oath," by the foldiers of Chrift," fays the Abbot. But as I have all along fufpected, and fhall more than once again have occafion to remark, that the monaftic habits of this Ecclefiaftic had infpired him with a prejudice towards temporal men, I beg leave to take this opportunity of establishing my opinion by an incontrovertible proof.My good prieft in his zeal has fallen into another anachronism, for the first Crufade did not take place till a very few years before the conclufion of the eleventh century; and how could Ethelfric, who lived in the middle of the tenth, make use of an expreffion that has no other meaning or allufion? I hope I fhall not, after so clear a conviction of grof's partiality and falfhood, be thought adventurous, if I take upon me to say, that Ethelfric took leave more like a gentleman-I mean of that age. THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK. PART THE SECOND. AT the beginning of a fresh Book Į might prefcribe, as the lawyers call it, for a new digreffion; but as I have nothing very particular, and can easily leave out the fuperititious Proeme of my author, I thall indulge my reader this time, in firm hope and perfuafion that he will carry it to my credit, if I should happen to draw upon him, hereafter, for more patience than might otherwife balance our account. I cannot doubt, that whoever has perfevered to this period of my history, is grown extremely impatient to learn fome intelligence of Ethelbert, the gallant brother of Eadburgha, and the object of all the dif trefs of Kenelwoife and his company. To fatisfy fo reafonable a curiofity, i fhall not fcruple, once more, to invert the order of the Abbot's narration, who, according to cultom, keeps him with great care out of pur fight, till it is literally impoffible to proceed without him. He then takes infinite pains in defcribing the perfon and endowments of this young nobleman, whom he commends for the mildnefs, the generofity, and the piety of his difpofition: he fpeaks diffufely of his valour and atchievements, of his fingular activity and horfemanthip, and other rude accomplishments of an unpolished and barbarous age, when, for want of dice, horse-races, boroughs, and all kinds of gaming, a young gentleman who took a fancy to ruin himself had no means to bring it about but by engaging in private feuds or rebellions. This may account, in fome measure, for the ftyle of education which feems to have been liberally beftowed by Lord Kenelwolfe upon his heir; and it is not extraordinary that Ethelbert should have made no fmall progrefs in ftudies which, though they are juftly defpifed by our nobility at this advanced period of elegance and refinement, it is probable were then as effectual a road to the favour of the Prince and the public, as that skill at the faro-table and perfeverance at the bottle, that frequency and notoriety of amours and quarrels, that noble ignorance and contempt of religion and character, which fo much diftinguifh our perfons of quality at prefent. I have taken the liberty of offering this reflection to my reader, because it has always appeared to me, that we may more eafily, and more certainly too, deduce the manners of any age or country (which I apprehend to be the chief advantage of hif tory) from its fyftem of education, whereever we are able to difcover it, than from any other circumftance whatever. If there be one principle in the fcience of human nature more unfailing and univerfal than the reft, it is the affection of parents to their children, whofe fuccefs and advancement in the world, we may conclude, has always been their chief and laft ambition to promote from education, therefore, and the principles moft carefully infilled into the ring generation, we may learn with fome degree of precifion what were, at any time, the most favourite and beneficial qualities, and in what fcience or talent it was moft ufeful to excel. I believe this rule will be found good, whether it be applied to Sparta or Rome; to London or Otaheite ; to the child of the favage who muit bring down his dinner with an arrow from the bough, or the page who must lie without fear, and pimp without blushing. When I confider the length of fome of my digreflions, I fear I am infected by my Abbot's contagious verbolity; but I own my splee › rifes, when I find him commending this young Lord to the extravagant degree of which he was guilty, and authoriting, by fo early and fo refpectable an example, that coarfe and awkward adulation, that vulgar clumfy compliment, with which it is still ufual for his Order