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Unknowing love, with anger fir'd,
From bed I rush'd, and, unattir'd,
Quick to the casement press'd-

"Who" (I exclaim'd with voice austere)
"Thus dares attempt intrusion here,
"At this late hour of night?
"What wretch, more gloomy than the owl,
"Abroad in tempests likes to prowl,
"And maids from sleep to fright!"

"Ah, fair one sweet!" a voice reply'd,
Both soft and meekly-“ I'm a child,—
"A little, harmless boy,—

"Whom you need neither fear nor hate :"I've wander'd from the pathway straight, "And with it lost all joy!

"Sent on a message late, I've stray'd, Returning thro' the moonless shade, "And wet is my attire

"Pray ope your door, sweet fair; and deign, "Till dawn, to let me shelter gain,

"And warmth before thy fire!"

So forcibly the urchin pray'd,
That pity came; and unafraid,
I promised to comply:

And, loosely girding on a gown,
My lamp I lighted, and ran down
The latchet to untie."-

When, of a truth, I saw a child,-
Of infant stature, aspect mild,

In rustic shirt-frock clad;

His head unshielded from the skies,Heaven's tears seem'd trickling from his eyes, He look'd both cold and sad.

I led him in, and bade him strive
The dying embers to revive,

Whilst I set cheer before him;
And, glad to shew more eager care,
I rubb'd his hands and wrung his hair,
With palms, pleas'd to adore him.

Soon he refresh'd and active seem'd;
His eyes with wily archness gleam'd;
His thanks in kisses flow;-

Which suffer'd, off his frock he flings,
And on his shoulders shews Love's wings,
His quiver, and his bow!

Alarm'd,—I strove, at first, to fly
The fraudful, rambling, beauteous boy;
Then summon'd former pride:
But Cupid, conscious of the pow'r
He'd gain'd, within one little hour,
Each artifice defied.

"Come," said he, (bracing it) "let's try,
"If from the bow the dart will fly,
"Orifthe wet prevents"-
And, instant bending it, the dart
Struck, as a horsefly, to my heart,
Which straight to love relents!

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Then, laughing loud, the fickle boy
Says, Pretty maid, I wish you joy!
"Your scorn was all in vain!

"My bow is quite unhurt, I find;
"And, if I rightly guess your mind,
"You'll wish for Love again!"

Fleet as his arrow then he flew
To seek some damsel fair and new,
And left me to my fate-
Alas! his absence still to mourn,
To wish, for ever, he'd return,
But ne'er, alas, to hate!

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FOR OCTOBER, 1812.

FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.

Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan: arranged and translated by Colonel William Kirkpatrick. With Notes and Observations, and an Appendix, containing several original Documents never before published. 4to. London. 1811,

THE letters of a real sultan may fairly be reckoned among the curiosities of literature; and will be eagerly glanced at, in a review, by many who would have shrunk from the perusal of the original quarto. Witty letters from witty ladies, affected letters from affected ones, trifling letters from great authors, and dull letters from learned divines, the public have long possessed. The writer of the epistles before us, however, never heard of such persons as M. de Bussi Rabutin, or Madame de Sevigné. He was not in the habit of collecting the best company in Srirungapatan at his suppers, and retailing their bon-mots in his correspondence; and had quite as little taste for sentimental poetry, and fine descriptions.

Tipu Sultan, in short, from the time of his ascending the throne, had two great objects in view; the aggrandisement of his dominions, and the extension of the Mahomedan faith. As each of these materially promoted the success of the other, it is not easy to say which was nearest his heart. He was very ambitious, and very fanatical. The end, in his opinion, completely sanctified the means; and the shortest road was always the best. Off with such a one's head-the ears of another-and the nose of a third, -is the laconic and original style of this oriental letter-writer. The sultans of the French tales are good sort of credulous people, with a slight predilection for cutting off people's heads, and

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for listening to tiresome stories. The sultan of Mysore was distinguished only by the first propensity.

It is already generally known,' says the learned editor,' that upon the reduction of Srirungapatan, in the year 1799, all the public records of the government of Mysore passed into the possession of the captors. It is also, however, but too certain, that many of these precious documents were accidentally burnt, or otherwise destroyed, in the confusion and disorder which unavoidably ensued upon the assault of the fort. It is owing to the active care and intelligent research of Lieutenant Colonel Ogg, of the East India Company's Madras Establishment, that several of the most important of the Moisur papers, now remaining, have been rescued from oblivion; and, among the rest, the very register of public letters, from which the correspondence contained in the present volume has been extracted.' This register we find, however, is only a fragment, comprehending the Sultan's correspondence from February 1785, to November 1793; and of this period the portion from which General Kirkpatrick has extracted the letters now before the public, only extends to February 1787.

The accomplished orientalist who has amused the intervals of a tedious illness, by selecting and translating these letters, was guided by the following views. In making the present selection from about a thousand letters, I have confined myself, almost entirely, to such as either appeared to exhibit the Sultan in some new light; to unfold some of his political, financial, or commercial views; or to elucidate some historical fact. My principal object, in this work, being to present as striking a likeness of Tipu, as the nature of my materials, and the extent of my ability to employ them advantageously, would admit, I thought it essential to this end, to render his sentiments, on all occasions. as closely as the different idioms of the two languages would allow, without involving the sense in difficulty or obscurity.'

The object being to exhibit the Sultan's character as it is delineated in his correspondence, more than usual importance attaches to the choice of corresponding expressions. In this point of view, the translator's intimate knowledge of the Persic language, his long experience of Indian Courts, and his extensive reading in every branch of Asiatic literature, have proved highly serviceable. In the passages where General Kirkpatrick has accidentally quoted the original phrase, we have uniformly admired the singular felicity with which he has clothed the ideas of the Sultan in English expressions.

"Tipu Sultan, indeed," he observes, "rarely took up his pen, without its laying open some recess or other of his various and irregular

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