SHE IS MINE NO LONGER.  Ask not the cause.  I was infuriated, befooled, infatuated; my own “hands threw the pearl away;” my own lips gave, sealed the sentence, that robbed me for ever, ay, for ever, of a heart—­a treasure, it had been heaven to possess.  SHE IS MINE NO LONGER—­yet a pleasure it is, a melancholy pleasure, how I love it, to recall those moments of refined, of voluptuous enjoyment, my sole remaining happiness, that they were, my bitterest pang, that they are not—­moments, when amid the busy circle—­scarce could the eagle glance of surrounding observation control the bursting emotions of the soul, or, oh, more blest—­moments of solitude—­where those motions broke forth, unobserved, unrestrained.  SHE IS MINE NO LONGER.  Yet Annette sleeps not in the sombre grave.  A blast, not of death, but more dire, hath scattered those hopes, too unsubstantially fond to be realized:  a chill not of the grave, but more piercing, hath nipped those blossoms of happiness, too ethereally delicate for earth.  Still Annette lives, beautiful as ever, enchanting as ever, lives, but for another.  Stay, let me recall that word, I wrong her; it must not, cannot be; her heart is not, never shall be his; with mine it hath lost its one resting place, and like the dove, seeks not another.  Cruel fate, but I have ceased to repine—­ceased to regret.

IOTA.

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MEMOIR OF BOLIVAR.

(Concluded from page 213.)

Early in 1818, the supreme chief, after concentrating his forces, marched rapidly to Calabozo, and arrived before Morillo was aware that he had quitted Angostura.  The Spanish general effected his retreat to Aragua.  The supreme chief came up with him at La Usirrael, but could make but a slight impression on the enemy, on account of the strength of his position.  Another rencontre occurred at Sombrero.  Morillo retired to Valencia; and Bolivar took possession of the valleys of Aragua.  Thence he detached a strong division to take San Fernando de Apure, in order to complete the conquest of the Llanos.  Upon this the Spaniards advanced.  The two armies met at Semen.  Morillo was wounded, and the royalist army put to flight.  The pursuit being indiscreetly conducted by the patriots, and a fresh royalist division arriving to support Morillo, the fortune of the day was changed.  Each party was alternately defeated, and both rallied their dispersed corps to reengage at Ortiz.

The division which succeeded in capturing San Fernando had an indecisive affair at Cojedes.  Others of the same character took place at El Rincon del Toro, and other places.  At the close of this campaign, the Spaniards held Aragua, and the patriots San Fernando.  Thus the former possessed the most fertile provinces of Venezuela, and all New Granada; while the latter were reduced to the Llanos and Guayana.  Arms were sent to General Santander, who was endeavouring to raise a division in Casanare.