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make the people feel the loss of their departure."

[She and her brother are thus raised a little above the mere herd; and a deserving young countryman, named Lambert, is betrothed to the excellent Mary.]

"They talked over what they should do in future, reckoned how easily they should pay their rent, and how good their children would be. The day being fixed for the ceremony, they went to town to purchase the wedding clothes, came home, and were the happiest people in the world over Wilson's fire;-but never were happy more!

"Lambert had risen, with the intention of returning home: he had taken his hat, snatched a kiss from his intended bride, and was retreating hastily from her smiling displeasure, when he was forced back abruptly by the confused entrance of a number of men, whose faces were concealed by slouched hats, or so artfully blackened that they could not be recognized. Some of them had sticks, some rusty old guns, and others had swords of all shapes and countries. Their ultimate intention was evidently hostile, whilst their dress plainly evinced they were of the poorer class of people. One of them, who showed his importance by dropping his gun perpendicularly on the floor, and throwing his tall figure into an erect position, explained the reason of their visit. They were in search of arms; but, being strangers in that part of the country, they merely called to request Wilson to go with them to those houses in which he knew they were to be found. The whole family remonstrated against such a proceeding. Young Wilson had a gun, to which they were welcome; but to accompany men who were un known, for the purpose of robbing those who were their neighbours, was a position in which Wilson desired not to be placed. Mary was terrified to silence; but her mother seconded her husband in refusing to go on so lawless an errand."

"Finally, however, the banditti obliged Lambert and the two Wilsons to accompany them, leaving Ma

ry and her mother to all the horrors of fear and apprehension. Every hour of the night was to them as tedious as the progress of the messenger who bears a reprieve to a convicted criminal: every blast of wind that shook the trees enticed Mary to the door to see if they were returning; but hour passed after hour, and no appearance of father, brother, or lover. The mother and daughter alternately wept and prayed: every saint in the calendar was invoked, and every future mo ment was expected to bring them home, whilst every disappointment either excited new hopes, or conjured up all the horrors which suspense creates in an alarmed imagination.

"The nocturnal marauders succerded in gaining possession of some old and useless fire-arms, and were proceeding to a house at some distance, where they expected to find a large supply, when, having travelled about a mile and a half, their approach was noticed by a military party, who were out that night scouring, as the soldiers call it, the country. The commander of the detachment filed his men on each side of the road, with orders to close on the Whiteboys as they passed. Discipline is better than force or courage: the party came up; the soldiers obeyed the instructions of their superior; and the Whiteboys, not having either dicipline or prudence, resisted for a while with desperate energy, but were ultimately obliged to surrender to the methodical courage of the soldiers, who proceeded to count their prisoners aloud, and to take down, by a light which they struck, the name of each. Wilson then found that his son and five others were killed in the affray.

"Mary's dreadful suspense was dissipated, the next morning, by a conviction of the melancholy truth. The whole country was in a state of alarming agitation; and, as Mary's sufferings were also those of others, she bore them with greater fortitude, in consequence of a participation of sorrow. She had lost her brother, but others had lost their fathers and husbands. Besides, the feelings of Mary for herself were comparatively trifling:

her mother's frenzied distraction engaged the consoling influence of all her powers; and, in adducing reason and religion for calming her preturbed affliction, she imperceptibly mitigated the poignancy of her own. Grievous as the case was, it might have been worse: her brother was dead, but then her father lived. Her intended husband, too, was spared by Heaven; and, though she could not tell whether she loved him better than her brother because she loved both affectionately -yet surely she ought to be thankful that even one of them escaped with his life. Still her father and Lambert were in prison, but they were innocent; the justice of the country would, in proper time, liberate them, when their characters were established.

