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and at the conclusion of the seventh year of their union, which period they had spent in great felicity at the Spanish court, the Prince was called to the throne of Tuscany, by the title of King of Etruria; an event which surprized the Queen, who informs us with great naiveté, that it was the first time that she had heard of the political arrangements, in which her husband had been included.* The poor Queen was destined to remain in ignorance of circumstances of equal importance, until the very moment of their accomplishment, and in a manner, which more closely resembles the vicissitudes of a heroine in a fairy tale, than the genuine history of a Princess in the nineteenth century, was suddenly deprived of every attribute of royalty. She was left a widow in 1803, and being appointed Regent by the will of her husband, applied herself earnestly to the duties of government in the hope of presenting the kingdom to her son in a more flourish. ing condition, than that in which she had found it but Napoleon in his unrelenting persecution of the Bourbons, his allies, had willed it otherwise, and the unfortunate Queen gives the following account of her dismissal from office.

"On the 23d of November 1807, while I was at one of my country residences, the French Minister, D'Aubuson la Fenillad, came to inform me that Spain had ceded my kingdom to France; that it was necessary that I should depart, and that the French troops, which were ordered to take possession of my dominions, were already arrived. I immediately dispatched a courier to the king, my father, to ask for an explanation of what had just happened; for I had not received the least intimation on the subject. The answer which I received on the road was that I must hasten my departure, as the country no longer belonged to me, and that I must find consolation in the bosom of my family."

By a summary process the subjects of the Queen Etruira were released from their oaths of allegiance, and in an interview with Napoleon which took place at Milan, he endeavoured to amuse her by an assur ance, that her father and mother had suggested an exchange of the Tuscan dominions, for a part of Portugal in order to have her in their vicinity, and then care lessly enquired, whether she had heard the news from *The treaty of Lunéville.

Spain. Thunderstruck by the knowledge of the situ tion, in which her parents were placed, she hastened to join them at Aranguay, and was consequently involved in the same snare which entrapped her family, and led them into captivity in France. After many fruitless negotiations with, and much insolence of reply, from the imperial King, who seemed to delight in realizing the most extravagant fictions, by reducing crowned heads to the condition of private persons, and exalting the dregs of the people to a throne, she was obliged to resign herself to her fate, and be content with a life of sordid retirement, whilst to the astonishment of the civilized world some Jobsons wife enjoyed the dignities of regal splendour. 'The Queen's account of the accommodations afforded her by Napoleon do little credit to his generosity; consigned to a paltry apartment, she became desirous of appropriating the pension, which she had been promised in lieu of her Tuscan dominions, to the purchase of some necessary comforts, and amongst them the hire of a country house. On the day of her intended removal, she found her new residence in the occupation of soldiers, who forcibly prevented her entrance. Every species of oppression was put in force against a helpless woman. She was sent by the Emperor's command from place to place, her route changed suddenly, and the gendarmes in constant requisition, in order to terrify her into acquiescence. Kept in a continual state of agitation and alarm, she bent her eyes towards Great Britain as the only retreat in which she could enjoy repose, and she formed the design of throwing herself into the arms of England, in the hope,

"That as she had been at all times the refuge, and consolation of unfortunate princes, she would take an unfortunate family abandoned by the whole world, and which had become the sport of a tyrant, under her protection."

Her project failed: her plans were revealed to Napoleon, and at the moment, in which she expected to put her measures into execution, they were frustrated by the intervention of the police. A period

of four months elapsed without any notice being taken of her offence, but at the end of that time she was informed" that she was to be publicly tried by a Court Martial, and one morning on her return from church, she saw the commissary of police" with her sentence in his hand, who told her that by the clemency of the Emperor she was only to be shut up in a monastery with her daughter, and that her son was to be sent to her father and mother. We close our review of the Queen's memoirs by an extract which describes her situation in a convent in Rome.

