MUIRHEAD’S TRAVELS IN 
often doomed to bleed at the shrine of re- 
lentless fanaticism, so often goaded by per- 
secution to gratify thie avarice or the caprice 
of princes.” 
From Avignon the traveller went to 
_ Bareges, Toulouse, Nismes, and Mar- 
 seilles. In this last city, it is remarkable 
that Newcastle coal should be cheaper 
_ than coal carried landways, though only 
fifteen miles distant. A very honoura- 
ble character is given of the Marseillois. 
A merchant will freely entrust his most 
important keys to the porter attached 
to his service. ‘The theorist who, like 
** Spondanus, Bouche, and Noguier, as- 
" sert a curious fact, namely, that in 1596, 
_ shoals of dolphins infested the port and 
streets of Marseilles, crowded into the ships 
and galleys, some of which they anid 
 -deyoured the bodies of mariners who fell 
into the water, and compelled the tradesmen 
to shut their shops: Recourse was had, but 
in vain, to various exprdients of destruction. 
These bouncing guests made good their 
quarters during a complete month. At 
Tength a deputation was sent to cardinal 
Aquaviva, then legate at Avignon. [lis 
eminence dispatched Bordini, bishop of Ca- 
vaillon, who, in virtue of his exorcising 
talents, commanded the invaders to retire, 
and they disappeared:ina twinkling. _** Ma- 
_ nifesto segno,” observes the pious Fantoni 
ao *¢ della potesta della chicsa Roma- 
‘ » che Ja vera chiesa di Christo, dato 
‘THE author of this volume, or rather 
_ the writer of these letters, for they were 
_ penned with no serious consciousness 
of authorship, had prepared the mate- 
rials for a History of the Campaign in 
Egypt; that design he laid aside upon 
learn’ng that Colonel Anstruther, had 
undertaken, at the instance of the minis- 
try, to publish the transactions of that 
campaign, and has accordingly, now 
that Sir Robert Wilson has supplied the 
_ More serious part, given to the public 
_ the more amusing. 
_ The letters begin with a description 
_of the voyage up the Nile to Rosetta. 
_ Rosetta is described, as all writers 
except Savery describe it, beautiful 
without and wretched in its: interior. 
~The population at this time was comput- 
ed at 16,000, of whom 250 are christians 
and 60 Jews. These people, and some 
Arr. XII. A Non-Military Fournal ; or, 
upon the Staff of the British Army 1, describing the Country, its Inhabitan!s, their Man- 
ners, and Customs. 4to, pp. 165, with Engravings. 
THE LOW CouUNTRIES, &c.° 63 
oportunamente, 0 pef conversione, 0 per 
confusione degli eretici di quel tempo.” Did 
Bondini’s exoreismm consist*in a litle Ita- 
lian slyness? or had the dolphins pre~ 
viously indicated a disposition to take 
leave 7” 
Or is the whole a lye? if we may be 
permitted to add our query to the tale. 
That shoals of dolphins should have 
infested the port of Marseilles is very 
possible ; but it is rather extraordinary 
that they should board the ships, and 
still more extraordinary that they should 
walk the streets, and go awhopping—they 
could have no business any where but 
at the fishmongers. 
Mr. Muirhead sailed from hence to 
Leghorn, and then proceeded to Pisa; 
circumstances of peculiar urgency then 
recalled him to his native country, and 
his narrative abruptly concludes. We 
notice several Scetiicisms in his stile, 
such as she caused write, caused bury, ab- 
stracted for stole; would for should, oa 
the streets, &c. Thereis occasionally anaf- 
fectation of language as well as of senten- 
tiousness, as when he says that Toulouse 
was designed Palladia, from the olive 
groves which environed it, when he 
speaks of huts adjected to eminences. 
These are trifling faults. The author 
is amanof observation and talents ; and 
we wish he may travel again, and tra- 
vel more leisurely, and publish a ful- 
ler journal. 
Observations made in Egypt, by an Officer 
few of the European Turks, speak a 
Lingua Franca, which the author truly 
observes, is at least a very accommodat- 
ing language, if not a very pure one. 
The narrow streets are made to appear 
still narrower, by a seat or bench built 
out from the walls, upon which the in- 
habitants sit, smoke, and sleep. The 
projecting windows are supported fre- 
quently upon granite or marble co- 
lumns; the remains of a better age, and 
a better people, which these wretched 
Hahommedans have placed as often 
upon the capital as the base. The win- 
dows are latticed as in Spain. “ The 
description of one room is of every 
room, surrounded by cushions raised 
about § inches from the floor upon a 
frame, and large pillars against which 
to lean, ranged along the wail. The 
magnificence of the room consists in the 