to bedaub the nobility; but which is totally inexcufable in him, who lived at a time, I will undertake to prove it, when it was more eaty to frighten than to flatter a Lord out of a donative. Ethelbert, we may remember, had taken horfe, upon learning the misfortune that had befallen Eadburgha, and with the combined combined impetuofity and piety of his temper he had fworn by the throud of his mother, who appears to have been canonized, that he would never return till he had found and revenged his fifter! To acquit this pious vow, the first step he feems to have taken was, to gallop to the cell of the Hermit of Carbury, whose name Ethelfric had been obliged to make ufe of before, to procure his admiffion into the Caftle of Carifburgh, and who was, I think, as much refpected by that whole family as he deferved. The paffion for afcetic folitude, I imagine, had already fomething decayed in the Abbot's time, or at least in his neighbourhood, by the manner in which he fpeaks of this Hermit, as a perfonage neceffary to be explained and defcribed to the Jady to whom he addreffes himself.-His beard, fays he, whiter than fnow, fell to his girdle, and his placid countenance expreffed the melancholy and the refignation of his foul; his piety was fincere, but his devotion was animated; and fcarred more by the hand of affliction than of time, he had feemed, if you excepted his beard and his habit, as well placed in the front of battle, as in the cell of the rock of Carbury! In truth, he tells us in another place, though I think it might as well have come here he had learned in the great fchool of adverfity, the world, how vain were its deareft ambitions, its first and faireft forms!-He had learned to mistruit the ftrength of the battle; and the favour of Princes, he would fay, was falfe as woman's tears!-The country revered him far around, the peafant fhared his loaf of rye and his milk with Father Francis, and the puiffant Lords of Mercia walked barefoot to the cell of the Rock of Ca: bury! I am going to trouble my reader with more of the converfation between Ethelbert and this venerable perfonage than I fhould have done, had I not thought it abfolutely necellary to account for Ethelbert's breaking his vow, and returning, as we fhall prefently fee, in violation of an cath he had fo folemnly fworn; which I think it incumbent on me to do, because I find that at that period, and even confiderably later, the fuperftition prevalent among all orders of men, and which remains to this day in the middle clafies of fociety, would have regarded the breach of his engagement, or even of a folemn promife, as a great impicty, and an act of fo much difhonour as no rank nor office could have palliated or concealed. The difference of our manners, and the great change which the revolution of It is far from clear, nor is it very ma terial, whether Ethelbert had confeffed himself to the Hermit or not. I fhall take up their dialogue, where, apparently upon his knees, and with great piety, he demands a blessing upon himself and his houfe. "I will not bless thy house nor thee," fays the Anchoret," till the fins of Erkenwald thy father, and of Wilheldric, the root of Sigebert the Saxon, be done away!" "Heaven's will be done," said that young foldier, "but blets my purpose, holy Father, for it is holy !" "If it be holy, God will blefs it.Seekeft thou thy filter in the Castle of Sigebert ?" "In God's name, I will traverse the earth," cried Ethelbert," till I have found Eadburghą!"' "She is not in the Caftle of Sigebert." "I charge thee by the Tombs of the Apoftle,, fhew me which way the is taken, that I may pursue !” "Return," faid the Hermit, "to the Caftle of Carifburgh." "Never," faid Ethelbert ;-“I have fworn never more to behold the flaunting banners of Carifburgh till I have found and revenged my fitter." "Is vengeance thine?" faid the Anchoret, jealous, no doubt, of an intringe ment upon his monopoly. Prefumptuous youth! thou haft greatly finned, Return to the botom of thy parent! return, I tell thee-that the eyes of Kenelwolfe may yet once again behoid his fon!" "My father is well, and his homage is in his hall; his company is bold and frong; but my filter, I tell thee, holy Father, is as the role the peafant plucks and cafts away." "I am not here to reafon but command," faid the Hermit (who fhould have been a Bishop at least); "return, that the eyes of Kenelwolfe may yet once again behold his fon !" "God's will be done," cried Ethel, bert. "If I am fortworn, thy foul for mine." So faying, he embraced his knees, and implored