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PARIS, VERSAILLES, et les PROVINCES AU 18
SIECLE; Anecdotes sur la vie privée de plu-
sieurs Ministres, Exeques, Magistrats,
Hommes-de-Lettres, &c. &c. par un Ancien
Officier aur Gardes-Françaises. Tome
troisieme.

missionary; l'Histoire d'une Epingle, &c. &c.? Did he think we were ignorant of the first adventures of M. Dubarri; those of the Chevalier or Chevaliere d'Eon, and of Caron Beaumarchais? Could literary biography neglect to record any circumstance connected with characters so celebrated?

ball became more animated, and was kept The chronometer began to-day to change its interesting than the two first, occasionally up with great spirit till six o'clock. The sun going considerably. On the 22d we had a reminds us of what Chamfort says of the colwas already high when I accompanied some calm, with high waves from the south, which lectors of anecdotes and bons-mcts; "They of my principal guests home. In the town shook the little Rurik very much. Some resemble a person eating cherries, at first they had thought till now that the Russians Tropical birds were seen. On the 24th we selecting the best, and at length reconciling went on all-fours, and that they much re- passed the place on which Wareham's rocks himself to eat all that remain." The com sembled monkies, but now I had the pleasure is marked on Arrowsmith's map, but we dis-pilers of books of this kind should always to hear that they were ashamed of their error. covered nothing, though the horizon was entertain a dread of hearing such obserThe Governor, as well as the inhabitants of very clear, and we could see very far. The vations as, "I know that story alreadyTalcagnano solemnly promised that when- Island of Salos, which we saw on the 26th, This anecdote has been repeated a thousand ever any Russians came here they would re- has quite the appearance of a rock, and has and a thousand times; it is in every body's ceive them in the most friendly manner. It perhaps been taken by a false calculation of mouth." We are sorry to say that our augives me great pleasure to leave behind such the longitude for a new-discovered rock. We thor begins to merit this reproach. His third a favorable idea of our nation; if any of our observed it through our telescopes, and could volume exhibits but little novelty, and we mariners should come to this place in future plainly distinguish the objects on shore. would advise him to proceed no further, unit may be of use to them. The company No green covered the bare rocks which lay less he wish to wear the Cap of Piron. consisted of more than 200, of whom two there scattered in large masses, and by their Did he consider as unpublished the folthirts were ladies. On the 5th of March 1 black-grey colour give the Island a most lowing fragments which he has inserted in was quite ready to leave Talcagnano, when dreary look. Many thousands of sea-birds his third volume, namely: the very imperta disagreeable occurrence made me stay have chosen it for their abode. Even when inent letter which Mr. Walpole, under the some days longer. One of my sailors de- we could see it no longer we were surrounded assumed name of Frederick, wrote to J. J. serted this morning; I had thought none to by Frigate-birds and Pelicans, some of which Rousseau, who was banished and compelled be capable of such an action, as all of them we shot. The surf broke violently on the to wander in search of an asylum which his made the voyage with their own free will, rocks, but we could not discover the frag-own country denied to him? The Philosoand had not the slightest thing to complain ments of a wrecked ship, which were said to pher's Answer; the Exordium to a Sermon of. I heard that a love intrigue was the be still here: perhaps the waves have car-delivered at St. Sulpice, by P. Bridaine, a cause: in vain I offered a reward of a hun-ried them away. dred dollars to him who would bring him back to me. He must have found very good friends, as, though I waited three days for him, I could hear nothing of him. Meanwhile the Governor had received an order from his King to receive us as friends, he gave me a copy of it. On the 8th March we We know of no work of this kind which weighed anchor with a good wind, and very does not contain the trait of beneficence dissoon lost sight of Talcagnano. The com- It is said that M. de Maintenon, when she played by the President Montesquieu, at