has five actions against her. Not a person | ances, who, after making a mere coffee- | little mystification, by saluting him with the visits her, or dined at her house yesterday, house of their hospitable roof, are not con- delicious perfume of oriental flattery. The to whom she is not in debt." I interrupted tent with devouring their profuse entertain-illustrious author of the Martyrs visited him, to except myself. "So much the ments, but barbarously and inhumanly re- Egypt and Syria in search of images, as he better, continued he, for she never pays. vile the donor. styles them in his itinerary. At Alexandria Did you mark yesterday her attack upon Of this class is Lord Caustic. A com- he met Ali Bey, who was there representLady G. for the eight sovereigns?" I did.' plete pest to society, a mildew to reputa- ing himself as a Turkish traveller and as"Well, I am certain that that sum paid tion, a blight to fair fame; his air is pesti-tronomer. "As soon as he saw me," says for a part of our dinner; for as my chariot ferous, and there is no Sirocco wind worse. M. Chateaubriant, "he exclaimed, Ah! my drove up, I heard an altercation betwixt a His prognostication, however, respecting dear Atala! my dear Réné!" What must porter with a tray and her footman, and our hostess's fate was but too true. Her have been the delight of the author of saw the tray, marked with Brunet's name, credit is all over; and the storm has burst Atala, on receiving this uncontradictable carried back. The eight pieces, doub:less, upon her head. With the most uxorious proof that his works were admired among recovered it; and the soup, as you know, inclinations, she seems destined to make the Turks! "Ali Bey," he says, must was almost cold. The fishmonger, I pre- the burthen of the song, certainly have descended from the great sume, had disappointed in trusting, otherSaladin, I am fully persuaded that he is the wise she would have managed to get some most learned and polite Turk in the uni from the tavern; and the wine was exeverse.". crable, because her wine merchant, not being settled with these five years, sends her the refuse of his cellar. When she called your young friend out, it was to borrow a hamper of his claret. It came after a long pause, and very good it was; but, previous to this, all ringing of bells was useless, and her servants seem to serve come par charité. It is all over with the good lady; and I am sure that she cannot stand it for a week.". I am very sorry for it,' observed my Cousin." Not at all," replied Lord Caustic. “None should live in a style above their income, nor ask people to dinner, when they cannot keep up even appearances. A confounded fool! she has but a thousand per ann. of jointure, and she has been living at the rate of four for these five years past, in hopes of good lack at play, or in a more uncertain game, wedlock to wit." Here he dropped his rein, took a pinch of snuff, brushed the remains of it with a silk handkerchief off his Arabian's neck, and looked at us with a triumphant air, and as if he thought himself both witty and severe. Did you not observe," resumed he, "how motley the plate was? half borrow "There's nobody coming to marry me, I see her fine honse shut up, with a ticket on it to let;' and I am informed, that she escaped in an open boat to the coast of France, after pretending to make a trip to Brighton, close followed by the followers of the law, and pitied by THE HERMIT IN LONDON. BIOGRAPHY. ALI BEY, ALIAS BADIA. The following Account of the lately cele bruted Spanish traveller, Badia y Leblich, is given in a Flemish paper. Badia possessed a perfect knowledge of the Arabic language, and was intimately acquainted with Mussulman customs. This induced him to propose to the Prince of the Peace, that he should travel through Africa and Asia, for the benefit of his country The Spanish government having agreed to settle a handsome annuity on his wife and daughter, he proceeded to Africa, under the assumed name of Aii Bey. On arriving in the States of the Emperor of Morocco, he was suspected of having assumed a disguise; but he produced titles written in the ancient Arabic language, with the requisite seals and signatures affixed to them; and vants are fellows out of place, and were his pretended rank of son of Othman Bey, evidently not at home in their attendance." Prince of the Abassides, was acknow 'I never,' replied my Cousin, looking grave ledged. He was well received at the courts and severe, make these trivial remarks, of Morocco and Tripoli, at Cairo, St. Jean which I consider as below the dignity of a d'Acre and Mecca, and was the first infidel man; and when an entertainment is given that ever visited the tomb of the Prophet. with kindness and hospitality, and particu- He arrived in Paris in 1808, and was relarly by a lady, I pass over all its defects.'ceived in the most distinguished manner by "Pooh! stuff!" coolly replied the Peer. "Vastly benevolent, my good Sir; but quite ultramontain (here he leaned for ward, and played with his horse's ears.) I would put up with a bad dinner, as soon as any man; but I cannot bear to see such presumption in people who live upon their acquaintances. I don't know what the ed, and half her own; and two of her ser devil will become of her at last." Here I changed the subject; for I considered it as nothing short of base thus to expose a female by whom he had been treated to the very best of her ability only the day before. It is most true that "Fools make feasts for wise men to eat." How often do we see self-devoted victims keeping open house for their butchering acquaint In his travels, Badia gives some curious accounts of the Island of Cyprus, the pilgrimage to Mecca, the temple and Kaaba, or house of God, the Wachabees, the Temple of Jerusalem, Damascus, and Constantinople. The Pashaw of Damascus, according to the custom of his country, seized his MSS. and his property, but it is said the French Consul has received orders to recover them. THE DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE.-Tuesday night presented to a London audience, for the first time, Mozart's Zauber Flöte, one of his most celebrated compositions. The style in which it is got up exceeds that of any spectacle yet exhibited at the King's Theatre. and processions magnificent. Many of the The dresses are superb, and the scenery beautiful airs of this beautiful opera were already familiar to us, and in the midst of the novelty and brilliancy of the whole como'er us as the sweet voice of early friends bination, their well remembered tones came in a foreign land. The principal singers and received even more than their usual acquitted themselves with their usual skill, share of applause, particularly Miss Corri, who executed with peculiar felicity an air of most singular construction and difficulty. As to the story of the piece, it is as inpossible to sketch as to understand it, and scarcely worth either attempt. It is all mystery and magic-a wicked Queen, whose servants are ashamed to show their faces; Napoleon, who furnished him with a letter a King, who (contrary to precedent) is a of recommendation to his sovereign. On conjurer; a Prince Tamino, who in search of a Princess, Pamina, has to encounter all his return to Madrid, he was preparing to publish his memoirs, when the French in- kinds of hardships and trials preparatory to his being allowed to marry her-hunger, vaded Spain. King Joseph appointed him Intendant of Segovia, and Prefect of Cor-thirst, fright-to talk to silent old priestsdova; but he fled to France after the battle to be silent to a talking mistress-and of Vittoria. In 1815, he married his finally, to be led by her through fire and daughter to M. Delisle de Salles; and pub-water, which he is, unhurt, through the. lished his travels, under the title of Travels influence of the sweet sounds he draws from of Ali Bey in Africa and Asia, during the the gifted flute (a present from his lady's years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807. mother.) This, literally, would be silly The work contains some conjectures on the enough, and at first we thought it so; but, atlantide, and the existence of a mediterra- on reflection, it appears to us that " nean sea within the continent of Africa. On one occasion this celebrated traveller made M. Chateaubriant the subject of a more We will not give this young lady a foreign designation-She is English, and she ought to be proud of it. BY A FOREIGNER." A person had been telling many incre dible stories: in order to repress this impertinence, Professor Engel, who happened to be present, said, "But, gentlemen, all this amounts to very little, when I can assure you that the celebrated organist, Abbé Vogler, once imitated a thunderstorm so well, that for miles round all the milk turned sour!" Upon was produced here on Saturday. It is A Gascon once boasted that he had travelled all over the known world. my word, Gentlemen," concluded he, "I have even been to the very end of the earth; one step farther, and I should have trod upon nothing!" is meant than meets the ear," and that the dry German slyly intended to point out the formidable noviciate that it is necessary to pass to render the bachelor callous to the arduous state he is about to enter on. The leading through fire and water clearly indicates this; and the stopping his mouth with the flute (shewing that in such extremities few words are best) brings corroboration in its coincidence with our old tale of the bottle of water and the scolding wife. Papageno, the follower of Tamina, also undergoes a minor probation in a similar cause; more than once, however, doubting if it be worth such trouble. But he must have less of it another time, for the opera occupied the unreasonable period of four