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ARMAXD AXD CORjYEIJUS. The following romantic account of an initiation into the mysteries of Jacobin

ism, is taken from the second series ofj

Mr. Grattan's highly amusing work, entitled, "High-ways and By-ways." The well authenticated histories of the German llluminati, render it probable that this detail is not altogether fictitious: "Cornelius stopped for a while in the narrow path, on the brow of the hill, along which his companion led the way; and while he contemplated the calm beauty of the scene, and felt as if his whole thoughts could smoothly float on

the silver-surfaced stream, he was rous

ed by Armand, who stopped short, and

said aloud 'Now, citizen, wc arc arrived, in the name of liberty advance and enter.' "Cornelius started at the summons, ut recollected instantly the purpose he had in mind, and with unhesitating step he followed close upon his guide. They entered a cavity in the earth, almost wholly concealed by branching shrubs, and Armand having whispered some watchword, a man dressed in black, received them in silence, and motioned them to pass on. The passage was nar

row and winding, dimly lighted at inter

vals by melancholy lamps, which shone on the dark walls, and showed occasionally grim ornaments of skulls and bones.

They penetrated far into one of those excavations which arc formed all along

the face of the hill, and which were ori

ginally intended for wine vaults, and most of them used as such. In the depth

of one of these recesses, the society of the first, for he only heaved heavy sighs,

me inummau ueiu meir secret meetings, anu out nan mrneu nis pallia lace, and

Every thing which could impose upon scarce open eye?, with indifference or

the minds of the weak, or rouse the im- insensibility on the scene.

agination of the enthusiastic proselyte, lNovv, citizen, take the dagger and rid

brought forward by two men, and on which lay bound another, writhing in apparent agony., "Take the dagger, brother,' (said the president in a hollow yet fierce tone,) Hake the dagger, and strike the Aristocrat to the heart.' "Armand seized the weapon, and advanced towards the couch. The man who lay on it, and who seemed suffering

under the infliction of torture, no sooner

saw the uplifted weapon, than he utter

ed a shriek, which seemed to pierce

Cornelius's heart, and screamed aloud for mercy!

"No mercy for the Aristocrat no

hope for the Royalist, (cried Armand;)

nlood, blood, in the name of our country

and our revenge!" and with the last word he struck the dagger full against

the suppliant's breast. A stream of

blood followed the weapon as he drew

it back a deeper groan issued from the

body, and both executioner and victim were instantly concealed by the black

curtain which fell between them and the witness of the deed. "Cornelius stood shocked with aston

ishment and horror. A few minutes of

dreadful silence passed over when the curtain was slowly raised, and the mute

attendants carried forth a dead body,

the poignard last in its bleeding hosom.

Fney passed the door, and Cornelius'

heart sunk as he heard the dead weight

of the corpse fall on the earthen floor.

"The couch was again brought for

ward, and on it lay another man, anna

rently more exhausted or more firm than

was studied in the decorations of the cavern council-chamber, and its approaches. Dim lights, black hangings, scattered instruments of death, and mementoes of mortality, were displayed in scanty and solemn arrangement. Armand led on, followed by Cornelius, who felt no sentiment but contempt for the imposing mummery; but at length when they reached an opening space which Armand announced as the anti-chamber of the council-room, our hero started with horror, and felt his blood run chill as he observed three or four naked corpes lying on the floor, in the breast of which a dagger was stuck, while from each a stream of blood ran trickling.

"Armand saw his emotion, and smiled.

He felt a species of triumph in momen

tary expression of alarm, which Corneli

us face displayed. But the latter con

strued his smile in a different sense. He

thought he saw in it the rejoicing treachery of a murderous intention. He sh Lack, and turned his head round with the view of flying from the place, when he observed two men dressed in black, with naked -swords in their hands, who had followed silently, and made retreat

impossible. They said, with an encouraging expression of countenance, 'fear

nothing, citizen ; this is but a prepara

tion for the test of your courage and virtue?.' 'Do not hesitate nor doubt me, (whispered A rmand :) be firm, or you are lost.' "With these words he knocked at a door before them, and on his replying still in whispers, to some questions from within, it opened, and he and Cornelius once aJ'nitted? it closed again, with a

the country of one enemy more, estab

lishing your ngnt to her gratitude and

our confidence. Take up the dagger

cried the president.

