will unneceffarily create a multitude | The ADVENTURES of the of enemies. But to dogs in general I cannot be reconciled, without drawing fome public benefit from them. They are great eaters. Some of them would distance, at this exercife, the greate epicure along-fide of a haunch of venifon or a green turtle. They often confume what were better bestowed upon the poor; and what would feed many hundreds. They are out of all humour with the moon, when in its brightest fplendour, which argues their love of darkness, and probably for the works of it: they frequently tempt a horfe to throw his rider: they frighten the ladies; and it is not long fince that one of them ran away with, and finally, feloniously murdered, the favourite parrot of Belinda, that had long been the entertainment of the whole family; and fpoke as articulately, and generally more fenfibly, though not fo vociferously, as our modern Demofthenes of New Jersey. They often befpatter the filk ftockings of a wooer; and compel him to return home (painful interruption, confidering his errand) for another pair: they continually break the peace amongst themselves; and we have no laws to punith their frays and riots: they bark at us'in day; and they disturb our repofe by night; and, whether from a guilty conscience or not, they frequently run mad, and for the bite of a mad dog, there are more recipes than cures. From the fupernumeraries of thofe, for the most part, very ufelefs anima's, a confiderable revenue might be extracted, for the benefit of the ftate. A very fmall tax upon every dog above one in a family, and fo in proportion for more than two, would amount to a great fum; and I cannot think the ferious confideration of fuch an impoft beneath the dignity of the legislature. BARON de LOVZINSKI. (Extracted from the Life of the Chevalier de Faubias.) (Continued from Vol. XXV. W blas; how many different WHAT p. 634) THAT a night! my dear Fau cares, how many oppofite fentiments, agitated my unhappy mind during its continuance! How many times did I experience the fucceffive emotions of fear, hope, grief, and joy! After fo many dangers and inquietudes, Lodoika was at length prefented to me by her father, and I was intoxicated with the dear hope of poffeffing her :-a barbarian had but now affallinated her in my prefence ! This was the most cruel and unfortunate moment of any during the whole courfe of my life !-But be comforted, my friend; my happiness, eclipfed as it were in a fingle inftant, was not long in fhining forth with all its former fplendour. Amidst the Tartars belonging to Titfikan, was one fomewhat converfant in furgery. We fend for him; on his arrival he examines the wound, and affures us that it is but a flight one. The infamous Dou:linki, constrained by his chains, and blinded by his defpair, had happily been prevented from giving any other than an ill-directed blow. As foon as Titfikan was informed that the life of Lodoifka was, not in any danger, he prepared to take leave of us. I leave you, faid he, the five domeftics who accompanied Pulauki; provifions for feveral days, arms, fix excellent horfes, two covered waggons, and all the people belonging to Dourliniki in chains. Their bale lord is no more! Adieu! the day is about to appear; do not leave this place until to-morrow; I fhall then vifit the other cantons. Adieu, brave Poles! tell your countrymen that Tithikan is not fo bad as as he has been reprefented to them, and that he fometimes redores with ong hand what he takes with another. A lieu ! A: thefe words, he lifts his hand to his head, and having faluted us gracefully after the manner of his country, he gives the fignal to depart: the Tartars mount their feet couriers in an inftant, país along the drawbridge, and make for the neighbouring plain at a full gallop. They had been gone fcarcely two hours when feveral of the neighbouring nobility, fupported by a detachment of militia, came on purpose to inveft the caftle of Dourlinski. Pulaufki himself went out to receive them he related the particulars of all that had occurred; and, fome, gained over by his cloquence, promited to fellow us to the palatipate of Lublin. They asked for only two days to prepare every thing neceffary for the expedition, and actually came and rejoined us at the appointed time, to the number of fixty. Lodoika having affured us that She was now able to undergo the fatigues of a journey, we placed her in a commodious carriage, which we had luckily been able to procure for this purpose. After having reflored Dourlinski's people to liberty, we abandoned the two covered waggons to them, in which Titfikan, acting with his uiual generosity, had left part of his immenfe booty: this we divided among them in equal proportions. We arrived, without meeting with any accident, at Polowisk, in the palatinate of Lubin, this being the place which Pulaufki had appointed for the general rendezvous. The news of his return having gone abroad, a crowd of malconLents, in the pace of less than a month, flocked to and increased our little army to fuch a degree, that we foon found it to amount to no lefs than 10,000 men. 8 Lodoika, entirely cured of her wound, and per,ectly recovered from her fatigues, had regained her ufual fpirits, and appeared in poffeffion of all her former beauty. Pulauki one day called me into his tent, and fpoke as follows: Taree thousand Ruffians have appeared, as you well know, upon the heights above, and at no greater diftance than half a league from us take, in the courfe of the enluing night, three thousand chofen