hand with her fan, "you may hope, she loves you deeply, passionately, truly. Such a heart, Eugenius! don't break it when I transfer it to you."

Garwood stared at his future mother-in-law in stupid astonishment. "Can it be?" and he rushed to the door,-" At six o'clock, expect me, at six o'clock," and he was out of sight in a moment.

It wanted ten minutes to three by the clock of the Foundling Hospital when Garwood passed it on his return to Bernard Street.

They will be delighted to see me three hours before my time," said he, "but oh! what will be the amount of their happiness compared to mine? Worthy, excellent beings!-but we shall soon be one family." Clasping his pocket-book tightly as he proceeded, he soon found himself at the door.

There was a strange noise on the second floor as he ascended the stairs. Could it proceed from their room? He halted on the landing, and listened.

"I'll tell you what, I will have some money," cried a gruff and ferocious voice; "mind, when I come again, you have it ready for me. What! haven't you got any thing out of the fellow yet?"

Garwood thought he could distinguish the voice of his Flora. My dear Tom," it began, but the door was closed suddenly. A huddled and unintelligible conversation ensued, which lasted a few minutes, but the door was abruptly opened.

"Well, I'll come again to-morrow morning, but don't let me see him, that's all," said the voice, and presently a pair of legs were stumbling down the stairs, and Garwood found himself face to face with a fierce-looking fellow in a great coat, with his hat on one side of his head, and a pair of awful whiskers.

"Well, and what do you want up here?" cried the phenomenon. "I am come, Sir, on business to Mrs. M'Gregor," said Garwood mildly.

Óh! you have, have you?" cried the other, "then she told me to give you this."

So saying, the monster flung his hat at the head of Eugenius, and, scrambling over his prostrate carcase with superhuman strides, vanished in a twinkling.

Garwood collected himself together as well as he was able, and, mounting the stairs, rushed into the drawing-room.

"My own Eugenius, what is the matter?" cried Flora, flinging herself into his arms.

"A man"-gasped Garwood.

"That odious fellow," said Mrs. M'Gregor, who now, having disposed of a certain bottle and glasses, came forward.

"It does not

signify, Flora, we must not permit that fellow to visit us."

"Who is it, in mercy's name?" cried Garwood.

"A Captain Culverin, my dear Sir," answered Mrs. M'Gregor, a friend of my son Hector. Since the sabre cut he received in the head at the battle of Talavera, he has been subject to fits of madness."

Eugenius, who was one of the most credulous of men, believed this, and a great deal more, before he left his friends for the night.

The money was parted with,-the happy day was fixed, and if any thing could afford him a foretaste of the bliss he was to enjoy when he obtained Flora, the perfect sympathy of souls which took place on that evening would have supplied it.

"I am glad you are come, Sir," said the landlady of the house in Bernard Street to Eugenius Garwood, meeting him in the passage on the evening of the following day; "my lodgers are gone, and I am very glad of it: for my part, I am glad to find every thing safe. I suspected the plate and linen were gone."

"What do you mean?" faltered Garwood.

"Oh Sir, they were bad characters, very bad, I'm afraid : you haven't known them long, Sir, of course; but you look ill, Sir." "Call a coach," said Eugenius faintly. "Bad characters!" "Yes, Sir, not much better than swindlers, I suspect: why, they're in all the tradesmen's books about here; I hope they haven't taken you in, Sir."

Eugenius Garwood was lugged home to Botolph Lane in a state of insensibility.

TO IRIS.

FAREWELL! the heart which thou hast broken

Can never, never love again;

The last, the fatal word is spoken,

Nor could it give a keener pain.

My peace with all my love is gone,
And never could they fly to thee;
Think, girl, the grave, the grave alone,
Can bring repose to you and me.

Can Hope one latent spark disclose?
Create again those hours divine?
Yes! when this heart such passion knows,
And dotes on such a form as thine.

When ev'ry burning throb is o'er,

When clos'd my eyes and mute my breath;

When all my pains are felt no more,

Ah! then how long thou'lt gaze on death!

