MAN AM)
>1;in is llic riig'get!, lofty piiu,
'J luit Irowns on many a Wavc-beat shore,
Oman's the sltiidtr, graceful vine,
Whose turhng tendrils round it Iwine,
And deck its roiigli bark sweetly o’er.
5!an is tlic rock uhosc towering'crcst
Ikods o’er tlie mountain’s barren side,
Won.an’s the soft and mossy vest,
That loves to clasp its s-terile breast,
Atid wreath its brow in verdant pride.
>I:in is the cloud of coming storm,
I)ark as the raven’s murky plume;
Save where the sun'beam, li^ht and warm,
Of woman’s soul, and woman’s form,
Gleams brightly o’er the gathering gloom.
Ves, lovely sex, to you ’tia given.
To rule our hearts with angel sway,
"Blend with each woe a blissful heaven.
Change earth into an embryo heaven,
sweetly umilc our cares away.
From thf Jljftvki.
•THE HOUR OF PRAYER.
‘Child, amidst the flowers at play,
VVhilc the red light fades away;
•Motlu r, with thine earnest eye,
'Ever following silently;
Tather, by the breeze of eve
Called thy hars-est work to leave
'Pray ’.--Ere \et tlio dark lioiirs be,
5.ifl the hi art and bi ud the knee !
" Traveller, in the stranger's land,
i'ar from thine own household band;
■Mourner, haunted by the tone
Of a voice from this world gone;
Captive, in whose narrow ccll
Sunshine hatli not leave to dwell;
3ailor, on the darkening sea ;
T.ift the heart and bend the knee !
that fron' Icittlc won
-Iireathest now at set of sun;
Woman, (j’cr the louly slain,
Weeping on his burial-idain;
Ye that triiimpli, yv that sigh,
liindred by one holy tic !
Heaven’!) first star alike ye scc-
Lift the heart and bend the knee
Mixing together profit and delight.
TKS WXTCH.
By John Galt, Ksquire.
They talk ignorantly of human nature
who regard the aboiislieil crime of witch
craft as having had its orijjin in the
.phantasma of superstition. Nothing is
more common in the management of
•inankind, than to see persons who, from
having felt deference paid to their men
tal superiority, have assumed to them
selves the prerogative of governing o-
•thers by dicta, rather than hy the rea
sonable exercise of their understanding.
In such assumption or arrogance consists
the criminality ofwitchciaft—a crime
as old f>s humanity, and as eternal as
power and imbecility in the faculties of
man. The following little anecdote is
demonstration of the moral theorem
here propounded :
About the end of the reign of King
.fanu's the First of Great Britain, a mat
ronly woman, of the name of Uebecca
Su irf, came to-ieside in the village of
Stuke Regis. Her appearance was ra-
Iher, though in no remarkable degree,
nbove her apparent condition. Some
said she had surely been a gentlewoman,
others were of opinion tliat her husband
liad been an apothecary ; and the whole
community of the \’illage were somc-
^’hat surprised that she did not practise
as a midw ife. She lived, however, a-
^noiig them many years, avoiding the
observation which she was .evidently
conscious of having attracted. During
i{he wlude period*, her managers weie
TTiihi but reserved, aiul her conduct and
deportnient singultirly vincxccjjlionabk'.
This friendless and li>rli,>rn person at
’List became old; her UK.an.st from whal-
*ver source derived, whether from the
'jndustry with v.’liioh she ]>lied her own
liistaf)', ;r iVoni any undivnlgcd soui’ce,
.-gradually diniinji,!if'd, (ill hhe l)ecanie
•;i!most a nKM'.dicant. She wa;5 not ei’-
llii'Iv so, l)ef’;iiise her ‘i'.aslcd foi-m,
liie vai iety ol’ w rftchrchicss exiiihiteii
•i;i her |»;it'’hed and inuenewed aftire,
■sttraclcd the chnrity she rcfjuired wiih*
out an\- suilcilali(jn on her part. She
-file! net heg, slicwas onl\- helped.
One day, it was in January, and al'-
i^.r many sti»rn,_ t!jysof slei.t andshuw-
cr, ^he came to the door of Alice'I'hor-
>vald, a n'-ighbor, and requested the
•loan of a lilile meal or flour. Alice at
ihe time was busy fondling her child,
;ind answered tiic request—wliich wus
inodestly enough made—harshly. lie-
Lecra jejieated it, and received a still
jnorc ungracious reply, liebecca a third
time besjged the little loan olWh[chshe
.stooiJ, as sliC said, really in great need;
♦Hitthc ihii’d aasviX'r '^'as 5till iiioic uu-
iiind lliAn the Termer two, and she wasi
told to apply el>ewhere; - “ for,” said
.Mice Thorwald, “I have something else
to do-with my deir child than to heed
such applications.”