mandant who had now accustomed himself was only the wife of Scarron, had recourse Marseilles, which has furnished the French to our company, and dined with us almost to a singular expedient, in order to extricate Stage with the subject of an interesting every day, remained on board till the last herself from an embarrassment in one of those piece entitled Le Bienfait anonyme. Were moment, and departed from us with tears. difficult moments which deprive vulgar Amour author to ask us where the particulars All of us were penetrated with the friendly phytrions of all presence of mind. A servant concerning the disgrace and banishment of reception which was shown to us on this whispered to her, "Madame, you must tell the Duc de Choisicul are to be found, we coast, and all were much affected as we lost the gentlemen another story, for we have no should enquire, in our turn, where they are sight in the evening of this beautiful country. dinner to give them." She immediately not to be found. They are minutely described On the 10th of March, at six in the evening, began a very interesting narrative, and so in all the Memoirs which were written during we perceived a singular motion of the ship, charmed away the appetites of her guests, the life-time of the Duke, and which have and heard at a distance a noise as if a car that they absolutely forgot they had come been repeatedly gleaned by compilers. riage passed over a rough-wooden bridge: to dine with her. Few, we apprehend, Collectors of anecdotes usually suppose this lasted each time about a half a minute, would now-a-days feel inclined to venture on that in order to fix the attention of their and was repeated every two or three minutes. an experiment of this sort, for we have be-readers, it is sufficient to mention the names In an hour there was nothing more to be come absolute gourmands; and though a of those great personages who have sustained heard. Without doubt, there was at that good story is a very pleasant thing, yet aa brilliant part on the stage of the world. moment an earthquake in America, because good dinner is allowed to be still better. But this is an unpardonable error, for those the noise came from the land, although we lowever, it must be confessed, that anec-are the very individuals respecting whom were 20. distant from it, and the west wind dotes are still generally acceptable, and we blew towards it. Afterwards we proceeded always feel ourselves indebted to those who rapidly with a fine east wind, and had the take the trouble to relate them to us. most delightful weather. On the 16th I But we are far from believing that to this touched the Parallel, on which Krusenstern cause alone is to be attributed the flattering supposes Davisland to lie. A Tropic bird success which the two first volumes of the It would, however, be highly unjust to On the 18th we took many dis-work before us obtained some years ago. It deny that this third volume contains many tances. We may pretty well depend on the is true that many well-chosen and uncom-new and extremely interesting anecdotes. exactness of our observations as three ob- mon anecdotes, and graceful and witty re- We perused with the utmost satisfaction servers were employed in them, and there partees, in some measure justify the four every thing relative to General Moreau. never was any considerable difference in the editions through which this collection had The following trait is worthy observation. longitude found. Although I followed my already passed; but the Editor of Paris, Ver- "When Moreau entered Munich, the Reinstructions very exactly, I could not discover sailles et les Provinces was likewise extremely gency appointed a deputation to demand of Davisland, and had not the least sign of happy in their application, and in recalling the him the expulsion of the unfortunate emibeing near land. On the 20th I threw a manners of those times, the politeness and grants who had fled to that city: the well-corked bottle into the sea, with a paper elegance of which have almost disappeared. deputies met with the reception they de in it on which was written that "the Rurik Thus far we were obliged to him: but he is had in vain sought here for Davisland." now less favored by circumstances. His From here I directed my course a little to memory also seems to fail him; and this wards the north, to seek for Wareham's rocks. last volume of his Souvenirs, which is far less

