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4/ ee at to he k, on . : 7 - . Z.irj:l4'7, Z,ff • I'l6 , , v , : p<,l..r 0 '....,,, Ask- - ---) _ ------ • 00, R. ‘,... ---,- ,--'-"--?' •-• .....7 ..,- , _ilf WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 18.22. •A .. " 4 . 4(-". •-"t•vj 91 fr il .] 40 YAL DISPENSARY FOR. DISEASES OF THE BAR, _ Dean•street. 'q R. CURT - N -=-• and to —0 and Duchess of Institution, will commence I ' • • of 'LECTURES •on the ANATOMY , tiI YSIOLOGY, and I'AT.KOLOGY of the XAR, And on ! i .e Medical Treattner*, the Deaf and Dumb, on :40NDAY, iantipety 21st. Tor particulars, apply to Mr. Curtis, at his own house, 2 s Soho-ware. :r 1,1 ; Royal Dispensary is open to Pupils. ?!.11":T5FokTES AND PEDAL HARPS. HE best double-action PEDAL HARP in 1 England, bas not been used ten tittles, cost 110 Pounds. fur 80 Guineas: alio a Single action ditto, far 45 Guineas' capital Cabinet Pianoforte, neit to he , errtakied in 'Peen and Tuticb, for 38 Guineas, worth CO Guineas ; a Square Piano, 35 Guineas; grand six octave, with lyre palls, Pr.c. eost 100 P ounds, for 76 Guineas. Mai , be seen at Mr. WATLEN'S, IS, LcictsteP-place, foist Ten to Fire n'Clock. r': 4, OCE,;,S to PREVENT MILDEW in every - KIN!) of CANVAS, made either of HEMP, FLAX,. or COTTON. NIESSRS. BROWELL anii.CO. Alder •L manbury. having had their Invention himoured by a rxam.-4,— . .jut , of the Society of Ship Owlivrs of Great pritatn and Mr. COCK, its Secretary, having on the I lth Potober last aeqoainted them, " That th e Committe e (from : - the evidence laid before them) are pet fectly satisfied that the Invention possesses the valuable quality ascribed to it, l'elee 171 - acquaint 11 . 1; . ' - ;niiping i nterest, that Sail-Cloth of various kinds, which hare undex rie their Process, may be fi ad of Ne•s•-t.-.. Cbllvilers and pe ,,thrie, l'Aok-lanv,•Towei-stvect. •Each Bolt - is marked by a btanip with a Crown surrounding the letter B.—The low ','"ce of .5%. per Bolt for tAd. - per yard) occasions an expence '..Ktot exceeding in any case 5 per cent., for every Ship of what •%er size, upon the whole cost of the Sails. HI v il t :CO MAIERCIAL HALL WINE . t . c " OMPANY, (ablished. in the Year 1808) No. 10, A 4 INNER -STREET, est and No, 340, OXFORD-STREET, '-' 0 118. 1) . . . . ..,. ,, The VOMMERCIM. HALL 'tVI - Nv. COMPANY beg leave -r, present th e i r PRESENT PRICES, with their A.i.-44 - i.sit. ::ctlis for oast Faeonrs—and trust. kn . t lieu unremitting ' "---t'!2;.!)",..,*,.2_ t'll pod. n., l ,taietiei ~'. their Wines, Sm. and the 4 Plecedented lowness of their Prices, to secure unniter 'Piedly the distinguished public tavuur which they have fur 131, 3' years enjoyed. 4.... • Per arr.. Per Pipe. p nil IV ine, full or light-bodied - 345. -• 901. Ilitto of the Vintage 1815 - 41.5 - 1001. U 0 • L i Sherry . SU. and 38s. Siol. to 931- 0 . Li sbon, Teneriffe, Bucellas, }sot. to 951. and Vidortia - - '3Bs. and 42 4 . 4 1 , e Nlatieira -16 s. and es. 351. and 421. • bat° ditto, of those superior aitalitis which have justly acquired a decided preference in public Estimation, for :cleanness, dryn e s s , an d th e particiiiar fineness of its Ma r, otir, • imported only by the Commercial Nall Witte Company - 364. per Doz.-501. per Pipe. "if , e Burgundy (from the French 'Grave tratisolanted.)— This Wine is - highly recorumended, ant) particolarly to those Families who hare fie-n upon- th Caatincnt, and l ' l, e a pleasant sound light Wine V' s Os. per DOz.; 65 1 . per Pipe. * f 's4 - India Madeira, 4 8 s. and :;4s. per) uoz.the same Quality which was till 100% to 1301. do. he - p - csent Time 635. and .68 , i, Per Dos. d eructed Port Wines - - - 563. s r ir ditto - , _ .. (os. " t tlttdia Madeira, Twelve Year. old - 84 i. "(plume, Moselle, liarsac, and Vindegrnve - 75 5. "'rt. I,•ilitte and Chatrao Margot - 755. and 9 0 s• (I, • 1,, 9 mitia;ne, ttlf fittest still or sparkling' - . I ?is. `4el:ish ... 70s. - Old Hoch -80 s. DESSERT WINE` .4 , I IN, PINTS, • The most Choice. fa r ~ i t. ena, 28;. - Consiantia - 4lis . t yanusey, 50s - Lisbon - is. Id crusted port, Sherry, Bucellas, and Madeiras. . • bottled in Pints. GENUINE SPIRITS. Per Gallon. (; en era - - - 9s. e and d and Its. Gd. - -14 s. 6d. and I6s. t va rhudy an d I l e llands, old and soft - 21,5. rticularly fine white Brandy - • 234. To T. TAYLOR, Esq. No. 9, New Bridge•street, London. - - limeovitvut IBEG leave to inform you, that ever since the Vtar 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Ventrval, limn its ohstinately resisting every course at medicine r g scribet' by the most eminent of the faculty here, and no el'airip-.