Suite d'Hiftoire d'Epaminondas,

and a furgeon fent for, who pronounced both our wounds mortal, but mine not fo immediately dangerous as Sir Charles's, whofe life, he thought, could not be prolonged above an hour. On hearing this he defired to be left with me, and addreffed me this

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when at liberty, be blind to it) were two worthy and amiable perfons made unhappy, from a delicacy to the opinion of the world. This thought determined me on the flep I have taken, uncommon as it may appearIf then you, my lord, fhould be fortu "Can you forgive me, Scudamore? nate enough to obtain my Fanny's efam a guilty wretch, and have ruined teem, I make it my lateft request that myself and you too! Your wife is in- Sir Edward Courtenay will fee you u nocent--She is all that ever was fair nited in a decent time after my demife and good in woman-I adored her- this ftep will convince the world that I dared to tell her fo, and the treated me ever was fenfible of your innocence, with the contempt I merited. From and my own guilt; and to prove it that inftant I fwore revenge. I acci- ftill further, I have appointed you, my dentally overheard a converfation at lord, with Sir Edward Courtenay, exBellerne, between Lord Belvidere and ccutors to my laft will, which is in Mr. Nugent, by which I found the Mr. de Sancerre's poffeffion. 1 have former loved Mrs. Scudamore, but now made my confeffion-I repent with so pure a paffion, that he not on-heartily of my fins, and hope my re ly condemned himfelf for feelings hepentance will procure me pardon." could not help, but determined cau- Mr. Scudamore ceafed fpeaking, and tiously to conceal it from all the world. I, overcome with a variety of fenfaThis gave me a hint I have too fatally tions, remained motionless, while Lord improved. I have intelligence, that Melville, approaching, took his hand, fince your departure, your wife has and in a voice fcarcely articulate, fo led the life of a reclufe with her fa- much was he moved, " My noble ther, and Lord Belvidere, now Earl friend," faid he, "I would even foreMelville, has obtained a divorce from go the first wish of my foul to fee you his wife, after detecting her in an in- reftofed again to this lovely, beft of trigue with an Irifliman: but your women: but if it is the will of heaven Fanny has feen no one of the family. to take you to itself, my study shall be You had heard from her of my vil-to endeavour to comfort her for the lainy; but the feared to endanger your heavy lofs." life. She is virtue itfelf, while that unworthy girl, for whom we both die, was as oppofite as heaven from hell. But my time is come--Say you forgive me, and may heaven accept my late, but hearty repentance."- I fealed his pardon, and in a few minutes, he expired in agonies.

My only thoughts were how, as far as I could, to make amends to you, my injured Fanny, and you, my lord, for the wrongs I have done you. I confidered that my death would, in a 'fhort time, leave your at liberty to own your love for my wife; but I confidered too, that the fufpicions I had fhewn would for ever prevent her lif tening to your addreffes. Here then (fuppofing my Fanny fenfible to your merit, and I have fo good an opinion of keṛ, as to believe she could not,

I was quite overpowered-They affifted me to a chair, and after a little while my lord took his leave, faying he would foon call again, and left us all to the repofe which we wanted after this very moving scene. I will continue my narrative to-morrow.

F. SCUDAMORE. (To be continued).

forces, qu' Agefilas en la réduifant ainfi à une foibleffe extrême, comptoit se réserver un empire abfolu fur les villes de la Laconie ; elle auroient dû rentrer dans la leur liberté originaire par la même raison fi l'intention d'Agefilas eût été de rétablir l'egalité entre les peuples de la Gréce.

Epaminondas ayant pénétré fon deffein, lui demanda, s'il ne croyoit pas auffi jutte & auffi raisonnable, de remettre les villes de la Laconie dans l'indépendance qu'il propofoit pour celles de la Béotie.

Agefilas n'étoit раз accoûtumé aux contradictions. La hardicffe d'Epaminondas l'ayant jetté dans une efpéce de fureur, il fe leve, & lui demande, une feconde fois, d'un ton de maître irrité, s'il ne confentoit pas à laiffer la Béotie libre. Epaminondas, avec l'affurance d'an philofophe, qui rien ne déconcerte, lui demanda confervant toûjours le même fang froid, s'il ne confentoit pas de fon côté à faire la même chofe pour la Laconie. La fierté d'Agefilas ne peut foutenir une réplique, qui lui paroiffoit fi offençente; il ne s'en confola que parce qu'elle fournit â fon animofité contre les Thébains, un prétexte d'eclater avec un espéce de fondement.

ce qui avoit été arrété le venaille qu'au refte il ne les contraignoit point, & que s'ils vouloient fuivre les Thébains dans leur révolte il feroit effacer leurs noms de traité.

