“ Ever my favourite, and now my ful imagination. The mild climate only son! my beloved William! do of Devonshire was recommended for your conjectures afford no explana- Lord Seabourne's alarming disorder, tion for the recoil of my feelings and a vacation from the university when you speak of revisiting our permitted you to spend some time country? Ah! my son! your counte with your brother. Sir Robert Monknance acknowledges a distinct per ton's residence was hardly a mile from ception of the cause."

our lodging, and he was kindly at“ My mother, are your dislikes sotentive to the invalid; your brother insuperable ?"

and you, in your airings, frequently " My son! my only hope and com-called at Monkton Grove; Lady Cefort! I have no dislike to any hu- cilia Gore was with her sister, Lady man being; nor any repugnance, un-Arrietta Monkton. Your brother less to one whose fascinations have knew her repute as an artful fascinabeen, and may be still, inimical to tress, and with chilling coldness your happiness. Let us no longer checked her advances. A swain she treat this important discussion ob- must have; and an accomplished, aniscurely. With mutual candour, with mated, polished Adonis of sevenmutual unreserve, as a filial confi- | teen was presented to her, with some dential friend and affectionate mo- chance of a splendid succession. ther, let us come to a clear under- | Her beauty, her graces, her mental standing of each other's sentiments. adornments surrounded him with I have not forgotten, I shall never spells, which more experienced hearts forget, your claim to sacrifices on had been unable to escape; and her my part. You formerly renounced well-acted naïveté rendered the enyour inclinations to console a widow- chantment unsuspected by its victim, ed parent, whose eldest son, in the till too late. I indeed saw through prime of life, and the lustre of ta- her studied character at a very early lents and moral excellence, perished period, for a mother's cares are eaby the swamping of a pleasure-boat; gle-eyed; and the lady's celebrity as and his brother, next in age, making a consummate vanquisher of unwary

exertions to save him, contracted a youths, a finished coquette, no doubt » dangerous, a fatal malady. You, quickened my penetration. Her my duteous son, to assuage my grief, years, four at least beyond the age consented to study for a learned of her prize, and her early initiation profession, instead of indulging your in all the arts of match-seeking, unardent wishes for a military career; der a mother who had settled five and shall not your mother resign' her unportioned daughters with fine esprepossessions if the resignation can tablishments, excited my apprehenmake you happy? Yet, as her fears, sion; but she ensnareď a noble heart, too well founded, prognosticate mi- || and appeared to live only for her insery, and not durable bliss, from con- genuous captive, till the gay Earl of necting your fate with a person whose Elmwood, with a superb equipage, disposition can never be truly assi- || arrived at his magnificent seat in the milated to yours, let us review the close vicinity of Monkton Grove, and most interesting incidents which have amused his idle hours by flirtation made an impression upon your youth- | with the sprightly Lady Cecilia. My dearest William! if I must inflict a || self. Fortunately, I made no propopang by recalling to mind the ingra- sals to Lady Cecilia. That she is titude of a selfish young woman, for- charming, I have felt in my inmost give me, since I probe a festering soul; but your ladyship has convincwound only to prevent incurable ed me, I ought to be more unequivodistress. When Lord Elmwood en cally assured she is amiable, and singaged Lady Cecilia's attention, your cerely attached to me. My dear brother, the Earl of Seabourne, was brother Edward admonished me, apparently convalescent: her lady- not in vain, to be cautious, and I ship, 'tis true, endeavoured to keep I promised him to bring her to a test you on hand by casual marks of fa- of disinterested preference, which I vour then, and in London; but with hope your ladyship will sanction by becoming spirit you scorned a divid- approbation. My brother George ed attachment. She, however, trust went into a sale-room at Edinburgh ed to her own address for reclaiming as a lounger, and to observe the you to her chains, when you were customs of the place on such occawithdrawn from her blandishments, sions. Not to seem quite an idle by accompanying your brother and spectator, he bid for a small landed me to the Continent; and too certain property in Fifeshire: it was knockly she will spread her nets of allure ed down to him; and he gave orment when you return to England, ders to repair the house. Will my the titled possessor of a fortune, | dear mother vouchsafe me her comwhich my cousin's immense legacy pany for some months to that retreat, to me can clear of all incumbrances. and we may let it be supposed we You have youth, health, wealth, || are making a virtue of necessity in splendid, cultivated, and distinguish- nursing my estates." ed endowments of mind and person; “ I applaud your wisdom, fortiand I beseech you, before you peril | tude, and spirit, my dear, dear son," every fair promise of felicity, to said Lady Seabourne, " and joyfully pause upon the imminent, the irre coincide in your proposal. As my vocable hazard and bondage of en cousin was a merchant in a remote tering into nuptial ties with a woman part of India, and almost forty years who has manifestly sported with your absent from his country, his bequest feelings."

