Bifa, Adel Chan, and other princes, ambaffadors to him: There came alfo one from Preftor John, in order to go to Portugal. Alburquerque fet out for the conqueft of Aden, on the 18th of February, with twenty fhips, manned with 1700 Portuguese, befides 800 Canarans" androMalabars The · city of Aden is seated near the coaft of Arabia Felix, and the mouth of the Red Sea. Over it appears the mountain Arziza, all a barren rock, divided in many cliffs. The town from the fea, looks beautiful and ftrong. It is rich, and famous for the refort of many nations; but water is very fcarce, as it depends only upon a few wells and cifterns, nor do the clouds fupply it above once in three years: whence it is void of all trees, plants and orchards, the delight and pleasure of other towns. They attempted to take this town by fcaling the wall, but they were obliged to retire in four days with, loss, after taking a bulwark which guarded the port, with 39 great pieces of Cannon, and burning the fhips which were first plundered. From thence they failed to the Red Sea, being the firft Portuguese who had entered it, they took four rich fhips at the island of Camaran, where they were obliged to winter. In July they departed, and coming again before Aden, found it newly fortified; fo that after exchanging a few hoty the viceroy failed for India. In Auguft Alburquerque anchored off Diu, demanding of Malec Azz leave to build a fort; Malec managed him with great addrefs, , referring him to the king of Cambaya, who granted it, on condition that he might build another at Malacca. Meanwhile Malacca was in great danger of being taken by Pati Quites, who at laft was obliged to fly to Java, his native country, from whence Pati Unuz, lord of the city Japara (after king of Sunda) failed with a fleet of 90 fhips, fome as large as galleone, with 12c00 men to fall upon Malacca he had been feven years making this preparation, and held a corref pondence with the Javans in that city; but Fernando Perez with 17 fhips, and 350 Portuguese, and some natives, after two furious engagements, put Unuz to flight in his greatest fhip, for which a merchant offered 10,000 ducats, in cafe it was taken. The Javans from this time were banished for ever out of the place which foon after Mohammed, its late, king, endeavoured to surprise by ftratagem, and was very near fucceeding. Alburquerque refolving to attack Ormuz, the 20th of July, 1514, let out with a fleet of 27 fail, wherein were 1500 Portuguefe, beides Goo Malabars and Canarans, coming to anchor in the port 26th of March: there pretently came on board a vifitor, with prefents from the king. The viceroy fent to demand the delivery of the fort he had begun there, that feme principal men should be fent with the inftrument of the fubmiffion made of that kingdom, by King Sayfaddin; every thing was confented to, because there was no power to refift. Raez (or Reis) Noraddin, the governor, with his nephew, came to ratify all, and was fent back with rich prefents for themselves, and a valuable collar of gold for the king. Public rejoicing was made on both fides for this agreement. After which, Alburquerque went on with building the fort, near which on a scaffold, he received an amballador, that came from Ifmael king of Perfia, with prefents confifting of ounces, precious ftones, jewels of gold and filks, the treaty was concluded with mutual fatisfaction. Before the coming of the viceroy, Raez Hamet was fent froni Perfia to Órmuz, with a defign to fecure it, and deliver it to Ifmael. He had got the entire afcendant of the king; he had brought people fecretly into the city to kill him, when there was a favourable opportunity. Alburquerque, to deliver Sayfaddin, propofed an interview with him, when Hamet entering foremost rudely, and knowing him to be fecretly armed, the viceroy ordered his officers to kill him. While the fort was finishing, Alburquerque perfuaded the king, that it was for the fafety of the city to put all its cannon into the fort, which with fome reluctancy he confented to; and the command thereof was given to Peter de Alburquerque. Thus was this rich and powerful kingdom brought under subjection to the Portuguefe. Soon after, the viceroy falling fick, was perfuaded to return to India, for the recovery of his health. In the way, meeting with news that a new governor was come from Portugal with orders for him to return home, he broke out into fome complaint: after which he was feized with a profound melancholy, and died upon the bar of Goa, the 16th of December, 1515, in the 63d year of his age; he was fecond fon to Gonzalo de Alburquerque, lord of Villa Verda, and of Donna Leonora Menefes, daughter of Alvaro Gonzales de Atayde, first count of Atouguia. He had been mafter of the horfe to King John the Second, of a moderate ftature, his countenance