"Cornelius in the abstraction of ter

ror, seized the weapon advanced as it

were instinctively towards the couch raised his arm while his brain reeled

but started in instantaneous recollection

of the scene before him and of the deed he was about to commit. The dagger was falling from his hand, when the prostrate man called to him in a smothered whisper, inaudible or unnoticed by the persons at the table-," and the mute attendants, 'Strike fearlessly, Cornelius it is I Armand there is no reality in your blow: I wear a corslet, your dagger's blade runs up into its own hilt,--strike!'

"A quick conviction flashed aero:?

lyornelius 7s mind, lie saw all was a hideous trick to try the nerves of the proselytes. He struck at the bosom of the pretended victim. The groan issued, and the blood flowed and the curtain fell between him and the council chamber. "Armand sprang upon his feet and

was with our hero hurried by the mutes into another room, where brilliant lights

showed a party of upwards of a hundred

young men, carousing, eating, drinking

and enjoying themselves in strange con

trast to the frightful ordeal through

which the uninitiated were made to pass.

This mockery of blood and horror was

used,ns Cornelius had surmised, to prove

the courage and desperation of those

who wished for admittance. Those who had gone through the trial acted the

sudden sound, that was like the echoing; parts of the sacrificed Aristocrats. Dead

sentence of eternal imprisonment

"Three men of fierce aspect

i

from which each shot without bursting it

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! also observed, were well stored, to ob

viate famine during the day's sport: all the dainties of Rome seemed to have

been selected: there was a couple of

gallinacci, each as large as a small sheep,

those enormous turkies, that Italy alone produces pig?s flesh of all parts, and all ways, boars heads, sausages, dried beans, ricotta, and chocholate puddings never

was such a medly. Apparently they

seemed to rely very little upon the day's sport for the adding to the feast.

"Having carefully deposited their

moving ladder in a lone vstcria of the

Campagna, ordered the cooking of the

dishes and the preparations of the din

ner, the eating of which our Zingaro

began already to suspect, was to prove

the chief amusement of the day, the party shouldered their guns, and inarched

along the Campagna. There was a

great scarcity of dogs, my friend observ

ed, and asked his companions once or

twice how they heped to raise the game,

but they laughed in reply, and pointed to an owl, which a boy carefully carried on his hand. The Squire stared and marvelled at this: he had heard of haw

king, butowling was a sport beyond his

experience. However, as they seemed by their countenances to promise good

sport, and anticipated his delight, which they wished to heighten by not acquainting him beforehand with their novel mode of sport, he accompanied them in humble, but no very confident expectation of amusement; left off questioning, and attended the denouement of the day's sport. "At a fit place for their operations, the party halted; our squire put his gun to his shoulder, in expectation of seeing a hare at least run forth; but neither bird nor beast started on his view. The Romans in the mean time had stuck ii;

the ground a

Africa. Wc have received accounts! which is suu to amount to 87,400,dOTj

of a' recent discovery in Cen. : Africa,) lanes, the spirit and discipline of this which will soon be 'laid before :he y I. j ::mpS are at an inconceivably low ebbi

whi

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Capiat Dcnif !... expedivoi id, an s ed ; v: atly resid- . i;:;l of the r.aiiistory seem :al extent, the this country

lie in general detail , l.u following outline is .Major Clapperton a-.-ham, i;i the course oi i-.

