The National Register.
London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

VER. 15.

ay discovered by Awl, and in the contest Atari strikes gds.
This, the latter would have avenged with his poniard, till re-
que:ted by Leila nut to kill her fattier ; he then tells her he can
a., lancer asiociate with his military companions, and, therefore,
w ill wish her gtm.l 1114)111illg, and retire to the Desert, to lament
his dishonour. Alt this is dime with much warlike pomp, and
the gentle Leila is ;wiled by a baud of strapping fellows, with
long pikes, as if, like the hiug of Brentford, she bad got au
army in her pocket.
As in assipnation is nothing without a confidant, Kais is
assisted in his utter. iew by ilosella, a Circassian slave; stolen
Item her father's cottage, and followed into Egypt by Alm-
ran, under the name of ilarvellosu, who, it appears, keeps a
coffee shed, inhere he retails out collee and lung stories, to a
number of light, airy, si.ipping, good humoured young Turks;
all, of course, very natural and very appropriate!
Rosetta, to be on a par w ith her mistress, has not only a
NOUllg Lover; but also an old one, Baschrti, with whom she
vadergoes a very amorous assisted by a spinning
idled, whose evolutions and accidents tire a kind of accompa-
niment to her song. who have visited the countries of
the East, may pernisps enquire bow long it is since the spinning
wiled has superseded the use of the distaff; ss mist those nut
e!ifiversant with Eastern customs, might naturally expert a se-
(.:Jul edition of

" Somehow, my spintile I mi.laid.".

41morani meeting with ,ilindnzia., the Page of ifal4 h in-
formed of itosctla being a blaVt at Caird, he therefore at-
tempts to gain an interne[ s ith M'r in the disguise of a peri-
patetic perfumer, and at last discovers td t• coining out of a
Mosque: a place, by the bye, o here the 2.7lasaLimetans arc not
very food of admittinz the Ladies, as they imacine that those
vt ho have no souls, have nothing with religion.
We are now presented tv ith a view of /AN and Rosetta en-
joy in; theunelv es by inemAight, lheaa distant voice, in a
soft warbling tone, tells them that hail is gone to the desiirt,
whither %l is, Leila resolse:, to tallow hiu.;. She sets oil on
foot, in a dress which, sin!. *as tibligini; enough to inform us,
is a pilgrim's habit, and on her s a im.eting with Achniel,
the father of her lour, harems his tOi,l,t.kllCe in her search.
'lin• old man very kindly asks her buil his hut, and walks in
himself, when Ali,,, thouth in a violent hurry to talk of her
lever, stops at the door to give us a song.
.Iboran and llosrtift hav log escaped to.tether, join the Ca-
ravan for 'Mecca, though why the. snookd ico to Mocca in their
W.ty to Cireassia, is left to tile itIAWIICV to find nut. They
meet, as usual, vt ith the pltinrir Hoy: Arab+, by whom they arc
robbed and separated, and Lcita and .ihnird soon meet the
same fate :—at 61, moment she robbers hate seited upon
Lild„ilnioran step: in and ran:aots her, tv a jewel north
many sequins, altlit.ugh he had been robbed and stripped bum
tniaetes befor,•.

Ards is 1:e tt seen ainua,.;it me 4 sphynxes and blasted trceA,
where he talks much, Lind more about dying, &c. lle is
t last travel b. hi, ;with of .1/nuria:or ; and after some time, a
meetin4 t tke., place t:ie two f4ther4, who rail at each
other through a long dialogue. when as they are drawing
thPir bri meta the I. lice of pt stew in and rceoncaeb them.
Didl•ren: pa :;re sent in pursuit of the wanderers, who go
through se%cral b 0.111.• of Aid,-,cn!-s,-ek, in the Dysart, when a
part) of sohlior:. a rhse.. !1:.:!tled by an °dicer, who seemed quite
oat or breath, w hit •t he iiintrott...l them that he was sent to bring
theta tr. Papa. _ _ .

q.lick as th:ingle, or ni s telegraphic divatch, they rcthrn to
Cniro, illuminated on tan occasion, and, as
Vv• old story. gee. " cods happily.".
Moth it the outline of Lite Opci'a, on which a great e:tpence
has Leen iocurred in scenery ; %et, IlOWE'Vt`r brilliant this was,
it waQ nevertheless tii!,ge4(itis to tbo,e at all acquainted w ith
1-•;:yptian or De-art Landscape. In one ,cene, we have the
volcanic mountain tied larcti tree-. 4, of tile American
toast ; in another, are masses of rocks, cold enough to repre-
sent toe keltergs of ; irecoland.
The ina,ic, in general, seemed much 'Oinked, though sonic
otticions friends, by (heir early and obstinate encores, gave dis-
gust to the au.lieace in general. A son;, which Almoratt was
forced to ,ing, having a drawn &cellular hung over hint, seemed
to afiOrd much aniusem.sa, though Bannister slyly observed,
that he had neve:sung before to Mat instrument.
Whea fame is Ro long, and perhaps so well eitablished as Mr.
Witham's, both for execution and composition, it might seem
prerimptuniss to find faul: ; yet, as there is something so in-
coo.gritoui in general between the cadepee of the songs as read,
and the pauses ;nil star;s ti; his flourishes, it be a-