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'his fucceffor confidered me as no lefs neceffary to himself, than I had been to his father. At and I know not that my misfor- length, however, my melancholy 'tunes are at an end. I was hap- was growing into defpondency; pily established in the early part I had been eighteen years in a of my life as a phyfician in the ftate of captivity; my health was 'North of England. By the deathvifibly impaired, and the young of a maternal uncle in the ifland emperor with an humanity which ' of Antigua, and whofe name II muft commend, confented to was by his will appointed to af- 'my departure. Nor did he part 'fume, I fucceeded to a confidera- ' with me without expreffions of 'ble fortune. It was neceffary, 'friendship; and an ample com• however, that I fhould go thither 'penfation, not for the bondage I 'to receive the inveftiture and had endured, but for the services poffeffion of his property and I had rendered him. I returned 'eftates. The veffel in which I by Italy and Germany, on ac'failed was feized by a Moorish count of the troubles in France; 'pirate; was carried to Barbary; and coming from Hainburgh to ' and I was never heard of, I be- 'Colchester, I am not more aflieve, by my friends: for the go- 'flicted with fatigue and weakvernor of Mogadore learning my 'nefs, than with anxiety to receive profeffion, fent me immediately intelligence of my family, which to Fez, to render what affiftance 'confifted, at the time I left them, I could to the emperor of Mo- ' of a wife, and infant of three rocco, who was at that time af' years old. If they furvive, I may 'flicted with a dangerous malady. yet be happy: I left them in eafy I was willing, from every confi- circumftances, and to the care of deration, to give him all the aid 'an affectionate friend. But if in my power; and hoped that if they furvive not!' he fighed, and 'I was fuccefsful, my freedom his voice faltered, if they furvive might be the price of my fervices. not! would to heaven that I alfo But I was cruelly difappointed. were dead! or had never reMy fuccefs in reftoring the em' turned !' peror to health, made him con'ceive me fo neceffary to his welfare, that he would not fuffer me to depart: fo that obferving my impatience, he allowed me to have no communication with any perfon whatever, who could give notice of my fituation to any of the British confuls. In all other refpects I must do him the justice of acknowledging, that I was treated with the utmost kindness,

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"Eden's fympathy, and defire of affording him relief, need not be doubted. He inquired by what addrefs he might procure him the important information he fo anxionfly withed for. 'I have already written,' faid he, from Col chefter, and have alfo written from this place. I perfuade my. felf that in the fpace of a day, or few hours, I fhall be certified of my happiness, or utter mifery. I 'was Dr. Clement in the city of Leeds.'' Merciful heaven!' interrupted Eden. 'Dr. Clement of Leeds! my friend, my deliverer, L4

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of virtue, had been able to fecure his felicity. His friend perceived it. Sitting under a wainut-tree in the fhrubbery adjoining to the houfe, while they expected the return of Dr. Clement's difpatches, You feem thoughtful,' faid he to Eden; too thoughtful for the hap

no referve. Yet I cannot exprefs 'the caufe; it is so strange; fo unexpected; but fo fufficient to

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and my protector!' He fell on his neck and embraced him. The ftranger was overwhelmed with amazement. And have you for got me?' cried Eden; the poor boy whom you faved from ignominious punifhment; received into your family, educated and fent abroad?'-Frank!' faid thepinefs of your condition. Eden venerable old man, fcarcely able to looked at him with fome furprise; speak for tears; Frank, whom I fighed; fixed his eyes on the fent to fchool? The fame, the ground: "You have obferved it 'fame,' faid Eden; 'poor Frank then he said. 6 • Indeed, my Eden! whom you faved and pro- friend, I am afraid I am not tected; who am now, by thehappy. And to you, I will ufe bleffing of heaven, in wealth and efteem; and glad, beyond the power of expreffion, at now meeting, and under my own roof,fpoil my peace. My wife-and with my kind benefactor.' then he paufed; was unable to speak. Clement gazed with a mazement. He was alfo terrified. Hidcous images poffelfed his fancy. He was afraid and loth to make any inquiry. He had thought the wife of his friend in all refpects excellent. She was indeed reserved; and had fomething dejected in her appearance. But he was withal fo correct in her deportment, fo re fpectful to her husband, fo attentive to his friend. It is impoffi 'ble! she must be good!' he thus rallied his recollection; banished fufpicion; was afhamed of his fears; and with fome indignation, not against Eden, but againft him. felf, Is the not excellent?' he exclaimed. Most excellent!' repli ed his friend, most lovely! most engaging! blameless as an angel of light! and yet I fear and he groaned with anguish- I fear I

