the English sailor, "I bid your Highness God speed. The king my master desires that there be peace between us, and that a traffic be freely opened between our nations by the way of the sea."

"By the way of the sea!" exclaimed the Sultan.

"You shall give us your palm oil and cocoa-nuts, and we will give you in turn our merchandise; you shall send us by the ocean your ivory and bees-wax, and of our muslins you shall make tobes and turkadees."

"Abn Solyman," said the monarch. The prisoner was brought before him. "Abn Solyman, we want thy counsel. I give thee thy life. The English strangers would have us trade with their nation by the sea: shall we agree with them?"

"Never," replied the Arab; "the English will come and take away our place and nation: they are the robbers of the world."

"Sultan!" said the British sailor, "that crafty Arab would fain keep all your commerce at his own bidding. Have not the Moors and the men of his wild country shared the spoils of ages? Have not all the brave strangers who have ventured within their grasp been detained as captives or murdered?"

"We will think awhile," replied Maharry. "Have you any further message? ?"

"That your highness would abolish throughout your dominions the custom of selling men for slaves."

"What say you, Abn Solyman?" said the sultan. The Arab shook his head.

"Another rich branch of your traffic at stake, Abn," exclaimed Gama the jester, who had come forward during these latter speeches.

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"Gama, forbear," said the king of the Dark Water.

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Stranger," continued he, addressing the captain, “[

send my message to your master, King William, to whom be peace for evermore. May a blessing rest upon his footsteps! We have thought upon his message to us, and are willing that a trade should be opened with his children by the way of the sea; and considering that we ourselves hate the traffic in human blood, which we hear of in many parts near to our kingdom, we gladly assure your master of our will to destroy it as far as we have any power."

"Our mission then is accomplished," said the captain; we will take our countrymen, and depart.”

"First let the Fatah be read," exclaimed the Sultan, earnestly, and the ceremony was quickly performed. The king watched the gallant steamer as it darted forward towards other stranger lands, and turning round to his courtiers, declared aloud, that such a nation, if at peace with itself, must command the world.

We must relate, as a matter of history, that queen Fatima recovered, and that she was restored to the favour of her husband; but the priests, who, from a grudge they bore her, had connived at her destruction, were put to death on the same afternoon without pity or remission.

"And now," said Gama, "Abn Solyman! thou cunning Arab, thy trade is gone into the Red Sea. The English once suffered to put their heads into this rich country, will neither rest nor spare till they are sovereigns from hence to Timbuctoo. You may laugh, friends," continued the man of merriment, "but mark my words, they will do great things. The wilderness will become a fruitful field. How do I prove that? They will cut canals throughout the deserts, and in time, instead of the senna and coloquintida, the gussab, and the palm, and the date tree will flourish on the sandy waste.

Religious farewell.

PUBLI

ASTO

TILD N

FRAGMENT.

WRITTEN BY LORD BYRON, SHORTLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE OF MISS

CHAWORTH.

HILLS of Annesley, bleak and barren,

Where my thoughtless childhood stray'd,
How the northern tempests, warring,

Howl above thy tufted shade!

Now no more, the hours beguiling,
Former favourite haunts I see;
Now no more my Mary smiling

Makes ye seem a heaven to me.

"This young lady herself combined, with the many worldly advantages that encircled her, much personal beauty, and a disposition the most amiable and attaching. Though already fully alive to her charms, it was at this period (1804) that the young poet seems to have drunk deepest of that fascination, whose effects were to be so lasting six short weeks which passed in her company, being sufficient to lay the foundation of a feeling for all life. With the summer holidays ended this dream of his youth. He saw Miss Chaworth once more in the succeeding year, and took his last farewell of her on that hill near Annesley, which, in his poem of The Dream,' he describes so happily, as crowned with a peculiar diadem."

"In August, 1805, she was married to John Musters,