And should some upstart with rash heart

The Filberd Tree,' by Mr. T. Park, When all this numerous race, that sport is exquisitely simple and pathetic; and the concluding Sonnet,' from the muse of Brydges, must strongly excite the sympathy of those minds who are most capable of appreciating the real dignity of human nature.

Still may their children's children here be found

To own this pile, and save yon growing
shade!

Here,' may they say,
dwelt of yore:

And here they nurs'd the Muse's sacred lore!'

Many other interesting and excellent poems are to be met with in the original department of the present volume; particularly an Ode to Ireland, by Mr. Preston, an anonymous production on the game of Chess, and a Tribute to the late Right Hon. William Pitt, by the Rev. T. Maurice. More than usual assiduity has also been evinced by the Editor in bis collection of Fugitive Poetry; and his critical opinions, on the various poefical publications during 1805, appear the result of candid and accurate investigation.

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Our first sample from the volumes by my tuition for that rank in life to now before us, is such as we conceive which he hopes you will be raised.' will amply authorize the strain of commendation with which we have introduced them to the reader, and will excuse us, at the same time, in dweiling upon their contents beyond the space to which our review of literature is usually restricted. This your-hands-Amelia would have piece is entitled added, but was interrupted by a

THE REVENGE.

Oh no, my dear madam-I should rather think, that your integrity, virtue, and goodness of heart, were the qualities for which he chose you. He thought that you, who had supported your parents by the labour of

For heaven's sake, stop child! You shock my feelings with the bare idea that this should be known to any living soul but you and your father. From him I could not conceal it, because he procured me the work.'

"You must marry a nobleman,' was the incessant cry of Lady Hedwiga Faltenwackel, whenever she addressed her young pupil, Amelia Willmuth, on the subject of matrimony. You must marry a nobleman. To this end And when your parents died-' you must direct all your thoughts, Why then, he forced me to be words, actions, prayers, and desires! sure, to reside in his house. You Gracious heavens! For what other were then but a child, quite a little end has your papa toiled so hard in infant, dear Amelia; and he laid you trade, and amassed such immense in my arms, and I pressed you to my sums, but to have the pleasure of heart, where you have been ever hearing his only child called-your since.'

ladyship!'

"And therefore

"I never can think it,' said the gen- 'No, not therefore, but, because tle Amelia, you know, my dear I am of an ancient good family; and Lady Hedwiga, that my father always because he intended to marry you speaks lightly of nobility, and often into a good family; and because he compares them to the charyotides, knew that a common governess could which in architecture appear to sup- not introduce you into polite circles; port the building, but are in reality and because--and becauseonly ornaments, and hide the pillars upon which it rests.'

herits from his father; only that in the education of Amelia, she could not help scattering this single grain of tares among the good corn.

With this innocent chitchat did Lady Hedwiga amuse herself hour O, for heaven's sake! (exclaimed after hour. She was the worthiest and the old lady, holding both her ears, best of creatures that ever bore a coat although she could hear but with of arms; her principles were rigidly one:) your father,' continued she, virtuous; her heart tender and comis an honest man, and a pious man passionate, and her life irreproachtoo; but he knows nothing of the su- able; but an extravagant passion for preme pleasure of contemplating one's her ancestry was her foible, and pergreat ancestry. In fact, I cannot help haps her hereditary disorder. With thinking, that he professes to despise her, however, it was as harmless as high birth for fear of creating hopes the horny tunicle which a man inin your mind which may never be realized; but only let a young man of good family once offer himself, his pedigree need not be as old as the creation, or that of the Faltenwackels -let it only be as old as the chesnut tree on the top of mount Etna-let such a man once pay his addresses to you, and then you will hear how the tone will be altered. Why did he fix on me for your governess in preference to all others? He well knew, that notwithstanding my extreme poverty, my notions were too high to be levelled with those of tradesmen. He wished you, therefore, to be fitted

But our natures are such that we are not only indulgent to the weaknesses of those we love, we even sometimes catch their infection and amalgamate them with our own. I have known persons averse from snufftaking, who out of pure sociability have taken pinches from their intimate friends, till snuff-taking became with themselves a habit also. What wonder then, that Amelia, who from her twelfth year had been dinned with

the words " you must marry a noble- bility for any woman not to admire man," should at length declare with him, he boldly paid his addresses to the utmost gravity, that "she would her one evening in a ball-room, while marry nothing but a nobleman." One dancing a country dance; and made solid pretension she had at least so little secret of the affair, that he money for what nobleman would spoke loud enough to be overheard not submit to a gap in his pedi- by the whole company. gree for an income of two thousand ducats?

