ries well, and ate as many as he thought wholesome; and then descended from the tree gratified and refreshed. The boys began to laugh when they saw him descend, and expected that he had of course made himself sick; but when the dinner-bell rang, he was able to take his seat and relish the boiled beef and potatoes, as well as any of his companions. They watched him with no little surprise, and began to dislike him, since he had falsified their expectations; and they unanimously resolved that no body should assist him in learning his lessons, nor should any one prompt him at recitations. He accordingly was compelled to depend entirely on his own industry, and to acquire all his lessons thoroughly; especially as all his class-mates contrived to station him at recitations where the most difficult sentences would fall to his share. His patient application turned their malice so much to his advantage, that when the period arrived for his removal to college, he was thoroughly prepared to enter, and to derive from his collegiate course all the benefits it is adapted to render. He found at college some young men who had been his school fellows. Recollecting their old grudge against him, they one day while eating some strawberries, thought they would practice on him a capital joke. They filled a bowl with the finest strawberries they could procure, and strewed over them a quantity of tartar-emetic in some finely powdered loaf sugar; and watching the opportunity of his absence, placed them on a table in his room. He was surprised on his return to find the bowl of strawberries; but supposing a servant had mistaken his room for that of some other student, he carefully placed the strawberries on a shelf till they should be inquired after, without indulging his appetite so far as to eat one; because as he acted from a principle of propriety, he was not disposed to violate the principle for one strawberry, after he had determined he would not violate it for the whole bowl full. The young men who practised on him this unworthy trick were delighted in the anticipation of his sickness. They were very merry, and as they had provided themselves with wine and cigars, they drank and smoked till they became so boisterous that a tutor overheard them; and going to the door, he found it locked. He demanded admittance which they refused with taunts and groans, till he became so incensed at the indignity offered to him, that he forced open the door. The rioters immediately fell upon him and beat him, having first extinguished the candles to prevent a recognition of their persons; but he knew several by their voices, and they were on the next morning called before the faculty. They refused to disclose their associates, and were all expelled except one who relented, and narrated the whole adventure, including the trick with the strawberries. The President was much alarmed when he ascertained the quantity of tartar-emetic that had been thrown over the strawberries, and went immediately to ascertain in person the consequences. He entered the room with trepidation, and was surprised to find that no evil had ensued; and he was particularly pleased when he ascertained that the virtue of the young man had protected him from danger. From the above period, the President interested himself daily in cape the scholarship of Richard, and frequently related in society, the eswhich the young man had experienced from a danger that seemed almost inevitable. A New-Haven lawyer heard the anecdote, and as he had once delivered a lecture before a lyceum of the city, on the preservative influence of virtue, the conduct of Richard seemed to illustrate the theory, and produced in the lawyer a strong desire to benefit the illustrator. He accordingly when the young man graduated, received him into his office as a law student, and attended with much interest to his legal studies. This gentleman, Thomas Burlingston, will be well remembered at New-Haven, as a lawyer of distinguished celebrity throughout Connecticut, at the period in question. He possessed only one child, a young lady of much beauty, good humor and intellectual cultivation, with whom the young student could not fail from being interested, as frequent opportunities brought them together in social intercourse. But he was poor, and her father was rich and aristocratic; and beside she was known to be engaged to a gentleman of suitable wealth in the city of Hartford; all which caused the young student to restrain his feelings, rather avoiding than wooing the young lady; and always addressing her with great respect and reserve. In this period of his clerkship, one of the young men who had been expelled from college, resolved to make one more effort to injure him ; and to effectually revenge his own expulsion. He accordingly wrote an anonymous letter to Mr. Burlingston, alleging that his daughter was in danger from the arts of the clerk, who was assiduously endeavoring to gain her affections. Mr. Burlingston was naturally indignant at the alleged treachery of a young man whom he was endeavoring to benefit; but that he might not condemn him unheard, he called him into his private office, and presented to him the letter. The young man read it with emotion, and with the frankness of innocence acknowledged the warm esteem that he felt for the