have been able to trace the misguided young man to a ship bound for Holland, and we think it probable he may visit Hamburgh (where our name is so well known, and, we trust, so highly respected), for the purpose of converting these bills into cash. He is a tall, handsome youth, about five feet eleven inches, with dark hair and eyes, speaks French and German well, and was dressed in deep mourning, in consequence of the recent death of his mother. If you should be able to find him, we have to request you will use your utmost endeavours to regain possession of the bills named in the margin; but, as we have a high respect for the father of the unfortunate young man, we will further thank you to procure for him a passage on board the first vessel sailing for Batavia, paying the expense of his voyage, and giving him the sum of two hundred louis d'or, which you will place to our account current, on condition that he does not AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF A attempt to revisit England till he re RASCAL. "His name is never heard.” LATE one evening, a packet of letters just arrived by the English mail, was handed to Mynheer Von Kapell, a merchant of Hamburgh. His head clerk awaited, as usual, for any orders which might arise from their contents: and was not a little surprised to observe the brow of his wealthy employer suddenly clouded; again and again he perused the letter he held, at last audibly giving vent to his feelings "Donder and blitzen!" he burst forth, "but this is a shock, who would have thought it? The house of Bennett and Ford to be shaken thus! What is to be done?" "Bennett and Ford failed!" cried the astonished clerk. "Failed! ten thousand devils! not so bad as that; but they are in deep distress, and have suffered a heavy loss; but read, good Yansen! and let me have your advice." The clerk read as follows: "London, August 21st. "Most respected friend,-Yours of the 5th inst. came safe to hand, and will meet prompt attention. We have to inform you, with deep regret, that the son of the trustworthy cashier of this long-established house has absconded, taking with him bills accepted by our firm to a large amount, as per margin; and a considerable sum in cash. We ceives permission so to do. "We are, most respected friend, "Your obedient servants, BENNETT, FORD & Co." "Mynheer Von Kapell.' "My life on't," said Yansen, "tis the very lad I saw this day, walking up and down in front of the Exchange, who appeared half out of his wits; looking anxiously for some particular object, yet shunning general observation: his person answers the descrip tion." "That's fortunate," said the merchant, "you must devote the morrow to searching for him; bring him to me if possible, and I'll do my utmost to serve my excellent friends, Bennett and Ford of London." Early next morning, Yansen went to the Exchange, and kept an anxious watch for many hours in vain ; he was returning hopeless, when he saw the identical youth coming out of the door of a Jew money-changer; he brushed hastily past him, exclaiming, "The unconscionable scoundrel! seventy per cent. for bills on the best house in England!" "Young Yansen approached him. gentleman," said he, in a very mild tone, "you appear to have met with some disappointment from that griping wretch Levi. If you have any business to transact, my house is close by; I shall be happy to treat with you.” "Willingly," replied the youth," the sooner the better. I must leave Hamburgh at day-break." The clerk led him to the house of the merchant, and entered it by a small side-door, desiring the young man to be seated whilst he gave some directions. In a few minutes he re-appeared, bringing Von Kapell with him. The worthy Hamburgher having no talent for a roundabout way of doing business, said bluntly. 66 So, Mynheer! we are well met; it will be useless to attempt disguise with me; look at this!" and he put into his hand the letter he had the night before received. Overwhelmed with consternation, the young man fell at his feet. "Oh heaven!" he cried, "I am lost for ever, my father, my indulgent, my honourable father, is heart-broken and disgraced by my villany. My mother!" Here he became nearly inaudible, and hid his face in his hands. "You," he continued, are spared all participation in the agony your wretched son is suffering." 66 "Boy, boy?" said the merchant, raising him, and quite melted at this show of penitence, "listen to me! are the bills safe? if so, you may still hope." "They are," eagerly exclaimed the youth; "how fortunate that I did not listen to the offers of that rapacious Jew. Here, Sir, take them, I implore you," pulling from his breast a large pocket-book; "they are untouched Spare, but my life, and I will yet atone. Oh! spare me from a shameful death." There was a pause, broken at last by Yansen's saying significantly to his em ployer, as per margin." The merchant turned to the unhappy young man. "Take heart," said he. "Wenn die noth ist amgroszten die hulfe ist am nachesten.'* There's an old German proverb for you. Sit down and hear what I have to say. I think myself not a little fortunate in so soon being able to fulfil the wishes of my English correspondents; your natural alarm did not suffer you to finish their letter; you will perceive how generous ly they mean to act; their house's credit saved, they intend not to punish you. Read, read; and, Yansen, order some eatables, and a bottle or two of my old Heidelberg hock, trouble always makes me thirsty-three glasses, my good Yansen." Again the young Englishman hid his face, and sighed convulsively, "I do When things are at the worst they must meud, not deserve this lenity. My excellent father! this is a tribute to your virtue." Von Kapell left his guest's reflections undisturbed, till a servant entered, who placed refreshments on a well polished oak table; when she retired they resumed. "Was "And now, what the devil tempted you to play the- -runaway?" swallowing the term he had intended to use. it for the wenches, or the dicing table?" "Spare me, most kind and worthy sir, I intreat you! To my father I will make full confession of all my