•:±yeralserere courses of salivation, and twice dis t .•*ged trom the Hospital with little relief, wroth! appear to flat. mast inveterate nature. In tie spring ot last year ( 4 1Aoriler hail got to such a head, as nearly to put a period nq existence—l 'ead a large ulcer on the crown Of my head, t en each arm, and my lees ,were brake; out in a frightful antler • my ri g ht was dreadfully painful, and had been in a st ate of ulcerationl' for the last seven years ; my left had also 1 large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave Ab 2. Inch excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed, w4 avrly to derive me of rest i'humpson,a •in this lmfwhti. enable Aso r a ecommend p ed by Mr. 3. received !!,eat a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills, I began to do on the 26th o. flay; in the course of a iii 4r taight I began to receive benefit—in More than a i i "th the ulcers on try head and arms were soundly healed— e."," after, the sores on, my legs healed also; leaving, how 'l''Considerable discolouration in the sin, and pain 1;1 the of the left, which, .hy the bleating k of God, an 4 a little t ° ,at.ter Pei severance in your invaluable Medicine, silbsnled ; I re nod es di s p ers i ng , the skin regaioing its natural hue, and a , nocturnal pains gradually going thus became, by irattr liberal advice and medicine, perfectlY free from all my s raler eomplaints—have recovered my former, spirits a nd Zeilgth, and am become jolly and fat, in which grate Baying 70titm e d many mon th s , lathe asn m inishent of all who knew • flee) I am tit a loss in what terms tw express my gratitude, but you, fur the good of other suffering mortals, to malif s i o " ray case as public - as possible, as I shall no every occa• ''; in so doing you will greatly oblige, . Sir, your graterol,nhedient; very humble servant. ALEX. M ti BK. Ea Close, high-street. Edinburgh. 4 0 1 Witnesses to the ahore Core:— Tbnixpson, No. 3, New Poultry M:trket, Edinburgh, r John Winton , ' Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. repared and seileh ' y the role Proprietor, THOMAS 'i: !• 1- ho Memt e t 01. - . the )loyal CoPege of Surgeons, at I, is eoL, se, No. 9, New .rridge-street, London, where, after a 146'1" cevidence o. more than 40 years, in a practice par ti pr.T.dirtcted to the cure ot Venereal Complaints and those ..u erit.2ll, to the l'arts of Generation, with t hat inviokble 44" Y v . -hich m en of his profession should always obiei vein p rcti l h e hatters himself the advice • and astistance he 4h aingsly'admiiiisters to persons taking this 'SSedieine, v ill westetmed, by ^. discerning Public, as an advattage seislum ainable, and void if all ambiguity. ii,,Uso Vila,' by his ammintreetit,tor the convenience of those at :t Costaace, at the Tovshop, No. 103, Oxford-street ; • •eugh's, 7; 4 , 7, ekh- street -hiti ; Mr. Baxter, kidinbutsh; Ms. Callwel 's, biin; and of every tcot,lerable town in Groat rritain nod 2s. St..one , %, stamped, and sealed lip full as ,„•,a directions. ' , hereby person, elf either .a•ncelces with flies or fed, and s 1 NDI A. THE LATE COLONEL, COLIN MACKENZIE. (Con tinurtl from THE Sin( of Saturday last.) Our readers will rememberthe notice we have taken in former numbers of the uedul life of the late Colon :A Mackenzie. We row beg leave to call attention to the literary labours of that la mented and distinguished individual, which are thus described in the Calcutta Governit:mt Gazette:— The LITERARY LABOURS of the late COLONEL MACKENZIE. . In addition to the 7Lerucnt 'wh'ich. we gavg d;..t. papa d t!Nt 17th ult., of such of late Col. Mackenzie's literary labours as have been laid befor^ the public, and consequently accessible to all ; we have now the satisfaction to publish, on the best au thority, a more particular notice of the arduous and enterprizing investigations which resulted fromlns official duties, and which, whilst they delineated the then unknown geOgraphy of the Pe nh:vie, contribitted to the accumulation of the volumirious materials which he collected for the elucidation of the past and present history of ,Hindoostan. _ _ In the midst of camps and the bustle of war, of travels and voyages, great accessions have often been made to human. know ledge ; and although " all. that a Ccesar wrote or. Camoens sung," may not be equalled by every military aspirant, it is nevertheless universally admitted, according to a celebrated sage of antiquity " that the human I mind can "expand to the occasion." Colonel Mackenzie has filled up . the vacant moments of an Indian Campaign, in the most meritorious manner, and his collections