their king at Bedar, the Capital of Decan.) The greatest of thefe was he of Goa, when the Portuguese entered India, called Sabay, who died about the time of Alburquerque's defign upon that city: Hidalcan, had taken poffeffion of, and put it in the hands of his fon Ifmael. The other princes were Nizamaluco, Mudra Maluco, Malech Verido, Choja Mozadan, Abexcipado, and Cotamaluco). Sabay was born at Saba, a city of Perfia, of very mean extraction: but ferved the king of Decan fo fortunately that he gave him the city of Chilberga. Thence he extended his conqueft over the gentiles of Bifnagar; and afterwards took the island of Goa, (which not long before had been feized by the Moors, who came from Onor): Malech Huffeyn who was then Lord of it, and defended it with 1200 men, being killed in the attack. Goa had feveral dependencies, with which, and others he conquered, Sabay became the moft powerful of thofe princes; against whom he maintained himself while he lived; but his death produced great alteration. Alburquerque having fent his nephew Don Antonio de Noronna, and Timoja, to found the river, on whofe banks Goa is feated, found a fort well furnished with guns, and 400 men; which they attacked and took, after a flout refiftance made by the commander, a valiant Turk. This man flying to the city, Timoja took another bulwark with 30 men. The next day as 'Alburquerque entered the river, he was met by Mir Ali, and other chief perfons of the city, who came to furrender it, on conditions, that their lives, liberties and eftates, fhould be secured. This unexpected furrender was owing to the terror which feized them on the report the commander made of what he had feen a few Portuguese do, and to the prediction of a Joyhi, (one of their religous men) who not long before had declared, that the place fhould foon be fubjected to frangers. On the 17th of February, Alburquerque was received by thofe on thore, as if he had been their natural prince; and mounting a horse, they brought him rich furniture, at the gate received the keys, and went on to the palace built by Sabay; from whence he difpatahed embaffies to divers

ces. Four months after, the Moors in the town who had delivered it up fo eafily only to avoid their own ruin, and gain time till relief came, revolted, Ifmael Hidalcan (Adel Chan) fet out with a great power, to affift the revolters; fending before his great general, Camel Chan, with, 3500 horfe, and 8000 foot. Alburquerque having feized and put to death the heads of. the confpiracy, prepared the heft he could for his defence, however, Camel Chan, with fome lofs, entered the island and en

compaffed the city (whither the Portuguese retired) playing his cannon to good effect. Alburquerque did all that could be expected from him;, but Abel Chan coming up with 6000 men, whereof 5000 were horse, it was refolved in council to abandon the city in the night. This was executed with great hazard; for Adel Chan had begun to cut off their retreat to the hips, in which Alberquerque had his horfe killed; yet got off without lofs, after a fiege of twenty days. Alburquerque being reinforced by thips from Portugal, the fame year, 1510, fet out from Cananor with twenty-three fail, and 1500 fighting men. At Onor he landed, to be prefent at Timoja's wedding, who married the daughter of a queen; and fent with him three fhips, promifing to join him at Goa with 6oco men. On the 22d of November, the viceroy anchored a fecoad time before that city, and at break of day affaulted it, with great flaughter; the Portuguese entering with the enemy who fied, and doing great execution in the ftreets. The fight was furioufly renewed at the palace, with great danger to the Portuguese, but Alberquerque coming up, the Moots abandoned the city, and, endeavouring to get over the continent, through hafte and confufion perifhed in the river. Out of 9000 men who defended the town, 6oco were deftroyed, and but fifty Portuguese loft in the attack. The booty of horses, artillery, provifions, and fhips, was exceffive. Not one Moor was left alive on the ifland: but the gentiles were reftored to their poffeffions, and the government of them given to Timoja, who came not till the city was taken. After this, Alburquerque received ambaffadors with congratulations from feveral princes of Malabar and laid the foundation of a fort; which he called Emanuel. He alfo coined filver and copper monéy; his intention being to make Goa the Portuguefe bulwark in India. Having left 400 Portuguese for the defence of it, and 5000 gentiles under Melaru, nephew to the king of Onor, to fecure the country; and to feek revenge, he returned to Cochin : where, under pretence of going against the city of Aden, in Arabia, (according to the king's inftructions) he prepared for the conqueft of Malacca. The city of Malacca is fituated on what is commonly called the Aurea Cherfonefus, or Golden Peninfula, and about the middle of the channel, which parts the island of Sumatra from the continent. It lies in fomewhat more than two degrees of north latitude, ftretched along the fhore about a league, in the fame manner as Lifbon. It is divided by a river, and the two parts joined by axbridge. The buildings were of wood, except the mofque and palace which were of It afford

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Moriano and Celia. A Tale.

