then she would shriek with dismay, and hide herself from sight. But she is gone to give in her dead reckoning to the Judge of all. She died in a foreign land, without one real friend to close her eyes; and she was buried in a stranger's grave, without one mourner to weep upon the turf which covered her remains."

THE FATE OF KISHNA,

a modern Oriental Anecdote. BHEEM, the Hindoo ruler of Mewar, had an only daughter named Kishna, who united, to every charm of personal beauty, all the attractions of disposition and demeanor. Lieutenant-colonel Tod, who was for some time attached to the Mahratta court, and had opportunities of beholding her, speaks from his own knowlege of her admirable qualities. This princess was sixteen years of age, when motives of passion, selfish vanity, or heartless ambition, produced two aspirants to her hand. Both were chieftains of great power and influence in Rajasthan. The rivalry in which they were engaged soon produced hostilities, and the whole country was for some time a prey to the ravages of war. At length a bold and savage chief appeared suddenly in arms before the capital of Mewar, and, having demanded an audience of the prince, openly declared that, to put an end to the distractions of the country, it was expedient that Kishna should die. In urging this horrible alternative upon the unhappy father, a base chieftain was seconded by Ajit, the leader of a powerful party. What arguments were adduced on the occasion we cannot learn; we only know that they were sufficiently forcible to prevail upon the prince to become the murderer of his child; and Kishna was condemned. But even when her parent had consented to the unholy sacrifice, it was no easy matter to find a wretch sufficiently degraded to minister to the cruel purpose. Maharaja Dowlat Sing was sounded first. He was exhorted to save the honor of Oudipoor,' but the prince rejected the proposition with horror and indignation. Maharaja Jowandas was next applied to, and he promised to undertake the part proposed to him; but, when Kishna came into his presence, even that hardened and sanguinary barbarian repented of his purpose he could not kill a thing so

fair. The murder was for a time suspended. At last that which man had refused to perpetrate was accomplished by the hand of woman. The unhappy victim was now apprised of her dreadful destiny, but she still preserved all her accustomed sweetness and benignity; after having endeavoured to soothe the agonies of her distracted mother, she received a cup presented by a female in the prince's name, drank off the poison, and expired.

Thus, with a calm and careless magnanimity which would have done honor to a saint or a martyr, perished Kishna Komaree in the pride of youth and in the bloom of beauty. The hearts of many whom she had loved less fondly than her father burst over her virgin grave; and it is said that the history of her barbarous immolation is never related but with a faltering tongue, and eyes moistened with tears.

"The wretched mother (says our author) did not long survive her child; nature was exhausted in the ravings of despair; she refused food; and her remains in a few days followed those of her daughter to the funeral pyre. Even the ferocious khan, when the instrument of his infamy, Ajit, reported the issue, received him with contempt, and spurned him from his presence, tauntingly asking, 'Is this the boasted Rajpoot valor?' But the wily traitor had to encounter fanguage far more bitter from his political adversary, whom he detested. Sangram Suktawut reached the capital only four days after the catastrophe. -a man in every respect the reverse of Ajit; audaciously brave, be neither feared the frown of his sovereign nor the sword of his enemy. Without introduction he rushed into the presence, where he found seated the traitor Ajit. 'Oh dastard! who hast thrown dust on the Seesodia race, whose blood, which flowed in purity through a hundred ages, has now been defiled! this sin will check its course for ever; it is so foul a blot in our annals that no Seesodia will ever again hold up his head! —a sin to which no punishment can be equal. But the end of our race is ap proaching! Heaven has ordained this, a signal of our destruction. The rana hid his face with his hands, when, turning to Ajit, he exclaimed, Thou stain on the Seesodia race, thou impure of Rajpoot blood, dust be on thy head as thou hast covered us all with shame! May

you die childless, and your name die with you! Why this indecent haste? Had the Patan stormed the city? Had he attempted to violate the sanctity of the Rawula? And though he had, could you not die as Rajpoots, like your ancestors? Was it thus they gained a name? Was it thus our race became renowned-thus they opposed the might of kings? Have you forgotten the Sakas of Cheetore? But whom do I addressnot Rajpoots? Had the honor of your females been endangered, had you sacrificed them all and rushed sword in hand on the enemy, your name would have lived, and the Almighty would have secured the seed of Bappa Rawul."

MRS. BARBAULD AND THE MISSES.

THE late Mrs. Barbauld was an ingenious woman, and was not only a good instructress of her own sex, but could give useful hints even to the lords of the creation. Her poetical pieces, perhaps, are not much read at the present day; yet they do not deserve neglect; and her prose is pregnant with good sense, expressed in a pleasing manner.

