gossip, Mrs Calicut met her, and a law-suit was commenced about a flaw in the title of Marygold Hill. Richard was obliged to commence a brick-work on "our Place in the Country," to secure them from the difficulties into which the purchase had thrown him, while the Marriots got a marble bath in the lady's dressing-room, and trimmed their muslin curtains with red lace. Poor Mrs Richard! "I hardly know whether to call them good or bad," said Richard, much perplexed; "for you women are so confoundedly capricious, that one can never anticipate on what opinion you may finally anchor." "For Heaven's sake, do not prose so when I am dying with curiosity. Give me the letter !"** "Tell me first," said Martindale, grown cunning with With her own family, meanwhile, Mrs Richard had re-experience, and placing the folded epistle carefully in his signed all intercourse. Sir Joseph Grinderwell affected to pocket, "tell me first, candidly and explicitly, do you reresent her negligence as the origin of his sister's indiscre- pent having purchased Marygold Hill; and would you, tion; and her younger brothers were eating government if you could, return to the freedom of a London life?” bread in different parts of the globe;-one as a resident in "That I would!"-ejaculated Mrs. Richard, firmly be Newfoundland, one as a consul in Cochin-China, and one lieving such a release to be beyond her husband's power. thirty feet below the level of the Thames, as clerk in a frog-"If we could but get rid of this estate, I should be the haptrap at Somerset House. She had no one to quarrel with, | piest woman in the world." no one to molest ;-even the humble Jacob Martindale "I give you joy, then, my dear Mary-Matilda," continutreated her with that frigid deference which forbids all ap-ed he, drily. "Latitat informs me that we have lost our proach to familiarity; and Mary-Matilda, who had been suit. The title cannot be made good; and, after all, Mary. so lively at Grinderwell House, so merry at Cheltenham, so gold Hill returns to the possession of its lawful owner. I happy in Wales, so contented at Bath, so dissipated at Wey-shall be a loser to the amount of some thousands by the mouth, so courted in Harley Street, discovered, that in the money I have expended on the improvements; in consideracountry, to which she had restricted the remainder of her tion of which, the adverse party have very liberally offered days, she was likely to be dull, dispirited, despised and me a long lease of the place on easy terms; and should you lonely. It was very little consolation to her to feel that feel any reluctance in quitting it—" she was proprietress of a place in the country, now that her means no longer permitted her to enliven it with entertainments, fill it with company, and assume a leading part in the neighbourhood. She took it into her head they were designated all over the country as the Martindales of the Brickfield;" while the more moral circles probably pointed her out to abhorrence, as a member of that obliquitous family which had induced the County Member into backsliding. suminer "No, no, no!" cried Mrs. Martindale. "Pray let us return to the mode of life for which we were born, and which suits us best. I have had quite enough of Marygold Hill. Believe me, I have lost all predilection for— a PLACE IN THE COUNTRY." THE WILLOW TREES. A SKETCH. "They best can paint them, "Ah Richard !" she exclaimed, when another winter was about to set in, and they had not so much as the O'Callaghans at their disposal to assist them in making war against THE 8th of July 1824, was a happy day to the young the long evenings and snowy mornings, "I shall never forgive you for having made me renounce that comfortable people of B. Hall, for it was the young heir's thirteenth Harley Street house for this desolate place. To live as we birth-day; and his sister Sophy and he were to give a ball did there, forms the utmost limit of my desires ;-good es- to their young companions. This ball had been looked tablishment, pleasant dinner parties, winter at Brighton, forward to with joy by many a one, but by none with such at Hastings;-the children always well, the delight as by little Emily, the minister's niece. What was servants always happy ;-the Kedgerees, the Calicuts, a ball? Would uncle be there? Would aunt Anna? and poor dear Camphor, the apothecary, within a stone's throw. It really was madness on your part to set And Frederic was thirteen! How very old! Would she your heart upon a country life. You are not fit for give balls when she was thirteen? With these and such it, my dear, you are really not fit for it. You cannot like questions she overwhelmed aunt Anna, and sometimes do without your club; or your morning's lounge with even her grave uncle William was roused from his studies, Sir Hookah Smith, and Sir Brown Kedgeree. I wish to heaven I had been as well aware when you took this by the joyful exclamations of his darling niece. At length place, as I am now, of your inaptitude to rural pleasures; the day arrived. Aunt Anna dressed her; and as uncle nothing should have induced me to allow you to bury us William lifted her into Sir Henry A's carriage, which for life, in order that