The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-05-12

spoken with great warmth of some e. ebrated
picturet and States, The workmanship d
heaven certoinIy excels al our weak imitation.
and think has much better claim to oul
praise. For my part / am not ash med to own
took more pleasure in looking upon the beau.
teous Eatimp than the finest piece Of sculpture
could have given me
She told me the two girls at her feet werc
her daughters. though she appeared too young
To be their mother. Her maids were ranged
below the sofato the number Of twenty, and
put me in mind Of the ancient nymphs. did
OF think all nature could have furnished such
d scene Of beauty. She made sign to them
to play and dance. -Four Of them immediate.
" began to play some airs 90 instruments be-
tween lutte and guitar, which they accompa-
MED with their voices: while the others danced
by turus. When the dance was over, four fair
slaves came into the room with silver in cen
sers in their nds, and perfumed the air with
amber, aloes wood, and other scents, After
this they served me c4ffee upon their knees in
the finest japan china with sOueoups of silver
gilt. The lovele Fatima entertained me all
this while in the most polite agreeable man.
ner, calling me often "Guzel Sultannm, or the
beautiful sultana and desiring my friendship
with the best grace in the world, lamenting
that she could not entertain me in my own
language. When | took my leave two maids
brought in fine silver basket of embroidered
handkerchiefs. She begged would wear the
richest for her sake, and give the others to my
woman and Interpreters.
read over your Homer here, (she writesto
Pope,) with an infinite PLEASURE, and found sew
eral passages explained that did not before
entirely comprehend the beauty Of; many of
the customs, and much of the dress then in
fashion, being yet retained. | don't won ler
to find more remains here Of an age so distant
than Is to be found in any other country, the
Turks not taking that pains to introduce their
own manners 5 has been generally practiced
by other nations that imagine themselves more
polite ! can assure yon that the princesses
and great ladies pass their time at their looms
wells and robes, surrounded by
their maids, who are always very numerous
n the same manner as we find Andromache |
ind Helen described.
Nor is she less at home in the matters of
elgicn, government and morals of the East
indeed. these letters, which seem to be "a
REESE to the public rather than to particular
correspondents, give us a far higher notion,
18th of her genius and learning than anything
Use she ever wrote. Mr.. " ortley's name is
e dom mentioned in them, and never in the
way either Of praise or blame; so that we are
pit to forget his existence. On their return
hey sailed through the Archipelago, touching
t the coast ofAfrica; and having crossed the
Mediterranean to Genoa, reached home thro'
lyons and Paris about the end of the year
718, having been almost two years on their
ravels.
On her return home, she set about in ear
lest to ting the virtues of innoculation. She
made the experiment on her own daughter, af.
erwards the Lady Butte, to whom her letters
we're addressed during her continental ext e.
he was never more courted and fiattered than
n those years.
Mr.. Pope had written many letters to her
uring the embassy, and DON after her retu n,
I'd not only prevailed on herto sit to Sir Cooley
.neller for portrait, which was to embellish
IS villa at Twickenham, but had had the in
1ence to persuade Mr.. Wortley to purchase a /
) Sc there, thai they might be neighbors due /
ng the Summer months. lis notes at this /
ne breath the warmest and most anxious d
iendship. Her whilst his law; he sees her :
'ery day; che knows not whether with more i
easure or respect; submits to her in all things I
may, in the manner Of all things; understands
i as she would be understood, with arealf
spect and resignation when anything is de-
ed, and heary gratitude when it is granted :,
$! that such dear delights sheuld be SO dan
rous!
How long it was before these glowing ex-
essions of admiration and friendship burst y
o flame Of passion, 30 violent as to con-
M all pruden and propriety on the poets
le, is not very clearly made out Lady Ma Ia
seems pretty soon to have grown q little v
2, for we find her in 1870, writing to her b
ter Mar from his near neighbour od-"I see 81
netimes Dir Congrepea d very seldom Mr..
pc, who continues to emSellish his house -
has made subterranean grotto, VIII h he =
) furnished with looking glasses, and they 5
I me it has q very good effect She trans g
bes at the tire q copy Of vers ), addressed n
Pope to Gay in her prai .. adding, with VI
ne consciousness, 81 stIfed them here, and II
J they may die the same death at Paris and tic
rer go futher than your closet. 81