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his attack. It darted, however, a furious look at him; and it is to be hoped that this look was understood. May the dreadful catastrophe tend to the welfare of his soul.

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are neat, and their subjects well chosen : among them are the Elbese residence of Buonaparte, a fac simile of a sketch (a soldier) by the ex-emperor, sketch from the scull of Raphael, the Castle of

to error, but when fully developed sets
bounds and measure to itself, when accom-
panied only by sincerity of heart. Let the
Catholic clergy then kindle the torch in the
sanctuary itself, which will disperse along
with darkness the frivolity in which alone
infidelity has ever struck root. The Pro- Otranto, Greek Melodies, Costumes,
testant clergy will aid this endeavour by ma- &c. &c.
king a proper use of their freedom, and by As we have so recently and so mi-
ceasing to confound the self-willed and ca-nutely explored the regions of Greece
with several able writers, we shall limit
our illustrations of the present work to
its Italian and incidental relations, al-
though it is only the extent into which.
its remarks on painting and sculpture
would carry us, which prevents our en-
tering, at an adequate length, into its
disquisions on these heads. Still we
shall begin with an extract connected
At Perugia-

Thus then, the destinity with which they had so long amused themselves on the stage, advanced with terror into the midst of them, when the levity gave place to alarm, and a profound dread of its obscure power. Having renounced the God of Christians, the old Jehovah again descended; a jea-pricious doctrine that comes and goes with lous God, a revenger, full of anger, and of inen with the eternal truth, which is suitable great power, whose ways are in storms and to all ages. Guided by the Scriptures, they tempests, before whom a devouring fire will, in their peculiar manner, deduce, from goeth forth, while darkness is under his feet, the relations of finite personality, the relations and who thunders with his thunder, and of the infinite. But they must first purify doeth great things, and yet is not known." the scriptures from all the accessions of biThe hour in which the first blood is shed in gotry, selfishness, and worldly passions, civil dissensions, and in which the first sacri- that through the clear water of the precious fices fall, is a dreadful and decisive hour. It stone the higher light may penetrate, which is the hour that gives birth to a whole omi- haughtiness and pride, by agitating the mud nous futurity, which takes its shape from the of human conceit, too often obscure and influence of the good or evil stars, at that cloud. time predominant. It is still a sign, there- The Sciences, if not pursued as a mere fore, betokening happiness, and a pledge that mechanical trade, dragging the cultivator Heaven is still merciful to Germany, that down to the wretchedness of the earthly exthe signal was not in this, as in so many istence, but withdrawn, in the manner of other cases, given by cold and naked atroci ancient times, to the contemplation of the ty; but that an act of violence was executed highest mystery, in philosophy as well as rein the error of the heart, by hands in other ligion, will no longer drag down the striving respects pure. The two-fold character of spirit with a heavy weight, but assist in this act therefore leaves two ways still opening it aloft to its higher destination." for our choice, the way of light and the way of darkness."

This is to us a fearful perversion of reasoning. Heaven keep England from these German doctrines, and cause us to look still at murder in all its naked atrocity. We will instance but one passage more as illustrating the doctrines of this new school, and leave the judgment to our country's sound sense and good feeling.

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Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian
Islands. In a series of Letters, des-
criptive of the Manners, Scenery, and
the Fine Arts. By H. W. Williams,
Esq. With engravings from original
drawings. Edinburgh and London,
1820. 8vo. 2 vols.

