discovery, that he had entertained and dismissed the Emperor of the Romans. Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction; but it is a fiction which would not have been imagined unless in the life of a hero.» Gibbon, D. and F. Vol. VI, p. 180.

That Conrad is a character not altogether out of nature I shall attempt to prove by some historical coincidences which I have met with since writing « The Corsair. »>

<< Eccelin prisonnier,» dit Rolandini, «s'enfermait dans un silence menaçant; il fixait sur la terre son visage féroce, et ne donnait point d'essor à sa profonde indignation.-De toutes parts cependant les soldats et les peuples accouraient; ils voulaient voir cet homme, jadis si puissant, et la joie universelle éclatait de toutes parts.

« Eccelin était d'une petite taille; mais tout l'aspect de ́sa personne, tous ses mouvemens indiquaient un soldat.Son langage était amer, son déportement superbe, et, par son seul regard, il faisait trembler les plus hardis. » Sismondi, tome III, pages 219, 220.

« Gizericus (Genseric, king of the Vandals, the conqueror of both Carthage and Rome), staturâ mediocris, et equi casu claudicans, animo profundus, sermone rarus, luxuriæ contemptor, irâ turbidus, habendi cupidus, ad solicitandas gentes providentissimus. » etc. etc. Jornandes de Rebus Geticis, c. 33.

I beg leave to quote these gloomy realities to keep in countenance my Giaour and Corsair.

Note 6, page 85, line 17.

And my stern vow and order's laws oppose.

The Dervises are in colleges, and of different orders, as the monks.

Note 7, page 86, line 21.

They seize that Dervise!--seize on Zatanai!

Satan.

Note 8, page 87, line 8.

He tore his beard, and foaming fled the fight.

A common and not very novel effect of Mussulman

anger. See Prince Eugene's Memoirs, page 24. «The Se<< raskier received a wound in the thigh; he plucked up his << beard by the roots, because he was obliged to quit the « field. >>

Note 9, page 88, line 20.

Brief time had Conrad now to greet Gulnare. Gulnare, a female name; it means, literally, the flower of the Pomegranate.

Note 10, page 96, line 2.

Till even the scaffold echoes with their jest!

In Sir Thomas More, for instance, on the scaffold, and Anne Boleyn in the Tower, when grasping her neck, she remarked, that it was too slender to trouble the headsman much. » During one part of the French Revolution, it became a fashion to leave some « mot» as a legacy; and the quantity of facetious last words spoken during that period would form a melancholy jest-book of a considerable size.

Note 11, page 102, line 2.

That closed their murdered sage's latest day! ̈· Socrates drank the hemlock a short time before sunset (the hour of execution), notwithstanding the entreaties of his disciples to wait till the sun went down.

Note 12, page 102, line 14.

The queen of night asserts her silent reign.

The twilight in Greece is much shorter than in our own country; the days in winter are longer, but in summer of shorter duration.

Note 13, page 102, line 24.

The gleaming turret of the gay Kiosk.

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The Kiosk is a Turkish summer-house the palm is without the present walls of Athens, not far from the temple of Theseus, between which and the tree the wall intervenes. -Cephisus' stream is indeed scanty, and Ilissus has ne stream at all,

Note 14, page 103, line 2.

That frown where gentler Ocean seems to smile. The opening lines, as far as section II, have, perhaps, little business here, and were annexed to an unpublished (though printed) poem; but they were written on the spot in the spring of 1811, and-I scarce know why-the reader must excuse their appearance here if he can.

Note 15, page 105, line 29.

His only bends in seeming o'er his beads.

The Comboloio, or Mahometan rosary; the beads are in number ninety-nine.

Note 16, page 120, line 3.

And the cold flowers her colder hand contained.

In the Levant it is the custom to strew flowers on the bodies of the dead, and in the hands of young persons to place a nosegay.

Note 17, page 123, last line.

Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.

That the point of honour which is represented in one in→ stance of Conrad's character has not been carried beyond the bounds of probability may perhaps be in some degree confirmed by the following anecdote of a brother buccaneer in the present year, 1814.