pleafing and venerable. He was twice before Ormuz, twice before Goa, and twice before Malacca, three famous iflands and kingdoms in Afia, over which he triumphed. He was first governor of India, as his predeceffor was the firft viceroy. The dominions of the Portuguese in Afia were founded by three, viz. Duarte Pacheco, Don Francifco de Al eyda and Alphonfo de Alburquerque. This great man being dead, Lope Soarez de Albergaria took the government. He brought with him to India a fleet of 13 fhips, and in them 1500 men. As Almeyda laid the foundation of the Portuguete power in India, India, Alburquerque established it, and feems to have brought it to its height; for after his death, their affairs declined every day, through the pride and avarice of the governers and other officers. The governor, according to the king's order, prepared for the Red Sea; and being informed that the fultan of Egypt was fitting out a great fleet at Suez, he failed in fearch of it from Goa, upon the 8th of February, 1516, with 27 fil of feveral forts. He carried with him 1200 Portuguese, and 1600 Malabars; one half foldiers, the other half feamen, Coming before Aden, Miramirzan finding himself defenceless, (by reafon a piece of the wall was beaten down by Raez Solyman, admiral of the Suez fleet) made a virtue of neceffity, and offered the keys to Lope Soarez, who pleased with this flattery, trufted to him, and took not poffeffion of the city, intending to do it at his return. Hearing that Solyman, by firefs of weather was driven to Jodda, and had no defence, he immediately refolved to fail thither, up the Red Sea. -Jodda is situated in Arabia Fœlix, in 21 degrees, 30 minutes north lat in a moft barren foil, being all a deep fand. The buildings are good, but not the harbour. The inhabitants are of two forts, the native Arabs, and foreign merchants. Mir Huffeyn, after his defeat at Diu, by Almeyda, being afraid to return to Egypt, fortified, this town for his own fecurity, under pretence of fecuring the prophet's fepulchre at Mecca. Meanwhile Raez Solyman, a Turk, of base parentage, but a powerful and bold pirate, born in Mitylene, an ifland in the Archipelago, offered himself to the fultan of Egypt to command the fleet of 27 fail, that was preparing at Suez, to fall upon Aden; an employ which Mir Huffeyn had fet his heart upon; and he was accepted of. After repairing the lofs that was fuftained at Aden (where many of his men were killed) and taking a great booty in the city Zeybid, he returned to Jodda, where he flew Mir Huffeyn, and then delivered the place up to Selim, the Turkish fultan: who not long before had poffeffed himfelf of Egypt, and put an end to the dominion of Maluc's by the defeat of Tuman Bey, (or Tomombaius) the fucceffor to Can al Ġauri.] The port being dangerous, Lope Soarez anchored a league from the city, in which there was fo good cannon, that fome pieces reached the hips at that diftance. Solyman proposed a private combat between man and man; but the governor would not permit it, faying, He would answer on fhore. The city was terrified by the firing a galleon, while the governors founded the channel that goes up to it. Solyman appeafed the tumult, and appeared with some men with out the walls, while multitudes appeared on them, braving the Portuguese with loud cries; who seeing that Loap Soarez neglect. ed landing, began to complain of the delay. He appealed them by fhewing his inftructions; which were not to attack the city, but the fleet: and not being able to effect this, he retired to the island of Comorin. Frein hence, after fuffering much by famine, and lofing 17 men, taken by the Moors, he went to Zeyla, a city at the mouth of the Red Sea, on the African fhore, and the great market of thofe parts; which being now repaired, Miramirzan refufed to deliver the place, hy forming delays: being thus baffled, he failed for Barbora, defigning to do to that city, what, he had done at Zeyla: but the fleet being scattered by storms, and 800 men loft, the attempt was deferred till next year, when it was taken without resistance and burnt. In the mean time great diforders reigned at Goa, which at laft brought on a fhort fiege: the fame misfortune attended Malacca, through the ill government of George de Brito, and animofities of others, whose tyrannical treatment made the inhabitants fly, and brought the late king with a confiderable force to recover it; fo that had not Don Alexiu de Menefes came with 300 men, the Portuguese poffeffion there had been at an end, after which the king of Siam, who hated the Moors, fent Siamefe, at the requeft of a Portuguese ambaffador, to people Malacca, which now became fecure. The inland of Ceylon (called by the anci ent inhabitants llanare, and by the Arabs and Perfians, Serendib) lies oppofite to Cape Comorin, the