tinctly, they will carry her off, they will put her in a chair.

These words greatly strengthened her suspicions: then entering the room, and going to Yang-Sang, she declared her uneasiness to her, Sister in law. said she to her, you behold an unfortunate widow who is bound to you by the strongest ties of the most sincere friendship, and therefore by this very friendship I conjure you to acknowledge freely whether your husband persists in his former design, of forcing me to a marriage which will prove my ut

ter ruin.

At these words Yang appeared in confusion, and blushed; but recovering herself soon after, why should you have such thoughts, sister, said she to her, and why do such strange fancies disturb your mind? if there was a design of a second marriage, do you think there would be any great difficulty in the matter? but, alas! to what purpose should a person throw himself into the water before the bark is going to be cast away?

When Ouang heard the proverb of the bark, she understood better the sense of the private discourse of her brother in law: she immediately gave herself up to complaints and tears, and quite overwhelmed with grief, shut herself up in her room, where she wept, sighed, and lamented. What a wretch am I, said she, that I know not what is become of my husband! Liu-Tehin my brother-in-law and friend, whom • I might depend upon, is on a journey; my parents and relations live at a great distance; if this affair is hastened, bow can I give them notice? I can hope for no assistance from my neighbours, for Liu-Pao is become formidable among them, and they know he is capable of the blackest villany; wretch that I am! I cannot escape from his snares; if my ruin is not perfected tonight, it will to-morrow, or in a very short time; the only thing I can do is to put an end to this painful life; to die once is much better than to suf

fer a thousand deaths; and what is my life but one continual death.

She then came to a resolution, but deferred executing it till the evening. As soon as day had left our hemisphere, and darkness had succeeded in its room, she retired into her chamber, and shutting herself up, took a cord, and fastened one end of it to a beam, and at the other made a running noose; she got upon a stool, modestly adjusted her garments about her feet, and then cried out Supreme Tien, avenge my cause. After this she threw down her head-dress, and putting her head and neck into the running noose, she kicked away the stool with her foot, and was left suspended in the air.

Here was an end, as one would imagine, of this unfortunate lady; but it somehow happened that the cord, though made of hemp, and seemingly very strong, immediately broke, and she fell to the ground half dead.

Yang ran towards the room as soon as she heard the noise which was occasioned by her violent fall, and found the door barricadoed; she thought it was the effect of a troubled mind, and therefore took a bar and wrenched open the door; as the night was extremely dark, in entering the room, her feet were entangled in Quang's garment, which threw her down; this fall forced her head-dress to some distance, and the fright she was in made her faint away for a few moments; when she had recovered her senses she rose up and went to seek for a lamp, and returning to the room found Ouang extended upon the floor without motion, and her breath almost gone, for the chord bound her so very tight that she foamed at the mouth, upon which she immediately loosened the running noose.

While she was proceeding to do other services, she heard a knocking at the door; she made no doubt but it was the merchant of Kiang-Si that came to fetch his purchased spouse; she ran hastily to receive them, and

introduce them into her chamber that they might be witnesses of what had happened; through haste, and not willing to appear without a headdress, she took up that which she found at her feet, which was the mourning head-dress of Ouang.

It was in reality the merchant of Kiang-Si who came to take away the lady that had been promised him; he had a wedding chair adorned with streamers of silk, festoons, flowers, and several fine lanterns: it was surrounded with domestics who carried lighted torches, and a crowd of musicians who were to play on flutes and hautboys. All these attendants were placed in the street without playing on their music, or making the least noise: the merchant had advanced a little forward, and knocked softly at the door, but finding it half open, he entered the house with lighted flambeaux.

When Yang appeared, the merchant seeing her in a mourning headdress, which was the signal agreed upon, and being likewise charmed with her air and features, he laid hold of her as a hungry hawk seizes a little helpless bird: his followers ran to his assistance, and shut the lady up in the chair which was there ready to receive her; in vain she cried out, you are deceived, it is not me you seek for; the noise of the instruments was soon heard, which drowned her voice, while the chairman that carried her, rather flew than walked to transport her to the bark.

While this was acting, Ouang, who had received assistance from the care of her sister-in-law, was come to herself and had recovered her senses; the great noise that she heard at the door renewed her fears, and filled her with dreadful inquietudes; but when

After she had called her sister in law several times to no purpose, she imagined that the merchant had made a mistake, and had taken her away though he came for another; but she was fearful of some troublesome incident in return, when Liu-Pao should be informed of the mistake. She then shut herself up in her chamber, where she collected her scattered jewels and other parts of her head-dress that were left, and entertained thoughts of taking a little rest; but she could not close her eyes during the whole night.

