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great joy of the people, who were not less satisfied, when, on the death of my husband, which soon followed our union, his will ordered them to recognize me as their lawful sovereign. Since that period I have reigned over them, and my constant study has been to make them happy."

Scarcely had Dilaram concluded her recital, when the young Princes were announced."Approach," cried she, "and embrace your father; and return thanks to that Being who has preserved him to you." They fell at the feet of the Prince of Carizime, and were for a considerable time locked in his warm embraces. The vizir received orders to assemble the people, and the nobles of the kingdom, to relate to them the story of the Prince of Carizime, and to exhort them to recognize him as their sovereign; instantly tea thousand joyful acclamations resounded from all parts, and Razimir was proclaimed King. This worthy couple, whom fate had so long persecuted, reigned for many years in this island. The Prince of Carizime, during the second year of

his authority, levied a powerful army, built ships to transport bis troops to the states of his father, appeased the troubles by which it was convulsed, drove away the usurper, and became possessor of that fine kingdom; joined it with the islands which belonged to the Princess of Georgia, and this alliance of their people still increased their felicity.

Sire," added the vizir, "you have seen by this history, that the children of kings, like others, are subject to the misfortunes incident to humanity; but your majesty must also have remarked, that the Prince of Carizime's boroscope was fulfilled; that if his execution among the savages had not been deferred, he would not have reached the moment which was to terminate his calamities. Prince Nourgehan is in a similar situation; take pity on him, then, Sire, and let your wisdom dissuade you from executing the decree which you have pronounced against him, till the period shall have arrived which can alone give you any certainty respecting the existence of the crime laid to his charge.

MR. EDITOR,

THE APPARITION.

"Yes," replied the nursery-maid, you tried How often when I have been in company, to do it last night, but why did you not come and the conversation has turned on the im- in? you were afraid, I suppose, because it was possibility of supernatural appearances, have so dark; but we unlocked the door again diI heard old and intelligent people observe :- rectly as soon as you were gone." I assured "To be sure such things are not to be ac- the girl that she was mistaken, and that I had counted for, but facts prove that they are very never made any such attempt. Rose's compossible." This assertion was commonly fol-panion confirmed the girl's story, and I perlowed by a long string of circumstances prov-sisted in my assertion, which was strictly couing the existence of ghosts, which had occurred either to themselves or their friends. Some of these facts are certainly very striking, it is therefore with pleasure that I increase the nanber with the following literally true narrative of an adventure which befel myself while at college.

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The girls were as much at a loss what to think of the matter as myself, till at length my maid took it into her head that the nocturnal visitor of the preceding night could be no other than the ghost of old Dr. S———, former possessor of the house, by whom, she assured me, it was yet haunted. On this she described him as a tall thin man, in a scarlet plush coat, with a huge wig, spindle shanks, and long, withered, fleshless hands. At this idea and account I laughed heartily, took my candle, and retired to my apartment, where I drank a few glasses of light wine, and read for a short time before I went to bed. I know not

I had already been a year and a half at the university, and had lived during that time in the third story of the house then rented by Professor The room belonging to the maid-servant who attended me, and Rose, the Professor's pretty nursery-maid, was on the second floor. One night in the mouth of December, I came home about eleven o'clock, and in passing went into the servants' apart-how long I might have slept when the abovement to light a candle. Here I began to joke | mentioned Dr. S― appeared in the identical with them on their carelessness in leaving their door open so late, and threatened, laughing, to pay them a moon-light visit before long.

dress which the maid had described; and without ceremony, or uttering a single word, seized me with his skeleton hand below the

a light and discover the truth of the matter. At length it occurred to me to use my right hand, for hitherto I had fought only with my left; and behold the icy-hand quitted its place! for it was no other than my own. It had probably lain uncovered, and had grasped my side in consequence of the cramp, or some

right breast. I attempted to defend myself and this awakened me. The Doctor had vanished, but still I felt his ice-cold hand below my breast. I kept striking at it, threw of the bed-clothes, talked aloud to convince myself that I was not dreaming, and struck with increased violence at the hand which held me fast, but in vain; I found it impossible to dis-other affection of that kind. Next day I found cugage myself. —“ It cannot be a dream," cried 1, springing out of bed. I ran to the window, and tried to throw it up, but as it would not immediately open, I dashed it in pieces with such force that the noise brought a shoemaker, who lived on the opposite side of the street, and was still at work, to his window. "Well done!" cried he, "some tipsy.student or other is pelting away at the Professor's windows."— I could not forbear laughing aloud at the man's conjecture. During all this time i was str. g. gling with the death-cold hand, and striving in vain to release myself from its grasp. Jooked out of the window to be convinced that I was in the full possession of any faculties, and still feeling the strange haud maintain its hoid, I began to consider how I should procure || please.

