who, with his dying hand feized that of his Zora.

"Oh, my beloved," he cried, " deareft of wives, calm thy fearful defpair: forgive thyfelf thy cruel error, for İfmael furely forgives thee. Thou didft with to avenge my death; I thought to punifh the treacherous Ofman. Thy ftained hands are yet pure. The mortal blow thou haft given me, proved thy faithful love. I expire in thy fight; I prefs thy dear hand to my heart. My death is far from painful. In the name of our love, my Zora, in the name of my father who will have no children but thyfelf, promife me to live and confole him;

inftantly make me the promise. Pitiless death approaches. I feel it near. Adieu, my Zora, my beft beloved. Ifmael forgives thee his death; grant him thy life."

His voice ftopped, his eyes clofed, his head fell, and his cold hand dropped from that of Zora. Zora, ftill motionlefs, for a few moments continued looking at him. Suddenly her knees trembled, her arms feil, and her teeth chattered. She ftooped down, laid her face to Ifmael, fought his lips, and preffed them with a convulfive motion, reclined on his cold body, which the enfolded closely with her arms, and fo poured her laft figh.

walks,

As near fome fountain's odour-breathing

fide

Thou bid't around thee wait

The foft voluptuous hours.

And fay! fair fource of every pictur'd art, Say, fhall I mingle with the sylvan maids; Who rofy chaplets bring

To court thy genial Imile?

Who playful twine their smooth ambrofial

meek

Of rofeate Spring, thy flowing locks to wreathe,

Or rob'ft thy glowing limbs

In Summer's purple blooms;

Whether array'd in Autumn's yellow tints Thou point'It indignant to th' unfeeling blaft,

That from the weeping spray
Shatters its leafy pride;

Or wrapt in ftern-ey'd Winter's fable gloom,

Purfu'it the infuriate genius of the storm, As to the upland wafte

He foars with hideous yell :

In all these varying fcenes, fill let thy Bird,

Endearing Maid! attend thy hallow'd steps;

"Still gaze the vifions wild
"Of thy awakening power,"

And mark the holy fervors that diftend Thy fwelling breaft ;-'till his rapt foul may hymn

I

In ftrains more wildly sweet Tby blijs-infpiring Name!

CHARLES

This was the thought (while I was yet a boy)

Which most delight could to my foul fupply;

Like this refplendent lord of life and joy,
To run my race-and then--like him to die.
It was, I own indeed, a childish thought;
And yet I wish my manly mind to-day,
To fuch a temper could again be brought,
And think and act in fuch a childish way.

But all my innocence is fed away,
To bask with pleasure pure in yonder ver-
nal ray.

SONNET II.

How full of beauty this terreftrial frame!
How full of glory this delightful land!
And I fo hateful, on this beauteous frame!
And I a monster, on this glorious land!
Muft I alone from rapture drink defpair?
And nought but hell in heavenly pleasures
find!1

In fuch a world, where all is good and fair; And all by Concord's pow'r fo fweetly join'd.

One happy house, beneath one Father mild,
Who fits above-my father now no more!
And I, alas, the fole rejected child,
Alone excluded from fweet Mercy's door.

Who none behold, but murd'rous fnakes around,

Ye days of blifs, which mem'ry loves to hail, Paternal domes, where peace and virtue reign;

Ye charms that deck'd each green romantic vaic,

By childhood haunted, and belov'd in vain.
Ely fian fcenes, that o'er my foul prevail;
And will ye never, never come again?
Will ye no more, with foft ambrofial gale,
Return, to cool my burning bofom's pain?
Let nature now her lucklefe child bewail,
For they will never, never come again,
No more will they, with foft ambrofial
gale,

Return to cool my burning bofom's pain,
Gone are they all-in vain their loss Į

O'erlooks the manfions of the trophied dead: He loves to fit beneath the yew-tree's gloom,

Which fhades the tenant of the ruftic shed He mounts with daring ftep the lyric car; He paints the Prophet high o'er Conway's flood,

SONNET III.

Grafp'd England's falchion, black with Cambrian blood.

Unless my tongue pronounc'd its ev'ning prayer;

But now my only pray'rs are curfes deep, And my best hymns but howlings of def

pair.