Ainfi Thèbes que ne foûhaitoit que la liberté en fut déclarée ennemie, & fut menacée de toutes les forces de la Gréce. Epaminondas touché jusqu'au fond du cœur des malheurs qui alloient tomber fur fa patrie, fentit que ce n'étoit pas à fa douleur à lui prouver fon zéle & fa tendreffe. Il fe rendit en diligence auprès de Pelopidas. Ces deux grands hommes ne doutoient point que la juftice de leur caufe ne mit le ciel dans leur parti, & que leurs voifins né s'oppofaffent à une oppreffion fi tyrannique, mais la foi du traité qu'ils venoient de figner & la crainte de l'inimitiée d'Agefilas, furent plus fortes que la compaffion qu'infpiriont des malheurs injuftement perfécutés.

Les Athéniens rapelierent les troupes qu'ils avoient envoyées à leur fecours, & vuiderent toutes les places qu'ils avoient prifés pendant la guerre. Thebes feule contre toutes les forces de Lacédémone, fans efpérance de fecours, abandonnée à fa foibleffe, n'attendoit plus le jeur terrible de fa ruine où de la fervitude. C'étoit fon deftin d'être menacée des malheurs les plus inévita Ibles & d'en fortir avec gloire par la prudence & la valeur de fes chefs.Cleombrote, le collégue d'Agefilas à la royauté, étoit alors dans la Phocide avec une armée de dix mille hommes de pied, & de mille chevaux.

Le traité que devoit renouveller l'alliance des Grecs étoit préparé. en raya fur le champ avec une joye & une fureur égale le nom des Thébains. Il les mit au nombres des ennemis de la Gréce, & il leur déclara la guerre au nom de toute la nation.

Ce fut par cette injuftice qu'il termina l'affemblée. Il congédia les dépatés, les exhorta à figner le traité avant leur depart, & à terminer à l'a

(To be continued.)

miable leur différends, il leur fit enter A DESCRIPTION of OCTOBER. dre en finiffant, que fi les confeils n'étoient pas affez forts pour obtenir l'obeiflance, les armes feroient peut-être plus heureufes.

Les députés de la plupart des villes fe préfenterent en foule le lendemain. Ceux de la Béotie demanderent qu'on en regifrat qu'ils s'étoit préfentés pour les Thébains, qui fouhaitoient être compris dans le traité. Agefilas leur fit réponse qu'il ne changeroit rien à

HE fultry heats of fummer now

begin to decline, and the fun is hattening again toward the fouthern climes. The days fhorten, vegetation is ftinted, the autumnal fruits are gathered in, and gloomy winter has al ready given us earneft of his approach. Favonius bears no longer the balmy, the odoriferous fweets on its wings: Boreas fuccced, the foftening gale, and

are already muftering up their rage,
and will quickly leave them bare and
expofed to the ravages of relentless
winter. Hark! how the tempeft roars
from the north, the forelts bead with
its potent breath, the lofty elms ftoop,
the clouds are driven in fquadrons
through the darkened fky, the winged
inhabitants are driven back in their
impetuous flight, and in vain ellay to
fkim the boisterous air: and now

-What remain'd
Of ttronger fruits fall from the naked tree;
And woods, fields gardens, all around
The defolated profpect trills the foul.

drives deftruction before him. The trees are ftript of their verdant honours, are trained to their very roots, and howl before the rising blast. The mufic of the woods is over: the tuneful fongsters fwell no more their little throats, nor enliven the fields with their artlefs melody. Difconfolate and fad they hop from fpray to foray, or fit filent in the deepest receffes of the taway copfe ruminating on the dreary feafon, and the unpleafing tranfition of nature. Farewell, ye little choirifters of air! No longer will you entertain us!-No more, this feafon, fhall we traverfe the flowery meads, and liften to your foothing fongs. The gentle evening, and the rofy dawn, the lonely wood, and fequestered grove, expect in vain nightingale, the black-cap, the red, to hear your artlefs lays. Adieu then tart, willow-wren, and ftone chat are for a while!-Adieu, ye winged peofeen no longer; their fweet warblings ple!-May you live fafe in are heard no more in the retired vale, creted, rural habitations, during the ri-dow. The fwallow tribes have alfo left the fhady wood, and the lonely meas gorous feverity of winter!-May you alfo live in plenty, and fuffer no hardships from inclement fkies, till the genial warmth re-animate your little powers, and call you forth to welcome the return of the lovely spring.