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In the Academy Della Bella Arte are several of the first attempts in painting of Pietro Perugino, and of Raphael, his immortal scholar. They appear to be but a step beyond the works of Giotto or Cimabue; one of Guido's earliest works, too, of a Boy pearing au Apple, is hung with them, and certainly does not indicate his future excellence; it is bear-painted on a pannel at least three inches thick, and primed with stucco. The innumerable instances which we have of carly paintings on stucco grounds, on pannels, shew, that the departure from fresco or absorbent grounds was not altogether sudden and that the final adoption of oil grounds was the result of time and much experience. are certainly encouraging, and much inforThe first attempts of the great masters mation may be derived from them; but they are surely a dangerous collection for young "In the mean time the religious sense will This work contains more valuable in-practitioners to study. It is true, they shew again escape from its present quality, and men formation on the subject of the fine arts, but they shew no more. the first glimpses of genius and improvement, will once more acknowledge universally that Taste is ill defined, religion is not an old woman's tale told to than any book of the kind which we have apparently accidental, and not sufficiently the nations in their infancy, but the tie which seen on other points, we have seen under rule to guide an inexperienced mind. holds minds together, the word of the crea- tours superior to it, though it possesses Yet the students of this academy draw and ting Spirit of the world, pronounced in hu- an agrecable character throughout, and paint from these early pictures, and from man language: that even nature unconsci- may always be taken up with pleasure great cartoons, after the extraordinary and ously celebrates her mysteries; that the-sometimes, we are sorry to say, it singular figures in the Last Judginent of Mistate is merely the ground-floor of the church; chael Angelo. The masters of these suband that public life and the cultivation of may be laid down with the same feel-ordinate academies should be careful, lest the sciences are divine worship. From the ing. This is owing to several Edinburgh they lead the youthful mind astray. I have moral purity which still generally charac- peculiarities; the talent of lugging in seen no good productions of any of the puterises the Catholic clergy in Germany, the contemporaries to bepraise them, and an pils; and I am now convinced, that making higher sense and the enthusiasm calculated occasional prolixity on matters not so enormous and elaborate finished drawings in to dissolve the present deadness and numb- interesting as others which are more chalk, is little better than a waste of time, ness, and to communicate to forms their lightly passed over. Mr. Williams is The Academy have few paintings, except by forgotten contents, may with great reason he nevertheless a very observant and a and Raphael's early works; all of which seem Giotto, Cimabue, Albert Durer, Perugino, expected to flourish again in that body. They will perceive that a dull and heavy very intelligent traveller. He has trod to be painted by receipt. obscurantism, which, in its foolish zeal, upon beaten ground, and yet contrived would persecute the light, the noblest gift to produce an acceptable publication, of God, will not lead to this end. This by describing in a novel manner what would be an insult to wisdom, which has has been described before; by giving every where victoriously maintained its brief but sensible critiques on works of ground, which a confused knowledge only art, to which his attention seems to can disturb, and which a complete and thorough knowledge will always secure and have been particularly directed; and by serve. It would be an insult to that freedom treating whatever objects struck him as This, to a certain degree, coincides with which God has granted to man, which, when worthy of remark, generally, in a lively the opinion we lately gave on the subject of only partially enjoyed, leads occasionally and entertaining way. The engravings | painting in oil.—Ed,

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Respecting the petrifying spring, not far from this city, the author has col

lected a curious detail.

A learned gentleman, who has lately visitabout fifty miles from this ancient city, has. ed the celebrated baths of San Phillipo,

shewn us several casts, which are remark-commonly from one-eighth to one fourth of we shall present our readers with the able for their sharpness and peculiar beauty. an inch. The time employed in its forma- view of the Buonaparte residents at They are produced from a petrifying tion, is ten or twelve days. The pyramidal Rome. spring, which is applied to the forination of frame is of use, not only for disposing the cameos and various ornaments. Our friend, moulds in the manner described, but also "The members of the Buonaparte family imagining the process might be interesting, for guarding against all currents of air at Rome consist of the Princess Pauline, has obligingly favoured us with an account which might disturb the process of depo- married to Prince Borghese; Louis Buonof it, which is as follows. sition; it is not designed, however, to ex-aparte, the ex-king of Holland; Lucien, clude the entrance of air. the Prince of Canino, and his family; and lastly, the mother of Napoleon Buonaparte. The first of these personages was the favourite sister of the ex-emperor, and during his residence in Elba, he was in the habit of placing her close to him when they were in company; he would sometimes turn round while at dinner, and desire one of his officers to compose some quatrain in honour of the princess's charms, and to recite it to her at the table. One of those officers, who accompanied him to Elba, shewed a friend of nine several verses that had been composed by himself in obedience to his master's injunctions.

This manufactory was established by the late Peter Leopold, who so magnificently patronized all the sciences and arts. It is at present under the direction of Signor Pagliari, an artist of great ingenuity, who readily explains and exhibits all the stages of his process. His charges are in proportion to the dimensions of the cast.

For a cast of 1 inch diameter, 1 Paul, or 5d. English. 24 inches, 1 Paul and a half; 4 inches, 3 Pauls; 5 inches, 6 Pauls; inches, 9 Pauls; 7 inches, 10 Pauls; 8 inches, 20 Pauls; one foot 6 inches, 30 Pauls.

