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CONTENTIONS FOR TH.E SOVEREIGNTY. ~31Spain, were powerful, until that event, on both ~ides the Straits. Buton this blow to the Arab power, the Beni Merini, a faction headed bya governor of Fez, seized the throne here, and held it until supersededby the Oalazi, whose history is the most obscùre of an, but who weresucceeded by tpe Xeriffs (not the present dynasty). Such is the principalondineof C\'entswhich have affected this place. Cnriosity inducedone of his majesty's sons to pay the newly arrived Christians anearly visit.This young man seemed about twenty years of age, wasweIl grown, being full six feet high, ofjet black complexion, rode on amule, was attended by two servants, and foUowedby two beautifulgreyhoul1ds.__cc The prince then pass'd' the gate,Two dogs behind, a faithful guàrd await."Conld the parallel.be carried on betweenthe youthful hope of Ithaca,and the present specimen of royalty in Morocco, candour should forbidits stopping; but with regret be it said, Pallas had withheld her fosteringhand, and aU \Vas as Nature leftit; for little care indeed, evenhere onearth below, appeared to have been bestowed on this youngprince's education.On the contrary, he appears. to have been on thisarticle, in the phrase of the comedy, "at large." After being annoutlced,and having sat down, on a chair and in the European rnanner(itis noticeahle' as very unusual), he 10Ued and stared around himforsome time in .silence : his eyes were, however, at length attractedby the glitter of a gold watch:'chain, the appendage of one of the party,and he made an alert and sOla,rt gr~pple ta.seize the ternpting trinketto his use; but meeting with too strongan opposition from the persanprincipa,lly concerned ta retaiIl it,and the l'est of the company pos­.ses.sing no great interest for him, he arase, gave a nad of his head, andtook his departùre in silence.-Next appeared two men sweating un-