of the line and six frigates; a part of which squadron is stationed there to preserve the tranquillity of the Country; with just as much influence as the same number of Pelicans would have on the same Station.

On entering and passing the streets of Alexandria I could not but notice the very marked satisfaction, which every expression and every countenance of all denominations of people, Turks and Frenchmen only excepted, manifested under an impression that we were the Avantcourier of an English Army. They had conceived this from observing the English Jack at our main, taking our flag perhaps for that of a saint, and because as is common enough every where, they were ready to believe what they wished. It would have been cruel to have undeceived them: consequently without positively assuming it, we passed in the character of Englishmen among the middle and lower orders of society, and as their Allies among those of better information. Wherever we entered or wherever halted, we were surrounded by the wretched Inhabitants; and stunned with their benedictions and prayers for blessings on us. Will the English come? Are they coming? God grant the English may come ! we have no commerce-we have no money-we have no bread! When will the English arrive? My answer was uniformly, Patience! The same tone was heard at Rosetta as among the Alexandrians, indicative of the same dispositions; only it was not so loud, because the Inhabitants are less miserable, although without any traits of Happiness. On the fourth we left that Village for Cairo, and for our security as well as to facilitate our procurement of accommodations during our voyage, as well as our stay there, the Resident directed his Secretary, Capt.Vto accompany us, and to give us lodgings in his house. We ascended the Nile leisurely, and calling at several Villages, it was plainly perceivable that the rational partiality, the strong and open expression of which proclaimed so loudly the feelings of the Egyptians of the Sea Coast, was general throughout the Country: and the prayers for the return of the English as earnest as universal.

On the morning of the sixth we went on shore at the village of Sabour., The Villagers expressed an enthusiastic gladness at seeing red and blue Uniforms and round Hats (the French, I believe, wear three-cornered ones.) Two days before before, five hundred Albanian Deserters

from the Viceroy's army had pillaged and left this Village; at which they had lived at free quarters about four weeks. -The famishing Inhabitants were now distressed with apprehensions from another quarter. A Company of wild Arabs were encamped in sight. They dreaded their ravages and apprized us of danger from them. We were eighteen in the party, well armed; and a pretty brisk fire which we raised around the numerous flocks of Pigeons and other small fowl in the Environs, must have deterred them from mischief, if, as is most probable, they had meditated any against us. Scarcely, however, were we on board and under weigh, when we saw these mounted Marauders of the Desart fall furiously upon the herds of Camels, Buffaloes, and Cattle of the Village, and drove many of them off wholly unannoyed on the part of the unresisting Inhabitants, unless their shrieks could be deemed an annoyance. They afterwards attacked and robbed several unarmed boats, which were a few hours astern of us. The most insensible must surely have been moved by the situation of the Peasants of that Village. The while we were listening to their complaints, they kissed our hands and with prostrations to the ground, rendered more affecting by the inflamed state of the eyes almost universal amongst them, and which the new Traveller might venially imagine to have been the immediate effect of weeping and anguish, they all implored English succour. Their shrieks at the assault of the wild Arabs seemed to implore the same still more forcibly, while it testified what multiplied reasons they had to implore it. I confess, I felt an almost insurmountable impulse to bring our little party to their relief, and might perhaps have done a rash act, had it not been for the calm and just observation of Captain V's that "these were common occurrences, and that any relief, which we could afford, would not merely be only temporary, but would exasperate the Plunderers to still more atrocious outrages after our departure."

On the morning of the seventh we landed near a Village. At our approach the Villagers fled: signals of Friendship brought some of them to us. When they were told, that we were Englishmen, they flocked around us with demonstrations of joy, offered their services, and raised loud ejaculations for our establishment in the Country. Here we could not procure a pint of milk for our coffee. The Inhabitants had been plundered and chased from their

habitations by the Albanians and Desart Arabs, and it was but the preceeding day, they had returned to their naked Cottages.

Grand Cairo differs from the places already passed, only as the presence of the Tyrant stamps silence on the hips of misery with the seal of Terror. Wretchedness here assumes the form of Melancholy; but the few whispers that are hazarded, convey the same feelings and the same wishes. And wherein does this misery and consequent Spirit of Revolution consist? Not in any form of Government but in a formless Despotism, an Anarchy indeed! for it amounts literally to an annihilation of every thing that can merit the name of Government or justify the use of the word even in the laxest sense. Egypt is under the most frightful Despotism, yet has no Master! The Turkish Soldiery, restrained by no discipline, seize every thing by violence, not only all that their necessities dictate, but whatever their caprices suggest. The Mamelukes, who dispute with these the right of Domination, procure themselves subsistence by means as lawless though less insupportably oppressive. And the wild Arabs availing themselves of the occasion, plunder the defenceless wherever they find Plunder. To finish the whole, the talons of the Viceroy fix on every thing which can be changed into currency, in order to find the means of supporting an ungoverned, disorganized Banditti of foreign Troops, who receive the harvest of his oppression, desert and betray him. Of all this rapine, robbery, and extor tion, the wretched Cultivators of the Soil are the perpetual Victims.-A spirit of Revolution is the natural consequence.

