very fhortly after their arrival in Tuscany.

For feveral fucceeding days the fellivities continued; but at length the chilling hand of feperation intervened to damp their joy. The inevitable moment of Alphonfo's departure arrived, and faduefs reigned in every breaft. He lived in the affection of all his guests; and regret and forrow filled up for a time the void his abfence made and her ill concealed grief upon this occafion firft betrayed to Orlando and his Victoria that fecret which Matilda had flattered herfelf would ever remain untombed with the impenetrable receffes of her own bofom.

(To be concluded in our "next.)

Endymion the Exile.

LETTER VIII. I AM juft returned, my dear Ambrofe, from a vifit to St. Paul's cathedral. Mr. Transfer proved to me yellerday at an accidental meeting in The Strand, that no man could perform that office better than himfelf, because he had a counting houfe in the city. This was certainly what the man in Fielding,s novel would have called a non fequitur: however I did not deny his conclution, and called upon him this day at two o'clock, at his counting-houfe, in a freet dedicated to St. Swithin. I Found my friend perched upon a high ftool, like a Mandarin on a pedeftal, furrounded by half a dozen clerks, and poring over a ledger with locks of no common earnettnefs. Alas!' faid to myfeif, who can fuppofe that this uncouth plant, unwatered by St. Swithin, can ever thrive in Baker ftrect.Mr. Transfer thook me heartily by the hand, and after difencumbering his right ear from the Aump of a pen, locked his defk, and affired his head clerk, that he was going on particular business, and hould retuin in an hour. During

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nate your vifit to St. Paul's partic
bufinefs? You are not going
buried there, are you?"
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not have my clerks know where -
are going for the world! It
not look like a man of britat
We foon found ourselves at the
gate of that wonderful edifice, wi
to me, who have neither
Rome, appears a fructure of
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deity to whom it is dedicates
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Transfer, I now took of my i
of respect, I prefume, to Eulas.c
whifting along the aifles like an
verent pagan, and walked
to the choir, where half ai
boys in white frocks, were fqu
for apples, and screaming ar

Is not this an awful fight?"t mr. Transfer, wiping his fot and looking as devout as his to rial vifage would allowquite fo awful,' anfwered I, ' = ceremony at Notre Dame.' Devil,' cried Transter peevil.

come along and look at monuments.' Juft at that infizi fmoke dried old man, with a fuck, finding the fervice contie began to hunt the congregation at the fouth gate, as eagerly as y feen a picardy farmer drive from his inclofure. What is facrilegious old man about,' fai is not a place of worthip in gland, open to every body.' faid my civic affociate, * to every b who pays two-pence.' Two pers replied I, in amazement, your and chapter remember the parable the good Samaritan, but reverie donation-what are we to think them for permitting this extortion.

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which exhibited fame prefenting a fword to an officer confpicuous for a roman nofe and Grecian nudity.

There,' cried Transfer, as boldly as if he underflood the fubject I call that fomething like.' 'I with,' faid I, that the lady had given the hero notice of her approach, in which cafe he would doubtiefs have applied to fome Wapping flop-feller, to accommodate him with coat, waistcoat, and breeches. This captain has often given my countrymen a dreffing, but has generously neglected to fecure one for himfelt.' When this fally had taken about à minute and a half to infinuate itself into mr. Transfer's brain, he burst into a horie laugh, which drew fo much notice from the dome gazing multitude, that we were glad to elope, and I accompanied my puffing and groaning companion up a winding itair-cale to the whispering gal ley. Here, from the epithet abovementioned, I expected that we fhould be treated like Macbeth, and that the

