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but I could see at times a more than common sparkling of his large black eyes, which told of some inward emotion. He conversed with me about his late master, depicting in strong colours Bonaparte's jealousy of all whom he suspected of possessing power in any shape; and the ex-minister's influence, the more dangerous because secret, was not unknown to him. The Consul,' observed Fouché, "imagines he can do without me; he thinks he can get some one who will serve him as well as I have done and yet be more subservient to his whims and fancies. Ah! we shall see; a general war will soon re-commence and then he will be glad to send for me."-All this really happened and Fouché was reinstated, though, I believe, not without some intriguing. In the early part of the following year 1803, the Briush Ambassador was recalled from the Hague and an embargo laid on all French and Dutch vessels in English ports. It was one cold, rainy night that I received a note from Fouché while at the Opera Italien, desiring to see me immediately. His mandate was not to be slighted, and I hurried away to him in my full dress, all wet and cold as was the night. I found him busy in his bureau, surrounded by secretaries to whom he was dictating letters. Taking me aside he told me to quit France immediately for that in forty-eight hours war would be declared with England, and the Consul would not then allow more than eighteen hours for us to leave the country. I said I could not get horses or passport at that time of night, and then my baggage, what was to be done with that? "Bah! replied he," baggage indeed! a cravat, a night cap and a cigar is all you want. As for your passport-see, I have one ready for you, and here is a note for Mons. V. L.-directeur des postes who will see that you lose nothing for want of horses." There was little time for thanks. I started in half an hour, and twenty hours took me to Boulogne where finding a boat ready to leave I embarked immediately. When I reached London I heard that all the English in France had been ordered out of it in eighteen hours, under pain of imprisonmer.t and confiscation of goods. Of course but few could leave within the time.

At the breaking out of the war in 1803 despatches were sent off to the Indian Presidencies with instructions for their Governors. In addition to those sent by a king's Cutter a special messenger was posted off by way of Egypt and the Red Sea, in hopes of finding his way thence by ship to Bombay or Ceylon. He had all the necessary instructions, with letters of credit on our different Consuls, and started via Holland, Germany, and Italy. He got on very well as far as Alexandria, but there his geographical know ledge failed him and he came to a dead stand still. In those days there was no Waghorn to transport the traveller across the Egyptian wilds as easily as along a turnpike road, and he was afraid to turn to the meagre information gleaned from the natives. Why he did not apply for advice to the British Consul is not know, and that gentleman having no intimation of his mission, contented himself with supplying him with cash without asking any ques tions. Being of an easy habit he roamed about the neighbourhood,

saw all the sights, made acquaintances and in short enjoyed him, self without troubling his head about the object of his journey. In this manner two entire years passed away and he seemed to have forgotton all about dispatches and Secretaries of State, when one day one of his brother clerks accosted him, in great astonishment, in the streets of Alexandria: this person was going out to India with a reply to the despatches received in 1eturn for those sent by ship, and also to trace the missing courier who it was supposed, had fallen into the hands of Arabs. He was of course ordered home from his Egyptian pleasure-parties, and received a severe reprimand from the Foreign Secretary, but retained his place. This was long a sore subject to the unlucky courier, and he was constantly roasted by all in the office about his Egyptian researches. He was nick-named Belzoni, and whenever any of us found a letter written illegibly we took it to him, saying that of course he was thoroughly versed in Hieroglyphics.

Notes from Home.

The grave of the unfortunate L. E. L., it appears, is in the courtyard of Cape Coast Castle, fronting the sea; and Recording to a recent traveller " no stone marks her grave, and were it not for the few recently placed bricks it would be difficult to find the spotit is not raised above the level of the yard." But that this statement comes from undoubted authority it would be impossible to believe it with her husband, Captain Maclean, the governor of the Castle.--Atheneum

A daughter of the late Samuel Cromp.

ton, sole inventor of the "Mule," is compelled to apply for parochial relief; while the family of Arkwright, who, in the first instance, merely copied an invention, or machine, ranks among the wealthiest in the kingdom.-Lancaster

Guardian.

A correspondent of the Times contradicts the report of the death of John Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, and says "he is now an inmate of a lunatic asylum at Highbeach,in excellent health, though full of strange delusions."

STEAM TO AUSTRALASIA.-The "Royal Mail Steam-packet Company," with whom the Government entered into

contract to convey the mails to and
from the West Indies, are making ar
rangements to extend their line of
communication to Australia and New
Zealand by means of sailing packets
from Panama. It is calculated that
the course of post from London to
New Zealand will be, at the utmost,
only five months and a half.-South
Ausrtalian Record,

LITERARY NOVELTIES.-Sandron Hall,
or the Days of Queen Anne. By the
By J. Von Raumer.
Hon Grantley Berkeley. Italy in 1839
Queen Victoria,
Dream and other Poems. By the Hon.
from her Birth to her Bridal. The
Mrs. Norton. The Stage. By A. Bunn.

