eventful tidings of my birth. Come what may, I have an am to wield with skill the scimitar of Kyoprili

That seimitar, Bernard, continued Alfonso, is the same you have so of en prized. From that period

it has been the constant companion of my travels--no pearl, however costly, would have been a richer present. I had no memento of my friend; and, though I needed none to preserve the recollection of one so near my heart, I blessed it as a precious relict, the only substantial token of Kyoprili's fame; but tarnished by unseemly hands, and sent to me by heaven as the safe-guard of its glorious achieve.

ments.

lain Omar joined in sarcasm against my friend, and employing threats too in opposition to my jus tification, longer forbearance were cowardice; former provocation thirsted for an example; indignation gave way to furious rageall the venom of heated frenzy rose in arms, and in a moment my scimitar was unsheathed and mantled in his detested body. Mustapha was unarmed and stood petrified with astonishment as he beheld the reeling carcase of Omar tumble at his feet.

⚫ Stir not,thou base calumniater, thou poltroen pacha! exclaimed I to Mustapha, or by our holy prophet, I'll make a ghost of thee, to wed your common crimes upon a funeral pile. Behold that son of Zaide, whom yonder bravo sought to pluck from the genealogical tree of Mahomed!' Then turning to the dying villain whom I began to pity: - enfeebled is that arm which would have palsied mine-fast ebbs that blood which would have drain.

Mustapha and his companion having finished their private their private conversation, now returned to where I was. Omar began to scrutinize my figure with renewed curiosity; but confiding in the alteration of my features, and the period that intervened our last meeting, I pretended not to observe his anxiety, affecting to be solicitous fored these veins; repent,and die in the wound of Mustapha. I inquired if it were possible to procure professional aid; added that I was fearful of its necessity, and requested his permission to go in search of advice. Mustapha treated my proposal with a disdainful frown; resumed his attack upon the honor of Kyoprili, and hinted,in language sufficiently plain, a thirst of revenge for my superiority in combat.

Even this I had presence of

peace-freely do I pardon,do you make peace with heaven.'

'Art thou the boy I bore from Morad's house?'

'I am!'

'And canst thou forgive me then?' cried the repentant sinner.

From my soul I do

Thanks-thanks-I die com.

mind to endure; but when the vil-posed-Oh! Mahomed-Selim is

no: thy father-Zaide- he
was continuing, but the name died
upon his lips, and he expired to
leave me in all the uncertainty of
One
half finished confession.
word more, and prehaps I should
have became acquainted with my
origin; but I was reserved for far-
ther trials of my fortitude,

Mark the conduct of Mustapha, the puissant captain pacha of the Ottoman empire!

O! glorious achievement!' cried he, by heaven it was nobly done! He was a villian, seignior, and you have immortalized yourself by a single deed-next to conquering Mustapha, was that of annihilating Omar!'

oprili. The disaster had but recently happened; and though I felt the cruelty of so dishonorable a stain upon our character, still did I look forward with every happy presage to the approaching moment when truth would predomioate to re-establish the great name of a fallen hero.

At the hotel where I dined, the affair of was the topic of conversation. The party was numercus, and chiefly composed of officers of Janissaries. Every one had his comments, and, save one veteran soldier who betrayed some faint intimacy with my friend, each was the harsher censure of Kyoprili's conduct. Won by the warmth of his apologist, who had become the ridicule of the company, I imprudently espoused his opinion, un

upon the honor of a soilder that my commander fell by my side bravely opposed to a thousand bayonets, A loud burst of laughter drowned my voice and unable to restrain

Oh, but it galls me to the soul, to think that such reptiles should hold the authority of rank in civil-warily announced myself as Kyized society! The wretch tender.oprili's aid-de camp, and declared ed me his hand in congratulation; but I spurned from me the proffered friendship, and left him to the compunctions of his dastard soul. Puzzled as I was to account for his sentiments of the character of Ky-the distraction of my feelings, I oprili, my heart revolted against the idea of explanation. Few had escaped the massacre of--to tell the tale, and I resolved to appeal to the porte himself, in vindication of our suspected treachery.

The intelligence of the defeat had reached Constantinople before me. The same discreditable tale was believed, and the whole city resounded with the infamy of Ky

conceived it prudent to leave the room. This was matter of fresh merriment to the party. To me, indignant as I felt, their conduct was an example highly illustrative of the flimsy tenure of popular opinion.