Our readers have all seen the account of the enterprise against the pirates of Barrataria; but few, we believe, were informed of the situation, history, or nature of that establishment. For the information of such as were unacquainted with it, we have procured from a friend the following interesting narrative of the main facts, of which he has personal knowledge, and which cannot fail to interest some of our readers.

Barrataria is a bay, or a narrow arm of the gulph of Mexico it runs through a rich but very flat country, until it reaches within a mile of the Mississipi river, fifteen miles below the city of New Orleans. The bay has branches almost innumerable, in which persons can lie concealed from the severest scrutiny. It communicates with three lakes which lie on the south-west side, and these, with the

lake of the same name, and which lies contiguous to the sea, where there is an island formed by the two arms of this lake and the sea. The east and west points of this island were fortified in the year 1811, by a band of pirates, under the command of one Monsieur La Fitte. A large majority of these outlaws are of that class of the population of the state of Louisiana who fled from the island of St. Domingo during the troubles there, and took refuge in the island of Cuba: and when the last war between France and Spain commenced, they were compelled to leave that island with the short notice of a few days. Without ceremony, they entered the United States, the most of them the State of Louisiana, with all the negroes they had possessed in Cuba. They were notified by the governor of that State of the clause in the constitution which forbad the importation of slaves; but, at the same time, received the assurance of the governor that he would obtain, if possible, the approbation of the general government for their retaining this property.

The island of Barrataria is situated about lat. 29 deg. - 15 min. lon. 92 30. and is as remarkable for its health as for the superior scale and shell fish with which its waters abound. The chief of this horde, like Charles de Moor, had mixed with his many vices some virtues. In the year 1813, this party had, from its turpitude and boldness, claimed the attention of the governor of Louisiana; and to break up the establishment, he thought proper to strike at the head. He therefore offered a reward of 500 dollars for the head of Monsieur La Fitte, who was well known to the inhabitants of the city of New Orleans, from his immediate connexion, and his once having been a fencing-master in that city of great reputation, which art he learnt in Buonaparte's army, where he was a captain. The reward which was offered by the governor for the head of La Fitte was answered by the offer of a reward from the latter of 15,000 for the head of the governor. The governor ordered out a company to march from the city to La Fitte's island, and to burn and destroy all the property, and to bring to the city of New Orleans all his banditti. This company, under the command of a man who had been the intimate associate of

this bold captain, approached very near to the fortified island before he saw a man, or heard a sound, until he heard a whistle, not unlike a boatswain's call. Then it was he found himself surrounded by armed men who had emerged from the secret avenues which led into Bayou. Here it was that the modern Charles de Moor developed his few noble traits; for to this man who had come to destroy his life and all that was dear to him, he not only spared his life, but offered him that which would have made the honest soldier easy for the remainder of his days, which was indignantly refused. He then, with the approbation of his captor, returned to the city. This circumstance, and some concomitant events, proved that this band of pirates was not to be taken by land. Our naval force having always been small in that quarter, exertions for the destruction of this illicit establishment could not be expected from them until augmented; for an officer of the navy, with most of the gun-boats on that station, had to retreat from an overwhelming force of La Fitte's. So soon as the augmentation of the navy authorised an attack, one was made; the overthrow of this banditti has been the result; and now this almost invulnerable point and key to New Orleans is clear of an enemy, it is to be hoped the government will hold it by a strong military force-From an Amcrican Newspaper.

In Noble's continuation of Granger's Biographical Dictionary, there is a singular passage in his account of archbishop Blackbourne, and as in some measure connected with the profession of the hero of the foregoing poem, I cannot resist the temptation of extracting it.

There is something mysterious in the history and cha«<racter of Dr. Blackbourne. The former is but imperfectly << known; and report has even asserted he was a buccaneer: «and that one of his brethren in that profession having « asked, on his arrival in England, what had become of his « old chum, Blackbourne, was answered, he is archbishop « of York. We are informed, that Blackbourne was in« stalled sub-dean of Exeter, in 1694, which office he resigned in 1702; but after his successor, Lewis Barnet's « death, in 1704, he regained it. In the following year he