manner.

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Crocodiles seem hardly less dreaded in some parts than the Hippopotamus in others.

Crocodiles are very numerous about Shen

moving about, for the purpose of exacting | ried to females in almost every considerable mountains; and their Senna is of the best the taxes from their subjects, who pay them village; Hosseyu Kashef has above forty kind. In exchange for these commodities only on the approach of superior force. sons, of whom twenty are married in the same they take linen shirts and Dhourra, the During these excursions, the Kashefs comgrains of which they swallow raw, as mit acts of great injustice, wherever they dainty, and never make it into bread. find that there is none to resist them, which is frequently the cas". The amount of the revenue is shared equally amongst the three brothers; but they are all very avaricious, extremely jealous of each other, and each robs clandestinely as much as he can. I estimate their annual income at about 3,000!. each, or from 8 to 10,0007. in the whole. None of them spends more than 300. a year. Their principal wealth consists in dollars and slaves. In their manners they affect the haughty mien and deportment of Turkish grandees; but their dress, which is worse than what a Turkish soldier would like to wear, ill accords with this assumed air of dignity.

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The Nubians purchase their wives from the parents: the price usually paid by the Kenous is twelve Mahboubs, or thirty-six piastres. They frequently intermarry with the Arabs Ababde, some of whom cultivate the soil like themselves; an Ababde girl is dy. I have generally remarked that these worth six camels; these are paid to her fa- animals inhabit particular parts of the Nile, ther, who gives back three to his daughter, from whence they seldom appear to move; to be the common property of her and her thus, in Lower Egypt, they have entirely husband; if a divorce takes place, half the disappeared, although no reasonable cause value of the three camels goes to the latter. can be assigned for their not descending the In Upper Egypt, when a wife insists upon river. In Upper Egypt, the neighbourhood being divorced, her husband has the right to of Akhmim, Dendera, Orment, and Edfou, take all her wearing apparel from her, and are at present the favourite haunts of the to shave her head: nobody will then marry Crocodile, while few are ever seen in the inher till her hair be grown again. The Nu-termediate parts of the river. The same is bian is extremely jealous of his wife's ho- the case in different parts of Nubia towards The following is a curions method which nour and on the slightest suspicion of inDóngola. At Berber nobody is afraid of the governors of Nubia have devised, of ex-fidelity towards him, would carry her in the encountering crocodiles in the river, and we torting money from their subjects. When night to the side of the river, lay open her bathed there very often, swimming out into any wealthy individual has a daughter of a breast by a cut with his knife, and throw the midst of the stream Athendy, on the suitable age, they demand her in marriage; her into the water, " to be food for the cro-contrary, they are greatly dreaded; the Arabs the father seldom dares to refuse, and some-codiles," as they term it. A case of this and the slaves and females, who repair to the times feels flattered by the honour, but he kind lately happened at Assouan. shore of the river near the town every mornis soon ruined by his powerful son-in-law, ing and evening, to wash their linen, and fill who extorts from him every article of his I found the Nubians, generally, to be of a their water-skins for the supply of the town, property under the name of presents to his own kind disposition, and without that propen-are obliged to be continually on the alert, daughter. All the governors are thus mar-sity to theft, so characteristic of the Egyp- and such as bathe take care not to proceed tians, at least of those to the north of Siout. to any great distance into the river. I was Pilfering indeed is almost unknown amongst several times present when a crocodile made them, and any person convicted of such a its appearance, and witnessed the terror it crime would be expelled from his village by inspired; the crowd all quickly retiring up the unanimous voice of its inhabitants; the beach. During my stay at Shendy, a did not lose the inost trifling article during man who had been advised to bathe in the my journey through the country, although river, after having escaped the small-pox, I always slept in the open air in front of the house where I took up my quarters for the At Sennaar crocodiles are often brought to was seized and killed by one of these animals. night. They are in general hospitable to-market, and their flesh is publicly sold there. wards strangers, but the Kenous and the I once tasted some of the meat at Esne, in people of Sukkot are less so than the other Upper Egypt; it is of a dirty white colour, inhabitants. Curiosity seems to be the most not unlike young veal, with a slight fishy prominent feature in their character, and smell; the animal had been caught by some they generally ask their guest a thousand fishermen in a strong net, and was above questions about the place he comes from, twelve feet in length. The Governor of and the business which brings him into Nu-Esne ordered it to be brought into his courtbia.