"As the assizes approached, a greater bustle was apparent throughout the country. The only milch cow of the poor man was driven to the fair to get money to fee a lawyer to defend his son; and the wife, in her afflicted poverty, was preparing to sell the seed corn and family potatoes to pay the attorney for attending in behalf of the father of her children. Mary's mother exerted all her industry to prepare for her husband's trial. Gentlemen within the circuit of twenty miles were all supplicated by her for their interest; but all whose name inspired her with some hope of future support she found were either in Dublin, London, or Paris. - - .

"The long-wished for, but still dreaded, assizes came. The road to Clonmel was thronged by the country people, who hastened to know the result of the fearful day. Among the most worn and dejected was Mary: she left her mother helpless, and was proceeding to witness the trial of a father, to whom she could now, for the first time, be of little service. Her husband, in every thing but form, was to be judged that day also. Alas! poor Mary apprehended the worst that could happen.

"The prisoners were arraigned; and when Mary heard the counts recited against them, and the number of times which the law imputes various crimes

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to a man, whom the same law says is to be considered innocent until convicted-when she saw her father standing, as well as Lambert, within the iron spikes of the dock, and heard the solemn and heavy charges read-her eyes began to swim, her heart sank within her, and some of her neighbours carried her into the open air. When she recovered, she read, in the unwillingness of all to speak, the dreadful truth. The prisoners received from many, among whom was the parish priest, an excellent character; but, as all these were obliged to acknowledge that many men of good characters were frequently implicated in such lawless proceedings, their testimony availed little, particularly as they had been apprehended with weapons which they had used against his Majesty's troops. Appeals to mercy could not be attended to, as the state of the country demanded examples of terrifying severity; for laws must be enforced where they are not respected.

"Two days were only given the prisoners to prepare for the expiation required by justice! Mary concealed from her mother the result of the trial: she alleged protraction to satisfy her anxiety, and that on the morrow she was to go again. The morrow came, and Mary proceeded to Clonmel to take her last look and last farewell' of all that now could make existence desirable: their death she knew would terminate her mother's life, and then she would be alone and friendless. Her grief was too severe for tears; her movements were merely mechanical; and when she reached the dungeon of the gaol, she scarcely knew where she was. She threw herself on her knees to receive a father's blessing: she hung round Lambert's neck, and, unasked and unblushingly, gave his lips a thousand kisses. The fond embraces and agonizing tears of her lover soon brought Mary to herself: she wept aloud; but at length submitted to the advice of the attending clergyman. Religion may be despised by the great and unthinking, but it is the only and last friend of poverty and suffering: it now supported those with firmness who

were so soon to be rewarded for faith and hope.

"The fatal knell tolled in solemn warning, and the victims of offended laws made their appearance on the platform. Some acknowledged their guilty folly, and warned their countrymen of the danger of illegal associaation: but Wilson and Lambert declared their innocence, inasmuch as they were forced to accompany those with whom they suffered to the commission of an unexpected offence; then joining in prayer which was accompanied by Mary beneath the drop. Lambert overheard her devotional breathings; and, just before the fatal signal, he ejaculated Poor Mary His last words fixed themselves on the memory of the poor girl, who, after the dead bodies were cut down, paid the last duties to the deceased in a kind of bewildered affection. She was observed by the neighbours, who attended to carry home the dead, to talk in a most extravagant and incoherent manner; but her miserable situation apologized for her conduct, however extraordinary it might be.

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but, alas! the appearance is false: decay begins to signify the absence of all inhabitants, and soon it must fall into ruins; for the superstitious credulity of the people induces them to think that the deceased members of the family return from their graves every night to converse with Mary, who still continues its solitary inmate.

"Mary, in her days of happiness, was a general favourite, and the visitation which destroyed at once her terrestrial felicity and mind was so singular and appalling that her fate excites universal sympathy. For many miles round she is visited by those who are enabled, by little presents, to contribute to her comfort or mitigate the miseries of her condition to all who come she makes presents of flowers, so innocent and artless, sighing every moment Poor Mary! that the words are caught up by those whose bosoms are alive to pity; and, as they learn the wreck of misfortune,they generally add one more to the thousand testimonies of sympathy by writing, on the first substance that will retain it Poor Mary!

