enemy; but before the conveyance arrived for which two men had been despatched, he fainted in his arms. Thaddeus, who was obliged to join the prince with his prisHers, very unwillingly left the young Russian in this situation. Before he did so, he directed one of his lieutenants to stay behind, and take care that the surgeons should pay attention to the officer, and have his litter carried next to the palatine's during the rest of the march.

When the army halted at nine o'clock, preparations were made to fix the camp; and in case of a surprisal from any part of the dispersed enemy which might have rallied, orders were delivered for throwing up a dyke. Thaddeus, having been assured that his grandfather and the wounded Russian were comfortably stationed together,did not hesitate to accept with alacrity the command of the entrenching party; to that end, he wrapped himself loosely in his pelisse, and prepared for a long watch. The night was beautiful. It being the month of June, a softening warmth still floated through the air, as if the moon, whi h sone over his head, emitted heat as well as splendor. His wind was in unison with the season. He rode slowi round, from bank to bank, sometimes speaking to the workers in the fosse, sometimes lingering for a few minutes, looking on the ground, he thought on the element of which he was composed, to which he might so soon return! then gazing upwards, he observed the silent march of the stars, and the moving scene of the heavens! On whatever ke cast his eyes his soul, which the recent events had dissolved into a temper not the less delightful for being tinged with melancholy,dwelt with intense feling on the littleness of human pride, when opposed to the grandeur of eternity. He looked with pity over that wide tract of land, which now lay betwixt him and the remains of those four thousand Russians who had fallen a sacrifice to the insatiate desires of ambition. He well know the difference between a defender of his own country, and the invader of another's. He felt his heart beat, his soul expand, at the prospect of securing liberty and life to a virtuous people; while he could only imagine, how that spirit must shrink from reAection, which would animate the head and hands of a sgif-condemned slave, to fight not merely to fasten chains

on others, but to rivet his own still closer. The best affections of man having put the sword into the hands of Thaddeus, his principles as a philosopher, did not rebel in the smallest degree against his passion for arms. When he was told that the fortifications were finished, he retired with a tranquil step and smiling countenance, toward the Masovian quarters. He found the palatine awake, and eager to welcome him with the joyful reply to his anxious inquiries, that his wounds were so slight as to promise a speedy amendment. Thaddeus asked for his prisoner. The palatine said, "he is in the next tent, where, according to your desire, the surgeon never leaves him; and he has given a very favourable opinion on the wound which was a shot through the muscles of the breast."

"Have you seen him, my dear sir ?" asked Thaddeus, "Does he express himself, as if he felt at ease, and thought himself well treated?"

"Yes," replied the palatine. "I was supported into his marquee, before I retired to my own. I told him who I was, and repeated your offers of service. He received what I said, with lively expressions of gratitude; and at the same time declared that he had nothing to blame, but his own folly, in bringing him to the state in which he then was."

"How, my Lord ?" asked Thaddeus, rather surprised. "Does he repent of being a soldier? Or is he ashamed of the cause for which he fought ?"

"Both, Thaddeus; he is no Russian, but a young Englishman.'

An Englishman! and raise his arm against a country struggling for liberty!"

"It is very true, returned the palatine; "but as he confessed, that it was his folly, and the persuasions of others, which impelled him, he merits pardon; he is a mere youth; I think hardly your age. I understand that he is of rank; and having undertaken tho tour of Europe under the direction of a travelling governour, he took Russia in his map of rout. At Petersburgh he became intimate with many of the nobility, particularly with count Brinicki, at whose house he resided; and when his lord

was named to the command of the army in Poland,

Mr. Somerset, (for that is your prisoner's name,) instigated by his own volatility and the arguments of his host, volunteered with him; and so followed his friend, to oppose that freedom here, which he would have asserted in his own nation."

Thaddeus thanked his grandfather for this information, and pleased that the young man, who had so much interested him, was any thing but a Russian, he instantly repaired to his tent.

A generous heart is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits, as it would be bounteous in bestowing them; and Mr. Somerset,received his preserver with the warmest demonstrations of gratitude. Thaddeus begged him not to consider himself as particularly obliged by a conduct which every soldier of honour has a right to expect from another. The Englishman bowed his head, and Thaddeus sat down by his bed-side, where he remained conversing, for near an hour.