The image of the modest Amelia's future lover, which she unconsciously Her father, however, sturdily op- carried in her bosom, did not, as it posed both governess and pupil. He happened, bear the slightest resem was a plain downright tradesman, blance to that of Flugwild. She who had begun business in early life, therefore carefully shunned him at with a capital less than ten pounds, the conclusion of the dance, without and by his industry realized an im- giving herself the trouble to inquire mense fortune. It was his wish to about his rank: but her face was marry his only daughter to an honest crimsoned the remaining part of the man, who should carry on his busi- evening with a continual blush. This ness with the same ardour with which was sufficient for the plebeian inhimself had commenced it. But as croyable, whose conceit construed it a father has seldom a voice in oppo- into an unequivocal symptom that sition to the will of an only daugh- she (in the language of Lucinda) was ter, honest Willmuth contented hin- disposed to resign herself entirely to self with ridiculing his daughter's his carnal appetite. Accordingly, he high notions, leaving her choice at waited upon the father, in fuil conthe same time perfectly uninfluenced. fidence, the following morning, with It may not be improper to observe, the view of fixing the wedding for that Amelia's desire of becoming a the casting week.

lady, resembled the figures delineated Mr. Willmuth was all astonishment by the frost on panes of glass. The to hear that the nuptials of his daugh God of Love might have dissolved it ter were so near at hand, as she had in an instant, and reflected his own not given him the slightest hint of fair image in its stead. It unfortu- the matter; but Flugwild protested nately happened, however, that her with so much assurance, that Amelia first lover was not only a plebeian, was desperately in love with him, but an incroyable of the newest that the plain old gentleman was constamp-than which nothing could be strained to give him credit, To be less suited to Amelia's taste. One sure he was not extremely well might almost have supposed him in pleased with his future son-in-law: the act of doing penance: for he was for instead of taking a seat by him on clothed as it were in sackcloth, the sofa, in a sociable and friendly though not crowned with ashes. His manner, he was busily occupied all cold unfeeling heart was concealed the time before the looking-glass, under half-a-dozen waistcoats, and with burying his chin in his cravat. his hand rested in the place which Yet he gave him a civil answer, with his soul had chosen for its abode. the assurance, that, for his own part, He had learnt from the philosophy he should have no objection to any of the new school, of which he was one whom his daughter might apa disciple, that the whole world, hors prove, and would therefore speak to nous et nos amis, was made up of her on the subject. fools; therefore, that his own sonnets Flugwild, in his ecstacy of delight, and puns were the first of their kind, seized the old man's hand, and shook and that Wieland was a babe in his it with so much violence, that he art. Moreover, his name was Flug- could with difficulty refrain from wild (highflier); and having a for- crying out. He then turned over a tune nearly equal to Amelia's, he re- few leaves of the Bible, which lay solved not to couple himself with any near him, observing that the evan thing of an inferior nature. This gelist John was a philosophical vilovely girl had awakened his desires; sionary, and then blustered away to and conceiving it a moral impossi- invite his friends to the wedding.

But the wedding, it should seem, even the bailiff of the city, pull off was not likely to go on so merrily as their hats to the respectable offspring Flugwild imagined: for old Willmuth, of his own loins. These pleasing in the goodness of his heart, first con- reveries would visit him, especially sulted Amelia: and the result of their as he sat tranquilly smoking his pipe consultatior was-a note from him to by the fire-side on a Sunday. Mr. Flugwild junior, stating, that his daughter, not feeling any inclination at present to change her state, she could only return him her thanks, in conjunction with his own, for the intended honour, and conclude with the most hearty wishes for his future welfare.

As little Crispin grew up, he was put to school, and taught Latin and Greek, for which he discovered more inclination and genius than for handling his father's awl and hammer. He hurried, as thousands do, from one course of lectures to another, though he did not, like them, return Whoever knows (and who is there as illiterate as he went. On the conthat does not?) how deeply the phi- trary, he collected much knowledge, losophical incroyables of the present which he digested with judgment. day are penetrated with a sense of Yet with all his application, he their own excellencies, may easily lived gaily and freely, spending as picture to themselves the monstrous much in one year, as his father had rage which tore the bowels of Mr. saved in forty; and contracted debts Flugwild, on receiving this note. into the bargain. He then distinHe instantly set about pouring forth guished and embroiled himself by his resentment in sonnets and ranias: fighting duels with his fellow students, but as old Willmuth and his daugh- got expelled, and flying home, he ter ranked with the common herd of found his father dead, and his own mortals, who never took the trouble character lost. to read these exquisite productions He now preferred a petition to the of the muse, they totally failed of government, that he might pass his their effect. The intelligence that examination; but was not admitted Amelia Willmuth would give her on account of his expulsion. Thus hand to none but a nobleman, though cut off from every means of living, it aggravated his bitterness, yet served he found protection from despair to clear up the mystery of his own only in the natural cheerfulness of success: for he did not suspect his temper. He was on the point to for a moment his deficiency in any enlist for a soldier, when a young requisite accomplishment; and the nobleman, for whom he had once circumstance of birth, he had long fought a duel at Jena, offered him learnt to hold in sovereign contempt. the situation of clerk, in a country Nevertheless, on this incident, he village, which he accepted without built an infernal project of revenge: hesitation.