"Deluded Irishmen! study the bistory of this once lovely girl, and forego your folly by contemplating in her the misery you have caused to thousands; for many of your fair daugh ters are reminded of their own sufferings as they feelingly repeat 'Poor Mary!

Half a dozen of admirable illustrations, drawn by George Cruikshank in his best manner, add much to the pleasure with which we have perused these volumes.

The squirrel that's sporting
Amid the dead leaves,
Full oft with its rustle
The hunter deceives;
Who, starting, imagines
That booty is nigh,
And, swelling with pleasure,
His bosom beats high.

"Now, courage!" he mutters;
And, crouching below
A thunder-split linden,
He waits for his foe:
"Ha! joy to the hunter!
A monstrous bear
Even now is approaching,
And bids me prepare.

DANISH BEAR SONG.

"Hark! hark! for the monarch

Of forests ere long
Will breathe out his bellow
Deep-throated and strong."
Thus saying, he gazes
Intently around;

But (death to his wishes!)
Can hear not a sound;

Except when at moments
The wind rising shrill,
Wafts boughs from the bushes
Across the lone hill;

Or save when the squirrel,
'Mid thicket and leaves,

Again with its rustle

The hunter deceives.

Original Anecdotes, Literary News, Chit Chat, Incidents, &c.

DAVID BARCLAY THE QUAKER.

David Barclay, of Mathers, in Scotland, and father of the famous Robert Barclay, served as a colonel under Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, and when the troubles broke out in Charles the First's time, he did not remain neuter. In that fluctuating period he became Quaker; and when he retired to live upon his estate, wished to improve his personal farm. But as he knew nothing of agriculture, he was obliged to trust all to his servants. Having discovered that he had an unskilful ploughman, he was at much pains to recommend better methods of ploughing, from what he had observed among his neighbours; but the fellow was obstinate, and would go on his own way, 'Thou knowest, friend,' said Mr. Barclay, that I feed and pay thee to do my work in a proper manner; but thou art wise in thine own eyes, and regardest not the admonition of thy employer. I have hitherto spoken to thee in a style thou understandest not, for, verily, thou art of a perverse spirit: I wish to correct thy errors for my own sake, and for thine, and therefore thus tell thee (coming over his head at the same time with a blow that brought him to the ground) that I am thy master, and will be obeyed.' Though the weapon was carnal, this was the demonstration of power, and had the desired effect: the ploughman became tractable and quiet as a lamb.

SPORTING.

Charles III. of Spain, a little before his death, boasted to a foreign ambassador that he had killed with his own hand 539 wolves, and 5323 foxes! and this he was enabled to tell accurately, as he kept a diary of this important matter.

When the King of Naples (the greatest sportsman in Europe) was in Germany, about the year 1792, it was said in the German papers, that in the different times he had been shooting in Austria, Bohemia, and Moravia, he had killed 5 bears, 1820 wild boars, 1968 stags, 13 wolves, 354 foxes,

15350 pheasants, 1121 rabbits, 16354 hares, 1625 she-goats, 1625 roe bucks, and 12435 partridges.

Francis made one, in 1755. There were twenty-three persons in the party, three of whom were ladies; the Princess Charlotte of Lorraine was one of them. The chase lasted eighteen days, and during that time they killed 47,950 head of game, and wild deer; of which 19 were stags, 77 roebucks, 10 foxes, 18,242 hares, 19,545 partridges, 9499 pheasants, 114 larks, 353 quails, 454 other birds. The Emperor fired 9798 shots, and the Princess Charlotte 9010; in all, there were 116,209 shots fired.