THE LITERARY AND POLITICAL LIFE OF M. GUIZOT.

"A Re malvagio consiglier peggiore."-TASSO.

To most of our readers Francis Guizot, the subject of this memoir, is already well-known, both as a literary and political character of the present century. Born at Nîmes in 1787 of Protestant parents, at a very early age M. Guizot was by them sent to Geneva, there to study philosophy and the German literature, in both of which he made rapid progress. In 1806 M. Guizot established himself in Paris, where, with great zeal and indefatigable assiduity, he applied all his faculties to the noble task of attaining to eminence in the culture and propagation of literature. Having soon after met in society with Mademoiselle Pauline de Meulan, a young lady possessing a highly cultivated mind, and endowed with considerable personal attractions, and with amiable moral accomplishments, M. Guizot sought and obtained her heart and hand, and with her continued his glorious advancement in the literary career. The "Publiciste," the "Gazette de France," the "Archives Litteraires," and the "Mercure de France," were supplied with literary and critical contributions of M. Guizot, which, having met with general approbation, both increased the circulation of the above-named periodicals and raised the reputation of their author. In 1809, by the publication of his "Nouveau Dictionnaire des Synonymes Français," M. Guizot obtained a place at the College of France, where with zeal and success he performed the functions of a professor.

During the empire M. Guizot publicly, at least, remained a perfect stranger to politics, and refrained from embarking on the turbulent ocean of public life; but in 1814, after the restoration of the Bourbons, through the instrumentality and patronage of the celebrated Abbé de Montesquieu, hé entered upon his political career, was appointed secretary-general of the interior, and in this capacity he ably seconded the views of his Mæcenas, forwarded several ameliorations; but in the meantime he began to manifest a kind of apathy towards every broad and liberal reform, and a great indifference for the welfare of the press.

During the hundred days M. Guizot followed Louis XVIII. to Ghent, and with M. Bertin de Veau edited there the "Moniteur," in the columns of which he vehemently attacked the partisans of Napoleon, advocated the most oppressive and arbitrary measures, and clamoured for the total extermination of the liberals.

After the annihilation of Napoleon at Waterloo, and his subsequent surrender to the English, M. Guizot returned with the king to the metropolis, and was appointed secretary-general of the department of justice, in the fulfilment of which he assumed an unbecoming severity, and was also accused of partiality and oppression, and especially of having shown himself rather favourable to the execution of Marshal Ney.

JULY, 1837.

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In 1817 M. Guizot became a follower of Royer Collard, who had established the sect of the Doctrinaires, amounting then to about a dozen individuals, who held their weekly meetings at the house of the Duke de Broglie, and there discussed their semi-liberal projects of civil and religious liberty. In the same year M. Guizot was raised to the post of Maitre de Requétes and Counsellor of State, and be.. came the favourite of M. Decazes, by whose recommendation he obtained the professorship of modern history at the French Academy. In 1821, being involved in the disgrace of the Duke Decazes, and. having suddenly lost all his courtly honours and emoluments, M. Guizot, with a philosophic resignation, re-entered upon his literary and professional avocations, and resumed his lectures on modern history, which he delivered at the Sorbonne. These were attended not only by the young students, but also by all the most learned, and scientific men of Paris. The political and liberal journals having espoused his cause by continually praising his lectures, increased Ins reputation, and at last obtained for him a seat in the chamber of deputies, where he joined the politics of Royer Collard, and his partisans; and through the "Journal des Debats" he constitutionally opposed all the measures of the administration of Villele. However, he never belonged to that small patriotic section of the chamber, of which Foy, Manuel, Benjamin Constant, Laffitte, Lafayette, Lamarque, Perier, Dupont de l'Eure, De Tracy, Sebastiani, and a few others, were the unflinching and intrepid champions.

Under the semi-liberal ministry of Martignac M. Guizot ceased to oppose the government, and some say that underhand he privately, and perhaps not very honourably, obtained from that minister great favours, not only for himself but also for his friends.

