Star.
London, England, 1823-03-10 00:00:00

e—gp„,,gg •
Nztv, A s
;:
• t

NOTES

During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and
Jerusalem. By Sir FRICDIRICII HENNIKER, Bart'. Bvo. 1823.
. Teeming as the Press continually does with vo-
lumes of Voyages and Travels, and interesting and
important as many of them ale, yet we much doubt
that this prolific age has produced a work of the kind
of a more amusing and attractive character than the,
Notes of Sir FREDERICK HENNIKER, which may be,
considered (and we speak it not profanely) as a Sport--
ing Tour through Egypt and the Holy Land. Alter-
nately employing his pen, his pencil, and•his fowling-
piece, he hurries his readers along with him from one
memorable scene of antiquity to another, describing
with a most felicitous brevity everything worth ob-
serving, and enlivening his narrative by jokes which
would force a laugh from the gravest companion of
his travels. Thus it is that he leads us from Pompey 4
Pillar to pigeon-shooting, and quits the Pyramids to
kill partridges. When he. visited Jerusalem, he made
a drawing of the city, from which a well-engraved
plate is given, and he also gives an interesting descrip-
tion of ,4 The Blessed City," as it is called even by
Alahommedans.

•. There, has," he says, a been but little variation in entime-
eating the objects of curiosity for the last two hundred years,
whether in Latin, Italian, French, or English Quaresmius is
the most copious and correct, old Nlaundrell the most unaffected,
and Chateaubriand the most enthusiastic. The beet description
of the town is by Jeremiah."
Though pos,essing sufficient classical taste to ap-
preciate the importance of the monuments of anti-
quity which he visited, and with talents to describe
them, Sir FnEnantcn's great object appears to be to
render his narrative as cheerful and interesting to his
readers as he found the journey itself, and in this he
has folly succeeded. From the amusing details which
these 44. Notes" furnish in luxuriant abundance, we
shall quote the Author's account of a visit to his
banker at Lakraat :

" Called on the banker—this metropolitan bank is in some
danger t there being as many as three or four applicants for mo-
ney, and I want no less than the enormous sum of Li 00. I took
?fly pktee erms-legged on the mat : the room would just do for
• hen,lsonsea mud whitewashed, with one small window ; in
.2
caner sat 'the Firm,' with his desk and portable treasury before
him---his attendants were armed—coffee, was brought, and a
who was smoking, as I conceived for his own amusement,
was troubling himself to light a pipe for me; I took the liberty
of wiping the mouth-piece, which, I was afterwards given to un-
derstand, Is to doubt the cleanliness of master or man, and it is
thcceftsze an insult—net to let him spit in your face—l sat here
about an hOur and a half in limbo; during this, several Turks
aamein--took their places—drank their coffee—smoked their
pipes--remained half an hour—said nothing, and walked away
--whether these were visits of ceremony, pleasure, or business,
I cannot decide;--not a word was spoken—but what has a Turk
to say?—he has no books, nor newspapers, nor cariosity, nor
activity—fie has no pleasure but his pipe—' futnus et umbra :'—
'fhu a man should travel for knowledge, or dance for amuse-
ment, states the astonishment of the most enlightened of them.
What, come so far to see buildings that arc destroyed, and not
be paid money for your troable!' What, dance yourself, when
yos can hire others to dance for you for five shillings !' Yet, with
all their idleness and wantof thought, I never heard a Mobs rnme.
den whistle-.-whlstling would be more tolerable than smoking;

they seem happy, and if in ignorance there's bliss,' they ought
to be really so-0 that Eve had been a Mohammedan! My
hundred pounds were to be paid in piastres,' half piastres, and
pares, pieces the value of siz-pence, three-pence, and half-farthings,
the latter about the size of spangles, these were counted over
three times, nor did any attention to the visitors occasion the loss
of half a farthing to the bank of-Siaut--it was but on one occa-
sion that the object of the Firm was at all diverted—he took a
pipe from his servant's mouth, put it into his own, and then into
his friend's, taking that of the latter In exchange--this is the
acme of civility in a Turkish Gentleman—none but the ifl-beed
would feel any delicacy—at length the money was thrice counted,
put into a carpet bag, my dragoman refused to be puAe-bearer,
and a donkey was hired to carry it to the boat—such money,
and such trouble attending it, ought to be enumerated among
the plagues of Egypt—the piastres are copper slightly white-
washed, the mask soon wears off, and like the 'testers' of Henry
VIII. they blush at their own corruption."