fouthern point of the hither peninfula of India; from whence it is diftant about 16 leagues, and is fuppofed once to have joined to it. It was divided into nine kingdoms; Colombo on the weft; Gale, on the fouth; Jaula, Tanavaca, Cande, Batecalon, Vilafem, Triquinamale, and Jafanapatam. The Portuguese had a trade with Colombo, the king whereof defired their friendship, and furnished them with cinnamon, from the time of Alburquerque. Hither Lope Soarez failed next, in 1517, with 17 vellels, great and fmall, and oo Portuguefe foldiers: with defign to' oblige the king to pay tribute, and confent to the building a fort, asking Emanuel defired. After a fmall conteft, in which the islanders, trying to assist the Moors, were put to fight; the king yielded to be a fubject to Portugal; paying yearly 1200 quintals of cinnamon, twelve rings of rubies and faphires, with fix elephants: commodities with which Ceylon abounds. Soon after the king of Pam, near Malacca, voluntarily became tributary to the crown of Portugal, paying a golden cup yearly. Duarto Coello having fettled a peace with the king of Si. then one of the three greiteft princes of Afia (thofe of China and Bifnagar being the other two) Fernan Perez de Andrada arrived the fame year(1517) after many difficulties at Canton in China; where he fettled a trade on that coaft, and returned laden with riches to Malacca. Thence, in 1511, he went with Don Menefes to Cochin: but was no fooner gone, than the king of Bintang (who waited that opportunity, though he had concluded a prace juft before) attacked the city, (where there were about 200 Portuguese) with 1500, men, many Ele phants by land, and fixty veffels by fea; after twenty days he raifed the fiege, with the lofs of 330 men, and 18 Portuguese, and lay to hinder provifions getting in to relieve the town, but retired on the arrival of Garcia de Sa, with fixty men. Thither alfo came Antonio Correa, in 4519, from Martaban, where he had been concluding a peace with the king of Pegu, at which the priefts of both nations affifted. well fortified, having two firong cafiles, and Diego Lopez de Sequeyra, governor of India after Loap Soarez, having treated with Malech Azz, to erect a fort at Diu, and being put off with delays, refolved to compafs it by force for this purpose he gathered 40 veffels of all forts, and in them 3000 Portuguese,, with 800 Malabars and Canarans; the greatest fleet of theirs that ever had been. feen in thofe feas. But 'coming before it, the 9th of February, and finding it had been fortified and retrenched, in a furprising man ner, as well as re-inforced with a ftrong garrifon, it was agreed in a council of war by all the officers who affifted, not to attack it; though afterwards they charged their own cowardice on him. To as little purpose was the expedition of George de Alburquerque, governor of Malacca, with 18 fail, and 60o men, against the king of Bintang. This is an island of 30 leagues in circumference, and as many distant from Malacca. It was N O T E. The gentile prieft was called the Great Pawlin, who, after the capitulations were rehearsed, began to read in a book; and then taking fome yellow paper, (a colour dedicated to their holy fes) with fome fweet leaves of trees, inferibed with certain characters, fet fire to it all: and holding the hands of the king's minifter over the afhes, fpoke fome words, which rendered the oath inviolable. On this occafion there happened a merry paffage; for Correa, to answer this folemnity, having ordered his prieft to put on a furplice, and bringing his brevimy; the cover was fo tattered, and the leaves torn, that thinking it fcandalous their facred books fhould appear in fuch had plight, he directed instead of it a book of church mufic to be brought, which being bigger and better bound, paffed among thofe people, as well as if it had been the gospel. When Brito arrived at Ternate, King Boylee was dead; and he of Tidore had admitted the Spaniards; thinking himfelf, with very good reafon, as happy in them, as Ternate could be in the Portuguese. Yet obferving, that the queen of Ternate, (who was governefs to her fon) received Brito, joyfully, the king paid him a vifit, and finding him difpleafed on account of the new guefts he had entertained, offered to deliver them up. This he thought would prevail on Brito to build a fort at Tidore, but Ternåte being found to be the more convenient place, it was at length erected there. The arrival of the Spaniards was in this manner. While Serram (or Serrano) was at Ternate, a correfpondence was held between him and Ferdinand Maghellan, which turned to the advantage of Spain, and trouble of Portugal. This gentleman, who was a perfon of great merit, by his fkill in fea affairs, and the light he had obtained from Serram, ħaving gueffed there might be found another