great and opposite qualities which distinguished those | two individuals; the melting pathos and natural feeling of the former, with the heroic grandeur and dignity of the latter. One thing we will venture to assert, without fear of contradiction. His voice is such as never had its equal on the stage; so deep and full, so harmonious and expressive; so magnificent in power and volume, that, without apparent effort, it fills every corner of this immense theatre, and makes it re-echo to its sound; so articulate in all its varieties of modulation, from the lowest whisper to the most rapid storm of passionate utterance, that its every syllable is distinctly audible in all parts of the vast concave; so susceptible of all the shades of human passion, that it is equally capable of thrilling the soul with tones of the most exquisite tenderness, and of assuming the loftiest expression of rage, of scorn, of disdain, and all the fiercer affections of the mind. To these singular advantages of organ are added the graces of a tine person, and features full of flexibility and expressiveness; and all these qualifications, the gift of nature, are heightened and adorned by those mental endowments which art and education can alone bestow.

horse," I shall now proceed to offer a remark or two on
the performance of Ivanhoe.

A

LADY WITH A PARCEL, (apparently a very interest ing intelligent damsel,) dates from Toxteth Park;" rather a vague direction apparently; but probably a sufficient clue for the instinctive pene tration of a lover.

Another kind soul, E. F. invites the gentleman to station

Taking it for granted that Mr. Vandenhoff possesses the privilege of choosing, from every new piece, in which he performs, what character he pleases, I cannot withhold an expression of my surprise at the selection of Ivanhoe. He may perhaps have sufficient reasons for so doing, and certainly played the unknown knight with great judgment and propriety; but the play would as certainly be rendered stronger, and more attractive, by having him for the representative of Sir Reginald. Isaac of York lost nothing by being assigned to Mr. W. Rees; who, it should seem, knows how to draw tears, almost as well as he knows how to excite laughter. A Thalia is undoubtedly his favourite, but Melpomene appears to have, at least, some portion of his affection; and I trust his love for the one will never fail to remind him of the gratitude he owes the other. His interview with Sir Brian was uncommonly affecting, and evinced an extensive acquaintance with the pathetic; the sordid, avaricious Jew, was finely contrasted with the fond, doting parent, and he alternately pourtrayed a detested, reluctant miser, and an affectionate, Mr. Macready, we are informed, was educated at agonized father, with considerable effect. His silent one of our great public schools, where he distinguished acting, though not so good as it might have been in the himself by an uncommon proficiency in the learned hands of a more skilful performer, was also very creditlanguages and general erudition, and was equally com-able, and he greatly distinguished himself by the impasmended for his assiduity in study, and for the uniform sioned feeling given to the close of this important scene. correctness of his moral conduct. He there was imbued Yours, truly, DRAMATICUS. with that chasteness and delicacy of taste, which is so Liverpool, 8th Sept. 1820. perceptible in all his performances; there, too, he imbibed that love for the study of the great models of classical antiquity which he still retains; for we are told that the volumes of Eschylus and Sophocles are still the constant companions of his leisure. It is not to be wondered, therefore, that a mind, formed by the haSIR.-There is no part of your amusing miscellany bitual contemplation of these great masters of terror and pity, and aided by almost every accomplishment more acceptable to me than that which you allot to which nature and art can confer, should produce on the Liverpool Theatre. Your correspondents G. N. the stage those great effects which, during the late sea- and DRAMATICUS may be assured that their lucuson, have so often astonished and electrified the audi-brations are always anxiously expected by many, amongst whom I of course include myself.

ence.

SIR,-Notwithstanding the commendation justly bestowed on our spirited managers, for the magnificent manner in which they have successively produced Henri Quatre, The Antiquary, and Ivanhoe, there are not wanting some of those perpetual grumblers, who cavil at any thing and every thing, to censure and abuse them for introducing such spectacles on the boards of a Theatre Royal.