We had not walked many paces, before we were topped by mr. Transfer exclaiming, Now I call hat a devilish effeminate fellow for a ea-captain-Here's a great lubberly chap, falling into a woman's arms (his milirefs mayhap) who has taken a wreath of flowers off her head to pop upon his.' now found that the lady, who feemed to have nothing eafy about her but her virtue, was Fame, encircling the hero's head, with a wreath of laurel, and expreffed my concern at her attitude, the having, like an awkward damfel in a dance, trod upon her own train, and being in the very act of falling with the warrior, whom it was her duty to fupport. We now returned towards the choir, and obferved in a nook a gigantic figure, naked from the waift upwards That,' faid my Meator, is doctor Johnfon.' I have heard of him,' aid I, rather mifchievously, for what was he famous?' He wrote a great many thumping books,' faid Transfer, and was very thick with Thrale the brewer,' Walking a few paces fur ther, we ftopt to view a tall meagre figure, with a collection of priton keys at his feet. Who is this,' faid Ι. • That fir,' faid a bye flander' • is Howard' Pray who is Howard,' faid I, touching mr. Transter's right elbow. Why-a-he was the It is totally out of my power, my keeper of Newgate,' fnd Transter. dear Ambrote, to give thee an ade I thanked him, and we walked on. qurate defcription of the variety of Arriving at the centre of the building, objects that now faluted my view. mr. Transfer touched a brafs grating Churches, bridges, freets, fquares, with his cane, and cried Bere my and gardens, interfected by the maboy is the fpot-here's where Nellon jeftic Thames, bearing a tile of is buried ! Ah! my friend,' faid 1, wealth and health on its spacious 'he was an abfolute Gulliver among bofom, threw me into an awful rethe Lilliputian navy of my country-verie, from which I was at length towing away our three deckers by awakened by a flap on the thoulder hand fulls-he mr. Tianster, was a from mr. Transfer, who told me that mun of buifness !' Right my boy,' if we did not make hafte, he thould wodded Transfer; I fee you under- be to late for change, and that, adstand trap.' Palfing on to the north ded he, would not look like a mall gate, we foon arrived at a monument of buliness ! Adicu!

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very ones would prate of our whereabout. But to my great difappointment, it was the man and not the gallery that whilpered. We waited a lew minutes to liften to a fory about fir Chriftopher Wren, told by a man who hiffed like a gone, and then groped our way up to the Iron Gallery, which overtops the dome of this mighty edifice.

Memoirs of Sir Arthur Wellesley, K. B. Lieutenant General of his Majefty's Forces, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, &c. &c. (Continued from page 456.)

AT the commencemeut of the year 1800, general Harris having quitted India for Europe, the command of the Madras army devolved upon ma jor gen. Brathwaite ; about which period it was judged expedient to order colonel Wellesley upon an expedition against the freebooter Dhoondia Waugh, who was at this time in confiderable force, and committed the moft violent outrages upon the company's territory, and of whom it was neceifary to make a fevere example.

This perfon, originally a pattifan in the fervice of the Pata ftate of Savanore, having committed various depredations on the territorities of Tippo Sultaun, had incurred the refentment of that prince, who having found means to fecure his perfon, he was induced by him to become a mahometan, and engage in his fervice. In fome time, however, Tippoo, either fufpecting the fidelity, or having detected Dhoondia in fome treacherous projects, confined him in the fort of Seringapatam, where he was actually found in irons, at the time of its capture by general Harris.

He was, with many others in fi milar circumstances, releafed in confequence of that event: but instead of manifefling gratitude to his deliverers, he fled in the direction of Bednore, where, affociating himself with fome of the disbanded cavalry of Tippoo, and various predatory adventurers, he fpread rapine and defolation throughout that fine province. In the months of July and Auguft, 1799, colonels Stevenfon and Dairymple, of the Madias army, had been fent against him, took fome of the forts of which he had poffeffed himself, deftroyed many of his men, and drove him in

was not deemed prudent to follow him. to the Marhatta territory, whither i was not deemed prudent to follow him. tifement, it was not fufficient to deter Severe, however, as was this chaíDhoondia from again tempting his fate Upon the return of thofe offcers to their cantonments, he again commenced hoftilities, and in the courfe of a few months his force had increafed to that alarming extent, s to menace the tranquility of the com pany's poffeffions, and thofe of its al lies in the western provinces of the peninfula. Hence rofe the neceffity of detaching col. Wellesley with fuch a force as fhould, directed by his ac knowledged military talents, and conducted by his accustomed zeal and activity, leave little doubt of the total fubjugation of the rebel. Not was the event mifcalculated. In the month of September, 1800, this gal lant officer took the field: on the 5th, he entered the nizam's territories; and on the 9th, after a series of the moft masterly movements, executed with almoft unexampled vigour and rapidity, he intercepted Dhoondia's force, confifting of 5,000 cavalry, at Conaligull, on his march to the weftward. This body was ftrongly pofted, its rear and left flank being covered by the rock and village of Conahgull; at this moment the horse alone of colonel Wellefley's army were come up. With thefe, however, he determined to attack the enemy, and at the head of the 19th and 25th dragoons, and ft and 2d regiment! of native cavalry, extended into one line, in order to prevent his being outflanked, he commenced the bare. The enemy at first thewed much firmness; but fuch was the termination and rapidity of the charge, that he foon gave way, and was purford for feveral miles by the conquerors Dhoondia with vast numbers of his followers were killed, and the whole body was fo broken up and difperfe as never again to caufe any difter bance.

