-

and fortune, which ought to have taught him to do, not what he is described to have done in the following cases. His presumption went so far, that in

ear

the bills for his benefit he set down the
name of Miss Byrne, one of the most
sweet and promising musicians of the
present day, as one of the common cho-
rus singers. A Miss Macauley made a
very auspicious debut, and was likely to
succeed tolerably well in the grand aim
of all performers, that of pleasing the
metropolis; but, to blight all her hopes,
Mr. Kean refused to play with her a second
night (page 37.) It is true he afterwards
retracted, in consequence of the
nest entreaties' of the Committee; but
what are we to think of a person who
could for a moment endure the idea of
blasting all the prospects of a contempo-
rary, because—she was taller than he liked
his heroines to be! There is another story
of a tragedy, entitled Romana, which,
after several rehearsals, was doomed to
the shelf, without a trial, from Mr. Kean
declaring that "it would not go through
the fourth act" (page 38.) Thus the
fairest hopes of the unfortunate author
were extinguished, and the reason as-
signed is, that though Mr. Kean had the
principal character, yet there happened
to be a

Part of an interesting Page committed to
Miss Kelly, and when she studied it, and

of that applause which was meant for any
other actor but himself, and, as he had the
power, he exercised the will, of throwing
into a transient shade all the musical and
comic strength of the Company-

Regius Professor of Greek, &c. London, 1818. pp. 95.

Sir J. E. Smith, it seems, aspires to the chair of the Professor of Botany at CamAnd tragic too! He became, as we bridge, in the probably not distant event stated in our Numbers at the time, the of a vacancy; and has endeavoured to very Bottom the Weaver' of Drury Lane. be introduced, as a preliminary step, to He sang, he danced, he played tragedy the office of Dr. Walker's Reader, to and comedy, and farce, and melo-drame, give in that capacity a course or courses he revelled in vanity. If new trage- of lectures to the students at the Univerdians of any talents were brought out, sity. Now this Gentleman, justly celebrated as he is for botanical knowledge, they were played to in so shameful a manner, that they had not the slightest is not a member of the University where chance of distinguishing themselves; and he desires to teach, and is a dissenter we remember being so much disgusted from the Church of England, and inon one occasion, when a debutant, Mr. competent to subscribe the Articles, as David Fisher, was insulated and thrown required of all those who accept situaupon himself without support by his fel- tions of trust and importance in that low-performers in the play, that we pub-learned body. Notwithstanding these licly reproved Mrs. Bartley and Mr. impediments, Sir James has written a Wallack for their carelessness towards pamphlet to prove that his election is him, involving, as it did great, disrespect eligible; in reply to which, the author to the audience. But the effects of the before us has stood up to confute his arpernicious disorganization which pre-guments, and shew that the University vailed in every branch were not limited ought rather to prefer talents within to the evils we have specified; they itself, and a person conforming to the pervaded the Committee-room, the stage, the green-room, and they weakened or ruined every effort behind and before the scenes, in private and in public.

The author of the Pamphlet seems to augur more favourably of the present authorities. Having failed in his attempt

established religion.

The point at issue belongs more peculiarly to the University than to us to decide upon-we scarcely feel authorised of this pamphlet, that it is ably written. to offer an opinion. But we may state It may enter too minutely into details for the general reader, but the question

collected upon it all the powers of her to exonerate them from their share in is assuredly of too high consequence to

wonderful genius, she gave the character so prominent a station on the canvas, that the tragedy was soon neglected in the quarter where it stood in need of most encouragement !!

