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and then hastened to the kitchen to look for a hatchet, or some other weapon that 

 might serve me in case of meeting opposition. 



" On entering, the first object that presented itself was Ramona, who stood pale 

 and breathless, with a countenance in which astonishment was blended with anxiety 

 and alarm. What pistol is that? where is my master?' she exclaimed, after a 

 moment's silence, raising her clasped hands towards heaven. 



"I calmed her apprehensions by shewing her the key, when, immediately reco- 

 yering her presence of mind, she drew from her bosom the notes I had given her, 

 and returning them to rue, pointed to a court which led to the outer door, saying, 

 That is the way to the street. My mistress and her guest are in the saloon : you 

 hear their voices. This is the very hour when she expects the arrival of some 

 friends j and I must immediately call out, because they know I must necessarily 

 see you before you get to the court. For Heaven's sake, hasten away ; for I can 

 render you no farther assistance !' Saying this, she pressed my hands in her's with 

 deep emotion, and I hurried towards the court. As the remainder of my way was 

 also involved in darkness, I lost some minutes in finding the right direction to the 

 door, when the rustling of the bell-wire served to guide me to it. Here I heard the 

 voices of some persons outside, who certainly did not expect to meet with such a 

 porter. 



" Meantime Ramona, who was to open the door, on hearing the bell ring, began 

 screaming for assistance, as if she had been hurt by some one passing in great haste. 

 The ladies, alarmed, joined their cries to hefs ; and I opened the door amidst this 

 confusion, pushed down the person just entering, and reached the street, feeling as 

 if I breathed a second life." 



The remainder of the Narrative applies to Colonel Van Halen's travels 

 arid adventures in England and in Russia. These notices are not destitute 

 of merit ; but it is the details relative to Spain that form the principal value 

 of the book. 



Getting a name. The houses in the city of Dieppe (says the French 

 Globe'} are for the most part handsome and regular ; but whole streets are 

 deformed in some quarters by the addition, to the back of every house, of 

 a species of supplemental building, or single wing, of the full height of 

 the original edifice. The cause of this singular appearance, is, that the 

 architect who was employed to erect the best rows of building in the town, 

 performed his work in many respects with great taste and skill, but planned 

 every house, without allowing for the staircase ; and did not discover his 

 error till the work was too far advanced to recede. The descendants of 

 this unlucky disposer of buildings, it is said, are still living in Dieppe ; 

 where they have acquired the surname of Gateville. 



There is generally, among: the scientific conundrums and quackeries^of 

 the day, some particular remedy abroad by which every disease is to be 

 cured, and some particular malady of which every body is to die. The 

 malaria is the favourite folly in all quarters now. The marshes of Italy 

 are poisonous, and why not the marshes of England? There are puddles 

 (like Captain Fluellan's salmons), and why should there not be fevers in 

 both ? Accordingly, Mr. Loudon, of the Gardner's Magazine, proves 

 beyond opposition, that a vast sum is being thrown away by the country ; 

 for neither our king nor any king in Christendom, will ever be able to live 

 in the new palace of Buckingham House. And Dr. Macculloch's octavo 

 volume carries conviction " to the meanest capacity," that the man who 

 waters flower-pots out of his drawing-room window, while he imagines 

 that he is only pouring slop upon the heads of the passengers, is, in fact, 

 bringing down death and pestilence upon his own. 



The peculiar poison, according to Dr. Macculloch, properly known and 

 described by the name of malaria, is generated whenever vegetable matter 

 comes into contact with water ; subject to the presence of atmospheric air, 