twenty feet square, inclosed by high walls, and this is the general description of the ha bitations of Shendy. The government is in the hands of the Mek; the name of the present chief is Nimr, i. e. Tiger. The reigning family is of the same tribe as that which now occupies the throne of Sennaar, namely the Wold Adjid, which, as far as I could understand, is a branch of the Funnye. The father of Nimr was an Arab of the tribe of Djaalein, but his mother was of the royal blood of Wold Ajib; and thus it appears that women have a right to the succession. This agrees with the narrative of Bruce, who found at Shendy a woman upon the throne, whom he calls Sittina (an Arabic word meaning our Lady). The Mek of Shendy, like the Mek of Berber, is subject to Sennaar; but, excepting the purchase money paid for his Government, on his accession, and occasional presents to the king and vizier of Sennaar, he is entirely independent, and governs his district, which extends about two days journeys farther to the south, quite at his own pleasure.

circumstance by which they particularly dis- | the designs and the fine execution of the
tinguish themselves from the true Negroe, engravings: the letter-press descrip-
whose hands, when touched, feel like wood. tions, however, appear to us to be more
sentimental and less amusing.
not easy for a person who feels the-

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It is

boundless store
The warbling woodlands, the resounding shore,
Of charms which nature to her votary yields,
All that the genial ray of morning gilds,
The pomp of groves, the garniture of fields;

Persons from the Hedjaz and from Egypt sometimes pass by Shendy on their way to Sennaar, in search of young monkeys, which they teach to perform the tricks so amusing to the populace in the towns of Arabia, Syria, and Egypt. I was repeatedly asked whether I had not come in search of mon- And all that echoes to the song of even; keys, for that my equipments appeared too All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, shabby for those of a merchant. These And all the dread magnificence of heavenmonkey-hunters are held in great contempt, to continue writing on the picturesque, because, as the Negroes say, they pass their without becoming more and more inwhole lives in making others laugh at them.spired with the subject; and, probably, there is no species of authorship in The people of Shendy know little of musical instruments, however fond they may be which it is so difficult to communicate of songs. The lyre (Tamboura) and a kind emotions, as that wherein an active reof fife with a dismal sound, made of the hol- veller in the profusion of nature endealow Dhourra stalk, are the only instruments vours to transfuse his refined sensations I saw, except the kettle-drum. This appears into the mind of a mere passive reader. to be all over Soudan an appendage of roy-That which causes him to exclaim with alty; and when the natives wish to designate Gold is the second article in the Sennaar man of power, they often say the Nogára rapture, "Lo! what a goodly fabric is here ;" that which throws him into trade. It is purchased by the merchants of beats before his house. At Shendy the Sennaar from the Abyssinian traders; but I Mek's kettle-drums were beaten regularly ecstasies; that on which he dwells with have not been able exactly to ascertain in every afternoon before his house. A favou- ineffable delight; -the cloud capt mounwhat province of western Abyssinia it is rite pastime of the Negroe Arabs, and which tain, living stream, and fairy dell, come found. The principal market for gold ap- is also known among the Arabs of Upper all upon our numbed sense, with a force pears to be Ras el Fil, a station in the cara-Egypt, is the Syredje, a kind of draughts; it not much greater than a dream, or twicevan route from Sennaar to Gondar, four is played upon sandy ground, on which they told tale vexing the dull ear of a sleepy days' journeys from the former. This route trace with the finger chequers of forty-nine is at present much frequented by Sennaarquares; the pieces, on one side, are round man. We are, therefore, willing to traders, as well as by that class of Abyssi- balls of camel's dang, picked up in the divide the slight censure we have passed nian merchants called Djebert, who appear street, and on the other those of goats. It is on this volume, and to ascribe part of to be the chief slave and gold traders of that an intricate game, and requires great atten- our languor to our own state of inapticountry. tion; the object is to take all the antagonist's tude, and only the remainder to that pieces, but the rules are very different from sort of exaggerated sensibility in Mr. those of Polish draughts. The people are Rhodes, which, it appears to us, is rauncommonly fond of the game, two persons seldom sitting down together without im-ther of a Gallic than a British character: and sometimes excites a smile instead of sympathy. But we ought to add to this, that all the remarks contained in the work, are simple, judicious, and impartial; and that, generally, we are carried along with the author in his glowing pictures of sweet and romantic