to me is little known, and we may While, in a tone of anguish, or | prevent the intelligence from being tender interest, Lady Seabourne further circulated. I shall be ready spoke to the earl, his lordship sat to set out for Scotland in a week; in with downcast eyes, leaning his head the mean time a few darkling inuenon one hand, and the other, an em- does to Lady Sherlock and her newsblem of his dejected spirits, hung giving family will speedily diffuse relistless by his side. He continued ports of our indispensable economy; thus, revolving his mother's expos- and the lady in question shall be tulating sentences; and she, with welcomed by ine with unfeigned anxious looks, had ber eyes fixed up- pleasure, if she comes nobly through on him. He rose after some time, the ordeal your prudence intends for saying, “ My mother, you have con | her doubtful affection." quered, and I hope to subdue my. Few weeks rolled on before Lord

and Lady Seabourne were the inha- | bade the candles, that I might debitants of a small but elegant man- light myself by admiring these gension in the parish of Aberdour, Fife- tle luminaries appearing in the clear skire. The countess had abundant azure concave. I likewise desired resources for filling up the hours dinner to be kept back till your lordwhile his lordship rode or walked ship was ready; for yesterday you for exercise; and when both were were hurried from your toilet." at home, their similarity of tastes cre- “ I might have been ready if I ated for them agreeable entertain- had not trifled time in reverie yesinent and interchanges of sentiment. terday. To-day I was resolved to They had been four months seclud- be more expeditious. But I am very ed when Lady Seabourne was again glad the dinner is retarded; and I filled with painful solicitudes, by ob- prefer the moon and her galaxy to serving the earl alternately restless artificial lights; for indeed I wish to or pensive; and attributing his un- | lay open my foolish heart to the incasiness to impatience for a return dulgent friend who will pity, though to London, with some remarks upon she may not quite excuse, my weakthe rigorous winters of North Bri- ness." tain, her ladyship asked if they “My dear son, has Lady Cecilia should not migrate to a warmer clime, Gore pursued the fugitive, undislike other birds of passage. mayed by his supposed pecuniary

" What will your ladyship think embarrassments? If so, I retract my of me should I answer, that I would censures; I beg her pardon, and shall gladly pass the winter here?" atone for my uncandid opinions by

“ Why, my dear William, should cherishing her with maternal love." I say aught but that you are become “ Lady Cecilia deigns not to in. a sage? And I have no objection to quire after a fugitive; and, my liberemain here while you incline to it. ral-minded mother, your readiness to However, I apprehend you would favour her ladyship emboldens me repent the choice, if confined but a to confess, I have seen a more attracfew weeks by such inclement weather tive, and certainly a more lovely and as we have read of in the Edinburgh amiable, object.” newspapers of former years; nor does Il “Where? How, my son, since we this autumn allow us to expect a have lived in unbroken retirement?" mild winter.”

" Perhaps your ladyship has some Soon after this colloquy a week of recollection, that on the pleasant day tempestuous winds and rain settled we spent at Inchkeith and Inchcolm, into frost. Lord Seabourne came I ascended the highest cliff in one from a ride at the usual hour, and of the islets, and stond viewing an went to dress for dinner. His toi-extensive prospect on all sides, aslet was completed in a few minutes. sisted by my telescope, while your He came to the drawing-room, where | ladyship rested at the base of the the countess stood at the window, rock. I saw amidst far surrounding looking at the rising moon. It was trees an open space inclosed by a now twilight: Lady Seabourne said, white railing, and fancied I could “ I did not think you could have fi- distinguish a slight figure clothed in nished adorning so quickly, and for- white in a garden near a low build