was seen.

every particular is well known. In vain do they relate an anecdote of Attila or Gengiskam, we read it with indifference; we yawn and fall asleep without any respect for their mighty heroes.

served. The Regency, however, insisted on its demand, and next day a new deputation waited on General Moreau. The General having listened with the utmost sang-froid

cation was not renewed.

seaux du Tibre, &c. &c. Par MADAME LA COMTESSE DE GENLIS.

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ZUMA,

to the set speech which was addressed to scandal. But still we are only plodding | gination-a fancy and sad conviction of him, opened the window of his apartment, at an immense distance behind our Gal-reality about this tale which would have and made the following reply: "It is now lic neighbours. the second time that this proposal has been They meet often and pressed it upon us irresistibly for selecmade to me; if it be again repeated, I will professedly, as children gather round a tion, but that much of its effect depends throw the deputies out of the window." It kitchen fire, to recite and hear tales of upon the original language, and that it is scarce necessary to add that the appli- ghost or fairy, of love or murder, of fatal would occupy more of our space than intrigue or successful gallantry, of moral can be spared with justice from other instruction or questionable decency. matters. We admire it so highly howZUMA OU LA DECOUVERTE DU QUINQUINA, Music, and ices, and the occasional ex-ever that we will not pledge ourselves not suivi de la Belle Paule, de Zeneide, des Ro-citation of gambling give variety to these to reprint it in some of our future numientertainments, and after they have run bers, though we must now pass to what A new volume of Tales has just ap-efforts of invention issue from the press merits of this volume, namely, the round of the salons, the most favored will furnish an adequate notion of the peared from the pleasing and prolific pen for the amusement of the demi-barbaof Madame de Genlis, whose genius seems to resemble more than any lady's rians of the provinces and foreign counOu la découverte de Quinquina. of our acquaintance, that of the accom-tries who do not breathe within the sole About the middle of the seventeenth cenplished Scheherazade, whose invention circle of fashion and civilization-Paris. tury, the animosity of the Indians towards saved her head under a tyranny almost To such source are we indebted for a tion, too faithful, maintained among this op the Spaniards existed in all its force; tradias odious and sanguinary as that of the multitude of the Contes with which the pressed and devoted people the dreadful reFrench Revolution, from which our fair French language teems; a language, be it collection of the cruelty of their conquerors. authoress had also the good fortune to remarked, peculiarly adapted to this spe- They were subjugated, but had not subescape. These Tales are five in cies of composition. We know not, how-mitted. The Spaniards had only conquered ber, and we can assure the writer, that ever, whether Madame de Genlis is now minion of terror. About this period a Viceslaves, and their reign was merely the dowere we even as severe in our critical much addicted to the intercourse of Pachair as the Arabian Sultan was cruel on risian life, or retired in her habits-whe-him, excited their powerless and secret hatred roy, more severe than all who had preceded his despotic throne, we should feel our ther she mixes with the throng to acquire to its utmost extent. His Secretary, the resentment equally disarmed, and our re-fresh ideas and later combinations, or rigorous Minister of his arbitrary will, was solution to decapitate, (or according to draws upon the stores of early accom- a man of insatiable cupidity; and the Inthe reviewing phrase "cut up") the plishments. Certainly there is nothing dians detested him even more than they did rator still more largely postponed than exclusively appropriated to the present horrid symptoms which preceded his death, his master. He died suddenly, and the from night to morning by the gratifica- day in her last publication. Two of the induced a universal belief that he had been tion we have received from her agreeable subjects only grow out of the Revolu- poisoned by the Indians. Investigations tion, and the other three embrace the were instituted, but the criminals remained The talent for story-telling is one romance of a former era or the circum-undiscovered. This event occasioned a great which the French cultivate more sedu- stances of distant clime sand remoter ages. sensation, for it was not the first crime of lously and successfully than we do. With Their titles are " Zuma ou La décou- the same description which had occurred. them it is not only beneficial in the clo- verte du Quinquina-La Belle Paule among the Indians. It was well known set, but of eminent advantage in society. Zenéide ou la perfection idéale-Les tal poisons: they had oftener than once been that they were acquainted with various morIn the coteries of Paris the best Racon- Roseaux du Tibre-La Veuve de Luzi." detected in administering them; but neither teur is the leading person of the evening As we intend to submit a translation torture nor the punishment of death, had the observed of all observers the of the first tale entirely to our readers as been successful in drawing from them any Phoenix of the hour; and half a dozen a specimen of the work, we shall confine confession of these dreadful secrets. smart quips with as many happy turns of ourselves to notice that this preference called; and Count de Cinchon was appointIn the meanwhile the Viceroy was reexpression or bon mots will introduce to arises from its being the most dramatic ed by the Court of Spain to fill his place. every company of that amusing city, the of these productions and the most con- The Count was in the vigour of his age, and admired mortal who possesses the faculty formable to our limits. Of the others endowed with every amiable quality and of being neat or epigrammatic in conver- we shall content ourselves with saying, every virtue, calculated to conciliate the sation, and above all in what we are apt that La Belle Paule is a piece of early him. He had a short time before married to consider the most useful property in chivalry, which might have been an Epiold nurses, relating little fables for the sode in the " Knights of the Swan:"a charming young lady, whom he adored, entertainment of circling auditors. In Zénéide a well written fairy tale: la The Countess had resolved on following her and by whom he was passionately beloved. England a certain degree of reputation Veuve de Luzi a very simple and pathetic husband, who dreading, on her account, the may indeed be formed from Joe Miller story of a widow whose only son is one of perfidy and hatred of the Indians, expressed and his modern imitators; the pun oft the victims of that infernal system called a wish that she should remain in Spain, repeated, the jest an hundred times told, Conscription: and Les Roseaux du T-notwithstanding the distress which the very the brief anecdote rendered long and the bre one of the most affecting and ele-thought of such a separation excited in his sharp repartee made dull by immemorial gant as well as feeling compositions of terrors when she reflected, that her husband mind. But the Countess was filled with usage-these are the stock in trade of a the kind we have ever read. He tells would be exposed to all the dark conspiracies few unfortunate witlings among us, and with a touching simplicity and refined of hatred and revenge. The facts attested serve them as species of passports into sensibility the fate of two lovers in by the late Viceroy, and above all his exparties which are denominated literary, humble life, separated by the reign of aggerated recitals, represented the Indians because they neither drink punch nor terror, and after many adventures (if the as vile slaves, who, under the mask of doplay at whist; and informed, because the transactions of the heart may be so cility, and even attachment, were capable of names of the newest authors are heard classed) meeting in death. There is a criminal treachery. Surprising stories were plotting in secret the blackest and most intermixed with relations of the newest beauty and enthusiasm—a taste and ima-related of the inconceivable subtility of the

exertions.