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inhabited the mountains.

They were affited by Parifamora, to whom they fubmitted. He had been a confiderable perfon in the inland of Java: but being expelled by a tyrant who ufurped his lordship, he fled to Sincapura, and was well entertained by the king, against whom, however, he rebelled, and was again caft out by the king of Siam, and fo forced to wander about Malacca. Yet having increafed the new colony, he gave it the name of his own Fortune; for Malacca, in the Malayan language, fignifies a banished man. The first king of Malacca was the fon of Parifamara, fubject to the king of Siam, from whom his fucceffors revolted. The county of Malacca is fubject to inundations, full of hurtful and dangerous creatures, chiefly tygers, which obliges many people to pats their night on the tops of high trees; because they fetch them off the low ones with a leap. The trade of the east and weft makes Malacca moft rich and populous.

Mohammed reigned at this time; againft whom the king of Siam had sent an army of 40,000 men; most whereof perished by fundry accidents, and partly by the treache ry which that king practifed against Diego Lopez de Syquera. But now came Albu querque to revenge them all. Mohammed therefore brought to his aid the king of Pahang, with a great force; and had now; 30,000 men, and 8000 pieces of cannon. On the 2d of May, 1511, Alburquerque fet out from Cochin for Malacca, with 19 fail, and 1400 fighting men, 800 of whom were Portuguese, the reft Malabars. In the way, they took five fhips of the Moors, bound for Malacca, off Ceylon. Being arrived on the coaft of Sumatra, the kings of Padir and Pazafem, fent fome Moors to vifit him. Nehoada Beghea, who had a chief hand in the treachery of Malacca, was taken at fea; and here we are told, that not one drop of blood, though pierced with feveral mortal wounds, iffued from him; but a bracelet being taken off his arm, he bled plentifully. The Indians who difcovered the fecret, faid it was the bone of a beast that breeds in Java. It was esteemed a great prize, and brought to Alburquerque. -1 he reader will judge the truth of this ftory.They next met a veffel with 300 Moors, fo retolute that Alburquerque was forced to come up himself to take it not without danger.

(To be continued.)

Na village, it is faid, about an hundred miles northward of the metropolis, there live two young perfons, whom for the prefent we will call Moriai:o and Celia. Neither of them could boaft a long and illustrious line of ancestors; their parents were born equally humble, though fortune afterwards turned a wheel in favour of Celia's father, who is known by the name of Cræfus. However, the education of each of our unfortunates was refpectable, but not in the firft line. From an intimacy which fubfifted between the fathers, Moriano, at the proper age, was placed for inftruction under the care of Crafus, where, report fays, to fay no more, he difcharged his duty with fatisfaction to his preceptor, and with pleafure to himself. Sometime previoufly to the æra fixed on for the termination of Moria. no's continuance in the family of Cræfus, Celia finished the courfe of her education, and came to refide with her parents. Her behaviour here taught every one to respect her; in filial affection he was a pattern for the fex; in virtue and difcretion the diflinguished herself beyond her years; in fhort, he was all but perfection. But, bleft in thefe gifts of nature and attainments of mind, unhappily her heart was too fufceptible (aecording to the idea entertained in these days) of the tender paffions; The faw Moriano, and converted with him. The volatility of Moriano's difpofition had often carried hìm beyond the bounds of prudence, his paffions were frong, and he bridled them not by reafon; his foibles fubjected him to the calumny of that part of the world who judge of mankind by exterior appearances only; but we believe, from what we can collect, that he was refpectable in the eyes of his acquaintances; that there was fomewhat infinuating in his addrefe; that the fair did not altogether despite him; and we even learn that the grave part of mankind looked on him to be honeft in principle; and that he wifhed to do no person that harm, which his levities brought on himself. Celia Taw all this, fhe faw more; for he saw that me had a father who had the moft tender regard for her, and that when his gold was not in contemplation, he looked upon her as his most valuable treafure. Thefe circumftances, at times, being the fubject of her reflection, and reafon telling her that the muft forget-She ftrove, the trove in vain, she was penfive, and alas! could not but at once both love and hate the object that had intruded himself on her mind. Moriano was not abfolutely proof against fympathy; his fituation enabled him to difcover that Celia