vourite little piece is the Rustic Bridge, the | pressed; and by reversing the picture, a sinking into disuse and decay. This may be spirit, and grace, and fidelity of which, con- very different order might be indulged. regretted, as the numerous shells and the lications, where the aid of the arts is required. mountain down upon the grandest pro- riety of vegetable and animal remains, that stitute a model for the ornamenting of pub- We have looked from the height of a great variety of figures which they contain, when cut transversely, exhibit an infinite vaEvery one knows the trouble and difficulty of procuring works from engravers, the cession of pomp and royalty; and it is are not less curious than beautiful.' The most eminent of whom are eminently tardy not in language to denote how mean black marble here procured is not surpassed, and tiresome in completing the subjects com- and trifling the little puppet-shew look- perhaps not equalled, in any part of the mitted to their charge; insomuch, that a ed when thus connected with the stu-world; its deep, unvaried colour, and the finished quarto seems often to be a more ca- pendous glories of the surrounding sce- compactness of its texture, fit it to receive sily attainable matter than a finished frontisnery. The figures in Chinoise-om-the highest polish; a mirror can hardly prepiece to adorn it. Plates like this last, how-bres afforded the only parallel.-If the sent a clearer or a more beautiful surface: ever, which do not need so much labour, wilds of Derbyshire possess the sublime cult to work, it is too expensive for common hence is is highly esteemed, but being diffiare, in our opinion, admirably calculated to illustrate almost every species of writing; in landscape, rather than the splendour occasions.-In Chatsworth House there are and, except in rare instances, we earnestly of mortal equipments, they seem also some columns of this marble, which are used advise the adoption of a manner at once so rich in another point, which has, heaven as pedestals for busts, and some ornamented full of eflect, and so perfectly adequate to knows how often untruly, been consi-vases of exquisite beauty. Mr. White Watconvey the impression of any object what-dered a blessing in life. son, in his Delineation of the Strata of Der

ever.

executed.

As we entered Taddington (says Mr. R.)byshire, mentions this material under the deThe plate of Chatsworth is also very finely which is one of the meanest villages in Der-nomination of "Bituminous Fetid Limebyshire, we visited the church-yard, or rather stone," and he intimates "that its colour is With regard to the literary portion the open grass field in which the church owing to Petroleum, with which it abounds." of this production, a few extracts will stands, where we observed an old stone cross, He farther observes," this limestone is subject to decompose, in which operation the best display it; and we select them with the shaft of which is ornamented with vaonly a view to the variety of their topics.in execution to those at Eyam and Bakewell, escape, and their interstices are occupied by rious devices on every side, but all inferior calcareous particles are disengaged and The following is a fair example of the and altogether different in form, manner, and water, the same still occupying the same author's descriptive powers. character. If long life may be regarded as a space, bulk for bulk, as before; but on being blessing, the inhabitants of Taddington ap- squeezed, the water comes out as from a pear to have been peculiarly blessed: the sponge. On being exposed to the air, by grave stones in the church-yard are not nu- laying it in the grass (which it destroys, and merous, yet we observed more than an usual sweeter herbage springs up in its place) till proportion that were inscribed to the meperfectly dry, the water evaporating leaves a mory of those who had died at a good old very light impalpable substance, called Rotten age. From eighty to one hundred years &c." To those who are acquainted with the Stone, much esteemned for polishing metals, seems here the common term of existence, The parish clerk shewed us the new register, peculiar use of this substance, I need offer which commences, with the year 1813. In no apology for this short extract from Mr, the first page only, in the short space of six Watson's account of its formation. The months, are recorded the deaths of four in-subject is treated more largely in pages 45 dividuals, whose united ages amounted to and 46 of his work; and I gladly refer to his three hundred and seventy-nine years; the interesting detail of that curious operation of oldest of these venerable personages attained nature by which Rotten Stone is produced, the age of one hundred and seven, and one and I do this more freely as I understand the of the four has a sister now living in Tadding-correctness of his theory has been disputed. ton who is ninety-eight years old. These in- Dirtlow Moor, near Bakewell, where the stances of longevity are extraordinary in surface is very wet, has the reputation of so small a village, and they shew that the furnishing the best specimens of this very reputation Taddington has obtained for the healthfulness of its situation and the salubrity of its air, rests on a good foundation. Well might the old woman at Ashford, who, when she had weathered seventy-eight years of existence, and found the infirmities of old On a black marble tablet, which is insert age approaching, express an anxiety to re-ed on a grave-stone near the east end of the move her residence and live at Taddington, church, there is the following inscription to observing, at the same time, that "folk did the memory of a child aged two years and no die there so young as she was." eight months. As a specimen of country than common consideration. church-yard poetry it has a claim to more