Early in the morning she rose up, and while she was seeking her mourning head-dress to put it on, she heard a noise at the door, of one knocking very hard, crying out open the door! it was the voice of Liu-Pao, which she was well acquainted with. She was not long in resolving what to do, but let him knock without answering: he swore, cursed, and bawled, till he grew hoarse; at last Ouang went to the door, and standing behind, without opening it, who is that that knocks? said she, and who is it that makes such a noise? Liu-Pao, who quickly distinguished the voice of his sister-in-law, was immediately seized with a strange dread, especially when she refused to open the door; Sister-in-law, said he, I have good news to tell you, LiuTchin our younger brother is returned, and our eldest brother enjoys perfect health; open, quickly.

At these words, concerning the return of Liu-Tchin, Ouang ran to take the black head-dress that Yang had left, but in vain did she expect to see her dear Liu-Tchin, for there was nobody but Liu-Pao, who entered immediately her room, but not seeing his wife there, and moreover observing a black head-dress on his sister-in-law's

matter.

newed. At length he cried out, where is-your-sister in law? You ought to know better than I, replied Ouang, since it was you that carried on this fine intrigue. But tell me, replied LiuPao, why do you not wear your white

head-dress? In answer to which, Ouang was so complaisant as to relate the history of what had happened during his absence.

She had hardly made an end of her story before Liu-Pao began to beat his breast, and acted like a madman, but coming to himself by degrees, I have one comfort in my misfortunes, said he to himself, I will sell my sisterin-law, and with the money I will buy another wife, and nobody shall know that I have been so unfortunate as to sell my own. He had been playing all the night, and had lost the thirty taels which he had received from the merchant of Kiang-Si, who was already at a great distance with his new bride; he was preparing to go out in order to negociate this affair, when he perceived at the door, four or five persons who wanted admittance: they were his eldest brother Liu-Yu, his youngest brother Liu-Tchin, his nephew Hi-Eul, and two domestics that carried the baggage. Liu-Pao amazed at this sight, and not having the assurance to confront them, made what haste he could out at the back door, and vanished like lightning.

The lady Ouang, transported with joy, came to receive her dear husband; but how exceeding was her delight, when she perceived her son, whom she hardly knew, he was grown so much, and had so fine a person. Ah! by what good fortune, said she, have you brought back this dear son whom I supposed to be lost?

Liu-Yu entered into the detail of all his adventures, and Ouang in her turn related at large all the indignities that Liu-Pao had made her suffer, and the extremities to which he had reduced her.

Then Liu-Yu having bestowed on his wife the commendations that her fidelity deserved, If by a blind passion for riches, said he, I had kept the two hundred taels, which I found by chance, how should I have recovered my dear child? If avarice had hindered me from giving the twenty taels

to save those who were suffering shipwreck, my dear brother had perished in the water, and I should never have seen him if by an unlooked-for adventure I had not met with this amiable brother, how should I have discovered the trouble and disorder that reigned in my house? without this, my dear wife, we should never have been reunited, our family would have been dismembered, and we should have been plunged into affliction. All this is the effect of the particular providence of Heaven, who has over-ruled these different events: as for my other brother, who without design sold his own wife, he has justly brought on himself his own misfortunes: the Almighty Tien treats mankind as they deserve, let them not therefore think to escape his justice.

Not long after Hi-Eul went to fetch his bride, the daughter of Tchin; the marriage was concluded and proved a very happy one; they had several children, and saw a great number of their grand-children, many of which were advanced by their learning, and raised to the highest offices; thus this family became illustrious.

FROM THE CINCINNATI Gazette. ARTHUR FITZROY, OR THE YOUNG BACKWOODSMAN.

During an excursion of pleasure in the spring of the year 1814, after a pleasant day's ride, I found myself on the cliffs of the Kentucky river: the talkative ferryman as we crossed the stream, pointed to a neat country house, at the distance of some half a mile on the opposite shore, "where," said he, "they keep tavern, and you can be accommodated." Amused with his simple garrulity I bade him farewell, and ascended by a winding patli the towery cliff.

The sky was brilliant with the tints of the setting sun; beyond the numerous and variegated farms which my elevation overlooked, the distant hills lost their tops in the blue mists of heav

en; all natare was hushed to a solemn stillness, save the hollow echo of the ferryman's song; even the impetuous stream as it dashed along between the stupendous masses of calcareous rock, which presented an insurmountable barrier on either side, seemed fearful of disturbing the general repose. Never have I been more delighted with the contemplation of nature; every idea for a while was lost, save that of the manifold and resplendent beauties which surrounded me. As I rode