I was followed by him who esHe led the poused our cause. way to a private apartment, and we sat down to enjoy the delight

execute deeds of the most criminal and heinious tincture; to act the perfected villain in his every grade; yea, to commit crimes (using the words of a bold poet) which would make the Devil himself hold up his hands & wonder who could do them.' Confusedly crammed into the narrow cells of their floating dungeons, with an insufficient

sanctuaries of sweet domestic bliss; and by force, by stratagem. and by the profanation of the sacred name of friendship, he finds means to convey others on board of his vessel; tearing assunder the dearest friends and relatives--depriving children of their father & provider, the wife of her beloved partner, the parents of their off spring and the lover of his mis-supply of coarse and almost putrid tress. And, when the weighing of the anchor, the unfurling of the sails announce the departure of the vessel which contains those to whom they are united by the strongest bonds of amity and fiendship these poor miserable destitutes moved by an intuitive and insuppressible impulse present, themselves upon the shore in the most interesting and affecting attidues; -some rendered frantic by the stroke run to and fro in "wild disorder" uttering incoherent, but heart-piercing expressions of sorrow. Some in plaintive accents implore the compassion of the rapacious and iron-hearted plunder er, and on their bended knees beseeching him to restore unto them their beloved friends; while others feeling their injuries in all their madning, most provocative forms are wound up to desperation and in the heighth of their vindicative fury imprecate awful curses upon the head of the obdurate spoiler of their happiness. At this scene sufficiently affecting to excite the sympathy of any feeling being, he views with that stoic indifference which marks the man prepared to

food to satisfy the pressing calls of nature every moment tauntingly insulted, mocked and tormented, and for the least transgression, the least refractoriness shown, to the injury imposed upon them the most excruciating tortures are applied. This however is but the incipient state of their sufferings the commencement of their dismal career and aggravating miseries. After a long confinement therein incapacious prisons sufiering sickness and hunger, they are relanded again arranged and sold. Transferred to masters little less unmerciful and inconscientiousthey are doom'd to spend their lives in vile servitude, in a foreign land estranged from their country, their dearest friends and relatives ; doomed to endure all the contorting pains every heart reading woe and every contumelious insult that 'flesh is heir to,' imbittered by the melancholy reflection that their progeny are fated to partake of their debasement and inherit their grief.

Long 'ere the brilliant orb of day shoots is effulgent beams o

If this view of the subject the philanthrophist and the patriot fell their bosom flushed with the congenial warmth of pity on the fiery sallies of indignation, what must be their sensations, how must it aggravate aud heighten their sympathy and irritation in beholding the sons of Columbia' the reputed partizans of Liberty and equality,' treading in the very footsteps of their predecessors, becoming more than their compeers in infamy, by adding hypoc

ver the eastern hills, they are aroused from their slumbers by the ruthless hand of oppression, and like the goaded ox, with the menacing, blood streaming lash' raised above their already lacerated shoulders, they are driven to their wonted labours, to toil at the 'sweat reaking hoe,' the live long day almost waxed and exposed to the scorching rays of a meridian sun, to gratly the fastidious wants, pride and avariciousness of their pampered masters, till debilitated and worn down with excessive la-ricy and egregious incongruity to attrocious barbarity and consumate bour, they again retire and commut themselves to the simbre arms of injustice. sleep, but alas! only to awaken to wretchedness and labour. This theme so well calculated to excite in the humane bosom, the gentle throb of kind commisseration, inspires the breast also with the most do'orous misanthropy and abhorent ideas of the cruelty and henious wickedness of man: and I am constrained to exclaim to the afficers in human flesh hence! base inhuman monsters! thou spurnest at the mild dictates of humanity, thou burst the sacred barriers of naturs laws, leapest the mounds of right' and prowl about the earth preying upon thy own species, as if the human heart divine' had been plucked from without the breasts and that of the blood-thirsty Hyena placed there instead, as if to verify this assertion that the ferocity of the fiercest Tyger that roves Arabia's deserts is mildness, is tenderness to mans inhumanity to man.

Man to man is the sorest surest ill

That man only who has felt the sting of the accuminated shafts of adversity can proffer to its sad viétims the nectar of sympathetic consolation with the delicacy and tenderness their peculiar griefs require; and the heart that writhes with anguish under the scourge of affliction, is at those times more susceptible of the tender impressions of sympathy. Tis a season peculiarly adopted for the engendering of the finer feelings of humanity.

"teaching our breasts to glow For others good and melt at others

woe"

And it is a reasonable deduction to suppose that the man who has long groaned under the scorpion lash of oppression, on whom Tyranny had fixed his iron talons grasping him like some lordly beast of prey' would upon his e