It is truly lamentable to see the thrones of Shakspeare, Rowe, Otway, Massinger, and other writers of "deathless fame," usurped by a class of melo-dramatic worthies. None can regret more poignantly than I do, that such should be the case; sincerely, however, as I deplore this circumstance, I am by no means disposed to censure those who, in fact, are not blaineable. If the public prefer the rolling tides and burning castles of the latter, rather than the transcendant beauties of the former, which it is manifest they do, what good can possibly be achieved by railing at the managers? They only cater for the public, and are consequently compelled to get up exhibitions suited to the public taste; not the managers, therefore, but the public are censurable. The many will always govern the few, and we all know, that, in the present day, compared with those who go to gratify the sight, but few persons frequent a play-house to feast the mind; and must the doors be closed because scarcely any body would pass their threshold to see The Merchant of Venice, A New Way to pay Old Debts, or Vanice Preserved, when, on the contrary, almost every body would attend a representation of Henri Quatre, The Antiquary, or Ivanhoe? They who answer in the affirmative, cannot surely be either proprietors, or their friends; if proprietors, I would advise them immediately to convert the theatre into more valuable property; and if their friends, I entreat them to act less like insidious enemies. These observations have been elicited by some unwarrantable aspersions on managers gratuitously uttered before a numerous company last evening; and having endeavoured, to the extent of my humble ability, "to place the saddle upon the right

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TO THE EDITOR.

If you should not be favoured with any remarks on She stoops to conquer, permit me to record Mr. Browne's deficiency of feeling in the scene where Miss Hardcastle confesses her affection for him, and laments that a want of fortune should cause their separation. Miss Blanchard, who this evening made her debut on the Liverpool stage, and supported the character of Miss Hardcastle with much spirit, was in this scene' very pathetic, which added considerably to the bad effect produced by Mr. Browne's hard and unfeeling manner, and made it the more conspicuous.

Mr. Bass, as Hastings, was still more inattentive to the business of the stage. His behaviour to Miss Neville was throughout the play ungentlemanly, and very unlike that of a respectful and ardent lover. It was the subject of general remark in that part of the Pit in which sat your humble servant

himself on Wednesday next, at the corner of Duke street, Hanover-street, when and where she make herself known by a significant "HEM!" third who subscribes "A YOUNG LADY," will next Saturday, at four o'clock, take what she terms, round up Duke-street,' with her usual appendag the ridicule. With all this business before YOUNG BACHELOR, we don't know how anyone not possessed of ubiquity, will perform the task he has brought upon himself, by a presumption against the probable consequences of which we have alread warned him.

The favour of XVI. would have been more acceptable
if somewhat more legible. He (or she, we rather s
mise) can write much more distinctly sometimes. We
cannot of course form any judgment of the merits
the article alluded to, until we have perused it, which
we shall be glad to have the opportunity of doing.
We shall take the earliest opportunity to enrich ou
columns with the beautiful lines by the late Duchess
of Devonshire, which are this week superseded by
our extracts from the lively satire of Julia.
A. M. W. of Bradford is not overlooked.

The communication of T. H. A. possesses no interest,
unless the accompanying note be really genuine, which
we have of course no means of ascertaining.

The doggrel letter of SPOONEY is not without some
good points, but there is a slang and levity about it,
which would not suit the taste of the generality of our
fair readers, who would not be very well pleased with
the familiar way of this Spark, as displayed in the
following lines:-

By the bye, I had nearly forgotten to say,
That I met with a beautiful creature to-day;
She was modestly tripping, I gave her the wink,
&c. &c.

Monticola SylvanO's Battle between the Sun and
Moon, in allusion we take it to the recent eclipse,
what we should call rather Bathetic, were there se
convenient a word. His notion that

The Moon was fighting with the Sun, And that the hussy's salamander teeth, Had bit his hallow'd body underneath; However sublime it may be, would be better appled upon the occasion of a Lunar eclipse, when the b with his salamander teeth, might with more plausibi lity be figured as biting a piece out of the Moon secing that, according to the legendary classics of the nursery, the latter is understood to be composed of green cheese.

MARY to CORNELIUS next week.

We will make another attempt to decipher the MS. of JULIUS; all our former efforts have proved unsuccess ful. Our correspondents ought really to have som consideration for our time, if not for our eye-sight

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Where the rolling surges roar

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dark brow; and she saw, with a momentary terror, that he wore his war-dress, and carried the ponderous club so dreaded by the foe. The women shrieked at his appearance, and starting up, awaited the event in trembjing expectation. He regarded them not; but suppres sing, with difficulty, the stormy passions which convalsed his soul, thus addressed Mamana in a low and con

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"Have I injured thee?” replied the maiden, “have no right to give my hand to whom I please? Was i born thy slave, or hast thou bought me from a captor ? It well becomes thee to vaunt thy ferocity to a defenceless woman. My father was as much the terror of the foe as thou art, but who ever card him bonet? When did Malohi talk of his deeds?"