At Blackwell-Mill, where the river is spread out into considerable breadth, the dale expands and assumes a different character. Here the stupendous rocky scenery of the Wye subsides, and a series of deep dales succeeds, which are formed by high sloping hills, that are thinly covered with verdure, and in some places crested with craggy knolls and broken rocks. Within the hollow of those mighty hills which here prescribe the course of the river, lies Blackwell-Mill. Topley Pike, broad at Its base, and lifting high its pointed summit o'er all surrounding objects, is here a giant feature in the land scape. Along the side of this magnificent hill the new road from Bakewell to Buxton has been carried: one would almost wonder at so bold an attempt, but what cannot the talent and perseverance of man achieve? While I was in the dale below, contemplating the steep acclivity of Topley Pike, 1 was startled from my reverie by the sound of a coachman's horn, which came gently upon the ear, when I was least prepared to ex pect such a greeting. Shortly a stage-coach appeared, which seemed actually to issue from the clouds, and I observed it pass rapidly along the side of the hill, where the eye could scarcely discern the trace of a road, and where to all appearance a human foot could with difficulty find a resting-place." Had I supposed this vehicle to have contain ed in it beings like myself, I might have shuddered with apprehension, but the coach, from its great height above me, looked so like a child's toy, and the sound of the horn was so soft and unobtrusive-so unlike the loud blast of a stage-coachman's bugle-and altogether the place was so unfitted for the intrusion of such an object, that it appeared more like a fairy scene, or a picture of imagination, than any thing real and substantial.

The feelings here are naturally ex

We copy another notice respecting
the marbles at an adjoining village:

marbles, which are obtained from the hills
Ashford has been long celebrated for its
that afford it shelter, and are cut into form
and polished at the mills originally erected
who obtained a patent to secure to himself
by the late Mr. Henry Watson, of Bakewell,
the advantages of his mechanical skill and
ingenuity. The grey marbles dug from the
quarries in the vicinity of Ashford are less
esteemned than formerly, and the works where
they are sawn into slabs and polished, are

useful article.

At Bakewell there is an ancient ruin in the Church-yard; but its modern tombs afford us more curious matter.

"Reader! beneath this marble lies
The sacred dust of Innocence;
Two years he blest his parents' eyes,
The third an angel took him hence;
The sparkling eyes, the lisping tongue,
Complaisance sweet and manners mild,
And all that pleases in the young,
Were all united in this child.
Wouldst thou his happier state explore?
To thee the bliss is freely given;
Go, gentle reader! sin no more,
And thou shalt see this flower in heaven."