are not. only valuable in themselves, but they have been found useful in directing the attention of those more fr• (rifted, to matters of high importance to Philosophy and Science. ' • '"' •" • • • I The first thirieen of .:...el Mackenzie's life in _lndia may be considered as of little moment, in cO t 5 obser vations and notices of II indoo manners, of geography and of his tory. With every attachment to this pursuit, to which his at tention was • directed before he left England (in 1782-30 and not devoid of opportunities in India ; still the circumscrib ed means of a subaltern Officer, and the necessity of prompt attention to Military and profCssional duties, could not admit of that undeiiating attention, which Is so necessary to the full success of any pursuit at ail times, and much more so to. that which must be e?ttracwi. 4.44.-i k +3 , e various languages, dialects, and characters, of the Peninsula of India. A knowledge of the native languages, so essentially requisite, could not at that period be regularly cultivated, in consequence of the frequent changes and removils from Province to Pro vince ; from garrison to Camp; and from one desultory duty to imother.,--Thoseencouragernents to study the languages of . the vast countries that have come under our domination since his arrival in India, were reserved for more hippy times, and for those who are more fortunate in having leisure for their cultiva tion. From_the evils of famine, penury, and war, the land was then slowly emerging ; and there was a long struggle under the miseries of bad management, before the immediate administra tion of the . South came under the benign influence of the British Governroant. - ' •,. , • It was not till after his return from the Expedition to Ceylon in 1796, that accident threw, in his way those means that he has since, unceasingly and successfully Pursued, of penetrating be yond their confmon surface, the Antiquities, the History, and the Institutions, of the South of - India. The connexion he then formed with a lirarnin *, was the first step towards the acquisition of Indian knowledge. Unac quainted with. the languages himself, he owed to the happy genius of that individual the encouragement and the means of obtaining what. be so long sought. For this purpose 13 dif .ferent Dialects, and 21 characters were necessary. On the.re duction of Seringapatam in 1799, not one of the persons then employed by the British Government could translate from the Canarese alone,—at present we have translations made not only from the modern characters ; hut the more obscure and almost obsolete characters cf the Sassannums - (or Inscriptions) in Ca narese and in Tarnul ; besides such as have been done from the Sanscrit, of which during the Colonel's first years in India he could scarcely obtain any information. From the Moment the talents of the lamented Boris were applied, a new avenue to Hindoo knowledge was opened ; and though Cpl. Mackenzie was deprived of him at an early age, his example and instruc tions were so happily followed up by his brethren and disciples, that an establishment was gradually formed, by which the whole of our provinces might be gradually analyzed on the re.ethod thus fortunately begun and successfully followed. For thirteen years, therefore, there is little to shew besides the Journals and Notes of an Officer employed in all the cam paigns of the time. First, towards the dose of the war of 1783, in the province of Coimbatoor of Dindigul, and afterwards in professional duties in the provinces of Madras, - Nellore, and Guntoor, throughout the whole of the war from 1790 to 1792, in Mysore, and in the countries ceded to the Nizem by the peace of /792 ; and from that period he was engaged in the first attempt to methodize and embody the geography of the Deckan. Some voluntary efforts for these purposes bad at last excited the notice of a tew friends in the field, partial perhaps to his talents, and admiring his ardour for the pursuit. And in 1792, after the peece of Seringapatam, he was'sent a subaltern from the army in Mysore, by the desire of the late revered Lord Cornwallis, with the small detachment at first employed in the Nizam's duminons, for the purpose of acquiring some information of the geography of those countries, and of the re lative boundaries of the several States, then assuming a new form and new limits. From 1792 to 1799, it would be tedious to relate the impedi ma the accidents, and the discouragements that checked the prtgress of this design. In the year 1796, a General Map of the Nizam's dominions was submitted to the Madras Government, for the first time, compiled