"Only twenty four hours elapsed between this order and its execution. In that short space I was condemned to be separated from a son, whom I loved most tenderly, from a house which in losing me, lost every thing, and from all my property. I travelled night and day with my daughter, with only one lady to accompany us, besides a female servant and a physician; and to complete our party we had the wretch of a commissary, who shewed the most brutal insensibility, when he saw the tears I shed for the loss of my son, just torn from my arms. Every sort of rudeness, which could be thought of to insult me during our journey, he made use of: we were in addition exposed to the insults of the populace, who murmured at seeing a carriage filled with women, followed by a police officer. In this manner, at the end of ten days, we arrived at Rome in the evening. At the last post I was delivered into the custody of an officer of the Roman police; and about nine o'clock in the evening we reached the monastery, the prioress of which, with a single light in her hand, came to the door to receive us; neither bed, supper, nor chamber were prepared for the Queen of Etruria, and her daughter. I remained two years and a half in this monastery, and a whole year without seeing a soul, without speaking to a creature, and without being allowed to write or receive news, not even from my son. I was put into an apartment which looked into the inner court, and I was forbid to appear at any of the outer windows. Exactly a month after my entrance into the convent, Tanet, intendant of the treasury, paid me a visit, and took from me the jewels I had brought with me, after which I was allowed 2500 francs per month for my support. I had passed eleven months in the convent, when my parents arrived at Rome on the 16th of July 1812. I was in hopes of being set at liberty immediately after; but far from that; in place of the severity with which I was treated being diminished, I was placed under greater restrictions than ever; and their cruelty was even carried so far as to forbid my father, or any of the members of my family, from approaching the convent themselves, or sending any messenger there. Once a month only, sometimes at greater intervals, General Miollis brought my parents and my son to visit me, but I was not allowed to kiss the dear child more than once; or even to look at him but at the distance, and always in the presence of witnesses. These rare visits lasted only a quarter of an hour, or twenty minutes at most. In this sorrowful state I remained during two years and a half, so completely cut off from all intercourse with the world, that when a stranger came to visit the monastery, I was ordered to shut myself up in my

chamber, and not allowed to quit it, until the prioress sent me word that the visitor had departed. General Miollis came frequently to see me, not only in the unworthy capacity of gaoler, but to insult my fallen situ ation with his sardonic laugh, and insolent speeches."

This statement needs no comment. The arrival of Neapolitan troops liberated her in 1814, and in the hope of regaining her rights, she addressed these memoirs to the Allied Powers, and Francis 1 assigned her the principality of Lucca as a provisional indemnity for the duchy of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla.

Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen, with Anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs. To which is added, some account of the soil, climate and vegetable productions of the territory, westward of the Mississippi. By John D. Hunter ---London, Longman and Co.

A narrative more extraordinary than that which we are now called upon to review, has seldom met the public eye. The author at a very early period of life was taken prisoner, by a party of Indians, who rushed upon the peaceful habitation of his parents, massacred them on the spot, seized upon all the plunder they could find, and then set fire to the dwellings, they had desolated. Two other white children, a little girl and boy, were for the moment spared, and carried away by the visitors, the former beginning to cry, was instantly dispatched by one of the warriors with a blow of his tomehawk, the latter was taken off by a party who separated from the main body, and Hunter saw him no more. The unfortunate infant thus left forlorn in the hands of such appalling strangers, had sufficient presence of mind to stifle the utterance of his terrors, and endured the hardships of a rapid journey in silence: he was adopted, as is customary by the tribe of Kausas who had first taken him, but on whom his unhappy situation made little apparent impression; they looked up

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on the wretched orphan with indifference, and the chances of war occasioning frequent separations, he became domesticated with different parties of the Paw. nees, before he was received into the family of Keenees-tah, chief of the Kansas, who had regained the ascendant. These transitions from nation to nation, are of common occurrence with the women and children belonging to tribes in hostility with each other; they be ing usually treated with kindness by the visitors, whilst those warriors who are not fortunate enough to be killed in battle are tortured to death. The jealousy which the native Indians feel of the white settlers, whose gradual encroachment upon their ancient territory threaten them with total annihilation, or what is equally revolting, an incorporation with people differing as widely from themselves in habits, and in manners, as in colour, is the occasion of the most fearful irruptions on the outposts of the invaders, and the captivity of those white children who escape the fury of the first onset, the indiscriminate slaughter which fol lows the war-whoop, that announces the descent of an exasperated tribe, on the peaceful habitations of another race. Their prisoners generally speaking, become so attached to a wandering and savage life, that it is seldom, that they can be reclaimed and the sub. ject of these memoirs, who appears to profess a mind capable in the highest degree of cultivation and refinement, sustained many struggles between his affection to his youthful habits, the prejudices with which he had been early imbued against his white brethren, and his desire to mingle with civilized beings, before he could be prevailed upon, to quit a mode of existence which strange and disgusting as it may appear to the denozen of a polished city, offers many delights to a lover of nature in its wildest and most unsophisticated state. When the young prisoner became acquainted with the language of his captors, he was instructed in their greatest and most necesssary accomplishments, the art of hunting and of war, and was also taught the religious

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