Kopman, occupied the back building (where the fire originated) as a counting room and store, and has lost goods to a considerable amount. Mr. D. Wotherspoon, merchant, occupied the front store but his goods were saved with some damage. The house, which belongs to Mr. Robert Brown, and the goods were insured.

A slight shock of an Earthquake was felt at Bridgeport, on Monday evening last, a few minutes past 6 o'clock. A loud rumbling noise was heard, and several houses were sensibly perceived to shake, but no report distinguished.

On Tuesday evening last, by the rev. Dr Romeyn, Mr. George Stanton, of the house of Augustus Wynkoop and Co. to Miss Sophia Avery, niece of Jonathan Little, Esq. all of this city.

On Tuesday evening last, by the rev. Dr. Romine, Mr. Themas Johnson, of Newark, to Miss Mary S. Walters of Hartford, Conn.

On Thursday evening, by, the rev. Dr. Romeyn, Col. George Gibbs, of Boston. to Miss Laura Welcott, daughter of Oliver Wolcott, Esq. of

this city.

On Thursday evening last, by the rev. Mr. Schureman, Mr. David Andress to Miss Ida Lane, both of Somerset, Jersey.

At Tortola, on the 8th of Nov. last, Dr. John I. Van Beuren, of New-York, to Miss Eliza Turnbull, daughter of the hon. William Turnbull, late President of the British Virgin Islands.

DIED.

On Tuesday morning, after a short illness, Mrs Elenor Bingham, wife of Mr. John Bingham, aged 51 years.

[The following lines, on the recent death of a beloved child, were written by a gentleman of Boston, during the performance, on the Piano Forte, by his lady, of the beautiful ballad, entitled, "Hope told a flattring tale."]

YES, Hope's delusive tale,

My easy faith beguil'd, And in life's blooming vale,

Her veraal flow'rets smil'd.

But, ah! one fatal day

Prov'd all her visions vain, And left my heart a prey

To agonizing pain.

Beside the ice-bound stream,

I shiver in the blast,

EPITAPH

On a man who died, directly after waking out of a long sleep.

AULD Geordie Brown, that drunken loun,

Slept twenty-four hours as sound as

a tap;

When up he arose, Death to him says, Come Geordie, take the other nap!

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THE

HEIRESS OF DEVON.

(CONCLUDED.)

OH, say not," cried the baron

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ess, with wildness, "the blasts of heaven will thus fall upon me. I am the monster you have cursed-I am Elfrida!" She fell, fainting, on the earth. "I am weak, I am ill, will you not assist me Astonishment prevented their utterance. "Old man," continued she, springing up with returned strength," thou hast roused the dormant fellings of remorse; you raised a whirlwind in my breast; wilt thou refuse to give it peace? Here strike, let the daughter of Ordun perish by thy hand; life is not to be borne." "Alas!" said the old man to his weeping child, "we are undone. This violence of passion is not the true fruit of repentance, and she who caused the blood of an husband to be shed, will strike a dagger to Elfida's bosom, and England's

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heir." "What?" cried Elfrida,.. disengaging her hold, her eyes

cast up, "am I that wretch? Is guilt so stamped on my forehead? Oh, noble Ordun, thou livest not to hear thy daughter loaded with infamy. Am I the wretch that would raise the assassin's hand? But learn to know the height of that soul which thou hast so wronged. Listen to my vow, (continued she, bending on her knee) that by every thing sacred, even by the murdered Ethelwald himself, I swear, that I never will change my widowed state, but with all the fervour of my power aid Elflida and her infant

banished wife." The good Norluff now accompanied his guest to the abbey, where the requiems were to be performed for the souls of the departed. Elfrida was now divested of an oppressive weight; the consciousness of acting right diffused a tranquillity over her, and in the many hours she spent in Norluff's cottage, she was strengthened by the consolations of religion, and the arguments of reason. Here she endeavoured to devise some project for restoring the daughter of Norluff to her right.

The expected montent of the king's arrival at last came, as announced; the mangled form of her husband seemed to weep before her; her revelting heart could ill support her in dissembling a welcome to his murderer; the inarticulate sounds died away, and she fainted in his arms, eagerly opened to embrace her. The king was shocked at her confusion; he strove to assuage it, and apparentlý succeeded; no longer time would he allow to vain scruples or delays, and in two days his happiness was to be completed. Early the destined morning they met in the great hall; Elfrida, agreeable to the time, covered with a long veil; the king seized her hand, that hand which had so lately raised the youthful Ba

ed to his office-the benediction was pronounced-the impatient monarch snatched off the veil, to salute his bride; what furies flashed from his eyes, when he beheld a face far different from Elfrida's, a face too well remembered. "Oh save me !" cried Elffida, sinking to the earth, "oh, save me from his rage." The Baroness at that instant rushed in. "Base ingrate, (exclaimed the distracted monarch) what have you done? Has the spirit of the deceitful Ethelwald arisen from its dark confines, to tempt you to this deed?-but thou wert, thou shall be mine.-Power shall obtain · what love could not."

"Imperious monarch!" said Elfrida, haughtily pushing him from her, "know that the blood of Devon, mantling at this heart, guards it from the fear thy threats meant to inspire; yet even this proud spirit shall bend to suppli cations, if Edgar will listen to the voice of reason.-Chance, or rather the hand of Providence, conducted me to the cot where worth and silent injuries were concealed; could I violate the dear chastity that descended hereditarily from the noblest of mothers to me, by usurping another's rights; Elfida was thy betrothed, thy truly lawful wife with her you will experience a reciprocal passion

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