The spring issues from Monte Amiato, about four miles from Radicofani, on the route between that town and Sienna, and is situate about half a mile from the road side. The water is in such quantity as to form a large torrent, and so hot that it cannot be borne by the human body, at its source. Very anciently baths were established there, and are still kept up. They are called Bagni de San Filippo. The water is perfectly transparent, but holds in solution a consider able quantity of sulphur, and an immense portion of carlonate of lime. Soon after the escape from the mountain, the sulphur is first deposited, and then the earthy matter, in such quantity as to have formed itself into a small mountain some hundred feet high, and nearly half a mile in length. This constant deposition of fresh earth is continually changing the place of the spring, and gradually approaching it nearer its source in the mountain. Of this petrifying water, advantage has been taken to form casts, somewhat in the following manner:An impression of the medal is first taken in sulphur, or, what is still better, on glass, and the impressed figure or mould is then placed in the course of the stream, to receive the deposited matter. As, however, it is desirable that the dissolved earth be deposited in a certain state and condition, a series of three or four pits are sunk in the earth at a short distance from each other, and communicating by means of tubes. In these pits, deposition to a certain extent is successively made, till the water at length arrives at the last stage, refined, as it were, and charged only with At Rome, Mr. Williams visits the Persons sufficiently well acquainted, by its desired portion of earth. It is then made studii of Canova and Thorvaldsen; and Buonaparte family, to describe the characthe length of their intercourse, with the to fall through a tube on two pieces of board, we remark that his opinion of the latter ters of the different members of it, gave the two or three inches broad, placed crosswise thus +, the effect of which is to break the fully corroborates the statements con- reputation of superior aimiableness to two stream, and throw off the water in all direc- cerning him, which will be found in our other sisters of Napoleon, Madame Baioctions. Beneath this crossed piece is another Biographical Sketch." He declares that-chi and Madame Murat; the former is always similar one, and a third still lower; but all For an accurate knowledge of the beau mentioned with particular respect. of them crossing in different directions, the ideal, or the perfection of nature, whichever Lucien carefully abstains from shewing more completely to break and disperse the you please to call it, united with a keen dis-himself in public, though he admits such column of water that falls on them. These criminating eye for the beauties of the anEnglish society as are introduced to him. crossed pieces are then surrounded by frame tique, yet still preserving originality, Thor-e never touches on political subjects, or work of wood, of a pyramidal form, within waldson, especially in his basso-relievos, is can be betrayed into conversing upon them which are arranged the impressed sulphurs superior to Canova, who sometimes appears of learning his opinion. He affects an ocwhen introduced by others, who are desirous or glass, previously touched with a solution to copy himself. In examining the works of soap, to smooth the surface, and facilitate of the former, the mind is led to ancient casional air of frivolity in conversation, prothe subsequent separation of the cast. They days of greatness, and seems to catch a por- which he has been said to be occupied rebably as veil to the serious designs, with are disposed all round the pyramidal case, tion of that sacred light, which sprung from and placed somewat obliquely forward, op- the genius of Phidias, Praxiteles, and Cleo- specting his brother. However, that may posite the several series of crossed sticks, menes, the latter, on the other hand, pre-him out into giving his opinions on any subbe, it is said to be a difficult matter to draw and at the distance of about a foot from their sents to you the choicest views of nature, extremities. In this position they receive a with less acquired knowledge from ancient continual and equable dash of the water, sources, and perhaps with less refinement which deposits its earthy matter on the im- of sentiment and delicacy. pressed surface, and which matter takes with the greatest fineness and precision the figure of the body on which it consolidates The cast, thus obtained, may be made of any thickness, but in small figures; it is

By an ingenious variation of the process, he is able to form a cast of differently co- The princess lives separate from her husloured marbles, so as to present a white fi- band, but she is allowed to occupy the splengure in relief on a blue or yellow ground, and did building of the Borghese palace at Rome. vice versa. This is done by first forming At present the prince resides at Florence. the cast white as usual, then separating from Napoleon, during his supremacy, had enit all the parts not projecting in relief, and deavoured to bring him forward in some exposing it as before to a second process of public capacity, but the attempt is said to deposition, from water previously coloured. have failed; his inattention rendering it neThe coloured carbonate attaches itself to the cessary to withdraw him from the situations white figure, and this forms a ground on the to which he was appointed. The Princess stratum of coloured matter on which the Pauline is fond of society; she is, indeed, white matter rests; but in a manner so as said to display much of the coquetry and to form one solid and continuous substance. vanity of a French woman of fashion. CaI know not whether the petrifying springs nova has executed a statue of her, the symin Scotland or in Derbyshire, are sufficiently metry and luxurious attitude of which is strong to produce casts in so short a time as much admired. One evening she issued inten or twelve days, but I should think the vitations for a large rout; the form of the experiment might be tried with probable invitation expressed her hope, that she success, in small and delicate gameos, which should have the company of such and such would not require any great degree of thick-persons, "to see the statue by Canova ness. lighted up."