Greyslaer, a Romance of the Mohawk.
By C. F. Hoffman. The Quadroone.
By the author of "Lafitte." Rough
notes of the Campaign in Sinde and
Affghanistan in 1838-9. By Major J.
Outram. Brother Jonathan or the
Smartest Nation in all Creation. Wash-
ington. By Mons: Guizot. Nautical
Sketches. By Hamilton Moore. The
Prelate. By the Rev. S. Smith. Mis-
The Quiet Husband. By Ellen Picks
cellanies of Literature. By J. D. Israeli,
ering

Casimir Delavigne. is said to be busily occupied upon a Comedy in five acts, to be produced at the Theatre Français: the subject of his new production has not yet transpired.

Charcoal, to 10,000 lbs. ; and ·of Anthracite, to 12,000 lbs.- Mechanic's Magazine.

TESTING BY ELECTRICITY.-- Mons Rousseau proposes to ascertain the

A number of our most eminent phi- purity of certain substances, and to losophers and naturalists have associated together under the title of the Microscopic Society" for the purpose of investigating phenomena by the aid of the microscope.

The site of the once celebrated Vauxhall Gardens has been let on a building lease. The Orchestre and Promenades are to be superseded by a fashionable square.

Lover, the Irish Poet, Musician and Novelist has written and composed three new songs.-Eveleen, the Captain Rover, and the Fisherman: they are highly spoken of, particularly the two latter.

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY. The

Earl of Kingston is about to establish an agricultural model school at Michelstown to take apprentices, and have them bred up as working farmers.Times.

VALUES OF VARIOUS FUELS. From an extensive series of experiments lately made, it has been ascertained that one pound of Wallsend coals will impart one degree of heat to 8000 lbs. of water; of Slangenech, to 9000 lbs.

detect any adulterations in them, by measuring their conducting power for electricity. Some years ago he described a simple apparatus by means of which the purity of Olive oil might be tested on similar principles. He now states that by these means any adulterations in Chocolate or Coffee, may be readily detected: he finds that pure Chocolate is a now conductor or insulator of electricity, but that in proportion to the quantity of farina or fecular matter with which it is adul terated, the more easily does it conduct electricity; and in the same way he states that Coffee is an insulator whilst chicory, with which it is often mixed, is an excellent conductor, and hence the presence of only a small quantity of that substance is easily detected in Coffee by its increased couducting power. M. Rousseau also considers that this test may be applied with advantage to the examinations, of pharmacentical extracts and preparations, because they very much dif fer in conducting power, and therefore any mixture or adulteration will be readily discovered.-Ibid.

The Gatherer.

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than by what is natural and perfectly adjusted to its office-by the elephant's trunk, than by the human hand. This does not arise from an unwillingness to contemplate the superiority or dignity of our own nature, nor from an incapacity of admiring the adaptation of parts. It is the effect of habit. The human hand is so beautifully formed, it has so fine a sensibility, that sensibility governs its motions so correctly, every effort of the will is answered so instantly, as if the handitself were the seat of that will, its actions are so powerful, sa free, and yet so delicate, that it seems to possess a quality instinct in itself, and

there is no thought of its complexity had no right' to withdraw what he has

a's an instrument, or of the relations which make it subservient to the mind; we use it as we draw our breath, unconsciously, and have lost all recollection of the feeble and ill-directed efforts of its first exercise, by which it has been perfected. Is it not the very perfection of the instrument which makes us insensible to its use?-Bell's Bridgewater Treatise.

BLESSINGS. In adoring the providence of God, we are apt to be struck with what is new and out of course, while we too much overlook loug, babitual, and uninterrupted mercies. But common mercies, if less striking, are more valuable, both because we have them always, and because others share them. The ordinary blessings of life are overlooked, for the very reason that they ought to be most prized, because they are most uniformly bestowed.

our

They are most essential to support; and when once they are withdrawn, we begin to find that they are also, most essential to our comfort.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.

We want fresh excitements, we consider mercies long enjoyed as things of course, as things to which we have sort of prescriptive claim; as if God

once bestowed, as if he were obliged to continue what he has once been pleased to confer. God is the fountain from which all the streams of goodness flow; the centre from which all the rays of blessedness diverge. All our actions are therefore only good, as they have a reference to him; the streams must revert back to their fountain, the rays must converge again to their centre.-Hannah More.

