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London, England, 1828-04-24 00:00:00

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OF 58 ON MR. CALC7RAFT'S AMENDMENT, THAT THE ptrOT PRICE OF
WHEAT SHALL BE (OS. INSTEAD OF 645.
Althorp, Viscount Harvey, 1). W. Protheroe, Ed.
Baring, A. Hobhouse, J. C. Ramsbottom, J.
Baring, F. Jephson, C. O. Rice, T. S.
Raring, H. Kekelvich,.S. T. Robinson, George R
Barclay, David Knight, R. Robinson, Sir G.
Bernal R. L,bouchere, B. I Rumbold, C. E.
Calcraft, John Leigh, Ch andos Sebright, Sir John
Cave, -R. 0. Lumley, J. S. Slaney, 11. A.
Clements, Viscount Marjoribanks, S. Stanley,. Lord
Crompton, S. Marshall, W. Thompson, Ald. .
Clive, E. B. Martin, J. Thomson, C. P.
DOll3Oll, W. • Monck, J. B. Webb, •Ect.
Easthope, J. Morpeth, viscount Wilbraham, G
Foley, J. H. . Pendarres, E. W. Wrottesley, Sir J.
Forbes, J. Ponsonby, Hon. F. Wood, Aid.
Fortescue, Hon. G. Ponsenbv, Hon. G. Wood, J.
Eyler, T. B. Poyntz, W. S. Wynn, Right Hon.C.
Graham, Sir J. Philipps, Sir U. • Wynn, Sir W. W.
Guest, J. Philips, G. TELLER.
Harvey, Sir E. Phillimore, Dr. Stanley, Hon. E.

This is a tale of the East, of the same school as
Anastasius and Hajji Baba; with infinitely less
masculine power, and acquaintance with the darker
passions of our nature than the first; and more spirit
and versatility of talent than the last. It is a mean
between the two. The scene lies chieflyin the Per-
sian proyinceof Khorasan, and the time of action is the
commencement of the last century ;' when the great
Nadir Shah was just commencing that career of glory,
which terminated in the conquest of the EaSt. The
hero of the tale is Ismael Khan, a Kuzzilbash (i. e.
Turkish soldier), who, at an early period of childhood,
is torn from home by a party of roving Turcomans,
and domesticated in the house of a Chieftain of that
tribe, with whose Son Selith he forms a strict friend-
ship; so strict, indeed, that it leads, in due time, to
the seduction of his sister Shireen. For this faux
pas the Kuzzilbash is 'compelled to quit the Turco-
mans, and with the , privity of Selim,—who,
finding that his sister's dishonour was not
the result of deliberate treachery, but of a
youthful and uncontrnulable attachment, is persua-
ded to forgive his friend—shapes his course towards
the deserts, wherein he encounters a land-storm,
the details of which are given with freedom and
energy. In his journey across these sands, he acci-
dentally falls in with Ibrahim Khan, brother of Nadir
Shah,to whom he so strongly recommends himself by
one or two seasonable acts of heroism, that Ibrahim
takes him forthwith to his brother's court, and there
procures him a military appointment among the house-
hold. This introduces us at once to the Shah himself,
whose apvearatice :is forcibly described, and what is
better stilt, with due regard to historic accuracy. He
was at that time ( 1722) a warrior in the flower of
his youth, at the head of a fine Persian Army, by
whose assistance he rescued his country 'from the
rebellions tribes who then possessed its, provinces,
and restored it whole and unshackled to its lawful
Sovereign Shah Tahmaseb. Of his subsequent
usurpation the author of the Kozzilbaih does not
profess to treat, his story regards only the earlier
achievements of the conqueror.. Under Nadir's aus-
pices our hero soon becomes . a person conse-
quencehis valour procures him promotion, his.
gotih ;
humour, friends; and after a long brilliant cam-
paign he is ordered into quarters at the holy city of
Mushed, which Nadir Shah had just rescued from
the rebels. At this place, the haunt of luxury and
dissipation, he encounters the usual adventures of a
soldier; he spends his money at a gambling table,
his health and substance at the bath, and then, tired
of promiscuous intercourse,• fixes, his affections on
the mistress of an old Mashed ;Moollah. This lady
(by name Fatimah) is a jealous, haughty, avaricious,
dark eyed beauty, fond to excess in love, and equally
extreme its hate. . For a 'time her affection' for
our Kuzzilbash knows no bounds, but unluckily, just
as it is op the ebb, she discovers that he has been
intriguing with her slave Zeebah. The usual con-
sequences follow thiS discovery; the poor slave is
tortured by Fatimah's orders in presence of the
Kuziilbash, who, fettered and unarmed, can render
no assistance; and she herself takes poison, after hav-