Omitting the amusing accounts of the Anglo-introductions to the Pope, and many other attractive particulars,

*Postponed for want of room.

ject, whether political or not. He had commenced farming, partly after the English manner, at his country villa La Rutinella, supposed by some to stand on the scite of Cicero's Tusculan villa. His passion for agriculture had, however, much cooled, and was succeeded by a passion for astronomy. He is in possession of a fine telescope, and

some other optical instruments by Dolland, but I learned that he was fickle in all these different pursuits, and soon abandoned them. His dwelling in Rome is sufficiently handsome, and he has often small parties in the evening for music or dancing: two of his daughters play and sing prettily, and express a partiality for Scotch music, especially that published by Mr. George Thomson, of Edinburgh: one of their favourite airs is, "Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled." His eldest daughter (the fruit of his first marriage) was married to a Roman nobleHer uncle had, at one period, designed her to become the spouse of Ferdinand, the present king of Spain, but after-city is unveiled. We entered by the Appianders and antique ornaments, masks and imi

man.

wards altered his plan, thinking that some thing more was necessary to secure the full dependence of Spain upon his own power. The mother of Napoleon, formerly dignified by the title of Madame Mere, resides, together with her brother Cardinal Fesch, in the Palazzo Falcone. She lived in se clusion, and was even said to have become a devotee. Only one of her former ladies of honour remains with her; she occupies, however, a full suite of apartments, very handsomely furnished, and with a greater attention to comfort than is usual in Italian houses. She affects none of the reserve of Lucien on certain subjects, but speaks with tears in her eyes of the ex-emperor, displays the feelings of a mother in her language respecting him, and laments that he has not written to any of his family since his being at St. Helena, fondly cherishing the hope, (which appears to prevail among the adherents of Buonaparte,) that the English government would finally set him at liberty; and generally concludes with some strong encomiums on the character of the English nation, with the generosity of which she declares herself well acquainted. Madame Mere has evidently been a very fine woman; at her advanced period of life she still looks well, through the aid of her toilette; her manners are even dignified. She appears a queen, and refutes, as do her daughters, those notions of the vulgar manners of the ladies of the Buonaparte family, which were so easily accredited in Britain. In one of the rooms in Lucien's palace is a bust of Niccolo Buonaparte, the father, which exhibits a countenance of remarkable expression; finer, indeed, than that of Napoleon, or any of the family.

Rome, at this time, 1817, is the residence of other princely families. The abdicated king of Sardinia, the ex-queen of Etruria, and the former king of Spain, Charles. The first of these personages lives pretty closely the life of a devotee; but the king of Spain intermixes with his religious offices a very tolerable attention to the pleasures of the table.

The prince of Peace retains with Charles that influence which has been fatal to his interests and those of Spain; the minion still of Charles's queen, his presence is considered necessary to the royal happiness. "I could not support existence without that dear man," was the expression of king Charles to a Roman physician, from whom

From Rome, the author pursued the usual route to Naples, and of course, Herculaneum, Pompeii, &c. were visited. After a short notice of the former, we have a very picturesque description of the latter.

Pompeii, which was entombed in a softer substance, is getting daily disencumbered, and a very considerable part of this Grecian

we had the anecdote. The prince possesses the rooms are small, I should think not
a fine palace, with a collection of pictures, above ten feet high. Every house is provided
said to be very valuable: he has recently with a well and a cistern. Every thing seems
married his natural daughter advantageously to be in proportion; the principal streets do
to a Roman nobleman.`
not appear to exceed 16 feet in width, with
side pavements of about 3 feet; some of
the subordinate streets are from 6 to 10 feet
wide, with side pavements in proportion
these are occasionally high, and are reached
by steps. The columns of the barracks are
about 15 feet in height; they are made of
tuffa with stucco: one third of the shaft is
smoothly plastered, the rest fluted to the
capital. The walls of the houses are often
painted red, and some of them have bor-
tations of marble, but in general poorly exc-
cuted. I have observed, on the walls of an
eating room, various kinds of food and
game tolerably represented; one woman's
apartment was adorned with subjects rela
ting to love; and a man's with pictures of a
martial character. Considering that the
whole has been under ground upwards of
seventeen centuries, it is certainly surprising
that they should be as fresh as at the period
of their burial. The whole extent of the
city, not one half of which is excavated,
may be about four miles. It is said that
Murat employed no less than 2000 men in
clearing Pompeii, and that Madame Murat
attended the excavations in person every
week. The present government have not
retained above 100.