Rebecca Swarf made no immediate
reply, l)ut drawing her cloak close a-
round l.er, sire looked sternly at Alice
for a short space of time, and then re
plied—Well as you love, or think you
love, that darling, beware of the harm
you are doomed to do it!”
When the old woman had retired,
her words recoiled upon Alice, and
when Eben Tiiorwald returned home in
the evening, Alice mentioned to hiin
the occurrence and the malediction, for
so she had felt it, of Rebecca Swarf.
Eben was of a gloomy frame of feel
ing, strong in resolution, and withall
disposed to the worshij) of superiority,
however constituted. He was natural
ly suspicious, and not untinctured with
envy; hence, either from antipathy or
from the etlect of some experienced
slight,he at once disliked ReheccaSwarf,
and ws aawed by her sagacity.
He caused Alice, his wife, to repeat
to hi’.n the malediction; he pondered on
its intimation; he thought he could dis
cern in it. something of more than met
the ear :—he strif)pcd the chilil naked—
carefully examined all its bcidy—could
find no mark of scathe Uj)on its skin;
and he finally concluded, that if there
were any power in the bodement, the e-
vil thereof was to tall upon Ali ’e.
Alice laughed at this conclusion, and
for some time afterwards no change was
observable in her conduct ; but in the
end Eben saw, or thought he saw, that
she did not treat the child with her
wonted afleclion, and chided her for the
neglect, reminding herat the same time
of Rebecca Swarf’s prophecy.
Alice, liisturbed by his exhortations,
affected to fondle and caress the baby
ten times more than she would othei-
wise have done, till her anxiety grew
to habitude, and all her neighbors spoke
to her, and marvled at the inordinate
and foolish fondness for the child with
which she embittered both her own life
and that of her hushand. Even himself
became impatient at her exclusive en
dearments, and one day bethought, as a
remedy to check the morbid atfection
of Alice, to apply to Rebecca Swarf for
advice.
“ Your wife,” said Rebecca, ‘‘hashad
a dream, or an omen, that has told her
she is ordained to do mischief to the
child.”
P'rom that moment Eben felt himself
irresistibly drawn to watch the conduct
of Alice. The hand of fate had indeed
laid hold of him ; he felt—he trembled
—but he could not shake it off.
One night, while he was observing
Alice watching the baby as it lay asleej)
in the cradle, he saw, or fancied he saw,
the fondness with which, ^he was hang
ing over it, suddenly change, and a
ghastly and haggard expression supplant
the wonted maternal benignity oi her
countenance.
“You so worship that child,” said
he, as if W’illingto be disenchanted from
the impression which her agitation had
produced, “you so worship it, thatone
might think you make much of it in or
der to hide some intent to do it harm.”
Alice burst into tears, and w'ept with
impassioned grief over the child, who
awakened by her sobs, smiled at her
sorrow.
Eben w’as overawed at the effect ol
his jemark, and endeavoured to sooth
her with all his kindness ; but his feel
ings received an irrecoverable shock
when she informed him that she had one
night dreamt a dream, in which she saw
Rebecca Swartli come to her bedside
with a knife in her hand, and heard her
say, “ Cut the thread !” “ From that
hour,” continued tlie comfortless Alice,
“ I have alien >een a shadowy haiul,
hoKling a bloody knife, hovering over
the ciatllc—and ihe hand is like iny
own hand —
^ ^ -r ^ ^ ifi
l'h(,‘se strange circumstances, aftei'
the execution (»f his infatuated wife,
Kbeti 'I'horwald told to the rector, who
cau>vil liebi cca Swarth t(j be ap[)rehen-
ded as a witch. She was cast into ]>ris-
on, and several times (jx.imined : but no
jiioof could be ])roduced that she was
in anv way concerned in the mui’der of
the ciiihl for which Alice had suffered.
Alice had confessed, when seized with
Ihe knife in her hand, that she had done
the tieed hersell', from the instigations
of a power whose dominion she knew
not, a:ul whose influence she could not
resist, lint the jioor, old forlorn, and
wr( tchefi Rebecca’s strength \^ as soon
exhausted. On her third eNaniiiiation
she confessed herself a witch, and the
worthy elergyinan interiogated her as
1o the manner of hei' intercourse with
the devil, and piously incjuired what
benefit she had derived for having sohi
to him her eternal j'-wel. “ The end of
my v/u:- her crJy uiiswer.
The spot wfcc'c slie was ournt inay
yet he .*een on tlie common : it is still
hare 5c covereil with ashes. Some say no
binl ever alights on the ground the.ie.