"Francis Eden had been a poor man's fon. His parents having died while he was yet an infant; and being left to the care of a diftant relation, it need not be a matter of furprise, if at ten years old his education fhould have been neglected, and his habits unpromifing. In fact, he had been carried before a magiftrate for attempting to take fome fruit from a gentleman's garden. The poor orphan was to have been punished and fent to the workhoufe. Dr. Clement was prefent. Moved by his ingenuous appearance, by his tears and helpiefs condition, he interpofed; took him home to his houfe; found him worthy of his attention; had him educated; and recommended him to a merchant in London. By him, being found deferving, he was fent out to India; where by the moft able, upright, and honourable conduct he realized fuch a fum as enabled him to return with fplen, dor.

"Eut neither. fplendor of outward circumftances, nor high reputation, nor even the confcioufiefs

am not her choice.' His friend, in the kindeft and most affectionate manner, wished for more informa tion.

"Her delicacy of mind,' faid Eden, is indeed most afflicting. She had no fortune; was under flood

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yet painful confeflion of her infirmity. She tells her, that feeling high obligation, the cannot 'view me on fuch a footing of equality as would juftify the freedom, eafe, and familiarity, which I fo incerely defire.' Has_fhe any other relation,' faid Cle ment, than the family of Mrs. Alwin? I know not that the 'has,' anfwered Eden. 'Her fa

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ftood to be of refpectable paren- tual attachment; and has receiv tage; had been entitled to highed from her the most ingenuous, expectation; had loft her parents; and had become dependent. Satisfied in every refpect 'concerning • her fentiments and her deportment; penetrated with her beauty and her accomplishments; and obferving how much it pained her to expatiate on the circumftances of her early life, I have hitherto, as we have not been long united, refrained from being very minute in my inquiry into parti-ther, whofe name was Fitzalleyn, culars: the more fo, that on all fuch occafions, fhe feems to feel ' herself more indebted to me than 'perhaps her own feelings, and I am fure more than mine, can endure. This indeed is the fource of my fuffering. She appears to have continually in her thoughts, that I have raised her to opulence from a state of dependence. 'She does not fet fufficient value ' on her deserts; and is too deeply impreffed with the fenfe of great obligation. She refpects me indeed too much; is grateful, and, 'does not love. Her love is loft in exceffive gratitude. What can 'I do? All my endeavours to make her eafy, all my defires of pleafing, give additional weight to the kindness that has oppreffed her. I almost despair of meeting in her with that friendship and affec-compauied to Calcutta.' 'tion which can fubfift between thofe perfons only who think themselves fomewhat equal. And if fo, fuch is my difpofition, that our connection cannot be happy. - Have you ever,' faid Clement, with great anxiety, have you ever fpoken to her on this very interefting and important fubject?'

Mrs. Alwin,' answered Eden, has done fo; not, however, as at my fuggeftion; but in confe. quence, as it were, of their mu

had fome property in this country; but much more in one, I 'know not which, of our American ilands. While yet an infant 'fhe loft her mother; and her father, for fome reason that I never knew, or do not reinember, had before that time gone abroad, and has never been heard of. Meantime her estate in the Weft Indies has been fo much embezzled, or fo unproductive, that it has ferved her in little ftead; and thofe perfons who had charge of what property fhe had at home, 'having become bankrupt, the fell into thofe circumftances which are as painful to remember as to 'endure. The only perfon who 'fhewed her any friendship was ‹ Mrs. Alwin, who treated her in'deed as a fifter, and whom he ac

"Clement feemed to give flight attention to the concluding part of the narrative. He was loft in the deepeft abftraction; he groaned; ftruck his hand on his forehead; and his bofom heaved with extreme agitation. Eden obferving, asked. if he was indifpofed?' He did not anfwer; did not feem to have heard him; rose from his feat; and walked about in extreme perturbation. Then turning abruptly, I must see Mrs. Eden.'-She fhall wait