and digested from various materials of various autho rity, dc'cribed in a memoir that accompanied it: Further in quiry improved its supplements in 1798 and 99, and sonic en couragement was then held forth, that induced perseverance, though 'little effectual assistance was given. Col. Mackenzie's removal from any share in the direction of the Deckan surveys in 1806, put a stop to the farther improvement of this map; yet the subject has not been neglected, and it is hoped that it may be one day resumed on the revisal of the materials since collected, though on a more circumscribed scale than what was once intended. In returning to I-Ivdrabad in 1798, for the third time, to re sume the investigations of Deckan Geography, measures were " The lamented C. V. jloria, a Brannn, therialmostia youth, of the quickest genius and flispo!,ition ; possessing that conci liatory turn of mind which moon reconciled all sects .Ind all tribes to the course of inquiry foll Owed in the Surveys.—After soven years service, he was suddenly taken off, but not before he had formed his younger brother, and several other useful persona of all costfs, Bramius, Joins, and Malabars, to the in vestigations that have since been s.:4Cisfactatily pursued. proposed, and inlpart nictio.;;/ d, tur a nalyzing the, whoinsif9L the Deccan, and before 173,..._nonsiti:ial.dc help was attained by obtaining a copy of the I. , _;tkl,;:r Dufter of the Deckan, in is provincial and even inindir - qvi.s-ioris, which has been wince translated-from the Persian ; wll a.c:srtain MSS of autho rity, which were proposed as t hisis of the plan to be follow ed in the inquiry and (Lek:64ll.l:am 'The _Deckan... was in fact ten a Terra Incognito, or w; ii,!!) no authentic evidence existed, excepting in some uncertain'irotiees and inntilated sketches of the marcties of Bussy : and, in the, Travels of Tavernier itad Thevenot, which convey but Tittle satisfaction to the philoso phical accuracy of modern tiro s, • Thiqlan Was nearly ov. is t by the new war with Tippoo ; it will.be-Satisfa.ctory, bow?.ver, to.know, that the attempts then made were not without use, both in a military light, and in anti.ei*ating aleasures that have since - hem, or maybe still,.ad vantageously followed in arvanging the history, antiquities, and statistics, of that intzrestimr country. After the - seduction of Mysorc in 1799, and in the arrange ments that followed, Colon.:1 Maeltenzie was emplcyed tb.fur nish the Commissioners with ;eoiraphical information, and on his return to Madras, the Earlat: - . Mornington, then uoi-ci.nor. eneral, being justly .of. opiu.ibn that a. snore complete know ledge of these countries was indispensably necessary, appointed Min to survey _Mysore, assisttd h n establishment suited ra ther to an cconornical scale -Of expnitkiture, than to so exten sive an undertaking ; but to be 'carried' through a country yet so little known,. that the position of some of the provinces c&led by the treaty of partition could not be ascertained this survey was advanced under peculiar tirettnistanc.ea of em barrassment. ..... . Consonant to his original ideas, he considered this occasion favourable for arranging a plan of survey, ernbracing the sta tistics and history of - the'country, as well as of its geography ; and submitted a plan for this purpose, which was approved of by the - 111,14ms Governthent. Three assistants, and a naturalist, were for the.first time attached to him, yet this moderate esta blishment Was immediately after disapproved of in England. The.effects of this measure contributed to psralize every effort, but notwithstanding these difficulties, the success attending the first researches, and a conviction of their utility, induced 7 him to persevere till 1807. The Geography of the Province of Illy ere was literally completed in the minutest degree of forty thousand square miles of territory ; considerable materials j were acquired of its statistics and of its history ; and the basis laid for obtaining that of the Peninsula, an a-plan undeviat ingly follOWed up ever since.—(See the opinion of the Court of pirect q rs on the completion of the work.)• • Mtich of the ma?err..-ls collected ai this occasion were traps. -rutted home in seven lath •..?Alunvil• -A 0 e: ,,, neral and j;rovl'- the t suit inure consider.