him, with a piety that in our age would feem ftrange in a young officer of the guards, to few him the Divine will, and reveal to him the dangers that threatened his house, and the fituation of Eadburgha." "Your enemy is in your houfe-the proud Ethelfric is heard in the halis of Carifburgh !" It mult ftrike every feeling mind, that as the intentions of that Lord were extremely honourable, and as his behaviour in the Caftle of Carifburgh had not been that of an enemy, it is the height of wanton cruelty in the Hermit to give the young Baron fuch intelligence as will effectually produce a tragical event; when if he had not been pleased to display, fo voluntarily, his miraculous information, all danger must have been miffed in the very purfuit of it. Befides, who can have failed to obferve, that these two young men were exceedingly amiable, and every way worthy of the names and honours they bore, which may, I think, be pardoned them, in favour of their youth, their innocence, and their valour, without much danger, if no pardon be given but under this reftriction to perfons who have the fame flaw in their descent. For my own part I had almoft forgot it, and pitied them as much as if they had had the good fortune to be the children of fhoemakers or attorneys. I remember, when I first read the manufcript of my Author, I could fearce contain myfelf, for the refentment I felt at his Anchoret ; and I do firmly believe, that fome of that patriotic zeal which I flatter myself diftinguishes me against all merit and diftinction whatever (which I religiously believe to be inconfiftent with the natural rights and equality of man), and a part of that noble fpirit of perfecution of the Clergy Yet remember, fays the Abbot, that Kenelwolfe had curfed the dreams of the Hermit; that Ethelfric had lied to the Lord of Carifburgh, and profaned the fanctity of St. Francis of Carbury by pretending a miffion, and upon an errand that was not holy (it does not appear to have been the mode for the clergy to pimp in those days)-Yet remember, fays he, that these two noble houfes, as they feem to temporal men, had offended Heaven, and wearied out the prayers of the Saints with the blood they had fhed in their quarrels, and the hatred they had carried with them to the altars. Shall man offend for ever, fays he, and God forbear ?— For three hundred years there had not been peace between them; but now their enmity fhall be quenched in their blood, and their caftles fhall be the cradles of other names! "By the hand of Athelstan," faid Ethelbert, "whom I glory to ferve," obferve the devout loyalty of the guards in thofe times," the blood of Ethelfrie fhall fmoke on the pavement of Carifburgh, -Wilt thou not blefs me, Holy Father?" "To ears of vanity," faid the Saint, a temporal bleffing bears the femblance of mercy, but do thou find a saving health in affliction." With these words, fays the Abbot, he funk into the earth, and difappeared, like the gray mift that diffolves in the fun. (To be concluded in our next.) REMARKS on the ISLAND of HINZUAN or JOHANNA, By SIR WILLIAM JONES. [From the Second Volume of "ASIATIC RESEARCHES," just published.] So bad an account had been given me of faid, that they had feen my letters; that all fhould be ready; but that I could not pay lefs for the men than ten dollars. I faid, I would pay more, but it fhould be to the men themfelves, according to their behaviour. They returned fomewhat diffatisfied, after I had played at chefs with Alwí's younger fon, in whofe manner and addrefs there was fomething remarkably pleafing. Before fun-rife on the 2d of Augut, I went alone on fhore, with a small bafket of fuch provifions as I might want in the courfe of the day, and with fome cushions cufhions to make the prince's palanquin at leaft a tolerable vehicle; but the prince was refolved to receive the dollars to which his men were entitled; and he knew that, as I was eager for the journey, he could prefcribe his own terms. Old Alwi met me on the beach, and brought excufes from Sálim, who, he faid, was indifpofed. He conducted me to his houfe; and seemed rather defirous of perfuading me to abandon my defign of vifiting the King; but I affured him, that if the Prince would not fupply me with proper attendants, I would walk to Domóni with my own fervants and a guide. "Shaikh Salim," he faid, " was miferably avaritions; that he was afhamed of a kinfman with fuch a difpofition; but that he was no lefs obftinate than covetous, and that without ten dollars paid in hand it would be impoffible to procure bearers." I