"When did he perform then?" retorted Tasofa ;' "two or three warriors may have sunk beneath his club -weak men of little fame. Why in Vavaoo compares him with Taiofa? When I banquetted in Fiji on the flesh of the bravest warriors of the land, slain by this arm, thy puny minion sickened at the sight of my warlike feast. But it is plain that the gods have devoted the wretch to destruction."

▲ few years since, an English vessel touched at Va-mistress was soon to be adorned as the bride of the vali-Strained voice, terrific from its forced moderation.— VRO, one of the Friendly Islands. The crew were very ant Malohi. Amidst the thousand charms of the female" Mamana, there is yet a moment between thee and hospitably received by the King, and being detained band, Mamana, the descendant and representative of ruin. Malohi never shall possess thee. The gods who several weeks on account of some necessary repairs, be- the great and ancient, shone conspicuous by the beauty gave me superior valour, decreed that i should choose me intimate with the most distinguished natives. The and majesty of her person, the dignity and sweetness of before him. Why will the wretch rush into the fatal Europeans found these people extremely amiable as her countenance, and the easy grace of her attitude and jaws of the shark. Who now lives that hath injured friends, although they could easily perceive, that when gestures. But at intervals her abstracted air and deep Taiofa ?" influenced by hostile, feelings, their character was irri-sighs, betrayed the feverish anxiety of the destined bride. salale, ferocious, and vindictive. The queen having Her faithful Imahie observed the restless thoughts of we stained a slight injury from a fall, Mr. Piers, the sur- her mistress; she thought of the tranquillizing power of the ship was requested to attend her, and for of song, and made a sign to two of the maidens; one of that purpose resided chiefly in the king's house. His whom instantly began the following old national melody, equaintance with his hosts soon improved into friend- which the other accompanied on the fango-fango, or ship; for their characters were eminently calculated to flute, into which she skilfully breathed through her please each other. Piers was an ardent enthusastic nostril. wpirit, overflowing with kindness, and acutely sensitive; be had long pined for more cordial intercourse than the wuperficial civility of polished society, and he was deFighted to find himself actually beloved and cherished by beings in whose susceptibility, unaffected manners, and uncontrolled passions, he found something congenial with his own feelings, and whose simplicity and ignorance of European arts did not, in his opinion, degrade shem in the scale of humanity, or render them less interesting. Nor were they less pleased with an European, whe united more of European intelligence with more of ative affability and kindness than any other white man ey had seen. This connexion became so intimate on both sides, that Piers began seriously to think of ending his days among his new friends, alleging, as an ices, to the English, the delicate state of his health, and the congeniality of the climate with his constitution. But the crew were by no means willing to relinquish bs valuable services of their surgeon upon the eve of ir long and perilous homeward voyage. The officers onstrated with him, and the men proceeded to menaces. It is not likely that he was intimidated, since the natives, a warlike and well-armed people, were able and willing to protect him. But he probably refected that his engagements ought to be kept sacred, and that his obstinacy might involve many of his counymen in destruction. He therefore sailed with the . Soon after his arrival in England he fell a victim la pulmonary complaint, which had attacked him on e voyage, and he died in obscurity at London. Some Papers which he left, remained untouched for several ears, until an inquisitive relative was lately induced to Whilst she was absorbed in these thoughts, Taiofa, a pen them, when his curiosity was rewarded with the renowned warrior, who long had sought her hand, stood following tale, which he supposes to be founded on facts suddenly before her. Scarcely could she endure his aking to the royal pair who had been so much esteem-force and eager gaxe, and the terrible lowering of his

O'er smooth and solid sands.
There our polish'd limbs we'll lave,
And wanton freely o'er the wave,

A gay and mirthful band.

For sportive maids the gods that shelter keep
Safe from the greedy monsters of the deep.
How joyful once we pass'd the hours,
We danc'd, we sang, we twin'd our flo’wrs
Or sported in the tide,

Ere yet the youth of Vavaoo
The savage strangers war-canoe
To battle had defy'd.
Ye powers divine, the woes of war remove,
Restore the happy days of peace and love!

The sweet and simple air breathed a placid calm into
the heart of Mamana, which music ruled with absolute
power. But the concluding words filled her dark eyes
with tears, for she feared that her young warrior might
soon be compelled to exchange her fond embraces for the
deadly grapple of the men of Hamoa.