- ablecul Tn7t ) t ct e lb l s u f t o i r t i t s h e proper ry to o f o b t s h e e r v s e o , in reserve, not literally belonging. to the ..Nysore though springing from the same source. It is also properito 'notice; that in the course uf r these investi gations, and notwithstanding the embarrassments of this worl: • the first lights were thrown on the history of the country belo the Ghauts, which have been since enlarged by materials co7 l- r , stantly increasing ; and confirming the information acquired ill the upper country. Among various interesting subjects n ay be mentioned 1. The discovery of, the Jain Religion and Philosophy, :and its distinction from that of the Boudah. Y.. `.1.-r1; a..:;;nt — diie — ecnt SectSii — keligion in this country, and their subdivi a e Mutts, &c. an s. the Lingavunt, the Saivum, Panaerum -3. The nature and use of the zaaaanamus, and Inscriptions on stone and copper; and their utility in throWing light on the importane sub'ect of II indoo Tenures confirmed by upwards of three thousand authentic Inscriptions collected since I'doo. 4. The design and nature of the Orrnmental Stones and tro phies found in various parts of the countryy, from Cape Comorin to Delhi, called Venrucal s ad lastee Cull; which illustrate the ancient customs of the early inhabitants., and perhaps of the early Western Nations. 4. The Sepulchral, Tumuli Mounds and Barrows of the early Tribes, similar"to those found throughout the continent of Asia and. of Europe, illustrated by drawings, and various other notices of Antiquities and Institutions. . On the conclusion . of the _field duties of the Mysore Survey, for the compilations resulting from it have, at different time:, occupied inueit attention ~sits office_was ccmferred on Col. Mackenzie in Myzore, mitre, was afterwards confirmed by the favourable opinion of the Court of Directors, for the purpose of following up the investigations and digesting and improving the materials at leisure. But on a reform of some branches of the • military establishments in 1610, that department was entirely new modelled, and his appointment ceased, without any corn -pensation in salary or otherwise for what he had then lost. The Honourable Court in that order had signified their approbation of-What had been done, and even- sent orders encouraging the - further pursuit. In the end of 1311, the . GOvernment of Madras, on a review of the sudden increase of the expellee of Surveys in the preced ing ifive years, and the unconnected and confused manner in which these works were executed, without . any general fixed system, found it necessary to create en office of surveyor -Gene-. ral, as - was already established at the other residencies, and • were pleased to appoint Colonel Mackenzie to this charge, for reasons which he had in vain adduced fourteen years before. In consequence of the little countenance, given to these propositions in Europe, and of the measures adopted at Madras in 180f3; - he, on the completion of the Mysore survey, relinquished all ex pectations of conducting what would have been gratifying to his habits, and more appropriate to his health and time of life,. some years before ; and he only undertook the charge at this time, iii the hopes of being useful in assisting to give shape_ and order to what he had lons considered useful to the Infant!, and beneficial in an economical view to the East India Com pany. Ile was employed in arranging a method of carrying on its duties in future, and of combining the execution and results of the several works on one general systematic plan, with measures for preserving and digesting the various materials resulting from the labour of several years back, when from the exigencies of the Military service his professional attendance on the expe dition to Java was required by the concurring authorities of Government; that he had only the time to deposit the materials then collected into Office, before his attention was necessarily . directed to the pressing calls of the expedition. Of that Service, in which he embarked with alacrity; several detailed Reports were transmitted to tioaernment. It may not be improperhere to observe, that the plan proposed for the Surveyor General's Department in 1810,ern braced (with a gradualextension on one regular system, together with the usual objects of geographical delineation) a body of Statiatied and his torical materials, added to the mass of geographical sod military 'surveys then col'alctedand deposited by Col. 111ackenzie in one of fice, for the first time before hisdeparturc. Among these ere a copy of the Memoirs of Statistical and Cleographidal Survey of the Mysore Country, with the, original sections, charts, and maps, contracted from them on various scales, from one to 24 miles, which were among the first of the official documents delivered into the office of the Surveyor-General, under the inspection of a special Committee, early an 1311. On the Mysore Survey , the detailed reports stand on the re cords of Government at Fort Saint George, copies of which were sent home to England. On its final completion in March 1309, the remaining establishment of native surveyors was sent on Ina special representation to the ceded districts, and now we have almost an entire survey. of all the dominions of the late sove reignty of Mysore, as it existed a few years ago in the plenitude •of its power and territory. 