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WN, (MSWHOLE NO. 323.Dr.Me*ttaesilt*Mde-iitedr Mwittrk-iip-***heght-i at it of gar;ratirily,i his rtaly-Vle-delingMehatntht!ieacktin*ereetereddishatLetaidindentthou remember the. boy we met when we first set out together, who wis weeping on his way to ichool,and •ighing’tobe a man?” Memory cast down her eyes and was si-lent.A little way onward, Jliey tame to a miserable cottage at the door of which was an •8*4 woipan, meanly dad, and shaking with palsy. She sat aft alone, her head testing oti her bosonic and as the pair ap« proacned,.vumly tried to raise it up to look at them.r*4pood morrow, did lady—and all hap-Ihcss to you,” cried Hope, gaily, and the d woman tftought it was a long time since •lie had heard such a ‘cheering salutation. -Happioe w!”wid she, in a voice thatquivered with Weakness and infirmity.-~‘‘Happiness! I Kate not known it since I was a little girl, without care or sorrow.*—O, I remember* those delightful days,when I thoughrnf nothing but.the present moment, noraaredfor t he future or the past. . Whtti 1 iaaghed and playedjandsang, from morning tills bight and envied no one, or lt;w'ufee4 tU^be Wother than Iwas. But those h*lt5pif';t»ttiea. are past,S»1-ery:tosatskill eiUS-ich'tond,beip-be-icefuii ahoridit-irerteHit► aediy,iceIbehey*e,li*idnever to return; O, ^ ^MS'bnly dnce more return to thedaya ^my cKRdhood!” The old woman sunk back c^ jttr seat, and the tears flowed frbmher feoltow eyes.Memory again reproHched |^M»pan^ ion, but he only asked hcriilaJhiud^Mleet-cd the little girl they had mMflSS^me ago, who was so miserabletktta^ she was so young? Memory ki^w it wall nough, and said not another woirdft / They now approached their hoAjao# Memory was on tiptoe with the thought of once more enjoying ihe unequalled beauties of those scenes from which she had been so long separated. But, some how or other, it seemed they were sadly changed; Neither the grass was so green, the flowers so sweet and lovely, nor did the brooks murmur, the echoes, answer, or the birds sing half so enchantingly, as she remembered them in long time past.‘'Alas!** she exclaimed, how changed is every thing! I alone am the same.’* “Every thing is the same, and thou alone art changed/’ answered Hope, Thou hast deceived thyself in the past just asl deceive others in the future.”“\V bat is it you are disputing about?” asked an old man, whom they had not observed before, though he was standing close by them. “I have lived almost fourscore years and ten, and my experience 1 may perhaps enable me to decide betweenyou.”They told him the occasion of their disagreement, and related the history of their journey round the earth. The old man, smiling, for a few moments sat buried in thought. He then said to them:“I, too, have lived to see all the hopes of my youth turn into shadows, clouds and darkness, and vanish into nothing. I, too, have survived toy fortune, my friends, mv children—the hilarity of youth and the blessing of health.”‘And dont thou despair?* said Memory. “No, I have still one hope left me.” '‘And what is that?”“The hope of heaven!”Memory turned towards Hope, threw herielf into his arms, which opened to receive her, and burst into tears,exc)aiming— “Forgive me, 1 have done thee injustice. Let us never again separate from each other.”‘‘With all my heart,” said Hope, and they continued for ever after to travel together hand in hand, through the world.FRA DIAVOLO, THE ROBBER. Fra Diavclo’s real name was Michael as I Pczza. He hail already rendered luniself ce celebrated by his murders at the time at I when the French made the campaign of i-r I Naples, commanded by Championnct.