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visible traces of this nocturnal apparition in " five black mricks under my breast. Had I possessed more delicate nerves, a little more faith in ghosts, and a timid character, I might easily, after jumping out of bed and convincing myself that I was awake, have fainted away, and next day have shewn my tive black marks as proof positive that the kind hearted Dr. S, who took pleasure all his life in doing good, had appeared to me in the character of a persecuting spirit.

Vaiaportnat as this story may he in many respects, still I think that it may furnish a key to the explanation of many accounts of apparitious, for which reason I have transmitted it to you to make what use of it you

THE LADIES' TOILETTE; OR, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BEAUTY.
[Continued from Vol. IV. Page 210.]

CHAP. XVIII.
Of Spots upon the Skin.

THE skin is subject to various kinds of spots, which proceed from different causes; they might therefore be divided into distinct classes, but this classification, which would doubtless be extremely useful, we shall leave to professional men, and treat in this place only of those species which are the most com

mon.

Some persons have spots, or marks, which they bring with them into the world, or which come during the first years of their Lives; these spots are not removed without great difficulty by the means employed for that purpose; nay, some, especially if they are of large size, resist every remedy that may be used. It must, however, be observed, that these marks are not always drawbacks upon beauty. Some are so well placed that women are extremely proud of them, and give them the pompous appellation of beauty-spots. They sometimes give a certain archness to the countenance, and

expression to the looks, and serve as foils to set off the fairness of the skin. In women of dark complexions they are particularly becoming; such spots are real patches which they have received from the band of nature. On the other hand, these marks, if too numerous, are a real imperfection; they distort and impart a coarseness to the features, and totally destroy the harmony of the face. In this case all the means which art affords us should be used for their removal; but care must at the same time be taken to avoid those too violent caustics, which when indiscreetly employed, might leave behind upon the skin marks that would disfigure it for ever. Among the caustics, therefore, the mildest ought to be selected; for this purpose the distilled water of the great bliud nettle is recommended; if this should prove ineffectual, recourse may be had to more powerful caustics. Make use, for instance, of vil of tartar mixed with a

little water to weaken it. There have been || powder, and put it into some good brandy, cases, though they are indeed rare, in which amputation has been resorted to; but this remedy, in my opinion, is much more to be dreaded in this instance than the disease.

The sun produces red spots which are known by the name of freckles; these have|| no apparent elevation, but by the touch it may be perceived that they give a slight degree of roughness to the epidermis. These spots come upon the skin in those parts which are habitually exposed to the air.

To prevent freckles, or being sun-burnt, it is necessary to avoid walking abroad uncovered; a veil alone, or a straw-hat, is sufficient for most women; there are, however, others whose more delicate skin requires a more powerful preservative. The following is recommended by an intelligent physician :

Take one pound of bullock's gall, one dram of rock alum, half an ounce of sugar-candy, two drams of borax, and one dram of camphor; mix them together, stir the whole for a quarter of an hour, and then let it stand. Repeat this three or four times a day for a fortnight, that is to say, till the gall appears as clear as water; then strain it through blotting-paper, and put || it away for use. Apply it when obliged to go || abroad into the sun shine, or into the country, taking care to wash your face at night with

common water.

Those who have not taken the precautions mentioned above, must resort to the means which art has discovered for removing these spots.

Wash the face with it till you begin to feel an itching, on which wash with cold water; repeat this every day till the freckles are removed, which they cannot fail to be in a short time, because this liquid is somewhat caustic.

The Princess Livia Colonna, adds the author from whom we borrow this process, made use of this remedy with very great success; she learned the secret from a Neapolitan gentleman who had travelled in Turkey.

Some persons, in order to remove the effects of sun-burning, use asses, or even women's milk, alkalies, or lixivial salts, ointment composed of butter of cacao, spermaceti and balm of Mecca, yolk of eggs beaten up in oil of lilies, &c.

Wash for removing black spots on the skin.Take one pound of bullock's gall, and mix with it half an ounce of powdered alum; beat the whole up together; a considerable ebullition with effervescence will take place, and the liquor will become turbid like thick mud, of a yellowish green; but a deposit is gradually formed at the bottom of the vessel, the liquid clarifies in the sun, and turns to a red approaching to gridelin. Let it stand five or six days, and separate the scum which floats at the top, and the thick sediment at the bottom; put this clear liquor into a phial, cork it well, and expose it to the sun for three or four months. Another sediment will be formed at the bottom of the vessel, and a lump of grease, very white and hard, of the size of a walnut, will by degrees accumulate on the surface of the liquor; which will change from a red colour to a lemon-yellow, and will snell like boiled lobster.

