and its exploits; and they consider the mi-¡ pets, have the merit of the movements, 1 crusades which powers called christian, afterlitary profession the finest of all professions. trust it is scarcely necessary for me to say wards termed and accounted so holy; for In this respect, the Constitutionel is diame- more to justify my pretensions in claiming what purpose where they undertaken, or trically opposite to the most of your inde- the chief share in all the great transactions what end did they serve, if not to extend that pendent journals, which appear to seize every which in the course of centuries, have ren- misery and bloodshed in which I am said to opportunity of opposing military authority. dered this man a hero or that a patriot;- delight? More modern times affect to pity Such a system of abuse would appear anti-which have ended in conducting one man to the credulity and ignorance which led to these patriotic to our liberals, who fall into the op- a crown and honour, or another to a halter expeditions; but what can they say of their posite error. The conductors of the Con- and disgrace, as circumstances suited; for own battles and their thousands slain; or stitutionel, M. M. Etienne, Jay, and Tissot, the end, not the means, is the test of actions; how can they be explained to the moralist or were the Coryphæi of the Imperial Police. and farther than this, the janglings of philo- the christian, otherwise than as victims of Their conversion, it must be confessed, is too sophers are but a play upon words. human depravity immolated on my altars, sudden to be depended on, and there is every With this key to the actions of men, it is the altars of ambition, and vain-glory, and reason to suspect, that they are liberals only impossible for those who read history to fail pride! If war, in its most civilized forms, because they can be nothing else. It is un-in tracing the workings of my hand, from ever had, or can be proved to have, any other fortunate for France, that the good cause is the first fall of man from duty, down to the result than to increase the amount of human not defended by men who possess purer present convulsions which again threaten to misery, and add to the sum of human principles, and who are more respected in disturb the repose of Europe. All whom wretchedness, let my agency be distrusted, society. Jouy, another partizan of Buona- evil passions guide, who have ceased to re- and let the annals of Europe for the last parte, is one of the editors of the Courier gard the good of their fellow-men in the pro-hundred years be reckoned as fabulous Français, which, however, has not a very secution of their own selfish objects; or (to use narrations. high circulation. Benjamin Constant also language more agreeable to the ears of my fol- The reformation of religion demonstrated writes for the last mentioned paper; and he lowers) all whom ambition animates, pleasure my ascendancy in the councils of the infalat first declared, that he would not write a seduces, or for whom power has charms; whe-lible father of the christian church; for no line which should be submitted to the Com-ther that ambition, that pleasure, that power one can deny, that the immediate cause of mittee of Censorship; but with all his talent, involves the happiness of one or of millions, that change of opinions was owing to the inthe conduct of Benjamin Constant, has are allowed by your divines to be under my discreet sale of indulgencies,—a plan of exalways been contradictory. immediate controul; and, of course, I, not piating human guilt, and supporting the exthey, if history is to be the vehicle of truth, penditure of the clergy, of which I dare even ought to have the merit of the actions to my enemies to rob me of the merit. The which my disciples have owed their temporary consequences of that event, the persecutions, celebrity. With the soul-less few who do the cruelties, the burnings, could only have to others as they would have others do to their source in my suggestions; and all tend them," and whose names are rarely found in to show with what deference I am listened any record higher than the stone which marks to in assemblies of christian ministers, armed the termination of earthly hopes and fears, with the power of torture and of death. profess to have nothing to do. As history Europeans affect to look with horror on the forgets them, so let them be forgotten. savage nations who sacrifice human beings on my shrine; but how many christian processions, even in Britain, have had the same termination! And what can be conceived more consonant to my wishes than the rack, the impalements, or, to sum up all, an auto da fe of the catholic church of the present

To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. letters from a distinguished PERSON

66

That momentous retreat gave me no less
pleasure than it did the opponents of France.
Such a congregated inass of human misery
has been seldom equalled; and I am not
aware that, since the flood, I have witnessed
any thing similar:

They ran and cried out-Death!
Hell heard the sound, and back resounded

Death!

I trust, sir, I have said enough to convince even the most sceptical, of my universal agency in the affairs of mortals; and enough to secure my name the chief place in historical records, by every one who aims at the character of an impartial historian. I have, in fine, furnished a connecting link, which will render consistent actions formerly considered anomalous and improbable, and which will save future philosophers and future chroniclers much trouble in attempting to reconcile human motives to human actions, which never can be satisfactorily reconciled without the belief in my agency.

quainted with the origin and the power of Aline; her relations were apprised of her exalted destiny: but the suspicious etiquette of the seraglio always prevented every communication. The grandeur of the Sultana Valide did not change the affection of her family for this interesting branch of it; the memory of Aline has been perpetuated in it; a young person, beautiful as the first Aline, modest as herself, bears this romantic namewithout aspiring however to the honours of the seraglio.

THE DRAMA.