tion in that quarter o! ft-'

in the territory, a d ! ed some weeks, in the c. tion, whose manners ;n likely to occupy, to no t ; attention of the nublir e;

we might safeh t-nv of the whole civilized world. They found a nation jet black in color, but i. t in our sense of the term tugrocs, havirg long hair and fine hiih features, Thh peorle was found to hv ii a state of von high ci ilization ; and above all, tho Briii-h travellers wilt ers( -:

a review of 7000 cavalry, divided inio regular regiments, and all clothed in complete armour. Six thousand v ore i imperfect hauberk mail of the early Norman knights; most strange by far of all. one thousand appeared in perfect Roman armour. The conjecture? to Vv inch this has given ri.-e are various. We confess, for ourxdves, that, looking to the polished and voluptuous mannei ascribed to these people, the elegance of their houses, &c; in a wore!, the total

difference between them arid any other race as vet discovered in the interior ol "Africa, the mother of monster?,' our own opinion is strongly that here we have a fragment of the old Kumidian population; a specimen of the tribes, who, after long-contending and long cooperating with. Imperial Rome, were at last fain to seek safety in the central desert, upon the dissolution of the empire.

In these squadrons iMcssrs. Glappertoj

o that the late Empcrci Cia-Kii g lu

ed, in the y ar 1C00, a roclamaticnj in v. Inch, after reminding the INlantchous of tl e heroic deeds ch i.e by them in former tin es, l e rej reaches thcra with havirg become more u: skilled in the military art, and nu re hcllc than the ChincM themsc Ivt s, so mnmi thousands of whom were cveiccme by a

Handful ol their arce-tcii-.-

American Ao-(h. I would speak ot tin ni, in detail, if 1 had more tin e, new 5 hut as it is, I must :ontem nyselt with observing that, it is only within two or three years, if the Novels of Brown are r . ; pted a newspaper iu 1 elist of America, wiiose pou ei hi!, strange. look were ;!c idontally rc-product d here, a long Ai;.le ago. and are now I t girnii g to be acknowledged foi American stories -that such a thing as a novel, produced i: America., had ever been heard ci, m ('real Fiitain. l ive years ago. America v.-. one of the last countries on earth, - o which a novel reader of Europe would have gone, for a native ftorv. 1 it

Bat now, a lew pretty go( e noveiS, am a core. at least, of very had ones, having found their way over the waters, and all within two or ihree ears. it has come to hv. regarded as good play, for the London publisher' of a N'or'.h American story, to avow the origin of it, one wa or another, if not on the title-page, at least in a review. Five years -ir.ee. he would have been shv very shy of the word "America" lie would have been likely to rvoid any son of ware5 with seen a mark: and would rather

limber stake, on which

they placed, tied, that he might wot escape, the aforesaid chclla or owl, and then retiring from it they took shelter behind a little embankment, on which m

tirailleur they rested their guns. The Briton, obediently, but in amazement, followed their example. After some time the owl, left to himself, began to cry and cherrip and flutter on his stake, which had the effect desired by the hidden sportsmen. For flocks of larks began to draw near and gather round the noisy owl, whether for the purpose of mocking their natural enemy and enjoying his captivity, or facinated by his music, my

triend was not naturalist enough to dis

cover, .... "Lying doTn thus in a cold and un

wholesome marsh for no visible purpose was not at all to his taste, and he was about to make his discontent manifest, when Ids keen brother sportsmen fired one after another with alacrity at the larks; and certainly killed not a few. kWh.it do you think of that sport?' cried

the Romans to him, as each held up one,

and some a brace of poor little larks, proud as if an eagle liuttered in their grasp. The Squire was not only disap

pointed, but angry, being decoyed into what he thought disgraceful sport. He had not yet discharged his gun; and h sing his politeness in his ire, he turned his piece at the unfortunate decoy-

owl, which had acted setter to the field of sportsmen, and shot the poor civctia dead.

and Denham probably beheld the hveii-puppress a part of the title-page than est image that ever has been witnessed !havo it appear, in a work at he was

aaoutto re-pubiisli. iNow.ii is directly the rev erse. Then, the words "a ISorth American story;" would have been the uealh of a good novel; now, they would iielo off a bad one. Five years ago, it

by modern eyes, of the legions of Jugur

lha may we not say of Hannibal ? The armour, we understand is fabricated in the most masterly style of the art ; the Roman suits might be mistaken for so many Herculanean or l'ompeian di-co-

veries, 11 it were possnne ior us 10 imagine the extence of genuine antique possesiog all the glossv finish of yesterday's workmanship. One of these travellers has already set oil' on his return to this sable court. io.