In the Juvenile Forget-me-Not, edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall, we meet with a jeud'esprit from this lady's pen, entitled the Misses, addressed to a careless girl.

"We were talking last night, my dear Anne (says Mrs. Barbauld to her young friend), of a family of Misses, whose acquaintance is generally avoided by people of sense. They are most of them old maids, which is not very surprising, considering that the qualities they possess are not the most desirable for a helpmate. They are a pretty numerous clan, and I shall endeavour to give you such a description of them as may enable you to decline their visits; especially as, though many of them are extremely unlike in feature and temper, and, indeed, very distantly related, yet they have a wonderful knack at introducing each other; so that, if you open your doors to one of them, you are very likely, in process of time, to be troubled with the whole tribe.

"The first I shall mention, and, indeed, she deserves to be mentioned first, for she was always fond of being a ringleader of her company-is Miss Chief The young lady was brought up, until she was fourteen, in a large rambling mansion in the country, where she was

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allowed to romp all day with the servants and idle boys of the neighbour. hood. There she employed herself in the summer, in milking into her bonnet, tying the grass together across the path to throw people down; and, in winter, in making slides before the door for the same purpose; and the accidents these gave rise to always procured her the enjoyment of a hearty laugh. She was a great lover of fun, and at Christmas distinguished herself by various tricks, such as putting furze balls into the beds, drawing off the clothes in the middle of the night, and pulling people's seats from under them. At length, as a lady, who was coming to visit the family, mounted on rather a startish horse, rode up to the door, Miss Chief ran up and unfurled an umbrella full in the horse's face, which occasioned him to throw his rider, who broke her arm; after this exploit, Miss was sent off to a boarding school: here she was no small favorite with the girls, whom she led into all manner of scrapes, and no small plague to the poor governess, whose tables were hacked, and beds cut, and curtains set on fire continually. is true, Miss soon laid aside her romping airs, and assumed a very demure appearance; but she was always playing one sly trick or another, and had learned to tell lies, in order to lay it upon the innocent. At length she was discovered writing anonymous letters, by which whole families in the town had been set at variance; and she was then dismissed from the school with ignominy. She has since lived a very busy life in the world: seldom is there a great crowd of which she does not make one, and she has even frequently been taken up for riots, and other disorderly proceedings, very unbecoming in one of her sex.

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The next I shall introduce to your acquaintance is a city lady, Miss Management, a very stirring notable woman, always in a bustle, and always behindhand. In the parlor, she saves candle ends; in the kitchen, every thing is waste and extravagance; she hires her servants at half wages, and changes them at every quarter; she is a great buyer of cheap bargains; but, as she cannot always use them, they grow worm-andmoth-eaten on her hands; when she pays a long score to her butcher, she wrangles for the odd pence, and forgets to add up the pounds. Though it is her great study to save, she is continually

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outrunning her income, which is partly owing to her trusting her cousin Miss Calculation, with the settling of her ccounts, who, it is very well known, could never be persuaded to learn perfectly her Multiplication Table, or state rightly a sum in the Rule of Three.

"Miss Lay and Miss Place are sisters, great slatterns: when Miss Place gets up in the morning she cannot find her combs, because she has put them in her writing-box. Miss Lay would willingly go to work, but her housewife is in the drawer of the kitchen dresser, her bag hanging on a tree in the garden, and her thimble any where but in her pocket. If Miss Lay is going upon a journey, the keys of her trunk are sure to be lost. If Miss Place wants a volume out of her bookcase, she is certain not to find it with the rest of the set. If you peep into Miss Place's dressing-room, you find her drawers filled with foul linen, and her best cap hanging upon the carpet broom. If you call Miss Lay to take a lesson in drawing, she is so long in gathering together her pencils, her chalk, her India rubber, and her drawing-paper, that her master's hour is expired before she has well gotten her materials together.

"Miss Understanding. This lady comes of a respectable family, and has a half-sister distinguished for her good sense and solidity; but she herself, though not a little fond of reasoning, always takes the perverse side of any question. She is often seen with another of her intimates, Miss Representation, who is a great tale-bearer, and goes about from house to house, telling people what one or another said of them behind their backs. Miss Representation is a notable story-teller, and can so change, enlarge, and dress up an anecdote, that the person to whom it happened shall not know it again. How many friendships have been broken by these two, or turned into bitter enmities! The latter lady does a great deal of varnish work, which wonderfully sets off her paintings, for she pretends to use the pencil; but her productions are such miserable daubings, that it is the varnish alone which makes them pass to the most common eye. Though she has all sorts, black varnish is what she uses most. As I wish you very much to be on your guard against this lady, whenever you meet her in company, I must tell you she is to be distinguished by a very ugly leer; it is

quite out of her power to look straight at any object.