— me j He then harrassed the rear of the French iy j army, organized bodies of insurgents in at I Calabria, directed a vast conspiracy against rn I the French, and did them considerable ot I mischief. He was born at iiri (Tctra-dithere was a party of banditti at Itri, hesent thither * Polish regiment, commanded by a young officer of his stiff, who, regarding the expedition as a fair opportunity for distinguishing himself, exposed his life with almost chivalrous courage. He succeeded in expelling Fra Diavolo from Itri, and driving him into the woods. But the brigand was *no less brave than his adversary; he re-entered hit, and was again attacked by the Polish regiment. A fright-fill conflict ensued, and Fra Diavolo inha* manly massacred all the prisoners who fell into his hands. A little chapel, situated near the bridge, was the scene of many atrocities. At length Fra Diavolo and his followers were once more driven to the mountains. But no sooner had the military withdra wn from the path leading from the road between the Naples and Malo di Gaeti, than two thousand insurgents again shewed themselves. General Oliver sent to meet them two squadrons and a detachment of Polish troops, Who dispersed them, and took possession of Itri. Fra Diavola then abandoned Terr© di JLavora and fled to Calabria, which once more be-c*m* the scene of his atrocities .By future generations, it will perhaps Scarcely be'believed, that Fra Diavolo enjoyed the marked, favor of the King and Queen of Sicily.- Queen Caroline sent him a bracelet, set with her portrait; andhe held the rank of Major in the Britisharmy. Yethe hpd previously been condemned to the gallows, and a price had been set upon his head. Salicetti called tomiiid thtte facia when Fra Diavolo. was arrested m 1802. *Meiwcaassured me that the influenceof thi|f«raqrdinary man was immense, $uringUm, occupation of Naples by the'E^cb;-‘for the inhabitants of the mountain*, in Which ^e, Tiahittfailj^dwelt, being as savage as himWrlf/joyfiilly followed a chief who led them on to pillage and murder. One hooorableWrmtda*rcco*lcd of Fra Diavolo. Having- effected hil landing at Itri; through the feniUtf General Girardin, who left that part of the coast undefended, Fri Diavolo massacred daring the night, aU.the inhabitants^wbh it-sisted’him, and made thevyest prisoners.—T wo ladies, the wives ofoflker of- the se cond Swiss regiment, were made prisoners, and were conducted br-Fra Dtavolu and his brigands to the mountains/ Sometime afterwards he sent them to Naples;having previously required them to givehim a certificate, stating that they had: been treated with due respect. The two ladies on their part, requested to have acopy of the certificate, countersigned bythe Brigand himself.Fra Diavolo was arrested *tSiIerm,by an apothecary’s apprentice. This was a miserable conclusion to his eareer. He was conveyed to Naples, where the scaffold was erected for his execution, before any measures were taken for his trial, for,observed Salicetti, “nothing'more was necessary, than the condemnation of the most just and equitable King Ferdinand and his Queen Caroline.*’ It is a curious fact, that the English cruizing before the Bay of Naples, sent a flag of truce to demand Ihc liberation of the British Major Michael Pczza, threatening, if this demand should be refused, to make reprisals cn ail the French and Neapolitan prisoners who might fall Into their hands, ft would appear that Sal licet ti’s watch was a little too fast, for to the above demand of the English service who had been made prisoner by the troops of his Majrstv King Joseph; but that, if the individual alluded to was a bandit, who held no commission, who had no character, cither political or military, and who was known in the country by the name of Fra Diavolo, he had been hanged the evening before, in pursuance of an old sentence pronounced upon him by the tribunals of King Ferdinand.waWthlt;waFrImducotpO!ciatheactthedrtGahaithssotyojvoimuteato :pe30tinthinuCchi)adw aetutietheCcpoiwathlt;da’eriwhCCMUtchiLchitinofinitoiheBudeP»lienmnubf%numihiiex;helhamdeiop|instmreiP«thewaOfclfeiFaTh10tantantcrlt;bidIn Indiana, a candidate for the Legisla-uv, .....VU.U. «C wa* uorn ai «n i i ctra-m I tuf® !