you might gratify the pride of the called to take her to B, hẽ thought that Lady A—'s Martindale family by purchasing a place in their native French waiting-maid had not made the Misses A----- look, country. There are the poor girls who will soon be want-half so pretty as his own little Emily. And so thought ing masters, and who will be brought up mere Hottentots, (I beg your pardon,-believe me, I intended no allusion to your early avocations,) and turn out perhaps vulgar fine ladies, like your niece Clotilda." "Or worse, like your two flirting sisters," might have burst from the lips of a man less mildly quiescent than the patient Richard. He, however, contented himself with observing, "Well, my love, we must hope for the best. Your mother may perhaps take it into her head to leave you enough to enable you to make a little visit to town every spring; or perhaps-" "A letter by express, Sir," said the footman, placing a voluminous dispatch in the hands of Mr. Martindale, and quitting the room. "What is it, what is it?" cried his wife, breathless with consternation. "Is it any thing about little Grinderwell? -any thing from Eton ?" "No." "Any thing regarding my sisters ?" [ "No." Frederic;-for, in spite of all Sophy's notions of decorum, he "In a word, are the tidings good or bad?—your banker, haps you was never so long up at night before," said Sophy, your agent ?" smiling. After breakfast, Sophy was busy within doors, but Frederic took Emily to the garden, where they amused themselves with his flowers and his rabbits. Then they went to the river, for Frederic wanted a stick; and when they had cut a bunch of willows, Emily said, "If we were to plant these they would grow beautiful trees, like the one in uncle's shrubbery." It was just a little willow stick, and it has grown a great tree." "Oh! yes," cried Frederic, "I will plant one for you and one for myself, and see how big they shall be when I come home next vacation." Frederic had just planted his willows when a servant came to tell them Mr C had called to take Miss Emily home. Emily said good bye to her kind friends at B, and returned to the Manse with uncle William; and much had she to tell to aunt Anna when she got home, though she said she liked better to play in the garden with Frederic, than to be at the ball. Tears passed on, "and still Frederic thought there was no one so amiable and so graceful at his birth-day balls as the unaffected Emily. Sometimes, when Frederic's father was shewing his grounds to his visiters, he would point out the thriving young willows, and every body agreed that nothing ever grew so fast as those trees. But Sophy would look slily at Frederic and Emily, and say, "Ah! papa, there is something grows faster." It was exactly eight years after the planting of these trees, when one day Mr B was shewing them as usual, and, as visual, every one said nothing ever grew so fast, till Sophy cried, "Ah! papa, there is something grows faster." Emily wondered what Sophy could mean, and so deeply was she taken up with her own thoughts, that she was surprised, on awakening from her reverie, to find the company had left the river and she was alone with Frederic. She wished to follow them, but Frederic had something to say to her. What he said I do not know, but Emily blushed deeply, and whispered something of aunt Anna and my uncle. A few weeks after this there was a small party assembled in the parlour at F Frederic was there-but where was Emily? opened, and the minister entered leading in his beloved Emily, now a blushing bride, and gave her to the happy Frederic. Then, with faltering pice and tottering knees, pronounced the nuptial benediction! We shall not tell how lovely the bride looked, or how aunt Anna smiled and wept by turns. But when Mr B—— kissed the forehead of his son's beautiful bride, he said, "Ah! Sophy, now I know what grew faster than the willow trees!!!" CONJUGAL DISCIPLINE. THERE flourished in a market-town, Manse. The door H. R. He knew what squire might wish to know, Sir; At hunting, racing, or at bowling. Her tongue in anger she would hold, And rarely condescend to scold; Her voice not shrill, but rather sweet; Her conduct virtuous and discreet; One only failing malice spied, One only fault, and that was- pride :— (For country lasses, by the bye, Can sometimes hold their heads as high, And be as proud of dower and birth, As any Princess upon earth.) One day his business ran so high, His shop so full of company, So quick his customer's demands, He needed more than all his hands;Down comes his wife with careless air, But not to help him-never fear: Far be from her a thought so mean: She came to see and to be seen, Nor e'er intended to do good, But stand in way of those who would. While she stands there, a servant comes, Post haste for spices and for plums, Who many a mile had home to go: The grocer peevish 'gan to grow, To see his dearest loiter so. Howe'er, he mild accosts her,-"Pray, Do give your help, or go your way; Why, otherwise, did you come down ?" She answered only with a frown ; But such a frown as seemed t' express, Her portion, beauty, and her dress. "Well, if you will not weigh the ware, Pray, put it in the basket