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C:)L-RTLt)L;YL, _) C'JCln;.r:;ESS. Let it be distinctly understood, then, that to be courteous is one thing, and to be courtly is another. The one refers to the disposition—the other to the external behaviour. The one is a virtue-the othcr 1<; an accomplishment. The one is grace of chr;1.ctcr: it resides in the soul, and consists in tne benevolence of an amiable temper. The other is -,rac, of manner: it may be seen in the outward appearance, and consists in the elegance of a fasbionable exterior. A man may be courteous without being courtly. To learn the virtue of the text, it is not necessary to go to court, or be prac- tised in the ceremonials of fine and polished society. Courteousness is the virtue of all ranks: it may be seen in the cottage as -well as in the palace in the artificer's shop as well as in the gay and fashionable assembly in the awkwardness of a homely and untutored peasant, as well as in the reilned condescension of a prince who wakens rapture in every heart, and spreads fascination and joy around his circle of delighted visitors. It is of importance not to confound what is so essentially dif- ferent. A man may have civility without a particle of ferent. A ii)a-n in;iy h,ive c-,vllitv v.-ithout -t of cle of civility.— TAKING JONATHAN* IT HIS WORD. He, the late Col. Tidy, was one evening silting in tiie coffee-room of the well-known Blue Posts at Portsmouth quietly engaged in reading a newspaper, when a party of ofifcers of the American navy strolled in, and began to talk very loudly of their rights and privileges, the advantages of their mode of government, and the supe- riority of their nation in the world. Although an un- willing listener to this bombast, Colonel (then captain) Tidy continued apparently engaged with his paper, until he was especially addressed bv ohc of these officers, wlw chaliengeù his opinion as to the rights of American precedency over England herself. The former would willingly have declined the discussion, but the latter persisted on carrying it on. Finding that he could elicit no reply, he at la,t raised his voice, and thus attracted the notice of several new-comers:—"Now," pursued the American. how can you talk of freedom of opinion? Why, you look upon your king as dif- ferent to other :11En you dare not give your true opi- nion about him, you know you dare not. Now, ire may say what we like about our government" — hero the speaker elevated his voles—" we cin d—n otir but you can't d—n your king." Very well," con- tinued Captain Tidy, speaking calmly, but decidedly and distinctly, lJ-n your president with allmv heart." —Mrs. Ward's Recollections of an Old Soldier. OWEN T IT Oil BEFORE HE SEES THII WOM.II. "Castino- to one of his attendants a loner mantle of j wolf-skins which he wore fastened round his throat by the gilded paw:, üf the same animal, and Wllidl was co- vered with sra-froth, and removing his cap of similar material to shake the spray from its heavy phime of white heror's feathers, and from his own thick, curling, golden brown hair, where it glimmered like dew on the l?Ininierec l 11: 1 .e detv ()Il t, blossoms of the laburnum, a figure and countenance ap- peared which would have rivetted the admiration or' a painter or of a sculptor. Either might have taken it as ? ta,?eii it a., a perfect mod,,], in stature, Proportions, and rich eolour- ing, for the robust beauty of the hunter whom the Queen of Love iuvcd; or perhaps, from the herv, hd.ughty, ;j,[](¡ ¡ unpctuo? character of the phy??aomy,' though still in the eariiest and almost womanly bloom of youth, as aa ideal of the young Achilles when he passed for a nymph among the da-rrhtn-s of the ocean, and the moment, approached in which he rushed to seize the shield and spear which revealed his sex and warlike in- stincts to the craft of LTvsses! His naturally very fait complexion was of a ruddy, sunny hue, with exposure to the various moods of the changeable mountain skies and the rude exercises to which his fine but very powerful I and active frame was evidently aeeustomctl, I he free- dom and during of the mountaineer were all in his ges- tures, and above all in the wild, varying, eagie-like flash