affection and win the confidence of all around

poisons of South America, and indeed without exaggeration. The alarm which these dreadful ideas excited in the mind of the Countess, proved an additional motive in determining her to follow the Viceroy, that she might watch over his safety with all the precautions of fear and all the vigilance of love. She took along with her some Spanish ladies, who were to compose her Court at Lima, and among them was the intimate friend of her childhood. Beatrice, (for this was her name,) was only a few years older than the Vice-Queen; but the attachment she entertained for her was of so tender a nature, that it resembled the affection of a mother. She had used every effort to persuade the Countess to remain at Madrid, but finding that her resolution was unalterably fixed, she determined to accompany her.

....

The Indians of the townships, who enjoyed sovereigns, and of his country! Woe to the greater freedom than those who were sub-coward who shall make a gift of this treajected to service in the palace of the Viceroy, sure of health to the Barbarians who have and who were employed in the public works, enslaved us, and whose ancestors burned never failed to join these nocturnal assem- our temples and cities, invaded our plains, blies, which were held amongst the moun- and bathed their hands in the blood of our tains in desert places, the only access to fathers, after having inflicted on them unwhich was by-roads which appeared impass-heard of torments? . . . . Let them keep able to the Europeans. But these retreats the gold which they have wrested from us, were to them, if not the happy asylums of and of which they are insatiable; that gold liberty, at least the sole refuge which could which has cost them so many crimes: but protect them against tyranny. At this we will at least reserve to ourselves this time, their secret and supreme chief (for gift of Heaven! . . . . Should a traitor ever they had several), was named Ximeo. Irri- arise amongst us, we swear to pursue and tated by misfortune and private injustice, to exterminate him, though he should be our his soul, though naturally great and gener, father, our brother, or our son We swear, ous, had long since been a stranger to every should he be engaged in the bonds of marmild and tender sentiment. A feeling of riage, to pursue in him his wife and children, vehement indignation, which no principle if they have not been his accusers; and if tended to repress, had, by daily increase, at his children are in the cradle, to sacrifice Though the Indians were overjoyed at length rendered him cruel and ferocious. them, so that his guilty race may be for being freed from the yoke of their Viceroy, But the base and cowardly atrocity of poi- ever extinct. . . . . My friends, pronounce they were not the better disposed to receive soning was repugnant to his character. He from your inmost souls, these formidable his successor. He was a Spaniard, and they himself had never employed this horrible oaths, the formula of which was bequeathed consequently expected that he would be ani-instrument of revenge, he had even inter- to you by your grandfathers, and which you mated only with feelings of injustice and ty-dicted it to his companions, and every act have already so many times repeated!".. ranny and a thirst for wealth. In vain were of villainy committed in that way was done" Yes, yes, the Indians exclaimed with one they informed that the Count was mild, hu- in contradiction to his will. Ximeo was a voice, we pronounce all these imprecations mane and equitable; they repeated one to father, he had an only son named Mirvan against him who shall betray this secret; the other, he is a Spaniard! and these words whom he fondly loved and whom he had in- we swear to keep it with inviolable fidelity, conveyed the most energetic expression of spired with a portion of his hatred of the to endure the most dreadful torments and hatred. Religion had not yet modified these Spaniards. Mirvan was young, handsome even death itself, rather than reveal it." impetuous feelings, her sublime morality was and generous. About three years before he "Look back," said the ferocious Azan, hitherto unknown to the Indians. Their had been married to Zuma, the most beau-" on the early days of our subjection, at that rulers had merely compelled them to observe tiful of all the indian women of the envi- terrible period when millions of Indians a few exterior ceremonies, and they still re- rons of Lima. The tenderness and sensi- were put to the torture, not one would save tained a great portion of their former super- bility of Zuma were equal to the charms of his life by the disclosure of this secret, which stition and idolatry. her person; she formed the happiness of our countrymen have kept locked within Amidst all their misery, the Indians had her husband, and lived only for him and for their bosoms for more than two hundred exercised, ever since the conquest of Ame-a child, two years of age, of which she was years! . . . . Judge then whether we can rica, a secret vengeance which had not yet the mother. invent a punishment sufficiently_severe for roused the suspicion of any Spaniard; they Another chief, named Azan, next to him who may betray it!. . . . For my own had been forced to yield to their oppressors Ximeo, possessed the greatest ascendance part, I once more swear that if there be an the gold and diamonds of the new world, but over the Indians. Azan was violent and Indian among us capable of such a crime, they had concealed from them treasures cruel, and no natural virtue tempered the that he shall perish only by my hand; and more precious and more useful to humanity. instinct of fury by which he was constantly should he have a wife, and children sucking Though they had resigned to them all the animated. These two chiefs believed them at their mother's breast, I again swear to luxury of nature, they had exclusively re-selves to be of illustrious origin, they boasted plunge my poignard in their hearts!" served real benefits to themselves. They of their descent from the royal race of the alone knew the powerful counter-poisons Incas.