About a month subsequent to this catastrophe, the
Kuzzilbash returns to the camp of Nadir Shah, by
whom he is at first contumeliously treated for his long
absence, hnt afterwards promoted,in consequence of
his having saved his life in an encounter with the
rebel Affghauns. Our hero accompanies the con-
queror through two succeeding campaigns, witnesses
his triumphal 'entry into Ispahan, the Persian capi-
tal, and is, like a hundred others, awe-struck with his
rigid unswerving administration of justice. Jiist at
this period, when Nadir has reinstated the so-
vereign on his throne, news is
.brought that-the
Turcoman tribes are in arms ; without a moment's
delay the conqueror quits Ispahan, and pushes for-
ward to give battle to the rebels, whom he defeats
with prodigious loss. The Kuzzilbash meanwhile
returns on leave of absence to Mushed ; where un-
expectedly he meets his first love Shireen ; from whose
lips he learns that Selim---=her brother and his friend—
bad been taken prisoner, together with numerous
other.Turcoman chiefs, by Nadir, and was at that very
moment lodged in the state dungeon at Mushed. To
obtain, no 'natter by what means, the pardon
of his old friend, is at once the .Kuii-
bash's resolution ; aepordingly he seeks an
interview with Nadir Shah, and after long, and
for some time hopeless entreaties, finally•succeeds in
obtaining it. With this good news he returns to
Selim, 'hoping that his friend and himself will not
in future be separated ; 'but finds' that the higli spin
cited young Turcoman chief, a sort of Rob Roy
in his romantic love of country—is
_fixed in a de-
termination to return to hit native deserts ;, and
there, collecting his scattered tribes, to emigrate
with
.them to, some free region in the remotest puts
of Persia. His sister Shireen (with whom the Kuz-
zilbash
extract leave v e
scene e f them
in
is on the eve or marrit4ge) enneavours to
persuade him to. stay with Ahem at blushed : but in
vain, the wild andrccesrtl.essme S 7
e I im takes
awbbritelphtityhisPd resolution
for
is announced : it is full of feel-
ing, and worthy to have procOeded from Rob Roy ;
when his diminished clan, with himself and Ilelen
Macgregor at their head, bade a long farewell to the
Highlands.
,r At length the time arrived when ,Selim must depart,
He had tarried until he saw me unitpd to his sister by the
strictest bonds of out law but the piddiness of returning
health had scarce revisited hi' pale cheek, ere the thought
of his high duties roused him to action, and he prepared
to bid us farewell. Rejecting the gifts I fain would have
heaped upon him, he only woultVaccept of that which once
had been his parting gift to life.--a warrior's outfit ; and I
took care that it should be cotnnte•
Oh yet, my brother, go not from us !' exclaimed
Shireen, wringing her hands in bitter grief, as, all equip-
ped for his journey, he stood before us for the last time ;
Ilethink you, that you have no object to love—none to
love you when you go to the desolate plairts where our tents
once stood and our flocks pastured. All is silent there!.
Think that you leave behind you all that in this wide world
you have to cAre 'for—the only beings on earth whose

