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any thing at this time, that could have a tendency to excite my feelings of bitterness towards my species, to stir up the bile in my bosom and render me truly devilish, the sight of this man is the most proper agent to effect it. He and I have started into life you well know, under pretty much the same circumstances; he was a school-mate of mine after you had left me; but while I was pouring over Virgil, he drank largely from the fount of Gough and Jess. While I was unravelling the entangled points of Coke and Comyns, he was studying the solvency of his fellow men; while I was struggling for a a licensed parchment, he was full tilt in pursuit of endorsed paper; while I was biggling with an obdurate client, he was chaffering for a negro; and while he was amassing wealth, I remained poor. Heaven knows, I do not envy him his ill-gotten wealth; but I will confess, Frank, that it cuts me to the heart to see this man, noted as a scoundrel, taken by the hand and treated as a gentleman, while 1, who have the reputation of being my own worst enemy, am passed by as a mere incumbrance on society."

"True it is," I replied, "but thus has it been, thus will it always continue to be: the predominant and leading guides of human nature have thus directed it. Mortifying as is the confession, yet it is the fact, that self-interest, and that too of the most sordid kind will ever sway; and feeling, principle and shame, will continue to be the sacrifices offered at the shrine of mammon. The neglected child of genius and the depressed victim of poverty, may rail at the illiberality of their species, yet so great is the inconsistency of human nature, that if the chance for

lucre is afforded even to them, the air drawn visions of excellence and kindness, with which they amused their fancies, will be speedily dissipated into nothingness. They will grasp at the shadow of gain, although in the effort, humanity, charity and honour, will escape. There are exceptions to this principle, but they are as grains of gold amongst sand; and the search for either will be attended with similar consequences. But a medium course, totally removed from meanness or imprudence, is the sure road to happiness, respect and honour. Strike into that, my dear fellow, and your chance for these three blessings is sure." My friend smiled, but it was a sudden gleam of sunshine over a cloud; for he sunk into a reverie of sadness from which he did not arouse for some time. At last he started up and caught me by the hand: "Frank," said he, "your remarks are just and I feel their effect; it is my own imprudence and thoughtless disregard which 1 must correct; but in doing so I shall be forced to remove from my native place; there is an association of habits and feelings connected with it which would be an eternal bar to my success.

We separated, and in a few days afterwards he departed to the west; he has been gone for many years, yet I have often heard from him. In his letters, he informed me that he had profited by my parting advice: that instead of cursing the world, he had cautiously conformed to its customs; that he had thriven by his profession, had risen from one post to another, and when I last heard from him, he was Judge of a Circuit Court in one of the Western States." "Well," exclaimed my uncle, "I

thought that young fellow would come out well; I admired his manner at the tavern. It put me so much in mind of poor Tom Fuzee when he used to strut among the tory landlords. Here's to his health."

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The company dispersed late in the evening; and in a day or two afterwards, I left Jo Tank for the upper country. I have since been over the greater part of the continent. I have mingled in the circles of fashion, and have participated in all the pleasures which are afforded in our most splendid cities. I have danced at Castle Garden, and encored at the Theatre Francois. I have oft been enraptured with the feasts of sense, and dazzled by the witcheries of the eye, yet often while in possession of their full enjoyment, have I with a sigh reverted to the heartcheering, republican festivities of Jo Tank. It is in little districts like this, that the far-famed and long enduring hospitality of the Old Dominion is yet to be found. Like the vestal fire which was kept alive amid the ruins of imperial Rome, it still continues to exist amid the innovation of foreign habits, and the prostrating influence of speculative improvement.

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Here Mr. Fanciful's Rambles and Reveries were brought to a close. There were divers other scraps amongst the collection, but they were so diversified as to puzzle all attempt to arrange them in any order. The old yankee landlord told me to my great vexation, that many of the papers, not being considered important, had been converted by his wife to the domestic purposes of covering pickle crocks and preserve jars. Sic transit gloria mundi.

THE INSURGENT,

OR

A TALE OF EARLY TIMES.

"I did dwell on that

With a deep thought, and with a softened eye,
In which there was obscurity and fame,
The glory and the nothing of a name."

There is no country upon earth, the history of which presents such peculiarly interesting facts, as that belonging to the State of Virginia. Divested as they are of all the aids of fiction, of all the thrilling interest attached to that romance and tradition which are the usual ground works of the history of other countries, the circumstances attendant upon the first settlement and subsequent enlargement of the Old Dominion, are of a nature to attract the deepest regard of the moralist and politician, and afford the most fervent inspiration to the poet and novelist. Among the many remarkable events which succeeded the first wonderful establishment of the Infant Colony of Virginia, there was none so interesting, as well from the causes which gave it rise, as from its development of a most perfect character, as the celebrated insurrection during the administration of Sir William Berkeley, headed by Nathaniel

Bacon. The rebellion itself was a mere consequence of causes which have oft-times-produced the same effect; the fickle tyranny of Charles the Second acting upon a high-minded and independent people, who had supported his cause during the overpowering despotism of Cromwell, was not to be withstood. By a series of vexatious enactments, he had cramped commerce and forced them to the extreme of privation. From the supercilious and voluptuous train by whom he was eternally surrounded, he was early taught to believe that the Colorists were a degraded race, who had left their native land and abandoned all the endearments of home, only to become "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to him and his Court.

In the course of conduct thus pursued towards the Virginians, Charles Stuart was firmly supported by his Governor, Sir William Berkeley. This old cavalier, who had expended his best blood and treasure in aiding the cause of the first Charles, was but little inclined to relax in those notions of regal prerogative, which had originally prompted him to espouse the side of his unfortunate master. Although his treatment to the Colonists was generous and even munificent, yet even this was counterbalanced by his extreme pride and love of power. He had no motives for acting with impropriety and austerity; yet, in the language of the eloquent historian of that time, "his very condescension had an air of haughtiness that repelled the moment that it invited, and his liberality might have been often traced to his pride aud ostentation."

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