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Ere around the huge oak that o'er shadows yon mi
The fond ivy had dar'd to entwine;

Ere the church was a ruin that nods on yon hill,
Or the rook built his nest on the pine.

Could I trace back the time from a far distant date,
Since my forefathers toil'd in the field;

And the farm I now held on your honor's estate,
Is the same that my grandfather till 2.

He, dying, bequeath'd to his son a good name,

Which unsullied descended to me;

For my child I've preserv'd it unblemished from shame, And it still from a spot shall be free.

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Lines written on leaving the coast of
Ireland. The author feelingly des
cribes what he himself no doubt ex-
perienced.

Farewell! devoted Isle, farewell!
These aching eyes no more,
Which bursting floods of sorrow swell.
Behold my native shore;

No more beneath yon concave blue,
In misty melting tints appear.
Thy sinking capes in distant view,
Seen dimly through a tear.

The turbid waste, the pitchy cloud!
The pealing thunder's din!

What horrors round the exile out!
What tempests gage within!

Blow on, ye scrowling East/winds blow,
Ye stormy darkening billows roar,
Not hope's delusive beam can shew
My native Island's shore.

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The scenes of former days arise,

In sunshine painted gay,

They strike the gloom with deeper dyes,
And deaden every ray;

Why cruel memory, still decoy,
The wretch from anguish to despair,
By visions of departed joy,
And hopes dissolv'd in air.
To retrospection's prercing eye.
My native cot appears,
Where in thy lap simplicity,
I pass'd my infant years;

There fancy wav'd her magic wand,
The gayest, brightest visions sped,
In rainbow hues at her command,
To flutter round my head.

Now fancy with her airy crew,
Like summer friends have fled,
To sport round fortune's sunny brow
Despair broods in her stead:

Then farewell! fancy, hope farewell!
Welcome despair, we part no more!
Relentless storms and billows swell,
To sweep me from the shore.

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Medical aid was the next object of Alfonso's search. Spain is not a soil for science: happily calculated for the native indolence of those who people it, they have only to sow in order to reap a crop, abundantly to supply their ordinary wants: but the seeds of science shoot forth to wither under the operation of their untutored hands.

Every country has languished under its particular period of barbarism. In the progress to civilization some indeed, have discovered a precosity above the rest; but in their career to perfection, only to display a nicer concatination in the awful duty of approaching revolution. Where are the republics of Sparta, of Anthens, and of Rome? gone as if they never were; sunk again into pristine barbarity the rude hand of time has left but the remains of a statue, or the ruins of a temple from whose decay the traveller collects an idea of their ancient

greatness.

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Spain never ranked, either in splendid achiavment or in the fine. arts,with her contemporary nations If it be matter of curious speculation to trace the progress of a people from the earliest source to their highest pitch of refinement, no former age will more amply

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repay the labor of the inquirer. Let him begin with America, and from the first discovery of an ima mense territory, colonized by a few adventurous Britops, he will behold with increasing wonder extraordinary vicissitudes of fortune, producing in a few centuries a nation rivalling all Europe in commerce and in government. Let him next turn to the history of France-commence with the reign of the IVth Henry ;--what a vast and multifarious picture of human enterprize and political arcana occupies the period down to the reign of the last of the Capets! -France, towards the close of the eighteenth century presents a fruitful subject of interesting inquiry. lions of people swayed by anodiWe perceive four-and-twenty mil. oppression, rise in a moment in ous oligarchy, grow restless from priestcraft, and the overbearing arms against the thraklom of spirit of a dissolute nobility--no

revolution was ever so suddenly ac-
complished; no monarchy so per-
fectly overthrown-no republic,
so happy in its auspices, was ever
reared upon the ruins of despotism.
Mark the talents which composed
the Fiers Blat, and the torrent of
ability which sprung at once from
an enslaved people. Observe the
conduct of the deputies to the
first convention, and we have a
specimen of the unbridled pas-
sions of lawless authority, levelling
all distinctions; sweeping away a
popular religion which had endur-
ed for ages, and perplexed amid
the havock and desolation they
had created; running from one
extreme to another without a pause
for reflection-in the end, to lan-
guish under the poison they had
engendered; again to sink under
the adventurous arm of a soldier
of fortune, who, first as a prelude
to the imperial purple, seizes up
on the consulate to be proclaimed
perpetual dictator!

servations which engage suèk un-
iversal attention.

