J 829.] Nubia, mid Palestine. l^*-^ 



thing important was to be discussed, he was in the liabit of taking a glass of 

 port wine with a tea-spoonful of bark. , x *i ^ p f^v.v, >,» 



" ' Had Sir Francis B 1 taken any hne of politics but that of reform, he 



would have acquired fame ; his early talents fitted him for the conduct of any 

 important question; he was a sound speaker, and he ^vas ever a gentleman 

 but in refo™ it is all prosing,-subduing a noble spirit to the "ature of a 

 rabble, and subjecting one's lungs to the breath of the garlic-eaters of libeity. 

 Sir Francis was elegant hi his manners, comely m his person, and his prmciples 



were excellent. i • 



"'The old K— gwas an honest, upright man ; his very obstinacy was a 

 virtue; it had been impressed on him early, that he had a certain line of duty 

 before him, and that to swerve from it was to wound the constitution. Ihe 

 constitution was his idol; and, in his sight, even its imperfections had some- 



thing sacred in them. . ^ ^ r •,»;„,„„„ 



"' The Duke of Y— k was an excellent prince. I was on terms ot intimacy 

 with him for many years: he opposed the Catholics from principle, because 

 he respected his father's prejudices, and really thought the influence of he 

 Pope was very great. In his office he was the most punctual nian in he 

 world; he had no partiaUties ; and, strangest of all, he never showed the 



least jealously of W , on whom so many places were conferred, which 



his Royal Highness might have been as well qualified to till. 



" ' The English people are infatuated about their erudition, their constitution, 

 and their climate; the essence of the first is vanity-corruption, of the second 

 -and that of the third, fog. The English nation is too fat, its mind wants 

 mortification ; every one talks of morals, and the lips become so familiar with 

 the name, that the heart forgets the virtue. Religious imposition has over- 

 run this country as well as many others ; God was obliged to withdraw the 

 truth, when the world became so degraded as to be no longer fit for its purity. 



" 'Some of the learned people here consider Judas m a better light than we 

 Christians regard him, they pretend he was misrepresented, and look up to 

 him as a prophet who is destined to appear again on earth. 



" 'As to leaving this countrv, your advice is vain, I never will return to 

 England. I am encompassed by perils: I am no stranger to them ; 1 have 

 suffered shipwreck off the coast of Cyprus; I have had the plague here; 1 

 have fallen from my horse near Acre, and been trampled on by him ; 1 have 

 encountered the robbers of the Desert, and when my servants quaked 1 have 

 galloped in amongst them and forced them to be courteous ; I have laced 

 them;— and when a horde of plunderers was breaking in at my gate I sallied 

 out amongst them, sword in hand, and after convincing them, had they even 

 been inclined, that they could not hurt me, I fed them at my gate and they 

 behaved like thankful beggars. Here am I destined to remain ; that which is 

 written in the great book, who may alter ? It is true I am surrounded by 

 perils; it is true I am at war with the prince of the mountains and the lacha 

 of Acre • it is very true my enemies are capable of assassination ; but it 1 do 

 perish, my fall shall be a bloody one. I have plenty of arms, good Damascus 

 blades, I use no guns, and while I have an arm to wield a /mn;«r, these barren 

 rocks shall have a banquet of slaughter before ' my face looks black m the 

 presence of my enemies, and two hundred years hence, the Bedouins ot the 

 Desert shall talk of the Sltte IiKjlis, how she sat her Arab steed, and tell like 

 an Arab chief, when the star of her glory had set for ever ! 



The difference between the accounts of the two travellers of their 

 visits to this lady is very remarkable. Mr. IMadden seems to have 

 thoujrlit that the best thing he could do, would be to repeat what so 

 remarkable a person said and did. The facetious Captain, on the con- 

 trary, regales his reader with what he said and did, keeping her ladyship 

 as much in tlie shade as may be. lie found no ditticulty in gainni};- 



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