pronounce it a most pathetic and It appears to me somewhat too labeautiful production. For my own boured; the author is too visible in I know of nothing in our own it; the comparisons seem pressed inlanguage at all similar, or which I to the service without Howing natucould venture to place in comparison rally from the subject. The following is an attempt at a translation: with it. "Look round you, Look through all-glorious nature! 'tis built on freedom! And oh! how rich in freedom is it! dew The task of selecting beauties from this play, is upon the whole an easy one. They are thinly scattered, and easily ascertained; they stand out so conspicuously from the other parts, that the reader finds no difficulty in deciding upon them. I wish it had been otherwise. I wish my labour had been increased tenfold; I wish that here, as in the "Robbers," to have selected the beauties, would yours The worm, and even in the lifeless empire 'Tis have been to have transcribed nearly To tremble even at virtue! HE-not the whole play. However, I will To disturb the rapturous aspect of freee proceed to extract another passage dom the speech of the marquis Von Posa Rather suffers Evil's hideous pack to the king, in the third act, where he To range his empire thro-HIM, the is pleading for the inhabitants of the Artist, none beholds-modestly enshrined Netherlands against the sanguinary Beneath the veil of irrevocable laws.” measures of Philip, and his creature There is certainly something very the duke of Alva. Hurried away by pleasing in the ideas of the above, the enthusiasm of his feelings and but still it is greatly inferior to the his subject, he throws himself at the many impassioned passages that are feet of his monarch, and implores to be found in Schiller. Mere thinkhim to give them freedom of thought; ing might produce this philosophical the king bids him rise, and the marquis exclaims, Erschreckt den Herrn der Christenheit-sie Müssen vor jeder tugend zittern. Er-der freyheit rhapsody; but the unconfined flight of genius alone could produce the other example brought forward in this letter. Neither is the idea itselt original: Herder, in the second vo lume of his Philosophy of History, has illustrated the same thought; and a poet of our own country, whose works are extremely popular in Germany, has expressed himself in a manner very similar to the latter part of the above: "But, tho' conceal'd to every purer eye, Th'informing author in his works appears." Thomson, Spring, 1. 856. I do not know, in the whole of this play, any other particular speech, or Eutzückende erscheinung nicht zu storen- scheiden Verhült er sich in ewige gesetze. quoting. There are some interesting and spirited scenes between the mar Some of your readers will perhaps quis of Posa and Carlos, but they think that this passage is rather frigid would lose their merit when read declamation than poetry; an opinion disjointed from the preceding and which I am much inclined to counte- subsequent parts. In the third act Schiller ascribes to nance; but having heard it much vaunted by some, I have brought it Philip a magnanimity of conduct forward less under the sanction of which I believe history does not warThe duke de Medina Sidonia my own judgment, than from a wish rant. to collect the ideas of others upon it. is supposed to be returned, after his fatal defeat by the English, under plunder you. Do you wish to see the queen Elizabeth; it is needless to Aga? You must first send him preadd, that he commanded the Spanish sents: he will not fail to give you, armada. When he appears in the notwithstanding your remonstrances, audience chamber, among the cour- an escort for Jerusalem. The Aga tiers, they all look upon him with si- of Ramle will increase this escort. lence and neglect, anticipating the The Arabs, persuaded that a rich fate that awaits him, when he shall Frank is going on a pilgrimage to the communicate his disastrous tidings to holy sepulchre, will either augment his master. The king enters, and the tolls on the way, or they will at having conversed with several who tack you. are there, he at last sees his admiral, and exclaims, "You there!" MEDINIA SIDONIA (approaches the king trembling--kneels before him, and bends his head down). That, great king, Is all I bring you back of the THE KING (after a long silence.) "God is above me I sent you against men-not against Close to Jerusalem you will find the camp of the Pacha of Damascus, who is come, according to custom, to raise contributions before conducting the caravan to Mecca, Your pomp will give offence to this Pacha, and will expose you to insults. Arrived at