This ferocious speech was not pronounced without a design. Azan hated the young and wonderful antidotes which cautious na- A few days after the arrival of the new Mirvan, the son of Ximeo, not merely beture or rather Providence has distributed Viceroy, Ximeo convoked, for the following cause he did not carry his animosity against over these regions as remedies against ex-night, a nocturnal meeting on the hill of the the Spaniards to a sufficient length, but treme disorders. The Indians alone were Tree of Health, thus they designated the above all because Mirvan, the adored husaware of the admirable virtues of the Bark tree from which is obtained the Quinquina, band of the beautiful Zuma, and the father of the Quinquina, and by a solemn and or Peruvian Bark. "My friends," he said, of a charming child, was happy. The wickfaithfully observed compact, by the most when they had all collected," a new tyrant ed are always unfortunate and always envidreadful and frequently renewed oaths, they is about to reign over us: let us repeat ourous." Azan," replied Mirvan, "it is possible had pledged themselves never to reveal to oaths of just revenge. Alas! we dare utter to keep one's promise without possessing their oppressors these important secrets.2 them only when we are surrounded by your ferocity; no one here is capable of Amidst the rigours of slavery the Indians darkness! Unhappy children of the Sun, perjury; your menaces can therefore excite had always maintained a kind of internal we are reduced to conceal ourselves amidst no terror, and are useless. We all know government among themselves; they nomi- the shades of night!.... Let us renew that in excuse for cruelty you neither want nated a chief whose mysterious functions around the Tree of Health the awful con-a traitor to pursue nor a crime to punish." consisted in assembling them together dur-tract which binds us for ever to conceal our Azan, irritated, was about to reply; but ing the night, at certain periods, to renew secrets." Ximeo then, in a more elevated their oaths and sometimes for the purpose of and firm voice, pronounced the following marking out victims among their enemies. words: "We swear never to discover to From the accounts of Travellers and Na- the children of Europe the divine virtues of turalists, there are in America certain plants this sacred tree, the only treasure which of so venomous a nature, that the poison takes remains to us! Woe to the faithless and effect on those who happen to step upon them, perjured Indian, who being seduced by false even with shoes on their feet. virtue, or fear, or weakness, shall reveal this secret to the destroyers of his Gods, of his

2 These details are all historical.

Ximeo prevented a violent dispute, by re-
presenting the imprudence and danger of
uselessly prolonging these clandestine as-
semblies, and all immediately dispersed.
The Indians being forced to dissemble,
maintained an appearance of respect and
submission. A numerous troop of young
Indian women, carrying baskets of flowers
assembled at the gates of Lima to receive

son.

a word, she was an Indian, and had been
familiarized from her infancy with the
blackest of crimes.