Near the same place, on the contrary side on festive occasions was appropriated to for the opposition Journals, as our disgraced of the pathway, there is an epitaph of a dif- mirth and minstrelsy, occupies two sides of European statesmen do, he bade adieu to ferent character, in which the writer has eu- this apartment. On the wainscot, near the the banks of the Ganges, and embarked on logised the very extraordinary vocal powers principal entrance, we observed an iron fast-board of a European vessel, without caring of the parish-clerk. Some of the rhymes eaing of a peculiar structure, which was whither he went; and, as he himself says; are managed with a Hudibrastic felicity, and large enough to admit the wrist of a man's in the hope that some accident might put on reading the inscription I was induced to hand, and which we were informed had been a period to his life and his sorrows.' give it a place in my note-book. This per-placed there for the purpose of punishing "Prince Mirza arrived in England. There son's name was Roc; his father filled the si- trivial offences. It had likewise another use, he was enchanted by a thousand new objects. tuation of parish clerk before him, and if his and served to enforce the laws and regula- He forgot his political disasters, and observed grave-stone flatters not, with equal ability, tions adopted among the servants of this es- and described every thing from Windsor it tells us in humble prose, that "the natu- tablishment. The man who refused duly to Castle to the humblest cottage, from the ral powers of his voice in clearness, strength, take his horn of ale, or neglected to perform English kitchen to the institution of the and sweetness, were altogether unequalled;" the duties of his office, had his hand locked jury. England became his favourite country. a commendation which is reiterated in verse to the wainscot somewhat higher than his However, the Oriental observer is far from on the neighbouring tomb-stone. head, by this iron fastening, when cold approving all the customs of the three Kingwater was poured down the sleeve of his doms. The English, he says, have twelve doublet as a punishment for his offence. vices or defects-They are haughty, rolupOne of the old servants of the family, who tuous, dull, indolent, choleric, and vain; attended upon strangers when I first visited they are atheists, gourmands, spendthrifts, Haddon, when pointing out the uses to which egotists, and libertines; and they affect a this curious relique of former times was ap- sovereign contempt for the customs of other plied, facetiously remarked," that it grew nations. But this condemnation is sucrusty for want of use." ceeded by an enumeration of the good qualities of the English; which are, hospitality, delicacy, philanthropy, respect for their su periors, and above all, their profound respect for fashion. This arbitrary law obliges the rich to change every year, not only the form of their dress, but also their household furniture. A lady of taste would consider herself disgraced, if her drawingroom retained the same furniture for two

"The vocal powers here let us mark,
Of Philip, our late parish-clerk,
In church none never heard a layman
With a clearer voice say "AMEN!"
Who now with hallelujahs sound,
Like him can make the roofs rebound?
The choir lament his choral tones,
The town so soon here lie his bones
At the west end of the church, on a table
monument, another inscription occurs still
more amusing, if I may be permitted to use
a phrase so little in harmony with those feel-
ings which generally accompany a contem-
plation of the last resting-place of those who
have gone before us to "that bourne from
whence no traveller returns." An old man
and his two wives occupy this tomb, where
undisturbed by the jealous cares of life, they
sleep together lovingly, so says the legend
which nearly covers one side of the tomb-
"Know, posterity, that on the eth of April, in
the year of Grace 1757, the rambling remains

of the abovesaid John Dale were in the 86th
year of his pilgrimage laid upon his two wives.
This thing in life might cause some jealousy,
Here all three sleep together lovingly,
Here Sarah's chiding John no longer hears,
And old John's rambling Sarah no more fears;
A period's come to all their toilsome lives,
The goodinan's quiet.--still are both his wives."

We shall now conclude with a brief allusion to Haddon Hall, which it seems might have served for the study of Cedric's residence in Ivanhoe.

The gallery, which occupies nearly, the whole of the south part of Haddon, is a noble apartment: its style of architecture fixes the date of its erection in the time of Elizabeth, in whose reign this venerable structure passed from the Vernons into the possession of Sir John Manners, who was the second son of the first Earl of Rutland. In the windows of the gallery are the arms of both families in stained glass, and the boar's head and the peacock, their respective crests, liberally ornament this part of the house. This room is one hundred and ten feet long and seventeen wide, and the whole of the floor is said to have been cut out of one oak tree, which grew in the park. In the dining hall there is an elevated platform, a general construction in ancient halls, which is still retained in many colleges, wherein the high stable is placed, at which the lord of the mansion presided at the head of his bousehold and his guests. A gallery, which

Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, who was a native of Derbyshire, often visited Haddon Hall, for the purpose of storing her imagination with those romantic ideas, and impressing upon it those sublime and awful pictures which she so much delighted to pourtray: some of the most gloomy scenery of her "Mysteries of Udolpho" was studied within the walls of this ancient structure..

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These passages furnish grounds for
competent judgment upon the Second
the excellence of the plates, w
Part of Peak Scenery; and, united with
no doubt, will cause the two remaining
parts to be looked for with avidity.

have

Travels of the Persian Prince, Mirza
Aboul - Taleb - Khan, through Asia,
Africa, and Europe; written by himself,
translated into French by M. Charles
Malo.

years in succession. However, this extravagance encourages industry; and the lower classes of the people may procure at a very cheap rate, those articles of which the rich are thus obliged to rid themselves.'

