be flattered and some threatened into a thing. Tempest understood the last art.

At length Mr. Million, accompanied by his wife, enter the room. Amelia throws herself at their feet, and prays their forgiveness. The parents relent. They lift their child from the ground, and tenderly embrace her.

"Your name, sir," said the banker, " is I believe Tempest?"

The captain bowed.

"Your fame, sir, is not unknown to me. If I mistake not, you were made post, for heading a party of seamen in storming a fort in the West Indies?"

Again the captain bowed.

"In marrying my daughter, sir, you have done me honour. Her fortune is thirty thousand pounds. The whole shall be made over to you with interest, in four quarterly payments."

"Sir," replied Tempest, "your daughter is a fortune in herself. She is virtuous, lovely, amiable! I saw her and was conquered. She was the first woman that ever made a

prize of my heart. Many a woman of quality has eyed me with regard; but the shot of their glances never reached me. None but the fire of Amelia's eyes could cause me to strike! To her I hauled down my jack, my ensign, and my pendant!"

Amelia dispatched a glance at Tempest from under her fair eyelashes, and heaving her beautiful bosom, fetched a deep sigh.

"She is a good girl, captain," said the banker; "and I lament not her destiny. She is your own."

"Nor

"I thank you," said Tempest. will you repent the gift. I will take her to court. She shall be introduced to the first chop mandarins. But first, I must buy a coach for my Amelia."

Amelia looked fondly at her husband. "Amelia," said Tempest, "I have business at the admiralty; so stay with your family till four, when I will call for you." Amelia pouted and looked grave.

"She does not like to be from you, captain," said the banker: "but say you will dine here; and then she will accede."

"I will do myself the honour, sir.” And so saying the captain withdrew, humming the sentimental tune of, "By the deep nine."

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Travels by land. A mayor's feast.

CAPTAIN BRILLIANT, having settled his business in town, prepared to depart for Wales, whither Mr. Hurricane and his wife, together with Mr. Echo and his wife, had also resolved to go.

They employed three chaises, for two of the ladies took up a great deal of room; and they loaded a chaise in the rear with bread and cold meat, and fruit and wine, that such as were faint on the road might eat and drink, and be glad in heart.

With regard to Tempest, he was not a man disposed to retire into Wales; he loved the city, where he could sport his figure and possessions. Besides he wished much to sentimentalize his young wife; to grammaticize her English, to give her a taste for poetry, and polish into elegance her city awkwardness. And all this he undertook to do himself! Oh! what a delightful task

for a husband to cultivate the mind of his wife! To spread before her a rich intellectual banquet! To engraft ideas on her mind, and new combinations of diction on her speech! To excite her natural susceptibility for all the tender charities! Sweet! Oh! Sweet! I now behold Amelia sitting at the same table with Tempest, devouring up his belles-lettres instructions with a greedy ear, considering his precepts oracular, and every day acquiring more expression of countenance !

Our party, in their journey to Bristol, took the more circuitous road of Salisbury, desirous to visit that famous city, whose matchless cathedral boasts as many windows as there are weeks, pillars as there are days, and gates as there are months in the year.

It was the day of the mayor's feast, when captain Brilliant entered Salisbury with his wife, and his friends and their wives. The whole city was in motion. The trumpeters were sounding their trumpets at the gates of the council-house. The cooks and cupbearers, obedient to the sound, were running