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But fee the fading many-coloured woods,
Shade deep'ning over fhade, the country round
Imbrown; a crowded umbrage dufk and dun,
Of every hus, from wan declining green
To footy dark. Thefe now the louetome mufe
Low whispering, lead me to their leaf-frown
walks,

And give the feafon in its lateft wine.

THOMPSON'S AUTUMN.

THOMPSON

Gone are outr fummer vifitants: the

Apprized of the gloomy feason, they us, and are repaired to milder climes. called an affembly, waited a favourable gale, and then unanimously took their long and arduous voyage through the liquid fky. What darkening clouds of them does the mariner fee fweeping over the wide Atlantic Ocean! Some times, through fatigue and weariness, he perceives them alight in myriads on the fhips, and after a tranfient repofe, urging their flight again to the destined. port, where they arrive in due time, and remain in peace and plenty, till clement fkies, and vernal funs, invite them back again.

What a rueful profpect appears around! How is the fair face of nature changed! -Where are all the lovely the treafures of the fields, is again preSee the husbandman, having houfed robes with which he was lately adorned? Where is the gaudy tribe of paring for another crop. Bending, he Fiora? Where the waving treasures of directs the plough, which cuts the tubthe fields? Where that beautiful vi-born glebe, and expofes the internal vid green which appeared over all the particles of the foil to the kindly influence of the fun and air, which renJandicape --Loft! gone!-No more the rich, the checquered feene, gratify ders it fit for the reception of the feed, the fpectator's eye, and fill the heart Now he talks with joy! The trees and hedges, woods and forefts, have loft their lovely green, and begin to put on a different cloath-Into the faithful bofom of the earth ; The harrow follows harfh, and thuts the feene. ing in a little time they will be divetted of this allo. The howling winds THOMPSON'S SPRING, line 45. Hark!

With meafur'd step, and lib'ral throws the grain

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Hark! what reverberating founds are thofe, which fend fuch a tremendous echo through the woods and groves? the very rocks refound! It is the horn, the chearful horn of the huntfman. See they are preparing for the chace they have mounted their teeds, and are going with speed to enjoy the pleasures of the field. Eager for the fport how the horses neigh and prance, the reins can fcarce keep them within bounds, or fubdue their haughty fpirita! The hounds gather round them, join in a general cry, and exprefs their joy by a thousand different founds.

yet pours all his foul in flight. Yonder is the hapless victim in full view; with a hobbling gait how he toils up the hill! His ftrength is exhausted, his agility is fpent! Alas! poor timid creature, all thy arts are vain! The hounds with redoubled notes gain ground of him apace: the fight of their prey whets their ardour, and gives wings to their feet-He is taken I hear his fhrieks and cries. This inftant he falls a victim to his numerous enemies.

See! yonder, the fowler with the murdering gun, attended by his dogs, is also roving the fields in queft of the feathered game. In vain has the art:

See, the gameis fprung, the timorous hare is diflodged from his covert:ful covey taken fhelter in the thickeft Amazed he flies over the fields-fcours and moft fequeftered part of the stubalong the road-shoots down the steep, ble. In vain they endeavour to efftrains up the hill-plunges into the cape the eye of man, and elude, the wood, darts acrofs the glade, and difcovery of the fagacious enemy. The wheels about in doubling mazes, im- cautious dog bounds along, fcents the patient to lofe himself from the eyes plumy nations at a distance, finds out of his purfuers.-The full mouthed their haunts, makes towards their repack, animated by the fight of the treats with timid, careful steps, then game, and cheared with the found of itops on a fudden, and in mute figns the fonorous horn, follow after with gives notice to his mafter of the latent incredible fwiftnefs, trace his feps, prey. The fignal given, up spring prehang with greedy noftrils on the fcent, cipitately, with founding pinions, the recover with indefatigable induftry the affrighted covey. The sportsman levels ground they had loft, gain upon their the deftructive tube; fwifter than prey, and foon drive him from the lightning flies the leaden death, and furzy heath where he lay concealed. brings them down with ruffled plumes and expanded wings, motionlefs on the ground. The pheafant and woodcock, which fhare the fame fate, and driven from their fecret receffes, fall into the hands of man, who inhumanly deprive them of exiftence, to fatisfy his luxurious appetite. Poor creatures! how hard is your fate! You have not only the feverity of winter to encounter, but innumerable enemies are continually thiriting for your blood, and forming deftruction for you in fecret. Nature, who exhaufted her pencil in adorning your plumage, and giving it a moft brilliant and gaudy appearance, has worked in vain.