As he said this he whirled round his heavy club, and then struck furiously on the ground. His eyes sparkled with rage. Mamana was terrified, yet with true female address she sought to calm the maddening chief. She approached him in tears, and took his hand. "Taiofa," she said, **thou wert the friend of my father, aud often hast thou promised that venerable chief to protect his daughter. Wilt thou then destroy her? Thou hast four wives younger and fairer than Mamana, why dost thou seek to increase the disquietude of thy home? Thou art the most formidable of the warriors of our island, but Malohi is loved by many chiefs of renown. His death would not pass unrevenged. Cease, then, these cruel thoughts, and live in friendship and peace with Mamana and the beloved of her heart."

At these words Taiofa writhed with impatience; once he half-raised his club to crush the fair pleader; but he thought of his fame. "Live, foolish girl," he cried, "live, and marry my hated rival; but remember that Taiofa hath vowed his death."

He strode angrily away, leaving Mamana oppressed with greaf and fear. As custom would net allow her to visit her intended husband before their marriage, she instantly despatched a messenger in search of him. Malohi was quickly at her feet, and heard the tender' warnings of her fears. Indignation and fury blazed in his eyes when he heard of the insults she had suffered ;

games regulations were adopted for preventing the use- joy a last embrace, but was unable to shake off their
less waste of life, and preventing the fatal effects of ir- powerful grasp. Taiofa beheld his agony with a smile
ritation. At a single blast of the conch, the combatants "Son of the weak and foolish," said he, "cease to ex
threw down their arms, and each taking the hand of his haust thy puny strength in contending with men; a fo
adversary they marched off to the places prepared for expects thee, whose attacks will require thy utmost force
them.
Canst thou beat off the waves of ocean? Canst tho

called forth a cry of pleasure and surprise from all the
spectators. The whole assembly gazed with rapture, in-
spired by the charms of beauty, music, and the graceful
postures of the lovely dancers, who seemed animated by
one soul.

but he uttered no threats. Mamana, however, saw the fierce resolution he had formed. "No, Malohi," she said, “leave him to the torments of his own furious passions; risk not thy virtuous life against this monster who is, alas! too formidable. Inform the chiefs, thy friends, of his designs. Keep thy followers about thee; neglect no means of securing thy own safety, but pro To a voluptuous yet melancholy air, a band of beau-wrestle with the rising waters? Soon, in the agonies f voke not the contest. Subdue that horrid, useless pas-tiful females now slowly advanced with graceful move- drowning, thy choaking spirit shall vainly curse its pre sion for revenge: leave this violent man to himself, and ment. The beauty and regularity of their steps, the sumption in aspiring to the chosen bride of Taiofa let us hope that time and reflection will soften his fero-easy grace with which they moved their heads and arms, Malohi attempted to reply, but instantly received s gious heart, and make him seek our friendship and forblow on the mouth from one of the guards, while others giveness." forced a piece of wood into his mouth, which they fa tened so as to prevent his speaking; they then tied his hands and feet together. At the command of Taiofa, they hurried the unfortunate youth down to the beach, and threw him into a canoe, into which two of them fillowed him. They instantly began to paddle out to sta towing with them an old leaky boat, in which their pr soner was to be left bound, gradually to sink. Already it was half filled with water, and continued to fill rapidly. Malohi beheld with horror the miserable fate to which he was devoted; but when he thought of that which awaited Mamana, his agony became insupportable. The insulting conqueror stood on the beach eagerly watching the progress of the vessel, which had now reached the intended distance; the rowers, with refined cruelty took the gag from their prisoner's mouth, that their chief might enjoy the fiendish pleasure of hearing his despair. ing cries and execrations. The dreadful moment wa now arrived.

The youth kissed his beautiful counsellor, and promised to avoid his enemy. He then conversed with her on their future prospects, and laid down many a visionary scheme of bliss. In this delightful converse they remained till late in the evening; the full moon beamed brightly over the scene; the nightingale's sweet and plaintive song thrilled through the woods; the lovers seemed alone in the world, and all the world to each other. They parted reluctantly at Mamana's house, where her female attendants received her..

In the morning they heard that Taiofa had left the island, and rejoiced in his departure, which they attributed to shame and remorse for his outrageous behaviour. No further obstacle impeding the wishes of the lovers, their nuptials were celebrated a few days afterwards with due solemnities and rejoicings. The king and all the principal chiefs, to whom Malohi was deservedly dear, attended the festivity.

