5. "Let us rather difappoint thefe haughty burghers, who wish to inveft themfelves with glory at our expense. We cannot wholy deprive them of the merit of a facri fice fo nobly intended, but we may cut them short of their defires; in place of that death by which their glory would be confummate, let us bury them under gifts; let us put them to confufion with applaufes. We fhall there. by defeat them of that popular opinion, which never fails to attend thofe who fuffer in the caufe of virtue." am convinced; you have prevailed. Be it fo," replied Edward; "prevent the execution; have them inftantly before us."

6. They came; when the Queen, with an afpect and accent diffufing fweetnefs, thus befpoke them! "Natives of France, and inhabitants of Calais, you have put us to a vaft expenfe of blood and treasure in the recovery of our just, natural inheritance; but yon have acted up to the best of an erroneous judgment; and we admire and honour in you that valor and virtue, by which we are so long kept out of our rightful poffeffions. You, noble bur. ghers! You, excellent citizens! Though you were ten. fold the enemies of our perfon and our throne, we can feel nothing on our part, fave refpect and affection for you. You have been fufficiently tefted. We loofe your chains; we fnatch you from the fcaffold; and we thank you for that leffon of humilation which you teach us, when you fhow us, that excellence is not of blood, of title, or station; that virtue gives a dignity fuperior to that of kings; and that thofe whom the Almighty informs with fentiments like yours, are justly and eminently raised abore all human diftinctions.

7. "You are now free to depart to your friends, relatives and countrymen, to all thofe whofe I ves and liberties you have fo nobly redeemed, provided you refufe not the tokens of our esteem. Yet we would rather bind you to ourselves by every endearing obligation; and for this purpofe, we offer to you your choice of the gifts and honcurs that Edward has to beftow. Rivals for fame, but always friends to virtue; we wish that England were er. titled to call you her fons." "Ah, my country !" exclaimed St. Pierre; "it is now that I tremble for you. Ed ward only wins our cities, but Philippa conquers hearts."

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CHAPTER XLIII.

ALONZO AND ELVIRA.

HERE was an old man whose name was Sophronius, who had two children, a son and a daughter. The name of the fon was Alonzo, the daughter was called Elvira. It happened one day, as thefe two were playing together, they found a looking glafs in their mother's bed chamber; looking into it, they dicovered that Alonzo was extremely handfome, but Elvira very deformed.

2. Alonzo was not a little proud of this; he began im. mediately to entertain a very high opinion of himself, and to defpise his fifter. fie was always talking of his own beauty, and putting Elvira in mind of her deformity. He would run to the glafs every minute, and call upon his fifter to obferve how differently they appeared in it; in tilo Omitted nothing which might create a mortification to his fifter, or improve the opinion which he thought every one entertained of the comeliness of his perton. Elvira, grieved to and he felf the constant fubject of her brother's mirth, at length complained to her father of his behaviour.

3. The old man who had a tender affection for them both, and was forry to find there was any quarrelling be tween his children, thought this was a proper occasion to bestow fome good advice upon them. After having kiff. ed them both; "If," said he, "Alonzo, you find, by looking in the glafs, that nature has bestowed a handsome face upon you, I would have you, by all means, endeavour to render your inward acomplishments answerable to fuch an outfide. Let your actions be as handsome as your perfon. And you," faid he, "my dear Elvira if you cannot recommend yourself by your beauty, may procure a more lafting commendation by your behaviour. The world will overlook the defects in your perfon, if they find you are not wanting in the perfections of the mind."

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CHAPTER XLIV.

CURIOSITY.

HE love of variety, or curfofity of feeing new things, which is the fame, or at least a fifter paffion to it, feems woven into the frame of every son and daughter of Adam; we usually speak of it as one of nature's levities. though planted within as for the folid purposes of carrying forward the mind to fresh inquiry and knowledge. Strip us of it, the mind would dofe for ever over the present page; and we should all of us rest at eafe with fuch objects as prefented themfelves in the parish or province where we first drew breath.

2. It is to this fpur, which is ever in our fides, that we owe the impatience of the defire of travelling. The paffion is no way bad but as others are, in its mismanage. ment or excefs; order it rightly, the advantages are worth the purfuit the chief of which are, to learn the languages, the laws and cuffoms, and understand the government and interefts of other nations, to acquire an urbanity and confidence of behaviour, and fit the mind more easily for converfation and difcourfe.

