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The evil had spread further than I could have imagined. His sisters already sustained all the evils of want and misery through his imprudence. The personal property bequeathed to them by their father, had been lost at the gaming-table, or spent in debauchery by their brother. The estates which he had inherited, and from the rents of which he might still have paid his sisters their legacies, had been long since mortgaged, and their produce dissipated. I found the youngest sick, without any kind of medical attendance, and the eldest, who had been accustomed to be waited upon, now performing the most menial offices in the chamber of her sister. They were still attached to their worthless brother, and when I mentioned some means of recovering part of their property, without effecting his deliverance, they would not consent to my proposal. With great difficulty, and by a tedious legal || process, some portion of his estates were wrested from the nefarious swindlers and money-brokers to whom it was mortgaged, and a composition being offered to his creditors, he was liberated from confinement. A small joint ananity was secured likewise to his sisters, and it was hoped that by procuring him a commission in the army, and placing his estates under proper direction, he might in some degree be weaned from his bad

habits, and enjoy a considerable income; but, my dear boy, the consequences of such a conduct as he had pursued are incalculable. His mind had received injuries which no management could repair. He had so long accustomed himself to regard cunning and duplicity as marks of perception and sagacity, that he still continued to practice them, and was soon shunned and degraded. Scorned and avoided by his brother officers, he again sought out his former associates, and mingled again in their vilest transactions. He was deprived of his commission, but as the cause was not made public, he might have recovered some degree of credit still with those who were willing to recollect that he was once worthy of esteem. Nevertheless, he continues to descend from bad to worse, and thence to worse again. Sometimes sensible of the misery which proceeds from want and deprivation, he has expressed a determination to reform, aud means have been used to procure him regular subsistence, for his property has been for some time inrecoverably lost, but he soon relapses into his former habits. I fear that the guinea which I have just given him, will be instantly staked at some infamous gaming-table."

N.

THE GRETNA GREEN PARSON.

open beach, among the furze on these occasions young Paisley officiated as clerk. One time when Watty went to the Isle of Mann, for the purpose of fetching over a cargo of contraband brandy, his assistant remained at home to perform the necessary rites during the absence of the former. Finding that he could rivet the matrimonial bond equally as || well as his master, and being at the same time under some pecuniary embarrassment, he began business on his own account, and by his ability and address soon overcame all competi

JOSEPH PAISLEY, of compling celebrity, died on the 9th of January. He was born on the borders of England, in the year 1728, at the obsure hamlet of Lenoxtown, about a mile distant from Gretna Green; at which place he continued for half a century to wed together the chains of matrimony, and to render happy or miserable great multitudes of anxious lovers. Early in life he was bound apprentice to a tobacconist; but becoming disgusted with this employment, he changed it for that of a fisherman, and was allowed by his brethren to bear the palm on all occasions where strength and agility were required. It was in this humble capacity that he was initiated into the || secrets of a profession which he managed with such address. He had formed a connection with one Walter Cowtard, at Sarkfoot; and who, strange though it may appear, was both a smuggler and a priest! Old Watty had the misfortune to be but indifferently lodged, having "a reeky house," and what is perhaps worse, a scolding wife, so that he was necessitated to perform the marriage ceremony on the

tion.

The excellence of his constitution was often tried; though it must be allowed that his intemperance was proverbial, yet he reached his eighty-second year. He and a jovial companion once consumed the amazing quantity of ten gallons of pure brandy in the short space of sixty hours!-Paisley is succeeded in the capacity of coupler by a young man, a friend of his; and there is no fear that the business will fall off, as three weddings have already taken place since the death of the old man.

1 HOPE!

MAN hath a weary pligrimage,

POETRY

ORIGINAL AND SELECT.

As through the world he wends;
Yet gentle Hope, on every stage,
The comforter, attends.

And if the toil-worn traveller droop,
With heaviness oppress'd,

She cheers his heart, and bids him see
The distaut place of rest.

To school the little Exile goes,

And quits his mother's arms:-
What then shall soothe his earliest woes,.
When novelty hath lost its charms?
Coudemin'd to suffer through the day
Restraints that no rewards repay,

And cares where love has no concern;
If Memory still the present sours,
Hope lightens as she counts the hours
That hastens his return.

