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tafte, fentiment!It was long fince Louifa had heard these founds. Amidst the ignorance of the valley, it was luxury to hear them; from Sir Edward, who was one of the most engaging figures I ever faw, they were doubly delightful. In his countenance there was always an expreffion, animated and interesting; his fickness had overcome fomewhat of the firft, but greatly added to the power of the latter.

Louifa's was not lefs captivating-and Sir Edward had not feen it fo long without emotion. During his illness he thought this emotion but gratitude; and when it firft grew warmer, he checked it, from the thought of her fituation, and of the debt he owed her; but the struggle was too ineffectual to overcome, and of confequence increased his paffion. There was but one way in which the pride of Sir Edward allowed of its being gratified. He fometimes thought of this as a bafe and unworthy one; but he was the fool of words which he had often defpifed, the slave of manners he often condemned. He at last compromised matters with himself; he refolved, if he could, to think no more of Louisa; at any rate, to think no more of the ties of gratitude or the restraints of virtue.

Louifa, who trufted to both, now communicated to Sir Edward an important fecret. It was at the clofe of a piece of mufic which they had been playing in the abfence of her father. She took up her lute, and touched a little wild melancholy air, which he had compofed to the memory of her mother. " That," faid fhe, "nobody ever heard except my father; I play it fometimes when I am alone, and in low fpirits. I don't know how I came to think of it now; yet I have reafon to be fad." Sir Edward preffed to know the caufe; after fome hefitation fhe told it all. Her father had fixed on the fon of a neighbour, rich in poffeffions, but rude in manners, for her husband. Against this match the had always protested, as strongly as a fenfe of duty, and the mildness of her nature would allow ; but Venoni was obstinately bent on the match, and fhe was wretched on the thoughts of it." To marry where one cannot love,-to marry fuch a man, Sir Edward "It was an opportunity beyond his power of refiftance. Sir Edward preffed her hand, faid it would be profanation to think of fuch a mar

riage; praised her beauty; extolled her virtues; and concluded by fwcaring that he adored her. She heard him with unfufpecting pleafure, which her blushes could ill conceal. Sir Edward improved the favourable moment, talked of the ardency of his paffion, the infignificancy of ceremonies and forms, the inefficacy of legal engagements, the eternal duration of thofe dictated by love; and, in fine, urged her going off with him, to crown both their days with happinefs, Louifa ftarted at that propofal. She would have reproached him, but her heart was not made for it ;—she could only weep.

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They were interrupted by the arrival of her father with his intended fon-in-law. He was just fuch a man as Louifa had reprefented him; coarfe, vulgar, and ignorant. Venoni, though much above their neighbour in every thing but riches, looked on him as poorer men often look on the wealthy, and difcovered none of his imperfections. He took his daughter afide, told her he had brought her future husband, and that he intended they fhould be married in a week at fartheft.

Next morning Louifa was indifpofed, and kept her chamber. Sir Edward was now perfectly recovered. He was engaged to go out with Venoni; but, before his departure, he took up his violin, and touched a few plaintive notes on itThey were heard by Louifa.

In the evening, the wandered forth to indulge her forrows alone. She had reached a fequetlered fpet, where fome poplars formed a thicket on the banks of a little ftream that watered the valley. A nightingale was perched on one of them, and had already began its accustomed fong. Louifa fat down on a withered flump, leaning her cheek upon her hand. After a little while, the bird was feared from its perch, and flitted from the thicket. Louifa rofe from the ground, and burst into tears. She turned, and beheld Sir Edward. His countenance had much of its former languor; and, when he took her hand, he caft on the earth a melancholy look, and feemed unable to fpeak his feelings. "Are you not well, Sir Edward?" faid Louifa, with a voice faint and broken. I am ill indeed," faid he, " but my illnels is of the mind. Louifa cannot cure me of that.

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wretched; but I deferve to be fo. I have broken every law of hofpitality, and every obligation of gratitude. I have dared to with for happiness, and to fpeak what I wished, though it wounded the heart of my deareft benefacrefs-but I will make a fevere expiation. This moment I leave you; Louifa, I go to be wretched ; but you may be happy, happy in your duty to a father; happy it may be, in the arms of a husband, whom the poffeffion of fuch a wife may teach refinement and fenfibility. I go to my native country, to hurry through fcenes of irkfome bufinefs, taftelefs amufement, that I may, if poffible, procure a fort of half oblivion of that happinefs which I have left behind; a liftlefs endurance of that life which I once dreamed might be made delightful with Louifa !”