Is this possible?

most thorough scrutiny of all its forms Cambridge to be dismissed without a and bearings. The author is strong without rudeness, and often severe without asperity. He does not appear to have left any part of his subject untouched, and if he has not adorned, he has forti

the past misconduct, we confess that we cannot participate in his expectations. They have begun the season ill; and if it be true, that instead of sterling plays and actors of known excellence, we are to have a course of endA prose tragedy, written by a lady of less novelties in the performances and distinguished literary reputation, expe.. the performers, we will venture to pre-fied his positions. rienced a similar fate;-Mr. Kean be-dict that the failure will be signal. But ing of opinion "it would not go through this is a subject which will come to be the second act (page 40,) though the considered in our usual criticisms, and Committee greatly admired it. we are released from the task of length

These are very grave imputationsening this Review by animadvering upon tract some piece of useful information

upon Mr. Kean, and we trust that being thus distinctly and publicly stated, that actor will think it due to his patrons to answer, and, if he can, refute them. If he does not, the character given of him

in the Pamphlet will attach most unpleasantly to him.

The special management with which he was honoured, rendered him a spoiled and wayward child. It could not be revoked, when its tendency was even actually found calamitous on the stage, and oppressive in the Green Room. Gifted with a new sceptre, he, as might have been almost naturally expected in such a situation [why, naturally? if he had common sense or common principle?] contracted a self-idolising disposition. He began to abhor the sound

it now.

As throwing a good deal, though of oblique, light upon the affairs of the Theatre, and as containing many curious facts, this publication deserves a place

Neither our limits nor our inclination tempt us into the controversy—it is enough that we have mentioned its nature. But as we generally try to exfrom the works we review, we shall endeavour to do so, even from the dry field of scholastic contention, by annexing a very brief history of the Botanical Professorship at Cambridge.

on the table of every one interested in
the drama. Its style is a little inflated,
In the year 1724, a Grace passed the
but upon the whole it is amusing. We Senate, granting the honorary title of Bo-
tanical Professor to Richard Bradley, Esq.
wish, too, it had spoken out about the F.R.S. (recently so much brought into
ladies, and not treated the green-room in notice as the supposed inventor of the ka-
this respect with the secresy which be-leidoscope,) a horticulturist eminently dis-
longs to a Haram !!

A Vindication of the University of Cam-
bridge, from the Reflections of Sir J. E.
Smith, President of the Linnean So-
ciety, &c. By the Rev. J. H. Monk,

tinguished by his publications, who had undertaken to construct at his own expense a at Cambridge. It appears, however, that botanical garden, an object greatly desired Mr. Bradley obtained this title by imposing on the credulity of the University: he took no steps, and seems to have ha

and considerable command of language:

It has long been a question with us, whether the superiority of virtue is more conspicuous in sharing the sorrows of the house of mourning, or in joining the gaiety of the house of feasting.'

every superiority of fate or merit in ano-
ther? and is not vanity pained by the story
of another's goodness or greatness? Hence,
we seem formed not to have pleasure in re-
joicing with those that rejoice; the most
potent emotions of our souls (self-love and
vanity) are pained by it, and, of all our du-
ties, perhaps it is the one that is the least re-
therefore-is there not preeminent virtue,
paid in exertion. Is there not great heroism,
in fulfilling so humble, so unrequiting a
duty?

the Bokara Kara; and in Persian Siah Sinch, both meaning black breast. It has a warty skin round the eye, the feet bare, the inside of the toes rough, and a small spur on the foot of both the male and female. It has a strong convex bill, with the nostril under the feather. The feet are black, and the forepart of the leg, which is very strong, is thers. covered with very short feruginous feaThe male is brown, spotted with black; the female of a dirty yellow and brown intermixed. Round the forepart of the trunk on the breast, is a horseshoe of black feathers, marked in the female than in the male. more strongly All the lower part of the trunk is black. They fly in flocks, have a soft note when on the wing, inhabit the plains, and do not run after they are once settled. They are produc-white on the exterior; and is good eating. always in pairs in the Spring. Their flesh is of two colours, black near the bone, and

We are very ready to concede that there is a sadness that amendeth the heart,' and that in a moral and religious point of view 'sorrow,' so far as it relates to the amelioration of character and temper, is better than laughter;' for sorrow humbles and softens, whilst laughter induces presumption and insensibility. But we doubt whether the human heart displays greater virtue in selecting scenes of misery, than in sharing seasons of felicity-in other words, which is the nobler effort of sympathy, to participate in the adversity or in the pros-much more of this interesting We could with pleasure transcribe perity of our neighbour.