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the capital of the peifhwalt, our ally, as well as the perfon of that prince himfelf, from the rapacious grafp of Scindeah and Holkar, who were conrending who thould poffefs himfelf of both.

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very critical juncture. Independen-
ly of its defeating a project of almotteral
unparalleled barbarity, it enabled geord
neral Wellesley, in thus reftoring the a
chief of the Marhatta confederation
to his juft rank and dignity in theż
states, to take the full bent fit of ca
treaty of Baflein, concluded between
the peith wah and the Britim gover
ment the December preceding, an
rendered that prince a moft ufefel 2-
ly in the approaching war with Scia-
deah and the Berar rajah.

This force, confifting of about
12,300 men, was placed under the
command of major general Wellef,
ley, who had alfo under him polonel
Steventon, at the head of the nizam's
fubfidiary force of nearly 9,000 troops,
1trengthened by 6,000 of that prince's
difciplined infantry, and about 9,000 of Having fucceeded in completely

his cavalry; making, in the whole, an
army of nearly 35,000 men, with a
proportionate train of artillery.
Having, by the judicious polition
of the force under colonel Stevenfon,
fecured his communication with the
latter, and fupplies of provifions for
his own army, general Weilefley
deemed it effential to advance to Poo-
nagh the whole of the force deitined
to refcue the peithwah from the ty-
rannous ufurpation of the Marbatta
chieftain Holkar, who was not only
in poffeffion of his peiten, but of his
capital and dominions. On the night
of the 19th of April, therefore, live
ing undoubted information that Hol-
kar's general was determined to plun-
der and buin Poonah on the approach.diftant from Poonah : a pofition cha-
of the British troops, he pushed for-
ward over a rugged country, through
a dangerous and difficult pafs, and in
Thirty-two hours reached the capital:
of the peithwah, at the head of his ca-
valry, after a forced march of fixty
miles! The unexampled celerity of
this movement faved Poonah from the
dreadful fate by which it was me-
maced; and in a few days he had the
fatisfaction of restoring this city to
lawful fovereign, amidit the rejoic-portant difcuffions to which we have
ings of the inhabitants, who, as well above adverted, to veft general Wei-
as the peithwah, manifefted the fly with full powers to carry them
greatest gratitude to the British gene- on, and fettle, on the spot, every re-
Fal for their unexpected and aimoft quitite arrangement either for peace
unhoped-for deliverance.
or war, as circumftances thould de-
termine. This important committi-
on was accordingly bestowed on ge-

reftoring tranquility in the dominions
of the peifhwah, and placed the re-
venues and troops of that prince up.
on the belt footing, in contemplation)
of the approaching campaign, ren-
dered more than probable by the hal-
tile confederation of Bhoofa ard
Scindeah, immediately under the in-
fluence of French intrigue and inter-
ference, general Wellefley marched
from foonah on the 4th of June,
with the main body of his army, and
on the 14th, took up his ground
Walker, a throng post belonging to
Seindeal, within a thort diftance of
the city and almoft impregnable for-
tiefs of Amednagur, belonging allo
to that chieftain, and eighty miles

The refult of this brilliant achieve ment was of the utmoit confequence to the British interefts in India, at a

fen with the greatcft judgment, as it placed the British army in the beit fituation for commencing hoftilities, fhould the pending negociations be broken off between the British government and the Mathatta confede rates.

In this advanced point of the Deccan, it became neceflary for the governor-general, on the ground of avoiding unneceffary delay in the im

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