—The sheep nibble at a distance from
it, so that it is as mncli distinguished hy
tiie rank growth of its herbage around,
as by the blackness of the ashes where
she was consumed.
AN lUISH TltADlTIONAL STOHV.
The following account of the circum
stances which gave rise to the strange
roHowiiig morning—at sun set, ihc 11 lie editor of iLe Herald very juitly
search on sea anil shore had brought hi!.i '“‘i‘ks that this sutecr.ent js ol rfurj-^}
„„ consolation-;t r.newod on ; u t.Mcst lo the who e coun.ry, i,
folluwin- day, hut will, r.o uiid.spuled lact hat le«
exists ui Nfw-Haven than in alnlo!^
cess and carried on unii e>i-. * j other city of equal populaiion. If
grew cold. Years rolled on, and still
found the liaron St. Lawrence a moody
unhappy man, misiortunes iiad, as usual
erowded upon him—his wife died in
giving birth to his lost child—he had
loved her well, and look no second part-
j ner. Meanwhile, his son, who had
first seen Clare island a chiKl, was almost
custom or throwing: open tl.e gnl.s ol if
Ilowth c»sllc, at th^ IIM toll oHhcdin- iv ^
„er hell, l.a. Wm. collected in two pla- '"K kindness, and g.ven every a Ua, -
ccs, at opposite curemi.iesol Ireland ; '"S® T"" Tl”" n'S; “r"’ ”
tradition supplyini; in the one, what it j *' nwjm” diseases, as arc of themselves not
" " ,ev: About ™usuallyUal,IV
the extent of our own city did not render
It impracticable for the physicians lo ar-
’ I rive al any general result, a statement of
' ■ the same nature would be highly useful
to our own inhabitants. Such a stau; ol'
■Uings existing in a.sectionof our cour,,
try, ‘‘steady” and sober lo a proverL,
may well lead lo the cjuestion,—Are one
liind who die in the United Slates, abovx*
twenty years? of age, the victims of in.
temperance ?
The fact is loo well established, savs
the report, to recjuire^discussion, thaj;
ing of his 21st year, as he sat beside lier
on the deck of her vessel, and the an
cient and beautiful abbey of Howth ap
peared in vieWj looking like a “ fairy
palace” arrested in its flight, and sus
pended overthe sea. It is scarcely neces
sary to add, that he was restored to his
father, upon the prondse that the trav
eller should never again be obliged to
turn away from Howth castle; and that,
in token thereof', its gates should be
thrown open each day before tlie com
mencement of the principal meal.
had left wanting in the other
the middle of the sixth century, Grana
Waillia, or Grace O’Malley, exercised
the same power over the 3(i5 islands of
Clew 13ay, which her ancestors had, at
an earlier period, overall Ireland. She
possessed a manly mind, and spirit well
adapted for the wild scenes in which
she lived, and the rude men whom she
governed—had caused much bloodshed,
and done many a fearful deed on sea
and land; hut, “none are all evil,” and
she also possessed an excess of high and
generous feeling, which seldom fails,
with prosperity at least, to cover a mul
titude of sins. The ruins of her castle
may yet he seen—a huge mass of gray
stone, looking tovv'ards the main land,
form a desolate ibland ot St. ('lare,
which is at the extremity of the cluster,
and apparently formed lor no other pur
pose than to break the force ol t!ie At
lantic as it rolls into Clew liay.—'Fhere
was scarcely a town or village idong the
western coast, which had not been at
one time or other, visited and plunder
ed in the course of her piratical excur
sions, and as the evil was severely felt,
so was the outcry j.Toportionably gn;at.
Still tliere v.\.s uu chance of redress,
eM’ejil from a direct, ap'ieal to the sov
ereign, as she was all p »we; lul at sea,
and lived onthe be^t termsof intelligence
with Richard Bourke, Viscount and '
(Jovernor of Mayo, to whom she was
afterwards married. The injured, ac
cordingly, had recourse to Elizabeth,
and the eoiv^equence w'as a summons,
commanding tlic attendance of Grace
O’Malley at the Court of London, to
answer the charges brought against her.
It was, at first, treated by the Milesian
Princess with the most sovereign con- ! made so good a use of it, that in the
tempt; but, a threat (sworn to by lliiza- j course of a few hours, he faily under-
beth) of sending a fleet against her if mined the prison wall. The aperture
equtMitly become so in peiu
sons of intemperate habits; and that in all
acute diseases the chance fur recovery ii>
gicaily lessened by this circuinstanct.
EXCERPTS.
From the Dumfries Courier.