There is little fear that the heaven-im-
planted emotion of compassion will be
checked by this disquisition. Highly do
we venerate the gentle sympathy that
weeps with those that weep,' but yet more
rejoices with those that rejoice."
warmly do we estimate the generosity that

tion, but we must check our inclination;
having already overstepped the bounds
which we usually prescribe to ourselves
on such subjects. We are persuaded,
however, that the extracts we have given
will induce our readers to concur with
us in the favourable opinion that we set
out with expressing. Were we disposed
to be hypercritical, we would say that
the style of the work, although gene-
rally playful and ironical, is sometimes,
we fear, satirical. We are quite aware
that this satire is directed against crea-
tures of the imagination; but is there
not some danger that there may be
found readers who will apply to their
friends in real life, the tone that is here
assumed towards Miss Patty Muddleton,
or Lady Wronghead? Were it not that
example is always more powerful than
precept, there could be no ground for
any apprehension of this nature, for the
mild treatment of error is invariably and

The superintending mercy that formed the soul of man, fitted it to relish most keenly those emotions that should most powerfully conduce to the general welfare. Hence, the sentiment of pity, that leads one human being to sympathize in the sorrows of another, is a feeling so soothing and agreeable as to attract him to the performance of this pleasurable duty, and amply to repay him for all the exertion it demands. When the breast commiserates another's woe, there is little, if any, bitterness mingled with our compassion; and what little may exist is quickly supplanted by the consoling conviction that we are ameliorating the afflictions we deplore. Even the consciousness of a superiority of fate may cause a sense of exultation in some minds, and of thankfulness in others (each accord ing to its peculiar temperament) to assist in opposing the inroads of grief, and to sustain the spirit amid scenes of foreign distress. Here we see we are actually constituted to feel a degree of satisfaction in sympathizing with the sorrows of our neighbour, and that the act increases our self-ably inculcated in every page of the love and self-consequence, whilst it gratifies our benevolence. Is there any heroism, therefore-any eminence of virtue, in fulfilling so pleasurable, so repaying a duty? When we go to the house of feasting, and rejoice with the fortunate, the favoured, a very different train of emotion is awakened: we are ushered into scenes of prosperitywe have to congratulate those as above us who were perhaps once below us, or once upon a level with us, or who, by a felicitous coincidence of circumstances, have always been above us, rising from exalta

work. There are in the composition a
few slight inaccuracies, which we will
not be so ungrateful as further to notice.
They are comparatively unimportant.
Besides, the fair author modestly calls
her performance a Sketch." She will,
no doubt, correct those trifling ble-
mishes in her finished pictures; and we
sincerely hope that she may produce a
whole gallery of them.

There is game of other sorts for Persian sporting, and in the Northern provinces our countrymen chased wild-asses, antelopes, and bustards. The former are remarkably fine animals, and so swift that an Arabian horse cannot overtake them. We may mention, en passant, as a new fact in natural history, that herds of this quadruped have recently been encountered for the first time in our Indian Empire, towards Cutch; several of which were killed by our officers, and their skins sent to Bombay. In the Persian rivers, gudgeon and dace are the most common fish, but Mr. Morier's remarks upon this subject are not numerons. His regards were more fixed on the antiquities, present political situation, and population of the country.

Among the latter the Bakhtiaree tribe is conspicuous and interesting:

The Bakhtiarees are a brave and hardy tribe of mountaineers, who inhabit more particularly the high lands of Louristan, but are also to be found in the Yeylaks and Kishlaks, which extend from Kerman to They have various and opposite traditions Kauzeroon, and from Kom to Shouster. about their origin; for some in a vague

manner assert, that they came from the eastward; others from Roum, (the name for Turkey common throughout Persia,) and thus at any rate that they are not of Persian origin. Their language would tend to contradict this last assertion, as it abounds in words of the old Farsee, and

tion to exaltation. If self-love is the strong-Morier's Second Journey through Persia, &c. has great affinity to that of the Zends.

est principle of the human soul (as, we believe, is universally admitted) is that most powerful sentiment wounded or soothed by the view of another's extraordinary success?

