The day was not far spent, and the wound of the captain pacha requiring assistance, I was anxious to contribute to his relief. From his side I tore the imperial sash, and having devoted it for the purpose of a bandage to stem the blood which flowed from his wound we moved forward to a neighboring cottage. Seated by the fire was a person whom Mustapha soon recognized as an officer in the Janissaries; but who fearful of the enemy, had cast aside his uniform to assume the habit of a peasant. By his recommendation we were persuaded to do the like; and an elderly female, whom the Janissary called from an adjoining apartment, soon procured for us a disguise. Great God! what were the tumults of my mind when, on nearer scrutiny, I discovered in the person of the janissary the ruffian who long since bore me from the peaceful residence of Morad! His towering eye and fiend-like physiognomy struck me at first sight. For awhile I gave way to the assurance of Hassan to Kyop. rili, and in the belief that he had dispatched him I doubted the correctness of my memory; but I was soon convinced the wretch still lived. 'You seem thoughtful Omar,' said Mustapha after a short pause. 'O damned Kyoprili!-be not dis. pleased sweet friend,' continued he, as he darted a significant scowl upon me. I can give you no idea of the horror which possessed me at this sudden change in the comportment of the ungrateful villain. Unguarded, though he was, I had all the disposition to glut my ven. geance with his instant annihilation; but the reply of Omar kept in check the desire of chastising his temerity. 'Yes, seignior,' said Omar, 'I just now remember what a narrow escape I once had in this neighborhood Ah what was that?' demanded Mustapha. 'You may remember,' continued Omar, the uproar at the escape of Zaide ?' 'That is an old story,' interrupted Mustapha. 'It is,' replied Omar, but old though it be, the sultan has yet to forget his passion for that favourite slave. He had a son by her, as your highness may recollect-' 'She bore it yet an infant with her, if I remember well,' cried Mustapha again interrupting him. 'Even so seignior,' added Omar, but it did not diè as reported.' 'Indeed! what then?' 'By some means the grand vi- . zier discovered the route of Zaide; but not till he was fairly beyond the reach of pursuit. Belgrade a nearer town was the last place he traced her to, and then it was full nine moons after her escape from the seraglio. Here she stopt but one day, and with her soon passed the frontiers of Turkey. Eight times from that period had the pious carmelite performed his weary pilgrimage to Mecca, when the vizier fearned from his spies that a person of suspicious character resided in the neighborhood of Belgrade, supported by the bounti ful donations of some unknown hand. The information added that he had a child, whose appearance denoted something far beyond a peasant boy. But to be brief: it was soon discovered that the supposed father by name Morad had originally come from For the Lady's Miscellany.. Mr. Editor The following essay has been written a considerable time; if you think proper to give it publicity it is at your service. SLAVERY. Oppression with her heart Wrapt up in triple brass, besiege man. kind -Hear it not ye stars! And thou pale moon! turn paler at the sound; Man is to man the sores surest ill. In the contemplation of Negro Slavery the mind naturally reverts to a consideration of that deleterious and insatiable propensity of the soul to which this highly unjust & inhuman practice owes its origin, viz. Avarice. And the survey is Hungary--that the boy was plac-only calculated to create painful & ed under his protection by a stranger-that with it he had given him a bountiful supply of gold; and was then in the receipt of annual donations for its ample support. A diamond too was found in the possession of Morad, which being produced was instantly recognized by the vizier and thus the son of Zaide, and the defender of the faithful, was at length discovered! Fearful that a knowledge of this event might reach the sultan's ears, and determined that the issue of some other slave should maintain pretention to the diadem, I was hurried to Belgrade with a mandate for the boy, and charged on pain of death to dispatch it in secret. (To be Continued.) melancholy ideas of the fallibility and depravity of human nature, that there should be found such numbers who unresistingly yield to the baleful dictates of a passion, which has often hurried on its possessor to the commission of deeds of the blackest die of the most destructive nature. The motives which cause different persons to perform sacrifice at the throne of Avarice are various ;-some desire riches because custom has affixed to them the stamp of excellence, and an emphatical mark by which the proprietary enjoys a great degree of eclat, and the partial but erroneous esteem of his fellow men. Education and habit particular parental tuition have caused many to enlist under the den idol increases with the favours lavished upon him. passions admit of some bounds; 'Gourged to the throat yet lean and ravenous still.' banners of Plutus. It is not unoften (according to the principle laid down by Addison and others) we observe the votarist of pleasure offering at the feet of luxury the fruits that have flown from his immolation at the shrine of Avarice. And some pay their oblations from engenite covetousness. Although in the aggregate they all have the same pestiferous and deadly influence on the peace and harmany of society, it is certain he who comes under the latter description is the most wretched and despicable and stands pre-eminently the monument of human folly and degeneracy. For to a virtuous and ingenuous mind it is a painful and sight to observe a man created for the noblest ends, endowed with powers which if properly cultivated and directed would render hin an object of esteem and admiration of mankind and an acceptable guest in the regions of bliss, perverting his abilities and his precious irremeable time in the acquirement of vile, pernicious gold; often sacrifising his honor, corrupting his morals, and destroying his immor-O'er tal soul in the attempt. At the very dawn of life he exhibits specimens of his inordinate covetousness ;he performs actions even in his infancy which bear a great analoA diffusion of a spirit of Avargy and we