The work is embellished with some good engrav-
ings from the drawings of the Author.
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
" Aocoorss of the Semusu and Powrocussi Ityromrattxs. By
Coast Promo. With an Introduction and Nom, by En-
w*no BLanentsr, Esq." evo. Ins.
Count Pecchio is one of those Piedmontese Nobles,
whom the failure of an attempt to establish freedom
in their own country forced to takrrefuge in Spain.
Mr IlLsq,iere is well known in the literary. world, as
the inithOr of several works on the Southerly Nations
of Europe? From the labour of both a book has pro.l

eeeded, which k intte.estioi at the Prima moment.
when all eyes are turned towards Spain. Many oil
the most ftnguisheebasatteri..who lar
•in the-' volution' and
own in maglitiltat ea led him to
thinotos Say al tittle inadvattociesi into
11101 aill li ' totill in spetiting of a foreig
kil
ter, A portrait of Riego is prefixed to the
Minim tithe le thn drentettr•tre has en.
displayed, tipui to the hopes farmed of his abilitie,
the hegira** of the Revolution. He now sustains
Only a subordinate part. -But there is another Gene-
ksil mentioned, as having gained most of the victories
uring the late contest, who still survives to lead the
Straniards on to futnre success, and whom we wish
to introduce into notice.
" The General to whom I allude (says the author), fought
through all the campaigns during the war of independence, is
still in the vigour of manhood, and known to every -Spani;rd,
tor he is in the months pf all. Bat it is time to mention his
name s he is relied General .Ne Impala 1 It is an incontestible
fact, that these two words, emblematical of the most obstinate
courage, performed Prodigies in the course of the late struggle,
if they were not these which vanquished the legions of Napoleon.
On hearing of defeat after defeat, the itreariabk answer of Go..
vernment was, No Imports, No Debora en Espana, Jose No. po-
leon. No master, Joseph Napoleon shall not rule in Spain.—
When routed, soldiers and Generals fled, and united at some
other point, to be again beaten, and again encouraged with the
official reply of Na Imports."

Mr. thaquiere tells us, that since the establishment
of stage-coaches in Spain, the roads and inns have
been much improved. In Portugal, according to
the following account, they still are in great need of
improvenient :
" I have performed a journey like the Pope, that is to say,
been safely conveyed here by a mule : I say with safety, bat I
am exceedingly fatigued. A journey. whether in Spain sr Por-
tugal, is equivalent to a military campaign; want of provisions,
ambuscades, perils, hardships, bivouacs, everything, in fact, but
glory. I had imagined that, were it only front the enmity they
profess towards Spaniards, the Portuguese would; out of mere
contradiction, be more careful and commodious in their habita-
tions. But I was deceived, they are rivals of their enemies in
all things. To give you an idea of what the inns of Portugal
are, I will merely tell you, that while at Akita last night, the
rata devoured a large Guinea hen, bones and all, which bad,
roosted in my bed-room.. In Italy, our wolves are much snore'
moderate than the rats of Portugal."
EPIGRAM SEIVT WITH A COUPLE OF DUCKS TO

A PATIENT—By the late Dr. JENNER.
FROM THE MUSEUM ; OR, RECORD or LITERATURL &C.

I've dispatch'd, my dear Madam, this scrap oft letter,
To say that Miss •••••• is very much better:
A regular doctor no longer she lacks,
And therefore I've sent her a couple of enacts /

'esford, _ accepted
. .
liteward.of the Manor of East liendted.

. . .
. .
M
lament' FROM SArtiltbit S G
gm antako: t
I the it_Ar. -ribillsort""o4mlthie 150410 "Oa to IM'
"`''''.... : paw of Mr. Tito* TiOa "o, asalostd-Ronani,.i
coneetini the city of Cork and thir.oth ' of IccIAR, fortM Juni °I..
which ittk PortoSill 1 " '4 . '.l
to coun:v liontsaus at rtnutraio swim Tu inns nutiounsosilAlerim 1
the work Borough of Coleraine—Sir John firydges, in the room of Sir 1
1.,.., -.. John Poo Lieresford, Bart. who kw accepted the office• O..