mothers' duties; you received her blessing, and mourned her loss with filial sorrow. I complied, rather reluctantly. with your desire to travel, and obtained your promise not to be absent from me on your first expedition more than three months. The account which we receive from Prevot of the unfortunate death of the marchioness de Clairville, and the unknown fate of her infant son, corresponding exactly with the time and circumstances of your adoption, left Durand and me little doubt, but that you were the devoted victim of the concealed assassin; we determined, however, not to let our suspicions transpire before your return, which I daily expected from the last letters that I received. mended to your protection a A week ago, Durand passing through the Reets of Zurich, greed together, at all events, was accosted by a stranger, whom he soon recollected, in spite of the vestiges of time, to be the person who had entrusted him with the care of the infant Albert. "Thank heaven," exclaimed the stranger, I have lived to meet you once again! You have never quitted my remembrance, although many years have passed, since I recom to rescue the child, the chief object of Morenzis' malice, and the certain impediment to his wishes of inheriting the revenue of Clairville castle. To be Continued. ON FUTURITY. O though dark hidden trackless way, THE MONK OF THE GROTTO. A Tale. (Continued) "Our Fathers,' said he, have directed me to entertain vou. They are at mass, and will attend you as soon as it is over.' The travellers thanked him ; and, after conversing upon a variety of indifferent matters, they ventured to ask several questions respecting what they had seen the evening before in the subterraneous vault. that which chance may assign. him at our elections. The life. he leads is cited as an example worthy the imitation of all our young Novices. No one. ever performed the sacred duties prescribed by our regulations in a more exemplary manner. He allows himself to indulge in no sort of recrea❤ tion, except walking about the country in the neighbourhood of our Monastery; but it is very seldom he returns so late as he did yesterday, Doubtless it was his good angel that conducted him to you,' said the old Friar, for you would have had extreme difficulty in discovering your road, in a night so dark and stormy as the last was.' Is there no person,' said one of the trevellers, who is acquainted with the misfortunes which Father Carlo has experienced ? Father Carjo,' answered the Monk. is perhaps the person entitled to the most esteem and consideration of any belonging to our Order. He is one of the benefactors of our Monastery, He is the favoured nephew of Cardinal Caprafa, who has done all in his power to invest him with the first dignities of the Church; but the humility and piety of Fa. Never,' replied the Friar, ther Carlo, and the misfor. have the slightest details tunes which it is said he expe. come to our knowledge. It is rienced in his youth, have ren. a secret known only to one of dered him insensible to all our Fathers, who is the inti wordly advantages; he has emate friend of Father Carle, ven refused to be our Prior, but who has been absent soand is contented to occupy that veral days, upon business re. tank among us which his obe.lating to the Monastery. 1ondence entitles him te, namely, ly presume that the destruction of the part of the Abbey of the Benedictines, the ruins of which you perceived near this place, has some reference to the misfortunes which have imbittered the life of our wor thy bother. I have heard faction. They particularly admired in him that purity of expression, grace, and noble. politeness, which distinguish those who are bred in the higher ranks of society. When they contemplated his that a Nus, of the name of.' figure, which, notwithstanding Here the old Friar has interrupted by the arrival of the Prior and Farfher Carlo, fol the paleness and depression of his features, preserved all its symmetry and regularity, and when they examined his ma they could not avoid confessing that Father Carlo must, in his youth, have been a most accomplished man. Their curiosity to learn the history of his misfortunes, was increased by the interest with which he had inspired them; yet they knew not by what means to obtain the recital of what they so ardently desired to know. lowed by severai persons be-jestic and elegant deportment, lenging to the Order. Our travellers received as kind a welcome from them as they had received the night before; and were entreated, as the weather continued rainy and dark, to pass the day in the Convent. The two friends willingly consented, only requesting a messenger might be sent to Formignano, in order to calm the anxiety their friends might feel on their account. After breakfast, Father Carto conducted them to the library belonging to the Convent, and afterwards shewed them a superb cabinet of