could trust, a scanty and precarious fupport. I have often heard him, for he is one of my oldeft acquaintances, describe the scene of his hiding-place, at a later period, when he could recollect it in its fublimity, without its horror." At times," faid he, "when I ventured to the edge of the wood, among fome of those inacceffible crags which you remember a few miles from my house, I have heard, in the pauses of the breeze which rolled fuddenly through the pines beneath me, the distant voices of the foldiers, fhouting in answer to one another, amidst their inhuman fearch. I have heard their fhots re-echoed from cliff to cliff, and seen reflected from the deep ftill lake, the gleam of those fires which confumed the cottages of my people. Sometimes fhame and indignation had nearly overcome my fear, and I have prepared to rush down the fteep, unarmed as I was, and to die at once by the fwords of my enemies; but the instinctive love of life prevailed, and starting as the roe bounded by me, I have again fhrunk back to the fhelter I had left.

"One day," continued he, "the noife was nearer than ufual; and, at laft, from the cave in which I lay, I heard the parties immediately below fo close upon me, that I could diftinguish the words they fpoke. After fome time of horrible fufpenfe, the voices grew weaker and more distant; and at last I heard them die away at the end of the wood. I rofe, and ftole to the mouth of the cave; when fuddenly a dog met me, and gave that fhort, quick bark by which they indicate their prey.

Amidft the terror of the circumftance, I was yet master enough of myself to discover that the dog was Oscar; and I own to you I felt his appearance like the retribution of juftice and of Heaven.-Stand! cried a threatening voice; and a foldier preffed through the thicket, with his bayonet charged. It was Albert ! Shame, confufion, and remorfe, ftopped my utterance, and I ftood motionless before him.- My mafter!" faid he, with the ftifled voice of wonder and of fear,

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and threw himself at my feet. I had recovered my recollection. You are revenged, faid I, and I am your prifoner."-" Revenged! Alas! you have judged too hardly of me; I have not had one happy day fince that fatal one on which I left my mafter; but I have lived, I hope, to fave him. The party to which I belong are paffed; for I lingered behind them among those woods and rocks which I remembered fo well in happier days.-There is, however, no time to be loft. In a few hours this wood will blaze, though they do not fufpect that it shelters you. Take my drefs, which may help your escape, and I will endeavour to dispose of yours. On the coaft, to the weftward, we have learned there is a fmall party of your friends, whom, by following the river's track till dusk, and then striking over the fhoulder of the hill, you may join without much danger of difcovery."-"I felt the difgrace of owing so much to him I had injured, and remonstrated against expofing him to fuch imminent danger of its being known that he had favoured my efcape, which, from the temper of his commander, I knew would be inftant death. Albert, in an agony of fear and distress, befought me to think only of my own fafety.-"Save us both," faid he, " for if you die, I cannot live. Perhaps we may meet again; but whatever becomes of Albert, may the bleffing of God be with his master !"

Albert's prayer was heard. His mafter, by the exercife of talents which, though he had always poffeffed, adverfity only taught him to use, acquired abroad a ftation of equal honour and emolument; and when the profcriptions of party had ceased, returned home to his own country, where he found Albert advanced to the rank of a Lieutenant in the army, to which his valour and merit had raised him, married to a lady by whom he had acquired some little fortune, and was the father of an only daughter, for whom nature had done much, and to whose native endowments it was the chief study and delight of her parents to add every thing that art

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'could beftow. The gratitude of the chief was only equalled by the happiness of his follower, whofe honeft pride was not long after gratified, by his daughter's becoming the wife of that mafter whom his generous fidelity had faved. That mafter, by the clemency of more indulgent and liberal times, was again restored to the domains of his ancestors, and had the fatisfaction of feeing the grandfon of Albert enjoy the hereditary birthright of his race.

On Education.

OWEVER widely the thinking part of mankind

may have differed as to the proper mode of conducting education, they have always been unanimous in their opinion of its importance. The outward effects of it are obferved by the most inattentive. They know that the clown and the dancing-mafter are the fame from the hand of Nature; and, although a little. farther reflection is requifite to perceive the effects of culture on the internal fenfes, it cannot be difputed that the mind, like the body, when arrived at firmness and maturity, retains the impreffions it received in a more pliant and tender age.

The greateft part of mankind, born to labour for their fubfiftence, are fixed in habits of industry by the iron hand of Neceffity. They have little time or opportunity for the cultivation of the understanding; the errors and immoralities of their conduct, that flow from the want of thofe fentiments which education is intended to produce, will, on that account, meet with indulgence from every benevolent mind. But those who are placed in a confpicuous ftation, whose vices become more complicated and deftructive, by the abuse of knowledge, and the mifapplication of improved talents, have no title to the fame indulgence. Their guilt is heightened by the rank and fortune which protect them from punishment, and which, in fome degree, preferve them from that infamy their conduct has merited.

I hold it, then, incontrovertible, that the higher the rank, the more urgent is the neceffity for ftoring the mind with the principles, and directing the paffions to the practice, of public and private virtue.

It will be allowed by all, that the great purpose of education is to form the man and the citizen, that he may be virtuous, happy in himself, and useful to focie

ty. To attain this end, his education fhould begin, as it were, from his birth, and be continued till he arrive at firmness and maturity of mind, as well as of body. Sincerity, truth, juftice, and humanity, are to be cultivated from the firft dawnings of memory and obfervation. As the powers of these increase, the genius and difpofition unfold themselves; it then becomes neceffary to check, in the bud, every propensity to folly or to vice; to root out every mean, felfith, and ungenerous fentiment; to warm and animate the heart in the pursuit of virtue and honour. The experience of ages has hitherto discovered no furer method of giving right impreffions to young minds, than by frequently exhibiting to them those bright examples which hiftory affords, and, by that means, infpiring them with those sentiments of public and private virtue which breathe in the writings of the fages of antiquity.

In this view, I have confidered the acquifition of the dead languages as a most important branch in the education of a gentleman. The flownefs with which he acquires them, prevents his memory from being loaded with facts fafter than his growing reafon can compare and distinguish; he becomes acquainted by degrees with the virtuous characters of ancient times; he admires their justice, temperance, fortitude, and public fpirit, and burns with a desire to imitate them. The impreffions thefe have made, and the reftraints to which he has been accustomed, ferve as a check to the many túmultuous paffions which the ideas of religion alone would, at that age, be unable to controul. Every victory he obtains over himself serves as a new guard to virtue. When he errs, he becomes fenfible of his weaknefs, which, at the fame time that it teaches him moderation and forgiveness to others, fhows the neceffity of keeping a stricter watch over his own actions. During these combats, his reafoning faculties expand, his judgment ftrengthens, and, while he becomes acquainted with the corruptions of the world, he fixes himself in the practice of virtue.

A man