along the brink of the precipice towards the tavern to which 1 had been directed, I discovered at a short distance, on my right, a small country church, to which I involuntarily turned my horse: I have ever admired the appearance of a country church and grave-yard, in some parts of Kentucky in the copse near the road side a neat wooden building is erected; the undergrowth for some distance around, cleared away; while the majestic trees of the forest, wave their green foilage in silence, over the clay terements of those who have "been gathered to their fathers." The graves are scattered around the church, and quite shut out from the rays of the sun, by the boughs of the overhanging trees; no costly monuments are to be seen, but occasionally a willow or an evergreen, planted by some kindred spirit, awakens a train of emotions which the finest marble could never impart. The little rural temple which stood before me, was built of hewn logs, one story in height, and almost hid by the surrounding forest. As I drew nearer, my attention was arrested by the commanding, and I may add martial figure of a man, who with down cast looks was standing near the foot of a recent grave, over which was scattered a profusion of evergreens. There was a degree of woe depicted in his manly but sun-burnt face, that I have seldom seen exhibited; his long dark hair hung in graceful curls below his cap of fur, and the green hunting shirt in which he was clad, was fast

ened around his robust body by an Indian belt; his mockasins, although much worn, were of the beautiful kind, manufactured by the natives of our north-west. My path led near the side of the church yard, where he was standing with folded arms, but petrified as it were by grief, he appeared as insensible to surrounding objects as a statue of marble. My feelings were deeply interested in the personage before me, but unwilling to appear intrusive, I passed on to the tavern which was distant but a few hundred yards, and had no sooner seated myself in the portico, than I observed the object of my attention, leave his position, and with a slow and measured step, pursue the path which had conducted me up the steep declivity. Just as he was disappearing from my view, the landlady entered, and calling her attention to the strange figure that I had been contemplating, I enquired if she knew him? "Yes sir," she replied with a deep sigh and serious look,

"The name of the unhappy young. man of whom you desire me to speak is ARTHUR FITZROY. His parents, though poor, belonged to a highly respectable family in Virginia, and were among those who early emigrated to this state, and made the improvement where they now reside, about two miles from the opposite shore. Arthur the only child was born soon after their arrival, and breathing nothing from infancy but the salubrious air of these mountainous cliffs, and exercised by the labours of the farm and chase, his person attained the

exhibits; while his intellectual faculties, improved by the ablest teachers which could be procured, gave, at the age of twenty, indications of a mind, vigorous in its perceptions and replete with the noblest feelings of our nature. At this period he received from a wealthy uncle in Virginia, an invitation to spend a couple of years east of the mountains. Arthur was enraptured with the idea, and upon expressing his wishes to his parents, who were ever desirous of his improvement, they willingly consented. The day for his departure soon arrived, and well in fact do I remember it: the companions of his childhood, both male and female, for many miles around, had assembled to say farewell, and witness his departure; and as he passed around, extending his hand with an assumed air of cheerfulness, there was not a dry eye in the whole circle.

During the latter part of the two. years which he spent east of the mountains in visiting the principal cities, and reading works of general literature, he became acquainted with Emeline Huntington, the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the city of Richmond, where his uncle resided. She had just entered her nineteenth year, and to a mind highly cultivated, possessing every native virtue, there was added a degree of fervour and elevation of fancy, which occasionally seemed bordering on the romantic. Artless as an infant, divested of envy, suspecting none in others, she was esteemed by all who knew her, whilst the continued sprightliness of her manners, and the brilliant corruscations of her wit, gave a zest to the enjoyment of every circle in which she mingled: nor were the attractions of her mind surpassed by those of her person; cast in the finest mould of her sex, grace characterized every movement, and loveliness sat enthroned upon her face.

In our young Backwoodsman, her enthusiastic mind found a congenial

enraptured, to his glowing descriptions of the land of his nativity, and the hardships, privations, and battles with which the adventurous pioneers to civilization in the western country, had to contend. Arthur had been acquainted with her but a few months ere he discovered that her society was elsential to his happiness, and the result of a protracted interview, which soon took place, rendered him the happiest of men; in short, emotions of a new kind were awakened in the breast of each, and Heaven was called to witness their declarations of unshaken constancy. That correctness of deportment which had ever characterized Emeline, was again manifested by an early disclosure to her parents, of the engagement which she had formed; but great was her surprise, and almost insupportable her grief, upon learning that they were utterly hostile to the connection; they could illy brooke the idea of marrying their daughter, possessing wealth, beauty, and intelligence, to a young backwoodsman, without fortune, and with out celebrity. He was forthwith forbid the house, and she enjoined to break off all communication with that man, for whom alone life now seemed to her worth possessing. Arthur made several unsuccessful attemps for a personal interview, and with feelings highly lacerated, disappointed hopes, and mortified pride, returned to the Western Country. His arrival was a source of joy to his fond parents, and delight to the neighbourhood, and a twelve-month soon glided away without the occurrence of any event wor thy of narration. The remembrance of the beloved object of his affections, dissipated his former gaiety, and in vain were his books, and the pleasures of the chase resorted to, as a means of restoring his wonted cheerfulness. In this gloomy mood he was most pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the beauteous Emeline in his own immediate neighborhood. One of those un