hours-nothing to a German audience, but enough to set us to sleep. And, in defiance of the enchantment by which we were sur-land,) Grimacier (a French tragedian,) rounded, to confess the truth, we were not Gilbert Glib (a lecturer on the French lanfar from sleep when a burst of splendour guage,) Squire Homely (an English farmer.) from the illuminated interior of the Temple In all these Mr. Yates was very happy, and of the Sun, flashing upon the astonished received the general plaudits of the audience. sense, roused us to the gaze of the most Some of his imitations of celebrated persuperb coup d'oeil that imagination could formers savoured a little of caricature, but conceive, or talent execute. If this piece his copy of Mathews was a fac-simile. The (properly abbreviated) does not assume a whole establishes him a favourite, and is a proud preeminence in British estimation, it truly laughable treat. will not be the fault of either the composer, the performers, or the managers, all of Borgerdickius, a professor at Leyden, whom have achieved their parts in perfeconce tried to prove the hypothesis, quod tion. We did not stay for the ballet; but nihil datur vacuum in natura. A cele we had already seen it, and once was CURE OF BLINDNESS.-The celebrated brated lawyer, Theodore Bronkhorst, openough. It is a mere trife. If it be true Dr. Guillie, of Paris, has recently perform-posed him, saying, "I'll prove the conthat this Monsieur Duport is the first dancered with success the operation for the cata- trary; for, said that ancient poet, Quanof the day, he does himself injustice: and act on a youth of ten years of age, who has tum est in rebus inane." To this, (said Borif it be true that he receives 601. or 701. a been blind from his birth. The bandages gerdickius) I answer the saying of a cele tors of the Institution des Aveugles, the Just so," replied Bronkhorst, were removed in the presence of the Direc-brated orator, Omnia stultorum plena!' Duchess d'Angouleme, and several other etiam tua toga." Ergo distinguished individuals, who were anxious to witness the first effects of light on a being who had never enjoyed it, and was endowed with reason. The patient can form no idea of distance, nor of the form of bodies; he, however, distinguishes their various colours, though he cannot define them. night, he does his employers injustice, by the slight exhibition he makes of his powers. His ballets are trivial, and his part in them, with the exception of a few minutes prestissimo coupéeing, might be quite as well filled by a less imposing artist. VARIETIES. REGALIO: THE SHAMROCK. Miss Macauley, a lady of literary as well as theatrical pretensions, driven, as she states, from the boards of Drury Lane, by the caprice and tyranny of Mr. Kean, presented RUSSIA AND THE MOON.-In the January the public with a new species of entertain- number of Correspondance Astronomique ment, under the above quaint title, on Fri- of Baron von Zach, there is a calculation, day night, at the Concert Room, King's according to which the Russian empire exTheatre. It consisted of three parts, in ceeds the Terra Firma in the Moon by which recitation, imitations, tragic and 123,885 square leagues. The diameter of comic character, and music, were the in- the Moon is 893 leagues, consequently the gredients. Miss M. evinced very conside-surface 2,505,261 square leagues. If in the rable talents in these various lines, from Moon, as in our Earth, the fluid part, which we call sea, covers two thirds of the surthe Elvira of Mrs. Siddons, to the broad provincial dialects of Ireland, Scotland, and Yorkshire. She set out with a statement respecting the imperium in imperio at Drury, and severely handled the consequent management. Then ensued the dramatic parts, and Miss M. displayed ability enough to entertain a numerous audience for three hours. The musical portion was the least; the imitation of Mrs. Siddons, perhaps, the most successful. We saw sufficient to be sorry for the banishment of this lady from the metropolitan stage. COVENT GARDEN.-" Cozening, or Half an Hour in France," a dramatic Interlude, face, only 835,087 square miles remain for Palissot once said to Madame de Corancez, "Since I have read Racine, I have given up the idea of writing tragedies; I shall now write a comedy.' 