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maroon velvet, and gold at bottom. The tout enfemble of this drefs was more fimply elegant than any other that appeared at court.

Lady Charlotte Campbell.-A white fatin petticoat, puckered with a net richly embroidered in Mofaic, reHeved by a drapery thrown over, and edged with a rich gold fillet: the whole banded with maroon and gold fhelis, and rich gold fringe: the body of maroon fatin moft fuperbly embroidered in gold plate, and wreaths of gold laurel to edge the whole.

Lady Augufta Clavering.-A white fatin petticoat, puckered with a crape embroidered in gold feathers, tied up with green foil leaves; a loofe drapery over an under drapery of rich gold fillet edged with a rich gold fringe; the gown violet ftripe ftuff.

Mrs. Hope.-Body and train of royal purple, with a crape petticoat embroidered in gold, and moft elegantly ornamented, with a drapery purple embroidered crefcents, and a rich border at bottom; gold cord

and tafels.

form of acorns, and had a very pretty appearance.

SUMMER-HOUSE.

N the Fureteriana there is the defcription of a beautifully curious crystal fummer-houfe, belonging to the king of Siam. Furetiere fays, he had the account of it from a friend, who had the pleasure of fitting in it.

The king of Siam has in one of his country palaces, a moft fingular pavilion. The tables, the chairs, the clofets, &c. are all compofed of cryftal. The walls, the ceiling, and the floors, are formed of pieces of plate glafs, of about an inch thick, and fix feet fquare, fo nicely united by a cement, which is as tranfparent as glafs itself, that the moft fubtile fluid cannot penetrate. There is but one door, which fhuts fo clofely, that it is as impenetrable to the water as the reft of this fingular building. A Chinese engineer conftructed it thus as a certain remedy against the infupportable heat of the The petticoats were moftly of climate. This pavilion is twentyembroidered cape, with velvet eight feet in length, and feventeen trains. The moit fafhionable col-in breadth; it is placed in the midft ours was maroon and black. Tip- of a great bafin, paved and ornapets were generally worn, trimmed mented with marble of various colwith fine blond, and fome with fil- ours. They fill this bafin with water in about a quarter of an hour, and The caps were in the turban fa-it-is emptied as quickly. When you fhion, with profufion of high oftrich feathers, and gold ornaments. Many ladies' wore embroidered bandeaus, and bunches of leaves intermixed with filver. The hair was dreffed rather high, turned up quite close behind, and the ends falling down the neck in curls. The waits were fo fhort, that the ladies had hardly room to move their arms.

ver.

Pearl ear-rings and necklaces were worn as ufual, mixed with matted gold in various forms; but coral and cornelian car-rings and necklaces were the moft in fafhion, in the

enter the pavilion, the dour is immediately clofed, and cemented with maftick, to hinder the water from entering; it is then they open the fluices; and this great bafin is foon filled with water, which is even fuffered to overflow the land; fo that the pavilion is entirely under water, except the top of the dome, which is left untouched for the benefit of

refpiration. Nothing is more charming than the agreeable coolness of this delicious place, while the ex

treme ardour of the fun boils on the furface of the fresheft fountains.

ADVENT

The ADVENTURES of EMMA.

A MORAL TALE.

(From the Ranger.).

(Continued from Vol. XXVI. p. 618.)

conftantly calculated to improve the morals and enlarge the understanding. At the end of two years, death ftopped the progrefs of Emma's education, by fuddenly depriving her of this moft excellent friend; her little income reverted to the family of her husband, and fhe had

adoption, but the fimple furniture of her little dwelling. Emma mourned with affectionate regret. a lofs fo great, but determined to perfevere in thofe ftudies, for which fhe had acquired fo correct a taste, and which he was happily enabled to do, by becoming the poffeffor of the valuable and felect collection of books which formed the small li

very early in the morning, Emina was enabled to pursue her favourite employment, without trefpaffing on thofe hours when her filial duties or domeftic cares demanded her

TE fion, and return to Albert, who foon gained that introduction at the cottage of Bernard, which he fo anxiously fought; and by frequenting the fociety of this worthy old man, he had daily opportunities of feeing and converfing with his lovely daughter.-Powerfully charmed at first fight by her perfonal attractions, he now found, on acquaintance, an irresistible fafcina-brary of the deceased. By rifing tion in the fuperior beauties of her mind. Nature had formed her fentiments juft, delicate, and virtuous; and her education had for two years received great advantage from a frequent intercourse with a lady of birth and diftinguished talents, who had, on the decease of her husband, retired into a small habitation, fituated in a vale near Bernard's cottage. This amiable widow had lived many years in the great world, and had partaken both of its profperity and adverfity, fufficiently to fhew her the inftability of fortune. With her beloved lord fhe had loft the fuperfluities of life; but, fatisfied with competence, the devoted the remainder of her days to folitude and religion.

attention.

Young Albert foon discovered, in the converfation of Bernard's lovely daughter, a well-informed mind, and an understanding which blended the artlefs fimplicity of rural life with the more refined fentiments of cultivated education.