Our readers know that nothing is more difficult than to penetrate the mysteries of the seraglio of the Grand Signor. Some remarkable particulars have, however, lately transpired respecting the Sultana Valide, who died not long since. She was of a French family, born at Martinique. Her parents sent her to France at the age of fourteen, on board a merchantman of Marseilles. After passing the Straits of Gibraltar, the vessel was attacked and captured by a pirate, which took the crew and passengers as slaves to Algiers. The beautiful Creole was purchased by a merchant, who carried his valuable ac- COVENT GARDEN, The Warlock of the quisition to Smyrna. Meantime news was Glen-An after-piece under this title was received in France of the loss of this interest-produced on Saturday: it is from the pen of ing young person: a relation who filled one Mr. Walker, author of Wallace; and on of the highest posts in the department of the Wednesday this youthful poet, yet in his marine, and who was in high favour with the teens, furnished the whole entertainments of prime minister the Duc de Choiseul, disco- the evening at Covent Garden Theatre-a vered, after many inquiries, the place where fact in itself sufficiently remarkable to merit Finally, let the ladies recollect, that when Aline was held in slavery. The minister then a record in our pages. With regard to the in their parties scandal is the subject, or cards commissioned the French consul to offer a Warlock, it is of the melo-dramatic cast; and the amusement, I am present by myself or considerable sum to ransom the handsome of its genus, one of the most palatable substitutes; that they never can have a slave, and to restore her to the arms of a things we have seen. Without any feature téte-à-tête or an assignation with a dear mother, who was inconsolable for her loss. of novelty, its familiar materials are well friend, without my participation and know- The Armenian, satisfied with the ransom, was put together; the action proceeds rapidly ledge; and that she who oversteps in the ready to accept the sum, and the consul al- and directly, and the mixture of serious and slightest degree the bounds of matron de-ready announced the happy result of his zeal sportive, villanous and virtuous, is calculatcorum or virgin modesty, has run into a and his negociation, when Aline, from a ca- ed to amuse the mind from the commencesnare, from which all the prudence of female price which her friends were very far from ment to the catastrophe. A wicked chiefheads, and all the purity of female hearts, expecting, rendered all the measures useless tain has, (he supposes) murdered his brorarely effect an honourable escape. I men- which they had taken to procure her liberty. ther; and, usurping his honours, aims at tion this not to deter my fair readers from It is well known that the negroes, like all the death of his infant nephew the real heir, those innocent amusements which kill time ignorant and superstitious people, have great and a union with his mother. In this design so agreeably; but the fact is, so many of the faith in divination and fortune-telling. An he is defeated by a vassal fisherman, and the fairest forms and unsuspecting minds, swayed old negress, a sybil respected by the blacks, Warlock, who turns out to be the true Lord by fashions which they inly despise, crowd and, it is said, in no little credit with the saved from assassination. Some of the pasto enter the lists of error, that, however con- whites, had predicted to the charming Creole, sages bear a stronger resemblance to scenes trary it may seem to my character, I almost that she would one day become one of the already on the stage, than a more experipity the delusion which, for the fleeting and greatest princesses in the world. Aline re-enced author would have dared to venture; fevered enjoyment of a few moments, leads collecting this flattering prophecy, which finally and invariably leads to those "re- her looking-glass farther confirmed, resolved gions of sorrow, and doleful shades," (too to follow all the chances which destiny well known, alas! to me)seemed to prepare for her. It was in vain that solicitations were employed, that re

Where peace and rest can never dwell!

but Mr Walker appears to have gone on fearlessly, if not consciously; and his entire simplicity has secured his success. Yet the part where the Warlock issues from his cave upon the lady, child, and countryman, is si

One word more, (as my friend Dr. Round-monstrances were lavished, to make her re-milar to Octavian in the Mountaineers; and

nounce a resolution which could not but
appear extravagant: the hope of a crown
triumphed over all the considerations that
in slavery, which was to be for her the way
were suggested to her, and Aline remained

to a throne.

bottom says) and I have done. I trust that
the clergy, who are in general so vociferous
against me, will in talking of me in future,
speak of me as it becomes one gentleman to
speak of another. Vulgar abuse ill suits the
dignity of their profession, or the importance
of my character. Pray what would be their A rich and ambitious Turk, struck with her
The event soon justified her brilliant hopes.
use if there were not, or if there never had
been, a Devil. Not less than twenty thousand graces determined to purchase her and
of them in this country eat their bread indi-present her to the Sultan, who very soon
rectly through my means; and if I were once
fairly disposed of it is demonstrable that there
would be no farther occasion for tithes. I
know I have a good many friends even among
the clergy; and in the hope of their still in-
creasing in number, I forbear saying any
thing harsh but let them look to it, for we
stand or fall together.

I am, sir, your most humble servant, and sincere friend,

SATAN.

favour of the handkerchief to the honours of
noticed the young Odalisque. From the
the favourite Sultana, the interval was not
long; and the birth of a prince whom she
gave to the Ottoman empire, in 1784, raised
Valide. From that time she enjoyed in the
to the highest pitch the power of the Sultana
seraglio an ascendancy which she retained
till her death, and the influence of which has
gloriously extended beyond the tomb, in the
person of her son, the reigning Sultan.

the attempted murder of the child is equally
conformable in its lineaments to the Babes in
the Wood: the fisherman is quite another
ceived, and is indeed interesting, while the
Walter. The piece was exceedingly well re-
Scotch dresses, dances, &c. infuse a liveli
dation. Mrs. Faucit performed the dis-
ness into it which is not its least recommen-
tracted mother with extraordinary effect;
Mr. Abbott enchanted the audience as the
attempt at the Scottish dialect) gave a fine
Warlock; Farley (bating a most barbarous
rough picture of rude feeling in the fisher-
man; Blanchard, his son-in-law, showed
that there is no part he cannot do something
highland lassie.
with; and Miss Beaumont was a handsome

Mr. Vandenhoff is announced for Lear this evening. We are informed that he is engaged for three months, after which he goes to the Haymarket,

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Le Vicomte Chateaubriand, so well known to the literary circles, has been appointed French Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Prussia.

Gout-Many remedies have been proposed and tried for the gout; but a native of Belgium now asserts that he has discovered, in Roman history, the only real cure for that most painful disorder.

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