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forts of his daughter, she escapes, and again reaches Montanville in safety,

St. Marco, a noble Venetian, first under the

THE CARTHUSIAN FRIAR; OR, MYSTE- disguise of a painter, loved Emilie, while only

RIES OF MONTANVILLE.

the humble Agnes; after both of these lovers going through many difficulties, they are at the end of the work united, when the Count de Montanville is freed from his confinement; which event is brought about by the confessions of an old servant at the point of death; and who has been a more atrocious and hypocritical character than even the Carthusian Friar, who, struck with remorse and horror at his former life, retires to the rigid monastery of La Trappe.

A ROMANCE, IN 4 VOLS.-Sherwood & Chapple. THE title-page of this interesting and mysterious work, informs us it is a posthumous romance; it is evidently an imitation, though an humble one of the late Mrs. Radcliffe's style. We be lieve it had a posthumous publisher; and it is a pity that either authors or publishers should descend to such artifice to beguile the public. We are inclined to think, however, th t was more the act of the latter than the former; nor do we hesitate in pronouncing this work to be the pro-and we can speak so far well of it, that the inciduction of Mrs. Green, who need not be ashamed of it.

Upon the whole, setting aside the improbability which too often reigns in all works of this kind, we found this interesting and amusing;

dents are so well and mysteriously conducted, that no one, we believe, will ever commence this romance without wishing to peruse it to the end: and we must remark, that we think it a great pity, that when a writer does pen a work of interest,

a cloud, because that name, from want perhaps of patronage, or from the narrowness of prejudice, may not be so famed, as one more lucky, yet, perhaps, of less merit. We are authorized, however, for our suppositions of the real author. As a specimen of the style and language, we subjoin the following extracts :

The entrance of Agnes during the storm, as Madame de Coucy opens the door of her saloon, is thus described,

The heroine is ushered into the castle of Montanville by the Carthusian, one stormy night, into the presence of Madame de Coucy, with whom, before he took the vows, he was desperate-the real name of the author should be cast behind ly in love, and who proves to be the mother of Agnes the supposed orphan, who resides with father Francis, the Carthusian. In the castle of Montanville, this atrocious friar and unnatural brother, makes the Count of Montanville suffer every cruelty which jealous rage can inflict; this unhappy brother, the husband of Madame de Coucy and father of Emilie, called by the Carthusian Agnes, is chained first in a dungeon belonging to his own castle, and afterwards in his own apartments, which, according to the superstition of early ages, are left sacred to the dead and unoccupied. Madame de Coucy imagines that her husband and child have perished in a storm twelve years before, and which tempest put the father and daughter in the power of the Carthusian, as their vessel was wrecked near his dwelling on the banks of the Garonne. From these apartments are heard strange noises: and Agnes, who has been adopted by her own mother, has two interviews, by accident, with her father, whom she supposes to be some wretched maniac; and her lips are for ever sealed from daring to ask any question, or mention "aught she may see of mysterious," by an extorted and sacramental vow, taken in presence of her first protector; and her father also, to preserve the life of his child, takes the same solemn oath of silence.

"Two interesting figures met her eye. The one was a fair and sylph-like form, with a countenance of angelic expression; her azure eyes were lifted up with a kind of imploring request, towards Madame de Coucy, and then turned to her companion, with a timid anxiety, and a seeming wish for him to speak. She appeared to be about the age of seventeen; her fine hair waved over her shoulders, and on her uncovered head hung the dews of night; her habit was of coarse grey serge, and from her waist hung a large rosary and cross. She was accompanied by a friar of the Carthusian order, whose height of stature was remarkable, as was the meagre appearance of his form; his cowl was drawn over his face, but lifting it partially on one side, he addressed Madame de Coucy, saying, • Will you, Madame, permit this, my daughter in Christ, to sleep this night under the roof of your castle ?"