The mental accomplishments of Emma completed the conqueft which her beauty had begun, in the heart of Albert; nor was it long ere a reciprocal and gentle flame was communicated to her bofom. The young and ardent lover, in the She conceived for the young Em-first flattering moment of afpiring ma, then juff fifteeen, a ftrong at-hope, declared his paffion, and oftachment, and easily obtained Ber- fered at her feet his honourable nard's permiffion for his daughter's vows :-fhe bhifhed modeftly, and frequent vifits. The good woman referred her affent to her father's delighted in cultivating a mind will. The heart of Bernard, at whole capacity and genius promifed this unexpected proposal, felt all a every fuccefs: Emma read aloud, father's rapture: but the ftrict recti-, for hours uninterruptedly, to her tude of his fentiments checked the ki patronefs, and read with an momentary joy; and with that hoattention, that impreffed upon her net fincerity which marked his chamemory every thing worthy to be racter, he declined to aequa'an alretained; and the fubjects were liance, and reprefented to his young VOL. XXVII. C

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mined to ufe every argument, which could banish the flatterer hope from her bofom.

friend the impropriety of his forming any union unfanctioned by his family. "Accept our gratitude," faid Bernard, "for the honour which Bernard returned not to his cotyou intend us; were you leis di- tage till Albert had quitted the vilftinguifhed by rank and fortune, I lage; when he entered, Emma adfhould be proud to call you fon: vanced to meet him, her eyes furEmma's only dower is virtue, and charged with tears; fhe prefented her birth is too humble for her to him with a letter, which Albert, rebecome your wife. Never fhall tiring to write for a few moments falfe vanity or fordid intereft be- before he mounted his horfe, had tray me to an action at which my ordered his fervant to leave as he confcience would revolt. I will paffed the door. It breathed the ftill be worthy your esteem; and the language of eternal love, and affurchild whom you have honoured with ed her, that, as he quitted her only your love fhall merit, at leaft by to accelerate their union, fhe might her conduct, the rank to which you foon expect his return to claim her would generously raise her. But promifed hand. Bernard, folding you must meet no more: this is the up the letter when he had read it, ftern decree of unfullied virtue and and putting it in his pocket, thus irreproachable honour. Return to addreffed his trembling daughter, your native country with every who waited filently her fate: "Bewifh that grateful friendfhip can ware, my child, how you fuffer your bestow." Albert had liftened in heart to betray your happiness; truft filent admiration to the words of not to the proteftations of a lover: Emma's venerable father ;-when an inconfiderate vow is more freBernard ceafed to fpeak, he thus quently broken than kept.-You replied: "Could I offer a diadem may be the present object of Albert's to your incomparable daughter, the affections: but man, by nature inwould, by accepting it, confer, and conftant, can easily transfer his not receive the honour. I would heart to fucceffive objects. The not have prefumed to folicit her world will, probably, foon efface affections or her hand, could I have you from his remembrance; or admitted a doubt of my father's fhould he even ftill retain his faith approbation of a choice directed by unfhaken, can you flatter yourself reafon and fanctioned by virtue. I that his family will admit into their will renew no more my humble fociety an humble villager, whose fuit till authori by him to demand lowly birth they would proudly the hand of Emma. Farewell! my deem unworthy their alliance?return hither shall be as rapid as the Never fhall my Emma's hand be inpatience of love and hope can united to a husband unfanctioned by render it." Thus feparated the the authority of his parents.-Make, venerable Bernard and the youthful therefore, every effort, my beloved Albert; nor could all the moving child, to conquer a prepoffeffion, rhetoric of the latter prevail upon fatal in its tendency, and hopeless in the father of Emma to permit a its effects. You have never yet departing fcene between the lovers.ceived me: and I have that confiHe wifely thought the impaffioned dence in your difcretion, which alieu of Albert might leave an perfuades me you will not deviate impreffion too tender on the heart of from the path of rectitude, nor by Emma, and which, as he forefaw, a clandeftine conduct act unworthy would endanger her peace of mind, of your own fpotlefs character." if indulged; he therefore deter-Emma funk at the feet of her

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venerable fire, and embracing his knees, "Never, never," exclaimed fhe, while tears rolled down her pale cheeks, "fali your child wander from the path of honour!-You fhail guide and direct all her actions: your counfels fhall fortify the weakness of her heart, and affift her to fubdue every fentiment disapproved by you; and if the cannot immediately forget the confpicuous virtues of her loft Albert, at least the will humble her ambitious hopes, which had the prefumption to foar above her obfcure birth, and afpire to an alliance to which he had no pretenfions, but what the delufive voice of love and Albert awakened in her bofom." Bernard folded her in his arms with all a father's fond delight, and applauded the fentiments which flowed from a heart capable of facri ficing every inclination to that duty which the owed him. Emma poffeffed a strength of mind fuperior to her ears; and though he tried in vain to forget an object fo tenderly beloved, the fo far reafoned herfelf into a perfuafion that the friends of Albert would never confent to their marriage without which he was refolutely determined never to accept his hand), that she renounced every idea of being united to him, and banished the feducing hope of beholding hir, again.

