"Mighty Emperor !" continued Mrs. Godfrey, falling on her knees with uplifted hands, "mighty Emperor! my days are almost numbered; swear to me by the Ged of battle, the God that hath prospered thy arms, swear to protect my child and her destined spouse, and to restore her to her own country, where she may become the lawful wife of Eustace." excluded the damp or cold, and far below, thousand times; and going where Elizaour elevated bower the death-spreading beth reposed, stood with folded arms waitshiume fell to us innoxious. All this I saiding her awakening, to soften the sad intelto myself, as half distracted I kissed the ligence she must receive. I need not at cold forehead, the cheeks, and hands of my tempt to pourtray her affliction, nor should beloved. Eustace saw me drop the paper; I now yield to my own. he took it up, and observed written on the outside-To be read immediately. My daughter had fallen asleep, overcome by fatigue in preparing for our migration. In those moments of silent petrifying anguish, I forgot even her. Eustace read the paper, dated at Tunis. My dear husband tells me he feels his end draw near; and intreats and exhorts me, if he dies in the grove, to leave his remains there. He enforces as a Jast request, that we shall go without delay to Tunis. Reminds me that if the Emperor removes before our arrival, we must die in exile; and Eustace and Elizabeth, fondly attached, cannot be joined in lawful wed- || lock. He desires that no consideration shall || riage of Eustace and Elizabeth was soon prevent their union if we can procure for them the rites of the church, as their primitive ideas and habits were best suited for each other. Eustace kissed the paper a The Emperor plighted his royal word. Mrs. Godfrey, Eustace, and Elizabeth were sent to England with their wealth. Mrs. Godfrey learned that her parents did not long survive her elopement; she pined in compunctious recollections, and the mar followed by the funeral of their mother. Calamities in various forms are inseparable from filial disobedience. THE LISTENER. TO TIMOTHY HEARWELL, ESQ. SIR,-I have the misfortune of being married to one of those bustling females who are generally termed good managers and excellent economists; now the economy of my rib almost ruins me; and I begin always to tremble at the approach of autumn. || "Come," my wife says, "let us begin to Jay in our stock before the winter sets in." The first thing then she undertakes is to make preserves, which sometimes, by having too quick a fire under them, acquire a disagreeable taste by being burnt; it is, she says, but a trifling accident which will befall the best preservers. A fresh quantity of sugar is then applied, which augments the expence, it is true, but then they can be eaten by those who are not too daiuty, and if the children do not chuse to eat them at breakfast, they shall have dry bread. Next comes the time for preserving damascenes. She fears she has not put sugar enough, and I am of the same opinion, but I dare not say so; however, in about two B. G. months every jar becomes mouldy and I get rid of them. "You are so fond of pickled mushrooms," my wife says to me, "that I have taken. care to have enough for the whole winter." The first bottle we open is really delicious, but at length they taste flat and disagreeable, and become mouldy in their turn; she thought she might save purchasing the best wine vinegar, she is determined this shall not happen again next year. I have twenty bushels of potatoes now in my cellar; and this valuable root is cer tainly of infinite service in a large family; but they have already began to grow, and many of them have become too spungy to be of any use. That, she says, is owing entirely to the season. Owing to the prodigious quantity of grapes this year, my wife delights herself with the idea of having some capital wine of her own making. She made some last year, and I must say she acquitted herself very well; and some sweet raisin wine she made was so exquisite, that all our friends and neighbours were continually coming to drink it: they emptied several bottles of her raspberry wine, which would have been excellent, if it had not tasted so strong of molasses, and on which account she had been obliged to add a quantity of brandy and fine sugar. However, the little stock of wine we had proposed to save for ourselves this approaching winter is already more than half drank out by our obliging visitors, who are all eager to taste it, and beg the recipe for manufacturing the same themselves. I have made a calculation of the expences attending all our provisions for the winter, and I find I have not enough money to serve me for a month. But I dare not tell my wife so, for she will be sure to prove me in the wrong and declare that her system of economy is the best in the world. ANDREW SUPPLE. TO TIMOTHY HEARWELL, ESQ. SIR,-Prior to my requesting of you to resolve some doubts relative to divorce, I must beg leave to inform you whence origiuated my anxiety to