London 1818. 4to.

(Continued.)

Are we humbled or elevated by the un- It was the 10th of July when the Em-
avoidable contrast of our less splendid for-bassy left Shiraz on its way to Ispahan.
tunes? Is it pleasant, by gratulations, to In the cold region they saw
add triumphs to the triumphant? Is it agree-
able even tacitly to acknowledge inferiority
of desert or good fortune? Is not the self-
love implanted in us, directly opposing to

Several curious birds, and particularly cue (the black-breasted Partridge) which is found in great abundance throughout all the Northern provinces, called in Turkish

Yet they have several customs which distinguish them from the modern Persians. Their national dance in particular, the Chupper, resembles altogether the Arnaoutika of the modern Greeks, which is generally allowed to be of ancient Greek origin.

It is performed by an indefinite number of persons, who form themselves into a close front, by holding each other fast by the girdle; and then swinging on sideways, mark the time by stamping the feet, which

they alternately raise before them, with the toe upwards. They are led by a man, who dances independently of the others, and who flourishes a handkerchief about in the air, and sings as he dances. Bakhtiar sounds so much like Bactria, that this coincidence will bring to mind the Greek colony which was planted by Alexander there, and which De Guignes says was driven from thence to the westward by the Tar

tars.*

At their burials, instead of mourning they rejoice; for they collect round the grave, where they sing and dance the Chuppee to the sound of music. If the person to be buried has been killed in battle they rejoice the more, looking upon his death as halal, lawful; and should he have died at a distance from his home, they make up a temporary cenotaph, place his cap, his arms, and other effects upon it, and dance and rejoice around it.

In the Louristan they inhabit villages of about 20 to 30 houses, in difficult nooks of the mountains, wherever they can get water and grass: some also live in caves. Those with whom I have conversed pretend that they exercise all the hospitality of the wandering tribes; and as an instance of it say, that among them an old woman would sell herself rather than permit her guest to want food. But other Persians have as sured me, that they are very unwilling to permit strangers to sojourn amongst them, and are not scrupulous in robbing a passenger of all that he may possess. Their most famous strong-hold is about two menzils, or stages, from Dezfool, called Dez for shortness, but Dezi miounidezoo in the Bakhtiaree language, and is represented as situated in the centre of a long narrow defile, which it commands.

hostages for the good behaviour of the rest,
As it is, part of them are already looked
upon as Yaghi, or in rebellion, and are
headed by Assad Khan, one of their chiefs,
who keeps all the country in a state of
alarm, and even threatens Ispahan.

affairs of his particular obah; but when the interests of the whole tribe are concerned, as on questions of war or peace, of distant expeditions for chappow, or any other general object, then the chief Reishsefeeds, who are then called On-bashis, collect togeThe Courds are another tribe whose by their decisions. There appears to be a ther in council, and the remainder abide chief territories being on the borders be- very equal distribution of riches amongst tween ill-governed nations of Turkey and them, and each family seems to have as Persia, their habits are turbulent and law-much independence and liberty as can be less. They pay little respect to either enjoyed by man. Their Reishsefeeds are of their more powerful neighbours, and neither the most rich nor the most powerit is principally when called in by their ful, but those who have gained the greatest domestic feuds that Courdistan feels the experience. weight of foreign authority. Mahomed Ali Mirza lately put to death the son of a chief who was raised to rule by Persian aid, but forgot his obligations, and that his unfortunate offspring was a hostage for his fidelity. The Turcomans, another Northern frontier tribe, afford a history extraordinary in the annals of mankind at this era of civilization :

