proceeded from accell near that of the condemned man to whom I had been paying a visit, and where, as the jailer informed me, Edward Petley was confinedes The illness with which that unhappy person was afflicted seized him in the dock, and never left him after It seemed as if the hand of his victim, when laid upon his shoulder, had been filled with some deadly pois son for the shivering which came over him at the time, and to which all within the court were Leye wit nesses, ceased not to agitate his frame too the last. He was supported back to prison in a violent fit of the ague, and it soon became manifest that his life was in danger!! bit vb have been of no avails for the good woman's constitution never recovered the injury which many weeks of acute agitation inflicted upon it. She lived, indeed, to see her son, not only restored to his former respectable condition in life, but put in command of the very evessel which her had all along been meant to command ; and she died at last blessing God for his mercies here, and humbly trusting to be ad mitted as a participator in his still greater mercios hereafter une to robį As to the Petleys, the younger of the two breathed his last a few hours af ter his confession had been signed, and was buried in the churchyard of Maidstone Hisubones were not rel moved to pollute the cemetery of his native parish, and no stone was erected to his memory! Of the others the fate is uncertain. Zachariah, ா true, underwent his For some days he bore his illness in stubborn silence; but as the danger increased,ceremorse began to rack his mind, and strange expressions to es cape his lips. It was dny the horn ing of the Tuesday, on the very day doubtless herding and is preceding the execution, that, after a severe contest, he desired to see the chaplain, and to him made a full con fession of his own guilt, and (a full declaration of Will's innocence. The story which Will had told was, it ap peared, accuratelys correct. 16He, the dying man, shot the exciseman, whilst his brother cut his throat, having wounded Brockman in the hand when attempting to wresto the knife from him. Nor was this the only piece of intelligence which he conveyed. He exposed a series of frauds and crimes, in which Joseph Sly had taken an ac tive part; and the whole being care fully noted down and read over to him, he signed it as his dying decla ration. With grounds so clear to act upon, there was no difficulty whatever in obtaining the royal pardon, the ar rival of which had been thus long de layed only by the absence from town of the Secretary of State for the home department. LOVITO kend Little now oremains for me to add. Brockman, as a matter of course, was set at liberty, and his mental suffer ings during the period of his impris sonment, especially since sentence of death was passed upon shim, being considered as a sufficient punishment of his offence against the revenue, all charges from that quarter were drop ped. From his mother the real peril of his case was, however, carefully concealed till many weeks after her return into the country; nor was shes even then made acquainted with it, till to keep it longer a secret would day, with beings as wicked as himself; but of the father, the sister, and Tom, no account has reached us. Neither is anything accurately known of the destiny of Joseph 8ly. About six months after these events I read, indeed, in one of the London papers, that one Josiah Turpin, alias Joseph Sly, had suffered the punishment due to burglary under aggravated circumstances ; but whether the person alluded to was my former travelling companion, I had no opportunity to learn. Dipoo I as dova Of Will Brockman I never heard anything but what was favourable, from the moment of his liberation. Hiswgood sense soon taught him to shake off the remains of an attach ment so misplaced as that with which he had bound himself to Harriet Petley; nor has hej as far as I know? permitted any other to arise in its room. The direction of his trading voyages, which are effected between London and Hamburgh, do not permit him to pay frequent visits to St Alphage; but whenever he comes, he fails not to bring presents of rare and valuable articles to me and to my household. Of course a cover is als ways laid for him at our table, and it not unfrequently happens, that we refer back, in our conversations over our wine, to past events. On such he always touches with becoming serious ness and solemnity, and never fails to thank God that he is no longer a slave to the habits, or exposed to the risks, which invariably accompany the ca reer of THE SMUGGLER. toon for TALES OF THE V et poleren en bedinol bus werg, Esteretai vizeiluseq sist I doidw ai -95 lavastey to scideana on kas sariot to selima od uogiv Iridsleed wo JUSTAW Vidieog blno.misadoq Koh carbs to Tidur Terle edT WEDDINGO Sebas eldienste ils to 430 200g a canoboste rod covig tomoy ed io game de Forres aborib av sted Mist sw od rojte! dords of awo rieds edades AFTER passing two winters pleasantly, and I trust not unprofitably, among the literary and hospitable circles of Geneva, whither I had been sent to complete my education, and to confirm a somewhat uncertain state of health; found myself, towards the close of the second season, so thoroughly domesti cated among the principal inhabitants of that truly agreeable city, as to be received into their fetes de famille, on a footing rarely attainable by those birds of passage, who flit across the delightful banks of the Leman, or