EXTREMES. Christianity may be said to suffer between two criminals, but it is difficult to determine by which she suffers most, whether by that uncharitable bigotry which disguises her divine character, and speculatively adopts the faggots and the flames of inquisitorial intolerance, or by that indiscriminate candour, that conceding slackness, which, by stripping her of her appropriate attributes, reduces her to something which, instead of making her the religion of Christ, generalises her into any religion which may choose to adopt her. The one distorts her lovely lineaments into caricature, and throws her graceful figure into gloomy shadow, the other, by daubing her over with colours not her own, renders her form indistinct, and obliterates her features. In the first instance, she excites little affections in the latter, she is not recognized→ Ibid.

LOVE'S GROWTH,

No telling how love thrives! to what it comes!
Whence grows! "Tis e'en of as mysterious root,
As the pine that makes its lodging of the rock,
Yet there it lives, a huge tree, flourishing,
Where you would think a blade of grass would die!
What is love's poison, if it be not hate?

Yet in that poison, oft is found love's food,
Frowns that are clouds to us, are sun to him!
He finds a music in a scornful tongue,
That melts him more than softest melody-
Passion perverting all things to its mood,
And, spite of nature, matching opposites!

Love. A Play, by J. S. Knowies.

ELEPHANT HUNTING.-There was now dead silence for a few minutes until loud calls, proceeding from persons stationed in trees, were passed along to a considerable distance, and proved to be the signal for the beaters to commence operations. Soon after this, we could just distinguish a very distant shout swell upon the breeze, and again all was silent for a considerable time; it was in these quiet intervals that the beaters were cautiously advancing and taking up new positious on the ground from which the elephants had receded. After this, shouts arose somewhat nearer, and the short pattering sound of tomtoms could be distinguished. At this distance the general effect produced by the long continued shouts of the people, combined with the noise of the advancing elephants, was that of the rushing sound and heavy fall of a great body of water; but, as the mass approached, the breaking of branches, the beating of tom-toms, the wild shouts of the people, and the crash of decayed and falling trees, could be distinguished from the ponderous tread of the advancing herds as they pressed through the yielding forest. In our position, the heat and want of air was most oppressive, for no thick foliage shaded us from a vertical sun; and, although the bamboos were insufficient for shade, they effectually excluded the very slight breeze which occasionally murmured over our heads, and shook the withered leaves.

With heavy tread and noisy tumult the elephants came on, and rested, as far as we could judge from the sound, within twenty yards of us; and then again succeeded an interval of dead silence. To us they were still invisible, and the utmost straining of my eyesight was unable to gain me a glimpse of any of them: at this time, anxiety and excitement made my senses so acute, that not only did I feel the pulses thump with unwonted violence, but the ticking of my watch sounded on my ear as if a church clock had located itself in my pocket; neither could I turn my head without feeling and fancying I heard the joints of my neck creak on their pivots. The beaters in the mean time had

advanced, and, from a short distanca behind and around the elephants, arose loud shouts of people and the rolling of tom-toms; immediately the jungle in front of us seemed heaving forward, and a second or two only elapsed before the heads of the two leaders of the mass were distinct and hearing directly on us. I fired at the one immediately opposite not more than ten feet stopped, and was in the ing when I fired again. had also fired twice at the other lea, der, and with the same want of success; for the whole herd tore back through the brushwood, and rushed towards the hill.-Forbes's Eleven Years in Ceylon.

to me, and distant: he act of turnMr. S-,

CONVERSION TO ROMANISM.-And now Becky, it must never go furder, but be kep a religus secret betwixt our two selves, but ever since Colon Ca. thedrul I have been dreadful unsettled in my mind with spirituous pints. It seemed as if I had a call to turn & Roman. Besides the voice in my hone inward parts, I've been prodigus. ly urged and advized by the party you don't know to becum a prosetelyte, and decant all my errors, and throw myself into the buzzum of Rome. Cander compels to say, its a verry comfittable religun, and then such splendid churchis and alters, and grand cermonis, and such a bewtiful musi cle service, and so many mirakles and wunderful relicts; besides, plain church of England going, particly in the country parts, do look pore and mean and pokey after it, thats the truth. To be sure there's transmigration, but even that I mite get over in time, for we can beleave anything if we really wish to. Its a grate temp tation, and provided I felt quite certain of bettering meself, I would convert meself at once. ** But praps't would be most advizable to put off my beleaving in any thing at all, till our return to Kent. Besides, Becky, you may feel inclined, on proper talk ing to, to give up youre own convix

embrace the Pope at the same time, ons too, and in that case we can both -Hood's Up the Rhine.

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