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Ad fidem optimarum editionum expreffa ; cum indice locupletiffima ex Gab. Brotier editione. 2 vols. 12mo. 7s. Bell & Bradfute, &c. Account and fuperiority, while the wretched Ca logria follows her as a fervant arrayed in fimple home spun brown, and without the moft diftant hope of ever changing her condition. Such a difparity may feem intolerable; but what will not cuftom reconcile? Neither are the misfortunes of the family yet at an end. The father and mother, with what little is left them, contrive by their induftry to accu. mulate a fecond little fortune, and this, if they should have a third daughter, they are obliged to give to her upon her marriage, and the fourth, if there fhould be one, becomes her Calogria; and fo on through all the daughters alternately. Whenever the daughter is marriageable she can by cuftom compel the father to procure her a husband, and the mother, fuch is the power of habit, is foolish enough to join in teazing him into an immediate compliance, though its confe quences must be equally fatal and ruinous to both of them. From hence it happens that nothing is more common than to fee the old father and mother reduced to the utmoft indigence, and even begging about the ftreets, while their uunatural daughters are in affluence; and we ourselves have frequently been fhewn the eldest daughter parading it through the town in the greatest splendour, while her mother and fifter followed her as fervants, and made a melancho ly part of her attendant train. Account of a fingular Custom at METELIN, es end in the Archipelago, with fome conjectures on the Antiquity of its origin. By the Earl of Charlemont, P. R. I. A. THE women here feem to have arrogated to themselves the department and privileges of the men-Contrary to the ufage of all other countries, the eldeft daughter here inherits, and the fons, like daughters every where elfe, are portioned off with fmall dowers, or, which is flill worse, turned out penniless, to feek their fortune.-If a man has two daughters, the eldeft at her marriage is intitled to all her mother's poffeffions, which are by far the greater part of the family eftate, as the mother, keeping up ber prerogative, never parts with the power over any portion of what the bas brought into the family, until she is forced into it by the marriage of her daughter, and the father is alfo compelled to ruin himself by adding whatever he may have fcraped together by his induftry.The fecond daughter inherits nothing, and is condemned to celibacy. She is fiyled a Calogria, which fignifies properly a religious woman or nun, and is in eff & menial fervant to her fifter, being employed by her in any office she may think fit to impofe, frequently ferving ber as waiting-maid, as cook, and often in employments ftill more degrading. She wears a habit peculiar to her fituation, which she can never change, a fort of monaftic drefs, coarfe, and of dark brown. One advantage, however, the enjoys over her fifter, that whereas the elder before marriage is never allowed to go abroad, or to fee any man, her neareft relations only excepted, the Calogria, except when employed in domeftic toil, is in this refpe& at perfect liberty.-But when the fifter is married, the fituation of the poor Calogria becomes defperate indeed, and is rendered still more humi lia ing by the comparison between her condition and that of her happy mistress. The married fifter enjoys every fort of liberty-the whole family fortune is hers, and the fpends it as the pleafes-her hufband is her obfequious fervant—her father and mother are dependent upon her -the dreffes in the moft magnificent manner, covered all over, according to the fashion of the island, with pearls and with pieces of gold, which are commonly fequins; thus continually carrying a. bout her the enviable marks of afluence VOL LIV. January 1792. The fons, as foon as they are of an age to gain a livelihood, are turned out of the family, fometimes with a small prefent or portion, but more frequently without any thing to fupport them; and thus reduced, they either endeavour to live by their labour, or, which is more ufual, go on board fome trading veffels as failots or as fervants, remaining abroad till they have got together fome competency, and then return home to marry and to be hen-pecked. Some few there are who, taking advantage of the Turkish law, break through this whimsical custom, who marry their Calogrias, and retain to themselves a competent provifion; but thefe are accounted men of a fingular and even criminal difpofition, and are hated and defpifed as conformifts to the Turkish manners, and deferters of their native cultoms; fo that we may fuppofe they are few indeed who have the boldness to depart from the manners of their country, to adopt the cuftoms of their detefled masters, and to brave E brave the contempt, the derifion, and the hatred of their neighbours and fellow citizens. Of all thefe extraordinary particulars I was informed by the French conful, a man of fenfe and of indifputable veracity, who had refided in this island for feveral years, and who folemnly affured me that every circumftance was true; but indeed our own obfervation left us without the leaft room for doubt, and the fingular appearance and deportment of the ladies fully evinced the truth of our friend's relation. In walking through the town it is eafy to perceive, from the whimsical manners of the female paff ngers, that the women, according to the vulgar phrafe, wear the breeches. They fréquent ly stopped us in the streets, examined our drefs, interrogated us with a bold and manly air, laughed at our foreign garb and appearance, and fhewed to lit tle attention to that decent modefty, which is,, or ought to be, the true characteristic of the fex, that there is every reafon to fuppofe they would, in fpite of their haughtiness, be the kindeft ladies up on earth if they were not strictly watched by the Turks, who are here very numerous, and would be ready to punish any tranfgreffion of their ungallant Jaws with arbitrary fines. But nature and native manners will often baffle the efforts even of tyranny. In all their cuftoms thefe manly ladies feem to have changed fexes with the men.