1807.] 
well on this occafion as if we had been 
in his excellency’s own houfe: for every 
thing neceflary to a commodious jou: of 
had been provided, even to the materials 
for making foup for the firt courte. This 
provifion coniilted of eatables, - mines, 
Xe. ; ; table-cloths, napkins, knives, forks, 
fpoons, &c. &c. There are travelling 
boxes, containing a namber of articles, 
as knives, forks, fpoons, &c. to be had 
m Se the contiderable towns. Indeed, 
every traveller ees hnnfelf at leait 
wait a knife and fork (ina fingle haft), 
as well as eatables, as thete ‘things are 
never to be got on the road. 
The bett, and almoft the on! y ufeable 
things to be procured at thefe inns are 
chicken, eggs, and milk. Occafionally, 
too, the butter is tolerable, though it 
fometimes abounds: in large particles of 
rock-falt, evidently m the ftate in which 
it came from the mine. I firft noticed 
this at an inn not a great number of 
miles. diftant from Warfaw. In places 
very remote from any large town, you 
fcarcely ever meet with any falt at all. 
Chicken may be eaten without it, but L 
had fome dithculty in eating eggs. The 
coarfe rye-bread which is found at thefe 
places is always four, and fo difagree- 
able, as to require a keen appetite im an 
Englith traveller, aided by a few philofo- 
phic refleétions on the difference of taftes 
and the power of national prejudices, 
before he can fuffer it to proceed farther 
than the mouth. It ought to be acknow- 
ledzed, however, thet better coffee 
(where it is to be had at all) is often 
got even at thefe paltry houfes, than is 
to be procured perhaps at any cotiee- 
houfe in London; but the excellence of 
continental coffee is proverbial. The 
file of cookery is abominable. The 
chickens are ferved up fprawling with 
their heads on, in a coarfe earthen plat- 
ter, and half-finothered in butter, which 
has been oiled in the melting. I have 
mentioned thefe good things all together, 
but they are rarely met witb at the mine 
place ; often not a fingle article of them: 
yet, I think, I may fay that fchnaps 
(whilky), m which anifeeds probally 
have been infufed, is to be had at every 
public-houfe, however mean. It is the 
beverage in univerfal requeft by the mi- 
ferable peafants, and by ordinary tra- 
vellers. I fhall give the reader, a more 
precife idea of the enormous quantity 
which is confumed of this pernicious li- 
quor, by obferving, that the Count Za- 
moyiki obtains of a company of Jews 
the. large fun of Svool. tterling per an- 
_reft himfelf im the royal palace ; 
Remarks on the Morgante Maggiore. 215 
num, fimply for the privilege of diftilling 
it on the larceft ef his eitates. This 
efiate, however, is a fort of principa- 
lity, comprel fending at leait 4900 tquare 
miles. 
Having now deferibed with fome mi-, 
nutenets the {tate of things in Poland, I 
{hall proceed 1 ny next communication 
togive fume account of perfons, and of 
the ftate of fociet wie 
t ree — 
For the Monthiy Magazine. 
REMARKS on (he MORGANTE MAGGIORE 
of LUIGI PULCE. 
HE tiwoc LM te of France, follow 
ing the traces of the retreating camp, , 
got entangled ina wild and pathlels de- 
fert ; and there fprung up a new adven- 
ture, in the midit of which they loft 
fight of each other, and could neither 
of them ever recover them abandoned 
road. 
riando fell in with a company of @ 1- 
ants, from whofe power he refcued the 
fair princefs of Bella Marina (the roman- 
tic name fer the Moorifh kingdom: of 
Benamarin), whom he took vader his 
Betws and fuceeceded in conducting 
home to her afflicted parents. Rinaldo, 
in feeking for him, got more and more 
entangied in the depths of the deiert; and 
at latt, worn out with fatieue, fell alleep 
‘Ina fhepherd’s hovel, while the mafter 
of the wretched piace tock the oppor- 
tunity aad ran off with his horfe Bz wvardo, 
which he afterwards fold to the S Soldan’s 
grand juiticiary. 
The grief and defpair of Rinaldo on 
waking may be eafi iy conceived; and 
his lamentations, which he pours forth 
fuccellively on the recollection of An- 
thea, Orlando, and his faithful courfer, 
are really affecting. But he purfues his 
journey on foot; and the, faine good for- 
tune whick throws in his way another 
horfe, of which he robs a difcourteous 
Pagan, brings him before the gate of 
Babylon, and makes his arrival ‘known 
(by means of a chancé paffenger) to 
Authea. That princets, whofe heart 
had fecretly been as much wounded as 
her lover’s, obtamed from her father an 
mvitation for the Chriftian warrior to 
and 
proceeded with her commiffion to the 
gate of the city, where fhe found him 
leaning, difconfolate, aganitt the trunk 
of an “ancient mulberry. - The meeting 
between them was as rapturous and ten- 
der as the occafion required; aud re- 
called to-the mind of the romantic prin- 
Keg cefs 