The Turcomans however have a sort of spiritual chief, who sways only by the force of poverty and forbearance. He resides at Bokhara, and enjoys the title of Khalifeh, or Calif. The history of Beg Jan, (whom we mentioned in a former Number of this Review,) father to the present Prince of Bokhara, is very remarkable, because it shows the great power that may be acquired over a bigotted and ignorant people by one who will put himself to the trouble of affecting Their principal tribes on the frontier of austerity and devotion. Beg Jan was rePersia, are the Yemout and the Gúklan;vered as a saint, and every part of his conthese united, about 8 or 10,000 families in duct tended to establish his reputation in number, are nominally subject to Persia, that character. He reserved to himself only but their subjection amounts to little else one small portion of land, which, after the than a present of a few horses annually to manner of Mohamed, he called the Beit-althe King, who is so careful not to give mal, and this he cultivated with his own them cause of disgust, that he generally re- hands. The corn it produced he not only turns them more than he receives. Their cut and winnowed himself, he even ground frontier is about eight fursungs from As- it into flour with a hand-mill, and with no terabad, and they constantly communicate other addition than vinegar, made it into with Persia. The only agreement that bread for food. His horse he fed himself, but seems to exist between the parties, is a the corn for it was collected from each house. tacit sort of convention, that they shall Whatever more was necessary for his subnot chappow (as it is termed,) that is, plun- sistence, he'gained by the labour of his hands, der each other. These tribes occupy the either by platting whips or weaving carpets The tribe is divided into two branches, first part of the Dasht or plains, as far as He thus acquired so great an influence over the Haft Leng and the Chahar Leng, the Gurgan river, inhabiting tents of about the minds of the people, that whatever he which, again are divided and subdivided twenty or thirty in an encampment, which said was a law. Every dispute was setinto many Tirs or Shafts. Leng, in their is then called an Obah. Beyond these is the tled by his word; nothing was underdialect means feet; and the denomina- tribe of Tekeh, the largest and the most taken in public affairs except by his orditions of Haft Leng, seven feet, and Chahar powerful. It extends beyond the Atrak, nance; in a word, he enjoyed sovereign Leng, four feet, they say, originated in a and generally is at variance with the Ye-power. The present Prince, at the death demand made upon their tribe in ancient mout and the Gúklan, who for mutual of Beg Jan, his father, at first threw off times, for a certain quota of cavalry, which preservation are in strict alliance with each the saint to assume the King; but finding was so levied that one part of the tribe was other, and whose united forces are suffi- that he began to be abandoned, he thought assessed seven feet, or one horse and three cient to oppose those of Tekeh. It is at it best to assume the saint again. It is said quarters, and the other part only four, or variance also with the Persians, and when- that his revenue is derived from a tribute one horse. They have strong ties of clan-ever the parties find a fit opportunity, they paid by 500 families of Jews, resident at ship, are extremely attached to their Khans, Bokhara, who are assessed according to the and will espouse their cause whenever they means of each, the richest paying one are called upon; but the Bakhtiaree who gave ashref (a gold coin,) which gradually dime the greatest part of this information, asminishes as it descends to the poorest. sured me, that amongst themselves, in their domestic circles, they constantly are at variance with each other, and that he himself had received 16 wounds from disputes in the Mejlis (assembly) with his relations. If they had opportunity and assistance, it is likely that they would throw off their allegiance to Persia; and the King is so well aware of that, that he keeps many families of them in separate villages about Teheran, as

See Robertson's Disquisition concerning Ancient India, and his xvith note. +2 Samuel, xii. 20. 22, 23.

do not fail to make inroads, and carry away
booty and prisoners. Beyond these again
are the tribes of the Keik and Kargi, si-
tuated near the Jihoon. The Yeylak, or
summer quarters of the Yemout is on the
banks of the Atrak, and that of those who
inhabit the Atrak, in the Balkhan. Their
Yeylaks and Kishlaks are most strictly de-
fined; the Charwah, who are the richest,
taking the best, whilst the poorer families,
who are called the Chumal, put up with the
secondary situations. Every tribe is inde-
pendent, and each family acknowledges
only its own chief; but every twenty or
thirty families, which generally form an en-
campment as before observed, have their
elder or Reishsefeed chosen from among
themselves. He merely presides over the