"But our traveller enters upon observations of a more important nature. In his quality of ex-aumildar, he examines the state of the English finances, calculates the expenditure, and estimates the ways and means, like a man of business; and, all things considered, he declares that England must, if precautions be not adopted, sink under the weight of her national debt. Prince Mirza (Reviewed from a French Journal.) observes, that only one mode of liquidation can save England. This expedient, it is true, "This Persian Prince, whose portrait still has something oriental about it, which might decorates the print-shops of the Boulevards, naturally startle our European State-Annuiexcited extraordinary interest during his late tants. He proposes bankruptcy. The word visit to Paris. Our ladies were all anxious is harsh, but the effect of the measure would to gain introductions to him, and they would be admirable. One party would pay less in have thought him the most charming Am-taxes, the other would have less revenue; bassador in the world, could he have been every one would be satisfied, and would bless prevailed on to bring his Fair Circassian to the hour when the grand aumildar of Etayah the Opera. It appears, however, that he set foot in England. visited Europe on a former occasion. About "The English ladies particularly excite twenty years ago, having unexpectedly for- the admiration of the Persian Prince. He feited the favour of the Persian Court, he was enchanted with the beauty of their set out on his travels, as it were, by way of features, the elegance of their forms, and revenge. Prince Mirza had been betrothed their graceful deportment: he styles them to the niece of a Nabab; he had been ap-angels, celestial houris, tulips, and Damasine pointed to the office of aumildar, which sig-roses. He wrote Persian odes to the Engnifies superintendant of direct and indirect lish fashionables, in which he compared taxes; finally, he had been created a general, them to the toba and the sudrah,-(no for in Asia, the art of levying taxes is very offence to the Sheik of Mecca,) and at much like the art of war; and in a great length the poor Ambassador, the ci-derant victory he had had the honor to kill a Rajah.aumildar, the ex-minister, and disbanded In spite of all these titles to public esteem, general, so far lost his senses, so far forgot he was hurled from his exalted rank; but, his misfortunes and Mahommet, that he exinstead of retiring to the country, or writing claims in one of his odes: Fill my cup

with the juice of the grape! I do not hesitate to forswear the religion of my fathers.'

to this situation is very humorously re-..
lated; and as the diplomatic anecdotes
which follow are curious illustrations of
the genuineness of the work, we quote
the whole passage.

"This edifice," said I, pointing to the first building of note in the suburo which we met on our way, "is the palace of the Ichfruitful seminary of favourites, of Pashas, Oglaus-the Sultan's pages. It is the most