faults; but he must be the first to know the origin of my crimes." "Well, well, take another glass of wine; you shall stay in my house till we can find a passage for you. It was but last night my good ship the Christine sailed for Batavia and - 99 "Under favour," interrupted Yansen, "she has not yet left the harbour; the wind blew too fresh for her to venture on crossing the sand-banks at night, and it is now only shifting round a point or two." "You are lucky, youngster," quickly added the merchant, "the Christine has noble accommodations; you shall aboard this evening. Put these in the chest, good Yansen," handing him the bills," and count me out the two hundred louis d'or the boy is to have. Come, man! finish your meal, for I see," said he, regarding a vane on the gable of an opposite house," you have no time to lose." The meal was finished-the money given the worthy merchant adding as much good advice as the brief space would permit. The Briton was profuse in his expressions of gratitude, promised amendment, and returned the warm clasp of Von Kapell, unable to speak for his tears. Yansen accompanied him on board, gave the owner's most particular charge to the skipper, to pay his passenger every attention on the voyage. The vessel cleared the harbour-was in a few hours out of sight-and the next morning, Mynheer Von Kapell wrote to London a full account of the transaction, returning the bills he had so fortunately recovered. In less than a fortnight the following letter reached the good old German: "Sir,-We have to inform you, that we never lost the bills sent in your last favour, every one of which is fabricated, and our acceptance forged. Our cashier has no son, nor has he lost a wife. We are sincerely grieved that your Shot only one lover or so; For Venus excelled her in shooting at hearts, And had always more string to her bow. On beautiful Iris, Apollo bestowed A bow of most wonderful hue; It soon grew her hobby-horse, and as she rode To earth came the art of the archers at last, In courage and strength did excel; The Parthians were bowmen of old, and their pride Lay in shooting and scampering too; but I was now doomed to feel the truth of the above prediction, for before the end of August, I fell low before the monster that is for ever stalking through that land of lakes and rivers, breathing fever and death around. It was nine weeks before I left my room, and when I did, I looked more fit to walk into the Potter's Field, (as they call the English burying-ground) than any where else. Long after my general health was pretty well restored, I suffered from the effect of the fever in my limbs, and lay in bed reading several weeks after I had been pronounced convalescent. Several American novels were brought me. Mr. Flint's Francis Berrian is excellent; a little wild and romantic, but containing scenes of first-rate interest and pathos. Hope Leslie, and Redwood, by Miss Sedgewick, an American lady, have both great merit; and I now first read the whole of Mr. Cooper's novels. By the time these American studies were completed, I never closed my eyes without seeing myriads of slender figures of Red Indians crept bloody scalps floating round me; long through my dreams with noiseless tread; panthers glared; forests blazed; and whichever way I fled, a light foot, a keen eye, and a long rifle were sure to be on my trail. An additional ounce of calomel hardly sufficed to neutralize the effect of these raw-head and bloodybones adventures. I was advised to plunge immediately into a course of fashionable novels. It was a great relief to me; but as my head was by no means very clear, I sometimes jumbled strangely together the civilized rogues and assassins of Mr. Bulwer, and the wild men, women, and children slayers of Mr. Cooper; and, truly, between them, I passed my dreams in very bad But Britons thought better the sport to divide, And their courage ne'er sit in the dark; May their strings be all good, and their bows be all sound, And their arrows fly true to the mark. DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS. WE had repeatedly been told, by those who knew the land, that the second summer was the great trial to the health of Europeans settled in America; but we had now reached the middle of our second August, and with the exception of the fever one of my sons had suffered from the summer after our arrival, we had all enjoyed perfect health; Still I could not stand, nor even sit upright. What was I to read next? A happy thought struck me. I determined upon beginning with Waverley, and reading through (not for the first time certainly) the whole series. And what a world did I enter upon! The wholesome vigour of every page seemed to communicate itself to my nerves; I ceased to be languid and fretful, and though still a cripple, I certainly enjoyed myself most completely, as long as my treat lasted; but this was a shorter time than any one would believe, who has not found how such volumes melt, before the constant reading of a long idle day. When it was over, however, I had the pleasure of finding that i could walk half a dozen yards at a time, and take short airings in an open carriage; and better still, could sleep quietly. Mrs. Trollope. A TRANSLATION OF CHATEAUBRIAND'S LAST POEM. The coffin sinks-the spotless roses' pride The flower and the maid. Ah, give them never to this world againThis world of mourning and of misery, power! The winds would spoil, the burning sun pro. fane, The maiden and the flower. Thou sleep'st, Eliza, and thou fear'st no more Thy sire, Eliza, o'er thy ashes leans, His aged brow with pallor overspread: tions, the privileges of citizens have been thrown open to them, and they have even been encouraged to apply themselves to agriculture. Their utility as agents has rendered them essential to the land proprietors, few contracts are made without their intervention, and few sales are effected without a deduction for Jewish brokerage. Most of the inns either belong to or are tenanted by this sect: the Jewish inkeepers are the most advantageous tenants to the landlord, therefore the nobles protect them in preference to