way, through a narrow street of marble
tombs, beautifully executed, with the names
of the deceased plain and legible. We looked
into the columbary below that of Marius
Arius Diomedes, and perceived jars con-
taining the ashes of the dead, with a small
lamp at the side of each. Arriving at the
gate, we perceived a centry-box, in which
the skeleton of a soldier was found with a
lamp in his hand: proceeding up the street
beyond the gate, we went into several streets,
and entered what is called a coffee-house, the
marks of cups being visible on the stone: we
came likewise to a tavern, and found the
sign (not a very decent one) near the en-
trance. The streets are lined with public
buildings and private houses, most of which
have their original painted decorations fresh
and entire. The pavement of the streets is
much worn by carriage wheels, and holes
are cut through the side stones, for the pur-
pose of fastening animals in the market
place; and in certain situations are placed
stepping stones, which give us a rather un-
favourable idea of the state of the streets.
We passed two beautiful little temples;
went into a surgeon's house, in the operation
room of which chirurgical instruments were
found; entered an ironmonger's shop, where
an anvil and hanmer were discovered; a
sculptor's and a baker's shop, in the latter
of which may be seen an oven and grinding
mills, liko old Scotch-querns. We examined
likewise an oilman's shop, and a wine shop
lately opened, where money was found in
the till; a school in which was
pulpit with steps up to it, in the middle of
the apartment; a great theatre; a temple
justice; an amphitheatre, about 220 feet in
length; various temples; a barrack for
soldiers, the columns of which are scribbled
with their names and jests; wells, cisterns,
seats, tricliniums, beautiful Mosaic; altars,
inscriptions, fragments of statues, and many
other curious remains of antiquity. Among
the most remarkable objects was an ancient
wall, with a part of a still more ancient mar-
ble fricze, built in it as a common stone;
and a stream which has flowed under this
once subterraneous city, long before its
burial; pipes of Terra Cotta to convey the
water to the different streets; stocks for
prisoners, in one of which a skeleton was
found. All these things incline one almost
to look for the inhabitants, and wonder at
the desolate silence of the place.

a small

of

The houses in general are very low, and

We shall add but one more extract,

upon a subject of infinite classical import.

Herculaneum is extremely curious and inThe unfolding of the Papyri discovered at teresting. From the frailty of the material, the process is extremely slow: perhaps not more than half an inch is unfolded at a time, and is fixed upon gold-beater's leaf. In apPearance, the Papyri might be mistaken for cular folds seeming like the growth of the parts of calcined branches of trees, the cirwood. In looking at these black and indurated masses, it requires an effort to believe them to be full of human knowledge. The number of the rolls is very great; only tivo volumes of them, however, have as yet been published; the last contains fragments of a work of Epicurus, and a Latin poem in hexscriptive of the contest for empire between ameters, very much mutilated, apparently deAnthony and Octavius. In the next volume will be published a treatise of the philosopher Chrysippus concerning Providence. I believe there was found rolled up in his works a bust inscribed Epicurus, which may, perhaps, form a standard for identifying the different heads of that philosopher.

These examples will speak for the volumes just published; of which we shall only further say, that their lucubrations in Greece, lonia, &c. are of equal interest.

Chefs-d'œuvre of French Literature, consisting of Interesting Extracts, from the Classic French Writers, in prose and

verse; with Biographical and Critical | to what she had to say: and heartily wish'd | Religiously receiv'd? May you be the better Remarks on the Authors and their Works. Vol. I. Prose. London. 1820, 8vo. pp. 392.

Though unfitted for extract, we are induced to notice this volume for its excel

they wou'd be the better for it: She then
gave an account of her life; and, by her
own confession, appear'd to have been a very
naughty woman in her time.

This was the First Scene. At the Second, a back curtain was drawn; and gave us a lence. The biographical sketches are so spi-sight of our Saviour and the Blessed Virgin : ritedly executed as to hold competition with amidst the Clouds. The poor Soul address'd Mr. T. Campbell's recent beautiful work in herself to our Saviour first, who rattled her our own language, and the whole design is filled up in a manner to give us entire satis extreamly and was indeed all the while very severe. All she desired was to be sent to faction. We do not, therefore, hesitate to recommend this publication to students of

:

for reading of it, as I was for seeing it!
There was but one thing that offended me.
All the Actors, except the Devils, were wo-
men; and the person who represented the
most venerable character in the whole Play,
just after the Representation, came into the
Pitt; and fell kissing a Barber of her Ac-
quaintance, before she had chang'd her Dress.
She did me the honour to speak to me too;
but I wou'd have nothing to say to her.