Agnes, in company with her mother, visits Rome and Venice, aud is seized on, when at the latter place, by an old nobleman, who was also a lover of the once beautiful Madame de Coucy; undergoes a mock trial for having taken a false title, wherewith her mother, her supposed bene-lady is about to bestow on her. factress only, has invested her, and Madame de Coucy is imprisoned in the state prison of Venice: Agnes is again delivered into the power of the Baron St. Alban, but is rescued from him by the supposed father of her female friend, an elegant and handsome libertine, from whom, by the ef

Agnes, little thinking she is the daughter of Madame de Coucy, objects, with a kind of sad presentiment, against the suppositious title that

"Ah, dear Madame," said Agnes, "call me, I beseech you, nought but your own Agnes; such an endearing appellation from your lips, will be far more estimable to me than any one I could assume, and to which I have no right:-it never indeed occurred to me, amongst all the

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questions with which I have often teized my holy benefactor, to ask if 1 bad any other name than Agnes; my presuming on any title might much displease the Carthusian; and when, hereafter it is discovered, that I bear from my parents a contrary name to what you may be pleased to conier on me, I then shall pass through life with the appellation of a deceiver.

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"Madame de Concy siniled at the energetic manner of Agnes. Were I allowed,' said she, to act immediately according to my wishes, and the foud impulse of my heart, I would make you the child of my adoption and choice, and youings of the Venus de Medicis and Apollo Belvishould then take the name of De Coucy. 1 may, however, by playing on a word, which I mean shall compose your name, laugh at the discovery, if it should be inade. Allow me then to style you the orphan daughter of a deceased friend, and give to you the name of Montresor. Who can call you to account for that?-Tu seras toujours Mon-tresor.-Thou shalt ever be my treasure."

The following extract, when Agnes is in the power of the Baron St. Alban, is much in the style of Mrs Radcliffe, but yet this posthumous romance will never pass off for hers :

"The thick trees of the forest, agitated by the rising breeze of morning, bowed their leafy honours, in dark and solemn looking verdure; and seemed as if bending their branches to the memory of knights and heroes long departed, and who had heretofore been the tenants of this ancient abode when the lofty dome, brilliantly illuminated, shook only with the dancers' heel, and the plenteous storehouses teemed with hospitality. Now, not only an empty void, but an awful silence hung over the face of all things."

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The following reflections of Emilie, heretofore called Agnes, at her uncle's determination to bury himself in La Trappe, are well worded:--"When my hours glide along in gaiety, and in the enjoyment of every earthly good, my poor uncle, who, with paternal care, watched over my infant years with tender kindness, improved my intellects, and formed my principles to every thing that was good and pious; he, while I am clothed in the finest linen, wears only the torturing hair shirt,-passes his waking nights on his finty couch, and when morning arises, and I taste the sweets of all bounteous nature, he digs a portion of that grave which is destined to hold his wretched remains; and while I sing the songs of joy in the bearing of my delighted parents,he is only allowed to repeat, as he meets another victim of monastic vows, Brother, we must die.'"

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MANNERS OF THE FRENCH.

(Continued from our last.)

"I AM now an old man," said Dubuisson one day to me, as we were walking arm in arm

towards the Thuilleries; "and I have passed the nine-tenths of my life in this good city of Paris, to which I am often tempted to give ano. ther epithet. It is a planet, all the phases of which I think 1 have well examined. After having passed an hundred times from mirth to melancholy, from calmness to distraction, from luxury to misery, and from war to peace; it now remains for me to observe her, under the whimsical aspect she presents at this moment, and which fifty years of observation could never have given me an idea of.

"I leave to history the care of discussing what France may have lost in political consideration, by the actual usurpation to which she lately submitted: all that I certainly know, in examining the cause of our disasters, and calculating the number of our enemies, and in reflecting on their surprising us in that strange situation is, that we ought to place our hopes in defeat, and our fears in victory. All that I certainly know, I repeat: in combining every circumstance, is, that the taking of Paris itself has not tarnished our military glory; but we yet bold the rank of one of the first nations in Europe; we have given proofs of this for some time and if others are wanting, I know an army who will not be troubled to give them.

"But what afflicts me more than the giving up a few portions of our territory, so generously compensated by the restoration to the throne, and the return of the most beloved of monarchs, is the change in the national character; for we need not be afraid to call things by their right

names.

