elsewhere, can concentrate only, and direct their force, like the inferior sharers of our creation, to the mere instinctive care and rearing of one's offspring!

I shall close this essay by a short delineation of such a character, by a young poetical acquaintance of mine; and only entreat, that it may not be deemed from the life, and too faithful a portrait.

Materna once I knew a hoyden maid,
Lovely and joyous, every thing but-staid;
Blithe as the beaming of her playful eye,

She would waltz, romp, laugh, any thing but―sigh.
I left her then, the gayest of the gay,
Nor met Materna more for many a day;

When next I saw her,-Heavens and earth!-behold
The awful change, a few short years had told!
She sat at home within her husband's hall
Throned as a Mother!-here a baby small
Scream'd on her lap, and there in basket laid,
Slept on the floor a little two-years' maid :
Pouting in corner, sulk'd a sturdy boy;
And nigh yon chair a missy shy and coy,
Clung to it's arm, and ever and anon,

Shrunk from Mamma, who fain would draw her on.
I ask'd in wonder,-could this be the girl

I once had met in Fashion's giddy whirl?

Now more than dowdy.-worse than slattern grown,
With rumpled cap, and looser dressing gown;
Telling long tales of teething, and it's ills,
Of lancing, leeching, purgatives and pills;
Of troubles dire from nursing, and from dhyes,
Colds, coughs, and rushes,-cholic and weak eyes;
Thrush, croup, and measles,-boils and vaccination,
And hundred others,—dread enumeration !
There was no punkah, lest it's chilling air
Should hurt the little host that nestled there :
There was no light,-alas! the cheering ray
Was deem'd but glare, and thus in gloom they lay:
There was no converse, save a Mother's cares,
And save her watchings, frettings, and her fears :-
In short, all life,-idea,-thought,—joy was gone,
She was a Mother, but was that-alone!

THE FUGITIVE.

Mais enfin discourons de l'aimable captive!

MOLIERE'S L'ETOURDI.

Ar the entrance, from the south-west, into the beautiful vale of Mukwanpore, in Nepaul, at the point where the clear waters of the Raptee first enter into the valley, after quitting their course among the hills, which rise perpendicularly from the river, and almost darken it with their lofty and wood-crowned heights,— is situated the small and secluded post of Hettourah. It is discovered not long after descending the Cheriaghattah pass; and during the second Nepaul campaign, in 1816, was the point, where the division under the personal command of the late lamented, and, alas!

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unappreciated, Sir David Ochterlony, halted after turning the pass; and where they were afterwards joined by the detachment, under Brigadier Burnett, which, as concerted by the General, had gallantly forced the famed pass itself, by a direct assault on it's precipitous and stockaded heights.

Nothing can exceed the beauty of Hettourah. The Goorkahs had avowed their approval of the site, by erecting a neat and well-built description of post, or guard-house, with it's picturesque roofs carved and fashioned after the manner of China. At this spot the river, though deep, is far from broad, but exhibits that glassy clearness peculiar only to mountain streams. It's finny inhabitants are distinctly seen in shoals, gliding over the pebbles and rocks, which gem it's farthest depths, and among them, the bright colours of many resemble those of our northern trout: they were, in fact, originally mistaken for them by our countrymen. Reflected also in every possible hue, on the bosom of the water, are the

many species of trees clothing the hills, as they rise almost perpendicularly from the river;-their range forming with the Cheriaghattah heights, a narrow and most stupendous amphitheatre above the valley.

At the period in which the following little tale is dated, the army under Sir David Ochterlony had retired for some months from Nepaul; and our Resident had long since taken his post at Catmandoo, as stipulated at the peace. There were the usual suite, with a small escort, with this representative of the British Government at the Nepaul Court; and the treasure necessary for their salaries and pay was periodically sent from Patna, under the charge of a party of Sepoys, commanded by a subaltern officer. It was usual for the guard to proceed through the Saul forest on leaving our territory, and then marching by Bechiakoh, and the Cheriaghattah Pass, descend to Hettourah, and there await a party from the British escort at Catmandoo, the capital of Nepaul, which received charge of the treasure,