the Vice-queen. Zuma was at their head, physician who had come from Spain in the than Azan, was animated by an equal hatred and the Countess was so struck with her suite of the Viceroy, but who, regarding the of the Spaniards. Zuma, therefore, dared beauty, her grace, and the gentle expression case as hopeless, spoke in a mysterious way, not confide her grief to Mirvan; she of her countenance, that in the course of a and even hinted that he attributed the illness smothered her tears, and deplored her fate few days she expressed a wish to have her of the Countess to some extraordinary cause, in silence. Her affliction was suddenly inamong the number of Indian slaves, who of which he could give no account. His air creased, for the feeble hope which had been were employed in the interior of the palace of dismay and apparent wish to conceal his entertained of the Countess's recovery, soon for the service of the Vice-queen. The real opinion, all tended to inspire Beatrice vanished; the fever returned with redoubled Countess quickly conceived such a friend- with the horrible idea that her friend was violence, the Physician declared her life to ship for Zuma that she attached her to the dying by the effect of slow poison be in danger, and that the Countess could private service of her chamber and her per- She enjoyed not a moment's rest: though not support another such attack, should it This favor seemed an act of impru- she cautiously hid her suspicions from the be renewed within twelve days or a fortnight dence in the eyes of Beatrice, whose mind Countess, and even from the Count, yet she......! Universal dismay prevailed throughwas so prepossessed by the accounts she had found it impossible to dissemble with two of out the palace......! This cruel declaration heard of the perfidy of the Indians, that the Countess's women, who used every effort plunged the Count and Beatrice into despair, notwithstanding the natural generosity of to strengthen the notion she had imbibed. and rent the heart of Zuma. The Viceher character, she yielded to every sinister But who could have committed this queen, who was fully aware of her situation, alarm and every black suspicion, which horrible crime?.... None but Zuma. manifested as much courage as gentleness gloomy distrust and terror were capable of Zuma, who was privileged to enter and piety; the resignation of the happiest Inspiring: she was excusable; it was her the apartment of the Vice-queen at every life, when accompanied by the consciousfriend's safety, and not her own, that ex- hour. . . . . But Zuma, whom the Countess ness of perfect purity, is always a calm sacricited her apprehensions! She observed had overwhelmed with acts of bounty!. fice she received, by her own desire, all with distress the friendship of the Vice- What interest could have prompted her to her sacraments. She took a tender farewell queen for an Indian female, and the women this atrocity? Hatred is ever ready with of her friend and her husband, having exof the Countess conceived an extreme jea-replies to serve her own purposes! horted the latter to watch over the happiness lousy of Zuma. They took advantage of Zuma was hypocritical, vain and ambitious, of the Indians, and particularly that of her the weakness of Beatrice to fill her mind and she moreover entertained a secret and dear Zuma; and she resigned herself wholly with prejudice: they represented Zuma as criminal passion for the Viceroy. In to the consolations of religion. Zuma, who being false, dissembling and ambitious, and had been a witness to this pathetic scene, one who fancied that her pleasing person could no longer withstand the excess of her would pardon every act of presumption; grief; her health, which had been in a dethat she was far from loving the Countess, Beatrice for some time laboured to repel clining state for the space of three months, and that she entertained an inveterate ab- these horrible suspicions, but she beheld the now yielded to the weight of her affliction, horrence of the Spaniards. They soon went existence of her friend rapidly declining, and and she was attacked that very evening with still greater lengths, and attributed to her her terror no longer allowed her to reason the disorder which threatened the life of the the most extravagant discourse. Beatrice and observe with her own eyes; she lent a Countess, the tertian fever. After she had did not indeed give credit to all that was ready ear to every accusation, and gave credit sustained two or three violent attacks, Mirrelated to her, but she conceived a degree to the most extravagant calumny. In the van, with the consent of the Indians, secretly of inquietude and distrust which inspired mean-while, the Viceroy experienced the conveyed to her the precious powder which her with a real aversion for Zumma. This bitterest anguish of mind, and without im- was to operate her cure, on condition, howenmity became the stronger when she found agining the commission of any crime, he felt ever, that she should not be entrusted with that Zuma was immoveably fixed in the good the utmost alarm at the long continuation it in any large quantity, but should daily regraces of the Vice-queen, who daily testified of the Countess's indisposition. However, ceive an allowance sufficient for one dose. more and more attachment towards the ob- a favorable change in the state of the patient, Zuma received in the morning the first dose, ject of so much hatred, injustice, and ca- kindled a ray of hope which beamed for the which was to be taken before she retired to lumny. Zuma, on her part, entertained the space of a day or two. The physician, over-rest in the evening. When she was alone, tenderest affection for the Countess; never-joyed, pronounced her recovery to be almost she looked steadfastly on the powder, her theless, to avoid disagreeable scenes, she certain, suspicion gradually slumbered, and countenance was bathed in tears, and raising almost wholly confined herself to her own Beatrice seemed restored to new existence. her eyes to heaven, "Great God!" she exchamber, and seldom appeared except when She did not however revoke the private claimed, "I am inspired by thee! . . . . . I the Countess required her services. orders she had given, for secretly watching can only save her, by sacrificing my own life; Zuma, and never permitting her to enter the my resolution is fixed-I will never disclose chamber in which were deposited the various the mighty secret.... My death will exmedicinal draughts prepared for the Countess. piate my compassion, even in their eyes: Amidst all these different agitations, the besides, they will never suspect such au act thoughts of the innocent and sensible Zuma of devotion, and will attribute her cure to the were turned wholly on the Vice-queen, whom help of medicine. I shall neither endanger she loved with all the sincerity of a pure the safety of Mirvan no my child; I shall and grateful soul. She was afflicted to the not betray the secrets of my countrymen: I utmost on reflecting that there existed an in- shall die; but the Countess will live. fallible remedy to which she dared not direct What signifies the existence of poor Zuma? her. Zuma well knew the horrible oaths and how precious is the life of by which the Indians had bound themselves that Daughter of Heaven, who has employThe Countess had now resided about four never to reveal this secret. Had her owned her power only to assist the unfortunate months at Lima, and a visible decline had life alone been marked out as the sacrifice, and console the afflicted; that generous taken place in her health. This distressing she would not for a moment have hesitated Protectress of all who pine in poverty and change was at first attributed to the burning to divulge all she knew; but her husband slavery, and whose faultering voice, but heat of the climate; but her indisposition and her son must have been the certain vic- now, sent forth a prayer for the cruel Indaily augmented, alarmn was entertained for tims of such a declaration: finally, she was dians who suffer her to languish! Oh, my her safety, and she was at length suddenly aware that the vindictive Ximeo, the better Benefactress! even though surrounded by attacked with a tertian fever. Every reme-to insure himself of her discretion, had the shades of death, you did not forget your dy known at that period was employed with-placed her beloved child as a hostage in the faithful Zuma! I heard your lips pronounce out effect. The anxiety of Beatrice knew hands of the ferocious Azan and Thamis, a blessing on her name! Yes, by the no bounds; she privately questioned the another Indian Chief, who, though less cruel sacred light of the Sun, I swear that I will