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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1819. demerits of the Accuser and the Apolo- The anonymous author informs us We are all acquainted with the outcry raised against Longwood, the residence of the ex-Emperor: speaking of this place and Plantation House, where the Governor lives, and out of which Buonaparte wished to eject him, the writer says, But the locale of Longwood is decidedly the better of the two;-the country surrounding it in every direction is beautifully of which, to the extent of twelve or adapted for riding or driving; the whole thirteen miles, Napoleon has the UNDIS TURBED PRIVILEGE OF ENJOYING UNSEEN AND UNATTEnded. PRICE 8d. was my active endeavour to make myself as well acquainted as possible; and I had the satisfaction of having a positive declaration had never been in better health since his made to me in Longwood House, that he arrival, than he was at the time I was there. I saw him twice. The trick of standing with his hands in his breeches pockets he almost invariably adopts, rarely altering their position, except to take snuff, or place them in the pockets of his coat. The strong peculiarity in his appearance, which strikes every beholder, arises from the almost preternatural size of his head, relatively to his ber he was in the varhandha adjoining his body and limbs. On the 10th of Novembilliard-room, with a red night-cap on his head; and on the 12th of the same month, was walking and whistling in the same place, with every appearance of excellent spirits:-he did not come into the garden, because it was not his POLICY. This policy of his, of which he speaks tholon speak openly too, is the most down openly, and of which Bertrand and Monright, and least artificial piece of chicanery he ever adopted. All the fabrications about the pains on his chest, and the swellings of his legs, are so many political stage tricks, to keep alive the attention of his half of the world, and induce, if possible, the great event-REMOVAL. It is of course well known, that since the Both authors seem fond of epigraphs, Mr. Hooke having adopted three, and Mr. O'Meara two. 66 Ogni medaglia ha il suo reverso," says the first; and the last not only gives him the reverse of demission of his favourite, O'Meara, he his medal, but a quotation equally applihas refused to see Doctor Verling, the medical man appointed to the Longwood Escable to either" Some build rather tablishment by Sir Hudson Lowe. Through upon the abusing of others, and (as we Montholon, he has gone so far as to lét upon them, than the Doctor understand, that this stubborn now say) putting tricks upon the soundness of their own proinvisibility on his part is not the result of ceedings [Bacon];" but, whether the The account Las Casas gives of Long-disrespect towards either his person or abiwriter of the Facts, or the writer of the wood is preeminently absurd. The raging Exposition, deserve this piece of Bacon, wind of which he speaks, is the refreshing South-East Trade, which renders the cliwe shall not presume to determine. mate healthy and temperate; and the Nothing can be more flatly contradic-blights which accrue to the vegetation from tory than these two statements. Accord-its parching effects, exhibit their influence ing to the one, Buonaparte is much bet-in a most surprising manner, in the luxuter off than he deserves to be; according riant produce of a Kitchen-garden; which, to the other, he is most cruelly and bar- although the Count affirms that no such barously persecuted: the one views him convenient appendage ever could be estaas a mischievous prisoner, in whose safe blished at Longwood," covers at this moment about three or four acres of ground, custody the peace of the world is involved; within two hundred yards of the house, and the other, as a mighty monarch in dis-under the superintendance of a man of the tress, upon whom every restraint is an oppression, which he has a right to re sent. Were we to go into all the details which these opposite views embrace, we should much more than fill our little publication. We must therefore select the most novel and curious assertions from each, and thus enable the public to form a fair estimate of the relative merits and VOL. III. lities. That the rest of the party at Longwood have a favourable opinion of his professional qualifications, is evident from the fact of his being the constant attendant and adviser of both families; but, as Buonaparte says, it is not his policy to see him, because he was not placed about his person by the Privy Council. This manoeuvre he considers masterly, because, were Doctor Verling admitted to his presence, and an acquaintance with his constitution, the fallacy of all his tales of ill health would of course be discovered. by the determination, therefore, not to see him, he, without fear of contradiction, puts forth stories of his malady, in which he feels certain of being supported by his late physician; while, at the same time, he is enabled to complain that a medical man, Of the health of the prisoner, the in whom he has no confidence, has been author also speaks in terms widely diffe-appointed to attend him by an incompetent authority. rent from his predecessors on the other Instead of state Hepatitis and political side of the question :Anasarca, were Buonaparte really to feel With the state of Buonaparte's health, it animal indisposition, I shrewdly suspect name of Porteus, produces remarkably fine |