ing. We had dined al fresco at y The Lord of Liddesdale had deInchcolm; it was evening when we nounced calamity to all who invaded got home: yet I went out among the these hallowed grounds; and that peasants, to ask who lived in the cot tradition perhaps was the most invitage encompassed by a wood. Iolable barrier against the rapacity learned that an old Englishman and of the church or state in troublous his wife were there. The wood had times. About two years ago it was pertained by a long succession of ge reported, that fairy spunkies were nerations to the offspring of the fickering about the deserted house Lord of Liddesdale, the flower of and its environs; but this rumour chivalry; and though all the rest of lost all credit when it was found that his wide-stretching lands had passed a number of English workmen had to other lords during the civil and landed from a Leith packet near the religious contests of Scotland, the date of the first exhibition of lights descendants of the Lord of Liddes- | about the forest mansion; that in the dale had held fast the forest domain, course of some weeks these men because he gave it to his favourite took a passage to London in anothier daughter, with a prophetic blessing, vessel; and an old man and woman importing, that while her posterity came at times to the town of Aberretained it, they would be of lofty dour to purchase necessaries. They soul, undaunted in fortitude, and encouraged nobody to see them, and prosperous in every enterprise wor- it would be mean and silly to court thy of their race. It was now be their acquaintance, since they gave lieved this honourable race was ex but a surly reception to one or two tinct by the death of a lady, her who went to call upon them. No daughter and grandchild, beyond sea. neighbour knew how or why they The house was long unoccupied; but came; and their accent alone acnobody could presume to say who quainted others that they were Engwas the next heir; and the precincts | lish. I cannot repeat the expressions of the forest were regarded with a of the peasantry in their genuine superstitious awe, which deterred style, therefore I must give them in the peasantry from even allowing my own.” their cattle to pasture in the forest. || (To be concluded in our next.)

REMARKABLE INSTINCT OF THE WILD HORSES AND

OTHER ANIMALS OF SOUTH AMERICA. A French writer, M. Dauxion to such a degree as to form very nuLavaysse, in his Voyage to Spanish merous herds. Some of them are Guyana, gives the following parti kept in extensive pastures, and the culars relative to the herds of wild Spaniards pay considerable attention animals, and especially horses, in that to the training of these animals. country:

Some proprietors, who possess all The horned cattle, horses, and the land for fifteen or twenty miles asses, introduced by the Europeans round, frequently own from thirty to, into America, have there increased | forty thousand horned cattle, horses,

lol. VI. No. XXXII.

asses, and mules. As, however, it , or six other horses march on each is impossible for them to look after flank, to prevent the rest from breaksuch an immense number, they mere- ing their ranks. Should any one, ly burn a mark on the hide of each, however, quit the main body, either and let them run where they please. from hunger, thirst, or caprice, they Five or six times a year general fall upon the disorderly animal with hunts are held; each proprietor takes their teeth, and compel him to return his own animals from among those to his place. At Trinidad I often which are caught, and sells the finest || heard mention made of this extraof them.

ordinary discipline among the wild But there are thousands of these horses, and could scarcely believe it; beasts which run wild in the woods, but on the banks of the Guarapiche, and have no owner. The horses in I twice witnessed instances of it, and particular live in wild troops of five remained there five days, for the puror six hundred, or even a thousand. pose of observing closely this singu

They occupy immense savannahs, lar instinct. where it is dangerous to attempt to I have noticed something of the catch them, or to molest them in any | same sort among the wild oxen on other way. In the dry season they the banks of the Oronoko. A leadare frequently obliged to run two or er goes before each herd, and anothree leagues, or perhaps farther, in ther brings up the rear. The inhaquest of water. They then march bitants of those parts assert, that in regular files, four abreast, so that the wild asses have the same practhe troop is frequently a quarter of tice. The mules alone have not an hour in passing. Four or five been observed to have any leader. scouts precede them, at the distance On the approach of a common eneof about fifty paces. These, if they | my, they nevertheless unite, and shew descry a man or a yaguar, give a more cunning and address than the signal by neighing, and the whole || horses in avoiding the snares which troop immediately halt: if the object are laid for them, or in escaping when of their alarm goes out of their way, caught. I recollect to have once they continue their march; but should li seen in an inclosure at Carupano, he attempt to break their ranks, they | a wild mule throw himself on the spring upon him, and trample him ground, and assume the appearance to death. It is therefore advisable of death; but before we were aware, to clear the way for them, and let he sprang up, burst through the them pass quietly. Besides the four fence, and ran off. Thirty persons scouts they have a leader, who goes pursued him for two hours, but could between these and the troop. Five Il not catch him at last.

THE CONFESSIONS OF A RAMBLER. .

No. XVIII. In looking over the sketches to find I have said nothing of Washwhich the Editor of the Repository ington, to which I made several exhas done me the honour to give a cursions during my residence in place in his interesting Miscellany, I | Alexandria; and which, as the capi.