young lady; but he repelled the imputation that he had in the slightest manner permitted his feelings to appear in his conduct or conversation; on the contrary, he had seduously avoided all unnecessary communications with her, even to the danger of being deemed by her rude or unaccommodating. The ingenuousness of this explanation and confession so enhanced the clerk in the estimation of the father, who never felt wholly satisfied with the moral character of the gentleman who was engaged to his daughter, that shortly after this private eclaircissement, the engagement was for adequate reasons, rescinded; and in the course of another year the daughter and the clerk became man and wife, with the approbation of Mr. Burlingston, and to the great satisfaction of the young couple. On the day which witnessed the celebration of the marriage, the young husband obtained a license to practice law as an attorney, and he was immediately taken into partnership by his father-in-law. His subsequent career was more than ordinarily prosperous. His diligence in business, his faithfulness to the interests of his clients, and his acknowledged general probity soon gained him property enough to maintain his wife respectably; and eventually to surround them with ease and elegance. At this period of his life, he was accustomed to travel during some part of the summer months; and on one of these occasions when he was visiting the scenes of his boyhood, he took a fancy to again try his luck in fishing over the unfathomable hole in Success Pond; though his wife was not quite pleased with this new experiment, lest he should again fish up the Naiad, and receive some announcement less agreeable than the first. But he only good naturedly laughed at her suspicion; and proceeding early one morning to the old spot, he cast in his line as he had done some fifteen years previously; and soon obtained a bite of something which seemed to be heavy. He felt no doubt it was the Naiad, and pulled up cautiously lest he should hurt her; but on getting his hook to the surface, he found to his great disappointment, that nothing was attached to it but an old fish net, which he was in the act of throwing back into the lake, when he observed within its folds, a curiously shaped stone or tablet; and on it was engraved in large roman letters, The man who will not injure himself, no person can injure.' This is the last intercourse the Naiad has deigned to hold with mortals; and that no possibility of cavil may exist in relation to her existence, the stone with its original inscription, is preserved under a glass case by the public spirited inn-keeper of Lakeville, and may be seen at all times on the mantel-piece of his best parlor, and what adds peculiar value to the relic, is a tradition that whoever will read the inscription on the tablet, and conform to its teachings, will succeed in life as successfully as Richard. The tradition rests not wholly on faith but on experience; and the landlord's parlor, like the ancient temple of Esculapius, is ornamented with votive testimonials of persons who claim to have been benefitted by the process. Among the beneficiaries we remember one name, because we happen to know the individual. He is a banker, residing in a village some few miles west of Geneva, who, by adhering closely from a boy, to the inscribed maxim, finds himself at the maturity of life, worth more than half a million of dollars, acquired without his having made any man the poorer. The casualties which make improvident persons fall down, make him fall up; and in contemplation of this peculiarity, the landlord intends this summer to add another tablet to the mantel-piece, to the effect, that the man who will take good care of himself, will be sure to receive the good care of Providence.' LINES ΤΟ THERESE; WRITTEN ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE FOR INDIA. AH! dream not, thou loved one, the heart of this breast: For her song and her sigh and her language of flowers? THERE have been two persons who have borne the title of 'Earl of Chatham;' but no one will mistake as to whom it is applied. And yet high as is the fame implied in such a distinction, and memorable as is the history of this great man, yet succeeding events of overwhelming magnitude have thrown a dimness and a shade of forgetfulness over the incidents of his varied existence. An event so vast and overwhelming to Great Britain, so important in its bearings on the destinies of the human race, as the successful issue of the American Revolution, marked indeed his closing days; but what mighty occurrences have not been witnessed since! Although scarcely seventy years have elapsed since his remains were interred, with a nation's honors and amidst a nation's tears, yet what convulsions have not the men of the present day witnessed! All Europe in arms; the institutions of every civilized nation placed in jeopardy; kingdoms crushed with a blow; thrones of a thousand years subverted, and their incumbents driven into obscurity; and in the room of all this, power usurped by men who, although like the elder Pitt, they now also repose in dumb forgetfulness, have filled the world with the vastness and the renown of their exploits. REVISED from an address delivered before the Young Men's Association' of the city of Albany |