Suddenly the fire of twenty muskets from the adjacent shrubberies stretched the king and nineteen brave chiefs dead or wounded on the grass. Before the pause of horror had been broken by a single scream, another volley scattered death among the multitude. The flash and report of arms, the cries of the wounded, and the screams of the terrified females; the simultaneous rush to the outlets, for escape, instantly converted the scene of peaceful pleasure into the most appalling spectacle. Hundreds of warriors, armed and painted in the manner of the Hamoa islanders, rushing in all directions from their ambuscade, with terrible shouts, soon showed the devoted and unarmed assembly the dreadful fate which awaited them. On every side the ruthless enemy dealt destructive blows; and ere the terrified gazers could collect their scared thoughts they were added to the number of the slain.

unmoved countenances. In a few minutes, of all the
company so lately rejoicing and thoughtless of danger,
two only remained alive on the spot. A few had es-
caped; but the greater part had perished by the clubs
and spears of the warriors of Hamoa.

The marly, an extensive lawn before the royal mansion was the scene of the nuptial rejoicings. At one end of it, the king, the principal chiefs, the bride and The warriors of Vavaoo met death without fear or bridegroom, were seated to witness the performance of complaint. A few grappling desperately with their the day. At a little distance from them, the most plen- armed foes wrenched from them their weapons, and had iful supply of provisions was arranged for distribution the consolation of selling their lives dearly; others, after the games. Baked pork, the flesh of a particular even without weapons, made a terrible resistance, and species of dog, fattened for the purpose, bananas, yams, by their natural strength and the ferocity of hopeless and cocoas formed the chief articles of the feast. Near despair, contrived not to fall unrevenged. A few of the these, fifty singers and musicians sat in order on the elder chiefs perceiving from the first that death was ingrass. Some of them beat a drum, consisting of a cy-evitable, awaited the fatal blow with folded arms and lindrical piece of hollowed wood, covered with skin; others played on a sort of sticcado, or instrument composed of pieces of hard wood of different sizes, by striking which they produced the various notes; others again performed on different sorts of flutes, all of which were played by the breath of the nostrils. The singers raised their voices in harmony with the instruments, and shaunted the delights of love and the reward of valour. At the king's cominand, a hundred shells sounded for the gymnastic entertainments to commence Instantly from each side of the arena twenty warriors advanced. They wore their war dresses, consisting of lofty helmets of thick basket-work, covered with the fine downy scarlet plumage of a small bird, coats of mail, composed of teeth strung in rows, and breastplates of mother of pearl, obtained from enormous shells. An immense fanlike plume of long scarlet tail feathers overspread their helms, the fronts of which were made to resemble the hideous faces of evil spirits. They were armed with The conquerors with boisterous mirth, now shared slubs lighter than those used in war, and with pointless amongst themselves the feast which had been provided spears. Moving to slow and soleinn music, they danced for the solemnity; and when they had appeased their for a while in two divisions, frequently flourishing their hunger, the prisoners were carried before the leaders of weapons, and at regular pauses in the music, advancing the victorious warriors. The terrified Mamana dared near to each other in attitudes of defiance. By degrees not to lift her eyes, until roused by an exclamation of the music, rising louder and quicker, excited a martial horror and rage from her lover, she looked up, and saw, sensation in every bosom. The two divisions of war-hideous with malicious delight, the ferocious countenance riors separated to a great distance, and threw their spears of Taiofa. The last spark of hope was extinguished in with prodigious force and unerrring aim, but with simiBar dexterity all avoided the blows. Then, raising their war cry, they rushed together with their clubs, and byught as if life or liberty were at stake. But in these

The survivors were Malohi and Mamana. At the first appearance of the enemy, Mamana had flown to the arms of her lover for protection; and in the next moment they were seized by four of the Hamoa warriors who guarded them until the work of destruction was completed. Mamana swooned, and was spared the consciousness of the horrors by which she was surrounded; but the unhappy Malohi beheld the whole of the dread ful scene. When he found that he and his bride were alone to be preserved, a horrible suspicion instantly occurred to him, and he perceived impending dangers far more terrible than the death-blows which fell around him.

her bosom. She uttered a piercing shriek, and fell sense-
less on the ground. Taiofa commanded two of his men
to carry her off. Malohi felt that he should never see
her more; he struggled to break from his guards to en-

