MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. 
business, I am entirely of their 
Opinion, that it would complete the 
business ; and have therefore taken 
the liberty of laying my case before 
you; and an, sir, 
Your’s, &c. 
Henry HomELove. 
The Invention of Organs. From Mad. 
de Genlis’ Kuights of the Swan. 
The imprison’d winds, released with 
joyful sound, 
Proclaim their liberty to all around. 
ANCNYMOUS. 
Ll] ntest ame si revéche Gui ne se sente 
bouchée de quelque reverence, a consi- 
derer cette vastité sombre de nos églises 
&F quir le son devotieux de nos orgues. 
MONTAIGNE, 
THE two friends having made 
the promise which he required of 
inviolable secresy, Giaffer thus en- 
tered upon his wonderful story. 
«© J am thirty-six years old, and 
my career is completed. I have 
passed through it with honour, 
perhaps with glory ; both love and 
fortune strewed it with flowers, 
till the fatal instant which disco- 
vered the abyss in which I was 
nearly overwhelmed. I have lost 
every thing, even to my very name; 
the inhabitants of the East men- 
tion it still with benedictiens ; the 
affection of a grateful people per- 
petuates the remembrance of it, and 
yet it must not be borne by me! 
| Condemned to obscurity, I am be- 
ome a stranger to my own fame, 
am unable to enjoy it, and dead to 
all the world; it is in the eternal 
silence of the tomb that I receive 
the approbation and the eulogies of 
my contemporaries! The unfor- 
tunate victim of despotism, and 
| the fatal example of hyman vi. 
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cissitudes, I am Barmecide.’? At 
the sound of this great and cele- 
brated name, the Knights of the 
Swan rose up. A_ sentiment of 
profound veneration and respect 
rendered them motionless for some 
minutes : to great minds proscrip- 
tion and misfortune tend to in- 
crease the interest which genius and 
virtue never iail to inspire! The 
two friends considered Barmecide 
with an eagerness of curiosity as 
if they beheld him now for the 
first time. ‘The emotion and sym. 
pathy which they felt was painted 
on their countenances in so expres 
sive a chatacier, that Barmecide 
was very strongly affected by it. 
“© O! my friends,’’ cried he, ‘* you 
restore me to my existence.”” In 
saying these words, he threw him- 
self into their arms ; and. having 
received their affectionate embraces, 
thus resumed his narration. 
«© My father, born in the domiec 
nions of Gerold, had a passion for 
travelling. He inspired my mother 
with the same inclination, who was 
always his inseparable companions 
.I drew my first breath in Persia ; 
my father was my only instructor, 
and he taught me by facts and ob- 
servations founded on experience, 
and not by lessons derived from 
books. JI had the misfortune to 
lose this excellent parent when I 
was twenty years of age; my mo- 
ther had been dead some time be. 
fore. I had three brothers. We 
had always lived together in the 
most perfect union, and were de- 
termined not to separate. Having 
often heard of the extreme magni- 
ficence of the Court of Aaron Rasa. 
chid, we determined to visit Bags 
dat, Arrived at this superb capital, 
we became acquainted with several 
Europeans of our own age, and we 
Liz lodged 