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could Celia longer love? It became her, and she did deteft the object for whom he had fo long entertained the pureft paffion, and from thenceforth fhe made vows to Crafus never again to think of Moriano with refpect, but that he would look on him in the horrible figure in which he had been painted, inftead of the fair and unfpotted character which is conftancy to her had in titled him to. A fhort time gave Moriano to believe that the affection of his Celia be gan to abate, and a few days confirmed to him that he had violated vows made on the coolest deliberation-Unhappy youth! this was a bitter, an unexpected fhock for him, he ftudied to confole himself; he ftudied to forget; but ah! tor fevere the task-he died-Moriano is no longer fubject to painHe refts quiet in a span of earth; but Pity as the paffes by his grave, involuntarily moif. tens the fod with tears. His friends beflow a heaving figh; and we are informed that none but Crafus hears of Moriano's fate without thowing an emotion of concern, and thing, fay, "Ah! poor Moriano!" Of Celia's prefent fituation we can not learn any thing authentic, though it is in general prefumed, that he does not look on Moriano's death as a happy event, even though the remains ignorant of her father's treache ry time muft however unravel the myftery, and perhaps all the tenderness of Crafus will then be infufficient to fave another vic, tim from the unrelenting hand of death.

May this tale which is founded on facts happening within the laft four years, teach young minds to avoid forming a connection, where there is the leaft probability of a parent's di pprobation. May it be a leflon to thofe who are poffeffed of wealth, not to look on themselves as beings fupernatural; but to know from hence, where avarice reigns virtue abfents herself. And may Crafus receive that forgiveness in Heaven which the world refufes him here.

On the Culture and Economical Ufes of the Spanish Broom. By M. Broufonet, Protoffor of Botany at Paris.

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HE Spanish broom (Spartium junceum,

provinces of France, but it fucceeds perfect ly well in the British gardens, where it is already very copious, and where its large yellow flowers make it confpicuous, among other fhrubs. It grows in the pooreft foils, and I had occafion to obferve it, and to remark its economical ufes on the barren mountains that compofe the greater part of lower Langue doc, where it grows in abundance, and it cultivated by the natives, if the little care they beftow on this plant deferves the name of culture.

It is fown on the moft arid fpots, on the fteepest declivities of the hills, in a ftony, foil where hardly any other plant could vegetate. In a few years it makes a vigorous fhrub; infinuating his roots between the interftices of the flones, it binds the foil, and retains the fmall portion of vegetable earth. scattered over these hills which the autumnal rains would otherwise wash away.

It is fown in January, after the ground. has received a flight dreffing. The quantity of feed varies in a given extent of foil* but it is fafeft to fow thick, as many feeds do not come up, and number of the plants perish after they have fprung. It cannot be raised otherwise than by feed; when transplanted, it takes root again with difficulty, even in gardens where it is treated with care. But it yields abundance of feed, which are fold cheap.

A little fpace is left between each bush, and thus the plants remain without culture for three years, for they are not fufficiently ftrong, to furnish branches long enough for cutting.

There are two ufes to which this fhrub is applied. Its branches yie a thread of which they make linen; and in Winter they ferve for food to sheep and goats.*

In order to obtain the thread, the youngeft plants are preferred. They are cut for this purpofe generally in the month of August, or after harvest. The branches are cut with a knife and gathered together in bundles, which are at firft laid in the fun to dry; they are then beat with a piece of wood, washed in a river or pond, and left to fteep in the water for about four hours. The bundles thus prepared are taken to a little diltance from the water and laid in a hollow place made for them, where they are covered with fern or ftraw, and remain thus to fteep for eight or nine days; during which time all that is neceffary is to throw a little water once-a day on the heap without uncovering the broom. After this, the bundles are well wafhed, the green rind of the plant or epidermis comes off, and the fibrous part remains; cach bundle is then beaten with a all the threads, which a to wooden hammer upon a ftone to detach

carefully drawn to the extremeties of the branches. After this operation the faggots are untied and spread upon ftones or rocks till they are dry.

The twigs muft not be peeled till they are perfectly dry; they are then dreffed with the comb, and the threads are feparated according to their fineness, and fpun upon a wheel. All this operation is referved for the dead feafon.

The linen made of this thread ferves various purposes in rural economy. The coarf

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