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Purgatory, instead of going to Hell: and she
at last beg'd very hard to be sent into the Fire

French, to families, and to teachers. It is a of the former, for as many years as there are his Divine Poem of Paradise Lost.

It was from such a Play as this, (call'd Adam and Eve) that Milton, when he was in Italy, is said to have taken the First Hint for. What small beginnings are there sometimes to the greatest things! I am ever (with all Services to all Friends,)

Your Dutiful and Affectionate,

most interesting and instructive book, cal-
drops of water in the sea. As no favour was
culated equally for the school and the ju-shown her on that side, she turn'd to the Vir-
venile library; and not, from being the
latter, as is too often the case, unworthy of
mature and general reading. Among the
principal authors quoted are, D'Alembert,
Barthélemy, Bayle, Bossuet, Bution, Cré-do
billon, Diderot, Fénéion, Florian, Fontenelle,
La Harpe, Mariontel, Montaigne, Montes-
quieu, Pascal, Raynal, Rollin, Rousseau, Le
Sage, Sévigné, Voitaire, &c. &c. &c.

in and beg'd her to intercede for her. The
swer'd her gravely, but steadily; "That she
Virgin was a very decent Woman: and an-
had anger'd her Son so much, that she cou'd
nothing for her :" and on this, they both Anastasius; or
went away together.

The Third Scene consisted of three little

Angels, and the Damn'd Soul. She had no

better luck with them: nor with St. John the Baptist, and all the Saints in the Fourth: Spence's Anecdotes &c. By S. W. Singer. so, in the Fifth, she was left to two Devils; In our last we promised an example seemingly to do what they wou'd with her. of the epistolary matter contained in One of these Devils was very ill-natur'd and fierce to her; the other, was of the droll kind; the appendix to this volume, of which and for a Devil, I can't say but what he was promise we acquit ourselves by the in-good-natur'd enough: tho' he delighted in sertion of the following entertaining vexing the poor Lady rather too much. letter from Mr. Spence to his mother when travelling.

TO MRS, SPENCE.

Turin, Dec. 2, 1739.

In the Sixth Seene, matters began to mend a little. St. John the Baptist (who had been with our Saviour I believe behind the Scenes) told her, if she wou'd continue her Entreaties, there was yet some Hope for her. She on this again besought our Saviour and the Virgin to have compassion on her: The Virgin Son to have pity on her, on which it was granted, that she shou'd go into the Fire, only for sixteen or seventeen hundred Thousand

was melted with her Tears, and desir'd her

J. SPENCE.

Memoirs of a Greek. 3 vols. (Continued)

Anastasius, now Selim, so specially converted to Mosleminism, as we have recorded, of course required instruction in his new faith. His instructor is—

doctors of law-the very pink and quintesThe gravest of the whole grave body of sence of true believers; one who would not

miss saying his namaz regularly four times a day, three hundred and sixty days in the year, for all the treasures of the Devas; who, to whole korau by heart unto the last stop; and obtain the epithet of hafeez, had learnt his who, not satisfied with praying to God like other people, had linked himself to a set of dancing Derwishes, for the sole purpose of addressing the Deity with more efect in a sugar-loaf cap, and twisting round the room like a top: a personage who, in a devout fit, would Plump down upon his knees in the midst of the most crowded street, without turning his

Dear Mother, Soon after I came to this place, as I was walking one Evening under the Porticos of the Street of the Po, I saw an Inscription over a great Gate; which, as I am a very curious Traveller, you may be sure I did not miss reading. I found by it, that the House belong'd to a sett of strollers, and that the years; and she was very thankful for the head round before he had finished the last

inildness of the Sentence.

Inscription was a bill of the play that they
were to act that Evening. You may imagine
The Seventh (and last) Scene, was a Con-
how surpris'd I was to find it conceiv'd in test between the two Infernal Devils above
the following words: "Here under the mentioned, and her Guardian Angel. They
Portico's of the Charitable Hospital for such came in again; one grinning, and the other
as have the Venereal Disease, will be repre-open-mouth'd to devour her. The Angel
sented this Evening, The Damned Soul with told them, that they shou'd get about their
proper Decorations." As this seem'd to be business. He, with some difficulty, at last
one of the greatest Curiosities I cou'd possibly drove them off the Stage; and handed off
incet with in my Travels, I immediately paid the good Lady; in assuring her that all
my three-pence; was shew'd in with great would be very well, after some hundreds of
civility and took my seat among a number thousands of years, with her,
of people, who seem'd to expect the Tragedy
of the Night with great Seriousness.