there." She turned her back without rejoinder, And left her spouse to fume behind her. "Well, now the things are all put in it, Perhaps you'll be so good as pin it." When a fourth time her husband spoke, The dame her sullen silence broke, In very short, but full reply:"I pin your basket! No, not I!" Enraged, he snatched the footman's stick, And laid it on her shoulders quick. Surprised, as never struck before, And feeling much, but fearing more, For fear of what might farther come on't, She pinned the basket in a moment. Then Tom rode off in merry mood, And laughed and tee-hee'd by the road. Pleased with the delicate conceit, To see so fine a lady beat, He wished the deed at home was done, As her who suffered discipline; As proud, as high-born, and as rich, At dinner-time, the waggish knave Was sometimes fleering, then was grave; The master said, "Now, Tom, at least, "Was ever anything so base? I did not think she would have bore it; Which made his mistress ten times madder; Tom ran down stairs, as was most fitting Says Moll, "Above stairs, what's the matter; THE GENTLEMAN. The term gentlemen is as well known and recognised among highwaymen and pick pockets, as with the highest duke in the land. No doubt, their interpretations of the term do not agree. But if the most generally accepted definition of the term be admitted, that it includes all persons of good education and good manners, I venture to say, without fear of contradiction from any one who has had opportunities of seeing the mass of the population of the United States,-the north and the south, the east and the west that that great country contains an infinitely greater number of gentlemen than any other country which exists, or ever has existed, on the face of the earth. I am glad to be supported in this opinion by at least one late British traveller in America, Mr. Ferrall, who says, "that all in America are gentlemen."-Stuart's Three Years in America. TO THE LITTLE LADY THE VOTARY OF HIGH MEN. Your marriage is extremely indiscreet; And if he does'nt its extremely funny; T. HOOD. RIGHTEOUS MAN REGARDETH THE LIFE OF HIS BEAST." A man of kindness, to his beast is kinde But brutal actions show a brutal mind. He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge; THOUGHTLESS CRUELTY. CHILDREN may often practise the greatest cruelty, to insects in particular, from ignorance of the pain which they inflict. The fault is then more chargeable on those who should have instructed them better, than upon the inconsiderate children. I shall not describe the cruelties often practised on beetles, house-flies, and chafers; but tell a short story which should prove a lesson to mothers, and all who have the charge of young people, as well as to children themselves. Mr. Joseph Strutt, a late celebrated English antiquarian, when a little boy, was one day surprised by his mother, who detested every species of cruelty, "spinning a chafer." He was so much delighted with the "spinning," that is, the torturing struggles of the insect to escape, that he did not perceive her enter the room. When she saw what he was about, without saying a word, she pinched his ear, so smartly, that he cried for mercy. This scene ended, she thus addressed her son, "that insect has its feelings as you have! Do you not see that the swift vibration of its wings are occasioned by the torment it sustains? You have pinched its body without remorse. I have only pinched your ear; and yet you have cried out, as if I had killed you." Young Strutt felt his excellent mother's admonition in its full force, liberated the poor May-fly, and never afterwards impaled another. THE AND EDINBURGH WEEKLY MAGAZINE. CONDUCTED BY JOHN JOHNSTONE. THE SCHOOLMASTER IS ABROAD.-LORD BROUGHAM. No. 33.-VOL. II. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1833. PRICE THREE-HALFPENCE. LEONARD'S VOYAGE TO THE WESTERN beral portion of the Legislature, have forced upon COASTS OF AFRICA. THE SLAVE TRADE AS IT EXISTS. THERE is a very general impression abroad in this country, that though the traffic in slaves is still carried on to a certain extent upon the coasts of Africa, it is much circumscribed by the treaties between Great Britain and her allies, and that, at any rate, its attendant horrors are greatly mitigated. This idea, we lament to say, is entirely erroneous; the trade exists at the present moment in full activity; with this difference, that British vessels dare no longer openly engage in it, though British seamen, British colonial merchants, and British capital, all co-operate in the iniquity. And, with this farther difference, that to the wickedness and outrage of the former trade, are now added the pirate's worst vices of license and brutality; and wholesale cruelties more revolting and fiendlike than those which distinguished the traffic in its former open state. the powers of Europe. Mr. Leonard relates twenty demned trade, we can only speak in its middle state. We shall neither look back to the brutal violence of deed, the cruel rapacity of motive, which have dragged the miserable Africans from their homes; nor forward to the fate, which awaits them when the colonial slave-mart shall have severed every tie of kindred, and