discuss the subject with myself. Over the eastern gate of Agra is the following inscription:-" In the first year of the reign of Julef, two thousand married couple applied to the magistrate, to obtain a separation, and the Emperor, indignant, abolished divorce. In the subsequent year, there were in Agra three thousand marriages less; seven thousand adulteries more; three hundred women burnt for poisoning their husbands; seventy-five men empaled for having murdered their wives; and amongst the most peaceable families the furniture destroyed amounted to at least 3,000,000 rupees. The Emperor re-established divorce." Many people might be liable to suppose, from a perusal of the above, that divorce is a wise political measure, well calculated to prevent the different enormities therein enumerated. At first I was of that opinion myself; but upon second thoughts it occurred to me that, agreeable to the adage-no cause, no effect-a law, which the dissoJution of morals rendered indispensable in Persia, might prove inimical to social order and morality in a country like ours, where our wives are "Fair as chaste, as chaste as fair." With some few exceptions, however. In this latter case, a divorce should almost invariably take place; yet I must grieve doubly when I reflect that evident adultery is the only cause, sine qua non, as it is called. If the motion were brought in before me, I would vote against husbands receiving damages; for it might happen, in some instances, that prompted by such a prospect, some husbands would neglect their wives, and this neglect be conducive to expose the weaker sex to the infringement of the seventh article in the Decalogue. In the second place, I deem it an improper lenity shown to the divorced adulteress to allow her to resume the possession of the property which she had renounced by becoming a wife: that should be forfeited, with the deduction of a moderate pension, not to the husband, I repeat it, but to the children if any, and in default thereof to the crown, or to the extinguishment of the national debt. I should not wonder, by the bye, if this regulation were adopted, as the said liquidation being much forwarded ou the return to England of the many thousand emigrants, not to mention Italy, but from France alone, where gallantry and intrigue are known for ages past to be at the order of the day, and so much so, that they are frequently introduced in theatrical pieces, with general applause. With regard to the crafty seducer, for such is occasionally to be met with, I should think him very well off though he were sentenced to surrender one half of his fortune to be distributed amongst the charitable institutions, from the establishment of which so many useful members of society are benefited: neither would in this case the gay Lothario be thought to be dealt by too severely, who, hundreds of times, previously to his suit being granted, had solemnly declared that he would willingly sacrifice all he was possessed of in this world, and even his life, if he could but gain the affections of the adorable object. By this means great good would accrue from great evil. Some tender-hearted advocates perhaps will argue, that the lady's income, by all means, should be made proportionate to her birth and rank in society: to those let me retort that, if wealth and titles have been the due reward of the virtues and illustrious deeds of a long list of ancestors, she who on the reverse becomes notorious on account only of her sporting in the paths of vice, is no more to be considered as a descendant of that honourable race, than the weeds in a corn-field are a portion of the luxuriant primary support of the human || species. || a licence to a similar humiliation? This formality being gone through, could not the ring be pulled off the offender's finger by the parish clerk or beadle, and be finally suspended in the vestry by the clergyman, who would then pronounce the dissolution of the former union. The fees here are rated, and within every body's reach. So far it will be acknowledged I hope, that enough was done for punishment and example; neither will it be denied but a door should always be left open to repentance: the delinquent above alluded to, were it only on account of the pangs of remorse which she has endured, must become an object of merey; besides her public disgrace should be made everlasting. Let it be considered that by depriving her of the right of being the mother of a legi If it be admitted that a divorce is to be obtained in some cases, is it not to be lamented, in a country where all are equal in the eye of the law, that none but the opulent can attempt to procure one, owing to the exorbitant charges of the limbs of the law? Or is it to be understood that delinquents are to be found only among the higher classes. This inconvenience, how-timate family, it would be robbing the ever, might easily be removed, if the legislature would but enact that the connubial bond should be untied by the same hand that had fastened it. Could not the divorce proposed to be announced three times, in the same manner as the intended marriage had been proclaimed from the pulpit, subjecting those who had procured country, the riches whereof partly consists in its population. I therefore will be hear tily thankful to yourself, Sir, or to any of your correspondents, who would suggest the means of restoring the unfortunate female to a state of respectability. TOPOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM.-No. XXIV. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. NORTHAMPTON. This town is finely situated on an eminence, gently sloping to the river: the streets are strait and handsomely built: few towns can boast such a market-place; this is a real ornament to Northampton. The church of the Holy Sepulchre is supposed to have been built exactly after the model of that at Jerusalem, by the Knights Templars. The imitative part is round, with a nave issuing from it. St. Peter's church is a very singular building. Two corners of the tower are ornamented with three round pillars. Above these are two, and above them one; all gradually less than the others. The middle of the tower is ornamented with small round arches carved with zig-zag work. The advowson of this church was given by Edward III. to the hospital of St. Catharine, near the Tower, in London, and still continues under its patronage. HUMANUS. The County Infirmary is neither beautiful nor magnificent in outward appearance; but the subscription which supports it does infinite honour to the province, as it evinces the great benevolence of its inhabitants. The County-Hall is a very handsome building, and the jail is situated a short distance from the Sessions-House. The Town-Hall is a very ancient building, in which the corporation transacts business, Northampton was incorporated by Henry II.; and Henry III. gave it the power of chusing anually a mayor and two bailiffs, to be elected by all the freemen; but Henry VII. ordered, by charter, that the mayor and his brethren, the late mayors, should name forty-eight persons of the inhabitants, with liberty of changing them as often as should be found requisite. Northampton is among the most ancient of our boroughs. In the time of Edward I. it was one of nineteen trading towns which seut two members each. Every inhabi H tant, resident or not resident, free or not || bridgeshire, together with a great revenue: free, has still the liberty of voting: a cruel the priory of Castle Hymel gave them privilege! footing in Northamptonshire, and they Between Hardingstone and Northamp-came in for parcels of the appurtenance of ton, in 1460, Henry VI. encamped with his St. Alban's, and Mountgrace, in Yorkshire; insolent nobility, immediately before the the house of the friars, preachers in Exesanguinary battle of Northampton. Humble ter, with the revenues belonging to the proposals were sent by the Earl of March, foundation; and finally, the estate about afterwards Edward IV. and Warwick. Covent-Garden, with a field adjoining, Queen Margaret's answer breathed only called the Seven Acres, on which Longcontempt and scorn; for to her the answer acre has been built, appurtenances to the must be attributed, and not to the mild Abbey of Westminster. How will papal and pusillanimous King Henry. superstition wonder that no signal judgment has overtaken the children of sacrilege, when it is certain that no house in Britain has been more prosperous than that of Russell ? BEDFORDSHIRE. WOBURN.-A small town, rendered important from having long been the estate of the Dukes of Bedford: there is in it a The Duke of Bedford's mansion, at Wofree school, founded by Francis I. Earl of burn, is situated in a pleasant park, well Bedford, and a charity school for thirty wooded, but wanting water; the dams boys by Wriothesly, Duke of Bedford. being much too conspicuous. The interior The church was built by the last Abbot of of the house is a treasure of fine paintings; Woburn the steeple seems oddly disjoint-amongst them is a sweet portrait of Lady Jane Seymour, the third wife to Heury VIII. Her person is elegant, but if the painter has done her justice, her countenance is, by no means, beautiful. Also a full-length of Queen Elizabeth, with a fan of feathers in her hand, which she used at the wedding of Mrs. Anne Russell with Lord Herbert, having condescended to accept of the said fan as a present from a Dr. Puddin, at whose house her Majesty had stopped by the way. ed from the church. The chancel has been elegantly fitted up by the grandfather of the present Duke. The pulpit is a fine piece of Gothic carving, most probably cœval with the Abbey. At a short distance from the town was situated the Abbey, founded in 1145, by Hugh de Bolebec, a wealthy nobleman in the neighbourhood, and who peopled it with monks of the Cistercian order. The place prospered, and was found at the dissolution possessed of excellent revenues. The last Abbot, Robert Hobbs, was hanged at Woburn, for not acknowledging the King's supremacy. The monastery and its revenues, în 1547, were granted by Edward VI. to Lord Russell, soon after created Earl of Bedford by that young monarch. The immense fortune, even to this present time, originates from gifts of this nature; not only in Bedfordshire, but much of the Bedford property in Buckinghamshire is owing to this grant, and also the rich Abbey of Tavistock, and vast fortunes in Devonshire; which to render more extensive, that of Dunkeswell was added. The donation of Thornby Abbey gave to this family an amazing tract of fens in Cam No. 117.