Jerusalem, they will demand three or four piastres for the escort. The people, informed of your arrival, will besiege you in such a manner, that were you possessed of millions, you could not satisfy their avidity. The streets will be obstructed, and you will not be able to enter the sacred places but in running the hazard of being torn to pieces. ConThis is a magnanimous answer, fide in me; to-morrow we will disand becomes a king more than does guise ourselves as pilgrims; we will his crown and sceptre. But I fear go together to Raile; there I shall the poet has lent a ray of glory to the receive the answer to my express. If gloomy bigot, which the historian it is favourable you can set off in the would indignantly tear away. night and you will arrive safe and Here, however, for the present, I sound, at a small expense, at Jerusastop my pen. I shall continue to lem." To Madrid (reaching him his hand to kiss) vant." send you from time to time, with The holy father supported his reayour permission, further remarks up- sonings with a thousand examples, on the works of Scbiller, and which and particularly that of a Polish will incidentally include strictures upon other celebrated German writers, and the literature of the country in general. I remain, &c. W. Oct. 4, 1807. TEAUBRIANT. bishop, who, it is supposed, lost his (Continued from p. 216.) TI wished to pay a visit to the HE day after my arrival at Jaffa Aga, who sent me his compliments. On the 3d October at four o'clock The vice-procurer endeavoured to in the afternoon, we clothed ourhinder me from this design. "You selves in robes of goat's hair fabri do not know these people," said he cated in Upper Egypt, and of the same to me. "What you take for polite- nature as those worn by the Bedouness is nothing but trick and espio- ins. We mounted upon sorry nage. They came to visit and com- mules. The vice procurer marched pliment you merely to know who at our head, under the title of a poor you are, if you are rich, if they can brother: a half naked Arab shewed 1 us the way, and another followed us, driving before him an ass loaded with our baggage. We went out at the postern of the convent, and we soon arrived at the gate of the city. to the convent of the Holy Saviour. To comprehend fully the joy which my arrival gave to the fathers of the holy land, we should be placed in their situation; they thought themGood news awaited me at Ramlé; selves saved by the very appearance I found there a drogoman from the of a Frenchman. The superior convent of Jerusalem, whem the su- (Father Bonaventure de Nola) said to perior had sent to meet me. The me," It is Providence that has sent Arab chief who was to conduct me you hither! You will prevent us rambled about in the country at some from being despoiled, and perhaps distance, for the Aga of Ramle does assassinated by the people! You not permit the Bedouins to enter the have, no doubt, your firmans: let me send them to the Pacha, that he city. The most powerful tribe of the may know that a Frenchman is armountain of Judea resides in the vil- rived: he will think us protected by lage of Jeremiah: they can open of France. The last year he compelled shut the roads to Jerusalem at their us to pay sixty thousand piastres, pleasure. The scheik of this tribe though according to right we owed had been dead some time; he had him only four, thousand. This year left his young son Urman under the he wants to exact the same sum, tuition of his uncle Abon Gosh; this and threatens to proceed to the last had two brothers, Igibar and greatest extremities against us if we Ebraim-Habd-el-Rouman, who ac- do not comply. We shall be comcompanied me on my return. pelled to sell the sacred utensils, for We quitted Rane on the fourth it is now four years since we received at midnight. We traversed the plain any alms from Europe; if this conof Saron and we entered the moun- tinue, we shall soon be forced to tains of Judea. When it was day- abandon the Holy Land, and to relight, I found myself in a labyrinth sign to the Mahometans the tomb of of mountains conically formed, all Jesus Christ." resembling each other, and united to I was indeed happy that I could do each other at the base. 1 arrived at what the superior so earnestly enthe valley of Jerusalem; I descended treated me. I observed, however, into that of Terebinth, leaving the that I must first of all go to the Jorcastle of the Maccabees on my right dan before sending the firmans, in The rocks, which hitherto had pre- order not to augment the difficulties served some appearance of verdure, of a voyage always dangerous. They were now utterly bare. By degrees immediately