Youth comes, and eager Fancy hails
The long-expected days;

Youth comes, and he is doom'd to prove
The fears and jealousies of love,

And all its long delays.

But when the passions with their might
Afflict the doubtful breast,

Hope bids him yet expect delight,
And happiness and rest.

When Manhood comes, with troubles rife,
And all the toils and cares of life

Usurp the busy mind,

Where shall the tir'd harrass'd heart

Its consolation find?

Hope doubts not yet the meed L'obtain
Of difficulties past,

And looks beyond the toil of gain,

To wealth enjoy'd at last.

So to his journey's latter stage

His pilgrim feet attain;
And then he finds, in wiser age,

That earthly cares are vain.
Yet Hope the constant friend remains,
Who scothes his troubles past;
Though oft deceiving and deceiv'd,
The truest friend at last,

By Faith and Hope, in life's last hour
Are life's last pangs reliev'd
They've the expectation then
That cannot be deceiv'd."

A WINTER SONG.

ONE night when as usual we foresters met, And with honest October were just getting wet,

No. XV. Vol. III.-N. S.

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FASHIONS

FOR

FEBRUARY, 1811.

EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS OF FASHION.

ENGLISH COSTUME.

No. 1.-WALKING DRESS.

A pelisse of scarlet Merino cloth, buttoned down the front and up the arm with small gold buttons; the collar and cuffs of purple velvet; but during the mourning, of black, striped with scarlet; an ermine tippet pointed in the back, and muffs of the same. A bonnet of scarlet cloth, turned up with velvet, and formed to come over the face; the veil passed through the front and brought round the neck. Boots of scarlet cloth trimmed with velvet.

No. 2-EVENING FULL DRESS.

A round dress of white satin, sloped up in front; with small train ornamented round the bottom with velvet in a scroll pattern, vandyked at the edges, and dotted with black chenille; the velvet during the mourning should be grey or scarlet; the bosom, girdle, and sleeves of this dress are ornamented to correspond, in the form exhibited in the plate. A turban cap of white satin, looped with pearls, and edged with velvet; the hair comb ed full over the face, curled in thick flat curls, divided on the forehead. Necklace, earrings, and bracelets of gold and pearls blended. White kid shoes and gloves; fan of white crape and gold.

PARISIAN FASHIONS.

site position to the feather; but now it is worn on the same side. Borderings of gold embroidered on hats of black velvet are considered the summit of elegance, but the enbroidery must be extremely light; it must form only a narrow border, for the broad would be considered vulgar. Pearl and coral beads are the grand resource of the milliners ; yes, pearl or coral. We have said that the pearls have taken precedence of the bugies. It is now the same with the coral: they have taken precedence of the pearls.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

ON

FASHION AND DRESS.

Our readers are doubtless informed that the mourning for the late Princess Amelia does not expire until the 11th of the present month, and that the Court has extended it three weeks beyond that period, in complement to the deceased Queen of France.

As the mourning habit admits but of small variation, we have again but little of novelty to communicate. The few remarks we have to make respect only the form of the dresses, and of those articles that compose them, which are considered as most correspondent to the order issued by the Court.

Were we to detail the different dresses worn by numbers of people, we might still fill our pages with the enumeration of varieties, and bold up something of gaiety, though not of splendour; but those who compose the Court, or are connected with it, and are therefore the surest models of fashion, afford us no such source; they still continue to adhere to their sable garments.

A long feather in front of the hat, and a bow of ribbands with long ends on the left side. These are two articles of fashion generally adopted. At the commencement of this fashion the feather was worn immediately in front of the hat; to-day it may be worn a little on one side. In the first instance it was worn in a straight and upright form; but to-day it is admitted to be a little inclined; a white bow of ribband may likewise be worn, or one of pink, but what is the most admired is a For dinner dresses, the long sleeves of sarsmixture of both; that is to say, a ribhaud net give place to those of crape; the bosom is composed partly of pink and partly of white; cut down and the neck shaded by a small or if you prefer, yellow and white. At first tippet of white crape or lace; in public. the ends of the bow were placed in en oppo-tippets of swansdown are very numerous; oa

In morning dresses black sarsnets or lustres, either high in the neck with crape ruff, or in the pelisse or wrap form, scem most prevailing, buttoned down the front.

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