that some of the well-educated Moors are courteous and polite, and are possessed of great suavity of manners. They are affable and communicative where they repose confidence; and if in conversation, the subject of discussion be serious, and the parties become warm in dispute, they have generally the prudence to turn the subject in a delicate manner; they are slow at taking offence, but, when irritated, are noisy and implacable.

There is one noble trait in the character of this people which I cannot avoid mentioning, that is fortitude under misfortune; this the Moor possesses in an eminent degree; he never despairs; no bodily suffering, no calamity, however great, will make him complain; he is resigned in all things to the will of God, and waits in patient hopes for an amelioration of his condition.

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You may give to a Frenchman liberal pay: he never amasses money, and loves pleasure. The case nearly answers to the German; only he spends what he labours for in good living, not on the gay vanities of the Frenchman. Englishman more must be given: he will enjoy himself at any rate, should he even call into his aid his own credit. A Dutchman rarely eats enough to pacify nature; his sole object is economy; less, consequently, will serve him. An Italian is by nature inoculated with

parsimony; a trifle, therefore, will do for him: almost out of nothing he will contrive to save; making no mystery of it, but acknowledging that he serves from home with no other view than to amass money to enable him to return with affluence, to the heaven of Europe, his own dear Italy.

Dwarfs and Fools, exhibited in the Houses of the Nobles of Moscow. [From the same.]

They are here the pages and the playthings of the great; and, at almost all entertainments, stand for hours by their lord's chair, holding his snuff-box, or awaiting his commands. There is scarcely a nobleman in this country who is not possessed of one or more of these frisks of nature; but, in their selection, I cannot say that the noblesse display their gallantry, as they choose none but males.

These little beings are generally the gayest drest persons in the service of their lord, and are attired in a uniform or livery of very costly materials. In the presence of their owner, their usual station is at his elbow, in the character of a page ; and, during his absence, they are then responsible for the cleanliness and combed locks of their companions of the canine species.

Besides these Lilliputians, many of the nobility keep a fool or two, like the motleys of our court, ia the days of Elizabeth; but like in name alone; for their wit, if they ever had any, is swallowed up by indolence. Savoury sauce, and rich repasts, swell their bodies to the most disgusting size; and lying about in the corners of some

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luxuriant tresses over her brow and head, was looped up with a double diadem of jewels. Her robe was splendidly embroidered; and on her breast she wore the badges of the order of St. Catherine. And certainly it must be acknowledged, that the star, whether of distinction or of beauty, never shone brighter than on the bosom of the fair Helen of the North; for thus this beautiful queen is generally distinguished; though, were I to give her a title, it should rather be that of Andromache, whose beauties, lovely as they were, were yet transcended by the more endearing graces of the chaste wife and tender mother.

During the whole of the even ing, after the musical salutation, their majesties mingled with the company, conversing with every person with the kindest condescension. Every citizen was spoken to; and their eyes sparkled with joy, while their tongues faltered out a reply to the address of their sovereign. His conversation with the subjects of his brother in arms, our revered monarch, was of the most gratifying complexion; no coldness, no form; all was frank, great, and consistent with himself. In short, it would have been impossible for any potentate to have shown more graceful, knight-like courtesy to all present; or for a sovereign to be received with deeper homage from a brave and loyal people. In many courts I have seen the body of loyalty; here its spirit was felt.

Could we have reconciled ourselves to the delay, and to the insults to which we were exposed, if we moved out alone, there was every thing in the country surrounding Tetuan to make our time pass away agreeably. Sometimes we crossed the river, and rode along the narrow paths which intersected the orange-gardens, while the whole air was perfumed with their blossoms. A small sum procured us admission into any of them, and the liberty of loading ourselves with the fruit. I found the trees planted in rows, with small trenches, to conduct the water to the roots, exactly as in the plantations near Palma, at the junction of the Genil and Guadalquivir. Among these gardens, the most celebrated is that of Kytan, in the center of which are the ruins of the palace of a basha, who formerly contended for some time against the emperor of his day. He had pretensions to the crown, and was supported by the wild and hardy race which still people the neighbouring mountains; but he was unsuccessful, and his ruined palace alone remains a memorial of his fate. At every step we meet with innumerable proofs of the extreme ignorance of these people in the art of war, and consequently in almost every other art. This palace, which stood a long siege, is commanded by heights within musket-shot. Yet the Moors have a high idea of their own military character. Talking to our soldier one day, he expressed great hatred of the French. We asked, why

so more than of the English? "Because," he replied, "the French would take our country, if they could, as they have done in Spain, and as they did with Egypt. But," added he, "they would not find us Egyptians; we are men of Barbary.

I must confess I was astonished to find this hatred of the French very common among so ignorant a people. Their partiality to the English (if they deign to show a partiality for any Christian) may be accounted for by the vicinity of Gibraltar, where many of their countrymen are established and protected, and which is supplied with a great part of its provisions from the Barbary coast. But the hatred against Spaniards is still greater than against Frenchmen. They ever keep in remembrance that their forefathers, and the companions of their forefathers, were formerly masters of all the opposite and fertile shores of the Mediterranean; and that even after submission, and the most solemn compacts with their Spanish con. querors, they were driven from their homes and their native land. The circumstances attending that expulsion may be forgotten; but the hatred excited by it, and by the wars afterwards carried on, still exists in all its force. We were repeatedly stopped in the streets by an exclamation addressed to us, and which our interpreter explained to be "the Englishman is very good, but the Spaniard stinks." At other times, however, we were subjected to those insults which every man in the European dress must be prepared occasionally to encounter among Mahometans. The names of infidel and dog be

came familiar to our ears. Some of the lowest classes at times held up their hands in a threatening manner, as if to strike us as we passed, and that without the slightest provocation; the boys especially took great delight in following and insulting the Christians: they called us by every opprobrious epithet, and not content with that, often, at the city-gates, saluted us with a volley of stones, which we could neither avoid nor punish. There is much more of this barba rism here, than at Smyrna or Constantinople.

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But the insults to which Christians are exposed, are nothing, when compared with those which the Jew must hourly suffer. As Christians we entered the gates on horseback, when returning from our ride, accompanied by a soldier. This sometimes created murmurs ; but our Jewish companion was always obliged to dismount, and enter on foot, nor was he allowed even to ride through the street. In passing a mosque, be the path ever so muddy, the Jew must take off his slippers; scarcely dare he to look upon the house of pray. er. At any time a Moor of the lowest cast may enter the house of a Jew, and commit a thousand insolences, which the other has not the power even to resent. It is on this account that the Jews reside in a separate quarter. A Mahometan keeps the gates, and by making suitable presents to him, the miserable children of Abraham live in tolerable security. But their hatred against their tyrants cannot be described; it is mixed with all that is base; with fear, with rancour, with cunning. A Jew takes off his cap to a Moor,

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