d here, he fancied, he had found that

seemed to receive a new impulse; he beactive, and less abstracted; the tide of his longer spread itself over the face of nature, nconfined amid its boundless beauties; it once, and directed its course to one object. Major Merton's grounds from morning till eturned too happy to have snatched a passt the form of his beloved. The young lady, ung ladies, was not slow in remarking the e had made; and although her ambition at her lover was neither rich nor noble, her gratified by the mute homage of her lowly re was something she thought delightfully the matter; and she resolved, pour passer le vour his addresses. She was deeply read in

romances, not the compositions of this dethe present day, in which good sense and probe found; but the loose productions of the ol, which too often find their way into fashionaries. Her maid, too, who shared her entire was no stranger to intrigue.

r was conducted with all imaginable secrecy . The usual means were resorted to. A ropped, and an assignation appointed. But aint the raptures of the happy lover, when, confused, and unable to articulate, he stood

before the object of his love? In short, the youth became the dupe to his credulity, and gave up his entire soul to a passion, the most delicate and refined. The artful girl, with the aid of her worthless confidant, left no means untried to effect her purpose.

She soon observed that her rustic lover was a perfect child of nature, a creature of sentiment and feeling, and she framed her discourse to suit with the turn of his mind.

The beauties and the wonders of nature presented an ample field, and her education afforded her the means of discoursing to advantage on these matters. When thus engaged, how eagerly would the unenlightened boy "devour up her discourse," how fondly drink

"The dear delicious poison of her tongue."

At first, he was timid, shy, and diffident; but he gradually became tender, impassioned and eloquent; yet still, in all his words and actions, with the pure feelings inseparable from true love, he preserved the most perfect respect towards the object of his passion. He viewed her as a being of a pure and exalted nature; a bright intellectual spirit, in the light of whose presence it was bliss to stand; the music of whose voice it was rapture to hear. A grove on her father's ground was the happy place where they met; and here, one evening, the enamoured youth ventured to give vent to his full heart, in a free confession of the passion that swayed his

t, and gave life and vigour to his mounting oung lady appeared surprised and offended, nd bit her lips; and then, with a heartless ghed in his face, and asked him, if he could her condescensions were ever meant to have cy? She then desired him, since his preled him so far, never more to think of meetand with the air of offended dignity, left him to her home. The unhappy young man could it his hearing; he appeared lost and be

heart seemed to sink within him, and a ot through his frame; he flung himself on th, where he lay in a state of insensibility midnight, when he arose in a cold shiver, rom habit than choice, he returned to his elling.

opeless, helpless, brokenness of heart."

the brain was the immediate consequence bed, and the excess of his feelings; and in the frequent repetition of the name of his r, but too well disclosed the cause of his this state he continued some time, till the lly abated, and he sunk into a calm: but, re had conquered the disease, the poison of not to be eradicated. In time, he left his once more wandered in the fields; but it was is reason was impaired; he no longer stood ite the heavens,

te some entranced and visionary seer."

Nor would he stoop, as he was wont to do, and pluck the wild blossoms that sprung up in his path, to admire the minuteness of their beauty. Pale, wasted, and woe-begone, he strayed from place to place, apparently unconscious that the sun was beaming in the sky, the flowers blooming in his way, and the birds singing around him..

It was feared while he continued in this state, that he would have attempted suicide; and some of the young men of the village, agreed in turn to watch him at a distance; but although he had witnessed the total wreck of his fondest hopes, though life to him was a cheerless blank, and death the only good he could hope, and pray for; his spirits were too weak to contemplate self-destruction: indeed, he was hastening to the grave in a way as certain, though less speedy. The essence of life appeared to evaporate by degrees from his wasted body, till, at last, a single sigh seemed sufficient to dissolve the union and so it was. One calm evening, he lay down on the fatal spot where he last saw the object of his unhappy passion, and, with his arms folded across his breast, he breathed his last, as he faintly articulated

her name.

G. L. A.

THE PIRATE CAPTAIN.

emen of England, who live at home at ease, e do you think upon the dangers of the seas." Sea Song.

d from Liverpool, in the spring of the year ship Fancy, bound for the island of Barwas appointed supercargo of the vessel, and ons were to superintend the landing of her onsignment, and receive in return a cargo of a produce for the London market. The a fine brig, nearly new, built in America, and for her fast sailing. She mounted four nineind six swivels, and these, with a good supply , muskets, and boarding pikes, rendered us formidable in case of an attack an event by mprobable, as we were, at the time, at war rica, whose cruisers were particularly expert st India station. The crew consisted of ten sive of the captain and mate; and we brought s, as passengers, a young officer, whose regi