One of the men began to haul the leaky canoe alongside of that in which they were. As he stooped, his companion raised his paddle, struck him a dreadful blow on the head, which stunned him; he fell dead into the sea. The man who had performed this extraordinary action, quickly cut the cords by which Malohi was bound, and pointing to the shore, where the chiefs and warrions were fast launching their canoes, with terrible outras, to pursue them, bade Malohi to pull with all his might. He obeyed in silence. They made for a rocky and uninhabited part of the coast, with the desperate energy men struggling for life. But they soon saw the vindictive Taiofa, with many others, strenuously labouring ka overtake them. The canoes of the pursuers were esc rowed by several men; and they soon gained upon the fugitives, whose strength began to fail. In vain the s ter redoubled their efforts; their powers were exhauad; and Taiofa's canoe came swiftly on. The triumphat menaces of that terrible chief resounded in their ears as they doubled the angle of a jutting rock, and entered a pool formed in a recess of its lofty perpendicular sids Malohi, seeing no outlet for escape, uttered a deep gro

Now follow me," said his companion, and dived in the sea. Without hesitation Malohi followed him. The pursuers in a few moments came up with the empty ca noe; and when they found that their destined victime had precipitated themselves into the ocean to escape their cruelty, their disappointment broke out in dreadful se

crations.

Meantime the unfortunate Mamana, on recoverts from her swoon, found herself in an apartment of the house which had lately been the King's, attended by two of her own women. They informed her that several of their companions had been killed in the late dreadful affray, and the rest enslaved by the Hamoa people; and that the house in which they were was strongly guarded. From them also she learned the fate to which her lover had been condemned, and which they imagined he bad suffered. At this dreadful intelligence her grief was unbounded; she seized a sharp instrument that lay acddentally near her, and wounded her face and head in several places; tore her beautiful hair, and throwing

in herself on the ground, abandoned herself entirely to her grief, uttering the most pitions cries. In this state she was found by Taiofa on his return. Her swollen and bleeding face, her torn and soiled garments, her scattered tresses, and the extravagance of her sorrow, protected her for the time from the wild passions of the hef. He gave orders for every attention to her accommodation, and retired to meditate and ripen a new and Important scheme. In returning from their fruitless pursuit, the Hamoa warriors had perceived a small Euopean vessel in the offing, which was evidently endeaTouring to make Vavaoo. Taiofa was desirous of taking this vessel; and as that could only be effected by stratagem, he had appointed a consultation of chiefs at the Louse of the god Tooitonga..

thoughts of Taiofa. He perceived that his power was as if revived, struggling with his terrible rival, and at
destroyed-his reputation gone-his hopes blighted-last slain by his spear when the victor commanded
and that protracted life would only be lengthened in- his flesh to be prepared for his horrid feast. In the
famy; nor could he hope that the people of Vavaoo, his morning she awoke to the consciousness of her dreadful
injured countrymen, would forgive his treacherous in- fate. On a pile of mats she sat motionless; her arms
troduction of their Hamoa enemies. He therefore re-embracing her knees; her tearless eyes fixed on vacancy.
solved to die." Know," said he, "that Taiofa disdains Her sagacious attendant soon perceived the symptoms
thy intercession. He can suffer death as unmoved as of impending insanity: and in hopes to relieve her by
he can inflict it." As he said these words, he was seized exciting her tears, she sang in a low tone, and mournful
by the French seamen, who dragged him into the hold, measure, an old and pathetic elegy, of which the fol-
and loaded him with irons.
lowing may give some idea:

Hundreds of canoes surrounded the vessel, chiefly filled with natives of Vavaoo. When they saw the fall of so many of the Hamoa warriors, they rejoiced in the prospect of their speedy deliverance from those invaders. They, therefore, shewed no disposition to interfere. The French captain, however, regarded them all as enemies, and maintained all due precautions; he was therefore much relieved when Malohi explained to him the real state of affairs. After relating the jealous rivalship between himself and Taiofa, and the treacherous manner in which that warrior had betrayed his countrymen to the people of Hamoa, he proceeded to narrate his own escape.