The Viceroy spared no endeavours to render himself beloved by the Indians; but the latter had known instances of several Viceroys having manifested mildness, justice, and affability at the commencement of their government, who afterwards belied all these happy promises. Thus the real goodness of the Count made no favorable impression upon them. They regarded it as hypocrisy or weakness occasioned by fear on account of the sudden death of the secretary of his predecessor.

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save you.” . . . . With these words Zuma the chamber with a countenance which an- will either make it public, if he is supported wrapped up the powder of the Quinquina, nounced distress and fear; she listened for in the pursuit of his scientific views, by a concealed it in her bosom, and rose from some time at the door which communicated subscription to be opened for that purpose, her chair; then suddenly stopping, she be- with the apartment of the Vice-Queen; all or he will communicate it exclusively to that gan to reflect on the means of introducing was silent. Zuma then ap-government which shall be the first to offer herself unperceived into the closet where proached the table, on which a medicinal him an adequate remuneration. the drink intended for the Countess was draught had been placed in a decanter of ALPINE DISTRICTS.-Extensive researches placed. She had no idea of the suspicions cristal, for the purpose of being administered into the mineralogy of those regions have entertained against her, nor of the precau- to the Countess; she drew from her bosom recently been made by the indefatigable M. tions which had been adopted to render this the paper containing the quinquina powder; Brochant, who, after repeated examinations closet inaccessible to her as well as the rest opened it and shook the powder into the de- and most laborious investigations, has ascerof the Indian slaves; she merely supposed canter. The Viceroy seized with hor- tained that the lofty summits of the Alpine that since the illness of the Vice-Queen her ror, rushed into the closet, exclaiming, hills, through the whole range from St. Spanish women had appropriated to them-" Wretched woman! what have you thrown Gothard to Mount Cenis, do not consist of selves the task of attending on her person, At this unex- an absolute granite, as has generally been either through fear or jealousy, or one of pected sight, at this terrible question, Zuma supposed. This applies more especially to those customs to which she had heard them started with dismay, the decanter fell from Mont Blanc, which, in common with the so frequently allude, and which they termed her hands and shivered in pieces; she threw others, is of a species of granite particularly etiquette. She resolved to enter the closet herself into a chair, uttering the words, chrystalline, abounding in talcous and feld during the night, after the maid, who slept am undone! and swooned sparic rock, and containing, in many inthere, had retired to rest; and in case of away. stances, beds of metallic minerals. M. Broher being discovered, she had determined to chet however is of decided opinion that the say, anxiety had induced her to quit her Southern border of the Alpine chain consists chamber to enquire after the state of the of real granite; he therefore takes analogy Countess. At the same time, wishing to ascertain whether she could introduce herfor the basis of his reasoning; and supposing self into the closet without passing through it most probable that the granitic stratum supports the talcous, he infers that the the apartment of the Vice-Queen, she de- M. C. A. Erb, l'rofessor of Philosophy at higher summits of the chain, relatively conscended into a long corridor, and having Heidelberg, has invented a simple and cheap sidered, are not the most ancient part of looked cautiously around her, she discovered hydraulic apparatus, by means of which those mountains. a small side door, which, as she had pre-ships and vessels of all kinds, from the viously supposed, communicated with the smallest to the largest, may be propelled, closet: the key was in the lock, and she with a small exertion of force, against the determined to enter in this way during the most violent currents and storms, in constant night. She then speedily returned to her uniform motion, with a rapidity capable of chamber. any increase, without the use of oars, or of In conformity with the orders of Beatrice, sails. Sinking ships may be preserved from Zuma's conduct was watched with the ut-farther sinking by this apparatus, according most minuteness, and the servants of the to the direction to be given to it. It governs palace hastened to inform Beatrice, that Mir- the motion of the largest ship, so as to move van had