men, and go and chafe the enemy from the advantageous pois which they now cccupy. Recollect, that on the fuccefs of a firft attempt depends almoit always that of the campaign; recollect that you are about to avenge your country's wrongs; recolt too, my friend, that to-morrow I fhall learn thy victory, and that to-morrow allo thou shalt efpoule Lodoiska! I began my march about ten o'clock. At midnight we furprifed our enemies in their camp. Never was a defeat more complete: we killed feven hundred men; we took nine hundred prifoners; we feized all their cannon, the military cheft, and the ammunition. At break of day Pulauski marches out to join me with the remainder of the troops: he brings Loloifka along with him: we are married in Pulauki's tent. All the camp refounds with fongs of gladnels: valour and beauty are celebrated in joyous epithalamiums: it feemed to be the fellival of Venus and Mars; and it might be truly faid, that eve ry foldier feemed to be impreffed with the fame fentiments as myself, and that they all partock of my happinefs. After I had given up the first days et fo dear an union entirely to love, I began to think of recompen fing the heroic fidelity of Boleilas. My father-in-law prefented him with one of his cafiles, fituate at fume leagues from the capital; and Lodoka and myfelf added to this princely . princely donation a confiderable fum in ready money, on purpose to enable him to lead an independent and a tranquil life. He first refused to leave us; but we commanded him to go and take poffeffion of his caftle, and live peaceably in that honourable retreat which his fervices had fo amply merited. On the day of his departure, I took him afide:-You must go in my name, faid I, and wait upon our monarch at Warfaw: inform him that I am united in the bonds of Hymen to the daughter of Pulauski state to him that I am armed on purpose to chafe out of his kingdom thofe foreigners who ale ravaging it; and tell him, in particular, that Lovzinfki, a foe to the kuffians, is not the enemy of his king. | cipitated themselves towards my tent, on purpose to plunder it. Pu laufki and myself, followed by fome nobles, flew to the defence of Lodoifka, whom we faved with difficulty: my daughter, however, had been carried off. This lovely child, by a fage precaution which her mother had wifely made ufe of in those times of inteftine commotion, had the arms of our family impreffed, by means of a chemical preparation, under her left breaft: but my fearch after my daughter has hitherto been ineffectual. Alas! Dorliska, my dear Dorlifka, either exifts in flavery, or exifts no more. This lofs affected me with the moft lively forrow. Pulaufki, however, appeared almost infenfible to my misfortunes; either because his mind was occupied at this moment with the great project which he foon after communicated to me, or because the miferies of his country alone could affect his ftoic heart. He, as ufual, re-affembles the re of an advantageous poft, employs feveral days in fortifying, and maintains himself in it for three whole months, against all the efforts of the Ruffians. I will not fatigue you, my dear Faubles, with the recital of our operations during eight fucceeding years of a bloody war.-Sometimes vanquished; much oftener victorious; equally great in the midft of a defeat, as formidable after a vic-mains of his army, takes poffeffion tory, and always fuperior to events, Pulaufki attracted and fixed the attention of all Europe, whom he aftonished by his long and vigorous refiftance. Obliged to abandon one province, he made incurfions into, and performed new prodigies of valour, in another: and it was thus that, in marching fucceffively throughout all the palatinates, he fignalized in each of them, by fome glorious exploit, that eternal hatred which he had fworn against the enemies of Poland. It, however, became at length neceffary that he should abandon this fituation, as provifions were beginning to be scarce.-Pulaufki, on this occafion, came to my teut; and, having ordered every one to retire, when we alone remained, he addreffed me as follows: Lovzinski, I have juft reafon for complaining of your conduct. For. merly you fupported, along with me, the burden of command, and I was enabled to divide with my fon-in-law a part of my laborious avocations: but for these two last months, you do nothing but weep; you figh like a woman! You have Wife of a warrior, daughter of a hero, accustomed to the tumult of a camp, Lodoifka accompanied us every where. Of five children which the had borne me, an only daughter alone remained to us, about eighteen months old. One day, after a moft obftinate engagement, the victorious Rufians pre-abandoned me in a critical moment, VOL. XXVI. E wheh when your affiftance was become the most neceffary! You fee how I am attacked on all fides; I fear not for myfelf; I am not unhappy for my own life; but if we perifh, the ftate has no longer any defenders. Awake, Lovzinfki! how nobly you once participated in my cares! Do not now remain the ufelefs witness of them. We are indeed bathed in Ruffian blood: our fellow citizens are avenged; but they are not faved: nay, even in a fhort time we may be able no longer to defend them. fentiments? Speak! what would have done? you To ftrike the boldeft ftroke that I ever meditated! Forty chofen men are affembled at Czenftachow along with Kaluvfki, whofe bravery is well known; they want a chief, able, firm, intrepid-It is you whom I have chofen. Pulaufki, I am ready. I will not diffemble to you the danger of