"Miss Trust, a sour old creature, wrinkled and shaking with the palsy, is continually peeping and prying about, in the expectation of finding something wrong; she watches her servants through the keyhole, and has lost all her friends by little shynesses, that have arisen no one knows how; she is worn away to skin and bone, and her voice never rises above a whisper.

"Miss Rule. This lady is of a very lofty spirit, and, had she been married, would certainly have governed her husband; as it is, she interferes very much in the management of families; and, as she is very highly connected, she has as much influence in the fashionable world as among the lower orders. She even interferes in political concerns, and I have heard it whispered that there is scarcely a cabinet in Europe where she has not some share in the direction of affairs.

"Miss Hap and Miss Chance. These are twin sisters, so like as scarcely to be distinguished from each other; their whole conversation turns upon little disasters. One tells you how her lapdog spoiled a new Wilton carpet; the other how her new muslin petticoat was torn by a gentleman's setting his foot upon it. They are both left-handed, and so exceedingly awkward, that, if you trust either of them with a cup and saucer, you are sure to have them broken. These ladies used frequently to keep days for visiting, and, as people were not very fond of meeting them, many used to shut themselves up and see no company on those days, for fear of stumbling upon either of them: some people, even now, will hardly open their doors on Friday for fear of letting them in.

"Miss Take. This lady is an old doting woman, who is purblind, and has lost her memory; she invites her acquaintance on wrong days, calls them by wrong names, and always intends to do just the contrary thing to what she does.

"Miss Fortune. This lady has the most forbidding look of any of the clan, and people are sufficiently disposed to avoid her as much as it is in their power to do; yet some pretend, that, notwithstanding the sternness of her countenance on the first address, her physiognomy softens as you grow more familiar with

her; and, though she has it not ia her power to be an agreeable acquaintance, she has sometimes proved a valuable friend. There are lessons which none can teach so well as herself, and the wisest philosophers have not scrupled to acknowlege themselves the better for her company. I may add, that, notwithstanding her want of external beauty, one of the best poets in our language fell in love with her, and wrote a beautiful ode in her praise."

BIOGRAPHICAL

AND CHARACTERISTIC

SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS
LATELY DECEASED.

Mr. Wadd, the Surgeon.-The family from which this gentleman descended had been settled in the neighbourhood of the metropolis for many generations, and its most distinguished member was Sir William Wadd, governor of the Tower in the time of James I. during the Gunpowder Plot. The father of Mr. Wadd was a respectable apothecary in the city, who died a few years since, at an advanced period of life: to him he served an apprenticeship as an apothecary, and a subsequent one, as a surgeon, to Sir James Earle, whose dresser he was at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Of this institution he was elected surgeon, after a severe contest, in opposition to the present Mr. Vincent; but the revival of an illiberal bye-law, which precludes the appointment of any one to the situation who had been an apothecary, annulled his election. He then commenced business as a surgeon at the west end of the town, where his practice was chiefly among the higher circles. For the last six or seven years he was one of the council of the College of Surgeons, and was recently appointed to succeed Mr. Abernethy as a member of the Court of Examiners.

"Between the years 1807 and 1815, Mr. Wadd published several esteemed professional works of much practical utility, beside contributing largely to the Medical Journal; and during his leisure hours he employed himself in etching numerous anatomical plates, which remain unpublished. Since 1815 various works of an anecdotic nature, connected with medicine and surgery, have appeared from his pen; the last of which was his Essay on Corpulency.

The quaint and pleasant style in which

his later productions were written, pro cured for him the appellation of "the facetious,"- -a term which his manners and conversation in society were highly calculated to support. The most perfect good-humor, and a certain drollery of expression, were his characteristics. His professional career, when difficulty and danger presented themselves, was marked by promptness and energy. Few medical men had so little of quackery about them as Mr. Wadd: with his patients he was candid; and his candor was that of a gentleman and a friend.

He was making a short tour in the south of Ireland, in company with Mr. Tegart of Pall-Mall, and, after spending a few days at Killarney, was proceeding in a post-chaise to the seat of the earl of Kingston. The horses, through some neglect of the driver, took head, when Mr. Wadd opened the chaise-door, and threw himself on the ground. Mr. Tegart remained in the carriage; and after being carried two miles, got safely out of it, the horses having been checked by a park-wall. Returning to the spot where Mr. Wadd had thrown himself out, he found that unfortunate gentleman quite dead.