transferred them to their final house of bondage, and to the legalized lash of the lawful proprietor of their flesh and blood; and of all those free energies of body and mind which man claims as the unalienable gift of his Creator, and of which he can no more denude himself, nor be justly deprived, than of his organs and functions of action and thought-than of his life or his immortality. We restrict our view to Mr. Leonard's representations of the intermediate condition of the slaves, in their transfer from their native villages to the islands, and quote by no means the most flagrant cases that he has re Tait's Magazine, which has been the uncompromising enemy of slavery, has this month brought under our notice a late work which places the trade, as it is carried on at the present moment, in the true light, and shows it to be polluted with more than its original treachery and barbarity. Mr. Leonard, a professional man of good education and talent, sailed lately in the Dryad, a King's ship, appointed to the West-Coast station, for the prevention of the slave trade. Strange things were made known to him, or fell under his notice during his long cruize in 1830-31, and he has performed a duty to God and man in proclaiming them. The opinion is not peculiar to Mr. Leonard that the French Government, whether the younger or the elder branch of the Bourbons be at its head, has never yet been sincere in wishing to put down the slave trade; for if so, with the cordial concurrence of Britain, nothing could have been easier than to give the purpose efficacy. The treaty with France for the suppression is worse than nugatory. She refuses the right of search conceded by the other states; so that a slaver of any other nation has only to hoist the tri-color, and set at nought, and defy, under this guise, all those mea-ing the arrival of a few more, to complete the number she sures for the protection of the Africans, which the justice and humanity of the British people, and li corded: "18th February. [1831.] His Majesty's brig Plumper despatched in search of a slave vessel, reported to be lying arrived to-day from the river Nunez, where she had been there under Spanish colours. The vessel was found; but she hoisted French colours, and, of course, could not be. touched. Several hundred slaves, ready for embarkation, were lodged in a factory, near the spot where she lay, wait was able to cram into her hold. "3d March. [1831.] A schooner, under Spanish colours, called the Primeira, arrived here to-day, with three hundred easily prevented! Were the commanders of his Majesty's and eleven slaves on board; detained by the Black Joke, tender to this ship, on the 22d ultimo, off Cape Mount, bound from the river Gallinas to the Havanna. From the accounts brought by the captors, there is a very great number of vessels between this and Cape Palmos waiting to take in slaves. The tender, on first seeing the Primeira, fired several blank cartridges to bring her to, but paying no attention to this mild injunction, shot was had recourse to, one of which took effect, killing two of the slaves and the cook of the vessel, and wounding two slaves, the mate, and four of the crew. The slaves consist of one hundred and eleven men, forty-five women, ninety-eight boys, fifty-three girls, and four infants at the breast, one of whom was born since the period of capture, whose mother, unhappy creature, sickly and emaciated, was suckling it on deck, with hardly ation of slaves into the French colonies of Guadaloupe and rag to cover either herself or her offspring. pros The small space in which these unfortunate beings are huddled together is almost incredible. The schooner is only one hundred and thirty tons burden, and the slave deck only two feet two inches high, so that they can hardly even sit upright. The after part of the deck is occupied by the women and children, separated by a wooden partition from the other slaves. The horrors of this infernal apartment-the want of air---the suffocating heat-the filth-the stenchmay be easily imagined; although it is remarked that this ship is one of the cleanest that ever was brought to the colony. The men were bound together in twos, by irons riveted round the ancles. On their arrival these chains were removed, and they appeared much gratified. The countenances of all seemed lighted up with satisfaction at the pect of being put on shore, towards which they often turned to gaze, with an expression of wonder and impatience. I went on board to visit the wounded. About one half of the boys were circumcised. I could not ascertain that they belonged to a separate tribe, although their general appearance seemed to me slightly different from the rest. Slave vessels, in the rivers adjacent to Sierra Leone, receive considerable assistance in the pursuit of their illicit traffic from some of the merchants of this colony, in the shape of articles of trade and provisions; which trifling circumstance, as it pays well, and is no direct engagement in the slave trade, these pence and farthing individuals may, perhaps, very well reconcile to their consciences. We learn that the Primeira was supplied with bread from a vessel belonging to a