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The women, in order to acquire this smoothness, submit sometimes to the painful operation of suffering a paste made of honey and turpentine (or some sort of gum) to dry on the body, and then it is torn off, with all that adheres to it. Young women preserve their natural appearance till the day of marriage, when they are pitilessly stript of the veil of nature.

Next to the desire of having the skin soft, and of the most beautiful polish, is the excessive anxiety to acquire as great a degree of plumpness as possible. The taste of the men does not incline them to slim and taper shapes, to elegant and limber forms; but they admire women that are rather corpulent or full of flesh. In order to attain this perfection of beauty, they make use of various drugs, as the nuts of the cocoa-tree, the bulbs of the hermodactyl, rasped down and intermixed with sugar.

The idea of a very fat woman is almost always associated in Europe with that of flabbiness of flesh, of defect in the elasticity of the contours, &c. This is not, however, the case with the Turkey women in general. Those of the East, more favoured by Nature than the females of other parts, preserve longer their firmness of flesh; and that attractive property, added to the softness, to the fairness of their skin, to the freshness of their carnation, render them very agreeable, very desirable masses, when their embonpoint is not carried to excess. Moreover, there is no country where the women attend so much to cleanliness as in the East. The frequent bathings, the perfumes, the employment of every art that can soften and embellish the skin and improve their charms, succeed each other with the most scrupu lous exa&ness. Such pains are not thrown away. Women are no where more beautiful, no where better skilled or more practised in the art of repairing the ravages of time.

During my stay at Grand Cairo,' say's our traveller, I one day surprized a young Frenchman, who, behind the half-drawn curtains of a lattice in the Consul's house, was busily employed in making a variety of signs to a female on the opposite side of the canal of Cairo, about sixty feet distant. She returned the Frenchman's sigus, and these silent interviews were repeated several times a day, at hours agreed upon. This young gentleman being obliged to depart with the Consul, had taken his last farewel of the lady. I soon after preseated myself to sup; ly his place, to express the same sentiments, and ́to render the same homage.. I shortly became master of the whole art of signals, which, in a country where it is impossible to speak to women, becomes an interesting and expressive language.

'Soon tired of peeping through the close bars of a contracted window-blind, and of addressing my yows only to a beauty which might be altogether imaginary, I requested that it might be displayed in all the lustre of unclouded day. Difficulties were started: 1 persisted; and at length was promised, that towards the evening the lady would ascend to the terrace on the top of the house, which is common to the houses of this country. I got up to my own, and perceived an elegant dressed female appear, and still wearing a veil, which I entreated her in the most importunate attitudes to take off, A black slave, who attended her mistress, joined in my supplications; but all in vain. The last favour which such a woman can bestow is to display her person; and, from an unaccountable notion of modesty, she would rather exhibit her whole figure than uncover her face,

The next day my renewed solicitations were crowned with some success. After many difficulties, the officious Negress, who was in her mistress's secrets, drew aside the veil, and I beheld a female young and beautiful. The carnation of shame diffused over her countenance a very vivid colouring, which gradually faded, till nothing remained but the roses of beauty. From that moment the most perfect liberty directed our mute conversation. My beautiful neighbour gave me to understand that her husband, who was an old Turkey merchant, intended shortly to proceed on a long journey. When he departed, she invited me to pass over to her house, She pointed out to me a little door that opened toward the canal, for the purpose of fetching water. To reach this door I had only to cross the channel of the canal, then dry. The black slave was to wait there to introduce me on the approach of night."

'The fearful consequences with which such a step might be followed was to me a barrier, which the most amiable and ingenuous advances, assurances the most affectionate, could not determine me to surmount. Several evenings passed in this conflict between the eloquent, though mute, invitations of a tender desire and the resistance of prudence, frequently, but feebly opposed, when the ball of a musket, discharged from one of the adjacent terraces, whizzing close by my ear, gave me reasons to apprehend that our interviews had been detected, and therefore determined me to give up this species of encounter, here extremely dangerous, from the malignantly revengeful disposition of the men. I quickly descended from_beholding one of the most beautiful objects of Nature's workman

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ST. ANTHONY'S GIFT;

A VISION.

No. II.

WHEN this frail disciple of the Methodistical sect had finished her narrative, St. Anthony enquired if her husband knew that she attended such meetings? The lady answered, 'Yes.' 'Although that (replied the Saint) be far from acquitting you, yet it throws a great share of blame upon bim. Whatever husband suffers his wife to go to gambling-houses, methodistical meetings, or any other haunts of debauchery, deserves his fate; but we shall probably hear a little more, to confirm this opinion. A very grave elderly lady coming up, the Saint accosted her by the name of Miss Prudence Bernard, and a strapping youth of eighteen hailed her by the name of Mother! and called out, Nicodemus, the preacher! The preacher said the Saint, you must be much more particular. I apprehend there are so many of that denomination who must make their appearance this day, that I cannot be satisfied without particularizing the individual. Answer me yourself, Miss; what Nicodemus ?? Nicodemus of Bath, called by the ungodly Roger. Yea! by him was I first converted, by a vision in my sleep, The account of my conversion I have heretofore written to my cousin Lady Betty,

