Produced by Mardi Desjardins & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net from page images generously made available by the Internet Archive (https://archive.org) GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXX. May, 1847. No. 5. Table of Contents Fiction, Literature and Articles The Loyalist’s Daughter The Irish Match-Maker Margaret’s Well: A Tale of the Great Civil War Mandan Indians—Lover’s Leap Frank Beverly The Islets of the Gulf A Dream Game-Birds of America.—No. VI Review of New Books Poetry Sonnet The Stolen Child Night Settlement of the Genesee To Mrs. P——, of Chestnut Street Sea-Side Musings “Are They Not All Ministering Spirits?” Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * [Illustration: Drawn by J. Smillie from a sketch by T. Addison Richards. Graham’s Magazine, 1844. Engraved by Rawdon, Wright and Hatch & Smillie. LOVER’S LEAP. CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXX. PHILADELPHIA, May, 1847. No. 5. * * * * * THE LOYALIST’S DAUGHTER. A TALE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY P. HAMILTON MEYERS. CHAPTER I. The world-renowned city of Paris, always gay, was, perhaps, never more so than in the autumn of the year 1776. Most prominent among the exciting topics of its excitable populace, at that period, was the American war. Possessed of an innate love of liberty, and a generous sympathy for its oppressed supporters, and acting, doubtless, in part, under the influence of an habitual opposition to the British government, the citizens of Paris, and, to a less extent those of all France, had watched with anxiety the growing rupture between the colonies and their parent country, and now hailed with unconcealed delight the prospect of their final separation. Each item of intelligence which gave token of the spirit of the republicans, or the prospect of their success was sought with avidity, and discussed with animation. Not a city in the colonies themselves could boast of a populace so united in their opinion, or more enthusiastic in their anticipations on this engrossing subject. Whatever mistaken ideas of loyalty there might be in America, to arrest the cause of popular freedom, no such obstacle existed in France. They at least owed no fealty to the House of Hanover.