'This • work adds 30,000 square miles to the 40.000 formerly reported on, and 'altogether seventy thousand square miles, minutely analyzed. The direction of this survey of the ceded districts was voluntarily conducted without any particular corripensation, until it fell into the gene ral superintendence of the. Surveyor-General's office, which is now reversed and transferred to the Surveyor-General of I India. - - ...... these works were in progress,the collection of materials on the history, antiquities, and statistics-of the country was ex tended throughout the whole of the Provinces under the Pre.si dency of Fort Saint George ' formed on the basis'of the lights originally obtained on the Mysore survey by natives trained and instructed by Colonel Mackenzie for this purpose; and with the only burthen to Government of the postage being franked, and the aid of some of the native writers; but all the purchasei were entirely at his own private expellee,. its well as the collec tion of MSS. throughout the Camatic, Malabar, the southern provinces, the Circars, and the Deckan. On Colonel,Mackenzie's rctirrn to Fort Saint George in 1815, he found that the offic; of Surveyor-Cieneral at Madras was ordered to be abolished ; and before lie could vitll go into the revisal-and the completion of the review of the survey depart oment, which belie" commenced in 1811, and which had been discontinued in consequence of his being sent on foreign service, he was honoured with the appointment of Surveyor-Ueneral of India on a new system, w;iich required a resilea.:e at Calcutta. —(Madras Courier.) I -- 4,' V , . P E it S 1 A. A short time since, Persia appeared almost alone in the Old World, to enjoy the sweets of peace, undisturbed by any intestine commtions ; but suddenlY her armies'were put in motion, and attacked the Ottoman empire, which seems to be threatened at once with every 'disaster. This new war is a feeble episode of the grand drama which is in . preparation, yet it has attracted, for the last two or three weeks, the public attention. To those who wish to be well acquainted wiih the theatre of it, to be familiar with the manners, enstoms,.and laws of these vast countries, bend ing under the yoke of despotism and superstition, we would recOmmend , the perusal of the Travels of M. Amedee Jaubert in Turkey, Persia, and Armenia, a work which has lately issued from the PariSian Press. JaubertWas charged with various missi?n , to Turkey and Persia, and in the years 180 N oni 1806, went on one of very great importan -e to the Sovereign of the latter country, the objer . of which, hoWever, he has not thought pror,. to disclose. a happy &but in Our traveller did not mat.-- his diplomatic journies.; suffered in Kurdistan, a country inhabited ty wandering tribes and plithderers, enough .nisfortunes, and met with in cidents enough, furnish the matter of a ro mance, and,•ven of a melo-drama. A Pacha who disc. aibles b€tter than the 'Most skilful po fitiorun, or the most . able comedian ; who loads t-'.e traveller with preSents, who gives him a feast, an escort, and soon afterwards causes , him to be sti ipped and thrown intoa frightful dungeon; a deep and infectious vault where the unfortunate Frenchman receives only black bread, and from the bottom of which he hears the noisy dances Of his oppressors; a venerable Aga who sends him consolation in this dark abode ; a tender, compassionate woman, for they are to be met With, every where, an angel who succeeds' in transmitting information to the King of Persia of the prisoner ; in short, the most animated pictures, the mist pathetic and varied situations, all, up to the great scene of gratitude, presents to our melo-drarnatic and novel writers excellent Materials for the display of their ingenuity. M.