‘ '236 . ‘ Furnish dmerican. ' .A‘t night [when the peasant stretches his weary limbs on his homely pallet, and his‘slumbers unbroken, save by the freaks and whims ofhis fancy, which then hsurps the ofﬁce of reason, and, as Shake- tpeer remarks, makes wild work. Sleep is a general Ieveller, like the rave, confounds all society, and places e beggar one par with the prince, and Often strikes a balance in favor of the former, :When under the inﬂuence of tildep, the mind is unfettered by the little puny Worthless things of the world that occupy the minds of men, and almost makes one weary of ones‘ self and species. It is at least at times at rest, and at other times at large to roam and range amidst the ever varying ﬁelds of delight from clinic to clime and pole to pole. ' A few nights since, methought I had cheated the winter with all its trying ihconveniences, by having quietly sat my- e'elf down at Constantinople, admiring the Turkish costume, the beautiful Turkish women, and turbaned cavalier, contrasting their trappings and ﬁnery with my Mal- peque homespun, gave me no very great conceit of myself, or the place I came from. Curiosity meth0ught procured me many admirers, but it was that species of admiration that brought With it no great deal of respect. I was banded about from one society to another, but appeared one (if those heterogeneous characters that savor ofnothing but my own country, and as Malpeque was never heard of by the Turks. [was something like the YOrkshire- man-in ondon, they could make nothing of me, egg or bird, and their remarks al- ways ended in these Words, namel i-— What the Devil brought me to on- stentinople, an idea natural enough, it constantly occurred to myself. Fond as I am of diversity, the impertinence of the Turks put'trie completely out of counte- nance, and [wished myself back at Prince- Town, ifit were only to get a fresh stock of Brass; for thought I. much as we may be mWant of the precious metals,I will match my own place yet for that commo- dity, with any place in Christendom. Wea- ‘ry and fatigued with my rambles, lwas, I thought, a solitary being. who stood alone a it were, without one kindred spirit with whom I could commune. I had wandered to a retired part of the City, when I ob- served a beautiful garden, with several al- Coves that invited the weary to recline, it Was methought an earthlyparadise, the _ ear was regaled by the most melodious music of birds. In the centre stood a fountain of pure water, the aqueduct 7.! which. propeled the cooling eleme- ments through the medium of several spout- diﬂ‘used their showers in all within. a eiroumspribsd sp'ot,

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and ultimately terminating in a grand marble reservoir. This with the fea- thered chorasters and an endless profusion ofexotics and ﬂowers of all kinds peculiar to thatﬁne climate, with trees and shrubs, bear- inga great variety of fruit, made the whole scene an Elysium. .

. Charmed with the scenery around me, [threw myself down in the shade, when a pleasing tranquility began soon to steal over my senses, and was shortly and sud- denly surprised by hearing the following few lines ot'a stanza, in the well known voice of the Genni of Prince-Town.

My son forbear

Where Wouldst thou roam, So full of care,

Haste hie‘ the home.

He immediately sprang forward to embrace me and assure me of his protec- tion. Dark night soon began to spread his mantle o’er the famous city of Constantino- ple,and manyofits inhabitants were retiring to their respective homes, when my guide ﬁnding'his time for the following scene, commanded me to follow him;this was to me no unpleasant task, for all places were indiﬂerent to one indebted to chance for the smallest accommodation. I con- tinued methought, to proceed in the foot- steps of the Gennii, through a variety of streets, lanes and alleys. till at length we were fairly rid ofthc Splendid city of the Turks. Continuing our route for some two hours, we came at length to the side of an extensive sheetof water, which incon- sistantas was the notion, I almost could have persuaded myself was that noble

stream called the. Barrasevoir; btit memory

assisting me, methought' told me it was impossible that we could have traversed

,so many thousand miles in so short a time.

lwas about to demand the name, when the former taciturnity of my guide seemed to return, so that 1 had no other clue than the use of my senses, which shortly showed me plain enough not to be mistaken, it was indeed the foreinentioned river with every object visible that I was so often in the habit of seeing, and at a distance in dis- mal perspective stood the half ﬁnished foolish Bridge standing as a memento and curse to the district—and defacing the fairest of nature’s works, the charming Ri- ver and tributary twins. A ferryman me- thought was in waiting to cauduct us across the river, it was a fine moonlight night, and I soon recognised my old friend Jack, as mm and as talkative as ever, notwithstanding he was_on the eve of loo sing his birth as ferryman, which he and his father had enjoyed for fifty years. On our approach he struck up the blithesome tune of Me gy Larder, his usual stave, whenin "' humOur.

Turkish scenery must still have retained

, _ . Is thought wore the Turkish habit u. manly brow m adorned with, a t’l‘urban. Poor follow thought I, um indeed more reason to turn Turk myself, for it was but the other d.’ ‘ some of our dignitaries made a pm‘pz to appropriate his land (that is th. '{ lots)to help to build the new Bridge: th poor man was not only to lose his place .‘ his farm by these philanthropic scheiii Having crossed the river and taken friendly leave of Jack, we proceeded in direct course for the future capital; on 0 arrival we were methonght, received . two large folding doors into a hall or a phitheatre, the same that the ancientph‘ lesopher was want to hold forth as described in my second dream, that of my readers may perhaps remember The hand of time ap’peared‘to have . duced a great revolution, that venerabl place that had been the seat of philosoph' cal research, was now it should appear be appropriated to vile and despicable i poses. The apartment was gloomy in . extreme, there was ‘just light enough to ‘ tinguish faintly what presented. A lampm thought was suspended from the roof by , iron chain that emitted so faint a light gave a sort of horror to the place. The 1 » oval table that furnished the apartment

guide, (who became suddenly commuai tive,) imformed me were the would- lcading men of Malpeque. A profo silence prevailed in the assembly, they ~ motionless like statues, and what would another time have appeared very singular they all wore the Turkish habit, but u... so recently from among the Turks I i ' less surprised, the costume had n familiar. -

It was lucky that my guide hadinfo -- me who they were, or from their “at like appearance I should certainly ht imagined the Genni had designed to In treated me with another exhibition of work. I awaited methought with patient not wishing to obtrude my. remarks, 1 ving by this-time become pretty well quainted with the character of my g ' He had brought me here for information and he sh rtly commanded me to be a ' lent observer of all lsaw, intimating, 1- hy his power he had rendered both of invisible, so that we could hear and l allrthe machinations of this learned dim At first I could see the persons but V indistinrtly, but after some time my Vis_ methought became so far accustomed to ‘ darkness, visible that! saw plain em some of my hypocritical friends, 00¢ 0 whom‘it seemed was presi ent of the W peque divans l endeavoured metho v to survey the various physiognomy on“ bevy, in doing so, it had well nigh pro. fatal to my visible-s, taking a glen“ '

Lits inﬂuence onus; mind, for Jack me-

ways I discovered my uncle

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surrounded by several persons, whom 1