sent for a Turk called Asi all vegetation disappeared, and the Aga to conduct me to Bethlehem. tumultuous amphitheatre of moun- This Ali Aga was son of an Aga of tains assumed a red and burning Ramle,whose head had been cut off by tinge. Arrived on an elevated defile order of the famous Djezzar. Aĺi I discovered suddenly a line of Aga was born at Jericho, now called Gothic walls. At the foot of these Rikka, in the valley of Jordan, and walls appeared a camp of Turkish he was governor of this village. He cavalry, in full oriental pomp. The was a man of courage and ability. Arab chief exclaimed El Quods! He began by making me and my serThe Holy! (Jerusalem) and set off vant relinquish the Arab dress and at full gallop. resume the French one: this dress, The cry of the drogoman, who formerly so despised by the orienttold me to close our ranks, because alists, now inspired respect and fear. we were going to cross the camp, French valour has only recovered the awoke me from a sort of stupor into renown which it long possessed in which the sight of these sacred spots this country. It was the knights of had plunged me. We entered into France who re-established the kingJerusalem by the gate called that of dom of Jerusalem, and who gathered the Pilgrims, and whose true name the palms of Idumea: the Turks yet is that of Damascus. We descended shew the fountain of the knights, the Diogenes of Sinope inveighed much against the Megarensians for their want of learning and neglect of their children's education; saying, that he would rather be the ram of a Megarensian, than his son: intimating, that this people took care of their cattle, but not of their children. No. 63.-A description of Thessalian Tempe. mountain of the knights, the tower and that they will soone. die under of the knights; and at Calvary may torture, than betray the truth. In be seen the sword of Godfrey of India women will remain on the fuBouillon, which, in its old scabbard, neral pile with their deceased busseems yet to guard the Holy Se- bands and being ambitious to die pulchre. with them, she on whom the lot falls, At five o'clock in the evening they is burnt in the same fire. brought us three good horses: the No. 62.-Diogenes' reflection on the drogoman of the convent joined us ; Megarensians. Ali placed himself at our head; and we set out for Bethlehem, at the convent of which we meant to sleep, and to take from hence an escort of six Bethlehemite Arabs. We quitted Jerusalem by the Pilgrim's Gate; then, turning to the left and crossing the ravines at the foot of Mount Sion, we climbed up a mountain, on the top of which we rested some time. We left Jerusalem to the north behind We come now to describe and paint us; on the west we had the moun- the Thessalian Tempe. For it must tains of Judea; and on the east at a be acknowledged, that language, as great distance, the mountains of it is susceptible of the ornaments and Arabia. It was night when we ar- force of eloquence, is not less capable rived at Bethlehem. With what of describing any thing, than is the pleasure I visited the manger of our sculpture of the skilful artist. Tempe Saviour: the place of the adoration of the Magi! the oratory of St. Jerome! After having copied the different inscriptions, and examined all that was remarkable, I prepared for continuing our journey to the Dead Sea. (To be continued.) EXTRACTS from ELIAN'S VARIOUS MISES presented to Artaxerxes, lies between the mountains Olympus and Ossa, which rise very high and seem to be divided from each other by a divine design. The intermediate plain extends in length forty stadia, or five miles, and in breadth in some places, an hundred feet, in others more. Through the middle of it flows the river Peneus, into which other rivers run, and by their common streams, enlarge it. This place has numerous and various recesses, not formed by human art, but the spontaneous productions of nature, as he was riding through Per- emulous, as it were, at its first formasia, the largest Pomegranate from his tion, to adorn and beautify it. Prickly store. The king, astonished at the ivy in great abundance flourishes in size of it, asked him, from what gar- it, and like generous vines, creeps den he brought him this gift. The along, rises into high trees, and grows man answering, from home and from with them. A great quantity of his own grounds, the king was greatly bind-weed runs up the hill, shades pleased, sent him royal presents, and conceals the rock; so that noand, swearing by the sun, observed, thing but green is seen to delight the "This man, in my opinion, could by eye. In the valley there are many his