*Jaubert arrives at last in the country of Darius, the magnificence of whose modern Go• vernors equal's that of the ancient Satraps. We have heard that an open rivalry and jealousy divide the two eldest sons of the King ; and indeed, ac cording to all ,appearances, these brother-enemies, will one day furnish a subject to the Tragic muse. A bbas-Mirza, the second son, whom the Schah has since designed for the heir of his Throne, then commanded on the frontier and re ceived the Fla:nail envoy. M. Jaubert bestows the highest eu!ogiurns on this prince, in which respect he is in direct contradiction with a tra veller who has lately returned from Persia ; hut it should be observed that M. Jaubert performed his journey in 1806. All the talents and bril liant qualities which M. Jaubert admires in Prince Abbas, the other traveller extols in Prince Mahamed. These contradictory opinions, how ever, appear to us to admit of easy explanation. Sixteen years have elapsed since M. Jaubert performed, and in so long a space of time, the two Printes may have quite changed characters. Then Mahatned, by virtue of the right of print° , geniture, fancied himself sure of the Crow u ; and certain of reigning, he neglected the art of pleas ing. Au oriental 0.4.5p0t disdains to make parti zan's ; the sceptre and sabre satisfy him, and he cares little for the love of his people. A bbas- Mirza, on the contrary, at that time was appre hensive of remaining a ,subject, may have wished to - elevate himself by his talents, and to obtain favour with a 'people of whom he was not des tined lo become the master. Not expecting to make himself obeyed, be aimed at making him self beloved. The respective situation of the two princes is suddenly changed ; Abbas-Mina, be come the heir of the throne, has neglected all the sciences, and the cultivation of a good natural' understanding ; Mahamed, excluded from the crown, and desirous of deserving it, has exerted himself to obtain the love of the army and the people. Thus one has lost what the other has gained ; - and in this way, in our opinion, may be explained the contradictory accounts of the traveller who visited Persia fifteen years ago, and of him who islust returned from that country. Be that as it may, the discourse of yOnng A bbas-Mirza Jaubert; when the latter was admitted under his tent, will be read with plea sure, more particularly as this prince is now com manding the Persian army, which has invaded the Ottoman territory, and achieved the.conquest of Armenia : " Speak, stranger ; tell me what must be done to regenerate the Persians ;lought I, like the Muscovite Czar who for merly descended froin his throne to visit your towns, ought I to abandon Persia and all this vain splendour of riches? Or must I, in company with a sage, travel and . instruct myself to 01 that a Prince should know ? I have heard of the interesting adventures of a young lonian who quitted the shores of Ithaca in search of his father, and who traversed with benefit to himself the costs and islands of the White Sea, Syria, tgYpt, and ti - reece. Tell me what credit is to be given to that narrative, and inform me of the present condition of those COuntri,i; so celebrated which are now almost unknown to us, and Whether there are any records . of those illustrious Kings, whose nafines have scarcely reached Persia,. and give us but a confined idea of the grandeur of the ancients." h The Persians are magnificent in their fates; they give entertainments, the description of which would inspire our modern lint-allows with envy, and give our political epicures a hick idea of the wisdom of this gave rnwt:iit. PRICE SEVENPENCE. Jauhert was received at I)jeinal-A bad, whiCh . signifies the scud of prifedion, but which is, not withstanding, a wretched town, where you see cameleons and serpents, amid a quantity of suf focating dust and lizards The governor, Baba- Kan, is one of those old Sybarites, who blend devotion very well with pleasure, and more than one of whom we may meet, without going so far as Persia. He gave M. Jaubert an entertain ment, the details of which may furnish themes of inspiration to some of our poets. FloWers, cas cades, and voluptuous dances; slaves who em balmed the air with aloes and incense, and who, in spite of the laws of the Prophet, filled with exquisite wines golden vases and cups ; choir of musicians. who reh. aised the stanzas of an improvisatore ode' by a poet, who began to sing in the sweetest strains, but whose tones, at first affecting, by degrees became so violent, that you would have taken him for Orestes torn by the Furies.. are 'very -au t .....vfitio u s, and are even•ektremely intolerant respecting tht , titward ceremonies of their worship ;. but they are very accommodating touching matters of faith, and will even willingly discuss religious opinions ; very different front the Turks, who begin killing you to convince you. Poetry is much cultivated among the Persians; they are indeed quite mad respecting song and allegory ; the former is not always chaste, nor the latter always veiled ; but