Military Force of China. The Russian traveller, M. Timbovvsky, collected during his stay in China some remarkable data relative to the present state of the military 'ovee of that empire, which, ex

pressed in number, seems very formida

ble, but is far from being so in reality.

lie thmkr, however, that certain estimates, which make the Chinese army a-

mount to a million of infantry and eight

hundred thousand cavalry, are much exaggerated. The regular troops are di vided into four corps, according to tht

several nations. The urst corps, G?,800

strong, consists of -Nlantchous, the con

querors of the Empire, to which nation

the family of the reigning Emperor be

longs. These troops are the llower ot

was a distinction, that was felt in America, for an author of thai country to be re-established here. It is not so at present. Every sort of trash is repeated

here, new because it 13 American.

' So in fbatG of derderitt -or strength

at Bartholomew Fair and Asiley's; nay

-it a man wish to put his neck m ieop-

ardy, any how, by a "terrific ascent" at

auxhall; or a "terrific descent from Dover Cliff, he does it now under title of "an American'

F.fhaa'ion in Russia. There arc sjj: universities in the Russian empire. Thd cities in which they are established, are Mosc ow, Fetersl ui gl , Casan, Dorpat, Cherkof, and V Una. The natives of Ru-ia are not allowed to go & s!udv ir a foreign courtry, until hav ing ath'i ded at least three y ars one of the Russian ic iversities. Ncvei theless, the chairs uus few in number, several subjects aie ir-. tirelv interdicted, and the vigilance . f the censorship cramps the profesc ;a

treating thoj.e which, are allowed. The

table; their looks glanced wildly through

their raven locks, n'nd seemed to tell a story of ferocious thoughts and deeds. The chamber was, like the approaches to it, faintly lighted, and sadly adorned. A book lay on the table, with writing materials. Three or four daggers were its only other furniture, and their blades were steeped in blood.

"A few rapid questions vVerc proposed

to Armand, as the namcj age, and quality of the friend whom he thus introduced for admission to the society. These were answered, and entered in the register, which lay on the table. Corne

lius was asked if he was ready to give

his first proof of his patriotism, his devo

tion to the cause of freedom, and his ha

trcd of his foes. He answered in the

affirmative; and then it was demanded

of Armand whether he was willing to set the example to his friend of the deed

which he would be called upon to per

form. Armand replied that he was, and

on the word, a curtain was drawn which

disclosed a cave, still darker than the

other, from the undistinguishable depth

of which low groans were heard to pro

ceed. They became gradually louder,

and finallv a blood-stained couch was

44 It w.n now f!in turn of the Romans

J bodies were procured from the hospitals to be angry at a conduct they could not sat at zi cc burial grounds, and concealed breast- divine the reason of; but could only in-

the whole army, and enjoy cxtraordina-l 1ltkMii? D,Q u; 0rrt.,naint; ry privileges. i he second corps ot c-!iv a v a, (J VvlIna. wit.re 1,000 nien consists of Mongols. I he j, (,Uorde, have oc casionallv tal e

e. a 1 1 -ii ... . .

piaies un it oiacuiers containing blood. temret by sunnosing, that the ignorant

Briton mistook the owl for the game.

And in this opinion he allowed them for

were made to burst by the harmless

blows. "After these initiatory horrors, which many of the highly-excited youths would, m the hey-day of republican frenzy, have gloried in had they been real, the newly admitted member was all at once intro

duced into the scene of festive enjoy

ment before described, bevond that

here was nothing terrible. An oath of

patriotism and secrecy, a signal communicated, a certain sum deposited to aid

he general fund and all the ceremo

nies of installation were completed."