Of the same nature was the influence which, within these two years, a celebrated adventurer, by the name of Mahomed Chini, gained over the Turcomans, whose hostile acts at his instigation gave great umbrage to the King of Persia. The Turcomans are Sunnis, and Mahomed Chini was a strenuous upholder of that faith. He came to Teheran, and for some time was the guest of Mahomed Hossein Khan Mervi, one of the principal noblemen of the Persian court. He affected great austerity, dressed meanly, and frequented the medressehs, or colleges, where he constantly engaged the Shiah Mol

The major part of my subjects have conceived the idea that I was deeply impressed with a sense of the evils produced by chicaney: but I frankly confess to youthough I blush while I make the confession

lahs, or doctors, in controversial disputes of Tekeh; for some of which Persian no- | order of men who were capable of thwarton the orthodoxy of their faith. Whether blemen have been known to give to the ing my inclinations: and it was the sole real or feigned, he pretended to have claims amount of three or four hundred tomans. impulse of that spirit, which prompted me on some property within the verge of Per- The forces of the Turcomans consist en- to frame my new Code of laws. I am, insian influence, on the confines of Khoras-tirely of cavalry, which, if their tribes were deed, well aware that I have thus * stripped san, and for some time endeavoured to ob- united, and led on by an able chief, would Dame Justice of her flowing robes, and tain the interference of the King; but find-be numerous enough to overrun the present arrayed her in very scanty attire: but then ing that he was not heeded, he departed empire of Persia, and to repeat the horrors I dreaded her, because I saw how great her from Teheran, in company with some Tur- of a Scythian irruption. They seem to pos- influence with the bulk of mankind; and I coman hostages, whose escape he had se- sess a great many of the qualities of the knew that a judicious sovereign may win conded, and reached their obahs in safety. Cossacks. When they are least expected, the adoration of his people, at the very time The hospitality of the Turcomans is noto- they make their appearance in the most that he is solely intent on gratifying his rious, particularly to devotees. Mahomed distant parts of Persia, and carry away cap- own ambition. Chini, by his address, his appearance of tives from the very interior of towns. Their sanctity, and his arts, soon gained a great perseverance, their patience under privaascendancy over them. He pretended to tions, and their fortitude, are unrivalled: work miracles; and imposed upon them a these qualities, if exercised in a more noble cup that would never empty, and a tobrah calling, would render them an invincible or horse-bag, which, however a horse might enemy. As they never appear but in small that, far from being influenced by moeat, would always keep its full measure of numbers at a time, the Persians despise tives of that kind, I regret the loss of those In the course of a short time he them, and treat them with great rigour and emoluments which I was accustomed to defound himself at the head of a large body cruelty; but the instances related of their rive from that source: for the diminution of múrids, or disciples, whose minds took individual courage and hardihood, their in the produce of the duties on law proceedwhatever impulse he chose to give them; fidelity to each other, and their indepen-ings and on stamps, has caused a reduction and he lost no time in directing them to-dent spirit, would do credit to the best ages in my revenue, of nearly five hundred wards his private views. He headed them of Greece and Rome. thousand livres † per annum. in inroads against the Persians, and made great ravages about Asterabad. He possessed himself of Meyamey, Ketoul, Fenderis, Tajerm, and other places in the vicinities of Kalpoush and Asterabad, and gave himself the airs of royalty. He issued firmans, and even addressed them to the King of Persia, in a style of boldness that did not fail to have a certain degree of effect. He routed the Persians several times, and was daily increasing in power, when he was killed in a rencontre near Asterabad. The Turcomans revere his memory as a saint, and make the ziaret, or pilgrimage, at his tomb.

corn.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCÉ.