way to India; had even wrote his friend word, that he hoped to be with him foon at Ternate. by a new route. In effect, having been denied in Portugal the reward, due to his fervices, he went over to the Emperor Charles V. and offered to bring the Spaniards to the "Moluccas, away by the well, at a time when they began to have a defire of the Spice trade. His offer was readily accepted, and the command of five fhips given him, with 250 men, fome of them Portuguese. Portuguese. Maghellan, (as we have already related) failed through the Streights that bear his name, and pafied over to the great Pacific Sea, which divides that contiment from Afia, and coming among the Eaft India islands, in one whereof he was killed in a fight, in April, 1521. Gonzalo Gomez de Efpinofo, in the fhip Victory, arrived at the Moluccas, and was received by the king of Tidor, in hatred to the Portuguese, and those of Ternate; ac queft; above mentioned, Efpinofa returned, to Spain by way of Panama, and left the above-mentioned command of the fhip to Juan Sebaftian del Cano, who, having loaded her with fpices, purfued his courfe the way the Portuguese take, by the Cape of Good Hope: being the first that lived to compleat that wonderful voyage round the world. Their arrival raised new contests between the emperor and King John the third of Portugal; who, by the former agreement, concluded the Malaccas helonging to him, and that no other European prince would offer to interfere in the trade of them. Fernan Perez de Andrada having fecured the trade of China, at Canton, which prov-, ed exceeding profitable; his brother Simon in, in 1521, obtained leave to fail, thither, with five fhips. When he came to the island Tamu, oppofite to that city; Perez, the Portuguele ambaffador to the Chinete court, was ftill there but foon after he departed: for Nanking, being four months on the way,, He followed the emperor to Peking, where he was to have received his audience; mean, while Simon de Andrada, through pride and conceit, behaved as he had been king of the island: he raised a fort and fet up a gallows, to terrify the people: committed, violence upon the merchants, and bought young people of both fexes,, without the ufual precautions, giving occafion to kidnap, pers to fteal them from their parents. Thefe things coming to the emperor's ears, Perez, (instead of being received as an ambassador) was feized with his people, and they were condemned to death, as Ipies; but the fentence being refpited, they were fent back prifoners to Canton, to be released, in cafe the Portuguese restored Malacca to its king, who was a fubject of China, otherwise they fhould be punished, and none of their nation ever admitted, or treated: but as enemies. The Portuguese, inftead of reclaiming, agreed to act more infolently, which fo.exalperated the governor of Canton, that he fecured feveral of them, and contrived to take fome fhips that were newly arrived from Malacca, they began to act, when Duarte Coelio arriving with two veffels from Malacca, well manned, he was attacked by the Hay-tau, or admiral of that fea, with The Mad Girl of St. Joseph's. I almoft-exhaufted lamp in the courtyard T was o'clock in the the I My furprife increafed at every word; and I tried, in vain, to recollect this unfortunate creature. Her voice was perfectly und known to me, as well as what ever I could discover of her perfon. She continued to speak, but her ideas became fo confufed, that I could difcover nothing but the diforder of her head and the diftrels of her heart, 66 I interrupted her, and endeavoured to bring back her attention to our fituation. — If tomebody elfe,' faid 1, had feen you before I did at the foot of the itair-cafe?Ah?" said he, "I fee very well that you do not know all. He alone is fomebody, and when he goes away, he does not, like you, listen to all he hears: he only hears her who is above. Formerly it was 1; now it is the. But it will not last. Oh! no, no, it will not laft!” At these words she took a medallion from her holom, and feemed to examine it with much attention.. A moment after we heard a door open; and a fervant holding a light at the top of the baluftrade, enabled me to diflinguifh a young man, who tripped lightly down fairs. As he paffed, his hapless victim was feized with an univerfal trembling and fearcely had he disappeared, when the rest of the ftrength forfook her, and he fell on the low ftep, behind the pillar that concealed us. I was going to call for affiftance, but the fear of expofing her prevented me; and I took the poor creature fenfelefs in my arms. The fhutting of a door was then heard. She ftarted at the noife, and feemed to revive a little. I held her hands in one of mine, and with the other supported her head. She tried to speak; but the founds the endeavoured to utter were