The following process is recommended as one of the most efficacious for clearing a sunburnt complexion, and imparting the most beautiful tint to the skin at night on going to bed, crush some strawberries upon the face, leave them there all night and they will become dry; next morning wash with chervil water, and the skin will appear fresh, fair, and bril-water; mix the whole together, and keep it liant.

Another process.Take a bunch of green grapes; dip it in water, and then sprinkle it with alumi and salt; wrap it in paper, and bake it under hot ashes. Express the juice, and wash the face with it. This liquor removes freckles and sun-burning.

Another Take half a pint of milk, squeeze into it the juice of a lemon, add a spoonful of brandy and boil the whole. Skim it well, after which take it off the fire and put it aside for use. It would not be amiss to add also a small quantity of loaf sugar and rock alum.

Wash for removing freckles.--Take equal parts of roots of wild cucumber and narcissus, dry them in the shade, reduce them to a very fine

This liquor is an excellent remedy for black spots on the skin. To apply it take a dram and a half of this liquid, and the same quantity of oil of tartar; add one ounce of river

in a well corked phial. Only a small quantity of this mixture ought to be made at a time, because it will not keep long. To apply it, dip a finger in the liquid and wet the spots with it; let it dry, apply more, and repeat this seven or eight times a day, till the place, when dry, begs to appear red., A very slight smarting, or rather tickling, will then be felt, and for a day or two the skin will look somewhat mealy. This farinaceous substance falls off and the spots disappear.

A third kind of spots are those which come up a pregnant women; by some they are de nominated ephelides, a name which is also givea to the spots of which we have just treated, and with which they ought not however to be

confounded. This similarity in name might years. The spots of which I am speaking are lead some to treat both in the same manner,' formed with age, and more particularly in especially as they exhibit nearly the same ap- || those females who have not made a regular use pearance; like the others they are brown, and of the cosmetics which preserve the delicacy, sometimes reddish spots, which affect the face the suppleness, and the flexibility of the skin. and forehead; but the means recommended in They first attack the nose, forming on either the former instance are not adapted to the side a kind of plate which looks like boiled present case. Freckles owe their existence in leather. They sometimes extend to the cheeks a great measure to external causes; the spots and forehead; the skin then acquires a very of which we are now treating, are, on the con- considerable thickness. This thick crust it is trary, the effect of internal causes, and parti- necessary to destroy, and that is no trifling cularly of certain indispositions to which affair; it cannot be effected without employfemales are subject. In certain cases these ing successively two different processes. The spots sometimes disappear of themselves about part must first be moistened and softened suf the fourth mouth; sometimes they come and ficiently with emollients, and afterwards go several times during the period of indispo- || caustics, of the kind we have indicated above sition, without disappearing entirely till after for marks, must be applied. If these caustics the crisis. At others they are more obsti- should prove too weak, then make use of water distilled from bullock's gall, in which a small quantity of salt has been dissolved. But we repeat that the skin must previously be thoroughly softened; and if the caustics fail to produce all the effect that is expected of them, the reason is because the first direction has not been exactly complied with, and it is ne

nate.

We would recommend those females, who are desirous of removing these spots, to anoint their faces with honey in, which have been mixed laurel seeds skinned and pulverized, or to wash the part affected with an emulsion of endive seed.

Unmarried females, who experience an irre-cessary to begin again with the emollients. gularity, or nervous affection and constraint, are likewise subject to the same spots; they may get rid of them by rubbing them with a cloth soaked in juice of bugloss-root cut and squeezed; but it must be observed, that it is absolutely necessary the cause which first produced them should have first ceased to exist, otherwise every external remedy would be totally useless.

These spots, we observed, attack particularly such women as have not been in the habit of using cosmetics. This is the hideous stamp which the deity of the toilette impresses upon all those who have not frequented his altars; it is thus that he punishes them sooner or later for their neglect of his worship, and that he demonstrates to the whole fair sex the utility of cosmetics.