The priest of Tooitonga was the oracle of these islands. He kept up a daily intercourse with his divinity, and managed his replies with so much address, that they were generally sure of being confirmed by events. To maintain the dignity of the divinity he represented, he ften judged it expedient to require a human sacrifice; and such was his influence, that even when he named for that purpose, the children of the most distinguished persons in the island, their parents never withheld them om his sanguinary grasp. He was maintained in the "When I precipitated myself into the waves, in imimost luxuriant manner by the devout natives, who cartation of my companion, I thought merely of disapried him plenty of dainties, which, he assured them was pointing the vengenance of my rival, by rushing into the most agreeable service they could render to heaven. the arms of death. But when I rose again to the surWhen the chiefs had assembled in his house, each of face, the instinct of nature compelled me to strive for them made an offering to the god; and then Taiofa in- existence. I breathed the air, but seemed in utter darkquired of him, whether they should succeed in their in-ness. With what rapture did I hear my companion ended attack on the white men's ship. The priest whisper, Courage-be still-you are safe!'-At the seemed to meditate for some time; then appeared in a sort same instant he assisted me to a crag, by which I held trance; then foamed at the mouth, uttered several for some time. range cries; and soon afterwards became calm. He then told them Tooitonga had been with him, and aswared him that if they did not conquer, it would be their ewn fault; and that as he intended to protect them, he required them to offer him, through his priest, all the drink they might find in the white men's ship, together with some shirts and trowsers, for the more magnificent apparel of his priest. These conditions they promised to fulfil, and departed full of confidence in their under

waking.

It was determined that Taiofa, and eleven Hamea hiefs, should each go on board the vessel, with a canoe faden with hogs, cocoas, and other provisions, as presents and for traffic, and attended by eight or ten resolute warriors. They were to affect the most friendly disposi tion and peaceable intentions, until they should be so dispered over the ship, that every one of the crew might be singly and suddenly attacked, and stabbed with their iron-wood daggers, which were to be concealed under

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What sounds, in the forest, so mournfully swelling,
Thrill, plaintive, and sweet, through the silence of
night?

'Tis the heart-broken maid, in her desolate dwelling,
Bewailing the youth who has perish'd in fight.
Fled is the beauty her eyes that enchanted,
Mute is the voice that pour'd love and delight,
Cold is the breast on her bosom that panted,
Fall'n is the youth in the terrible fight."
Far o'er the waves is an island of pleasure,
Heroes departed there reign in delight;
There, hapless maid, seek thy dearly lov'd treasure,
There dwells thy lover, who fell in the fight."
Mamana at first seemed unconscious of the song: but

at length some particular note seemed to rivet her atten
tion. She listened-changed her attitude-and towards
the conclusion, wept abundantly.

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A loud and continued noise was now heard without; My eyes soon began to accustom themselves to the and in a few minutes the Hamoa warriors, who had dim light of the place in which we were, and which at been left to guard them, entered the house, pursued by first I thought quite dark. I then perceived it to be a number of the Vavaoo people, who soon dispatched spacious cavern, into which the entrance from the sea them with their clubs. They then explained to Mamana lay beneath the surface. The light was faintly reflected the revolution of her fortune, and that of her country, from the bottom of the sea, through the aperture into occasioned by the failure of Taiofa's enterprise, in this cave. We now emerged from the water, and sat which the principal Hamoa warriors having fallen, the on the crags in silence, dreading lest any of our pur-people had risen against those who were left behind, and suers should remain on the watch near the spot. But put them to death. They also acquainted her with when the failure of the light warned us of the ap- the supposed fate of her lover. As she was already proach of evening, we ventured to quit the cave. We persuaded of his death, the information that he had dived out of it in the same manner as we had entered it, escaped by a voluntary act from the cruelty of his rival, swam for a considerable distance round the projecting gave her a mournful satisfaction. As a chieftainess of rock, and at length safely landed. We remained con- rank they carried her directly to the marly, where all cealed among the cliff's till the evening, during which the remaining nobles, who had survived the treacherous time my preserver informed me of the motives by which attack of Taiofa, were immediately to assemble to rega he had been induced to undertake my deliverance, and late the government of the island. explained the means by which he had effected it. He was a young native of Hamoa, named Fanaw; and although I did not remember him, yet he fortunately recollected that in an invasion of his country by the people of Vavaoo, while he was yet a boy, I had dissuaded our chiefs from putting to death a number of prisoners, among whom were himself, s mother, and sister. He bad accidentally discovered this cave when fishing, and happily for me had never disclosed the secret of its existence. At night we issued from our concealment, and I found that we had landed near the dwelling of the priest of Tooitonga. I had no doubt that Taiofa and his Hamoa warriors had spared the old man from veneration for the god he serves, and I thought that I might depend on his aid for food, shelter, and the means of escaping to one of the Tonga islands. We therefore advanced towards his dwelling; but as we approached, we perceived an unusual number of lights, and heard the sound of many voices. Fanaw proposed to retreat instantly, but I felt an irresistible impulse to ascertain who were with the priest, and on what occasion. I therefore crept through the shrubs close up to his house, near the apertures where only a mat separated me from those within. There I overheard the account of your arrival, O brave white chief! and the treacherous plot laid for your assassination, and the capture of your ship. Fanaw and I determind to apprise you of the intended attack, in hopes that timely notice might enable you to turn the attempts of your enemies to their own destruction, and thus relieve the island of Vavaoo from its sanguinary tyrants. For this purpose we traversed the country till we arrived on the coast opposite your vessel, seized a canoe, and came off to you before dawn. The

