EXTRACTED. FROM THE FOUNDLING OF BELGRADE. Not long after, the regiment became stationary in the vicinity of Saragossa. Bernard returned unusually late from a party to which Alfonso also had been invited; but to which, by reason of military duty he could not attend. As was the custom of Bernard, he entered the apartment of his friend in order to take a parting glass before he retired to his own. He was uncommonly reserved, and after finishing a goblet of wine and water, he threw himself into a chair lost in meditation. Alfonso struck with the peculiar reserve of his friend, entreated an explanation; out the only answer returned by Bernard, after replenishing his goblet, was God bless you my boy-here's pleasant dreams.' He drank again, was silent and with drew. Satisfied with the lively pleasantry of the salutation, Alfonso once more courted that repose from which he had recently been disturbed. No. 17. It was their practice too to eat breakfast together. The courten. ance of Bernard, as he entered in the morning. still preserved, tho' in a less degice, the gravity which marked it in the evening before. Alfonso endeavored to give a pleas ant turn to conversation. He mentioned one or two ludicrous incidents which had occured at the mess-table in the absence of his friend. By the bye, Bernard,' said he, the marquis dined with us today. He was quite witty-full of spirits, and all that agiceable humor for which he is extolled. Story after story, anecdote upon anecdote, he measured out in such pleasing variety, as to engross the attention of the whole table. Never was he more agrecable;-cha-med alike by the retentiveness of his memory, and the happy novelty of his invention, with reluctance I quitted his society. By the way, he mentioned an anecdote of general T: you know him, Bernard-the French minister at Madrid. What a brutal and degenerate mind must he inherit, who would outrage the prerogative of a husband, by the exercise of flagelation, and delight in te blood and tears of a female whose unhappy destiny should have ap 1 ciated her with a monster equally conspicuous in the moral world, for depravity in the annals of revolution, as in the physical for that grimy foliage which besets his countenance:-well has he been designated by the appelation of Don Whiskerando 'You surprise me,' cried Bernard-if this should be the character of T, I for ever dis own him as a countryman.' "It is but too true,' replied Alfonso, and I am assured that his unhappy wife unable longer to endure the treatment of her husband, and in order to avoid a death too often menaced, has been compelled to flee the sanctuary, formed by God and nature for the felicity of her tender sex, with no other pros pect of a subsistence than what she can hope from the votaries of fashion, in the disposal of fringe, brocade,and ribbon, at a boutique in the capital "Monster!' exclaimed Bernard, and again relapsed into his reve. rie. More and more at a loss to account for so singular an alteration in the spirits of his friend, and unable to repress his increasing curiosity, Alfonso insisted upon a knowledge of the uneasiness which preyed upon his spirits. 'Nothing of consequence,' cried Bernard. "Good God,' exclaimed Bernard, and can Alfonso think thus meanly of his friend! nothing has occurred in the smallest to involve my personal safety-but something to beget a strange enthusiasm in my sentiments, and to create a tumult in my mind which I I fear you are likely to suppress. entered your quarters last night determined to communicate what had happened; but I felt ashamed to town what I had no resolution to abandon; and I quitted you in the hope of sleeping away a scheme, I had planned to execute, or fall in the attempt. The day dawned, and my resolution was still unshaken. I meditated upon my pillow; and the genius of dreams hovered o'er me in my sleep to allure me, not from my plan, but to direct me in its operation. I suspected you would smile at my conceit, or throw obstacles in my way, and I was resolved to abuse your confidence rather than expose my foible to your ridicule or to be thwarted in my views. You have detected me; and because I have been guilty of assaulting that friendship, I am so 瀑 If of no consequence,' rejoined anxious to cherish, you shall be at 'The character and the afilu full liberty to laugh at my expense. Listen then, and without interrup-ence of the marquis, amply illus tion; but seek not to estrange nie from my purpose, romantic as you may call it. It is a scheme, Alfonso, wild and chimerical's of much delicacy in its operation, and replete with danger-calculated to affect every future moment of my life, and upon whose issue my future happiness greatly depends. Suddenly resolved, it is not the less irrevocable. It stole upon me uncourted, unpremeditated; laid under contribution were all the affections, and as the chaos of the mind subsided, it alone was left the undisputed passion of my breast. 'You may remember,' continued Bernard, to have heard the name of Mariana ?————— "What!' interrupted Alfonso; do you allude to the daughter of the marquis de Cassa Calvo, who is soon to take the veil ?' trate what chicane and industry can accomplish-In his youth he embarked for the island of Cuba, a needy adventurer, without family, destitute of friends, and poorly clad. His father a plodding mechanic in Gallicia, was barely capable of affording to an only son the rudimentsofhis mother tongue the principles of arithmetic and a short period of instruction in the art of writing. As a child he discovered a ready apprehension, he even passed amid the circle of his father's acquaintance as a lad of promising merit. The boy was certainly assiduous in application. to the little he was taught, and by dint of perseverance soon excelled in penmanship. On his arrival at Havanna, he experienced the advantage of this talent. A planter took him by the hand-a man deficient in every thing but wealth; who possessed extensive plantations without con 'The same,' rejoined Bernard, 'she who all Airagon so justly pi-stitution to enjoy, or a relation to ties--the obdurate heart of whose father all abhor.