76 Travels through Egypt and Syria. 
or filk, but clumfily adjufted, without any regard to fize or 
colour. The’ fpace in front was filled with fuitors and {pec- 
tators to the number of more than fifteen hundred. A kind 
of hired encomiaft {tood on the monarch’s left hand, crying 
out a plein gorge during the whole ceremony :—** See the 
buffalo, the offspring of the buffalo; a bull of bulls; the ele- 
phant of fuperior ftrength; the powerful Sultan Abd-el- 
rachman-el-rafhid ! May God prolong thy life, O matter ! 
May God affift thee, and render thee victorious!’ From 
this audience, and thofe which preceded it, I was pa to 
retire as I had come, without effecting any thing.”’ 
Mr. Brown’s reception with Mufa Wullad. Jelfiin was 
very different from that which he had experienced in the 
houfe of Mifellim or Ibrahim. His behaviour towards him 
was complacent, and he affected to feek opportunities of 
hearing his fentiments on fuch fubjects as occurred, In 
obedience to the Sultan’s command, Mr. Brown now gave 
in an exact flatement of the property he had loft, and fub- 
ftantiated the proof by the ftrongeft circumftantial evidence, 
With regard to the flave, the moft complete redrefs was af-’ 
forded him: the charge brought again{t him was judged 
abfolutely futile, and fhe was reflored to her mafter; while 
he, on the other hand, was compelled to give up the chett, 
&e. which had been violently with-held.. The plunder 
which had fallen into the hands of his fervant, and his ac- 
complice, was not fo eafily reftored. ‘The Melek, tired of.a 
gratuitous juftice, began to think that a lucrative compofi- 
tion was more eligible. The offenders, who had been obfti- 
nate in the firft inftance, feeing how the caufe relative to 
the jarea (female flave) had been decided, thought proper to 
offer to the Melek marks of their gratitude for the lenity they 
expected from him; and the Sultan was unwilling to ima- 
eine that the fuflerings of a Caflre could fall heavy on him- 
felf at the day of final retribution. At length the Melek, 
who in reality was fupreme arbiter of the contefl, contented 
himfelf with giving Mr. Brown the intrinfic value, about four 
head of flaves, iiffteda of twenty-four or twenty-five, which 
at firt he had unequivocally declared ‘due to him, and pro- 
souttd he fhould receive. Thus the matter was terminated, 
[ To be concladediin the nex: Number. ] 
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