THE 
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
No. 374. ] 
NOVEMBER 1, 1822. 
[4 of Vol. 54. 
RALEIGH’S HOUSE AT ISLINGTON. 
Waen Enfield was a royal chace, and the courts of the Tudors and the Stuarts were 
oecasionally kept on the north of London, the outlets in that direction were filled with the 
residences of courtiers, Hence, Sir Walter Raleigh had a house at Islington, by the 
road on which his royal mistress would pass to Enfield. It has for many years heen 
converted into an inn, under the sign of the Pied Bull; and, though the front has been 
modernized, yet the side remains to this day as represented in the plate, and as it was 
doubtless occupied by the discoverer of Virginia and the introducer of potatoes and 
tobacco. Sir Walter, though somewhat empirical, was nevertheless a character whose 
deeds in arts, arms, and literature, shed great lustre on the age in which he lived, and whose 
tragical end will for ever eclipse the fame of Sir Edward Coke, and disgrace the memory 
of James the First. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
The COMMERCIAL SITUATION of EGYPT ' 
in 1821; by DR. SCHOLZ, professor of 
Divinity in the University of Bonn. 
GYPT is under the government 
of Mehmed Ali Pacha, who has 
acquired well-founded reputation by 
his successful expedition against the 
Wahabites, by another to Nubia, by 
the erection of some manufactories, 
the building of numerous houses, by 
the canal from Skandrije to Fum-el- 
machmudije into the Nile, and espe- 
cially by his commercial connexions 
in all the principal trading towns in 
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Europe, by his riches, his great mili- 
tary and naval force, and his liberal 
treatinent of the Franks. He has fail- 
ed, it is true, in many of his attempts 
to civilise Egypt, and to extend his 
manufactories, because the inhabitants 
are not fit for such employment, and 
the Franks ask such high pay, that his 
goods are twice as dear as those 
brought from Europe; but the endea- 
vour itself eserves commendation. 
The chief obstacle to the prosperity of 
the province under his government, is 
the despotism which manifests itself in 
all his undertakings. He is the abso- 
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