Mr. Mawe. This gentleman was an eminent mineralogist, and conversant also in other branches of science. To his talents and his enterprising spirit this country is indebted for a faithful and interesting description of the Brazilian state, which he traversed under the sanction and auspices of the prince regent of Portugal (afterwards king John VI.), for the purpose of inspecting the extensive gold and diamond districts, being the first Englishman to whom such a permission was granted. His Travels in the Interior of Brazil, which first appeared in 1812, took immediate rank amongst the most valuable standard works of that class, and have not only gone through numerous editions in England and the United States of America, but have been published abroad in many of the conti nental languages. As a mineralogist, Mr. Mawe was deservedly held in the highest estimation, for the variety and importance of his information, and the facility with wnich he developed the principles of his favorite science, upon which he has published several popular treatises. As a husband and father, he was warmly affectionate, and fondly solicitous for the happiness of his family:

as a friend, he was kind and sincere; and, in his intercourse with mankind, the cheerfulness of his disposition, the integrity of his character, the instructiveness of his conversation, and the suavity of his manners, won for him the respect and esteem of all who knew him. He died in his 65th year, after a long illness.

Mrs. Lee. This was the lady who styled herself the baroness Le-Despenser, merely because she was the natural daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood, lord Le-Despenser. She was married about the year 1794 to Mr. Matthew Allen Lee, but separated in 1795, with a settlement of 1,000l. a-year. In 1804 she became highly notorious by an alleged abduction from her house in Bolton-row, by two Frothers, the Rev. Lockhart and Mr. Loudon Gordon, cousins to the earl of Aboyne. The gentlemen were tried at the Oxford assizes; and when Mrs. Lee admitted, among other indecorous circumstances, that on the Uxbridge-road she drew from her bosom a gold locket containing a camphor-bag, exclaiming, "This has hitherto preserved my virtue!" threw it away, and added, "Now welcome pleasure!" the judge stopped the trial, and directed the jury to acquit the prisoners, at the same time censuring their conduct as disgraceful in the extreme. Mrs. Lee was a lady of a masculine mind. In her latter years, she was of a suspicious disposition, and disliked much the company of her own sex. She published, in 1807, a Vindication of her Conduct, and an Essay on Government.

M. Gossec, the French Composer.Having a talent for music, he was sent in 1740, at the age of seven years, to Antwerp, where he remained eight years as singing-boy in the cathedral. In 1751 he settled in Paris, where he engaged with M. de la Popliniere, whose orchestra he conducted under the direction of Rameau. Subsequently he was attached to the suite of the prince de Condé, as leader of his band, for which he composed several operas. In 1770, he founded the concert of amateurs; in 1773 he took the management of the concerts of sacred music; and, in 1784, he was appointed superintendent of the school of singing and declamation, founded by the baron de Breteuil.

At the commencement of the French revolution, he accepted the situation of master of the band of the national guard; and many of Chenier's hymns to liberty,

symphonies, &c. were composed by him, for wind instruments, and performed at all the public festivals. In 1795, when a law was passed by the Convention for establishing a Conservatory of Music in Paris, he was chosen, conjointly with Messrs. Mehul and Cherubini, inspector of instruction and professor of composi tion to the institution, his pupil Catel being at the same time appointed professor of harmony. During the heat of the revolution he composed two operas, which were eminently successful, the Retaking of Toulon, and the Camp of Grandpre, Of the composition of the Marseillois hymn, which was introduced with superb effect in the latter, he generally enjoyed the credit; but, in fact, Rouget de Lisle was the author of the air, which Gossec arranged with accompaniments for a full orchestral chorus.

There is no doubt that he was a warm and enthusiastic revolutionist. He composed the music for the apotheoses of Voltaire and Rousseau, for the funeral of Mirabeau, and for the funeral hymn in honor of the French ministers who were assassinated at Rastadt.

His music is light, pleasing, and spi rited; occasionally evincing fire, and even grandeur in his patriotic compositions. He had never enjoyed the advantage of a regular course of instruction; he had never even been able to avail himself of a journey to Italy; yet he was intimately conversant with the style of the Italian and also of the German masters. His productions for the theatre, the church, and the chamber, are very numerous. Respecting his celebrated O Salutaris, the following anecdote has been related :"In the year 1780, Messrs. Lais, Cheron, and Rousseau, three French singers, were in the habit of accompanying Gossec to dine with M. de la Salle, secretary of the opera, at Chenevières. The minister of the parish requested these singers to perform in his church the same day, on the occasion of some festival. With all my heart,' said Lais, if Gossec will write something for us to sing. Gossec immediately asked for music-paper, and, whilst he and his friends were at breakfast, wrote his O Salutaris, which, two hours afterwards, was sung in the church. It was subsequently introduced in the oratorio of Saul, but not with equal effect.

Gossec was a member of the Institute, and of the Legion of Honor. To a very advanced age he retained in his conver