ftifled by her grief. We remained some time in a filence which I did not dare to interrupt; when, at laft, having intirely recovered the ufe of her fenfes, the faid to me, in a foft and faultering voice, "I fee very well I ought to have warned you. The accident that has juft happened to me must have made you uneafy, for you are good and kind; you muft have been good and kind; you must have been afraid, and I am not furprised at it. I was like you; I was afraid too when I found myself in this fituation; I thought I was going to die. And I feared it, for that would have deprived me of the only means of feeing him, which is all that I have left. But I have found out, yes, I have found that I cannot die. Juft now, when he paffed by, I left myfelf to go to him! If he died, I fhould die too-but without that, it is impol ible. We only die where we live; and it is not in myself, but in him, that I exist. *Some time ago, I was mad! Oh! yes, very mad indeed! and that will not furprize you, as it was in the beginning of his going up the ftair-cafe. My reafon is now returned. Every thing goes and comes; and fo does that. This medallion, which you fee, reftored it to me: it is a portrait; but it is not that of my friend. What good would that do? He is very well already; he had no occasion to improve, he,`has_nothing to alter. If you did but know whofe portrait it is! It is the wicked woman's aLove ftairs, The cruel creature! What trouble has the given me fince the approach ed my heart! It was fo content! fo.happy! but he has deranged and deftroyed all! One day, I recollect it very well, I happened to go alone into my friend's room. Alas! he was no longer there! I found this portrait on his table; I took it; ran away with it; and fince that I am better." After faying this, he began to laugh; talked of the publie walks, or phaetons, and of horfes; and I once more perceived a total confusion in her ideas. Some moments after, when he left off fpeaking, I drew nearer to her, and afked, Why the preferved, with fo much care, the portrait of the wicked woman above ftairs?"? "How!" answered fhe, "what! you › not know? Why, it is my only hope; ke it every day, put it by the fide of looking glafs, and arrange my features like hers. I begin already to be a little like; and, by taking pains, I fhall refemble her exactly. I will then go and fee my friend; he will be fatisfied with me, and will no longer be obliged to go to her above stairs. For, except that, I am fure he likes me best. Only think on what trifles our happiness depends! on fome features which he found no longer difpofed to his liking. Why did he not fay fo! I would have done then what do now, and he would not have been obliged to apply to a ftranger. Nothing was more eafy, and it would have faved us both a great deal of trouble: but without doubt he did not think of it. "Every evening I wait at the foot of the ftair-cafe: he never comes down before the convent bell has ftruck two: and then, as I can't fee, I count the beatings of my poor heart. Since I have been in poffeffion of the portrait, I could count every day fome pulfations lefs! But it is late, and I muft go from hence, Adieu!" I accompanied her to the street door. As foon as without, the turned to the left, and I walked on fome paces with her. She then fuddenly fixed her eyes on the ftream of light which the lamps formed before us. You fee all thefe lamps, faid fhe; they are agitated by every breath of air: it is the fame with my heart; it burns like 'them: but they confume, and I burn for ever! I continued to follow her. "Stop," faid the, again; "return home; I carry away with me a part of your fleep, and I am to blame: for fleep is very fweet; it is even so to me. I fee in it what is past." I feared to affict her by infifting any onger, and left her. However, my fear that fome accident might happen to her made me follow her with my eyes, as I walked on gently behind. Slie foon stopped at a little door, went in and fhut it after her. I then returned home, my mind and heart equally agitated, and this unfortunate creature continually before my eyes. I reflected on the caufe of her misfortune; and fome regret and the remembrance of fome paft circumftances, were mingled with my tears. I was too much affected to hope for reft; and, while waiting for day-light, wrote down the fcene to which I had been witness. Cadwall. A British Tale. EFORE the Saxons had made an entire B conqueft of ancient Albion; while the Britons yet kept footing in fome of the countries, lived Cadwall, a prince defcended from the antient British Kings, whofe valour in the field, and whofe prudence in the cabinet gained him the eftimation of his fubjects, and caufed him to be refpected by his allies, as well as dreaded by his enemies. Cadwall had long been in alliance with Cat tigern |