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sentiment which has caused it.. If you 
run away, whiat must your, benefactor 
think?—that you ave at once perfidious, 
and ungrateful! You! his child! 
friend! “No, no, you must still conceal 
what is past, and dissemble what you 
feel; it is a dreadful punishment L allow, 
but the guilty ought to suffer, and endea- 
vour to elface the crime by enduring all 
the woe it brings. 
“« Frederic made no reply, but seemed 
pétrified ; and luckily at this critical mo- 
ment, we heard the noise of horses, soon 
after which appeared the carriage which 
M, d‘Albe had sent to meet, and bring 
me home.” 
‘During another secret interview, Clara 
makes, a frank and full confession of her 
Jove, but without relinquishing her honor. 
In a third, however, she yields to*the im- 
pulse of ‘her passion ; but the loss of 
virtue is soon followed by the loss of life. 
Her death-beds sorrow and contrition 
are exemplary; and at ber funeral we 
ave told, “a stranger muffled up in a 
" great coat, with his face covered by means 
uf aslouched hat, followed the procession 
in profound silence. At the instant the 
coffin was let down into the grave, he fell 
flat with his face in the dust. No sooner, 
was the earth. laid over her body, than 
he. started up, and flying with! precipi- 
tation, was heard to exclaim: “At present 
J am alive, but I shall soon be thy com- 
anion in the grave |” 
It is intended by the mayal to inculcate 
’ the propriety. of fidelity to the marriage 
vows, and the dreadful punishment likely 
to follow this breach; but some of the 
sentiments, and even some of the situ-’ 
ations,” are but little. friendly to female 
virtue, and the language which is often 
seductive, is at the same time, warm and 
dangerous, 
rns ‘Elizabeth, ou les Exilésde Sikric.”— 
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia, by 
Mavame Corin, 
In the former work, the fertile pen of 
this fair author was employed.in pointing 
out the steps.that insensibly Jed to, and 
the punishment that quickly followed, 
the gratificaion of guilty love., . Here 
we are presented with a sublime, instance. 
of filial piety,-in the person of Elizabeth, 
a female educated in solitude, who de- 
termines to under take; along and, painful 
journey, for the purpose of releasing her 
father from all the borrers of a dreary 
exile. 
“ At some. distance. from Saimka, in 
the wiidst, of a, forest full of marshes, and 
on the margin of a:circular lake, bordered 
his. 
Retrospect of French Literature—Misecllanies. 
with white and black poplars, dwelt a, 
family of exiles. It was composed of 
only three persons, a man. forty-five 
years old, bis wife and daughter; the, 
latter beautiful,and in the bloom of youth. - 
“ Shut up within the surrounding de- 
sert, this family had not any comuuni- 
cation with the world. The father went 
out daily to bunt, but never repaived:to, 
Saimka; and neither his wife, nor daugh-. 
ter, bad ever been so much as seen there, 
With the exception of a single Tartar 
peasant, who attended them, no person 
in the world was ever accustomed to 
enter their cabin, Neither their coun-; 
try nor the place of their birth, nor the 
occasion of their punishment, was known’ 
to any one. With these secrets the go~ 
vernor of Tobolsk was alone acquainted, 
and he had not. confided them even. to 
the Jieutenant who presided over the, 
jurisdiction of Saimka, When he. placed 
the exiles under his superintendance, he, 
had barely recommended his deputy. to 
furnish them with a commodious place 
to lodge in, a little garden, victuals, and. 
clothing ; but he was at the same time to 
prevent ‘all, communication whatsoever, 
and more especially to prohibit and inters 
cept any letters which they might wish: 
to transmit to the court of Russia.” .” 
Madame Cottin is foud of the descrip- 
tion of sylvan scenery, and must be al- 
lewed to excel in that species of eompo- 
sition. Accardiaays alter conveying, au 
idea of a Siberian. landscape, she pro- 
ceeds to wie an account. of the pursuits 
and amusements of this interesting family, 
which she has introduced to the notice of 
the reader. 
«“ Towards the east of the extensive: 
plain alluded to,. a little chapel of wood 
bad been erected by the Christians, It 
was remarkable, that’/on, this, side.the 
tombs had been respected, and that 
within sight of that cross which,recalled 
the memory of all the virtues,.mao nad 
not dared to. profane the ashes, of the 
dead. It was amidst these deserts, or 
steppes, as. they are called in Siberia, shat 
during the long and rude winter of that 
climate, Peter Springer (for so he was 
called) spent all his. mornings at. the 
chace, and it was there he, killed the 
elks, which fed on che youny.leaves,of 
the aspen and the poplar.. He some 
times caught the martins, which are very 
scarce in this canton, but more frequently 
took the ermine, which abound, and 
with thé money obtained by the sale of 
their furs, he procured - from, Tobolsk 
egesible and commodious articles. for 
his 