complained of a dizziness in his head, for which he politely requested a glass of water. Emma arofe, and tripping into the houfe, quickly returned with a cryftal draught, which the prefented to him with a native grace that accompanied all her motions. He had, during her fhort abfence, informed himself that fhe was the daughter of Bernard, who ferved him as under-bailiff. He accepted the cup from her hand, and while he fwallowed the contents, he drank at the fame time, from her bewitching eyes, a draught which spread an irresistible poifon through his veins. he baron was indebted to nature for a fine per on, and to art, for that impofing ele gance of addrefs, which feldom failed to infinuate his wishes with fuccefs, when the dominion of a tender paffion tempted him to glofs over his haughty demeanor with diffembled condefcenfion. Juft as he was returning the cup to the lovely Emma who ftood to receive it, with her looks bent upon the ground, to avoid the fixed gaze of his penetrating eyes, Bernard fuddenly appeared, and afforded his daughter an opportunity to retire into the cottage.

The good old bailiff accofted his lord with a refpect, which, while it acknowledged his fuperiority as a mafter, was unmixed with that kind' Whilft En.ma was thus merito- of fervile humility, which demeans riously fubmitting to the rigid laws the dignity of man. He ad never of filial duty, fate was haftening to before attracted the notice of the involve her in a fnare more dan- baron, who, forgetting the dift.nce gerous than that which he had fo which birth and fortune had placed nobly overcome. As he was fpin- between them, recollected only that ning, one fultry day, in a bower of he was the father of Emma, and honey-fuckles, near the gate of might perhaps aflift him in the their little cottage, accompanied by views which he had formed to cor-, one of her young female neighbours, rupt her virtue. Accofting him the baron de orenzi paffed by on therefore with kind familiarity, he horfeback, and caffing his eyes on requested that he might take a furthe fair Emma, was fo ftruck with vey of his little dwelling, which he her beauty, that he fuddenly stop-fhould be welcome to exchange for ped, and difmounting, approached one more convenient and comfort. the w.cket. Taking off his hat, he able. My lord," replied BerC 2

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nard, "in this humble dwelling, my, infant eyes first opened; and here I would wish to close their aged lids." "But," interrupted the baron, "you begin to bow under the weight of years, and ftand in need of reft and indulgence; I fhall feel a true fatisfaction in rendering your latter days happy."-" Permit me to affure you," faid Bernard, "that a life of honeft industry and uncorrupted innocence has already in fured to me that happiness in its closing scene, which an irreproachable confcience only can beftow, but which riches can never give." "You have a daughter, however," interrupted the baron, fmiling, too young to have adopted your ftoical ideas." "I have a daughter," retorted Bernard, "who inherits her mother's virtue, and has been taught by precept and example thofe fentiments, which have rendered her too contented in her fituation, to harbour an ambitious with in her bofom." The baron reddened at these words; but com. manding, for his own fecret purposes, the rifing indignation of his mind, he condefcendingly bid the venerable Bernard adieu,-faying that he till hoped, mature reflection would induce him to accept the favours which he was anxious to confer up. on a man, whofe refpectable charafter, and long life of unfullied virtue, claimed a fingular reward.

So faying, he mounted his horfe, and returned to the caftle, revolving in his mind every practicable fchente for the feduction of the devoted Emma. He reflected that he never had beheld a female half fo lovely; and as he on no occasion had accustomed himself to combat his inclinations, or fubdue his paf-. fions, he refolved to lofe no time in accomplishing his defign. The humble fituation of Emma gave him, in his opinion, an uncontrouled right to her fubmiffion; but he was folicuous, if poffible, to gain an af;

cendancy over her heart, by awakening, with her gratitude, tenderer fentiments. For this purpofe he determined to wear the mask of hypocrify a little longer, and then to attempt, by every art of foft deception, to fecure her affections in his favour. A week elapfed after the baron's vifit at the cottage, without any renewal of his great offers ;-a circumftance that contributed to difpel thofe fears which had been awakened in the bofom of Bernard, by the interview of the baron with Emma, and his generous profeffions of friendship to himfelf,-profeffions fo oppofite to the natural ferocity of his temper. Bernard confidered thein no longer in any light, but in that of a temporary inclination towards humanity and kindnefs, which could have no root in a foil fo barren. He purfued therefore, without further fufpicion, his ufual labours,-taking however the precaution never to leave his daughter without a companion, in his abfence.

One morning, when he had quitted the cottage about an hour, a hafty messenger from the caftle terrified Emma with an account thather father was taken with a fudden indifpofition as he paffed the gates; and having been fupported into the houfe by fome of the domeftics who obferved him finking on the ground, the housekeeper had thought it proper to fend for his daughter, who, by being accuftomed perhaps to thefe feizures, knew beft how to treat them. The trembling Emma, alarmed to the utmost degree at a diforder which had never yet attacked her beloved father, delayed not a moment to follow her conductor; and taking the arm of her friend Agnes, who had been liftening to her as he was reading aloud, proceeded with tottering fteps to the castle, diftant from her humble cottage about a mile.-When he arrived in the

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