All this while, in spite of the excellence of
the Actors, the greatest part of the Enter-
At length the Curtain drew up; and dis-tainment tone was the countenances of the
cover'd the Damn'd Sou!, all alone, with a people in the Pitt and Boxes. When the
melancholy Aspect. She was (for what rea-Devils were like to carry her off, every body
son I dont know); drest like a fime Lady; in a
gown of Fiame-colour'd Satin. She held a
white Handkerchief in her hand, which she
apply'd often to her eyes; and in this attitude,
with a Lamentable Voice, began a prayer (to
the Holy and ever Blessed Trinity) to enable
her to speak Her part well: afterwards she
Press'd herself to all the good Christians
te Room ; beg'd them to attend carefully

was in the utmost consternation; and when
St. John spoke so obligingly to her, they
were ready to cry out for Joy. When the
Virgin appear'd on the Stage, every body
looked respectiull; and on several words
spoke by the Actors, they pull'd off their
Hats, and cross'd themselves. What can
you think of a People, where their very
farces are Religious, and where they are so

reekath of his orison, if all Constantinople
were trembling in an earthquake; who, con-
sidering all amusements as equally heinous,
made no difference between a game of chess
or mangala, and illicit attentions to one's
own great-grand mother, and once, in his
devout fury, with his enormous chaplet po-
sitively demolished Karagheuz in the midst
of all his drollery: a personage who, at the
end of the Ramadan, looked like a walking
spectre, and the very last time of this fast
absolutely doubled its length, only for having
snuffed up with pleasure, before the hours
of abstinence were over, the fumes of a kie-
bab on its passage out of a cook-shop: a
personage who hail an absolute horror of all
representations of the human figure-those
of Saint Mark on the Venetian sequin only.
excepted: a personage, in fine, who already
was surnamed in his own district the Wely
or Saint; and whom all his neighbours were
dying to see dead, only that they might hang
their rags round his grave, and so get cured
of the ague.

When this reverend Moollah first made. his appearance, his face was still bedewed

with tears of sympathy, occasioned by a most
heart-rending scene of domestic woe, which
his charitable hand had just assuaged. In an
adjoining street he had found, stretched out on
the bare pavement, a whole miserable family,
-father, mother, brother, sister, together at
least with a dozen children of tender age,
in a state of complete starvation. The very
description of such a piteous sight harrowed. The truth is I had fallen asleep; where-
up my soul. Lest, however the holy man fore, when I suddenly awoke on the din of
should incur a suspicion of having been be- his argumentation ceasing, I shook my head
trayed into a weakness so reprehensible as with a profound air, and by way of shewing
that of pity for the human species-for how much in carnest I meant to be, with a
which he felt all the contempt it deserved, very wise look said I could not give my un-
and which he never presumed to solace un-qualified assent, until I heard both sides of
der any of the visitations inflicted by provi- the question. Thus far I had heard neither.
dence,-I should add that the wretched ob- This determination rather surprised my
jects of his present compassion were of that doctor, who seemed to have relied on my
less criminal sort, the canine species! They faculty of implicit credence. "Hear both
belonged to those troops of unowned dogs sides of the question!" exclaimed he in ut-
whom the Turks of Constantinople allow to ter astonishment. "Why that is just the
live in their streets on the public bounty, in way never to come to a conclusion, and to
order to have the pleasure of seeing them remain in suspence all the days of one's life!
bark at the Christians whom their Frank Wise men first adopt an opinion, and then
dress betrays. To these, and other beings learn to defend it. For my part I make it
of the irrational genus, were entirely confined a rule never to hear but one side; and so do
the benefactions of my tutor; and if his own all who wish to settle their belief."
species have few obligations to acknowledge
from him, he was recorded as having pur-
chased the liberty of three hundred and fifty
canary birds in cages, granted pensions to
fifty cats, and left at least a dozen dogs,
whom he found on the paré, handsomely
provided for in his will.

the baker and butcher for the maintenance of

No sooner was my venerable instructor comfortably seated on his heels in the angle of my sofa, than looking around him with an air of complacency, as if he liked my lodgings, he told me to my infinite satisfaction, that, provided he only took his station there for two hours every day, he pledged himself before the end of the first year to instruct me thoroughly in all the diversities of the four orthodox rituals,-the Hanefy, Schafey, Hanbaly, and Maleky; together with all that belonged to the ninety-nine epithets of the Deity, represented by the ninety-nine beads of the chaplet. In the space of another twelvemonth he ventured to hope that he might go over with me the principal difference between the two hundred and eighty most canonical Mufessirs or commentators on the Koran, as well as the two hundred and thirty-five articles of the creed, on which theologians entertain a difference of opinion; and in the third year of our course, he promised to enable me completely to refute all the objections which the Alewys and other dissenters make to the Sunnee creed; and to have a general idea of the tenets of the seventy-two leading heretical sects, from that of Ata-hakem-el-Mookanna, or the one-eyed prophet with the golden mask, to KhandHassan, the fanatic who eat pork and drank wine in the public market place like any Christian: so as through dint of so much diligence on the fourth and last year to have

