taking its dignity, and fharing its fortunes. Of thefe, one was in a particular manner the favourite of his master. Albert Bane (the firname, you know, is generally loft in a name defcriptive of the individual) had been his companion from his infancy. Of an age fo much more advanced as to enable him to be a fort of tutor to his youthful lord, Albert had early taught him the rural exercifes and rural amusements, in which himself was eminently skilful; he had attended him in the courfe of his education at home, of his travels abroad, and was fill the conftant companion of his excurfions, and the affociate of his fports. "On one of thofe latter occa fions, a favourite dog of Albert's, whom he had trained himself, and of whofe qualities he was proud; happened to mar the fport which his mafter expected, who, irritated at the difappointment, and having his gun ready cocked in his hand, fired at the animal, which, how ever, in the hurry of his refentment, he miffed. Albert, to whom Oscar was as a child, remonftrated gainst the rafinefs of the deed, in a manner rather too warm for his mafter, ruffled as he was with the accident, and confcious of being in the wrong, to bear. In his paf fion he ftruck his faithful attendant; who fuffered the indignity in filence, and retiring, rather in grief than in anger, left his native country that very night; and when he reached the nearest town, enlisted with a recruiting party of a regi ment then on foreign fervice. It was in the beginning of the war with France which broke out in 1744, rendered remarkable for the rebellion which the policy of the French court excited, in which fome of the first families of the Highlands were unfortunately engaged Among those who joined the ftandard of Charles, was the matter of Albert.. 1 After the battle of Culloden, fo fatal to that party, this gentle man, along with others who had efcaped the flaughter of the field, fheltered themfelves from the rage of the unfparing foldiery, among the diftant receffes of their country. To him his native mountains of fered an afylum, and thither he naturally fled for protection. A& quainted, in the purfuits of the chafe, with every fecret path and unworn track, he lived for a confiderable time, like the deer of his foreft, clofe hid all day, and only venturing down at the fall of evening, to obtain from fome of his cottagers, whofe fidelity he could truft, a feauty and precarious fupport. I have often heard him, for he is one of my oldest acquaintances, defcribe the fcene of his hid ing-place, at a later period, when he could recollect it in its fublim ity, without its horror." Ar times," faid he, "when I ventured to the edge of the wood, among fome of thofe inacceffible crags which you remember a few miles from my houfe, I have heard in the paufes of the breeze which rolled folemn through the pines beneath me, the diftant voices of the foldiers, fhouting in anfwer to one another amidst their inhuman fearch. I have heard their fhots re-echoed from cliff to cliff, and feen reflected from the deep ftill lake below, the gleam of thofe fires which confumed the cottages of my people. Sometimes fame and indignation well nigh overcame my fear, and I have prepared to rufh down the steep, unarmed as I was, and to die at once once by the fwords of my enemies; but the instinctive love of life prevailed, and starting as the roe bounded by me, I have again fhrunk back to the shelter I had left." "One day," continued he, "the noife was nearer than ufual; and at laft, from the cave in which I lay, I heard the parties immediately be low fo close upon me, that I could diftinguish the words they fpoke. After fome time of horrible fufpenfe, the voices grew weaker and more diftant; and at laft I heard them die away at the further end of the wood. I rofe and ftole to the mouth of the cave; when fuddenly a dog met me, and gave that fhort quick bark by which they indicate their prey. Amidst the terror of the circumftance, I was yet mafter enough of myfelf to difcover that the dog was Ofcar; and I own to you I felt his appearance like the retribution of juftice and of Heaven. Stand! cried a threatening voice, and a foldier preffed through the thicket, with his bayonet charged. It was Albert! Shame, confufion, and remorse, stopped my utterance, and I ftood motionlefs before him."My mafter," faid he, with the fifled voice of wonder and of fear, and threw himself at my feet. I had recovered my recollection. "You are revenged," faid I," and I am your prifoner."-"Revenged! alas! you judged too hardly of me; I have not had one happy day fince that fatal one on which I left my matter; but I have lived, I hope, to fave him. The party to which I belong are paffed; for I lingered behind them among thofe woods and rocks which I remembered fo well in happier days.-There is, however, no time to be loft. In a few hours this wood will blaze, though they do not fufpect that it fhelters you. Take my drefs, which may help your efcape, and I will endeavour to difpofe of yours. On the coaft, to the weftward, we have learned there is a fmall party of your friends, which, by following the river's track ti dusk, and then ftriking over the thoulder of the hill, you may join without much danger of difcovery."-" I felt the dilgrace of owing so much to him I had injured, and remonftrated a gainft expofing him to fuch imminent danger of its being known that he had favoured my efcape, which from the temper of his commander, I knew would be infant death. Albert, in an agony of fear and diftrefs, befought me to think only of my own fafety.-"Save us both," faid he, “ for if you die, I cannot live. Perhaps we may meet again; but whatever becomes of Albert, may the bleffing of God be with his master!" "Albert's prayer was heard. His mafter, by the exercife of ta lents which, though he had always poffeffed, adverfity only taught him to ufe, acquired abroad a station of equal honour and emolu ment; and when the profcriptions of party had ceased, returned home to his own native country, where he found Albert advanced to the rank of a lieutenant in the army, to which his valour and merit had raised him, married to a lady, by whom he had got fome little fortune, and the father of an only daughter, for whom nature had done much, and to whofe native endowments it was the chief study and delight of her parents to add every thing that art could bestow. The gratitude of the chief was only. equalled by the happiness of his follower, whofe honeft pride was not long after gratified, by his daugh [194 PO E TRY. ODE for the NEW YEAR, 1787. By the Rev. T. WARTON, B. D. Poet-Laureat, I' I. N rough magnificence array'd, In fome proud caftle's high arch'd hall, The minstrel ftruck his kindred ftring, The liftening champions felt the fabling rhime With fairy trappings fraught, and fhook their plumes fublime II. Such were the themes of regal praise Dear to the bard of elder days; The fongs, to favage virtue dear, That won of yore the public ear! Ere polity, fedate and fage, Had quench'd the fires of feudal rage, The castle fhuts its thundering gate; ★ He moulds his harp to manners mild; Nor Nor longer weaves the wreath of war alone, Nor hails the hoftile forms that grac'd the Gothic throne. III. And now he tunes his plaufive lay And clustering towers the tufted grove o'erlook; Who claim a people's vows and pray'rs, And opes her glad career, with bleffings on her wing! ODE from the Perfian of HAFEZ. By I. NOTT. NLESS my fair-ones check be near UNL To tinge thee with fuperior red,, How vain, Orofe, thy boasted bloom! The grape's rich streams be round thee fred, In fhrubs which skirt the fcented mead, Thou flow'ret trembling to the gale, The nymph who tempts with honied lip, Sweet |