ADVERTISEMENT. THE tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common in the East than formerly; either because the ladies are more circumspect than in the "olden time;" or because the Christians have better fortune, or less enterprize. The story, when entire, contained the adventures of a female slave, who was thrown, in the Mussulman manner, into the sea for infi delity, and avenged by a young Venetian, her lover, at the time the Seven Islands were possessed by the Republic of Venice, and soon after the Arnauts were beaten back from the Morea, which they had ravaged for some time subsequent to the Russian invasion. The desertion of the Mainotes, on being refused the plunder of Misitra, led to the abandonment of that enterprize, and to the desolation of the Morea, during which the cruelty exercised on all sides was unparalleled even in the annals of the faithful. The Giaour. No breath of air to break the wave That tomb' which, gleaming o'er the cliff, When shall such hero live again? Fair clime! where every season smiles There mildly dimpling-Ocean's cheek B And if at times a transient breeze Or sweep one blossom from the trees That wakes and wafts the odours there!· The maid for whom his melody, That holds the pirate for a guest; Whose bark in sheltering cove below Is heard, and seen the evening star; And every charm and grace hath mixed There man, enamour'd of distress, And trample, brute-like, o'er each flower |