Christians. They are the only interpreters for the traveller who has no knowledge of the language, and it is to them that he must apply to supply his wants. The distinction of the Jewish dress is not yet entirely abolished in Poland; the long black robe, the beard and Time spares the rugged oak, and near it slippers, are still to be met with, though gleans The flower and the maid, FOLISH JEWS. THE Jews Occupy an important place among the population of Poland, not merely on account of their number, but from their engrossing so much of the wealth of the kingdom. A census of them has never perhaps been correctly made, as they have always avoided a capitation as much as possible, either from a superstitious notion that it is contrary to their law to number the people, as evinced in the punishment of David for that act, or more probably from an unwillingness to come under the immediate surveillance of government. The superior degree of toleration almost invariably extended to the Jews in Poland, has made their acquisition of wealth proportionably greater than it was once in other countries in Europe, when their lower and commercial classes were at the same stage of civilization. The wealth of the Jews makes them the objects of envy to the trading Poles, who have not yet succeeded in superseding them, and driving them out of the market, and consequently this feeling of hostility has prompted laws and interdictions against that sect, which somewhat entrenched on the boasted principle of toleration. Repeated statutes were passed to prevent their dealing in horses, keeping inns, or holding farms, and in the reign of Sigismund Augustus, death was made the penalty for disregard of this injunction. The liberal reforms of late years have removed these invidious restric the modern costume of Europe is being gradually adopted. The Polish Jews have been accused of betraying their country to the Russians by acting as their spies in 1812, and there is no doubt that the charge could be substantiated in too many cases, but it is unfair to extend it to the whole sect. The Poles themselves do justice to their conduct in the former wars of independence; when a whole regiment was formed solely of Jews under the command of Colonel Berek Tasielowicz, who distinguished themselves by great bravery until they were nearly all extirpated. It must also be mentioned that the young Jews of Warsaw have imitated this example in the present revolution. The Polish Jews have also in some instances been eminent in learning and science; Abraham Stern is known as the author of some ingenious mechanical inventions, for which he has been admitted a member of the Royal Society of Warsaw. A LADY'S MAN. THE Squire of Dames is commonly a pert, pragmatical coxcomb, of from twenty to thirty years of age, who is not wholly unacquainted with fashionable society, but who has scarcely seen enough of it to acquire the polish of a perfect gentleman. In size he is rather diminutive, never exceeding the height of five feet five. If he has a smooth chin, light hair, and blue eyes, he is the more likely to be a genuine specimen; although we confess we have occasionally met with animals of this genus with beards as black and "Have you been to Kew Gardens, for the anemore specimen you so kindly volunteered to procure for Celestina? She cannot finish her botanical drawing without it." These `queries, all propounded in rapid succession, are all as speedily and satisfactorily answered, and the Squire of Dames turns a glance of pity on the poor male outcasts who are biting their nails in the distance. AMERICAN NOTIONS OF ENGLAND. I WILL give the minutes of a conversation which I once set down after one of their visits, as a specimen of their tone and manner of speaking and thinking. My visitor was a milkman. "Well now, so you be from the old country? Ay-you'll see sights here, I guess." "I hope I shall see many." "That's a fact. I expect your little place of an island don't grow such dreadful fine corn as you sees here?" "It grows no corn* at all, sir." * Corn always means Indian corn, or maize. "Possible! no wonder, then, that we reads such awful stories in the papers of your poor people being starved to death." "We have wheat, however." Ay, for your rich folks, but I calcu late the poor seldom gets a belly full." "You have certainly much greater! abundance here." "I expect so. Why, they do say, that if a poor body contrives to be smart enough to scrape together a few dollars, that your King George always comes down upon 'em, and takes it all away. Don't he?" "I do not remember hearing of such a transaction." "I guess they be pretty close about it. Your papers ben't like ourn, 1 reckon? Now we says and prints just what we likes." "You spend a good deal of time in reading the newspapers?" "And I'd like you to tell me how we How should freecan spend it better. men spend their time, but looking after their government, and watching that them fellers as we gives offices to, doos their duty, and gives themselves no airs?" "But I sometimes think, sir, that your fences might be in more thorough repair, and your roads in better order, if less time was spent in politics." "The Lord! to see how little you knows of a free country? Why, what's the smoothness of a road, put against the freedom of a free-born American? And what does a broken zig-zag signify, comparable to knowing that the men what we have been pleased to send up to Congress, speaks handsome we chooses they and straight, as should?" "It is from a sense of duty, then, that you all go to the liquor store to read the papers?" "To be sure it is, and he'd be no true born American as didn't. I don't say that the father of a family should always be after liquor, but I do say that I'd rather have my son drunk three times in a week, than not look after the affairs of his country." Mrs. Trollope. THE GREEK BARBER. WHO has not longed to become a pilgrim in the beautiful land of Greece, to inhale the perfume of her orange groves, and to pay his adoration at her classic and immortal shrines? Who has not longed to behold the beautiful Parthenon, the fabled Scamander, and |