Whilst he gathered from his own lips a corroboration of the narrative of the palatine, he could not forbear inquiring how a person of his apparent candid nature, and who was also the native of a soil where liberty had so long been the palladium of its happiness, could volunteer in a cause the end of which was to make a brave people slaves.

Somerset listened to these questions with blushes; and they did not leave his face, when he confessed, that all he could say in extenuation of what he had done, was to plead his youth, and having thought little on the subject.

"I was wrought upon," continued he, Ly a variety of circumstances; first, the principles of Mr. Loftus, my governor, are strongly in favour of the court of Petersburgh: secondly, my father disliked the army, and I adored it; this was the only opportunity in which I might ever satisfy my passion and lastly; I believe I was dazzled by the picture which the young men about me, drew of the campaign. I longed to be a soldier; they persuaded me; and I followed them to the field, as I would have done to a ball-room, heedless of the consequence,"

"Yet," replied Thaddeus, smiling, " from the intre

pidity with which you maintained your ground when your arms were demanded, any one might have thought that your whole soul, as well as your body, was engaged in

the cause.

ever,

"To be sure," returned he "I was a blockhead to be there; but when there, I should have despised myself forhad I given up my honour into the hands of those ruffians who would have wrested my sword from me!But when you came, noble Sobieski, it was the fate of and I confided myself to a brave man.'

war,

EACH succeeding morning not only brought fresh symp toms of recovery to the two invalids, but condensed the interest and admiration of the young men, into an ardent

esteem.

It is not the disposition of youthful minds to weigh for months and years, the sterling value of those qualities which attract them. As soon as they see virtue, they respect it; as soon as they meet kindness, they believe it; and as soon as a union of both presents itself, they love it. Not having passed through the disappointments of a delusive world, they grasp for reality,every pageant that appears. They have not yet admitted that cruel doctrine, which, when it takes effect, creates and extends the misery it affects to cure. Whilst we give up our souls to suspicion, we gradually learn to deceive: whilst we repress the fervours of our own hearts, we freeze those which approach us; whilst we cautiously avoid occasions of receiving pain, we at every remove acquire an uncon scious influence to inflict anguish on those who follow us. They again meet from our conduct and lips, the reason and the lesson, to obliterate the expanding sensibilities of their nature: and thus the tormenting chain of deceiv ed and deceiving characters is lengthened to infinitude. About the latter end of the mouth, Sobieski received a summons desiring his immediate attendance at court

where a Dict was to be held in consequence of the victory at Zielime, to consider of future proceedings. With this letter, his majesty inclosed a collar and investiture of the order of St. Stanislaus, as an acknowledgment of service to the young Thaddeus, with a note from himself, expressing his commands that he would return with the palatine and the other generals, to receive thanks from the throne.

Thaddeus, half wild with delight at the thought of so soon meeting his mother, ran to the tent of his British friend to communicate to him the tidings. Somerset participated in all his pleasures; and, with sensations equally warm, accepted the invitation to go with him to Viilanow.

"I would follow you, my friend," said he, squeezing the hand of Thaddeus, who was eagerly describing the merits of the Countess and the beauties of his home, "all over the world."

"Then I will take you to the most charming spot in it!" cried he, "Villanow is a perfect paradise; and my mother, the dear angel, that would make a desert sc

to me.

"You speak so rapturously of your enchanted castle, Thaddeus," returned his friend," that I do believe I shall have to consider my knight-errantry, in being fool enough to thrust myself amid a fray in which I had no business, as one of the wisest decisions of my life!"

"I consider it," replied Thaddeus, "as one of the luckiest events in mine."

Before the Palatine quitted the camp, Somerset thought it proper to acquaint Mr. Loftus, who was yet at Petersburgh, of the particulars of his late danger; and that he was going to Warsaw with his new friends, where he would remain for several weeks. He also added, that as the court of Poland, through the intercession of the palatine, had generously given him his liberty, he should be able to see every thing in that country worthy of investi gation; and that he would write to him again, inclosing letters for England, soon after his arrival at the capital.

The weather continuing fine, the party left Zielime in a few days; and the palatine and Somerset, being so far