the enterprize; the event is doubtful, and, if you do not fucceed, your ruin is inevitable. I tell you that I am ready, therefore explain yourself. You are not ignorant, that scarce four thousand men now fight under my command: with thefe undoubt You aftonifh me Pulaufki! Whence thefe finifter auguries? I am not alarmed without reafon. Confider our prefent pofition: I am forced to awaken in every heartedly I have ftill an opportunity of the love of its country; I have found no where but degenerate men born for flavery, or weak ones, who, although penetrated with a fenfe of their own misfortunes, have bound-lity would flock beneath our baned all their views to barren complaints. Some true citizens are, indeed, ranged under my ftandards; but eight long and bloody campaigns have leffened their number, and almoft extinguished them. I become enfeebled by my very victories ;our enemies appear more numerous after their defeats. I repeat to you, Pulaufki, once more, that you aftonifh me! In circumitances no lefs difaftrous, no lefs unhappy, than the prefent, I have beheld you fuftain yourself by tormenting our enemies; but with fuch feeble means, I dare not hope to be ever able to force them to leave our provinces. All the nobi ners, if the king were in my camp! What do you fay? Can you hope that the king would ever confent to repair hither? fo. No; but he must be forced to do Forced! Yes! I know that an ancient friendfhip connects you with M. de P: but fince you have fupported, along with Pulaufki, the caufe of liberty, you know also that you ought to facrifice every thing to the good of your country; that an intereft fo facred I know my duty, and I am ready to fulfil it; but what is it that you now propofe to me? The king ne ver leaves Warfaw. True; and it is, therefore, at Warfaw that you must go and find him: it is from the heart of the capital that he must be forced. What preparations have you made for fo great an enterprise? You behold yon Ruffian army, three times as ftrong as mine, and which has been encamped three months months in fight of us: its general, tranquil at prefent within his entrenchments, impatiently waits, until, forced by famine, I fhall furrender myfelf at difcretion. powerful Deity, if a God, the pro-, tector of Poland, has infpired me with this hardy project, to termi nate her evils; if thy good fortune": fhall procure a fuccefs equal to thy courage, what a glorious profperity will be achieved by means of this noble daring! Behind my camp are marfhes which he thinks impracticable: the moment that it is night, we fhall traverse them. I have difpofed of M. de P*** will no fee, in every thing in fuch a manner that my camp, other than citizen-folthe enemy will be deceived, and diers, the foes of foreigners, but not perceive my retreat until it is ftill faithful to their king; under too late. I hope therefore to be my patriotic tents, he will refpire, able to steal more than an hour's as it were, the air of liberty, and march upon them, and, if fortune the love of his country: the enefeconds me, perhaps a whole day. mies of the ftate fhall become his;' I fhall advance ftraight forward to our brave nobility, afhamed of their Warfaw by the great road that indolence, will readily combat unleads to that capital, notwithland-der the royal banners, for the com. ing the efforts of the little Ruffian mon caufe; the Ruffians fhall either bands who hover continually in its be cut in pieces, or be obliged to neighbourhood. I fhall either en-pafs the frontiers :-my friend, in counter and conquer thefe feparately, or, if they form a junction on purpose to stop my progrefs, I fhall at least be able to occupy their attention in fuch a manner that they will not be able to impede your operations. thee thy country fhall behold hef faviour! us. I know well that my daughter has more courage than another wo man; but she is a tender wife, and an unfortunate mother. Her tears will affect you, and you will lofe in her embraces that ftrength of mind, that dignity of foul, which now be come more 'neceffary to you than ever: I advise you, therefore, to be Pulaufki kept his word. That very night he accomplished his retreat, with equal fkill and faccefs, by travering the marthes in pro In the mean time, Lovzinfki, found filence. My friend, faid my you will have preceded me. Your father-in-law to me, as foon as we forty followers, difguifed, and armed were out of the reach of the enemy, only with fabres, poniards and pif-it is now time that you fhould leave tols concealed under their clothes, fhall have arrived at Warfaw by different roads. You must wait there until the king has left his pa. lace: you are then to carry him off, and to bring him to my camp. The enterprise is bold-rath, if you please so to term it; the march to Warfaw is difficult; the ftay in it dangerous; the return from it ex-gone, without bidding her farewell. tremely perilous. If you are vanquifhed, if you are taken prifoner, you will perifh, Lovzinki! but -you will perifh a martyr to liberty and Pu auki, jealous of fo glorious an end, fighing at being obliged to furvive you, fhall fend Ruffians, thousands of Ruffians, to accompany you to the tomb ! But on the contrary, if an all Pulaufki preffed me, but in vain, for I was unable to confent. As foon as Lodoifka knew that I fhould depart alone, and perceived that we were refolved not to inform her whither, fhe fhed torrents of tears, and ftrove to detain me. I began to hefitate. Lovziníki, cries my father-in-law at this critical moment, Lovzinski, depart! E 2 |