Again he flies, flies with redoubled fwiftnefs: fweeps along the fields-labours through the grovesthrufts through the hedges-lofes for a moment the fight of his enemies, and takes fhelter again in the moft fequeftered part of fome lonely brake, where, breathlefs and panting, he remains undiscovered for a while, and cludes the utmoft fearch of his purfuers. At length the horrid din thickens on the gale, and thunders in his ears. The fagacious hounds come up, follow the fcent, difcover the poor creature, and drive him once more from his fhort concealment.

Perplexed, and in the utmost distress, alarmed again he leaves his recefs, and wild and fwift as the wind, he flarts, he springs, flies he knows not where,

Eugenio and Clara.

EUGENIO and CLARA.
A TALE.

"Tho' a broad ftream with golden fands,
Thro all his meadows roll,
He's but a wretch with all his lands,
Who wears a narrow foul,"

A

WATTS.

MONG the many weak minds whom the defire of wealth perfuades to wander beyond the paths of rectitude, was a Mr. Belmont; he had riches, he had acres in abundance, but he wanted that true happiness which is never poffeffed by mean and narrow fouls, and relished only by beings of a fuperior order,

His wife was a woman liberally brought up; fhe brought him an ample fortune, but could never fuit her temper to his narrow difpolition. Hence originated a constant scene of matrimonial difcord, which broke her heart. She died three years after marriage, leaving an infant daughter to his care: he was doatingly fond of the little Clara, and, as he grew up, the rewarded his fondnefs.

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and intrepidity of a hero. Seconded by fo valiant an arm, Mr. Belmont foon gained the victory, having wounded one adversary, the other fled. He now made his acknowledgments to his deliverer, begged to know his name, and gave him a warm invitation to his house.

"My name," said the generous ftranger, "is Eugenio, I am lately come to fettle in thefe parts on a small estate left me by a deceafed uncle." On enquiring the name of his uncle, Mr. Belmont found he had been his particular friend; but leaving the country, their intimacy. fubfided. After en gaging Eugenio to breakfaft with him the enfuing morning, they parted.

Clara was waiting with anxiety for the return of her father, fearing fome accident had befallen him, as he never ftayed out at fo late an hour. When he came and related his providential refcue, fhe poured forth her ardent thanks to heaven, and felt fomething of a prefentiment in favour of the amiable tranger, who had, at the hazard of his own, defended the life of a man to him totally unknown. If the was thus prepoffeffed in his favour, before fhe knew him, her prepoffeffions were

His perfon was noble and ftriking, his fentiments juft, too just for poor Clara, fhe entered too readily into

them.

If a perfon on whom nature had lavished her choicest sweets, added to a refined underflanding, and the moft delicate fenfibility, are capable of ma-confirmed at the first interview king an impreffion on the human mind, Clara Belmont was defervedly the favourite of all who knew her. Her fentiments were in every thing the reverfe of her father's; yet the loved and revered him with true filial affection. She faw the avaritious principles he had imbibed, with concern; but being fenfible they would never alter, chofe rather in filent to lament his want of generofity, than by even the look of difcontent irritate the heart of a parent,

As Mr. Belmont was returning home one evening from a friend's houfe, where he had been to receive fome money, he was affaulted by two ruffians, who had undoubtedly been the death of him, but for the providential arm of a gentleman paffing by, who, hearing a noife, came to his aflittance, and defended his caufe with the zeal

The first dawning of a reciprocal paffion might now with eafe have been difcerned. But Belmont was blind till it was too late. Eugenio was a conftant viitor, and when the father was from home, the afternoon was spent more agreeably with the amiable daughter.

One day as Mr. Brimont was rambling in his fhrubbery, he heard the following words too plainly articulated from a fummer houfe at the bottom. "I have no perfonal objection Sir, but I have a father, if"" He fhall be applied to, my adorable Clara, on my knees will I folicit his confent." "Your application will be ufelefs, young man," faid Belmont, difcovering him

felf,