of his large steel-blue eyes, which seemed yet, by the rapid shadow which darkened them as his glance fell on the messenger, capable of expressing the deepest and ¡ gloomiest passions of humanity as vividly as those of martial or amorous ar(,otir-to which, ii,(Iee(l, the fierce and glowing blood of the Cymbri almost equally prompts those in whose vcins its flows. When to these personal characteristics of the young voyager we add those of his garb-his short frock, or tunic, of home-spun but most brilliantly hued plaid, the light breastplate of silver niail; the belt, in which was set a short sword, the cross- Low fastened by a loose scarf over his shoulders, the un- dressed deerskin boots, and the trujdcn coll,n ,yhich clasped his snowy woollen shirt at the throat and de- clared the nobiiitv of the wearer—there was scarcelv a peasant of the isle or neighbouring mountains who would not have recognized young Owen Tudor of Penmynydd, or, as he was more popularly and poetically styled, the Flowering Oak of the Hill."—From Oicm Tudor, bv G. P. it. James. | C,J, T:IE-\VK. The career ofTrenck (the Croat noble, whose memoirs made him famous; had been a dramatic one; but the denouement was never dreamt of by either the autobio- grapher himsc] f, or any of the philosophic men of qua- lity who supped and epigrammatised on the eve of the great convulsion and Trenck, who piaycd a conspicuous part in the age of Frederick and .Maria T heresa, became an unseen supernumerary in the catastrophe of the rc- volution. Oil the 7th Thenuiuor of the year 2 of the republic, a man of gigantic stature, six feet and a half high at least, appeared before the revolutionary irtlititial, charged with being a secret agent of the; King of Prus- sia. This was Trenck, then verging on his seventieth year. You are accused," said President Herman, of being implicated in the conspiracy of the despots of Eu- rope against the freedom of the French nation. A letter liar. been intercepted iu which you express yourself in the most equivocal terms on the recent eveuts," "It is false," said Trenck. "Thprp." continued he, holding up iiis wrists, are the sears of my fetters I have for some time had no deaiings with the great who treated me so shamefully. I dare you to repeat the aCt¡¡stio¡¡." This made seme impression on the president; so, after a pause, he said: lint vou were in correspondence with the Emperor Joseph." "1 was," said '1 rcnck "but that was long ago. Allow me to explain '• It is ,ti-lyd Yu,,iqtiier ami before four o'clock fourteen eases most be de<"ded. There is no time to lose." No time to lose!" said Trenck, scorn- fully; do you call hearing the defease of an innocent man losing time I was for more than ten years loaded with cha'.i; *>vie • •. ioriunate chance relieved me; and foe dug my liberty to be an unspeakable blessing, I resolved t() be a useful member of society. I married fie daughter of the burgomaster of Ais-lu-CHapello, and devoted myself to trade, military science,and literature. Durinor the years 7, I travelled in Franec and England,and gained tiie friendship of the great Franklin, the man of spartan virtue out the death of the great Maria Theresa Take care," said fluier Tinvilie, how you pronouns the eulogy of crowned heads in the sanctuary of justice." After the death of the great Ma.a T^ej-es.^ ^jr] Trenck, with emphasis, I returned to the Danube, and built my farm house. Yes, the man uhom you accuse of being an aris- tocrat was the fi:»nd of Franklin, an d followed the plough in the plain of Zwerbach. Since 17"! I have live(lj¡¡ Pari", and devoted myself h the Plit,);] turn ,.1' works of niiitv- If 1 have frequented the clubs, it is because, as a foreigner, I ('o:t1d have had no influence." Fouquier Tinvilie then declared him to be not onlv an ari^tucrat, but to have taken part in the mutiny of th" prison at St. Lazare. To which Trench vainly answered that for an innocent pi isoner to deliver himself from durance vile v.as iu strict accordance with the principles of the revolution. 11 is hour had come the guillotine gaped fur his neck, and on the same ev riing Trenck met his doom.Patj/i'.i Highlands and h'oadu of the Ad- f

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