merchant of Free town." But this bread supply is nothing to what daily passes in a colony maintained by Britain at vast expense of life and money to prevent the slave trade. Kidnapping is the constant practice of many of the colonists-connivance is a general profession. We give one specimen of the efficacy of the existing treaties. Information was received by the Dryad, that a Spanish brig and schooner, ready to receive slaves on board, was lying in the river Bonny. A tender was despatched to look after them; and mark the result. "The pertinacious determination of the French Govern. ment not to grant us the right of search and capture of the numerous vessels we meet with, under the French flag, engaged in this hateful traffic-the extensive annual importa Martinique, in the face of the established laws, by evident thorities the fact of the Portuguese Government agent, at connictation or tacit consent, on the part of the local auBoa Vista, being openly one of the most extensive slave dealers on the coast of Africa, and continuing in his illi cit course so long unobstructed, all serve to shew, that have not a genuine desire towards the abolition of negro these Governments are regardless of their engagements, and slavery; but endeavour to screen from merited punishment those unprincipled adventurers, by whom the restrictions of the treaties between these Governments and our own are so flagrantly violated; and it is evident, from the style of our remonstrances, that we cannot command upright dealing, where the interest of these powers is concerned. jects of these foreign Governments for carrying on this illi"While there are so many facilities afforded to the subpression must prove worse than useless, as will be seen in cit trade, all our single-handed endeavours towards its supnations, and the equipment of vessels for the slave trade the sequel. Until it shall be declared piracy by a law of shall be held an actual engagement in it and until the most cordial union and co-operation, and the most energetic suppression and the utmost extent of punishment inflicted measures are adopted by all civilized nations towards its on those who bid defiance to the laws enacted against it,― the trade of blood can never be entirely put an end to.” Any one possessed of human feelings, who shall read the extract below, will surely not lack motive to co-operate in atoning for this horrible injustice,-in wiping out this foul blot on European civi lization, and on the very name of man. The scene is a Spanish slave brig captured by the Black Joke, an English tender. "Immediately after the vessel was secured, the living were found sitting on the heads and bodies of the dead and the dying below. Witnessing their distress, the captors poured a large quantity of water into a tub for them to drink out of; but, being unused to such generosity, they merely imagined that their usual scanty daily allowance of half a pint per man was about to be served out; and when given to understand that they might take as much of it, and as often as they felt inclined; they seemed astonished, and "Here are two vessels fitted for the reception of slaves, rushed in a body, with headlong eagerness, to dip their and anchored at a notorious slave-port, ready to take on parched and feverish tongues in the refreshing liquid. Their board their wretched victims, whenever the number which heads became wedged in the tub, and were with some dif it is possible to crowd into their holds shall be brought ficulty got out-not until several were nearly suffocated in from the interior; and we, although fully aware that they its contents. The drops that fell on the deck were lapped are so fitted, and that such is their intention, cannot legally and sucked up with a most frightful eagerness. Jugs were prevent the inhuman act; when, with the greatest ease also obtained, and the water handed round to them; and in imaginable, were the dictates of humanity not obstructed their precipitation and anxiety to obtain relief from the by the cold-blooded arm of the law, our tender or our boats burning thirst which gnawed their vitals, they madly bit the might enter the river, capture, or destroy them, and thereby vessels with their teeth, and champed them into atoms. Then, effectually prevent them from accomplishing their nefarious to see the look of gratification-the breathless unwillingness purpose. But no: the poor Africans must be suffered to be to part with the vessel, from which, by their glistening eyes, collected together in the "factory," like cattle, until the they seemed to have drawn such exquisite enjoyment! Only numerous cargo is completed—we must suffer them to be half satisfied, they clung to it, though empty, as if it were shipped and subjugated to every horror, and to all the de- more dear to them, and had afforded them more of earthly gradation of the slavehold-we must permit, and in a man- bliss, than all the nearest and dearest ties of kindred and af ner countenance a crime which we know is about to be perfection. It was a picture of such utter misery, from a natural petrated of the most anabolical nature, when it might be so want, more distressing than any one can conceive who has |