"At four we went to the cathedral, where Te Deum' was performed before the Viceroy, for the safe delivery of the Princess of Brazil. I was called into the choir, and had the honour of sitting next the first Inquisitor, a tall monk, of a coarse and savage countenance, who looked as if he would not object to the effectual revival of the functions of his office, which even here have almost dwindled down to formality, or are only exerted once in two or three years, by inflicting a fortnight's imprisonment on a young Portuguese, who may publicly insult the established worship. The Chancellor and three other judges (called, I know not why, Desembargadores *) sat opposite to me. They were dressed in black silk robes, their hair hanging united behind, in the manner of the French bar. They seemed to look with some surprise on the levity of their English brother, in white waistcoat and breeches, and green silk frock. They were the most gentlemanlike Portuguese present, though the whole settlement was assembled to celebrate what the Adjutant-General, in his letter to Colonel Adams, called 'the good success of the Princess of Brazil.' None of the rest appeared to be above our third rank at Bombay. "I was a good deal entertained and fatigued by these various operations, in one of the most sultry days I have felt in India. We re-embarked about five o'clock for Cabo, and, as the evening advanced, were much pleased with the illumination of almost all the houses, forts, and churches, which had afforded us another sort of pleasure in the morning.

"We had a good deal of thunder and lightning, and just on our landing a most unseasonable and violent shower of rain, under which we were obliged to walk

The Judges of Appeal were so called under the old regime of Portugal; (desembargar-to take off, by their judgment, the embargo laid upon the suit by the decision of the Court below).

more than a quarter of a mile to the Residency, I was greatly alarmed for C-; but we have, for the present at least, escaped all bad consequences.

"30th.-At ten this morning returned to the Devonshire, to proceed on our voyage to Tellicherry, where, after some severe squalls, and some threatenings of a serious breeze, we arrived on the evening of the 4th of November.

"November 5th.-In our voyage from Goa hither, C began Payne Knight's book. I think I cleared up the confusion in his preface, and successfully explained Mr. Burke's meaning on the subject of Terror, which Payne Knight certainly misunderstands.

"We read, with the strongest feelings of admiration, horror, and disgust, Massinger's Tragedy of the Unnatural Combat.' It is surprising that a poet of so much taste and judgment in his style, should have none in his story, characters, or manners. But it was with Massin

ger's taste, as with Shakspeare's genius, which is displayed with such prodigal magnificence in the parts, but never employed in the construction of the whole. No Englishman, after this play, ought ever to speak of the horrors of the German stage. It turns on a man who first murders his innocent wife, then his heroic son, and at last seeks to debauch his angelic daughter, who is violated by a ruffian, into whose custody he has committed her. Yet it is a noble drama, and, if decency could allow it to be acted, would afford ample scope for the talents of the greatest performer.

"Finished Fichte,-a book certainly of extraordinary merit, but so mysterious and dogmatical, as to be often unintelligible, and often offensive. Read one hundred pages of Kieswetter's Introduction to the Kantian Philosophy.' It is the first clear book on this subject, which

I have seen, and it is, indeed, as perspicuous as any philosophical book can be.

"6th. Rested at the handsome and hospitable house of Mr. Bell, of Dermapatam, near Tellicherry.

"7th.-Go to Mahé, the former French settlementbreakfast at the house of Mr. Strachey, a clever and gentlemanlike man.

"Return to dinner to Mr. Bell's. Mr. Hodgson, returning from his circuit, comes in after dinner, full of humour and mirth."

On the next day Sir James left his hospitable host's abode, on a journey to Madras. Having paid an interesting visit to that Presidency, he returned to Tellicherry, and from thence he again embarked for Bombay, where he arrived on Christmas-eve, after an absence of three months.

"I accordingly left Lady M.," he writes, alluding to this rapid excursion across the Peninsula, "and went in my palankeen through the awfully grand forests and mountains of Malabar and Coorg (which, if they were within reach of picturesque travellers, would be classed with Switzerland), to Mysore, near Seringapatam. Emboldened by my success, I ventured, after some days' repose, to run down to Madras. I passed six days there, and seven going and returning at Mysore, and was back again at the ship exactly a month after I had left the coast of Malabar, having travelled over about a thousand miles. The exterior of Madras is very striking. I doubt whether there be any town in Europe, north of the Alps, which can boast such a diffusion of architectural elegance. There are probably no three kingdoms which differ more in every respect, than the three provinces of Malabar,

Malabar

Mysore, and the Carnatic, over which I ran. is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, inhabited by fierce and high-spirited mountaineers. Mysore is a high and naked region, peopled by a martial, but industrious, race of husbandmen. The Carnatic is a boundless plain of sand, covered with the monuments of ancient cultivation and civilisation, and still successfully cultivated by polished and ingenious slaves. All this variety of objects, natural and moral, amused me much; and I cannot say whether, even at Paris, I crowded more life into a month, than I did during this excursion."

CHAPTER VIII.

MARRIAGE AND NOTICE OF MR. RICH-LETTERS TO MR. HALL-TO MR. HOPPNER -TO MR. WHISHAW-TO DR. SAYERS-TO PROFESSOR OGILVIE-TO LORD HOLLAND-TO MR. SCARLETT-JOURNAL-LETTERS TO PROFESSOR SMYTH— TO MR. RICH-TO MRS. JOHN TAYLOR-TO MR. CHARLES BUTLER TO GENERAL MALCOLM.

THE new year opened joyfully with the celebration (Jan. 22nd) of the marriage of his eldest daughter, which he soon after thus announces to a friend :-"You may recollect, perhaps, to have read in the newspapers in 1803, that Mr. Parry, the present Chairman, gave a writership here to a young man of the name of Rich, merely on Mr. Wilkins's report of his extraordinary proficiency in Eastern languages, without interest, and, I believe, without even personal knowledge. He came out as assistant to young Lock, who was appointed Consul at Alexandria, and since his death has travelled over the greater part of Turkish Asia, in various directions, with the eye and pencil of an artist, and with the address and courage of a traveller among barbarians. He acquired such a mastery over the languages and manners of the East, that he personated a Georgian Turk for several weeks at Damascus, amidst several thousand pilgrims, on their road to Mecca, completely unsuspected by the most vigilant and fiercest Musselman bigotry. He was recommended to me by my friend, Robert Hall, and I had several letters from him. I invited him to my house, and at his arrival in this island, on the 1st of September, 1807, he came to us.

"He far surpassed our expectations, and we soon