those of our too exclusively national countrymen, whom shyness, ignorance of the French language, or indiscriminate contempt for everything foreign, often so unaccountably estrange from the friendly and cultivated people among whom it is their fate or choice to reside.atthew Loroirdest-blo ms sd of S From contrast probably with such unprepossessing specimens of English sauvagerie, I became in a peculiar manner the enfant gate of the kind-hearted Genevese; ransacked the cabinets, and trespassed on the leisure of a Pictet or Saussure; talked politics, "aux choux et aux raves, with those sapient syndics (whose once formidable trenches are, by the by, now happily devoted to the cultivation of these useful vegetables); read poetry, and spoke sentiment with agreeable matrons, whose slight tinge of pedantry I began to think not unbecoming; and, above all, was a privileged member of one of those Sociétés de Dimanche, into which foreigners so rarely penetrate, and which, while they so curiously isolate from each other sisters even of the same family, unite young people born in the same year in ties of friendship and intimacy, seldom, if ever, dissolved. Qabuedand The Societé into which I had gained admission, (by the rule which, on the marriage of one female member, permits her husband henceforward to introduce young men of his acquaintance,) was held at the house of Madame de N, whose twin daughters owed to the peculiarity of their birth, the rare advantage of belonging to the same coterie. The younger (by a few minutes) of these lovely girls, had been married some months before to a young Englishman, a fellow-boarder and particular friend of mine, under whose auspices I gained admittance to the delightful assemblage; and truly, with all my regard for the intrinsic qualities of my country folks, I have often, since my return to England, when yawning at a ball, squeezed to death at a rout, or doing penance at a card-table, looked back with something akin to regret, on the rational festivity, innocent mirth, and thousand little jeux de société, which enlivened these reunions of young people; where (although from the earliest period of their assembling, no parent or elderly person ever dreams of being present) all is conducted with the utmost order, decorum, and propriety; while the absence of those swarms of dowagers, whose pursuits of card playing and diamond displaying, nay, even (would they only believe it) whose still more serious affair of husband-hunting for their daughters, might be quite as advantageously carried on in another room; certainly gives to a Genevese soirée can air of youthful enjoyment, rarely to be detected in the formal assemblies of what, with us, is called the gay world. erb es são on doidw to nigizo Winter passed away unheeded amid these innocent recreations. The snow began to disappear from the lower ranges of the mountains, the birds to sing, and the trees to bud; and pleasure parties to the neighbouring Campagnes, superseded the more sedentary amusements of the young Genevese. Among the other blossoms put forth at this genial season, more than one youthful partiality, which had lain folded in its little bud during the dark days of winter, began to peep out, and expand into an avowed attachment. Some of these, alas! were nipt with chilling frosts of mutual poverty; some withered under the frowns of parental severity; some languished on, nourished only by distant hopes, on which any other plant would h have starved; but one, at least, in which I felt peculiarly interested, grew and flourished as prosperously as its own healthful vigour, the smiles of fortune, and the sunshine of parental approbation, could possibly warrant. de N had (in the well-judged absence of the elder daughter of Mada promote sucli an attachment) spontaneously to given her affections to a young man evt additional recommendation of an way worthy of her; and who possessed, in the eyes of her parents, the descendanting their own, to estate latter he was also, failing their own direct heir-at-haw. Never did Cupid, who usually takes mischievous pleasure in playing at cross-purposes with children and parents, so complai santly play into the hands of the latter, without in the least infringing on one article of his immemorial treaty offensive and defensive with the former. Nor did the monotony of happiness, produced by this concurrence of opinions on all sides, appear in the least tedious to those immediately concerned; although I must confess we bystanders, having exhausted our light artillery of small wit on a pair of lovers too much in earnest to laugh, and too happy to be an gry were not sorry to have, as summer advanced, the fadeur of courtship enlivened by the bustle of a wedding. Voonchi n It was to be an old-fashioned wedding too, at M. de N's beautiful chateau some miles from Geneva; and in addition to every accessible relation on both sides, and the female members of Emilie's société, a merry group of students, and other companions of the bridegroom (of whom I made one), were to share in the festivities of the day, and the concluding ball of the evening. *All went off charmingly. Though there were abundance of tears, they only served to enhance the brilliancy of the smiles which succeeded. There was no bitter parting of parent and child; no laceration of youthful friendships; no estrangement from well-known objects and familiar haunts. The bride (who did not, à la mode Anglaise, deem it necessary to run away from her own bridal