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Every purchaser of this number of "THE FLY," is entitled to an exquisitely-executed Lithographic PRINT, which is presented gratuitously.-[A similar print with every number.] GRETNA GREEN. Scotland is the simplest business imaginable. If Gretna green marriages do not always as a brace of lovers, with their maid and man, Proclamation of bans is all very well, so long ove the happiest in the end, they are at least can slip into the manse, together or sepafar the merriest at the time; and Miss rately, at any hour of the day they please, or dia Languish was partly in the right when even appoint the clergyman to meet them in some quiet corner, where nobody suspects that e pettishly remarked that there was no fun a marriage is going forward; this, I say, is all a love affair at all that did not lead to a leap very well, but it is quite another thing when n a window into a lover's arms, a chase, a you must walk in procession to the parish llenge, and, as a matter of course, a para-church-form a sort of semi-circle round the ph in the newspapers. altar-answer a great number of questions At all events, few and return in nearly the same order, exposed 1 make a pilgrimage to the temple of to the gaze of bevies of gossips, and annoyed men, situated on the Border, and in the by crowds of idle boys who run shouting and neighbourhood of more than one depot halooing, and begging a largess, like the muggled whiskey, who can lead their crones that followed our funerals of old. Such es unchallenged to the altar, start after an exhibition is more than the nerves of many kfast in a chaise-and-four, spend the maidens are equal to; and I have always eymoon on the banks of Windermere, and thought that my fair countrywomen are more rn to their own quiet domiciles amidst the beholden than they are probably aware of, to oving smiles of kindred and friends. No, the superior simplicity of the presbyterian foropposition and elopement are but other mula of marriage. In fact the laws of Enges for cause and effect; and in this view land, on this important point, seem so well illage of Springfield may be regarded as adapted to repress freedom of choice-the nanctuary for distressed lovers. Now and tural birthright of every Englishwoman-in we find parents inexorable as well as every instance where friends are unwilling, tors; but let an unfortunate debtor cross and fortune unkind, that I have often asked trand at Holyrood House, or a bonny lass through what strange fatality they could have the narrow boundary betwixt England so long existed in a country so intelligent and Scotland, and then farewell alike to bolts happy as our own. But the Court of Chanbars-mercantile keenness and parental cery!-aye, there lies the rub; and when we tude. The author of "Peter's Letters" may expect matters to mend is a question affirms that it is easier to get quit of a which, though easily put, it is difficult to than a doer; but the remark, if true at answer. The venerable Lord Eldon had more nnot be said to apply to England. There wards than ever Solomon had wives or concuatrimonial mesh is so curiously woven, bines, and wherever an honest gentleman if it be difficult to get in, it is ten times pressed his suit successfully, without his lordso to get legally out of it; and I have ship's permission, his case became as ticklish thought, that, but for the safety-valve as that of the horse-stealer, unless he could alluded to, a legal engine of such tre- prove that he rode behind the crupper of my is pressure would be incident to very lady's saddle, and that, in place of running off Bus explosions. In England they make with a rich heiress, the rich heiress ran away er, fuss about an ordinance, which in with him. John Cunningham, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street. [TWOPENCE. Yet mistake me not, gentle reader; I am no advocate for imprudent marriages, and have no great respect for your boarding-school misses, who devour novels until their heads are turned, and with their feelings wound up to the highest pitch are ready to fly into the arms of the first man they meet, whose address is easy, face handsome, and carriage debonair. Love, they say, must be caught at first sight; and yet I should doubt whether a courtship in which the eye is the sole arbiter is likely to lead to the happiest results. A good husband gained in this way would be as great a windfall as the highest prize in a state lottery; and for every rash and inconsiderate nymph who espouses a man of sterling sense, whose talents and industry more than compensate his lack of fortune and humble lineage, there are probably a hundred that throw themselves away upon dolts and dandies, who are generally too much in love with themselves, to become permanent worshippers at any other shrine. On this principle, a cross maiden-aunt or an obdurate parent, who looks exclusively to an union of interests, may often do the state signal service by checking the evils of which Dr. Malthus is so much afraid. But are there no cases of a different character?-is there no bane of an opposite nature, to which Gretna-green furnishes an antidote ? If rashness be the besetting sin of youth, avarice is the besetting sin of age; and again and again instances have occurred in which a father, though kind and indulgent even to a fault, has actually set his daughter up to auction, and knocked her down to the highest bidder. Here, then, we have two evils to guard against; and truly it would be difficult to determine which is the greatest. To baulk the hopes of lovers in Scotland requires & stretch of parental authority, and implies a degree of personal restraint which few persons can reconcile their minds to; but in England the matter is managed so easily, that a father, present instance. The man, who seemed na- in place of immuring his daughter in an attic occasion threatened with opposition; but he (To be concluded in our next.) ENVY. Envy often arises from weakness of judg ment. We cannot make up our minds to admit the soundness of certain pretensions; and therefore hate the appearance, where we are doubtful about the reality. We consider every such tax on our applause as a kind of imposi tion or injustice; so that the withholding our assent is from a fear of being tricked out of our good opinion under false pretences. This is the reason why sudden or upstart advantages are always an object of such extreme jealousy, and even of contempt; and why we so readily bow to the claims of posthumous and longestablished reputation. The last is the sterling coin of merit, which we no longer question or cavil at. The other, we think, may be tinsel; and we are unwilling to give our admiration in exchange for a bauble. It is not that the candidates for it in the one case are removed out of our way, and make a diversion to the more immediate claims of our contemporaries; but that their own are so clear and universally acknowledged, that they come home to our feelings and bosoms with their full weight, without any drawbacks of doubt in our own minds, or objection on the part of others. In our envy were intrinsically and merely a hatred of excellence and of the approbation due to it, we should hate it the more, the more distinguished and unequivocal it was. On the other hand, our faith in standard reputation is a kind of religion; and our admiration of it, instead of a cold, servile offering, an enthusiastic homage. There are people who would attempt to persuade us that we read Homer or Milton with pleasure, only to spite some living poet. With them, all our best actions are hypocrisy ; and our best feelings, affectation. Farewell! and soon between us both I would that it would wash away But what can I see that will not Bring thee to my mind? And even if I could forget The blank that then were mine, Were worse than all: oh! better far Be wretched, and YET THINE. SONG. -- MISS LANDON. Full well I know my heart As in some eastern land, They place upon the tomb, Offerings of sunny fruit, of flowers and sweet perfume. |