prefigurative of his fu-ice has invariably been equivalent ture entire devotion to lucre. But to mans advancement in the labywhat was only as a germe in child-rinths of art; a passion that has hood becomes at maturity a stubborn and luxuriant branch. Like a true and grateful worshiper the fervency of his devotion of the gol- #cated dictates of nature. An insaturable thirst after superabundance & a continual dread of becoming poor are powerful incentives, which stimulates the avaricious man to be more assidiously eager in procuring and more parsimonious in retaining his wealth; concentrating all his pow. ers in efforts to augment his adorself to all the miseries and incon able heap, thereby subjecting himvenience of penury without possessing any of its oposite and coun teracting quality. enamour'd of his bags, runs inad,' · Groans under gold yet weeps for . want of bread.' taken root in the too vitiated breast of man proportionably to his deviation from the simple unsophisti Art! curs' Art! wipe's off the their wealth, they might stand to the world as condign objects of indented blush From natures cheek and brazens pity or contempt, but we could not every shame. In the early ages of the world (says Johnson) when innocence was yet untainted and simplicity unadulterated mankind were happy in the enjoyment of what they could procure from uncultivated nature while they eat the fruit as they fell ripe into their hands and slept upon beds and under bowers formed by the delicate hand of nature; with birds singing over their heads and beasts sporting about them. But by degrees they began to lose their original innocence and integrity; each tho there was more than enough for all was desirous of appropriating a part to himself. Then entered fraud and violence, theft and rapine. Soon pride and envy broke into the world, and brought with them a new standard of wealth, for men who till then thought themselves rich when they wanted nothing now rated their demands rot by the calls of nature, but by the plenty of others, and began to consider themselves as poor when they beheld their own possessions exceeded by those of their neighbours'! attach to their characters that, culpability, ignominy and barbarity which in consequence of their repeated and wanton violations of these sacred and immutable palladiuras of the moral fabric they now so richly merit. Cursed dilection for gold! from which has emanated crimes innumerable and the most attractious: The source the prolific source of the majority of the miseries and cares of human life. Avarice! execrable avarice! thou hast been a most effectual & destructive weapon in the hands of Hell's potentate in propeling with dreadful ravages, thy votaries devoted man down the black gulf of infamy and perdition. All the enemies of God and man, every damned spirit of the infernal regions owe the thanks and homage. Wide wasting pest! thatrages unconfined, And crouds with crimes the rea cords of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For gold the hireling judge dis tor:s the laws. Instead of acting consistently, with the dignity of their natures; with love and reverance to their creator: and with juctice and hu Did the votarists of Avarice in their system of accumulation act in conformity with the principles of honor, honesty and humanity;-manity to their fellow beings, thy where diligence and active exer- votaries have degraded the dignity tions in honest vocations the equit-of man; immanity and injustice able means by which they attained are promnant traits in their char dragging them from their high and proper stations in the scale of existence, as co-equal and independant beings down to the lowest gradation of wretchedness and depravity. acters; and they have dishonored, disclaimed and proved ingrates to their God. Guided by thy hellish spirit man has blindly been impeled to spurn at and trample upon things the most sacred and inviolable; rending asṣunder the band Behold the sordid European trans. that should unite the human fami. ported by an inordinate and diabolily in love, friendship and mutual cal spirit of Avarice bending his hospitality. The tender and en- course to unhappy Affric's coast. dearing ties of consanguinity could He lands. Peace had spread her not restrain the arm raised by the delightfull mantle over the land & avaricious and infatuated son from all is tranquil. But the aspect of plunging the fatal steel into the affairs is unpropitious; peace and breast of his venerable and greyorder are unfit for his daninable headed father in order to affect an purpose. All his powers of inimmediate inheritance of his trigue, chicane and deception are gold: nor the one son from adexerted to invert the arder that preministering the poisonous draught vails and produce a change. The to his brother that he might transseeds of ambition, jealousy & displace him and enjoy unmolested cord are profusely scattered abroad. his-gold! Not content with They have the desired effect. transmigrating themselves from The blood chilling blast of war the poles, the world of ice' to assaults the ear. Peace, mild peace the torrid zone; from the two ex- affrighted takes her flight, and cartremes of east and west, with nage rears its gorgon head. The diving into the boisterous deep; hidious monsters of war, anarchy, with delving into the dark bowels murder, devastation and death stalk of the earth in search of riches :- over the land. The country which not content with converting almost before was hushed into a happy every thing in the inanimate world; quietude now presents a scene of every living irrational creature in desolation and horror. Conflicts the creation-not content with con- ensue. All knowing the doom enNerting these into articles of traffic tail'd upon an overthrow they fight and gain, making them serve as with infuriate ferocity. But the means for the gratiffication of their uncertitude, the frightful clangour pride, luxury and avariciousness, the fury and confusion of an actual but as if to cap the climax' of engagement are superceded by the their infamy they have with sav-approach of the victors singing the age hands seized upon their fel- pean of triumph & driving their unlow creatures, making them instru- happy prisoners. They are drawn ments of permutation, of mer-up to bedisposed of by sale. (To be Conitnued.) chandize, of ignominious gain, |