But all that we have stated comes short of the game establishment at Chantilli, the most extraordinary one in Europe, once belonging to the house of Condé. It included 21 miles of park, and 48 miles of forest. The horses, when the family were at that place, were above 500. The dogs 60 to 80: the servants above 500. The stables the finest and best in Europe. We shall now present to the sporting and unsporting reader, for both will lift up their eyes, a list of game killed, year by year, through a series of thirty-two years-beginning with the year 1748, ending with the year 1779:

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tles (the mail quail) 449, woodcocks 2164, snipes 2856, ducks 1553, woodpiquers 317, lapwings 720, becfique (small birds like our wheatear) 67, curlews 32, oyes d'Egypte 3, oyes sauvage 14, bustards 2, larks 106, tudells 2, fox 1, crapeaux 8, thrushes 1313, guynard 4, stags 1712, hinds 1682, facons 519, does 1921, young does 135, roe-bucks 4669, young ditto 810, wild boars 1942, marcassins (young boars) 818. A magnificent list of animal slaughter carefully and systematically recorded as achieve ments. In these archives it is stated, with more than senatorial gravity, that 'the pieces of game killed by S. A. R. Monseigneur Le Prince de Condé, were in number 65,524.' That the nine pieces killed by the late Prince's grandson, the Duc D'Enghein, were rabbits.' That'the pieces killed by the Duc de Bourbon were these; pheasants 1451, hares 1207, partridges 1254, red ditto 143; and by Č. D'Artois, these ; 6 pheasants 978, hares 870, partridges 1105, red ditto

115.'

The ruling passion is the same every where. The following curious - observation occurs in a treatise on hunting. "I once had the pleasure of a long conversation with a very ingenious gentleman then seventy years old. Having himself hunted with all sorts of dogs, and in most counties of England, he entertained me with a most delightful discourse on that subject; and on my making him a compliment on his perfect knowledge of the art; Oh! Sir, (says he the life of man is too short.' And yet how many of our first-rate sportsmen may be compared to Actæon, who was devoured by his dogs; so they, ruined by their hounds and hunters. Sir Isaac Newton wished to know why sportsmen should not be excluded from Juries, like butchers?" Let us now present the reader with the portrait of a sporting female, described by Mr. Pennant, Margaret Uch Evan, of Penllyn, in the neighbourhood of Snowdon, in Wales. "She is at this time (says Mr. Pennant, 1786) about 90 years of age. This extraordinary female was the

greatest hunter, sporter, and fisher, of her time. She kept a dozen at least of dogs, terriers, greyhounds, and spaniels; she killed more foxes in one year than all the confederate hunts do in ten: rowed stoutly, and was queen of the lake: fiddled excellently, and knew all our old music: did not neg lect the mechanic arts, for she was a very good joiner; and at the age of 73 was the best wrestler in the country, and few young men dared to try a fall with her. Margaret was also a blacksmith, shoemaker, boat-builder, and maker of harps. She shod her own horses, made her own shoes, and built her own boats, while she was under contract to convey the copperore down the lakes. All the neighbouring bards paid their addresses to Margaret, and celebrated her exploits in pure British verse. At length she gave her hand to the most effeminate of her admirers, as if pre-determined to maintain the superiority which nature had bestowed on her!

THE NEW STOMACH PUMP.

of any new invention for the preservaIt is gratifying to witness the success tion of human life. A surgeon of Shrewsbury has employed the new stomach pump in extracting some oxalic acid from the stomach of a young woman, who, in a fit of insanity, had taken a dose of this violent poison. Why is oxalic acid allowed to be commonly sold by druggists? It is of no utility in medicine, and is so very easily mistaken for Epsom salts. An order from the Apothecaries' Company would probably be sufficient to prevent these fatal results.

FEMALE PROTECTION SOCIETY.

few other ladies, have formed a society The benevolent Mrs. Fry, and a to afford temporary relief to females of good character, who may be destitute of employment. It more especially offers protection to young women in the following situations of life, who are capable of maintaining themselves, if employed :-Shop-women, teachers in schools, house-keepers, ladies' maids, and servants generally of unimpeachable character, if out of place. When

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