know how the family name of Jac ca had been tarnished in her Brother. Sister to that Diego, who should, alas! have died be fore, it is meet that you who saved her guardian's life should succeed him in that office when he dies. Violenta, since her father's death, fancies herself without a nearer relation than her parental uncle, and I am anxious she should continue in that belief.

being-inspired with as much sublimity in the temple at Mecca, as in the apostolic cathedral at Rome.

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My only difference with my brother was on the score of religion--but never once did I presume to introduce the subject. I knew the habit of his life, and was silent. Unfortunately he fancied he knew mine, and would unceasingly perplex his ingenuity with vain applications that I would a bandon my profession, and my suppositious pursuits. But, as one of the pillars of the realm, I considered until the golden age should revive, the soldier a useful character in the kingdom as the bishop of Saragossa: confined to the circumscribed knowledge of clerical life, he likened the government of a kingdom to that of a diocese His practice had never presented to his imagination how much more was the facility to deal out precept to the biggotted few, than to restrain the passions of the many. Wedded to his ideal whims, I left him, ever to himself-and to the capricious regulations of his own family. What was the result?-he married a woman of fashion after requising a meretricious dispensation from his holiness the Pope. Smitten with his wealth, poor woman she bartered away her prudence for eternal misery, and he who would preside o'er kingdoms! found his incapacity to subdue a family. Educating his

'The count Jacca was my elder brother. He died some years back, leaving two children Diego and her. The count educated to the church arrived to his largest honors, dying bishop of Saragossa and grand inquisitor of the kingdom of Arragon. Few men vemerate more the sacred duties of religion than I do. From a soldier and a courtier you may discredit a confession which savors of the repentant sinner on the verge of eternity. But you yourself are a soldier. The purity of your mind I have witnessed to admire; you will agree with me that without virtue, Lonor cannot be. A christian I am in its fullest sense; but no friend to the interpolations which have accumulatad to debase it since the days of the primitive church. Charity I hold the choice inculcations. I may have pitied the mussulman in his mosque; but my heart would not suffer me to contemn him. My soul is charm. ed with pure devotion, and would be elevated amid a thousand sectarian adorations of one almightyson after his own

conceit, he

arms to his protection. But what was the return I merited for this

taught him dissimulation in place of manly ingenuousness. Inculcating the belief that this aloneill judged extension of my clemenwas gospel, and that heterdox.cy! perceiving no chance of reWithout explaining the deformity covering the inheritance from of vice, he vainly preached up the innate beauties of virtue. Pleased

which he had been cut off by the intercession of his father with the

with the outward piety of the hyp-king, he watched a favorable mo

ment to realize the diabolical wish of the roman tyrant? making one neck of my whole house, he se. vered it in two, in the hepe of the royal pardon for his former irres

ocrite he was deceived in the rank depravity of the collegian to discover, when too late, the complicated vices of a finished vagabond: still without conviction, that the habits of the man originated ingularities, when all impediments the pernicious education of the boy.

were removed to a dukedom conferred on me for services highly beneficial to the state. You saved it from polution, and like another Chaerea, dispatched a monster

'Heir to an immenee fortune, Diego was the darling prodical of a blind parent. With every spe-worthy of such a prototype. cies of debauchery within his purchase, his unbridled appetite bat- Violenta to whom I allude, is tened on excess. Every rank weed the younger sister of Diego. There went down; and basking in the were equal disparity in their years sunshine of pleasure, and brousing as in their dispositions. Her mo a while on the summit of lewdther dying while she was yet an 'ness, till step by step, he plunged infant, I besought the count to headlong into the valley of corrup-permit her to live with me; extion, to bring infamy upon his fam-actly of an age with my Antonia, ily and to become an outlaw to the insulted statues of the realm. Had he stopped here, 1 should have been happy still; but alas! Alfonso you witnessed the accomplishment of my misery to overtake the progress of his villanny.of human happiness, returned for A spectator of the wretched system adopted in his education, I vainly fancied I should yet succeed in curbing his licentious morals. I forgot his foibles, pardoned the crime which had cutlawed him from his country, and opened my

I wished to make companions of the two, that both might equally benefit by the tuition of my beloved Elvira.--My capricious brother as yet blind to his son's excesses, and wedded to his erroneous estimate

answer that she was destined for a convent in conformity to that unnatural policy of preserving entire to a son the undivided affluence

That the roman people had but one neck was a desire worthy of Caliguala.

Twas then o'er the heath flew the white No tear left her eye, nor no sigh 'scap'd How weak was his groan, as it pass'd She shriek'd his lov'd name, as sho
by her ear!
sprung o'er the heath,
-bosom'd fair,
her breast,
All loose on the swelling breeze floated While round her lay many a hero at How low droop'd his head! the sad mo- All cold on her lip she receiv'd his last
breath,
her hair,

rest,

ment was near,

And her dark roling gaze spoke the soul And the blood glutted raven retired from As 'neath an old oak lay the warrior so And clasp'd her souls idol, but clasp'd. dear. of despair. V

his feast.

him in death.

Her kind heart throbs with rapture, the Perhaps a thunder Bolt, from Heav'n, Might then have less confusion given And her eyes with soft sympathy's The gay Young Lady felt the smart,

'Tis sincere as an off'ring of purest LANY, handsomely bound and lettered.

Saturday, February 8,.....1812.