3. It leads us from the company of our aunts and grandmothers, and from the track of nursery mistakes; and by fhewing us new objects, or old ones in new lights, to reform our judgments, by tafting perpetually the vari eties of nature, and to know what is good by obferving the address and arts of men, to conceive what is fincere and by feeing the difference of fo many various humours and manners, to look into ourselves and form our own.

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CHAPTER XLV.

GENEROUS REVENGE

T the period when the Republic of Genoa was divided between the factions of the nobles and the people, Uberto, a man of low origin, but of an elevated mind and fuperior talents, and enriched by commerce, having railed himself to be the head of a popular party, maintained for a considerable time, a democratical form of government.

2. The nobles at length, uniting all their efforts, fucceeded in fubverting this ftate of things, and regained their former fupremacy. They ufed their victory with confiderable rigor; and in particular, having imprison. ed Uberto, proceeded against him as a traitor, and thought they difplayed fufficient lenity in paffing upon him a fentence of perpetual banishment, and the confifcation of all his property.

3. Adorno, who was then poffeffed of the firft magif. tracy, a man haughty in temper, and proud of ancient nobility, though other wife not void of generous fentiments, in pronouncing this fentence on Uberto, aggravated its feverity by the infolent terms in which he conveyed it. "You (Jaid he)—you, the son of a bafe mechanic, who have dared to trample upon the nobles of Genoa, you, by their clemency, are only doomed to fhrink again into the nathing from which you fprung."

4. Uberto received his condemnation with refpectful fubmiffion to the court; yet, ftung by the manner in which it was expreffed, he could not forbear faying to Adorno "that perhaps he might hereafter find caufe to repent the language he had ufed to a man capable of fentiments as elevated as his own "3 He then made his obeifance and retired; and, after taking leave of his friends, embarked in a vefel bound for Naples, and quitted his native country without a tear.

5. He collected fome debts due to him in the Neapo. litan dominions and with the wreck of his fortune went to fettle on one of the islands in the Archipelago, be-" longing to the fate of Venice. Here his induftry and capacity in mercantile purfuits raised him, in a course of years, to more wealth than he had poffefed in his moft profperous days at Genoa; and his reputation for honour and generofity equalled his fortune.

6. Among other places which he frequently vifited as a merchant, was the city of Tunis, at that time in friendship with Venice, though hoftile to most of the other Italian states, and efpecially to Genoa. As Uberto was on a vifit to one of the first men of that place at his country house, he faw a young christian flave at work, in irons, whofe appearance excited his attention. The youth seemed oppreffed with labor to which his delicate frame had not been accuftomed, and while he leaned at intervals upon

the inftrument with which he was working, a figh burt from his full heart, and a tear ftole down his cheek.

7. Uberto eyed him with tender compaffion, and addreffed him in Italian. The youth eagerly caught the found of his native tongue, and replying to his inquiries, informed him he was a Genoefe. And what is your name, young man?" faid Uberto. "You need not be afraid of confeffing to me your birth and condition." "A. las!" he answered, "I fear my captors already fufpect enough to demand a large ranfom. My father is indeed one of the first men in Genoa. His name is Adorno, and I am his only fon." "Adorno !" Uberto checked himfelf from uttering more aloud, but to himself he cried, "thank heaven! then shall I be nobly revenged !”

8. He took leave of the youth and immediately paid the captors for his ranfom. With his own hands he took

off his fetters and helped him to change his dress, and mount on horfeback. The youth thought all a dream, and the flutter of emotion almoft deprived him of the power cf returning thanks to his generous benefactor. He was foon, however, convinced of the reality of his good fortune, by fharing the lodging and table of Überto.

9. After a ftay of fome days at Tunis to defpatch the remainder of his bufinefs, Uberte departed homeward, ac. compained by young Adorno, who by his pleafing manners had highly ingratiated himself with him. Uberto kept him fome time at his honfe, treating him with all the refpect and affection he could have fhown for the fon of his dearest friend. At length, having a fafe opportunity of fending him to Genoa, he gave him a faithful fervant for a con. ductor, fitted him out with every convenience, flipped a purfe of gold into one hand, and a letter into the other, and thus addreffed him:

10. "My dear youth, I could with much pleasure detain you longer in my humble manfion, but I know your impatience to revifit your friends. and I am fenfible that it would be cruelty to deprive them longer than neceffary of the joy they will receive in recovering you Deign to accept this provifion for your voyage, and deliver this let ter to your father He probably may recollect somewhat of me, though you are to young to do fo. Farewell! I fhall not foon forget you, and I will hope you will not for