The reason the Inhabitants of this Country give for preferring the English to the French, whether true or false, is as natural as it is simple, and as influential as natural. "The English," say they, " pay for every thing-the French pay nothing, and take every thing." They do not like this kind of Deliverers.

Well, thought I, after the perusal of this Letter, the Slave Trade (which had not then been abolished) is a dreadful crime, an English iniquity! and to sanction its' continuance under full conviction and parliamentary confession of its' injustice and inhumanity is, if possible, still blacker guilt. Would that our discontents were for a

while confined to our moral Wants! whatever may be the defects of our Constitution, we have at least an effective Government, and that too composed of Men who were born with us and are to die among us. We are at least preserved from the incursions of foreign enemies; the intercommunion of interests precludes a civil War, and the Volunteer Spirit of the Nation equally with its laws, give to the darkest lanes of our crowded Metropolis that quiet and security which the remotest Villager at the cataracts of the Nile prays for in vain, in his mud hovel!

Not yet enslaved nor wholly vile,
O Albion, O my Mother Isle!
Thy Vallies fair, as Eden's bowers,
Glitter green with sunny showers;
Thy grassy uplands' gentle swells
Echo to the bleat of flocks ;

(Those grassy hills, those glitt'ring dells
Proudly ramparted with rocks)

AND OCEAN MID HIS UPROAR WILD
SPEAKS SAFETY TO HIS ISLAND-CHILD.

Hence for many a fearless age

Has social quiet lov'd thy shore;
Nor ever sworded Warrior's rage'

Or sack'd thy towers or stain'd thy fields with

gore.

COLERIDGE'S POEMS.

II. Anecdote of BUONAPARTE.

Buonaparte, during his short stay at Malta, called out the Maltese Regiments raised by the Knights, amounting to fifteen hundred of the stoutest young men of the Islands. As they were drawn up on the parade, he informed them, in a bombastic harangue, that he had restored them to Liberty; but in proof that his attachment to them was not bounded by this benefaction, he would now give them an opportunity of adding Glory to Freedomand concluding by asking who of them would march forward to be his Fellow-soldier on the banks of the Nile, and contribute a flower of Maltese heroism to the immortal wreaths of fame, with which he meant to crown the Pyramids of Egypt! Not a man stirred: all gave a

silent refusal. They were instantly surrounded by a Regiment of French Soldiers, marched to the Marino, forced on board the Transports, and threatened with death if any one of them attempted his escape, or should be discovered in any part of the Islands of Malta or Goza. At Alexandria they were always put in the front, both to save the French Soldiery and to prevent their running away and of the whole number fifty only survived to revisit their native Country. From one of these Survivors I first learnt this fact, which was afterwards confirmed to me by several of his remaining Comrades, as well as by the most respectable Inhabitants of Vilette.

This anecdote recalled to my mind an accidental conversation with an old Countryman in a central district of Germany. I purposely omit names because the day of retribution has come and gone by. I was looking at a strong Fortress in the distance, which formed a highly interesting object in a rich and varied landscape, and asked the old man, who had stopped to gaze at me, it's name &c. adding-how beautiful it looks! It may be well enough to look at, answered he, but God keep all Christians from being taken thither! He then proceeded to gratify the curiosity, which he had thus excited, by informing me that the Baron had been taken out of his bed at midnight and carried to that Fortress-that he was not heard of for nearly two years, when a Soldier who had fled over the boundaries sent information to his family of the place and mode of his imprisonment. As I have no design to work on the feelings of my Readers, I pass over the shocking detail: had not the language and countenance of my informant precluded such a suspicion, I might have supposed that he had been repeating some tale of horror froin a Romance of the dark ages. What was his crime? I asked -The report is, said the old Man, that in his capacity as Minister he had remonstrated with the concerning the extravagance of his Mistress, an outlandish Countess; and that she in revenge persuaded the Sovereign, that it was the Baron who had communicated to a Professor at Gottingen the particulars of the infamous sale of some thousand of his Subjects as Soldiers. On the same day I discovered in the Landlord of a small Public House one of the men who had been thus sold. He seemed highly delighted in entertaining an English Gentleman, and in once