assiduity advance a city from a groves and harbours, that afford in the low state to greatness:" meaning, that hot season, the most pleasant retreats all things by care, continual atten- to travellers, in which they may tion, and unceasing diligence, could agreeably cool themselves. There be improved and made much better are numerous springs and flowing than they were naturally. No. 61-The fortitude of the Egyptians, and of the Indian Wives. We are told, that the Egyptians bear pain with wonderful firmness, streams of water, cold and pleasant to drink. These waters are said to be beneficial to those who bathe in them, and to have medicinal virtues, The ear is delighted with the music of the singing birds in every quarter. No. 64.-Antalcidas finds fault with a present that had been dipt in ointment. The fatigue of the traveller, as he passes on, is most pleasantly soothed by their melody. Each bank of the Artaxerxes, king of the Persians, river offers those calm_retreats, of (for I wish to relate a pleasant inciwhich I have spoken. Through the dent) sent to Antalcidas, an ambassa middle of the vale meanders the river dor to him from Lacedæmon on a Peneus, flowing like oil smoothly and treaty of peace, a crown of roses dipt gently. The trees growing on each in ointment. "I accept the preside, with their intertwining branches sent," said he, "and I applaud the hanging over it, form a shade, to kindness of it, but thou hast destroyed screen it through the greatest part of the scent of the roses and the natural the day from the solar rays, and to fragrancy, by the adulterations of afford a refreshing coolness to such art,' Dogs. as sail on it. The inhabitants assem- No. 65.-Diogenes' Servant torn by ble together in parties on its banks for conversation, conviviality, and When Diogenes left his country, sacrifices. As numbers are collected one of his servants, whose name was together to perform their religious Manes, attended him; but not liking rites, and to offer continual sacrifices, his mode of living, ran away. When the most fragrant scents accompany some persons recommended a search those who are passing or sailing by. after him, Diogenes replied, “Would The unceasing honours paid to the it not be a shame, as Manes can do divinity consecrate the place. The without Diogenes, if Diogenes should Thessalians say, that it was in this want Manes?" The man, wandering place the Pythian Apollo purified by Delphi, was there torn by dogs,* himself, according to the command suffering, in revenge of his master, of Jupiter, when he slew the serpent the punishment of his running away. Python, which then inhabited Delphi, No. 65.-Meton's art in avoiding an the residence of the oracle: that expedition and Ulysses madness. crowned with a laurel of Tempe, and Meton,† the astronomer, was enwith a branch of it in his right hand, rolled in the forces which were dehe seized the oracle, the offspring of stined to sail from Athens to Sicily; Jupiter and Latona. There is an altar but he wisely anticipated impending on the spot where he was crowned dangers, and feared to embark. Studyand took away the laurel. To this ing how to free himself from the exday the people of Delphi send hither pedition, when no other schemes sucyouth of noble descent, one of whom ceeded, he pretended madness; and is president of the religious rites, did many things to create a belief of to offer magnificent sacrifices; which his labouring under this malady: having done, they return again with among other actions, he set fire to, chaplets woven from the same laurels and burned down his house, which with which Apollo was crowned. adjoined to the porch, Pacile. On They take the road which is called Pythian, and which leads through Thessaly, Pelagonia, Ete, and the It must be understood, of the dogs Country of the CEnians, Miliensians, which were kept in the Temple of Dorentians, and the western Lonans. Apollo. UPTON. They who conduct the youth are re- He was the son of Pausanias, garded with the like veneration and the Athenian, lived at the beginning honour, as were the northern Sythians, of the Peloponnesian war, and was who made offerings to the same divi- not only an eminent mathematician, nity. Hence arose the custom of and celebrated for his knowledge of presenting crowns of laurel to those the heavenly bodies, but for his acwho are victors in the Pythian quaintance of springs, and his skill in games. We have said enough at making weights and balances. Ha present on the subject of the Thessa- invented what is called in Chrone lian Tempe. logy, the golden number. 2 R UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VIII. |