When Polignac and his most unpopular and universally abhorred colleagues undertook the task of hastening a new revolution, and so, in effect, of forwarding the expulsion of the Bourbons, M. Guizot declared himself against that administration, and resumed his opposition in the "Journal des Debats ;" but as a deputy he remained. silent in the house, although acknowledged to have been one of the 221 deputies who voted for the amendment by which the house called upon the king to dismiss the anti-national Polignac ministry,^ and which caused at first the dissolution of the chamber, and ultimately the famous ordinances of the 25th of July, which engendered afterwards the sudden revolution of the three glorious days.

During the heroic efforts of the people of Paris in that eventful.. crisis, M. Guizot, like the rest of the Doctrinaires, took no active part in the national struggle, and he was with much difficulty prevailed upon to sign the protest of the deputies against the illegal ordinances of Charles X., and seldom attended the meetings of his colleagues at M. Lafitte's. But after the victory, Lafayette having been unanimously placed at the head of the provisional government of France, M. Guizot was by him appointed provisionary commissioner for public instruction, and the Duke of Orleans, having been raised by Lafayette to the lieutenancy-general of the kingdom, named M. Guizot provisionary minister of the interior.

As soon as the Duke of Orleans was elected and proclaimed king

of the French, M. Guizot obtained the portfolio of public instruction, and was a colleague of the Duke de Broglie, Gerard, Sebastiani, Montalivet, Dupont l'Eure, and Lafitte. From that time the conduct of Guizot began to excite in the public mind great doubt, and even alarm, with regard to his sincere attachment to the sovereignty of the people, as established by the revolution of July. Soon, however, all uncertainty ceased on this point, and it was clearly perceived that M. Guizot, with all the Doctrinaires, scarcely tolerated the extraordinary changes effected by the popular will, and concurring with the apostacy of Louis Philippe, not only wished to paralyze the progress of liberty, but endeavoured also to stifle the movement party, to which Charles X. owed his expulsion and the Duke of Orleans his sovereign power. In fact, in 1831 M. Guizot became openly the political antagonist of Lafayette, Laffitte, Dupont de l'Eure, and in the council of Louis Philippe warmly supported every anti-national measure, and every restrictive plan, which the mock citizen king concocted in order to gain the approval and protection of the great powers of the north. During the last seven years, under the pretext of establishing order and peace in France, M. Guizot has been always the most active member of the party of resistance and coercion, and has advocated on the tribune of the house, both as minister and as deputy, every measure that could in any way either paralyze or annul the consequences of the revolution of July. As minister for public instruction he has certainly effected some improvements with regard to the primary instruction of the people, but meanwhile liberty of thought and conscience has been under him almost annihilated amongst the professors and students of the French universities. As Minister of the Interior, M. Guizot has visited France with thousands of domiciliary visits, has increased the immoral sway of spies and informers, and has rendered the departmental preféts little less than public informers. The Fieschi laws, the restriction of the press, the disfranchisement of thousands of electors, and the enslavement of the French jury, have met with the approbation and support of M. Guizot; the repeated massacres of Paris, the state of siege, and the establishment of martial laws both in Paris and Lyons, were promoted and defended by M. Guizot, and consequently have rendered him deservingly unpopular and abhorred as a statesman and politician.

However, as a literary man M. Guizot is highly esteemable, and deserves to be ranked amongst the greatest characters of the present century. Notwithstanding that he has no great claim to originality, his tact and industry in collecting the best materials from his predecessors, his skill and success in placing them under a new and more elegant aspect, and his uncommon ability of adapting his style to the understanding of his readers, cause him to be almost unrivalled amongst living French authors. He has published numerous works, which have all been reprinted several times, and which have also been translated into foreign languages, such as," Idées sur la Liberté de la Presse," in which he expresses sentiments quite opposite to those at present entertained by him ; "Essai sur l'Histoire et sur l'Etat Actuel de l'Instruction en France ;"" Sur la Peine de Mort en Matière Politique;" "Des Conspirations et de la Justice Politique,"