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Mai Anstey, who in his 'Bath Guide") records this conversion more par ticularly than the lady here quotes, says in a note, that if the reader will look into the Bishop of Exeter's book, intitled, the Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists compared,' he will find many instances, particularly of young people,

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Lo! Roger obeyed my call, inspired me, and I became one of the godly; was filled with grace, and convinced of the uselessness of virtue. This is our first-born. Nicodemus and I did not marry, for he was married before; but we lived together, as all things are lawful unto the Saints.' He was not your only gallant, 'said St. Anthony. Say not gallant, it is a heathenish word; he was my brother in divine love,' Who succeeded him? Mr. Stringnonsense, a writer of spiritual hymns for the Evangelical Magazine. The next, proceeded she with great composure, was Barnaby Brainless, a writer of holy admonitions for the Gospel Magazine. Fourthly came Rheuben Roarwell, edifier of the elect, from Edinburgh.'- What!" said the Saint, I suppose we shall soon have seven from you— Seven!' said she, yea! of the brethren, even seventy times seven have found grace and favour in my sight! You audacieus prostitute! I cannot withhold from passing sentence on you immediately. Officer, carry this woman to solitary imprisonment; let her be attended by women-let her never see either a man or a methodistical book: above all, keep from her any of the brethren; for with them her age and ugliness will be no bar; and of all books, I charge you in particular to keep from her the writings of the Missionary Society, the Gospel, Evangelical, and Methodist Magazines, which must fill the minds of their admiring readers with a theology that would destroy virtue, and subvert reason.'

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This sentence being executed, a beautiful young girl, about nineteen, came up, with a down-cast face; and though I soon found she was a Methodist, I perceived she was not so thoroughly initiated as completely to renounce virtue and shame. Like Kotzebue's Cora, she was in the way of being a mother, though without the intervention of an earthquake.. The Saint seeing her really abashed; in a gentle voice enquired into the particulars. I confess," said she, I did not fall a sacrifice to youth and beauty; my aunt carried me to the conventicle of a middle-aged preacher of a tolerably comely appearance, with a white wig, (he has since taken to a brown one); he told me I had found favour in his sight, and assured me 1 was in the way to salvation. Ile persuaded my aunt that one effectual step to holiness was the holding of love feasts. And pray, what are lovefeasts? Entertainments, at which the brethren and sisters meet

who have been elected in the manner above. A work is just published by a clergyman of the same diocese, containir g many authentic and substantiated facts, illustrative of Methodist morality.

and commune together, to be assured of regeneration ?'—' But what are the constituents of your feasts ?' The best viands that can be got; our holy men are particularly fond of turbots and marrow-puddings; the brethren and sisters also drink wine for the stomach's sake: -the preacher says unto us, that the words "a little" are to be left out from St. Paul's advice unto Timothy, as it is an interpolation, and part of the genuine Scriptures. One day Mr. Cantwell came to a love-feast to my aunt's, and persuaded me it was useful for the operation of the Spirit before we proceeded to the most solemn iites, to drink plentifully of Madeira wine; and I found the spirit was moved, The candles were put out, according to the custom of the brethren and sisters; parties retired to different places, to commune for mutual edification. Mr. Cantwell began the saintly exercise, by saluting me with a holy kiss: sweet indeed was it! We repeated the hymns of divine love from the Gospel and Evangelical Magazines; the holy passion inspired us, and I yielded to its emotions. The effects are now visible, to my shame.'

Cantwell!' said the Saint; is not that the fellow concerning whom some women, on their death-beds repenting of their Metho dism and sin, made such discoveries?'-' The same, please your Saintship; he was deprived of his chapel for that, however, he has since got another, where he goes on in his old practices.'

Many other cases of a similar sort appearing before the Saint, he declared he thought measures ought to be taken by the community for restraining such a source of profligacy; and the most effectual mode that he could propose was founded on an idea taken from an Italian practice: Be it henceforth enacted,' said he, by my wil and pleasure, that no person shall preach or teach Methodism until he has undergone an operation that will improve his musical tones. for spiritual hymns. Take St. Anthony's word for it, in that case, Methodism would cease to be attractive to female devotees.'

A languishing lady next made her appearance, and a young child called out, Captain Spontoon, of the Guards !'-' Let's hear your history, Madam.'My husband, Sir, is a worthy country gentleman, but I married him, I must confess, less from affection than for interest. I was a very great reader of novels, particularly those of a sentimental cast-works, which, as I now find from experience, by softening and weakening the mind, make it more easily accessible to vice. I must say I was so fond of them, that on them 1 in a great degree formed my moral creed. They inculcated that the chief excellence of the human character is sensibility; that a truly refined mind will

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