Could I return into the womb again,' The womb of her, who late fome beggar bore

Or change my portion with fome toilfome fwain,

Heav'n is my witnefs, I would ask no more.

ing death

Left but one tuneful tongue her crimes

to tell,

Then Poetry and Empire funk at once,

The Celtic harp was broke-- LEWELLYN

fell. Which most will Rapture's generous foul admire,

His ardent numbers, or fweet moral fong? He claims, and bears a double meed-the

crown

Of Elegy and Ode to him belong.

THE

rounded the Representatives with guards; and you ordered them to separate."

Same answer as before.

P. "You ordered troops to march against the citizens of Paris, &c. the blood of the citizens was fhed.".

K. "I had a right at that time to order troops to march, but it never was my intention to fhed blood."

P. "You perfifted in your defigns; you prevented the execution of the decree of August 11th, which abolished perfonal fervitude, &c.; you long refufed to acknowledge the Rights of Man; you permitted, and authorifed by your prefence, an orgie, in which the national cockade was trode under foot, while the white cockade was publicly worn."

K. "I made obfervations on the de. crees with regard to the cockade, the fact is falfe, it never took place before

me.

P. "You took a folemn oath at the Federation on July 14, 1790, at the fame time that you was endeavouring to corrupt the minds of the public at Paris by Talon, and in the Provinces of Mirabeau."

K." I do not recollect what then paffed, but all this is prior to the eftaBlishment of the Conftitution, and my acceptance."

P." You long meditated to effect your efcape. On February 28, a great number of armed men entered the apart ments of the Thuilleries. You attempt ed to escape, when you pretended to go to St. Cloud. You wrote to foreign Powers that you freely accepted the Conftitution. You fled on the zift of June. You lavished away the money of the people."

K. I recollect nothing of that— With regard to my journey to Varennes, I must refer to the anfwers I gave to the Conftituent Affembly."

P. "After you was arrefted at Varennes, and while the exercife of the Executive Power was fufpended in your hands, you conspired with La Fayette, and a few days after, a maffacre of the citizens took place in the Champs-deMars. You paid for journals and pamphlets which tended to corrupt the minds of the people, to difcredit affignats, &c." K. What paffed in the month of July can have no reference to me."

P." When you accepted the Conftitution, you knew of the Convention of Pilnitz, and concealed it."

K. "I informed the National Affembly of it, as foon as it came to my know

ledge. Befides, that business, according to the Conftitution, concerned the Minifters."

P. "You favoured the revolt at Arles, the Commiffioners whom you fent thither tended to increase the evils."

K.The inftructions of the commiffioners will prove what orders they had. I was entirely ignorant of them when they were prefented to me by the Minifters."

P. Did you not order the massacres of Nimes, Montauben, Uzes, Mende, Jules, &c. !

K. Iiffued orders to prevent them.

P. You fent twenty-two battalions to oppofe the Marfeillois.-A. My memory cannot answer to fuch minute particulars.

P. Have you not fent great fums to the guards at Coblentz-to Bouille, to Vergueyon, Choiseul, the woman Polignac, &c!

K. From the time my guards were there, armed and affembled, they have received no pay from me.

P. You gave your brothers authority to raise loans, and contract alliances in your name.

K. I have repeatedly difavowed taking any concern on the part of my brothers. P. The miffion given to Toulongeon to promote defertions in the army?K. Falle altogether.

P. But did not you give the place of War Minister to Abancour, Calonne's nephew: Were not Longwy and Verdun taken through treafon -K. I did not know that Abancour was Calonne's ne phew; and the furrender of places is no bufiness of mine.

P. Have you not fent agents into the colonies to foment troubles? K. I never fent

any.

P. Are you not the declared advocate of fanatics? and had you not the intention of re-establishing your ancient pow. er?-K. I cannot answer to that I have no knowledge of any fuch intention.

P. You have fucceffively put your veto to decrees against fanatics ?K.The Conftitution gave me authority for fo doing.

P. You have endeavoured to corrupt many of the Members of the two Aflemblies?K. It is falfe.

P. Did not you review the Swifs, who were the firft to fire upon the people on the 10th of Auguft?-K. I faw thefe troops: They were not influenced by me on that day on the contrary, I was obliged to take refuge in the Affembly with my family.

P. Why