ill

for, as my readers may know, the The reflection that he was burying philosophers of our day have such himself alive as parish clerk in a vil sort of sensations in common with lage, in the twenty-fifth year of his us ordinary mortals; and in all they age, was not much calculated to grathink and do, have commonly respect tify his pride; but he endeavoured to only to number One. banish the thought from his mind by

While Flugwild studied at Jena, every sort of whimsical conceit, there was a cotemporary student at Among other things, he sent a cir the university, called Distel, a young cular letter to all his university man possessing a clear head and a friends, announcing his promotion warm heart. He was the son of a to the rank of parish-clerk, and soshoe-maker in the country; but a liciting their future patronage. man in good circumstances, who was One of these letters happened to seized with the ambition of making reach Flugwild, with whom he had him a scholar, and of hearing the been engaged in important concerns, word of God out of his mouth from just at the moment of his disaster the pulpit. The old man fondly anticipated the delight he should feel in beholding his fellow citizens, and

with Amelia. The thought instantly darted like lightning into his mind, of making Distel the instrument of

his revenge. No one appeared to him better suited for the purpose, as he combined a fine manly figure, with great flexibility and vivacity of mind. Whatever else, therefore, was wanting, he resolved to supply with

money.

How so pray?'

Flugwild now discovered to him his whole project. Distel was to be Having formed his determination, entitled Baron Von Distelberg, a Bohe immediately wrote a letter to Dis- hemian noble, to be abundantly protel, lamenting that his talents should vided with money, and to remain a be circumscribed within so narrow a quarter of a year in Hamburgh, in sphere, and reproaching him for his order to exercise himself in dancing, want of confidence in his more fortu- riding, and other noble arts. Flugnate friends. For his part, he declared, wild would then give him respectable that he could not possibly suffer him letters of credit from rich houses in to continue a village clerk, and beg- Vienna, Prague, and Hamburgh, ged him therefore to resign his place which might be exchanged for others directly, and repair to Hamburgh on payable in Amelia's place of residence. a day appointed, where he would Flugwild, of course, concluded, and meet with his former friend, whose with justice, that these new letters of thoughts were occupied with plans credit would be made out on old for his future welfare. Willmuth, whose firm stood the Distel fell, as it were, from the highest in that place. Distel was clouds; but his fall was not a rude then to make his appearance with a one-he comfortably let himself down considerable retinue, and produce his on the green turf of hope. It did not bills. The old Willmuth, would, cost him many tears or sighs to give without doubt, as is the custom, inup his clerkship, nor very many mo- vite him to dinner, upon which occa ments to lace up his wallet, with sion he might become acquainted which he departed in high glee. He with Amelia, pay his addresses to her, arrived on the appointed day, in the and conclude the matter with a marless free than honest city of Ham- riage. burgh, and proceeded directly to the Well, what then?' said Distel, who hotel De Petersbourg. His dusty and sat listening with mouth and eyes shabby appearance would have pre- wide open. cluded his admittance, had not Flugwild accidentally looked out of the window, and recognizing his friend, relieved him from his embarrassment. And when the project fails, I have The table was instantly covered given up my fine clerkship for nothing. with wine and glasses, and the door Fool! it must succeed; but should locked, to prevent any interruption it not, I promise you a yearly allow in their familiar communications. ance three times greater than your salary for the clerkship."

Why then, there the matter ends. have my revenge, and you a pretty rich young wife.'

Distel burnt with curiosity to learn what plans his Jena bottle companion Very good,' thought Distel, if l had to propose to him. No sooner, have a written contract I am perfectly therefore, were old occurrences in satisfied. To be sure the whole afair Zwetzen and Lobstadt* gone over, looked very much like an abominable than he introduced the subject with fraud; but as the girl was a simaskingpleton, such trifling chastisement was

Well, my good friend, what are no more than her deserts, and might you going to do with me?" at the same time turn out well for her,

You shall marry a girl that is both as he was, after all, both a handsome very pretty and very rich." and an honest fellow.

With all my soul.'

But she is a fool.'

No matter.'

She has refused me.'

Villages near Jena,

The contract was accordingly signed and sealed in due form. Distel's almost empty wallet, was soon converted into well-filled trunks and overflowing purses. Baron Von Distelberg was occupied in Ilamburgh