THEATRE.—Mr. KEAN, jai., made his
debut last evening on Tx; boards, as young Norval, in the
tragOy of .Rougios; His appearance called forth the
most enthusiastic cheers from all parts of the house,
which, by the way, we were glad to see well attended.
We have seen an abundance of criticism on Mr. Ic).T.AN's
performances, and now that we can judge, f;sr. ourselves, it
is our conviction that some cif 4.e. critics might as con -
scientiously taxhisi witk the fewness of his summers as
with sprna Ot.,fectsi, which are removable only by a maturity
ofyears. in person and featUres, generally, Mr. KEAN ist de-
licate without being devoid of manliness or grace:;nto the me-
rits of his Norval we have not spaqe, k.pwr to. enter. His
voice is the bequest of 4 father, unquestionably; and he
gave sever of the pass Age, such, for instance, as, " Who
shall resist tne -in a father's cause?" and, " The blood of
Douglas will defend itself," with a spirit whfich reminded
us of some of that father's most towering conceptions.
From beginning la cud :the cleaidant was most warmly ap-
plauded.—bnyn Preeman's Journal.
CoRN LAws.-:—On Wednesday a meeting of
the principal farmers and graziers in the vicinity of noon
assembled in that town, to discuss the plan proposed by
Government fru-altering. the C,yrn Laws. A long conver-
sationih loud
was
prefaced the business of the meeting, in "u'ilic
and general complaints.werep.mpadareingof,
h
they affect the importation of .forectir
Sq
is tant to the
woolo,; dit
stated' that petitions on that subje
surrounding district, were re
days' be :presented ,to a .county. meeting.
tanedpAwreseoltuer
indtainlach‘aysaf,eiaru.
man had been s,
appo,inted. IV petition' relative to the Corn
Laws was proposed, which vas carried unanimously, and
has since been numerousirsigned. The petition was yes.
another copy
toLC'r'dGwYpEk' for presentation in the
was transmitted to Mr.
teHroudasey
of Peers; and
HRATHCOTE, Member for this borough, to be presented in
the House of Commons,—Roston Gazette.

Among the Company were—
Prince Xsterhaty, the Austrian Ambassador, and the
Princess Esterhazy ; Prince Lieven, the Russian Aniassa-
dor, and Princess Lieveu ; Prince potignae, the French
Ambassador, and Princess Polienac ; Count d'Aleudia, the
Spanish Minister, and the Countess d'Alcudia ; Count
d'Offalia, Special Spanish Minister; Monsieur Falek, the
Ambassador froin the Netherlands, and Madame Pahl; ;
Marquis de, Palmella, the'Portuguese Ambassador, and
Ludolf, liras
Mawhioness de Pahuella; Count de Moltke, the. Danish
Minister;. Baron Billow, the Prussian Minister ; Ccnnt
d'Aglie, the Sardinian minister ;. Count tie
Neapolitan Minister, and Countess Ltulolf ; Baron de Cett,;),
the Bavarian Minister; Count de Mandealoli, the Wurteni-
berg Miriister ; Senor Madrid, the e(tiombian Minister ;
Viscount Itabayanny the Rtwilian Minister ; Mr. Law-
rence, the Arnericau Char 6
and Mrs. Law-
rence ; Monsieur Biedermann, the Sage d'Affaires
Monsieur Roeafufrte, the ~er ; Monsieur Gil,
Charge d'Affaires of the United Province of the Rio de la
Plata; the Hanoverian Minister ; Mr. Colquhoun, Consul
General for the Haute TOWil8; Chevalier da. Cunha, Se-
cretary tO the Brnziliau Legation ; Princess E. 13uriatin-
sky ; the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York, the
First Lord oi the Treasury, the Lord President of the
Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretaries of State for
the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Presi--
dent of the Board of Controul, the President of the Board
of Trade, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Mint, the
Secretary at War, the Commander of the Forces, the
Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
King's Bench, the Vice-Chancellor, the Attorney-General,
the Solicitor-General, the Speaker of the House. of Com-
mons, the ChielCommissioner of Woods and Forests, the
Secretary of State for Ireland, the Adjutant-General, the
Quartermaster-General, the Clerk of tilt Closet, the Master
Of the Ceremonies, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Groom 'of the Stole, the
Treasurer of the Household, the Master of the Household,
the Chief Equerry to the King, the Master-General of the
Ordnance, the surveyor to the Ordnance, the Deputy
Comptroller of the Household, ;.;ii Michael Clate, of hie