-The woman rides aftride-the man fits fideways upon the horfe. Nay, I have been af fured that the husband's diftinguishing appellation is his wife's family name.The women have town and country hou• fes, in the management of which the hufband never dares interfere. Their gardens, their fervants, are all their own; and the husband, from every circum. ftance of his behaviour, appears to be no other than his wife's first domeftic, perpetually bound to her service, and fave to her caprice. Hence it is that a tradition obtains in the country, that this ifland was formerly inhabited by Amazons, a tradition, however, tounded upon no ancient history that I know of. Sappho, indeed, the most renowned fe male that this iffind has ever produced, is faid to have had manly inclinations, in which, as Lucian informs us, the did but conform with the fingular manners of her country women; but I do not find that the mode in which the fhewed thefe inclinations is imitated by the pre fent female inhabitants, who feem perfectly content with the dear prerogative of abfolute fway, without endeavouring in any other particular to change the courfe of nature; yet will this circumftance ferve to fhew that the women of Lefbos had always fomething peculiar, and even peculiarly mafculine, in their manners and propenfities. But be this as it may, it is certain that no country whatsoever can afford a more perfect idea of an Amazonian commonwealth, or better ferve to render probable those ancient relations which our manners would induce us to esteem incredible, than this island of Metelin. Thefe lordly ladies are, for the most part, very handsome in fpite of their drefs, which is fingular and difadvantageous Down to the girdle, which, as in the old Grecian garb, is raised far above what we ufually call the wait, they wear nothing but a shift of thin and tranfparent gauze, red, green, or brown, through which every thing is visible, their breasts only excepted, which they cover with a fort of handkerchief; and this, as we are informed, the Turks have obliged them to wear, while they look upon it as an incumbrance, and as no inconfiderable portion of Turkish tyranny. Long fleeves of the fame thin material perfectly fhew their arms even to their shoulder. Their principal ornaments are chains of pearl, to which they hang fmall pieces of gold coin. Their eyes are large and fine, and the nofe which we term Grecian ufually prevails among them, as it does indeed among the women of all the islands. Their complexions are naturally fine, but they fpoil them by paint, of which they make abundant ufe, and they disfigure their pretty faces by fhaving the hinder part of the eyebrow, and replacing it with a ftrait line of hair, neatly applied with fome fort of gum, the brow being thus continued in a trait and narrow line till it joins the hair on each fide of their face. They are well made, of the middle fize, and, for the most part, plump, but they are diftinguished by nothing fo much and fo univerfally as by a haughty, disdainful, and fupercilious air, with which they feem to book down upon all mankind as creatures of an inferior nature, born for their service, and doomed to be their flaves; neither does this peculiarity of countenance in any degree di ninith their natural beauty, but rather adds to it that fort of be witching attraction, which the French call piquant. An An ODE for the NEW YEAR, 1792. HE Mufe, for once, fhall all her powers In Prophecy expand, Expatiate on th' approaching hours Öt Bliss thro' every land! Lo' millions rife thro' many a realm With emulating zeal! And Kings themselves hold fast the helm, Big fhall their fouls in battle feel, To hide their babes unborn! Againft the Nobles' Turkish claim, To fqueeze the blood from all his veins, And let him die diftrefs'd! Can TULLY's heart, obdurate ftill, As thus to be undone! With INDIAN Wrongs around thy heart, • Vide Cowper's Tafk. Thy Patriot foul to Poland warm; The God of Nature's works to form, And fight against his Love! Let his kind rays, whofe folar beam Melt by degrees the frozen ftream, Thy wonted fires recal! Thaw the clear current of thy blood, ' And animate the purple flood To feel alike for all! Thou Prince of Peace! whofe kingdom foon fhall come! Whofe heart, for all, bled fympathy and love! Let no proud CASAR bind a fecond ROME With chains, which Time may ne'er again remove. This flame of Freedom muft precede But War's alarms muft cease. The Gofpel found, on every shore, The fmall, ftill voice amidst the roar But let the Mufe enraptur'd rife, To paint new fcenes before her eyes! Lo, Freedom's friends, with many an oar, Heave high her waves on BONNY's fhore! With finlefs Commerce spread our fame, O God! forgive this guilty land! O give-to fave what Heav'n affords, wave Poor AFRIC Peace, and Freedom to her flave! Lond. Chron. PINDARICUS. N A MOTHER to her WAKING INFANT. TOW in thy dazzling half-op'd cye, Thy curled nofe, and lip awry, Thy up-hoift arms, and noddling head, And little chin with cryftal spread, Poor helpless thing! what do I fee, That I fhould fing of thee? From thy poor tongue no accents come, E 2 When |