earth,—and marriage, I am afraid, will ever be needed as a protection for beauty and virtue against the wickedness and wiles of men."

You are on your

"Bravo, most reverend father in God!" exclaimed the young lady; "you can preach as well as fight. Indeed, divinity and slaughter have always kept together, and the church militant is a brave church, when a true saint takes up the sword, he smites full sorely. way to court, where you will find that the new philosophy has loosened the rusty chains of chivalrous etiquette; our ladies are grown approachable creatures, and will set themselves gladly to the conversion of a proud islander. An Englishman soon surrenders his antique and semi-barbarous opinions to the persuasions of a handsome dame whose heart has been opened by the new philosophy." "You hear, Chevalier Paul Jones," said the Marquis," how eloquently my daughter can talk of this new feeling which has come upon old France. Ah! she pours out her persuasive words sometimes for a whole hour while she distributes alms to wandering philosophers at our gate, and the more ample her largesse the louder is their applause. She demeans herself, too, in the spirit of her doctrine; to some of the handsomest of the rustic youths of the district she gives the fraternal embrace par example, and an universal hug runs through Havre, tending much to exalt the new philosophy and augment his majesty's subjects."

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He paused, shrugged his shoulders, elevated his eyebrows, turned to his quadruped companion, and said, "Ah! Monsieur Baboon, you come from the greenwood, where man and beast run free as fair nature made them. Open your lips then and preach up the new philosophy,-you practised it long you know. Baron Monboddo will hail you as a brother, and, utter what you will, you cannot speak more foolishly than he writes, and on that he grounds his argument. Speak, Monsieur Philosopher Baboon,-aid brother Monboddo,—your empire is about to be re-established on earth, and you and all your tribes will eat your nuts in freedom if you munch them in the spirit of the new philosophy."

The Marquis uttered this with a bitterness of heart which he was unable to conceal. Between him and this new philosophy, which seemed in a fair way of carrying his daughter off her feet, there appeared little sympathy. His domestic repose had been invaded by the demon which misdirected learning let loose upon the earth. All that had animated him in youth-rank, honour, and religion-seemed on the point of being overflooded by a torrent which came to destroy rather than to purify, and he thought the hour at hand when the noble would have to contend with the clown for precedence and power. The war into which his country precipitated herself, more from a hatred to England than from love of freedom and sympathy

for America, took the demon by the hand, and hurried it on its way. Resistance to oppression and the rights of civil liberty were freely discussed by an eager and enthusiastic people. The liquor was strange and delightful which was held to their lips, and no wonder they became intoxicated. They could not but see that the grievances of which America complained, and for which they freely perilled life and all, were shadows compared with their own. All honour, all office, all influence, were usurped by the Bourbons. Rank in the army, like the prophet's rod, devoured all lesser enchantments, and the only way to the heart of the monarch was the military way. The people beheld with envy, and then with resentment, this ridiculous love for show and glitter. As learning showed them their strength, and the example of America read them a lesson, they began to despise oppression, and question the power of one man over another; and, plundered by taxmasters, insulted by the army, and oppressed by their nobles and their sovereign, they hailed every chance of change as a blessing. Thus they were ripe for the reception of all opinions which taught disobedience to kings, which proposed to restore man to his natural dignity, which sought to sap the strength of the strong, and free the people from the tyranny of the court and army, and the dominion of legions of monks, who were to the

bestial train of despotic government what the sting is to the scorpion.

After many a ducking nod from the Governor and smile from his daughter, and admonition respecting the new philosophy, Paul left Havre-deGrace behind, and pursued his way on horseback towards Paris. He saw on all sides as he went the tokens of ignorance and despotism. He could not help contrasting the image of slavery before him with that of independence, which he had left among his native hills; and it required that he should recall in bitterness of spirit the oppressions of provincial tyrants to brighten the landscape on which he now looked, and to render it endurable. The end which he wished to attain hallowed in his imagination the means, and he considered the might of monarchical France, now freely employed in the contest for American independence, as a dexterous application of a dangerous remedy, and a kind of calling of lightning from the cloud to kindle a fire which might warm without consuming the hand which conducted it. This warfare for liberty, he thought, would impart to France some of the lessons of freedom which she was aiding America in teaching England, and he had in his own mind given her a limited monarchy and a free constitution, when his reverie was interrupted by his countryman, Macgubb, who rode side by side with his commander, careless of all etiquette

due to rank, and feeling that in his own esteem no man was his superior.

"Now, Heaven be praised!" exclaimed the Galwegian, as a clump of oak and elm rose green before him, "we are in the land of civilization at last. Yon green tree bears the fruit of the law. I see the dark outlines of two scoundrels who infested the surface of the earth dangling between me and the blue sky. Mistress Mercy is a capital lass; but Justice Gibbet,-blessed be the gift of discovering right from wrong!-follows in the track of education as crows follow the plough, while it turns the furrow to make a meal of the worms. We have no trees which bear such fruit in Scotland; but then we are not half civilized. Hilloah! I see a whole forest of such fruit-trees,-let all praise be given to the grand Monarque; he finds out many ways to exalt his subjects."

Paul looked, and beheld along the winding bank of the river a round dozen of human figures blackening in the sun and wind; while beneath them the vine-pruner sung amid his vines, and beside them the recumbent shepherd carolled to his flock. "For what crime, friend Mounseer," said Macgubb to a shepherd reposing himself in the shadow of the gibbets," are these honest fellows doomed to feast the flies of the air and keep the sunshine from you?" The peasant turned himself lazily, and replied, "Cannot just say-for murder or some such thing, I believe; but the King knows