been disinherited for not having separated herself from such a scoundrel, as they suppose me to be. I could furnish volumes of circumstances of this nature, all of which are owing to that unhappy name of Smith, but I fear I have already trespassed too far on your valuable pages. Having told you thus far, what I am, I will conclude, by telling you, for my own sake, and for the benefit of the public at large, what I am not.

I am not the young man of respectable appearance, who was remanded last week on a charge of robbing his employer.

I am not the unhappy man, who, a few days ago deliberately committed suicide, by suffocating himself with charcoal, in a fit of temporary insanity. I am not a tripe-dresser in Golden Lane; I am not a whalebone merchant in Fleet Street; I am not a tailor in the Strand; I was not married last week, at St. Pancras Church, to somebody, whose name I forget. I have never performed the principal Witch, in Macbeth-neither am I any relation to the "Bottle Imp," whatever.

I am not ready to fight Jem Ward, or any other pet of the fancy, for 50 sovereigns aside; nor am I to be heard of at Peter Crawley's.

I am not the ragged young urchin, who was placed at the bar, for a daring robbery on a lollipop-vender. Neither did I die, lamented by all who knew me, on the thirtieth ultimo, as stated in the public journals.

I am not sexton to half a dozen parishes; and I know nothing about the keys of any engine whatever.

I do not beat carpets, nor undertake porter's work; I did not preach an impressive discourse on any occasion; neither was I committed for three months to the tread mill, for playing at thimblerig during divine service.

I am not the monster in human form, who was convicted of skinning cats alive, and leaving their quivering carcasses to writhe in all the horrors of excoriation. I am not a gingerbread baker, nor a dealer in marine stores.

I am what I am, Dei gratia, and remain, the reader's obedient servant,

GREGORY SMITH.

THE GENEROUS LOVER. (For the Parterre). CHAP. II. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. OUR two friends reached the tents just as the ex-pacha arrived, and his successor

was coming out to receive him at the door of his pavilion. Ali pacha (for that was the name of him who was quitting the government) came attended by all the janissaries composing the ordinary garrison of Nicosia, since the Turks had obtained possession of it, amounting to about five hundred. They came in two wings or files; some with muskets, others with drawn scimetars. They approached the entrance of the new pacha's tent, and took their stations round it: then Ali Pacha, inclining his body, made a reverence to Hassan, and the latter, with a slighter inclination, returned the salute. Ali then entered Hassan's pavilion; and the Turks mounted Hassan upon a fine horse, richly caparisoned; they led him round the tents, and took a considerable circuit over the ground about them, crying out in their language'Long live Sultan Soliman, and Hassan Pacha in his name!" They repeated this a number of times, shouting louder every time; and then they led him back to the tent, where Ali Pacha had remained; when he, the cadi, and Hassan, shut themselves up there for an hour, no other person being present. Mahomet told Ricardo that they had done this in order to consult about what should be done in the city relative to the works which Ali had commenced.

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At length the cadi came to the door of the tent, and called out, three several times, in Turkish, Arabic, and Greek, that all who had justice to demand, or any complaint to make, against Ali Pacha, might enter freely, for that Hassan Pacha was there, whom the Grand Signior sent to be viceroy of Cyprus, who would do them all right and justice. mission being given, the Janissaries left the door-way of the tent unoccupied, and gave free passage to all who chose to enter. Mahomet took Ricardo in with him, for the latter was allowed to pass, as being a slave of Hassan. There entered, to ask justice, some Greek Christians, and also several Turks; but all for matters of so little importance, that the cadi dispatched the greater part of them without either pleadings or cross examinations: for all causes, except matrimonial ones, are settled among them summarily, and at once, rather according to the good sense of the judge than according to any written law. And among those barbarians (if, indeed, in the brevity of their legal proceedings they can be considered as such) the cadi was the competent judge of all causes, deciding

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hands, considered how he might allay the discord which had arisen, and at the same time obtain possession of the desired object, without giving cause to suspect his sinister intention. He accordingly rose from his seat, and placing himself between the two pachas, who were already standing, he said-"Hassan, compose thyself; and do thou, Ali, be tranquil; for you see me here, and I will contrive so to reconcile your differences that both of you shall fulfil your intention, and your duty to the Grand Signior shall be paid as you desire." The cadi was instantly obeyed; indeed, he would have been had he commanded something more difficult-in such reverence did the Mussulmans hold his grey hairs. He proceeded thus :--"You say, Ali, that you want this Christian damsel for the Grand Signior, and Hassan says that he also wants to have her for the same purpose; you allege that because you were the first to offer the price, she ought to be yours; Hassan contradicts you; and though he himself has not clearly established his right, it appears to me to be the same as yours, consisting in the intention, which doubtless you must both have formed at the same time, of purchasing the slave for the same purpose; only you had the advantage of him in being the first to declare your wish; but that is no reason why his good intention should be altogether lost to him; and therefore, I think it will be well that you should agree to arrange the matter thus:Let the slave belong to both of you; and since the use of her is to be left entirely to the Grand Signior, for whom she is purchased, it will be for him to dispose of her. Meanwhile, you, Hassan, will pay one half the price; and you, Ali, will pay the other half; and the captive shall remain in my hands, that I may send her, in both your names, to Constantinople, and that so I may have some share in the compliment, if only for having been present at the occasion of it. I therefore promise to send her at my own cost, with all the state and attendance which her destination requires; writing at the same time to the Grand Signior the particulars of all that has passed, and the devotion which both of you have manifested to his service."