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upon you,' faid Eden, tenderly, but with aftoniment. She is my daughter,' exclaimed the ftranger. Has not that occurred to you? But no! I muft not fay fo. Alas! I may be mistaken. Yet I, on leaving England, took the name of Fitzalleyn; left my daughter an infant; was never heard of! Her mother dead!' So faying, he fell back on the feat, and found relief in a flood of tears. The ftate of Eden's feelings defies words and defcription. His aftonifliment, however, fome tranfient doubts, and fome fears foon rebuked by his hopes, and his hopes themfelves, were inftantly abforbed in all the ravishment of expectation. The dear object of his faithful and most tender regard must be the child of his earliest friend, of his deliverer, of his protector! She was now to feel herself on that footing of equality, which in the extreme, and fomewhat blameable delicacy of her fentiments, the held effential to the eafe and confidence of mutual love. If any obligation remained, he was to be the perfon obliged. He affured his friend that it must be fo; and as far as youth could resemble age, that his daughter resembled him; and urged him therefore to give im. mediate intimation to his dear 'Matilda,'' Matilda was the name of my child,' faid Clement, now recovered from agitation, and in a tone of acquiefcing complacency. But ftill there may be fome mistake; and the confequences of difappointment in a matter fo intimately interefting ⚫ to us both, and to your dear Matilda, might be unspeakably fatal.

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The probabilities are as you fay; but we must not yield to them rafhly.'

"A fervant now announced to them the arrival of Mrs. Alwin. Her father was one of the perfons to whom Clement, who was his kinfman, and not knowing that he was the father of Mrs. Alwin, bad addreffed himself for information. He fent by his daughter, who flew on the wings of friendfhip, the very joyful intelligence, which Eden and his honoured benefactor had already, the one with eagerness, and the other with caution, ventured in fome degree to anticipate. Yet the joy of Clement, while he bleffed his affectionate child, was mingled with fad remembrance, and with the tender recollection of her amiable mother. Time, however, and the confolation he now receiv ed, restored him to becoming compofure; beams of the gentleft ferenity fhone on his hoary locks; for his children continued virtuous; and were rewarded with as much enjoyment as virtue can here expect.

"Whatsoever opinion may be formed of the preceding ftory, which is founded on facts, and whatfoever fentiments it may tend to excite, I perfuade myself that one reflection in particular will arife unfuggefted in the breasts of my philanthropical friends; for they will reflect with pleasure, that the indulgence of a philanthropical temper, and the performance of benevolent actions, may produce effects so beneficial, as.to mock calculation; and in ways beyond the reach of conjecture; and at times when expectation is dead.”

POETRY.

POETRY.

ODE for the NEW YEAR.

By HENRY JAMES PYE, ESQ. POET LAUREAT.

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I.

'ER the vex'd bofom of the deep,

When, rushing wild with frantic haste,

The winds with angry pinions fweep
The furface of the wat'ry waste,
Though the firm veffel proudly brave
The inroad of the giant wave,
Though the bold feaman's firmer foul
View unappall'd the billowy mountains roll,
Yet ftill along the murky sky

Anxious he throws th' inquiring eye,

If haply through the gloom that round him low'rs"
Shoot one refulgent ray, prelude of happier hours.

II.

So Albion, round her rocky coaft,
While loud the rage of battle roars,
Derides Invafion's haughty boast,
Safe in her wave-encircled fhores,
Still fafer in her dauntless band,
Lords of her feas or guardians of her land,
Whose patriot zeal, whofe bold emprize,
Rife as the ftorms of danger rife;
Yet, temp'ring Glory's ardent flame

With gentle Mercy's milder claim,

She bends from scenes of blood th' averted eye,

And courts the fmiles of peace 'mid shouts of victory,

III.

She courts in vain !-The ruthless foe,

Deep drench'd in blood, yet thirsfting still for more,
Deaf to the fhrieks of agonizing woe,

Views with rapacious eye each neighb'ring shore.
Mine be th'eternal fway, aloud he cries,

Where'er my fword prevails, my conqu❜ring banner flies.

IV. Genius

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