been to visit her that very day; that it at pleasure, from a state of rest, by the one of the maids who had been stationed at small difference of an inch, or a line, or withthe door to listen to their conversation, had out progressive motion, to turn it round on not been able to collect a single word in one point in every direction. consequence of the low tone of voice in Originating on scientific ground, this inwhich they discoursed, but that Mirvan was vention, which opens a new career in Hyexcessively agitated on departing; that Zuma draulics, contains the immediate application had descended the staircase, had searched of a hydrodynamic law, discovered by Erb, about the corridor, examining every door, which is itself only the duly prepared apand that on discovering that which led into plication of a well-known position, on the the closet, she indicated evident signs of perpendicular resistance of fluid bodies to fear, lest she should be surprised, and that solid bodies moved in them, which has been she finally escaped to her own apartment. long employed in this manner, in the dynaBeatrice shuddered at this recital, she imme- mics of solid bodies, is the soul of our diately foresaw that Zuma entertained the technical Mechanics, and which, though it design of introducing herself into the closet has been long mathematically evident, he "This country is extremely religious, and during the night; she ordered the women to was not able till lately to prove by experi- it the priests and the nobles; was it to preyet the custom of the Bilcar excluded from warn her of the moment when Zuma should ment. It is easy to appreciate the import-vent the danger of their influence? I do not quit her chamber, and at the same time di- ance of an invention which extends the think so; it is more probable that the Bilcar rected them to avoid entering the closet and dominion of man over nature, facilitates the being anterior to Christianity and the feudal to leave the key in the door. Beatrice with-connection and intercourse of men with out delay communicated all she had heard each other, and its influence in a mercantile to the Viceroy, who, without adopting her and political view. suspicions, was nevertheless filled with amazement at the story, and agreed to con

ceal himself in the closet.

In order to be enabled, by the assistance of others, to put in practice, (out of a great number of new discoveries in theoretical About one hour after sunset, the servants and practical physics,) another invention, came to inform Beatrice that Zuma was de- which is far more important, and beyond scending the staircase, but without any light comparison more intimately connected with and with all the precautions of mystery and the progress of civilization and the calls of fear. Beatrice and the Count immediately daily life-that is to say, in order that the proceeded to their place of concealment. In evident usefulness of the above invention, a few moments they heard the door gently may open him a way to communicate these open, and Zuma appeared. She was pale other important inventions to the public; and trembling, she walked slowly and with M. Erb attaches to the communication of apparent effort. She looked around this discovery the following condition :-He

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L'ERMITE EN PROVINCE.

Ustaritz, May 1, 1817.

MY FAREWELL TO THE BASQUES.

Suis ea cuique fingitur moribus.

CICERO. long stay among the descendants of the I shall finish this long excursion, and this Calabrians, by Ustaritz where I have been for some days.

tribunal of civil and criminal justice, and Ustaritz was formerly the seat of a great

there the states of the Labour assembled.

The bilcar,' was really the assembly of the landowners, of the heads of families, before whom were laid for discussion and decision all questions relative to the administration of all the communes of the Labour. Another canton of the French Basques, Lower Navarre, boasted also of having its states; but these latter had not retained the truly antique forms and character which distinguished the Bilcar of the Labour.

system, it was not thought proper to change any thing in its primitive constitution; it remained as it had always been.

markable manner in the choice of the place "This immutability was shewn in a reof its meetings. The Bilcar was not held in a palace, or in a space inclosed with walls, but in a wood, upon an eminence which commanded the commune of Ustaritz. Two pieces of rock formed the seats of the President and the Secretary; another block, the

sembly, and of car, a contraction of cahar, which This word composed of bil, signifying assignifies old man, ancient, is equivalent to the word Senate.

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