RECENT NARRATIVES. 
salary allowed by the emperor was very slender, 
that of the principal wife not exceeding half-a- 
crown a day ; the deficiency was made up, not 
very creditably, by presents from foreign ambas- 
sadors, or other persons who had favours to ask 
from the emperor. 
Lempriere, seeing no prospect of effecting his 
departure, thought himself justified, by necessity, 
in having recourse to stratagem. He informed 
his patient, that he could not complete her cure 
without going himself to Gibraltar for the neces- 
sary medicines. The lady gave into the snare, 
and solicited the emperor so earnestly, that he at 
length granted our traveller permission to depart. 
From the time of Shaw and Lempriere, Bar- 
bary was visited by very few travellers, till the 
interest, excited by recent political events, drew 
forth a series of narratives, which have again 
brought us well acquainted with this quarter of 
the world. Colonel Keatinge has published 
Travels in Europe and Africa, comprising a 
" Journey through France, Spain, and Portugal, 
" to Morocco.'^* This journey, however, being 
performed in 1785, does not bring down the in- 
formation much later than Lempriere. A Spa- 
niard, travelling in the character of a Turk, and 
* 4to, London, 1816. 
