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Sultan thenasked, if Great Britain ,1)·ad made ..peace withAmeriea?Alldan answerbeiflg givenin the affirm~tive, he waived fur~herdiscourse,turnedhis horse, and rode away. 'Vhereupoll . the embassy re- .turned to,itsquarters. The pres~nts,lJOwever,'lvhich were partly>\)eld~n the 'bands 'Of tbose who had charge of them, andpar:tly lo~qed,on'backsof mules~ aIl formed, for the audience, im a rank behind theenvoy,r.emained where they weœ.Suell was the procedure of thefirst interview withthe Maurita.niansovereign, who was no more seen, save py.the cbiet'oftl)è embas~y andhisjnterpreter, during the remainderof the time passed in his capital;1where two gratifications, certainJy not usually Iooked for in such situations:,retirement and leisure, were enjoyed in their full extent!It is even more easy to rescue the ancient part of the history of thiscountry from obIivion, than. to débrouiller the modern part, interwoven,as are its eventful and political mazes, from the contentions of the twoprinciples of action, the black army and the haram,whichhave succeededto the phrenetic efforts of fanaticism. Yet wbo, possessed ofreasOn' tbat visits a foreign country, one i~Jactalmost new tonQtice,would permit bimself to remain igno,rant ·of moral causés, merely becausethey are deep-seated?' could view effects., wühout wishing topenetrate to their causes?Supposing, on the otller hand, a publicliterary taste 80 perverted by bad l'natter as only to be gratified withfrivolities,-are there not many morereasons tban one to calI out theexertion of an independent .pen f Adoption as we~l as selection,coucentrationas weU as condensation. of matter are occasionaHy requisiteto put it in a .clear light to the mind, when moral complicationspreseutthemselves for investigation, as is the case here, where such extraordinarycombinations have atfected and affiicted human nature.TheJlÛnd bent on pushing the probe of investigation to the utmost~must