Judging from this poetical licence, it may naturally be supposed that all the admiration of Prince Mirza was exhausted on England. When he arrived in France, like and of Sultanas husbands. In that direction an unhappy lover, he observed everything Absorbed in this weighty consideration lives that most respectable of characters the with chagrin and ill-humour. Perhaps some (how to subsist) I slowly walked down the Imperial internuncio-the Baron Herbert; of his condemnations may be attributed to hill of St. Demetrius, when I fancied I dis- who, with all the shrewdness of a thoroughthe effects of indigestion. Our fetes, he cerned at a distance a caravan of travellers, paced minister, combines all the playful sinsays, gave him the heart-ache; our meat who, with a slow and steady pace, were ad-plicity of a child. Further on dwells the was always dried and burnt up; we are, in vancing towards Pera, the residence of the French embassador Monsieur de Choiseuihis opinion, barbarians in the art of cookery. Franks at Constantinople. I mechanically Gouflier-a very great man in little things; The English excel in the pleasures of the quickened my pace, in order to survey the and opposite hiin lives his antagonist in taste, table. But our ladies, our fair Parisians, procession more closely. politics, and country, the english envoy Sir displeased the Ambassador alınost as much First in the order of march came a clumsy Robert Ainslie-of whom the world mainas our dinners. He had before told us, that calash, stowed as full as it could hold of tains exactly the reverse. Quite at the botthey wanted the modesty and graceful man-wondering travellers; next came a heavy tom of the street, likewise facing each other, ners of the beauties of Britain;-he now araba, loaded with as many trunks, portman-live the envoys of Russia and of Sweden. The tells us, that they have the habit of paint-teaus, parcels, and packages, as it could former I feel bound to respect, whatever be ing; that their head-dresses resemble those well carry; and lastly led up the rear, a grim- his merit; the latter really possesses much. of Indian dancers; and that their short-waisted looking Tartar, keeping order among half a He is an Armenian, who writes in French a dresses give them the appearance of being dozen Frank servants of every description, history of Turkey. Lately he has made with hump-backed. He examined them closely, jogging heavily along on their worn out jades. his bookseller an exchange profitable to in the ball-room, the theatre, the public At this sight the Drougueman blood began both, he having given his manuscript, and gardens; but not one ever made the slightest to speak within me. "These are strangers, the other his daughter: that is to say, the impression on him; " and yet, (he says,) I Anastasius," it whispered: "be thou their Armenian a single voluminous work, and the am naturally amorous, and easily capti- interpreter, and thy livelihood is secured." I Frenchman a brief epitome of his whole shop. rated." It was doubtless in consequence obeyed the inward voice as an inspiration Wedged in between the palaces of Spain and of these reflections, that the Ambassador from Heaven, and, after smartening myself Portugal is that of the Dutch embassador, deemed it adviseable, on his second visit to up a little, approached the first carriage whose name, Vandendidden-totgelder, is France, to bring with him a Circassian "Welcome to Pera, excellencies!" said I, almost too long for these short autumn days; Slave, and thus to travel with a fragment of with a profound bow, to the party within. and whose head is thought to be almost as his Harem. Had our ladies perused this im- At these words up started two gaunt figures long as his name: inasmuch as he regularly pertinent book six months ago, they certainly in night caps, with spectacles on their noses receives, twice a week, the Leyden Gazette; would not have clapped so heartily whenever and German pipes in their mouths-whose which renders him beyond all controversy the Prince Mirza-Aboul-Taleb-Khan appeared respective corners still kept mechanically best informed of the whole Christian Corps in public. To say the French ladies are puffing whiffs of smoke at each other. The Diplomatique, in respect of Turkish politics. hump-backed, and to compare the English first action which followed was to lay their You see, gentlemen, the representatives of ladies to the roses of Damascus! O, the hands on the blunderbusses hung round the all the potentates of Christendom, from Peabominable Persian! carriage but seeing me alone, on foot, and tersburgh to Lisbon and from Stockholm to to all appearance not very formidable, they Naples, are here penned up together in this seemed after some consultation to think they single narrow street, where they have the admight venture not to fire, and only kept sta-vantage of living as far as possible from the ing at me in profound silence. I therefore Turks among whom they come to reside, repeated my salute in a more articulate man- and of watching all day long the motions of ner, and again said; "welcome, Excellencies, their own colleagues, from their most disto Pera, where you are most anxiously ex- tant journies to the sublime Porte, to their pected. As you will probably want a skilful most ordinary visits to the recesses at the interpreter, give me leave to recommend a bottom of their gardens." most unexceptionable person, I mean my- These little specimens of my savoir-dire self. Respectable references, I know, are in- seemed to please my German friends. They dispensable in a place where every one is on immediately noted them down in their huge the watch to impose upon the unwary travel-memorandum books, which, no more than ler; but such I think I can name. As to their short pipes, ever were left idle an inwhat character they may give me; that," stant. Scarce had the party stepped into the inn, which I was allowed to recommend, when they engaged me for the whole fortAt so Christian-like a speech, uttered in night which they meant to devote to the surthe very heart of Turkey, the travellers grin-vey of the Turkish Capital. ced another short consultation; after which sort. Every body used to fly at their apned from ear to ear with delight. It produ- My travellers were of the true inquisitive the two chiefs cried out in chorus: "Oui chai pesoin," and bade me mount by their side. This enabled me, after a little compliment on Germany their birth-place, and on their proficiency in the French idiom, immediately to enter upon the duties of my of fice for which I thought myself sufficiently qualified by the squibs which I had heard the Drogueman of the Porte, Morosi, let off in company with my patron at the diplomatic corps of Pera.

"After such outrages, national honour compels us to close the book. We abandon the traveller to his fate :-he may visit the south of France and Italy; he may go to Constantinople, and relate his adventures to his good friends the Turks ;-in a word, he may finish his travels by passing through Mossoul, Bagdad, Bassora, and Bombay-we care nothing about him. We are only sorry to be obliged to confess, that the narrative is instructive and entertaining; that the translation is executed with talent, and that the work has already come to a second edition."

Anastasius; or Memoirs of a Greek. added I with a modest bow," it becomes