"There is from 50 to 56 degrees of latitude between us and a people against whom I had many ancient prejudices, but who, in many respects, I esteem; each of these opposite sentiments, with which they inspire me, is one common effect of that excess of patriotism which is peculiar in them from the rest of the world. Amongst that nation the greatest egotist is yet a citizen; the most modest man is possessed of national pride; if the fortune of war had conducted us into that! country, (which may yet happen,) and if our politics now agree with humanity, and make a law to sweeten conquest by rendering it more honourable and more easy, we shall gain the esteem of the vanquished, and perhaps even oblige them to be grateful. But the French General, whatever may have been his talents, whatever generous conduct he may have shewn in this war, has not been received by the vanquished with acclamations of joy, has not been the object of enthusiastic gratitude; and, (added he, pointing to a woman and two men of a certain age, who passed near us,) they would not even imitate our absurd and grotesque fashions.”

It is difficult for my friend Dubuisson to stop when he is once got into this snarling strain, which, when it attacks his countrymen, is gene. rally the more severe, though his love for them is well known. "You do not penetrate suffi,

ciently," said I, "into the difficult position in which we have been thrown, nor make those excuses which legitimatize, as I may say, in some degree, those inconsistencies to which you have given too harsh a name. It is not to conquerors but to deliverers, that these acclamations are addressed: this deference and homage comes from the heart, and the expression of them could not be more limited. A frank cordiality, a sincere welcome, testimonies of gratitude, were sufficient to be shown towards the allies, it was acquitting ourselves of a debt of honour. But they restored to us the Bourbons; and with them peace, honour, and freedom. For such benefits is it blame able if we are energetic in our gratitude?

"And because it pleases two or three ladies, who have no other way of becoming the public talk, to make themselves frightful by adopting the little cropped heads, and the ridiculous dresses of the English, you must then attack the whole nation. You declare there is no more public spirit in France because a dozen ci-devant young men wear green kerseymere gaiters, hats like tradesmen, with the feathers bent down, with long coats of the most frightful make. Í catched you, just now, making an ugly face at a young woman, and pretty enough too, because she thought it was an elegant finish to a promenade dress, to have a bunch of cock's feathers rather than artificial flowers. This caprice of fashion is found in all countries from times immemorable, and is nothing at all against our

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"I am not of your opinion: there requires no greater proof of the character of a nation than twenty such fools to condemn it. But, suppose I might be willing to look over the follies of a few women, and old male sippers of coffee, what ideas would you wish our amiable visitors from the shores of the Vistula and the Volga, to form of the French Of the Parisians in particular, when they saw them assist at the taking possession of their city, as if it was a fine sight; applauding the fine discipline of an enemy's army! as if they had only come there to be reviewed, and laughing, as they held their sides, at the Cossacks, who were loaded with the plunder they had taken from their farms and country houses!"

"I already coincided in your opinion, my good friend, that the Parisians should certainly have shewn more dignified moderation in their joy, and more steadiness in their behaviour; but, reflect that the presence of these strangers put an end to the most intolerable tyranny; that they were a pledge of that restoration which commenced a new era of happiness for our country; and do not be so obstinate in seeing only a proof of degeneracy in the national character, by some existing circumstances, which are, by no means, marks of their instability."

"As for the allies, concerning the opinion of whom you seem so uneasy, I do not see what they have found, during their stay, to cause us to lose their esteem; they know the bravery of our

troops; they are now acquainted with the state
of our arts, the polish of our manners, and the
high degree of civilization we are arrived at."
"They can judge but little of the state of our
arts, by our spectacles and our caricatures; nor
of our literature by the quantity of pamphlets
which have been distributed this month past at
the gates of the Thuilleries and the Palais Royale ;||
of the polish of our manners by the coffee-house
scenes they have witnessed. These people will
take home with them a curious idea of the French
nation."

