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is any thing of mortality left about us, that these feelings will subsist;-they are called-perhaps they are-weaknesses, here ;-but there may be some better modifications of them in heaven, which may deserve the name of virtues." He sighed, as he spoke these last words. He had scarcely finished them, when the door opened, and his aunt appeared, leading in Miss Walton. My dear, says she, here is Miss Walton, who has been so kind as to come and inquire for you herself." I could perceive a transient glow upon his face. He rose from his seat."If to know Miss Walton's goodness, said he, be a title to deserve it, I have some claim." She begged him to resume his seat, and placed herself on the sofa beside him. I took my leave. His aunt accompanied me to the door. He was left with Miss Walton alone. She inquired anxiously after his health. "I believe, said he, from the accounts which my physicians unwillingly give me, that they have no great hopes of my recovery."-She started as he spoke; but, recollecting herself immediately, endeavoured to flatter him into a belief that his apprehensions were groundless. "I know, said he, that it is usual with persons at my time of life to have those hopes which your kindness suggests; but I would not wish to be deceived. To meet death as becomes a man, is a privilege bestowed on few: I would endeavour to make it mine:- -nor do I think, that I can ever be better prepared for it than now: 'tis that chiefly which determines the fitness of its approach." "Those sentiments," answered Miss Walton, are just but your good sense, Mr Harley, will own, that life has its proper value.-As the province of virtue, life is ennobled; as such, it is to be desired. To virtue, has the Supreme Director of all things assigned rewards enough, even here, to fix its attachments."

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He paused some moments-" I am, he said, in such a state as calls for sincerity; let that alone excuse it it is, perhaps, the last time we shall ever meet. I feel something particularly solemn in the acknowledgment; yet my heart swells to make it, awed as it is by a sense of my presumption,-by a sense of your perfections."-He paused again-" Let it not offend you, he resumed, to know their power over one so unworthy. My heart will, I believe, soon cease to beat, even with that feeling which it shall lose the latest.-To love Miss Walton could not be a crime.—If to declare it is one, the expiation will be made." Her tears were now flowing without control." Let me entreat you, said she, to have better hopes-let not life be so indifferent to you; if my wishes can put any value upon it-I will not pretend to misunderstand you-I know your worth-I have long known it-I have esteemed it—what would you have me say?—I have loved it as it deserved!" He seized her hand:-a languid colour reddened his cheek-a smile brightened faintly in his eye. As he gazed on her, it grew dim, it fixed, it closed-he sighed, and fell back on his seat-Miss Walton screamed at the sight-his aunt and the servants rushed into the room-they found them lying motionless together. His physician happened to call at that instant-every art was tried to recover themwith Miss Walton they succeeded-but Harley was gone for ever!

Mackenzie.

Opinion of Colonial Empire.

THERE are some who assert, that in a military and political point of view, the West Indies are of great importance to this country. This is a common, but a monstrous misrepresentation. We venture to say, that Colonial empire has been one of the greatest curses of modern Europe. What nation has it ever strengthened? What nation has it ever enriched?

What have been its fruits? Wars of frequent occurrence and immense cost, fettered trade, lavish expenditure, clashing jurisdiction, corruption in governments, and indigence among the people. What have Mexico and Peru done for Spain, the Brazils for Portugal, Batavia for Holland? Or, if the experience of others is lost upon us, shall we not profit by our own? What have we not sacrificed to our infatuated passion for transatlantic dominion? This it is that has so often led us to risk our own smiling gardens and dear firesides for some snowy desert or infectious morass on the other side of the globe: This inspired us with the project of conquering America in Germany: This induced us to resign all the advantages of our insular situation-to embroil ourselves in the intrigues, and fight the battles of half the Continent-to form coalitions which were instantly broken-and to give subsidies which were never earned: This gave birth to the fratricidal war against American liberty, with all its disgraceful defeats, and all its barren victories, and all the mas sacres of the Indian hatchet, and all the bloody contracts of the Hessian slaughterhouse: This it was which, in the war against the French republic, induced us to send thousands and tens of thousands of our bravest troops to die in West Indian hospitals, while the armies of our enemies were pouring over the Rhine and the Alps. When a colonial acquisition has been in prospect, we have thought no expenditure extravagant, no interference perilous. Gold has been to us as dust, and blood as water. Shall we never learn wisdom? Shall we never cease to prosecute a pursuit wilder than the wildest dream of alchymy, with all the credulity and all the profusion of Şir Epicure Mammon?

Edinburgh Review.

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CAP. 5.-The Women.-Another very good chapter. He likes the American women very much. So do all travellers. "Dear Byron" took a prodigious fancy to several in the Mediterranean: our Englishman is mistaken, by the way, in several matters. The gossiping, of which he speaks, does not proceed "from the restraint imposed on females, in America;" for the restraint on females in America is altogether less than it is in Great Britain, but upon a different circumstance entirely. Gossiping-talking-courtship-and all that, are the natural growth of small towns. The people have nothing else to do. Strangers are comets; common incidents, phenomena, among the heavenly bodies of a small village. The New-England women and the Philadelphians are well educated. The rest are only accomplished. The Baltimore ladies dance delightfully-talk French -work muslin-paint-sing-and walk the streets, like so many beautiful apparitions: Not one in fifty, however, can do a sum in the rule of three; tell the size of her own state; or put a capital in the right place, when writing a note. Their domestic education is neglected throughout the country. They are extravagant, as daughters and as wives; but especially so in the south. No husband thinks of making a weekly allowance for his household expenses; or a quarterly one, for the females of his family. Still, however, women are to be found, even in Virginia, who, with princely estates, have the good sense to remember that they are partners-wives-mothers→→ not spendthrifts. In general, it is a competition of extravagance between the men and women. are shamefully prodigal. It is the national characteristic; and comes of their gambling commercial spirit, and execrable insolvent laws. "The ladies do not walk, arm in arm, with gentlemen in the streets."--Why? Because there is no need of it.They must in London-they could not get along

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