natural history. The manner in which he described the various objects of its contents, suffi ciently proved the extent of his information; and his conversation was so instructive & agreeable, that they listened him with delight and satis They endeavoured to find the Friar who had, in the morning, expressed some hints to them upon the subject; but they were informed he had just departed to a village, about four miles distant, to visit a person who was dying. By the time dinner was over, the weather had cleared up, and they repaired with the Monks to the garden of the Abbey. To be Continued The SPECULATOR. · NUMBER XII. SATURDAY, Jan. 12, 1811. How great how mighty is that man who braves The storms of life, and, calmly waits the shock Of ev'ry ill, let it approach in what form it may. MAGNANIMITY is what we would all wish to attain, but of which very few can boast the possession-every man who has the least polish or acquirements is strenuous in making the world believe that he possesses this Heavenboru virtue in an eminent degree. While the general teno of the lives of such would be and pretended Philosophers gives the lie direct to their theoretical speculations.Mag animity, according to Blair is a sentimental sublinity; arising from certain exertions of the human mind; from certain affect ons, and actions of our fellow creatures." And the man who affects to be Cosnanimous without possess. So these requisite qu lifica bas, reminds us of Caligula, enter d ROME in triumph trekommemorate achievements he never performed, by means of which he subjected himself to the ineffable contempt of every good man, and hath left his name as a beacon at which the finger of scorn continually points. There are many who by a curious concatenation of ideas conceive that great personal courage, is inseparable with magnanimity, and that one cannot possibly exist without the other. Such reasoning is as equally false as ridiculous for allowing that, bravery is a common attendant upon the magnanimous, a man notwithstanding may be brave, and yet not have the least pretension to magnanimity; for uniess his private conduct is unexceptionably just and of a piece with that he displays to the world, his claim to greatness and sublimity of sentiment is but an hypocritical mask assumed to delude others, and instead of a benefit to the wearer is to him a source of continued torment. What is more common than for us to read of men, who have made a conspicuous figure in the field and in the cabinet, and who for a time have been considered as their countries, champions and saviours -but let this mock shew of patriotism, come to be analiz¬ ed-we shall witness one se cretly undermining the superstructure which he was appointed to support, and the other planing new conquest, not for his countries good, but to establish himself permanently upon the most arbitrary foundation and to gratify a sanguinary disposition by assisting to depopulate the world. If such characters could be called magnanimous, we might with propriety, add to the list a Richard the Third and a Cromwell. The former of whom was possessed of bravery, and almost unexampled perseverance, still he was a tyrant, a murderer and his peoples oppressor. The latter was a skilful general, and a most consummate politician, yet he was envious, malicious and his hypocrisy was of the most deleterious species. And though last, not least; the bloody usurper, who at present sways the Gallic sceptre, is a liveing proof that bravery may be connected, with a soul as black and hedious as the tar their dispositions are unable to reach the standard at which their ambition aims, and therefore attempt to conceal their defects with the mantle of deceit, but unhappily for them, such disguises are not impervious to the rays of truth, which sooner or later will always expose them to mankind in their genuine coulers, that of false patriots and aspirers, after a name their virtues do not entitie them to possess.Though I am convinced a man may be brave without being magnanimous, I would not be understood as meaning, that all men of bravery lack maguanimity, no far from it, history produces an infinity of cases to the contrary, and we not only read, but are contin ually in the habit of observing the most exalted soul, and elevated minds possessing the forms of the brave and heroic, notwithstanding, I believe, we shall find that there have been men who, while walking in the humble and troubled vale of tarean gulph. By the prece-life, have discovered as much dent brief examples it will I conceive be plainly preceptible, that there are numbers who would willingly be thought possessors of that great an inestimable gift magnanimity, but owing to some fatality in genuine magnanimity as those who have led legions on to battle, or upon whose nod nations have depended. When we find a man in possession of a noble mind, struggling beneath the most com |