the turbulent reluctance with which he quitted ter.' What circumstance what this? said Mustapha. 'It appeared,' continued Zornestan, that this son of Ibirhim, this heir to Mustapha, supported his mother by labouring in the fields and gardens.' For Your piety and virtue, oh amiable youth! image of a beloved brother,' returned Mustapha, shall be rewarded. Cyphantia shall be placed in a state of affluence; you I shall publicly acknowledge as my nephew, therefore, I have no doubt but that you will readily agree to abandon Zelia, Her I will readily lay down my life if your excellency commands me, said the youth, but that is the only means by which I can be brought to abandon Zelia. father, a Greek, taken by Ibirhim in an excursion, or rather irruption into that Empire, afterwards saved the life, and consequently became the dearest friend of his conqueror. His wife followed him into Assyria, and was much attached to my mother. Zelia and myself were matured, and have grown up together. We loved each other long before we knew the meaning of the word, or understood the influence of that passion. The father of the beautiful Zelia accompanied Ibirhim to Constantinople, whence he went with him to Cyprus, and, I hear fell with --.* The maternal care of Cyphantja,' said the youth, demanded the whole of my poor exertions. It was my duty, and merely my duty to toil for her from the rising to the setting of the sun. myself, I considered that I was by Providence placed in an humble station, with which I was contented; therefore, if I ever had any aspiring thoughts, any ideas that flew beyond the narrow bounds of Mustapha knows that I certainly my mean condition, and made me wish to derive a greater advantage from my exertions, it was for her sake. You have been misinformed,. cried Zornestan, embracing the youth with extacy; ' in me behold the father of Zelia. The noble did come with his brother to Con- let me bow with humility to the decrees of Providence, and consider in the recovery of this noble youth, the race of Mustapha revived let the melancholy and gloom which have long hung upon my mind, and with sable clouds shadowed my enjoyments, and spread a gloom around, give place to those brighter beams of joy and the secrecy observed with respect to women in the Turkish Empire, that it has never till now come to his knowledge that his brother, as well as myself, left a wife and infant, his a son, mine a daughter, in Assyria. He does not know that I am by birth a Greek, the slave of his brother: that I, at his request, took the Turban; nor does he know that I have diligently in-hilarity which upon this event have quired after my wife and child, while I had any reason to suppose them living, and hourly lamented their fate, when after a long series of years had elapsed. I was obliged to abandon hope, and conclude that they had, with the wife and son of Ibrihim, either been murdered in the horrid massacre which marked the rebellion of Othman Ashorder, carried into captivity, or fallen a prey to the disease of the climate.' Why did you not inform me of the supposed fate of the wife and offspring of my brother!' said Mustapha, pervaded my very soul., Do you, my nephew, conduct Zornestan to his wife and daughter, and return with them and Cyphantia; we will henceforward be one family. The celerity with which the Assyrian coursers, (whose, fleetness has already been equalled to that of the Arabian) flew over the ground, bore no proportion to the rapidity of ideas which whirled in the minds, or the ardour to finish their journey in the arms of the beloved objects of it, which pervaded the bosoms of the juvenile Mustapha, and the ancient Zor nestan. Flying with such speed to their dearest relatives and friends, it will not be supposed, however tedious the time might be to the youth and his companion, that many hours elapsed before they arrived at the Alas, continued Zornestan, you had sorrow enough for the loss of your own family. Could I add to the affliction of a man who at that time had to lament the loss of two sons, and a daughter by the pestilential shafts of the destroy-cottage of Cyphantia, where they ing angel?' Of those pledges of connubia] affection, once dear to me as my own existence, say more! returned the Beglerbeg, 'awaken not the sorrows of a husband and a father; met the lovely Zelia, and Achi dice her mother. A recapitulation of former events, exultation upon the pres ent fortunate state of their affairs, and those flattering, though some W, he fe, 1 times delusive hopes of future, prosperity, which in certain situations pervade every human bosom, consumed a considerable space of time, but not more than was necessary, as they were obliged to wait the arrival of a Turkish coach which had been dispatched by the Beglerbeg te convey the ladies to Bagdat, but which did not travel quite so fast as the chariot of the sun, the chariot of young Mustapha, or indeed the chariot to which, of old, Porus harnessed his elephants. However fast or slow this vehicle came at last, surrounded by a troop of Spahis, who had been appointed as a guard of honour and safe conduct to the lovely passengers. The time that had been spent in conversation, congratulation, and cxultation, it now appeared, might by a part of the company, have been better employed. The car are like the ladies in every other part of the world; unconscious of their personal attractions, they dare not at all times trust to nature, and therefore, from a self diffidence, highly commendable, are laudibly careful upon every grand occasion to call, or rather press into their service that ingenious handmaid, ART. This was most particularly the case with the beautiful Zelia, who hurried as she was, yet found, or rather created time to adorn her person in a style far superior to her late station. The wardrobe of her mother, which till this blissful moment had been carefully concealed from her, afforded her amply the means, and her own genius and taste so well directed their application that when she is sued from her chamber she seemed to move like Venus, just risen from the toilet of