"It is most probable, and more natural to believe that they will appreciate it on less local causes. They will do justice to the splendour of our monuments, the magnificence of our museums, the extensive richness of our libraries, the brilliancy of our theatres, the perfection of our manufactures, the urbanity of our manners; and they will conclude, as they give us our due, that it is better to have us for allies than for enemies."

the conquered, but his misfortunes, his birth, the love of his people, and the power of his will! Discussing amidst three hundred thousand foreign bayonets, the interests of his subjects, and obtaining, on the threshold of his palace, those conditions of peace which a moderate conqueror would have been content to have made on the field of battle. Would you desire any embellishment to such a picture? Figure to yourself this same King, two months after his return, in the midst of the representatives of his people, to whom he brings the double benefit of a treaty of peace, that twenty-five years of victories and woe could never bring about, and a free constitution, so long looked for in vain, as the inseparable interest of the King and people. Such are, my good friend, the events of this epoch.

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"After this, laugh if you like, at the scenes of the day declaim against the frivolity of our national character, against our querulous temper which has degenerated into an habit, and which will shew itself in the most peaceable times, as the waves succeed each other after a storm; but do not fear that the visit we have received from an armed deputation, nor all the people of Europe can corrupt or change our real character: our manuers will never alter; our soldiers will

"In effect, why should they not be satisfied with us, when we have such a desire to shew ourselves pleased with them? Have not I seen our ladies walking with delight in the midst of the agreeable night guards of the Champs d'Elysees, in order to enjoy the pleasure of seeing the punish-be as brave as ever, and more so for having been ment of the knout given to the Cossacks, and the schlag to the Germans! And are not those little temporary fairs delightful amusements, where the honest citizens of the Don and the Ukraine, come to sell to our gaping cocknies, all the pillage and the cattle which they have carried off from Pantin, and Montmartre ? Have not you been, much diverted with those little recreative scenes which are represented every day on the Boulevards; and in which we behold our poor villagers disputing with a Jaik or a Baskir the price of a cow, the only possession they had left them? Do not you think it is delightful to see our elegant coffee-houses transformed into smoking rooms; and for us to breathe only in the public walks the delightful odour of a tobaccopipe?"

brought acquainted with their former adversaries. Our youth will no longer go to learn politeness from the Bulgarians, and our ladies are resolved no longer to seek for fashion from the shores of the Thames. I have even the individual satisfaction to assure you, that my wife is not a bit more of a coquette, nor has imbibed one grain of additional pride, since she heard a Tartar officer declare, that he took the trouble of coming on horseback, to the environs of the great wall, to be present at the taking of a city, the name of which he had never heard before."

A FREE SPEAKER.

ACCOUNT OF THE FUNERAL OF
JUNIUS BRUTUS.

THE body of Brutus was borne on a triumphal chariot, covered with black tapestry, embroidered with gold; it was surrounded with the richest spoils of the enemy, and magnificent bucklers, while, according to the barbarity of the times, the prisoners he had taken in war were chained to the funeral car.

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"Do not, like our pretended wits, my dear Dubuisson, abuse the satirical talent you are endowed with. There are misfortunes inseparable from war, and inconveniences which follow in its train. You forget that the generous commanders have repaired the mischiefs committed by the soldiery. The most severe discipline has rendered us secure from their disorders, and the evils of which you complain existed only for a few days: the remembrance of them is entirely The way was strewed with flowers, the streets done away; but what ought to be stamped for hung with tapestry, and all the ladies of the city, ever on our memory, what ought to fill the most richly dressed, were posted at the most convenient brilliant page of history, is that sublime picture and most conspicuous parts to see the procession. of which you only chuse to see the darkest shades; The body was placed under a mourning canopy, a Prince entering, after twenty-three years of exactly before the temple of Jupiter; and Vaexile, his own capital, invaded by formidablelerius, encompassed round by the senate, made armies, having nothing to oppose' against the the following oration, while the most awful and pretensions of the conquerors, and even against death-like silence prevailed :

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Boots have been equally made the subject of the pen; and in a learned work, from which we continually read copious extracts in periodical publications, they descant in a learned manner, on the legs and the heels, on the mid-legs, and on the spurs; the double seams, and the raised heel, the soles, the tassels, and the blacking, &c. &c.