-Last night I heard her story for the first time : ---It roused every latent sentiment in my breast and in a moment I resolved to espouse her cause, to` free her from engagements loathsome to her soul, and by restoring to the world a jewel so formed to please and to adorn, secure the plaudits of an approving conscience. Her tale is short, but full of interest. inherit them; reaping immense crops without ascertaining their annual amount, unless from entire dependence upon the honesty of his ill-fed slaves, and the notches upon a perennial bamboo; whose increase of number, with the addition of a massy crucifix, had by this time well nigh filled the bedchamber of its asthmatic occupant. Such was the man who first employed the young adventurer, nor had the latter much cause to re unsatisfied with the unqualihed gone. gret the adoption of such a master. True, his patience and fortitude were long put to a severe trial; many a year had he to support the caprice of a disposition soured by illness, and habituated to all the arbitrary controul to which abject slavery inures the niind; but persevering in every effort to please, he was in the end successful to outlive the privations of depend-siping parent was now hushed in the silence of the tomb, and no trace of kindred left to blur the entree of the nabob to the follies and dissipation of a courtly circle. His introduction to the throne was thus unattended with difficulty'; nor was he displeased with the reception with which royalty marked presentation. ence and his benefactor. On his employer's death, to the exception of one or two trifling legacies he found himself in the full pos'session of all his property, real and personal, to the amount of one million of dollars. 'It has been affirmed with justice, that the end of ambition becomes a means:' and having run riot for a while amid the giddy scenes of pleasure-avarice, the predominant pássion of his mind, fanned the embers of yet wealthi er accumulation. He was, indeed, fascinated with dissipation; but The moment he had consign-his ed the ashes of his benefactor to the grave, and the short period of mourning to which he was subtle enough to conform, had expired; away were thrown the sable ensigns of assumed sorrow, along with that outward show of frugal economy which had been the distinguished characteristic of his parsimonious predecessor. On each of his plantations was erect-surmounting the barriers to its ated forthwith a commodious dwelling; and having purchased a magnificent mansion in Havanna, he fitted it up in a style of unrivalled splendor. Wealth is ever a sufficient introduction to the first circle of society; and the once needy and indigent gallician the prime of life, found himself courted by all who had pretentions to what the capricious world denominates taste and fashion. But tainment with such an easy stride it was difficult to forget the value of gold and he had yet to lose sight of a scrupulous attention to the price of his enjoyment. The government of Cuba becoming vacant at this period, he rememberined the splendor and emolument of the office, and as it was usually a prelude to a title, his enaniored fancy fired every nerve to secure the nomination. Low cunning and finesse, with a sensible application of his purse, procured the appointment, and he returned to that spot, so recently quitted, as marquis de Cassa Calvo, with the rank of captain-general, and governor of the Island of Cuba and its dependencies. To be Continued Little Dominick; or, the Welsh From the Essay on Irish Bulls, by Little Dominick was born at Fort Reilly, in Ireland, and bred no where till his 10th year; when he was sent to Wales, to learn manners and grammar at the school of Mr. Owen ap Davies ap Jenkins ap Jones. This gentle man had reasons to think himself the greatest of men-for he had over his chimney-piece a well smoked geneology, duly attested, tracing his ancestry in a direct line up to Noah; and, moreover, he was nearly related to the learned etymologist, who, in the time of queen Elizabeth, wrote a folio volume to prove that the language of Adam and Eve, in Paradise, was pure Welsh, With such causes to be proud, Mr. Owen ap Davies ap Jenkins ap Jones was excusable, for sometimes seeming to forget that a schoolmaster is but a man. He, however, sometimes entirely forgot that a boy is but a boy, and this happened most fre-. quently with respect to Little Dominick. in This unlucky wight was flogg ed every morning by his master,. not for his vices; but for Lis vicious constructions; and laughed at every evening for his idiomatic absurdities. They would probably have been inclined to sympathise in his misfortunes, but that he was the only Irish boy at school; and as he was at a distance from all his relations, and without a friend to take his part, he was a just object of obloquy and derision. Every sentence he spoke was a bull, every two words he put together proved a false concord, and every sound he articulated betrayed the brogue; but, as he possessed some of the characteristic boldness. of these who have been dipped in the Shannon, though he was only Little Dominick, he shewed himself able and willing to fight his own battles with the host of foes by whom he was encompassed. Some of these, it was said, were nearly of twice his stature. This may be exaggerated; but it is certain that our hero sometimes ventured, with sly Irish humour to revenge himself on his most pow erful tyrant, by mimicking the Welch accent, in which Mr. Owen ap Jones said to him-'Cot pless me, you plockit, and shall I never learn you Enclish crammer?' It was whispered in the ear of |