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abide by his decision; and each of them still cherished a hope, which, though slightly founded, seemed to promise to them in the end the accomplishment of their wishes. Hassan, who was remaining as governor of Cyprus, thought of gaining over the cadi, by presents, to abandon his resolution, and give him the fair captive; Ali proposed to himself to strike a blow which should secure to him what he desired; and each of them being satisfied with his own scheme, they submitted with the less reluctance to the cadi's decision. With the full consent of both, she was surrendered into his hands, and they immediately paid the Jew two thousand crowns each. The Jew said that he could not part with her for that money in the dress she then wore, for that it was worth another thousand crowns; and so it was; for in her hair, of which part hung loose upon her shoulders, and part was tied up and bound upon her forehead, there appeared several rows of pearls, very tastefully disposed. The bracelets and ancle-clasps were also full of large pearls. Her dress was a long robe of green satin, covered with gold embroidery. Indeed, it was the opinion of them all, that the Jew had not asked too much for the dress and ornaments; and the cadi, that he might not appear less liberal than the two pachas, said that he would pay it in order that the Christian slave might be presented to the Grand Signior in that attire. With this the two competitors were perfectly satisfied, each of them thinking that the whole would come into his own possession.

It is needless to say, what were the feelings of Ricardo, at beholding his soul's idol thus put up for sale like a beast of burden-the thoughts and apprehensions that crowded upon his mind, since he seemed to have found his lost treasure only to part with it even more painfully than before; he scarcely knew whether to believe himself asleep or awake, doubting whether his senses did not deceive him; for he could scarcely persuade himself that he had really seen before him, her whose beauteous and cruel eyes he had long thought to have been closed for ever. He went up to his friend Mahomet, and said to him, "Do you not know her, my friend?" No," answered Mahomet. "Then you must know," said Ricardo, "that it is Leonisa."

"What do you say, Ricardo?" exclaimed Mahomet.

"What you have heard," returned Ricardo.

"Do you think," said Ricardo, "it is fit that I should place myself where she may see me ?"

66 By no means," answered Mahomet, "lest you should surprise her, or be agitated yourself, and by your emotion shew that you have seen and know her; which might be prejudicial to my design."

"I will follow your advice," said Ricardo; and accordingly he was cautious that his eyes should not encounter those of Leonisa, who had all this time kept hers fixed upon the ground, shedding a few gentle tears. The cadi approached her, and taking her hand, delivered her to Mahomet, commanding him to take her to the city, and give her into the care of his mistress Halima, and tell her to treat her as a slave of the Grand Signior. Mahomet obeyed, and left Ricardo alone, who gazed after the fair and wandering star of his hopes, until she disappeared behind the walls of Nicosia. He then went to the Jew, and asked him where he had bought that Christian captive, or how she had come into his possession. The Jew answered him, that he had bought her on the island of Pantalaria, of some Turks who had been wrecked there. He was about to proceed in his narrative, but was prevented by a summons from the pachas, who wanted to ask him the very same thing which Ricardo desired to know; and he accordingly left him.

On the way from the tents to the city, Mahomet took occasion to ask Leonisa to what place she belonged; and she answered, "the city of Trapani."

Mahomet then asked her if she knew in that city a gentleman of rich and noble parentage, named Ricardo. On hearing which, Leonisa heaved a deep sigh, and said, "Yes, I do know him, to my misfortune."

"How to your misfortune?” inquired Mahomet.

"Because," returned Leonisa, “hę knew me to his own, and to my unhappiness."

"And do you," asked Mahomet, "also know, in the same city, a young gentle man of elegant exterior, the son of wealthy parents, and himself a person of great worth, generosity, and discretion, named Cornelio?"

"I know him too," answered Leonisa ;

"and, I may say, still more to my misfortune than I know Ricardo. But who are you, sir, who seem to know them, and put these questions to me about them ?"

"I," said Mahomet, "am a native of Palermo, whom a variety of incidents have brought to wear this habit in which you now see me, so different from that which I wore formerly; and I know them, because within these few days they have both of them been in my hands. Cornelio was captured by some Moors of Tripoli, by whom he was sold to a Turk, who brought him to this island, to which he came with merchandize, being a merchant of Rhodes, and he intrusted Cornelio with the care of all his property."

"He will know how to take care of it," said Leonisa, "for he can take very good care of his own. But tell me, sir, how or with whom did Ricardo come to this island?"

"He came," answered Mahomet, "with a corsair, who took him in a garden on the sea-shore at Trapani; and he said that a young lady was carried off at the same time, but he never would tell me her name. He remained here a few days with his master, who was going to visit the tomb of Mahomet at Medina: but when they were on the point of departure, Ricardo was taken very ill, so that his master left him with me, as being from the same place, to take care of him until he should recover, or, if he should not recover here, to send him to Constantinople, at which place he would duly advertise me of his arrival. But heaven ordained it otherwise; for the unfortunate Ricardo, though not afflicted with any corporeal malady, expired at the end of a few days, having constantly on his tongue the name of one Leonisa, whom he told me he had loved more dearly than his life, and who had been drowned in the wreck of a galiot on the island of Pantalaria, whose death he was ever lamenting, until grief put a period to his existence; for I could discover no disease in his body, but only symptoms of great anguish in his soul."

"Tell me, sir," asked Leonisa, "did that youth whom you mentioned, in any of the conversations which passed between you, and which, as you were fellow-countrymen, must have been numerous, ever speak of that Leonisa, and of the manner in which she and Ricardo were carried off?"

"Yes," replied Mahomet, "he mentioned her, and he asked me if a Chris