festivities) had only, when these should be over, to adjourn half a mile to her husband's Campagne; in short, the old people had gained a son, without Tosing a daughter. The ceremony took place carly in the day, previous to a dinner, or or rather collation, which, from the number of the guests, and fineness of the weather, was laid out in the garden; reserving the spacious salons for the ball, and its joyous concluding supper. During dinner, the solemnity was too recent for the free indulgence of a festive spirit; some hearts were too full, others beat too audibly to admit of any being quite at case, except a few veteran wedding guests not too particularly interested, whose privileged jests, and often practised feux de joie, prevented the pre-occupation of the chief actors from being observed. The first sound, however, of the fiddles, which summoned us from table, dispelled all remains of gravity; and the dancing (which, according to the laudable practice of this primitive country, was to conclude, not commence, with midnight,) went on with a spirit and glee, which those only who have seen a room full of Swiss whirling in their favourite Allemande, can duly estimate: b Supper was served precisely at that happy moment, when our spirits, absolutely exhausted by genuine enjoyment, required a pause from bodily exertion; but no sooner had the flasks of Champagne and Rheinwein begun to circulate than songs, in which mirth was more conspicuous than melody, and waggery supplied the place of wit, were heard from all quarters. Impromptus, the origin of which no one was disposed to investigate, were applauded with goodhumoured indulgence; nay, we even went so far as to look grave when the influence of Bacchus upon certain softer spirits, gave rise to sentimental and pathetic effusions. In short, it was a truly happy party; but the fatigues of the day began at length to dispose the elder and less jovial members of the circle to seek repose; and their example was reluctantly followed by those to whom the spacious chateau was to afford accommodation for the night. Half a dozen young men, however, (of whom I was one,) were not included in this privileged number; and having forgotten to provide ourselves with an order for opening the city gates-on wedding occasions rarely refused-we joyfully embraced the proposal of our good host to beguile around the festive board the few remaining hours of night. Marshalling, therefore, in one privileged corner, a few yet unopened flasks, and flanking them by a pile of walnuts as high as Mont Blanc itself, we drew in our chairs, bestowing a shrug of contempt on the recreant votaries of Morpheus. Wit and Champagne sparkled for a while with rival brilliancy, but as the latter became exhausted, the former began to flag; and we listened eagerly to a proposal made by one of the party, a droll little German Baron, that we should vary the evening's amusement, by each relating the most singular occurrence connected with a wedding, with which his memory should furnish him,currence The proposal was carried by acclamation, as one of two of the party were quite in the humour of narrating; while the less loquacious ones flattered themselves that daylight would operate a division in their favour." The Baron, as proposer of the measure, was of course to begin. Next to him sat a young officer of the Gardes Suisses, lately returned from Paris on a visit to his friends the head of the table had been taken by the primitive but interesting pastor of a Protestant parish in the mountains, who, as a relation of the family, had come to perform the ceremony, and who, on the same account, had remained with us to do the honours, though provided with a bed. On his left sat a young banker's son from a neighbouring villa, who preferred giving up a night's rest, to disturbing his family at an unseasonable hour; and myself, of whom it need only be said, that I trusted my being the youngest, and my reputation for English taciturnity, would get me out of the scrape. ad be badgurah All eyes now turned towards the little Baron, who, laying down the pipe, which seemed to be the source of his inspiration, and turning disconsolately upside down one bottle which had escaped previous scrutiny, twisted his droll features into an expression of ludicrous mock-solemnity, and thus began l Baunaciovane ai prod NOVO A WEDDING AT COLLEGE. " ito de 917 ira € Most of you are aware that I was educated at Heidelberg, and whether from the predilection usually entertained for the scene of our youthful joys and sorrows, the intrinsic merits of the place, or, more probably, a mix 2 precate our causeless displeasure, and court us back again. Among many less justifiable pieces of "renowning" which occurred dur ing my stay, there was one prank savoured so much more of good ture of both, I continued to retain for bond originality than the rest, it a partiality which I believe is common to all who have ever resided there. Its delightful situation on the banks of the Neckar its smiling environsand, above all, the venerable remains of its splendid electoral palace, with the charming gardens which surround it the only ones, by the by, addressing himself to me, that I have ever seen which at all happily imitate those of England-all combine to leave a most agreeable impression on the mind even of a passing traveller. In mine, however, they are inseparably associated with ideas of a more personal and ludicrous character; with those boyish pranks, and more unpardonable outrages