(T. Keble's) sermons and the editor's (I. | Pembrokeshire. They are going next week Williams). On my speaking of South Wales, he asked if I were related to you. I told him you were grown into a rural dean, and had just finished a house in which you would feel it to be a great honour as well as pleasure to entertain himself and Mrs. Keble if their travels should ever bring them to to Scotland. We had some talk about the WASHINGTON AND MADAME LAFAYETTE. THE | Washington and America. It is evident from Edinburgh Review is quite mistaken in suppos- the whole correspondence, that she recovered at ing that Washington never acknowledged Ma- once from any feeling that Washington had negdame Lafayette's letter from Chavaniac to him, lected her, and that Washington, even before or that no reply to her letter ever reached her. she appealed to him, had done everything in his Madame Lafayette herself, in implying in her power both for her relief and for the liberation second letter that Washington had neglected her, of her husband, as he continued to do aftershowed the impatience of a woman in distress, wards. rather than the wisdom of a person suggesting new methods of diplomacy. The facts are distinctly stated in Mr. Sparks's edition of Washington's letters. Before receiving the first letter which we printed on Monday, Washington wrote to her, on the 31st of January, 1793, expressing his distress at learning of her husband's imprisonment, and at the same time, with a certain Anglo-Saxon tact, and with great delicacy, he authorized her to draw on a Dutch banker for two hundred guineas: "This sum," he says, " is, I am certain, the least I am indebted for services rendered to me by the Marquis de Lafayette, of which I never yet have received the account. I could add much, but it is best perhaps that I should say little on the subject. Your goodness will supply my deficiency." We can hardly claim, however, that the friendly letter of Washington to the Emperor of Germany produced the surrender of Lafayette. Emperors of Germany, in those days, cared little for letters from Presidents of America. It was only after the disastrous campaign of the spring of 1797, when Bonaparte was almost under the walls of Vienna, that the Emperor of Germany was compelled to attend to Lafayette. The first article in the treaty of Campoformio provided for his liberation. Daily Advertiser. A BRAZILIAN PRESENT TO JOHN G. WHITTIER. -The Boston Transcript of last evening says: "A curious present has been sent to Whittier from Brazil. One of the poet's most beautiful pieces is the Cry of a Lost Soul,' founded on a tradition of Northern Brazil, to the effect that the lonely nocturnal cry of the bird called by the people on the Amazon the Alma de Caboclo or Alma perdida (the soul of the Indian, or the Lost Soul), is not the cry of a bird, but of "The pained soul of some infidel Or cursed heretic that cries from hell.' "This poem so interested the Emperor of Brazil that he translated it very faithfully and poetically into Portuguese, and sent an autograph copy to Whittier. It was also translated by Pedro Lins, a Brazilian poet, and published widely in South America. The Emperor furthermore sent to Mr. Whittier two fine stuffed specimens of the Alma perdida (the Piaya Cayena Lin), but through the honesty of the Washington however had not her address, and this remittance did not at once reach her. As soon as he received the letter of the 8th of October, he wrote to her again, having already taken every step possible for her husband's relief. We had no diplomatic relations with Austria or Prussia, but every minister we had abroad was instructed to use his best influence for Lafayette's relief. The English government was asked to mediate with Austria and declined. Washington then wrote a private letter to the Emperor of Germany, asking that Lafayette might be permitted to come to the United States, intimating that his punishment had perhaps been sufficiently long, and urging his release on the ground of his own friendship for him. In point of fact, when Lafayette was relieved, he was delivered over, by order of the Austrian government, to the American consul at Ham-captain of the vessel, or of the New York Cusburg. Meanwhile Madame Lafayette had left France to seek her husband, and Mr. Monroe, the American minister in France, had remitted to her, not only the two hundred guineas, but all the money she wanted. He had done this under directions from Washington himself. He says in his letter that she left Paris grateful to tom House, the birds never reached Amesbury. A few weeks ago two other unstuffed specimens were sent from Brazil to the poet, and have recently been set up' by Mr. Charles G. Brewster at his place in Tremont street, where these lost souls' have attacted much attention. They are to be forwarded to Mr. Whittier to-day.” What cause with anxious care has marked your brow. A sum upon the wrong horse have you lost, Nor have I jilted been, as you suppose. And from your bargain would you fain retire? And do I talk to an inconstant Swell? Jones. MAUD will have wealth, and MABEL will have none. My thoughts on RUSSELL GURNEY's measure He runs a risk who marries now for tin. Jones. "Twill give the girl whose fortune is her face As good a chance as girls in richer case: SMALL, frail of figure, young; and like a child Like pearls entwined with blossoms, she shall wed To Nature's charms all grace that art bestows. W. C. Hardest heart would call it very awful Brown. A good thing too, for them at any And thou mutterest, thy hands thou wringest, rate, Better celibacy than wife's estate Shared with a sordid wretch, who had in view Naught but her money - JONES, I don't mean you. Jones. And if you did, you know I shouldn't care. I apprehend that marriage will be rare Seeing something, -us thou seest not. Strange it is that, in this open brightness, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. |