Roman

Sports mm.-

-"At length the

peace-sake to rest, satisfied with having

put an end to any further sport-couchant on that day, and resolv ed never again to

set torth on a snooting expedition with Romans. These gentlemen were not much grieved by the fate of the owl, and the interruption of the day's sport, since it restored them sooner to the enjoyment of their dinner and ostcria.

Amidst the dainties, brought in such a-

bundance from the city, the produce of

the day's sport, in the shape of ten larks.

was added; and towards the termina

tion of the feast, while they were quaf-

weather was declared favorable for ling their purple wine, they expatiated shooting, and the Englishman preparedias true sportsmen on the masterly stile

to get his gun and his gaiters in readi-

ness.

There was a great man, a Mon

signore, to be of the party, and a prime days sport stood in the Squire's expectation. In the morning he failed not to be at the rendezvous, where one or two varatelle awaited to carry the sporting company to the scene of action. They accordingly mounted, and were borne along in high glee towards the Campag

na, each man burthencd with a fire-arm.

in which each had covered and knocked down his lark. The conversation then extended to other davs of sport, in which

many vaunted to have actually shot at

thrush in tne llagrnnt act ot singing sweetly. A few such innocent boasts restored the Squire to his good humour: for the rest of the evening he enjoyed the gaiety of the Roman Cockney's with whom he vowed no more to visit the Campagna. JWiwwn.

third, of 27,000 men, is composed of Chi

nose, whose ancestors joined the Mantthous, and assisted them in the conqucts of the empire. The fourth corps which, is the least estimated, though the most numerous, is also Chinese: it is stated to amount to 500,000 men; who are, however, dispersed in garrisons in the intorior of the empire. If we add to these 125,000 Chinese militia, the whole Chinese army will make 7-1,000 men, of whom 175,000 are cavalry. There is. besides a Mongol cavalry, which with respec t to its organization and the nature -k . 1

ot its service, may be compared to the Russian troops from the Don and the Ural. Its amount is not accurately known, but is stated by some at 500,000

men. All the Chinese soldiers arc married; their children, who are entered in the lists of the army from their very birth, recruit the corps to which they belong. Bcides arm, a horse, a house, and a

quantity of rice, each soldier of the first,

second, and third corps, receives a month

ly pay of three to four linns, (six to eight

silver rubles,) but must provide himself

with clothing, whence there is a most laughable variety and irregularity in their uniform. The troops of the fourth

corps are furnished by the Government with lands, which they must cultivate for their subsistence. There is no army so ca-ily recruited as the Chinese. Crowds fleck to the standards to find a refuge from want and misery. Notwithstanding the immense sums which the maintenance of this force costs, and

place which retpdred the interierence of authority. 1 he youg Bu-sians ; re not admitted into the lnililarv service until they have undergo! e an examination at one of these universities, T,at of Dorpat is pr'u cipally attended by youth from the three Baltic provinces; and German is. there the prevailing lan-

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EARTHQUAKE,, A violent shock of an earthquake was felt at Fort-au-Frince, at 2 o lo li, on the morning of the 19th of November. It was preceded by a rumbling noise from the bouthEast, aralcontiaued four or live seconds. The shock wa-, according to

the representations of seme of the oldest inhabitants, more iolent than thai of the

year 1770, which nearly destroyed the

whole city. Fortunately th?re was no material injury sustained." The ediior of the Fcv.ille du Com),iac reccids a remarkable circumstance, that the earthquake of 1770, which took place on the 3d of June, the day of Pcuticost, at 7

I o'clock in the evening, was exneiienced

in all the leeward n lards, on the same day and at (lie same hour. In the year 18-24 on the same da at noon, anotl er shock was felt, and the one above noticed is the third that has occured d uring the present year. Infallible cure for chepped Hps. Fisfmve n lunjp of Bees-wax in a small quantity of sneHuil, over a randJe, let it cool, ai d it is reach for use. Rubbing it warm on the hps lvo ortL: timet, will effect a complete curs.