Tears were the only anfwer fhe could give. Sir Edward's fervants appeared, with a carriage, ready for his departure. He took from his pocket two pictures; one he had drawn of Louifa, he faftened round his neck, and kiffing it with rapture, he hid it in his bofom; the other he held out in a hefitating manner. This, faid he, if Louifa would accept of it, may fometimes put her in mind of him who once offended, who can never ceafe to adore her. She may look on it, perhaps, after the original is no more, when this heart fhall have forgot love, and ceafed to be wretched."

Louifa was at laft overcome. Her face was firft pale as death; then fuddenly it was croffed with a crimfon blush, Oh! Sir Edward, faid fhe, what--what would you have me do?--He eagerly feized her hand, and led her, reluctant, to the carriage. They entered it; and, driving off with furious fpecd, were foon out of fight of thofe kills which paftured the flocks of the unfortunate Venoni.

To be continued.

Anecdote of Zink.

WHEN Zink was in the greatest practice, he was in a very bad itate of health; and being well refpected by a number of the molt celebrated phyficians, had their affiftance and advice. All of them pronounced that he was in a decline; but about the method of cure, they were not unanimous.

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Some preferibed one drug, and fome another; and one of them recommended breaft milk. The drugs he fwallowed; but the breaft-milk he did not much relish the thought of. Finding himself grow rather worfe than better; and being told that air and exercise were the best remedies for his complaint, he talked himself, to walk through the Park and up Conftitution Hill, every morning before break fait. This did not relieve him; but from habit rather than hope, he ftill continued his perambulations. One fummer morning, a handfome young woman, very meanly clad, with a child about fix weeks old in her arms, afked his charity. He gave her fome pence, and afked her how the came into her fent diftreffed fituation. Her hiftory was fhort: She had been a fervant; fhe became partial to a footman in the fame house, and married him; they were both turned away; the man had no other refource but to enlift: He became a fol dier; was sent abroad: fhe had never heard from him fince; had been delivered of the child now at her breast, for whofe fupport and her own fhe fhould beg till her infant was a few months older, when he would try to get fome more reputable employment." Her franknefs," faid Zink, "pleafed me her face pleafed me ;-her complexion pleafed me; I gave her my direction; fhe came to me! I took her infant into my houfe; I did bring myself to take her milk; it recovered me; I made inquiry after her husband, and found he was killed in the first engagement he was in, at the pillaging a village in Germany. I married her; and a better wife no man ever had."

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With this woman he lived near twenty years. dier's child he educated for the army, and promifed to get him a commiffion when he was twenty-one; but the boy died at fourteen.

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By Monfieur Zink he had two children, each of them were well provided for; and one of them was a very years fince alive, and well fituated in a northern province,

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toona oble Africa. d damit of team THE good effects of patriotic affociations have been fo ftrongly felt in Europe itself, that the inhabitants of Ettrope begin to introduce them into all thofe regions where they establish themfelves. This affords a happy prefage of growing improvements, and is a blefsed effect of that focial ipirit of freedom which makes man confider himself, not as an infolated being, incapable of any efforts beyond the power of his own arm, but as a part only, of a great body, whose power is irrefiftible, when all its exertions can be directed towards one point only.

The island of Saint Helena, is an infolated rock, far detached from all land, rifing boldly from the fea, about 1200 miles weft from the coaft of Africa.-It feemed at its first discovery a barren rock, incapable of producing any thing that might afford food to man ;-but being fituated in the tract of fhips, bound to or from the Eaft Indies, it was thought expedient, to fettle fome people upon it, and try if any fresh provifions could be there reared, to accommodate fhips with, on their long voyages. For many years after it was settled, little could be depended on from thence, but wa ter, and a few goats that brouzed on the pointed cliffs of that rocky island;-but by degrees it began to be cultivated in fmall patches, and it now yields more abundant returns.

Still the vegetable productions of that rock are!! but few. Some gentlemen, however, who have been stationed there by government, and other fettlers, having taken a careful furvey of the whole, obferved, that by attention, fkill, and care, the produce of that ifland might be greatly augmented. To promote the improvement of that fort, a number of gentlemen in the ifland, with governor Brooks at their head, refolved, in the year 1788, to form themfelves into a patriotic fociety, for promoting the improvement of that island, each member agreeing to contribute a ftipulated fum annually, to be applied for the purpose of importing the feeds or plants of fuch productions as promifed to profper in the island, and be useful to the inhabitants; and to give premiums for exciting the industry, and awakening the attention of the common people to thofe important objects,

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