Curious Fact. —“ Keep a thing sev
en years, and you will find a use for it.”
So says the j)roverb, and the following
incident, which was related to us the o-
!her flight by a Greenock gentleman,
affords no bad illustration of the truth of
the remark. Not many years ago, a
man, of the name of Douglas, v. as tried
at Inverary for some petty lieprcilation, ,
and sentenced to twelve months inij)ris- ■
onment in Rothsay Jail. I^ut the cul
prit had
life, and as his new quartei’s by no
means accorded with his ideas of com-
KEADIN'G.
l?y reading we enjoy the dead,
conversation the living, and by coiiteni.
plalion, ourselves. Reading enriches
the memory, conversation polishes the
v.it, and contemplation improves the
juilgment. Of these, reading is the
'most important, as it furnishes both
tlie other.
tl’lTAPIf ON LAUllEN'CE STERNE.
How often wrong’s our nomenclature,
Ilo.v names oi’t difi'er from our nature,
'I'is easy to disccrn !
Here lies the «iuintessence of wit,
For mirth u'id humour none so fit,
And yet men call’d him sTtu.\—jr.
STTJDVIXCi NATUKE.
It is said tliat Moliere read his cornc-
been accustomed lo a roving ,lies to an elderly female servant, nnmcd
when he pcrceived tliiit tht
. pas.'aj;es, which he intended to he hu-
fort, the thou-ht soon struck him that morous and laughable, had no effect oa
it was posibleto change them. His cell
happ‘ned to be on what is called the
ground-floor; and, in addition to a chair,
tal.ile, and bedstead, displayed an old-
fashioned rusty grate, which, for years
on years, had, to all appearance, chascd
away no contiguous damj)—cniitted no
chceif’ul blaze. From this grate he
wrenched one of the ribs, or bars, and
although the instrument was not above
and 1 in diameter, he
of sending a fleet against her if
she persisted in refusal—her own con
viction that a struggle against a power
so superior, w'ith whatever advantages
of situation, could be but a hopeless one
—and, finally, the persuasion of the be
fore mentioned Richard Eourke, at
length prevailed with her, and she con
sented to attend at Couft. IMany cu
rious stories are told about her reception
and adventures there—it will, however,
be onl}^ necessary to say, that the Queen
W’as Oiuch amused at the strangeness of
her manners—that the proud bearing
and haughty spirit which cotild not be
endured in a courtier, were forgiven in
one so ignorant of courtly forms and
who had hitherto known none greater
than herself—and, whether from her
INIajesty’s caprice, or congenial mind
and disposition, or from what cause it
matters not—but the stranger did in
crease in favor daily—and, finally, in
stead of being punished for the enormi
ties of which she had been guilty, was
dismissed upon her simple promise of
abstaining from the like in future. On
her return, she thought proper to put
into Howth harbour (whether from fan-
cy or necessity it is not clearly known,)
and, announcing her name and rank at
4he castle gate, requested the usual hos
pitable entertairmient : it was refused,
for fear of treachery—and her desperate
character weighed more heavily w’ith
the Ijord of Howth than what was then
considered a sacred duty. Grace turn
ed off, at once, without attem])ting to
expostulate, disgusted at the lieartless
conduct w liich tiie manners and super
stition of her country alike taught her
to Took on as almost unnatural. About
mid-day, her vessel Wii^ observed stand
ing out to sea—helore niidnigh.t her ve
ry existence was forgotten at the Ca.'tlc'
—but, at that very hour, she w;:s'‘ again
in its neighhot hood, to take feai'l'ul ven
geance for an insult, which had been as
bitterly felt us it was silently borne.
The night was awful in the extreme; , , ^ . •
rain fell in toi rents, and tl'.e lightning, i ^he iealit\ of w hioh can be attested by
at short intervals, made ilreadful liavoc hidividuals still resident in the
though small, enabled him to drag his
body through; but, after creeping out,
he had the temerity to creep in again,
and, f’rom whatever motive, secreted
the disparted portion of the grate in cor
ner of the yawning chasm above. Af
terwards he found his way to Greenock,
W’as allowed to work his passage in a
vessel bound to North America, and
remainwl in that country several years.
Tiring, however, of the new world, he
revisited Scotland; and in the hope, no
doubt, that both his crime and his es
cape had been forgotten, ventured once
more among the wilds of Argyleshire.