then gave him three guineas, which he carried or pretended to carry to Sálim, but returned without the change, alledging that he had no filver, and promifing to give me on my return the few dollars that remained. In about an hour the ridiculous vehicle was brought by nine fturdy blacks, who could not speak a word of Arabick; fo that I expected no information concerning the country through which I was to travel; but Alwi affifted me in a point of the utmoft confequence. "You cannot go," faid he, " without an interpreter; for the King fpeaks only, the language of this ifland; but I have a fervant whofe name is Tumúni, a fenfible and worthy man, who underhands English, and is much efteemed by the King he is known and valued all over Hinzuan. This man thall attend you; and you will feen be fenfible of his worth." : Tumúni defired to carry my baiket, and we fet out with a profpect of fine weather, but fome hours later than I had intended, I walked by the gardens of the two Princes to the fkirts of the town, and came to a little village confifting of feveral very neat huts made chiefly with the leaves of the cocoa-tree; but the road a little farther was fo ftony, that I fat in the palanquin, and was borne with perfect fafety over fowe rocks. I then defired my guide to affure the men, that I would pay them liberally; but the poor peafants, who had been brought from their farms on the hills, were not perfectly acquainted with the ufe of money, and treated my promife with indifference. About five miles from Matfamúdo lies the town of Wanì, where Shaikh Abdullah, who has already been mentioned, ufually refides. I faw it at a distance; and it feemed to be agreeably fituated. When I had paffed the rocky part of the road I came to a ftony beach, where the fea appeared to have loft fome ground, fince there was a fine fand to the left, and beyond it a beautiful bay, which refembled that of Weymouth, and feemed equally convenient for bathing; but it did not ap pear to me, that the ftones over which I was carried had been recently covered with water. Here I faw the frigate, and taking leave of it for two days, turned from the coaft into a fine country very neatly cultivated, and confifting partly of hillocks exquifitely green, partly of plains which were then in a gaudy drefs of rich yellow bloffoms: my guide informed me that they were plantations of a kind of vetch which was eaten by the natives. Cottages and farms were interfpersed allover this gay champaign, and the whole fcene was delightful; but it was foon changed for beauties of a different fort. We defcended into a cool valley, through which ran a rivulet of perfectly clear water; and there finding my vehicle uneasy, though from the laughter and merriment of my bearers I concluded them to be quite at their eafe, I bade them fet me down, and walked before them all the reft of the way. Mountains clothed with fine trees and flowering fhrubs prefented themfelves on our afcent from the vale, and we proceeded for half an hour through pleafant wood-walks, where I regretted the impoffibility of loitering a while to examine the variety of new bloffoms, which fucceeded one another at every step, and the virtues as well as names of which feemed familiar to Tumúni. At length we defcended into a valley of greater extent than the former; a river or large wintry torrent ran through it, and fell down a fteep declivity at the end of it, where it feemed to be left among rocks. Cattle were grazing on the banks of the river, and the huts of the owners appeared on the hills a more agreeable spot I had not before feen even in Swifferland, or Merionethshire; but it was followed by an affemblage of natural beauties, which I hardly expected to find in a little ifland twelve degrees to the fouth of the Line. I was not fufficiently pleafed with my folitary journey to difcover charms which had not actual existence, and the firft effect of the contraft between St. Jago and Hinzuan had ceafed. But, without any difpofition to give the landscape high colouring, I may truly fay what I thought at the time, that the whole coun : try by which next prefented itself as far furpaffed Ermenonville or Blenheim, or any other imitations of nature which I had feen in France or England, as the finest bay furpaffes an artificial piece of water. Two very high mountains covered to the fummit with the richeft verdure, were at fome diftance on my right hand, and feparated from me by meadows diverfified with cottages and herds, or by vallies refounding with torrents and water-falls: on my left was the