursued; but it was part of a system which his father had adopted, and from which nothing could induce him to swerve. Events afterwards transpired which gave to this decision a yet more prominent and striking aspect, and which proved that at least of the Duke of Orleans, it could not be said with truth, "Those Bourbons have learnt and forgotten nothing."

But this public education did not separate him from the court. The Duchess of Berry loved all the children of the Duke, and although the Duchess d'Angoulême was more suspicious than her niece, she was rather attached than otherwise to the Orleanses, and particularly to the Duke de Chartres. Not indeed that her mind was ever free from suspicion, and not that she ever lost the feeling of "intrigue" as connected with the character of the present King of the French; but his children were exempted from such reproaches, and Louis XVIII. and Charles X. were both sincerely attached to them. Who could be otherwise?

When I first saw the young Duke de Chartres, he was a colonel of hussars. He had been made so at the age of fourteen. His form was slight, his features by no means masculine, and his general aspect any thing but military, and yet he was loved by his regiment, and confided in and sympathized with, by all who surrounded him. Even then he sought to popularize himself with the army. In this he acted under

the directions of the Duke of Orleans, his father.

"My son," said the Duke, on one occasion, "the army of France is composed of the sons, brothers, grandsons, nephews, of her whole population. It is no levied, no mercenary army; patriotism and loyalty are its watchwords; and you must remember they are your comrades."

That exhortation was never forgotten; and the Duke de Chartres, as well before as after he was Duke of Orleans, was the very beau idéal of good fellowship.

Soon after I first saw the Duke of Orleans, the sentiments or emotions of the tender passion had taken possession of him. He was in love at eighteen with a beautiful English girl-it was his spring time-the feeling was reciprocal, and years afterwards he professed for her the most profound and unchangeable regard. The love

Which boys feel and poets feign,

may indeed be imputed to this youthful attachment; but this would be incorrect. It grew with his growth, and strengthened with his strength, and to the last days of his life, he cherished for this fair creature an affection which he always avowed. The haters of England in France never forgave him for this; and in private society would cite it as evidence of his prejudices in favour of the English alliance. He laughed at such sarcasms, and merely replied to them," Love never finds fault with a language, for it can speak without any."

When first I saw the Duke of Orleans it was at the English embassy. The saloons were crowded, the state of political parties was such as to exempt none from the operations of faction and intrigue, and even round a boy of fifteen, circles were formed to listen to his chit-chat or to his innuendoes. But he was reserved, spoke on general subjects, sought the society of the English, conversed in their own language with fluency, and fascinated more than one pair of black and blue eyes by his costume, his bearing, his " truly English" appearance, and his gentlemanly and easy manner.

The then Duke of Orleans (now Louis Philippe) had brought up all his children to feel, or to affect great loyalty towards the eldest branch of the house of Bourbon. But the Duke de Chartres had heard too

much in the internal circles, or recesses of his family, to be deceived by such formal expressions. He knew that his father was no conspirator, but he also knew that his father had a party of his own. He saw this at the court at the Palais Royal, at the literary soirées of his father, in the foyer of the Opera, and every where, where a young colonel and prince of fifteen was allowed, or allowed himself, to pene

trate.

When first I saw the late Duke of Orleans, his health appeared delicate, and there was much of assumed, but not real, strength in his aspect. He appeared to be forced and strained in his manner, and had the air of one who had to play his rôle. Poor lad! it was a difficult part, after all, for he knew his father was suspected for acts abroad, and for friendships of a singularly opposition character at home, and he knew also that the old Legitimist families in France eyed the whole of his family with unfriendly and unkind feelings. But then his home was so happy, his pursuits so varied, his amusements so abundant, and his friends so numerous, that these things were" idle dreams" which did not torment him: so that at fifteen, he was one of " the happiest of the happy."

Those who knew not the young Duke, have said of him that he was superficial. This is a calumny. At even sixteen the reverse was the case; and for years afterwards he continued his studies. At eighteen, he had passed with success through the classic classes, was fairly and honourably one of the first fifteen in the college, and could converse in English, German, Italian, and Spanish. His pronunciation of the English language was singularly felicitous, and there was a gracefulness in his conversation which denoted perspicuity, taste, and a perfect comprehension of all that was artistical in the language in which he addressed himself to others.

And then how well he looked in his hussar costume! He was wellproportioned and easy; was never at a loss for a position or an attitude; was not put out or intimidated by unexpected events; and was a child in heart, whilst he was a man in consciousness of the importance which would be attached by both friends and foes to his every movement. With all this there was no affectation, no pomp, no affected amiability, amounting to a concealed feeling of condescension, and nothing to indicate that he sought to produce any effect on the minds or hearts of others. He was perfectly natural, or at any rate as much so as a young man could be, who knew that his father was, at court, suspected.

SECOND PHASE.

I lost sight of the Duke for nearly four years. Other occupations and distant travel led me to varied scenes and to far different circles, and it was not till the autumn of 1830, that I once more lighted on the eldest son of the then "King of the French." It was early in the month of August. The troops still bivouacked in the streets of Paris. The old square lanterns, which had been cut down and destroyed by the descendants of the " Septembriseurs," had not as yet been replaced. The moon was the "Paris" as well as the "parish lantern,” except where fires blazed, around which, sat early in the evening, the newly-revived national guards, or the troops of the line. Although the