ROYAL EVENING CONVERSATIONS,

OR

LESSONS ON THE ART OF GOVERNMENT.

(Attributed to Frederic III. of Prussia, as
addressed to his Nephew and Heir ap-
parent, afterward Frederic IV.)

(Continued from No. 86.)

To the Editor of the Literary Gazette.
SIR,

In sending to you this continuation of the
R. E. C. I have still greater reason, than
on the preceding occasion, to notice the
very striking difference between my trans-
lation and the anonymous extracts in your
Number for May 9, and to repeat the as-

Do not, my dear Nephew, suffer your mind to be dazzled by the word, "Justice." It is a term which bears different relations, and is susceptible of various meanings.-The sense, in which I understand it, is this :Justice is the image of the Deity: and who then can pretend to attain so exalted a degree of perfection? Is it not rather a proof of good sense and judgement to renounce fect possession of it?-Survey all the diffethe romantic project of gaining full and perrent countries of the globe; and see whether justice be administered in the same manner in any two of them. Next consider the principles which influence the actions of mankind: see whether, in these, you can discover any appearance of accordancy; and then let me ask you, What wonder is it, that each man should choose to regulate his conduct by his own private system of justice?

Mahomed Chini was the disciple of a man still more extraordinary than himself, who seven years before had great sway in the eastern parts of Persia, and who was adored at Herat as a prophet. He went by the name of Hazret Ishan, and was so skilful an impostor that many of his disciples, of whom he had great numbers, were so bi-surance that I have not omitted even arious tribunals throughout my kingdom, I

single sentence of what is contained in my
French original. From what source has
been derived the additional matter which
appears in those extracts, is a question
which I leave to be answered by those who
have brought them forward. Meantime, I
am, Sir,

Your humble Servant,
and constant Reader,

gotted as to offer themselves as sacrifices
to evince their faith in him. His great mi-
racle was a digue, or cauldron, which would
feed five hundred poor with rice. He placed
it in a corner of his room, made a commu-
nication with another apartment, through
which he poured in fresh rice, and then
collecting a great multitude together he
appeared to feed them all from this caul-
dron. He also waged war with the Kho-
rassanees, going to battle in a litter, carried West Square, September 17.
on the heads of his múrids, who constantly
relieved each other. But he fell in a battle
with the Persians, having been pierced
through, litter and all, with a spear, when
his disciples fled, and quiet was restored.

The Turcomans are great cultivators of corn; their territory yields immensely; and when a scarcity exists in Khorassan, they supply the deficiency. They are very rich in all sorts of cattle, and rear a superb race of horses, which perhaps are in more estimation among the Persians than those of Arabia. The most famous breed is that

EVENING III.

Of Justice.

JOHN CAREY.

We are bound to administer justice to our subjects, as they are bound to pay us respect. This is a point universally agreed on: but we must cautiously guard against the error of suffering that same justice to subdue and enslave us. Let us contemplate her, my dear Nephew, leading Charles to the scaffold !-I was born with too high a spirit, to tolerate, in my dominions, any

When I turned my eyes toward the va

beheld a countless host of lawyers, all reputed men of honor, but every one of them suspected to possess very little claim to that title. Each tribunal was controllable by a superior power:-even I myself was not free from such control; for opposition was made to the sentences pronounced by my council. To this contrariation I patiently submitted, because it was an established custom. But, on considering the progress which Dame Justice was making in my dominions, I was alarmed at the prospect of her having, within the compass of a century, one tenth part of iny subjects enrolled under her banners: and, on calculating the sums requisite to support those legions of her retainers, I trembled at the idea that a full tenth of the aggregate income of my whole kingdom must fall into their hands.

"Stripped Dame Justice..... scanty attire -more concisely, and more quaintly, expressed in the original, viz. "Pai mis la bonne Dame en pet'-en-l'air."

+ Near twenty-one thousand pounds sterling.