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have been held imprudent' here, even for strangers 1
to nave entrusted themselves in such hands ; as-no.
Venetian in a public charaaer, chuses to sleep out of
the fort, or to expose himself to the enmity of these
metintaineefS: On our 'passing the draw-bridge, we
were presently surrounded by a, crowd, who observ-
ed, • by'our .rnir.faches and habits,' that we were fo-
, reigners. When they understood that. we were
English, their satisfaction -encreased ; an one or trx o
whpspekeltalian, told ;its, that they had. gone to-
Engl:4o during the last War. in a Venetian frigate,
. Where they:Served as Marines. When I looked around
me, I fancied myself Once more among my Arabian
acquaintance. Their Mein, their dress, their arms,
their manners; were nearly the same ; and I cou7l.
not condemn the caution of
.the State, which suffer
no men with such art-Us, and such inefinations, to,
ent'c.r Ofeie walls. And. Yet, we'hactso.little appre-
hersian of danger from them, that We'should have
eagerly followed the suggestions' of curiosity, and
closed with their pryposal, of. visiting their country
for a le‘ %. days, had our situation admitted of it„ But
• the difference 'was wide between the Venetians and
us. We. had never offended them ; nor were we
the obje& of their jealousies or apprehensions ; , and
bad We'travelled in their domain, divested of finery
or money to tempt injustice, there would have been
no chance of meeting it, unprovoked, either in the:
deserts of Arabia., or the Mountains.of Greece ! On..
our return to the fort, we met the females of this
tribe,
.who, ,either (roar hard labour---which from
their subserviency to their husbands' fall all to their
share—or from other causes, are uncommonly hide
ons,an.ldisagreeable.' Their lot, indeed, appears an
hard one. Even . gallantry, with respect to the,sex
iu other places, is reversed .here ; and the wife sa-
lutes her husband by kisSing his hand ; of which I
was an eye-witness.
We heard several anecdotes, that mark the genius
of this extraordinary people; but the neconnt of one
which was related at the Governor's fable will serve
as. aspecityien- of the rest. 'The present Chief of the
Non tagnegrines having lately learnt that his sister was
ei?gaged in an intrigue during her husband's absence;
liesitated.not,a moment on the part he was to take.'
lle went direct to the house of the unfortunate,cul-
, prit ; . and, -without betraying the least sign,of -re-‘
morse, after assuring himself of the fa&, severed her
• had from her body with one stroke of his sword.--
Tlie sentence, it is true, for such a trespass, was only
anticipated ; as the unrelenting husband would have
ec<l:-.ted her head at his return : but the cool; though
cruel behaviour of this Chief, who, though unstimu-
lated by •jedloniy, and aauated by no other motives
th in the honour of 'his family and the rights of so-
.ciety, could perpetrate'sncli a deed, fills the mind with
mixtureof horrorr-and- adriiiratiOn ! We were
slrewn rnere.than one-of this tribe,. who was known
to .lave killed a dozen men with his own hand ; .
as thcir.hves were supposed to have been forfeited
try offekes, or taken in fair fight; it did not derogate
Evan the charaaer of the warrior."

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1806.

THE Wals' ingham•Packet, with a Mail from Lis-
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bon,is arrived at Falmouth. She sailed on the 19th ult.
The Letters will be deliVered to-morrow. The Prin-
cuss Elizabeth Ricker, from Falmouth, arrived at
Lisbon on the iath.ul,t.

LAST night we received Paris Papers of one day
later date tha❑ those which we laid before our Readers
yesterday. They contain nothing of importance.

.Adverting to-the subje& of the pendingNegotia-
Cons with France, a respe&able Morning Print ob-
s.rve4, that " should-Mr. Fox unfortunately drop
°Tat the present moment, withhim, most assured-
ly; would sink almosl every probable hope of an
i;Ozediate Peace."—What hope there may be of ,an
immediate Peace'we do not presume to say,
,or even
conjeaure,' as 'Government have uniformly main-
tained such impenetrable 'secrecy. as to the progress
of the iNegotiatlop ; but we cannot agree with the
Morning Print in supposing, that; the whole of the
ant• business, ilow in .agitatiOn, would drOp
wit h Mi: Fox. Th.tt his colleagues would exPerience
a great loss if such an event were to take place, can-
not.tbe doubted, but twit hercan it be doubted that Mi-
ntry in general have taken an 'efficient part in all
the mea,sures tend;ng to such an important result.
The critical situation'of Mr. Fox's health has obliged
ihem indeed to enter more particularly into the pro-
gress of the Negotiations than they might Other Wise
have' done, from motives of respea for the bigh.tar
tents and charaMer Of suds a distinguished States-
man, but it is iMposSible to suppose that matters
would have been brought • to , a definitive issue

without their entire participation and concurrence.
If, therefore, the illness of Mr. Fox should have a
fatal termination, their private regret would not in-
terfere with their public duty ; and as they must be
fully aware of all his sentiments and designs upon
the great business in view, the result would pro-
bably be such as he mast have had in contempla-
tion. ,Lord GRENVILLE, we are assured, has been
peculiarly attentive to the whole of.this weighty
concern, and his zeal has been greater in conse-
quence,of those variations in the health of Mr. Fox,
which Occasionally rendered that Gentleman less 'tit

to ta:,e v.ilt in the discussions and measures relative i