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     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 
     
    
   
   
    
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     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