the graces. The eyes of her lover, ardent and passionate as young Musta riages were ready, the Spahis drew their sabres, and Zornestan was upon the point of ordering them to march, when a considera-pha certainly was, were scarcely ble difficulty occurred. The female conclave, who had been some time in consultation, came to an unanimous resoulution that it was indispensably necessary for them to make an alteration in their dress and that in fact it was impossible for them to appear at court in the Wa coarse garb of cottagers. from sak The ladies of Assyria, as we And from a careful perusal of the nost sacred and profane writers, more enchanted with her facinating appearance, than were those of old Zornestan, her father He embraced his wife with tenderness when she presented her to him, and gazed with a rapture which only a parent could feel at his newly recovered daughter, while he gave her hand to the youth, who conducted her to the carriage, wherein he had just placed his mother. (To be concluded next week.) For the Lady's Miscellany. Messrs. Editors, Please to insert the following in your useful Miscellany, and you will confer a particular favor on A SUBSCRIBER THE pale radiance of the moon, it having in its splendour just elimbed the summit of yon highest hills, and the uncommon beauty of the evening, having put me in a state of mind for serious thinking, I was involuntarily led to contemplate the difference that exists between a Married and single life. Such beings as bachelors, were, I presume, never intended by the allwise creator of the universe.When God had finished the creation of the heavens and the earth, "He formed man of the dust of the ground; and he said it is not good that man should be alone." From this I think it will appear to every person capable of the least reflection, that it is in fact a duty enjoined on us, by our Creator, to enter into the marriage state, as soon as age and circumstances make it prudent. A bachelor being therefore a kind of creature never intended by nature, fitted not for social enjoyments, endowed with self-love in abundance, a kind of illegitimate understanding, with so much acidity mixed with his judgment, that it sours every thing that perchance comes within its comprehension. Thus formed, he sallies forth into the world, beloved by no one, detested by almost every one. He beholdeth the works of creation, but enjoyeth them not. He lives the time out allotted to him here below, and dies unlamented. Such is he who never enjoyed the felicity attendent on the married state. We will now for a few moments take a short view of him, who has with the utmost prudence and caution taken to himself a wife, who is to be the partner of his pleasures and pains in this life: whose mind is as gentle and soft as the evening breeze: whose temper is as sweet as the dew on the full blown rose whose manners are affable and engaging in short, who is in every respect formed to make a man as completely happy as it was intended he should be in this world. The happiness that this man enjoys, cannot be justly portrayed. His felicity is continu-ally augmenting, and as it moves, strengthens in its course. It is supplied from numerous sources, and depends in a great measure on others. When he returns home at eve from his daily employment, he is met by his smiling wife, and more than amply repaid for all his toils, by the prattling of his little ones. He retires to his downy pillow, there to recline his head on the snowy bosom of his lovely wife, and enjoys that felicity, which you, "outcasts of nature," have ye poor offence to somebody, or casting a blemish upon my character, for hav not the hearts to dare to enjoying raised expectations which I His home is a little heaven. At his board plenty is seen-smiling economy its guardian. Generosity is seen stamped on his door, and joy is seen capering around him. All is contentment and peace. And when he has finished his earthly course here on earth, his eyes are closed in peace, by his weeping family, and he is translated from earth to heaven, there again to open his eyes to eternal happiness. Therefore be wise, and choose for yourselves. ORMOND. Thursday Evening, Aug. 16th. For the Lady's Miscellany. Messrs. Editors, never intended to gratify. Of such a nature is the one I am about to ask your advice upon. You must know then, I have been some time in the habit of visiting a lady in the vicinity, who has lately taken it into her head that I am her lover. As I never intended to give the lady any ground for such an opinion, having always studiously avoided making any declaration of that sort. I am very much at a loss to know from what circumstances of my behaviour, she can possibly draw such an inference. This however, is not so much my concern, as it is to know how I shall withdraw myself from her company, with propriety, or without incurring her indignation, upon discovering what she will immediately call a deception upon my part, for having visited her in the character of a lover where I never intended to make her my wife.What adds to the difficulty of my case is, that all her friends and ac I AM the same person who applied to you some time ago, for advice upon the subject of asaociating with women. As I am unfor-quaintances entertain the same tunate in my propensities, so I am unfortunate in my indulgence of them. My disposition is of such a peculiar nature and habit, that I almost invariably give way to it, and follow it without the least regard to prudence or propriety. By this means, I often fall into very disagreeable perplexities, and it is with the greatest difficulty imaginable that I am able to extricate myself from them, without giving opinion with herself; and will all undoubtedly join in the cry against me, as an ungenerous man, and a vile and abominable deceiver. In such a critical case it becomes me to act with the utmost caution, lest I be guilty of some unpardonable folly, which may, perhaps, ruin me in the opinion of the women. would give me great grief, if in my attempts to avoid one misfortune, I should by some gross blunder, It |