against it; and then, as he had an undubit- Great animosity seems to prevail between able right to do with his undisputed property, the Hallengas and the Abyssinians, the latter again completely overset them by the ir-never being mentioned by them without some resistible force of his arguments; after which opprobrious epithet, the mildest of which is having entirely silenced his adversary, he Kafer. I had heard in Upper Egypt, and at rose, equally proud of the acuteness of his Berber, that caravans sometimes depart from own rhetoric, and charmed with the sagacity the Hallengas for Massouah; and I was afwith which I had listened. terwards told at Djidda, by some Massouah merchants, that Hallengas were sometimes seen at that place with cows for sale; but I could hear of no such intercourse during my stay at Taka. The Hallengas have a slight commercial intercourse with the Abyssinians of the province called Walkayt. Had I seen the least probability of making my way towards Massouah, I should have attempted it, for that part of the country appeared to me to be very interesting; it would have led me through the dwellings of many tribes who form the links of the chain by which the Abyssinians are connected with the Arabs, and whose manners, no doubt, present striking originalities; but after what I observed of the character of the people of Taka, I did not think that I should have the smallest chance of being able to protect my little property after quitting my companions the After various adventures at Constan- Souakin merchants; and from what I saw of tinople, our hero sets out to claim his the hospitality of these people, I was certain mother's estate at Naxos, for his change To have engaged one of these savages as a that if once stripped I should perish of want. of religion gave the right to the young-guide would have been of little avail, had he er brother. On his voyage, one of his even proved faithful, as he could not have fellow passengers, he tells us, was— ensured my safety for more than one day's A personage with whom I had made ac- journey, or as far as the limits of his own quaintance on board the Turkish fleet, du-tribe. I should then have fallen among ring the expedition to the Morea, Never strangers, all intent upon plundering me of had we met since the failure of the attempt whatever I possessed, while I should have on Mayno. The marine therefore felt great had nothing to offer in my defence, and could pleasure in boasting of the more successful hardly have made myself understood, very few one against the same nest of pirates, under- people in those parts speaking Arabic. I taken the ensuing year. The delight with hope, therefore, I shall not be blamed for which he described how the Moohassil of the abandoning this project, while, on the other Morea forced the little peninsula by land, hand, I had reasonable hopes of reaching and the Capitan-pasha blockaded it by sea; Souakin in safety, I heard at Taka that and how the inhabitants, driven by the one Souakin and Massouah were at equal disout of their strong holds, fell with their boats tances from the Hallengas. into the clutches of the other, could only be exceeded by the rapture with which he painted the males all hanged, and the women and children all drowned, in order to reconcile them to the Turkish yoke. "You" he concluded, "who are going to take possession of your estates, mean henceforth I suppose to lead a sober country life, and have done with all such frolics. May you prosper! For my part, I hate innocent amusements, and want a little vice to season my pleasures!" Tenedos now being near, my friend called for the boat, and got himself rowed ashore; while I wished him at parting a great deal of pleasure with all manner of vice. (To be continued).

Burckhardt's Nubian Travels, 4to.
(Continued.)

From Taka Mr. Buckhardt was

Mr. Burckhardt went on towards the Obliged to relinquish this project, Red Sea, between which and the Nile, he was now nearly mid-way. His remarks retain the same character as hitherto: he relates very extraordinary things with the utmost simplicity, and seems to forget that they are not the less astonishing on account of having become somewhat familiar to him. The caravan started from Taka on the 15th June, and proceeded N. E. by N; and the annexed account of pilgrim routes to Mecca is exceedingly interesting to African geography..

June 16th. We continued in the direction of N. E. by N. We had now with us eighteen or twenty of the Tekayrne, or Negroe pil

nothing to do but to go over the whole again, tempted to make his way southward in-grims. The appellation is bestowed on all

and imprint it indelibly on my memory. By

way of a little foretaste of his method of to Abyssinia, through the land of the disputation, he took up one of the controver- Arabs Omran, and the Hallengas; but ted points; first raised his own objections he tells us

Negroes who come from the west, in search of learning. They do not call themselves by this name of Tekroury, which many assured me they had never heard till they reached the

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