Early the next morning the ship had anchored in the bay, and a few canoes were sent to open a friendly communication, which was very adroitly performed. The sonfederate chiefs then began to go off to the ship by degrees, and were received on board in the most amicable manner. Presents were interchanged, and purchases ade. The number of the islanders on board somewhat exceeded that of the crew. Taiofa, as the principal chief, met with particular attention from the captain. His people were now dispersing themselves in the manner agreed on, and Taiofa perceived they would presently expect the signal he was to give by stabbing the captain. A bad ery suddenly pierced his ear, and turning round, be saw one of his confederates fall mortally wounded by tac dirk of an officer. Instantly the whole crew drawing pistols from their bosoms, fired upon the treacherous atives, whose lifeless bodies soon strewed the deck. A few only escaped by jumping overboard. Taiofa, detected, terrified. and thunderstruck, conceiving that the gods had revealed the plot to the white men, fell prostrate at the captain's feet. He was raised from the deck by amen; but what was his horror and amazement ating, tunediately behind the captain, the figure of Malahi. He now judged that he was in the land of paris, where his victims ghost would eternally torment

bim for his cruelty. But he was soon undeceived.

Thou seest me alive," said Malohi, “and my preservation has led to the detection and punishment of thy perfidy. Where is Mamana?"

He knew the generosity of his rival, and eagerly declared event has fulfilled our expectations."

faint hope of safety cheered the miserable Taiofa.

As she approached the spot where several chiefs had already met, she perceived another party advancing to the place in another direction. This was the French captain and his crew, with two other persons, one of whom instantly attracted the eyes of the astonished Mamana. At the same moment he flew to meet her, and in the next was in her arms. She clasped the living Malohi; she could not mistrust her senses, but her excessive joy was too powerful for the weak state to which she was reduced, and she would have fallen senseless to the ground but for the support of her lover. He, who thought her dying, uttered frantic cries, which happily reaching the ears of the French seamen, they ran to the spot, when a surgeon among them instantly comprehending the affair, promptly bled the fair Mamana, who soon recovered to life, and love, and happi

ness.

The assembled chiefs, after lamenting the destruction of most of their order through the treason of Taiofa, found that the rank of Mamana was such as to entitle her to the sovereignty. They therefore declared her queen, and appointed an early day for her marriage with Malohi, which took place accordingly, and conferred on him the royal dignity. The wretched Taiofa was executed by the French, as an example to the contrivers of similar treachery. May the reign of Maloki and Mamana be long and prosperous-their lives virtuous and happy.

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Mamana was well and safe, and had suffered no salt or injury from him. Tis well," said Malohi, "traitor and murderer as art, thou hast yet forborne one crime. Say, should obtain thy life from the white chief, shall there be her lover bound and sinking in his canoe-she saw his Dick in any way they please, while he is run away. se between us ?"

The sorrowful Mamana, exhausted by her frantic grief, had sunk into a deep but unquiet sleep, in which she passed the night. The visions of slumber presented to her the most fearful images: sometimes she beheld face sink beneath the waves, and heard his last gurgling the reproaches of his rival had changed the cries as the waters suffocated him. Again he appeared

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Of the unaffected piety, which pervades the volume, the above is a good specimen. It was well observed, by an ancient writer," that virtue is most acceptable when it comes in an agreeable form;" and seldom has it presented itself in a more lovely mould than in many (if not in all) of the poems of this volume. Vir-general and undivided attention. It is in vain to tue, without gloomy moroseness; and piety the most exalted, without any tincture of idle cant. "The Visionary" (page 41,) strongly reminds us of the best productions of Lord Byron,