in this despotic country, there is no person to find fault,.not even the Faquirs and the Imans.. Feth-Ali-Schah, the present Sovereign of Persia, has among his principal Officers three men who possess great influence, his historio grapher, his story-teller, and his buffoon. The first is required to discoier the truth, the second to conceal it, and the third to tell it. The his toriographer acquits him Self of his duty as welt as certain of our historians.. The story-teller, whatever may be his talent for concealing his ideas under ingenious fictions, would not obtain the same success inTurope as in Asia. As for the buffoon, he is an original who is per mitted to say what he pleases without previous preparation and licence ; he says openly what he thinks acid what others think, nor does he regard either the courtiers, men in office, or the Schalk himself. No person has the right of calling him to order much less to command him to be silent. Sir John Malcolm, in his History of Persia, has related some very amusing anecdotes on the subject, which, as we have not his book at hand, we must quote; from memory. Kureem Khan belonged, he says, to one of the native tribes of Persia, whose language, on account of its harshness, is cal led the Ilar!,arous Dialer t. This prince being one day seated in public, heard a dog bark, and ordered his buflbon to ask the animal what it wanted: The courtiers smiled at this pleasan try of the monarch ; the buffoon obeyed his sovereign's orders, and after having appeared to listen some time, he returned and said, with a serious air, " Your Majesty must send one of the :ifficeft of your own family to learn what this gentleman says, for he speaks no other language but the Thrbarous Dialect ; of , which I do not understand a single word." One would think that the - buffoon would h. ! impaled for having dared to express himself th.,li irreverently ; he was not even prosecuted, not even reprimanded. The King, says Sir John Malcolm, laughed at the joke, and rewqrded jester. It seems that the despots of Persia air much more merry than the ministers Of free countries. The English traveller relates another anecdote, which proves that these slaves of det4.- -potism may take greater liberties than would be attempted by the inferior classes in European countries. Hajee Ibrahim, who was lately Prime Minister of Persia, took delight in relating a conversation which passed between his brother, then Governor of Ispahan, and a derder in vegetables of that town. Ad extraordinary impost had been put on all shops. This man presented himself before the Governor at a public audience, and declared he was not capable of paying the tax. " You must either pay it or quit the town," . said the man in office. " And where am Ito go ?" " You may go to Shiraz or. Kashan." " Your brother," observed the shop keeper, " is the Governor of one of these towns, and your nephew of the other ; what assistance can I expect at either of thon? places?" " You • may go to the Court," replied the Gover ner, "and complain to the King if you think I have acted un justly towards you." " Your other brother is Prime Mini stei." ." Go then to the infernal regions, and leave Inc in quiet." " Your very good father has perhaps great influence there," rejoined the dealer, with the utmost composure. Th? persons present, and the Governor himself, could not help laughing,' and the Petitioner obtained the remission of the tax. r There is more than one Excellency of Europe that would not have taken the joke in such good part. We see, also, from this anecdote, that in Asia Ministers do not forget their families any more than they do in Europe. - The descriptions of the enchanting gar dens of Feth-Ali-Schah and his harems are very interesting in the narrative of M. Jau bert. This Sovereign has four or five hundred .wives, and the portraits of all those who have enjoyed his favours decorate one of the galleries of the palace.. All strive to please him, and offer him presents worked with their own hands. The choice he makes every morning indicates jj Hi preference, or rather his taste, for the day.— There is something allegorical even in this cus tom : it seems to signify that the favours of the Great are not to he obtained gratis. This alle gory is not, we think, inapplicable to the customs l of some other countries as well as Persia. The work of M. Jaubert unites the useful tD the agreeable; and what is very acceptable in these times of rears :'and rumours of wars,- it is fnrt►ished witlaan excellent . rnap, vibich captains the theatre of the present, war between the Turks - and 'the Rersiris. C. en b tie . to i y