Spain, not benefitting by the experience of cotemporary nations, uniformly and sedulously keeps in curb the progress of science, vainly imagining with what facility she can govern her subjects, while they continue in ignorance, and are awed by the mummeries of the romish church. If she has succeeded in this, other causes have operated to accelerate her decline. There is a medium in every thing; and though we deprecate the sinister views of what is stiled a strong government, her weak and imbecild policy announce her approaching vassalage to France. Necessity is usually described as the parent of invention. While the ingenuity of every country has been racked in the discovery of efficient means of aggrandizement, Spain, from the rich produce of her colonies, is blind to her real advantage. Silver and gold are a mere circulating medium, and pass in exchange for the necessaries and the luxuries of life: In proportion to their scarcity, or plenty, industry will increase and diminish. The treasury of Madrid, thus plentifully supplied with those precious me

Next turn to that singular phenomenon the British empire. What brilliant achievments, as well in the glory of arms as in the science of jurisprudence, embellish the page of history. But why dwell upon a theme so universally known to be the admiration, if not the envy of the world! Vol-tals, does away the obligation of umes have already been exhausted upon the subject, and, though we could indulge with pleasure and delight upon the endless variety it unites, we shall not consume the leisure of our readers with ob

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*The recent patricide, attempted by the prince of Asturias; and general Ju. not's march to Madrid, would seem to announce the immediate approach of this epoch.

imploying the accustomed means of commerce and agriculture for the attainment of wealth. Nursed in affluence, she has indulged to an excess, and languishing from habitual indolence, she is constitutionally without energy. Though magnificent in her means, she is the feeblest in Irer ends; and the crafty designs of a powerful and rapicious neighbor may now seize upon her treasury with impunity and reduce her to splendid beggary in a month. The mines of Mexico are the bane of her existence- || they have plunged her into actual inanity. Every science rots at her threshold. Priest-ridden, and swallowed up in superstition, the human intellects are poisoned and degraded. Where she can boast of one Villena, one Cervantes, and one Quevedo, she has to blush for a thousand Philips.

The day after their arrival, at the house whither the duke had been removed, Sebastian was dispatched to Sarragossa to invite clerical assistance in paying the last obsequies to the ill-fated duchess and her daughter. Saragossa was the city from whence Alfonso had departed the afternoon of that day which witnessed the horrid catastrophe we have just detailed. It was distant only two leagues, and Sebastian, without much delay, returned in company with one of the franciscan brotherhood, of, whose superior, father Miguel, we shall have to speak hereafter.

A month had almost expired, and the duke still languished in a state of inauspicious convalescence. His lodgings were far from uncomfortable, and though he was now attended by his own domestics, still the humane disposition of Alfonso attached him to the bed of one whose corporeal wound he had innocently been the cause.

to his society, and having experienced in a singular degree the

If a loquacious parade of his skill, and the endless catalogue of cases which he had encountered to complete radical cures, were proofs of the ability of the chi-The duke, too, became habituated rurgeon, which Alfonso procured the duke, Lampedo was the ablest of the profession. But whether from novelty of symptom, stubborn viscera of the wound, or the cupidity of an artful jobmaker, his patient certainly endured a long and painful illness. Sometimes

deceived by appearances, every happy presage of convalescence Announced to Alfonso a certainty of speedy recovery--the returning. morn to banish all hope by a rapId increase of ill-omened aspect.

wearied attendance of a total stranger, could have ill sustained the intelligence of his departure. It had been cruel in Alfonso to desert him. It had even been un just; for, though the duke was still ignorant that it was from him he had received his wound, he was still entitled to a continuation of his presence while he languished in so critical a state.

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