-Vol. XVIII. AMPTHILL. A small market town on a rising ground; famous for having been the residence of that injured Princess, Catharine of Arragon, who retired there during the period that her divorce was in agitation: and hence she was cited to appear before the commissioners at Dunstable. In Ampthill church is a monument to the memory of Richard Nicolls, Governor of Long Island. He was slain in the memorable engagement of May 28th, 1672, as he was attending his Royal Highness the Duke of York on board his ship. In this monument is preserved the very ball with which he was killed, a five or six pounder, and which is placed within the pediment, inlaid in the marble. LI ANECDOTES OF ILLUSTRIOUS FEMALES. THE GRAND DUCHESS OF SAXE-WEIMAR. THIS illustrious and respectable specimen of the late German court is still living; and of which court she once formed the chief ornament. It was owing to her undaunted influence that the Grand Duke was prevented joining Bonaparte: and when the battle of Jena decided the fate of the north of Germany, though the Grand Duke was absent with his army, the Duchess still remained at Weimar. Firm in her refusal to abandon the Castle, the interview which followed between her and Napoleon would have afforded a fine subject for an historical painter. Her noble deportment caused him to withdraw his cruel order for piHaging the town. The Grand Duchess undergoing every hardship and privation while she remained in her Castle with her faithful subjects, almost without the mere necessaries of life. have all the erect dignity of the old court. Her dress is that of a respectable bourgeoise; she wears a high mob cap fastened under her chin, and generally a slate-coloured silk gown. MADAME DE LAJESKI. THE presence of this lady at the court of France under the usurpation of Bonaparte, excited fear and jealousy amongst all the ladies of the Empress Maria Louisa's household. To see a foreigner overwhelmed with favours, and engrossing the smiles of their sovereign, was to them intolerable. Finally, they prevailed on the Queen of Naples to propose that the Empress should' send her governess back to Vienna, though Madame de Lajeski had been promised that she should retain her situation for a year. No resistance was made by her illustrious charge, and Madame de Lajeski returned from Munich to Vienna, carrying along with her the favourite little dog belonging to her mistress, the dismissal of which was likewise required, under pre She is now about sixty years of age, and the traces of her former beauty are gone; but her countenance still pleases by its peculiar intelligence, and an expression of character firm, decided, and somewhat se-tence that Napoleon had frequently comvere; but this latter expression changes to a sweet cheerfuluess as soon as she enters into conversation, in which she discovers much good nature and simplicity, but which is always more rational than gay. Yet there is a native shrewdness often in what she utters, and her manners are plain and sincere, while her carriage and deportment plained of the annoyance caused by Josephine's dogs. While the Empress made all these sacrifices, Madame de Lajeski re||mained firmly attached to her, though compelled to this separation; and the little favourite quadruped of Maria Louisa received from her the most unremitting care and kindness. A PICTURESQUE TOUR THROUGH THE GRISONS. It is about two thousand four hundred and fifty years since the country of Granbunten, otherwise called the Grisons, was resorted to by a colony of Italians, to whom the Greeks and Romans gave the name of Thyrennians, Tusci, or Hetrusci, and who peaceably occupied the lands comprehended between the Alps and the Tiber, where they formed a confederation, composed of a great number of towns and cities. || of Upper Italy, part of the ancient inhabitants of the country sought a refuge in the Appenines and in Hetruria, whilst others, with Rhetus at their head, retired to the Alps of Rhetia, where they founded, in the Valteline, the boroughs of Tirano and of Teglio, naming the first after Tyrrhenus, who was said to have brought a colony of Asiatics into Italy, and the second from the words to jl, which signifies hemp Bellovése, a Gaul warrior, having cross- or flax, of which they made plantations. ed the Alps in the year 620, A. C. and|| To their establishments in the Engadine marched his savage hordes into the plains they gave the names of several towns of |