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194 T:RAVELS IN AFRIC..A:mUSIC.Their atnbassador is Don Francisco de las Saleuas y Mouino;,.colonel of the dragoons of Pavia, which promotion he obtained by th.service of having borne to Madrit, express, the intemgenceof the sailingorthe floatillg batteries, from tHeir ancborage belore Algeziras, t~that destination whence tihey never returned,-their anchorage before:the walls of G~braItar.earned a like muneration.The subsequent accounts tvansmitted scar.cely;:~~ Out on ye-, owls t:Nothing but songs of. death L'""Each of thase diplomatie corps sets ont in its turn fOl1 the capital, the'British being tlie lastwhich pr@ceeàs, thither.,The history ofthe country now before us is so far uninteresting as not.linking on with general histo1'Y: Îts transactions not having iI):flueDcedithose o(the world atlapge, as thenatipn recently, lefthas,done., But stilLit iB impossible but tOOt what conCèrns, inàny deg,tee,; the tlra:ckof the,Ruman race downthedark p~ths oftime, nIustexciteettriosity{andcl'epàY,investigation. Can apathy be a matter Of boast ? wiHithide its facebehind the plea of literary unities, in tmming away,; from those inqui1'ies,which may in sorne degree tend to bring us acquainted. with a subjectwe aresoDll1ch in obscurity about" asth~;ii;history of-oursebes? If:such>hmyever is to be the case, let no such rig.idity: of speculation re..strict thetravel1er.Let it he the effort of him who toils fOF knowledge"to gather, in the full harvestof thought,a moral provision forafterlife.CARTHAiGE *, during her predominàflcy, fi1led hermercenaryraltlks* Clàssiea.l taste has perhapsitnbibed a eontempt for ail whieh eoneerns this once-importanteOJn~l1nity~t~ whieh the philosophie historian may not altogetherhe incli~ed to~~?scribe.. Aglimpse of its revolutions and fate may he useful to sueh as, from stock of thougnt, may reel theneeessity of a ~omewhat of îhat fltlcidltSOfdd îhérein, whieh/the nappier stâte of riïentâl' exempthm