"Romans, it were unjust in me to claim alone Sometimes round at the toes, sometimes square, the honour of a victory, won by the illustrious sometimes turned up, short, flat, or high-heeled, dead. To Brutus then be ascrit ed the glory, both those of the men and of the women; shoes and let me remind you of all he has done for of all dimensions, of every colour, of morocco, of you, that it may inspire you with gratitude, as kid, of goat's leather, of bull's leather, of silk, of it sinks into your minds and memories, while you || nankeen; laced shoes, furred shoes, Chinese bewail the loss of your glorious deliverer. I shoes, and shoes of a thousand different kinds. speak not of his illustrious birth, I celebrate not the virtues of his ancestors; but I beseech you, Romans, forget not how Brutus devoted his whole life to work out your safety, and remember that all his courage was exerted for your liberty, and that he despised the advantages of fortune or the safety of his own life, to the satisfaction of render- || ing you happy, to revenge the virtuous Lucretia, to punish the infamous Sextus, and to knock off But slippers have not as yet, that we can find, those ignominions fetters of slavery that we have been the subject of any pen. However, we think groaned under for so long a time. He, Romans, they have a claim to celebrity. How ungrateful broke those fetters, and Brutus claims from you are authors! What, is there not one among them the same respect and reverence which were due that, feeling frequently the comfort of a pair of to the first founder of Rome. Not only has he slippers, when he comes home from a long fruitdriven the usurper Tarquin from the throne, but since the abolition of tyranny he has endeavour-pleasure and ease he experienced, as in these less walk, who will be found to celebrate the

ed to establish the bond of union between you.

Think of his valour in the enemy's camp,and his signal skill and courage at the head of our forces. Rome, itself, owes to him all her present greatness, and her future fame. That voice, which has declared us conquerors, is the presage of the favour of the Gods towards Brutus. Bewail, ther, Romans, our illustrious deliverer: but bewail not Brutus as a common man. Tears are fruitless, when indignation prompts revenge: the race of the Tarquins must be exterminated, or slavery will be your lot; die rather a thousand times, if possible, sooner than submit to a tyrannic yoke. It is by emulating Brutus, we must shew our so row for his loss; let us then regard his funeral as a triumph: glorious example for us to imitate, is the man like unto Brutus, who, free from all vice, had prudence equal to his understanding; eminent for coura e as for moderation, for mildness as for constancy; he was possessed of more virtue than all the Romans put together, and felt a thousand times more love for his country than for himself."

A public statue was erected at the expence of the people to this illustrious man, and the whole city wore mourning for him for a year. The ladies of the most exalted rank mourned for Brutus as it had been for the loss of a beloved parent; him who had so nobly defended the honour of their sex, in the vengeance he had taken on the race of Tarquin for the dishonour of the chaste Lucretia.

SLIPPERS.

WE read in the Encyclopedia, a long article on the origin of shoes; their primitive form, and their gradual improvement to the present time.

neglected slippers he recommenced his pages!

The solicitor, dressed as soon as it is day, with a sword by his side, his hat under his arm, and his foot tightened up in a dress shoe, what ease does he experience, when he comes home at night and puts on his slippers, after he has divested himself of his troublesome full-dress!

Dervilly, is a merchant who deals in several elegant and new inventions, and has a surprising run of custom. He is famous for selling at a fair computation a quantity of veils and shawls to the numerous beauties of this capital. People come to lay out their money with him, from every quarter, and often at about twelve o'clock, are to be seen as many as thirty carriages at his door. He never quits his magazines, for he has other, serving every body, and asserting the most several upstairs, but he runs from one to the positive things; he hands the ladies out of their carriages, he gives them his hand to lead them up stairs, he is a merchant of the most amiable manners. He is always clean shaved, his cravat put on with taste, and wears fine stockings-with slippers.

Valcourt is one of the most fortunate of husbands; his wife is the best of wives, the least curious, and the most sedentary. Let Valcourt go where he will, he is sure that his better half will remain at home, and that whether he enters late or early, he may always reckon on finding her in slippers.

Alas! my trade keeps me on foot day and night in the morning I am often seen at the Hotel of Invalids, and by the twilight at the barrier of the throne. This begins to weary me Ah! when will come the hour of repose, when may I give myself up to the charms of indolence? When shall I be allowed to pass the morning in my chamber, free from care and uneasiness, with

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