The Fiscal of the district, unaware,
perhaps, of the man’s return, or not
deemingths matter of much importance,
offered him no molestation at first; but
he was soon caught in a new offence;
and from necessity or oversight re-lodg-
ed in the identical cell he had broken.—
All the world have heard of
'/hnsnn’s witty tormentor; and as the
first tiling he did on his return from In
dia W'as to ring the astounded French
man’s bell, so our hero had no sooner
been left to himself, than he began to
explore the area of the chimney, in
quest of an old and valued accjuaintance,
which had served him at a j)inch, and
might do so again, anl he found the in
strument where he left it I as fit for min
ing work as ever, ami with fewer chan
ges on its substance or surface than
time and climate had made on his own
weather-beaten frame. To work, there
fore, he set a second time, and w’as a-
gain so successfql, that he had his fool
on the heath, ami saw the sun rise on
his native niountains the next morning.
—As the circumstance e\cjied a good
d(‘jl ot ii,t;‘;diligent sc-tu'oh was
made for the ri.ii on Trenck of tlie Isle
itl Ihit'j; blit it was all to no ])Ur])ose.—
He escajxjd to a distant part of the coun
try, betook li.mself to morir lawful eoui -
s(?s, and has been heartl to boast, when
i heated with !i({Uor, of abrace ofexploits.
town of liolhsay.
J.itrnhjcrnna'.—'I'hc Medical associa-
among the old oaks, which then clothed
the lofty and rugged sidesof the promon
tory—destructicm seemed to attend her
onevoryside—stillslieiHTsso.locuard, l"“" Haven lonnly, Conn. have
and :^iicceedcd in snrrDiiinlini; the house, i ^ statenicul hy which il appears
lo which, she had ascertained, that the i I
■ •' ' • ' 1 among
she had ascertaine”), that the i''’“I'-
only son of the liaron was at nurse-no
alarm was given—and the inmates wei-e
safely earned aw’ay lo her vessel. Jl’he
disappearance of this child was tremb
lingly announced to the father; qu
persons over twenty years oi aiM', were
caused or hastened diiectly or indireeiiy
by inttiDjjirancc; aiul that for the iw (i
procetlin;^ years aT.iinilar pr(jporiion of
deaths impuiuU',; ty tht: cuuiic.
her, he altei'ed then). He also required
the jilayers to bring their children to
the rehearsals, that he might form hiso-
pinion of diflcrent j)assages, from the
natural expression of their emotions.
FLAri'EKV.
Among rdl the diseases of the mind,
there is not one more epideniicni, or
more pernicious, than the love of flalic*
ry’. Like music, it
“So softens and disarms the mind,
'I hat not one arrow can resistunce
VOLTAIRE.
A gentleman, w’ho was not pcrsonaily
know'n to \’^oltaire, was receivc^l by
him at Ferney, with that easy politeness
which always distinguished his recep
tion of travellers. The next mortiiiig
the stranger, highly delighted with
the entertainment, and also with the
beautiful situation of Ferney castlc,
boldly declared, that it was his inter.'
tion to reside for six weeks in that en^
chanting retreat. Yoltaire saiil to him
with a smile : “ Uj)on my honour, Sir,
you arc the exact reverse of Don Quix-
otte; that Spanish knight took the inm
to be. cuallcSy and you, certainly, take
this castlc for an inri.” The traveller
felt the leproof and departed.
PEDANTS.
“I hate,” says Montaigne, those
scholars who can do nothing without
their books.” In fact, men of this des
cription have no knowledge, but can
tell you where some may Ije found.—
They serve as indexes to good authors.
'I’heir conversation will inf^orm you that,
in such a passage and chapter of Ciccro
and Seneca, there is a fine thought.—
INIontaigne has observed, W’ith muck
truth in the .sentiment, and with great
beauty of ex|)ression, that science is ^
sceptre in the hands of some men, and
a bauble in those of others.
PAIMT'L LOVE.
To love is painful, il is true;
Anil not to love is paiiiful too .
lint, ah ! it gives the greatest
'i'o love and not be lov’d again.
MUSIC.
Mahtin Lutjieu says,—‘'^whocvc^
dsepises music, 1 am displea.sed witu
him : Next to theology, 1 give aplarf^
to mu.'Ic; for thereby all anger is for;;ol
ten, the ilevil is driven aw’ay, and nitl-
ancholy, and many tribulations, and e-
vil thoughts are expelled. It is the sc>
lace of a desponding mind.
ANECDOTE.
A Physician observed to a clock niu
ker, whose work needed mending, tn-i'^
if he was to make such errors in pi’i'^’
tice, it would be atteniled w’ith the loss
of all his patients. The man drily
plied, “.//, Doctor^ ihe sumhscnvr:^
nv/faults^ the earth hides ^uurs.
Oak woodjias risen to the astonishiHo'
ly high price of eiijht dolhu’s a cord i*'
i''iil.i,delphia.