rears into youth and manly promise, repays her solicitude and care in the depth and fidelity of his filial affection. He can never be happy while she is wretched; he can never smile and she be in tears: and if misfortune comes upon his father's house, he places her, so far as it may be in his power, above the reach of its evils. He becomes to her what she has been to him, a kind, assiduous, and devoted guardian; and when she is called to pay the debt of nature, and his willing offices can go no further, though forbid by his stern creed to wear the demonstrations of woe, yet there is a grief in his heart which all the sable symbols of sorrow can never express. Ah! the human heart will always leap kindly back to kindness.

This affection for his mother is a most amiable and redeeming trait in the character of the Moslem, and it the more surprises us that a plant of so much sweetness and beauty should be found in such an ungenial and unfavored soil. It might be expected where the Sun of Righteousness had cast his benign beams; we might justly be shocked not to find it in a disciple of Him, who, as he hung on the cross, bent his last look of love to her that had yearned over his infant slumber. Alas! how changed the scene to Him from all that it then was. Instead of those fond, encircling arms, an agonizing cross — instead of that soft and soothing hand, a crown of thorns - instead of that cherishing caress, the bloody nail and spear—instead of that meek, maternal kiss, vinegar and gall-instead of that deep and overflowing heart, the coldness and bitterness of mockery—instead of that countenance filled with tenderness, light, and love, a departed God and a darkened world! Yet in the very extremity of this change, when the last pangs of its cruelty and agony were upon Him, the sufferer forgot not the future condition and happiness of her whose cares once so sweetly availed Him. But this transcendant example of filial piety and attachment has perhaps never been unfolded to the Musselman ; he is devoted and constant, even without the sacred incentives which it conveys. It is for those who call themselves Christians, to ponder and admire, walk away and forget! But that callous being, to whatever creed he may belong, who can forsake his mother, who can forget the sorrows and anxieties of her who gave him birth, and nourished his unrequiting infancy, is a dishonor to his name, a burning blot upon human nature. The earth which he treads and disgraces might in justice deny him the sanctity of a grave!

ANECDOTE FROM A PRIVATE JOURNAL.

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, an envoy from Great Britain visited Boston. He seemed to be of a bearing somewhat lordly, and he appeared as the associate of a few persons who were considered especially complaisant towards his government. His official successor was of very retired habits. About this time the United States' minister to Great Britain resided a few miles from London. The court did not attract him to a residence near to itself.

The French envoy at Washington, occupying the delightful mansion of the United States' minister to France, cultivated the good will of his neighbors: and thus our minister was received in France with all kindness and honor. It was arranged that his credentials should be presented at a grand levee, the assembly of all the dignitaries connected with that court; when Napoleon audibly expressed his gratification in receiving a minister from the United States, and especially one well known as a scholar, and who, from previous long residence in France, was acquainted with its people and government. In the foreign news, as then published in the Parisian journals, the art. United States was habitually precedent. Among the English subjects then detained there, was a youth, whose return to England was anxiously desired on account of certain domestic arrangements. A French general, detained in England, was in vain offered in exchange. The mediation of the United States' minister was solicited as a person in distinguished favor. Napoleon answered-"Such accordance cannot be made to the representative of a nation; but I freely resign the youth to the United States' minister, individually, without exchange."

The above events, which I witnessed, I narrated shortly after at the table of Dr. William Saunders,* in Westminster, partly in answer to some queries then made as to the disposition of the United States relative to France and England; a subject about which I had but little knowledge or interest. Next day I received a request to call at the house of Sir Walter Farquhar, in Sackville street, at seven P. M., when he requested me to repeat the remarks which he had been informed that I had made at Dr. Saunders's. Next day I received a request to call at the office of Sir William Hamilton, Secretary of State under Lord Sidmouth, in Downing-street, at two P. M.,

* Who was then called, "Physician extraordinary to the Prince Regent."

when he requested me to repeat the same remarks. After which he said, - "The wars with France and with the United States render rare and interesting all information from those countries. If, in requital of your communication to me I can serve you, you will experience my readiness so to do." When I, with fifty-two of my countrymen, desired to return to the United States a year afterward, though Lord Sidmouth then caused our consular agent to be informed that ' detention would be applied to all American citizens in Great Britain,' on my application to Mr. Hamilton, a vessel was placed at our disposition, and Mr. Hamilton wishing me a good voyage and a happy return to my friends, offered me permission to address my correspondents in Great Britain through his office; to which I am indebted for the free transmission of one or two valuable communications.