which rendered the Bürschen at once the plague and terror of the peaceable inhabitants, who, depending at the same time on these very rioters for their existence and prosperity, were sometimes tempted to send us fairly to the devil, and then very fain to de and which is moreover so apropos to our present design, that I cannot help relating it; though I grieve to say, that my youth and inexperience in love affairs, prevented my participating more than generally in the glory it reflected on the Burschen of Heidelberg Among the various professors from whom our high mightinesses of Heidelberg condescended to imbibe the principles of science, there were, heaven knows, originals enough; such as no man who has not been at a German university can easily picture to himself. There was a long, thin, threadpaper of a Mecklenburger, with sallow visage, and a fiery spot on his cheek, who had lived so long, like cameleon, upon the thin air of scepticism, that he would have scrupled to affirm his own existence, and taught us to doubt ours, had we not possessed, to counterbalance this dangerous incre-, dulity, good round Dr Weiss from XIA JOV Stuttgard, who believed everything, even the Frankfort Gazette. We had a professor of theology, who privately professed Atheism; and a lecturer on Jurisprudence, who was eternally in love, and waltzed till he turned topsy-docile disposition, and would, in her turvy all the heterogeneous furniture own person, have been but avslender of his brain. But the most curious of tax cupon his surveillance but uns all our originals, the very beau-ideal luckily that person was of such extra of an old-fashioned German professor, ordinary beauty, ass to render it the found in Dr Müllner, the general mark for the whole firetiof teacher of mathematics, an elderly university gallantries; and Rose could man, who had contrived to combine se not stira out without being followed by the conscientious discharge of his duty a troop of Bürschen, whom not all the to society by marrying and becoming terrors of the doctor's wig could pre a father, with what he looked upon as vent from fluttering around his trea-s a providential escape from the plague o sure. If she went to church, billets and company of womankind, a da bolidoux dropped from between the leaves His poor wife (whom some said he of her own prayer-book ifosher staid chose for being of a consumptive has at home, copies of verses flow in at bit) only lived to give birth to at the windows. They were fragrantly daughter; and as the very idea of a cand classically inserted in the bouquets child's being reared under histeroof of flower venders and vulgarly, but threatened equal annoyance to the pan ingeniously, imbedded in the very rent, and neglect to the hapless pursoq heart of the brown loaf. When the ling itself one of those calumniated alarmed father, in a transport of pai maiden aunts, whose gratuitous la rental anxiety, immured his fair charge bours in the cause of benevolence and from amusement and society, his winsociety are shamefully under-rated, dows were unceremoniously broken, stepped forward to their mutual relief, and his barbarity celebrated under and educated the lovely little estrains of true with the zeal and tenderness of a mother. Drake other "angel visits, her life, and while his daughter's, like other angel visits," were few and far between," the father sometimes laid down Euclid, or the Allgemeine Zeitung, to admire the rapid growth and striking beauty of his child; and, provided she neither disturbed the sacred dust of his bookshelves, nor interrupted his afternoon nap, rather enjoyed than tolerated her innocent vivacity. When, how ever, on the sudden death of Rose's maternal friend, Dr Müllner became involved in the necessary evil of a young woman's constant residence under his own roof; such an infringement on his scientific leisure proved almost too much for his philosophy, Naturally upright and well-meaning, he entertained a high idea of the parental character; and forthwith set about the discharge of its supposed functions with that ludicrous sort of half importance, half distress, you have all no doubt admired in the luck less hen, whose instinctive ideas of right and wrong are totally set at fault by the aberrations of a brood of truant ducklings; or rather, consider ing the solitary nature of his parental VOL. XIX. Bürschen elo murderous alike of sleep and algebra. If, to get rid of these serenades, and restore the smiles to Rose's lovely cheek, he permitted her again to join her companions, his fancy was haunted by images, almost alike formidable, of boyish bride grooms or more experienced seducers. In short, the life of the poor professor was rendered an unsupportable bur-o den; and the mathematical precision of his ideas so cruelly unhinged, as to be clearly capable of demonstrating this sole proposition, viz. that one daughter is equal to any given numi ber of devils! ligged in te doifw neos At length, one evening, after a more than usually refreshing and invigora ting nap, (ushered in by the dulcet voice of poor Rose, performing her daily task of reading the Frankfort Gazette, till the nasal organs of hers auditor informed her that her fune-d tions had terminated,) Dr Müllnero found himself, as it were, inspired a with the brilliant idea of putting anq end at once to his anxieties and re sponsibility by one decisive step. I so many idle and penny less youths a aspired to the favour of Rose, might not such a jewel be more adequately 4 A |