fea, to which there were beautiful openings from the hills and woods; and the road was a finooth path naturally winding through a forest of spicy fhrubs, fruit-trees, and palms. Some high trees were fpangled with white blof foms equal in fragrance to orange flowers: my guide called them Monongo's, but the day was declining fo faft that it was intpoffible to examine them. The variety of fruits, flowers, and birds, of which I had a tranfient view in this magnificent gar den, would have supplied a naturalist with amufement for a month; but I faw no remarkable infect, and no reptile of any kind. The woodland was diversified by a few pleasant glades, and new profpects were continually opened; at length a noble view of the fea burft upon me unex. pectedly, and having paffed a hill or two we came to the beach, beyond which were feveral hills and cottages: We turned from the there, and on the next eminence I faw the town of Domoni at a little distance below us : I was met by a number of natives, a few of whom spoke Arabick, and thinking it a convenient place for repofe, I fent my guide to apprize the King of my intended vifit. He returned in half an hour with a polite meflage; and I walked into the town, which feemed large and populous. A great crowd accompanied me, and I was conducted to a houfe built on the fame plan with the best houses at Matfamúdo: in the middle of the court yard stood a Jarge Monongo tree; which perfumed the air; the apartment on the left was empty; and in that on the right, fat the King on a fofa or bench covered with an ordinary carpet. He rofe when I entered, and, grafping my hands, placed me near him on the right; but as he could fpeak only the language of Hinzuan, I had recourfe to my friend Tumúni, than whom a reader or more accurate interpreter could not have been found. I prefented the King with a very handfome Indian drets of blue filk with golden flowers, which had been worn only at one malquerade, and with a beautiful copy of the Koran, from which I read a few verfes to him; he VOL. XX. took them with great complacency, and faid," he wished I had come by fea, that he might have loaded one of my boats with fruit and fome of his finett cattle. He had feen me, he faid, on board the frigate, where he had been according to his cuftom in difguife, and had heard of me from his fon Shaik Hamdullah." I gave him an account of my journey, and extolled the beauties of his country: he put many questions concerning mine, and profeffed great regard for my nation. But I hear," faid he, that you are a magiftrate, and confequently profefs peace; why are you armed with a broad fword ?" "I was a man," I faid, "before I was a magiftrate; and if it fhould ever happen that law could not protect me, I must protect myself." He feemed about fixty years old, had a very cheerful countenance, and a great appearance of goodnature mixed with a certain dignity which diftinguished him from the croud of minifters and officers who attended him. Our converfation was interrupted by notice, that it was the time for evening prayer; and when he rofe he faid, "This houfe is yours, and I will vifit you in it after you have taken fome refreshment." Soon after his fervants brought a roaft fowl, a ricepudding, and fome other difhes; with paypayas and very good pomegranates : my own basket fupplied the reft of the fupper. The room was hung with old red cloth, and decorated with pieces of porcelain and feftoons of English bottles; the lamps were placed on the ground in large fea fhells; and the bed-place was a receis, concealed by a chintz hanging, oppofite to the fofa on which he had been fitting: Though it was not a place that invited repofe, and the gnats were inexpreffibly troublefome, yet the fatigues of the day procured me a comfortable ilumber. I was waked by the return of the King and his train; fome of whom were Arabs, for I heard one fay, "Huwa ráhid," or, He is fleeping: there was an immediate filence, and I paffed the night with little difturbance except from the unwelcome fongs of the mufquitos. In the morning I was equally filent and folitary; the houfe appeared to be deferted, and I began to wonder what was becoitte of Tumúni: he came at length with a concern on his countenance, and told me that the bearers had run away in the night; but that the King, who wifhed to fee me in another of his houfes, would fupply me with bearers, if he could not prevail on me to stay till a boat could be fent for. I went immediately to the King, who I found fitting on a raifed fofa in a large room, the walls Y y of |