Ye who yet shine in all the splendor of spring, if you would then prevent these bitter fruits of the winter of age, this kind of cutane

A fourth kind of spots are those of old age, and these are incontestably the most disagreeable of all. Perhaps our readers may be surprized that we should mention them. "Atous inlaid work, this not very pleasing me that age," some of them exclaim. At that age, we reply, people are very often as proud of their persons as in their youth. Are not aged people indefatigable in their search after the means of disguising the cruel ravages of unsparing time? They will not be angry, we hope, to find something for them; besides, the young will at the same time be made acquainted with the means of silencing those indiscreet witnesses of the rapid progress of

tamorphosis of a soft and delicate skin into a thick tawny leather, make use of virgin milk, of the strawberry-wash, such a wonderful embellisher of the skin, of the mucilaginous applications which preserve its suppleness; in a word, of the other compositions recommended in this work to polish the skin, to make it soft, delicate, and brilliant

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INTERESTING PARTICULARS CONCERNING SPAIN,

AND THE

CHARACTER OF ITS INHABITANTS,

THE important political events which are nt this moment drawing upon Spain the attention of the world, will, we presume, render the following particulars relative to that country and its inhabitants acceptable to the majority of our readers:

This interesting country is situated between the 36th and 44th degrees of north latitude, and between 3° of cast and go of west longitude from London. The greatest length from west to east is about 600 miles, and the breadth from north to south upwards of 500; thus forming, if we include Portugal, almost a compact square, surrounded on all sides by the sen, except where the Pyrennean chain forms a grand natural barrier against France. Spain contains about 148,000 square miles, and eleven millions of inhabitants.

Bourgoing Iras observed that the divisions of Spain received in maps and books of geography are little known in practice. The three provinces of Biscay, Navarre as a kingdom, and the Asturias as a principality, form states apart, which neither admit custom-houses nor intendants, nor scarcely any appearance of fiscal government. In this respect all the rest of the monarchy is divided into twentytwo provinces for the crown of Castile, and four for that of Arragon. These provinces are of very unequal extent, those of Castile being the kingdom of Gallicia, the provinces of Burgos, Leon, Zamora, Salamanca, Estremadura, Palencia, Valladolid, Segovia, Avila, Toro, Toledo, Mancha, Murcia, Guadalaxara, || Cuença, Soria, Madrid and Andalusia, which comprises four provinces decorated with the title of kingdoms, which they bore under the Moors, namely, Seville, Cordova, Jaen, and Granada. The four provinces of the crown of Arragon are, the kingdom of Arragon, the kingdom of Valentia, the principality of Catalonia, and the kingdom of Majorca.

The climate of Spain has been deservedly praised as equal, if not superior to that of any country in Europe; but in the southern provinces, the heat is insalubrious, and malignant fevers sometimes sweep off great numbers. The chains of mountains which intersect the country at different intervals, contribute, however, to temper the climate, and supply cooling breezes. In the south the sea breeze No. XXXIV. Vol. V.

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agreeably diversifies the heat of summer, and in the northern provinces the severity of the winter is allayed by the proximity of the ocean, which generally supplies gales that are rather humid than frosty.

The face of the country, though it exhibits a great number of unproductive tracts, is in generai delightful, abounding in fragrant pasturage, vineyards and groves of orange-trees, and the hills and wastes themselves being clothed with wild thyme, rosemary, and lavender. Its principal productions are,-wool, so highly esteemed for the excellence of its quality, silk, off, wine, and fruits. The sugar cane thrives in this country, and it might supply all Europe with saffron; sumach, au useful article in the preparation of moroccoleather, abounds in the mountains of Granada; the mastic, the palm, the cedar, the cork-tree, and even cotton and pepper grow in many parts; the superb American aloe, which is in England one of the most magnificent ornaments of our gardens, grows here without cultivation, and forms whole hedges. The rivers and streams of Spain are numerous, and the chains of mountains give a grand variety to the pros¡ ect of the country.

The revenues of the crown amount to five millions and a half sterling. Those derived from America, in addition, are immense; but it is calculated that not above one million sterling enters the coffers of the king. The finances are badly regulated, and the public debt prodigious.

In 1794, the military establishment of Spain consisted of 114,000 men; but at present it is thought not to exceed $9,000, a great proportion of whom have been with politic precaution drawn by Buonaparte out of the country. Of late years Spain has paid great attention to her navy, which has however been crippled in the recent warfare with Britain; the ships of the line can now scarcely be computed at more than fifty.

The Spanish monarchy, previous to the recent revolution, was in every sense absolute. The power of the aristocracy has of late years been greatly abridged, chiefly by the influence of the royal favourite, the Prince of the Peace. In pursuance of the same system, the Cortes, or supreme councils, which possessed an

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