1822.] 
Cyrene to the western frontier of Egypt. 
The fierce and rebellious disposition of 
the Pacha’s eldest son is stated as the 
cause of the preparations on foot; he had 
taken advantage of the sedition of part of 
the army, to rouse it into open rebellion: 
**Among all the monsters,’’ he gbserves, 
* generated by Africa, which by the an- 
cients was denominated the country of 
monsters, the first place is due to 
Mohamet Karamalli, eldest son of the 
present Pacha of Tripoli.” It appears, 
that having exterminated a whole tribe of 
Bedonins for*refusing to. pay tribute, he 
-became so clated with pride, as to draw 
his poignard against his own father, who, 
contented with banishing him to the eas- 
tern frontier, soon heard that his unnatural 
son was marching back at the head of the 
Zoasi Bedouins, intending to dethrone 
him. This was the army which Ahmet 
Bey and the doctor were preparing to 
-encounter. As the Bey, howcver, was 
too wise an Islamite to confide altogether 
in predestination, equally afraid of the 
secret machinations and open hostility of 
his ferocious brother, he informed the 
Doctor of his wish to retain him always 
near his person, in quality of court phy- 
siciap, to which our traveller, in order the 
better to prosecute his scientific re- 
searches in the most fearless manner, 
cheerfully consented. He was immedi- 
ately called in to the Bey’s brother-in-law, 
ill ef a violent inflammation, for which 
the Doctor prescribed bleeding. Before 
complying, the patient wished to exact 
the Doctor’s word of honour that it should 
eure him: to this our author prudently 
demurred, assuring tlie prince, at the same 
time, he must certainly #ie without the 
aid of the lancet. He submits, recovers, 
and assists at the obsequies of his own 
royal blood. For this rapid cure, one of 
the Marabout leechmen, jealous of his art, 
approaches the Doctor, threatening to eat 
him up alive, as he boasted to have treated 
a poor Jew not long before. The pre- 
parations for the march are on a scale of 
vast magnificence and feudal greatness ; 
then the grand encampments, their wind- 
ing course through romantic and solitary 
regions, the description-of pitching their 
tents amidst the desert scenes of Labiar, 
surrounded by the most picturesque rocks, 
and hill-sides crowned with juniper woods, 
so fancifully described of old by Pliny ; 
these, with the tribes of Bedouins fol- 
lowing the army, the mingled rout of 
shepherds, soldiers, women, and children, 
driving innumerable herds of sheep and 
camels before them, more than once re- 
minded the traveller of those patriarelal 
movements, in which a whole nation as- 
sisted. He proceeds through the memo- 
rable sites of Phoenicia and Carthage, 
every where strewed with dilapidated re- 
Moains of Afric, Greek, and Roman, glory. 
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But the author’s views are of an historical 
and geographical, as well as a classical and 
antiquarian description.” ‘These he has 
carried further than most of the tra- 
vellers who have preceded him. His 
observations are at once learned and 
ingenious. His botanical and general sci- 
entific discoveries are also considerable. 
There is less information, however, rTe- 
lating to the moral condition and pecu- 
liarities of the inhabitants, than we might 
have expected from the favourable cir- 
cumstances in which the Doctor was 
placed. The results of his expedition with 
Ahmet Gey appear to have been success- 
fal, also, in a military point of view; the 
insurgent Bedouins, forsaking Mohamet, 
join the standard of Ahmet Bey; marching 
together, in bloodless triumph, back into 
Tripoli. At the intercession of Ahmet, 
the Pacha pretends to pardon the insur- 
gents, receives the Bedouin chiefs as hos- 
tages, bestows on them the honour of the 
red manile, and treats them to a pubtic 
festival, in which the whole rebel army is 
permitted to join. In the ‘midst of per- 
fect security and rejoicings, at a signal 
given, the Pacha’s military guards Yash 
upon the assembled people, scattering 
their tents, flocks, and herds, and put the 
whole of them to the sword; while their 
unfortunate chiefs were massacred at’ the 
same moment, during a banquet where 
the Pacha himself presided. “ During 
these terrifying transactions,” says the 
author, “1 hastened to the fort as the 
only place of security, and J still shudder 
at the appalling spectacle which it of- 
fered to my sight; for the unfortimate 
victims of African treachery lay stretched 
upon the ground, struggling and expiring 
in the blood which was flowing from their 
wounds: while the Bey, on horseback, 
armed with a musket, in the midst of his 
Mamelukes and of the dead, was swearing 
and raving like a madman, because the 
troops were not yet on their march 
against the Bedonins,” 
The wild and interesting traditions 
which formerly abounded in Scotland, and 
in some portion of the north of England, 
and which we believe are still occasionally 
to be met with amongst the peasantry 
there, have never hitherto been presented 
to the public, except when they have 
furnished the subject of some romantic” 
poem or some border ballad, The 
highly gifted author of Sir Marmaduke 
Maxwell, is the first who has attempted 
to collect these curious relies of a popular 
literature, which he has given to’ tlie 
world, under the title of Traditional Tules 
of the, English and Scottish Peasantry,; by 
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, in 2 vols. 12mo. 
Although we have considerable doubts 
as to the allowances with which Mr. 
CuNNINGHAM’s assertion, that he is more 
the cvllector and embellisher than ‘the 
eveator 
. 
