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APPENDIX.

Account of those attainted for rebellion in 1745; and of the annual rent of their estates, which were surveyed by order of the govern

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Cash to Lieutenant Donald Martin, who went to Inverness,

with an ensign and 65 privates, to Isle of Skye To Captain Hugh Macdonald, who likewise went with a party to Inverness, and returned

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For a boat from Dunaegan to Berneray in Glenely, with the militia arms

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THE CONJURER!

"Marry, come up! I can see as far into a wall as another!"

If you'll tell me the reason why Lucy de Vere,
Thinks no more of her silks, or her satins;
If you'll tell me the reason why, cloudy or clear,
She goes both to vespers and matins :

Then I think I can tell why young Harry de Vaux,
Who once cared for nought but his wine, has
Been seen-like a saint-for a fortnight or so,
In a niche, at St. Thomas Aquinas'!

If you'll tell me the reason, Sir Rowland will ride
As though he'd a witch on his crupper,
Whenever he hopes to join Rosalie's side,

Or is going to meet her at supper:

Then I think I can tell how it is that his groom,

With a horse that is better and faster,

Though the coaches make way, and the people make room, Can never keep up with his master!

If you'll tell me the reason why Isabel's eyes
Sparkle brighter than Isabel's rubies;

If you'll tell me the reason why Isabel's sighs
Turn sensible men into boobies:

Then I think I can tell-when she promised last night,

To waltz, and my eye turn'd to thank hers,
Why it was that my heart felt so wondrously light,
Though I hadn't a sous at my banker's!

If you'll tell me the reason a maiden must sigh,
When she looks at a star, or a planet ;

If you'll tell me the reason she flings her book by,
When you know she has scarcely began it:

If her cheek has grown pale, and if dim is her eye,
And her breathing both fevered and faint is,
Then I think it exceedingly likely that I

Can tell what that maiden's complaint is!

THE ADVENTURES OF KHODADAD.*—No. I.

A Tale of the days of Nadir Shah of Persia, founded on his

torical fact.

BY THE HONOURABLE CHARLES STUART SAVILE.

CHAP. I.

"They say the tongues of dying men

Enforce attention, like deep harmony:

Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.
He, that no more must say, is listened more

Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;
More are men's ends mark'd, than their lives before:
The setting sun, and music at the close,

As the last taste of sweets is sweetest,

Writ in remembrance more than things long past."

RICHARD II., Act II., Scene 1.

KHODADAD was the only son of a distinguished Serdar,+ who had been the constant and favourite companion of Nadir Khan‡ during the earlier campaigns of that far-famed hero of the East.

Agrarees Khan, the father of Khodadad, was a soldier of the most undaunted courage, combined with extraordinary skill in military tactics, and so highly was his character esteemed by his illustrious master, that whenever an expedition was planned which required more than ordinary science and valour in its execution, Agrarees was invariably the general selected by Nadir to conduct the enterprise.

In one of these engagements fought by the Persians against the Turcomans, Agrarees Khan, whose courage had drawn him into the thickest of the fight, was separated from his comrades, and being surrounded by the enemy, fell mortally wounded, among a heap of slain raised by his solitary arm.

He died, however, in a glorious hour; for, ere his gallant spirit had left its tenement of clay, victory had declared itself on the side of the Persians, and the last moments of the dying warrior were cheered by the friendly voice of his beloved master, who having been informed of the fall of his follower, hastened to the spot where Agrarees lay, and springing from his horse, gently grasped the hand of the wounded Serdar and requested him to name his last request, at the same time pledging his word for its performance.

"I have an only son," replied the hero, "who-"here the voice of the dying man failed to give utterance to the words which trembled on his tongue.

"I understand, my trusty and excellent Agrarees," said Nadir; "I

The name Khodadad, when literally translated, means "The Gift of God." + General.

Afterwards Shah of Persia.

will adopt the boy, who shall never want a parent's care; rest assured of that! 'Tis Nadir promises."

The fallen general's eye gleamed with a momentary brightness, and pressing his chieftain's hand, he expired.

Nadir cast a lingering look of anguish on the remains of the gallant hero, and it is asserted that a tear for an instant dimmed his eye; it was a solitary tear, a tribute to the memory of one who had been the partner of his toils and the associate of his earlier days, and whose loss to his country was irreparable; for a more gallant spirit had never burned within a Persian bosom.

On arriving at his tent, Nadir Khan commanded the son of Agrarees to be brought to him, and taking the child in his arms, repeated aloud the promise he had given to the father on the field of battle, and called Heaven to witness his intention of fulfilling the same. It was a fine and touching spectacle to behold the rough and hardy warrior caressing the young child; Nadir, who amid scenes of bloodshed and horror, had remained stern and immovable; Nadir, on whose breast the cries of the wounded, or the groans of the victims of the battle's rage had never appeared to take the slightest effect, was melted even to womanly softness, as he gazed upon the face of the little cherub, for he called to mind that this was all that remained of the blood of Agrarees.

After his eyes had been fixed for the space of several minutes in silence on the child which he held in his embrace, Nadir called to his Nazir, and having given instructions concerning the young Khodadad mounted his horse and proceeded to examine the state of his troops, after the great, but dearly-purchased victory that had accrued to the Persian arms.

*

Khodadad was brought up near the presence of his patron, and received an education suitable to the high rank his father Agrarees had held. As years flew by in rapid evolutions, the youth gave tokens of surpassing quickness of intellect and activity of body; before he had arrived at the age of fourteen, the royal stable contained no steed, however stubborn or intractable, that he could not manage with the most perfect ease; and by the time he had attained his eighteenth year, not a youth throughout the kingdom was his equal in martial exercises. In the manly sport of the jereed, or the unerring aim with which he could fire a rifle from the back of his horse, while the animal was at full speed, few could compete with him; indeed, in all the qualities requisite to form an accomplished soldier, namely, courage, skill, strength, and activity, Khodadad bid fair to excel the most practised warriors of Iran. As he approached the years of discretion, he increased in favour with Nadir, who, during the interval of time that had elapsed, had been raised to the throne of Persia, and extended his conquests to the Indian dominions.

One morning the monarch having called Khodadad into his presence, addressed the young man in the following terms:

Chief of the household; literally, overlooker.

Iran, the Asiatic name for Persia.

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