*catrlt;? th?J hc *?*, cbarScdto Lavoro,) aud in his youth had been a goat- wilhL b‘5 wJ{c” malt;1c her writcit- herd. He afterwards turned monk. cn-tfl ,hc Ppagator of the report, reuui-n- iiciu. «c aticrwarus lurneu moux. cn-i . —*. -- v* ^s- tcrcda convent, and there assumed the bnntocom^flfct jr. Hii answer was,tls name of Fra Angelo, ills bad conduct, thsU ;bad lt;*lTg ^P*«cd wlut was com-id however, caused him to be expelled from I a,«‘ *‘,en ne adds:ii- marked by a murder. He headed a baud * conversed,ir (of smugglers, and spread terror and dcso-l expressed a disbelief of the truth ofit Ilation throughout the country* The Gov-1 ® report, with the exception of , »-1 eminent of King Ferdinand condemned I T r41,~ ,n. jtt*BnraUcm f , that t- j him to be hanged, and a price was set upon I A ? 'i*10 t“,c“ bc Wil married,n I his head.were all bad women. And that all thein a uis iicdu. I . —;-----»f But Queen Caroline, the wife of Ftfxli- tvlio^marncd into that family, had tosf (nand* a vnman.irho knew bow to turn j ?J P “lcir w^cs;—*nd slated tht ca^c of!*|the worU things to useful account* An! F r . * ^nom he rrprcsentcd to bethingsn I amnesty was concluded with Michael Pcz-c I za, and he was ajjjjomicd to the command r, j of a corps formed of freed galley slaves, -1 who were to attack the rear of the Fiench * I army from Fcwli to Catiglim si W bile the French were engaged in taking pacta and Capua, Fra Diavola cstab-e jibbed himself at Itri, his native place, where he was signalized by the commission -1 of all sorts of atrocities. Travellers were murdered, and every inhabitant of the ti j place who was known to be possessed of s j any property, was mercilessly plundered r J ami pvt to death. Itri was soon eyt-wpicd H jsclciy by the agents of Fra Diavolo ; and I j numerous travellers on their way from n 1 Naples to Rome, hoping that the town.a very fine man;—but denied that-being a military station, would itfiotd themM _ever whipped his wife. AU he done, wasto *lafi her yew?This distinction between *'whipping** and “slapping the jaws” must, we presume, be taken as a good one, seeing that the party charged was successful in theelection.A German writer says, that Bonaparte was so ambitious, that he wished to have the Black Sea fora wash basin ; the Mediterranean for a watering place; theBaltic for a fish pimd; the Atlantic for a pleasure yacht, and the Pacific Ocean for a horse pond, whca hit raring passion came on.1 Pcrdan Fable.—t was Walking in a braotifal meadow with a friend, where I- ] a secure resting place for the night, retir- meadow with a mead, where Ii* led to their beds, but never im mia.~ lyfw * W^T,!' ■ bJ*cw to be a viilian,8 ‘heart which was cmp3ojcd to ba«mhIcomfort «id tranquilly, isrecaom from the miaiSa thie Trti!ir.«9 r,lt;JDd heavens 3’ exclaimed I, the evils- 'Iim;thein:wciuniwitingmowitplaitwoinUfHtis,the444m\mvoildathes jssBsnicrwi from tiae tninds of ahe victims j -------- m--------— --------awas remarkable. The eidrance to the T has committed do not)- neighboring villages was guarded, and the j ^ 14 r.cTf*c -1’ '“GoJ/siwI my fncod jnight travellers advanced with fall confi-j ^ ^ sleep, that honest men- deace to the place where certain death ro^kturbsd.”3“3alastakawaited them. Tliose who were induced to eater the houses of Itri never came cut^ again.alivc,j General Oliver had at th*t time theccKaacdoi■An BJfertvet' Ltixghcf,.-~-Th editor ofjthe Bristol Gazette till us of an acquaintance of his who when he'laughs, “shakes the room so that even the spiders peep out
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