S64i ON THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, happiness and equality of the beloved object, being incompatible with those feelings.

" Lust is so different from true love (C>-la31), and so far from a perfection, that it is always a species of punishment sent by God, because man has abandoned the path of his pure love."

In their epistolary writing, the Arabs have generally a regular and particular style, begining and ending all their letters with the name of God, symbolically, because God is the beginning and end of all things. The following short specimen wdll illustrate this : Translation of a letter written in the Korannick Arabic by Seedy Soliman ben Muhammed ben Ismael, Sultan of Marocco, to his Bashaw of Suse, &c. &c.

** Praise be to the only God ! for there is neither power, nor strength, without the great and eternal God."

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Containing the.Emporor's name and titles, as Soliman ben Muhamed ben Abdalldi, &c. &c.

«* Our servant, Alkaid Abdelmelk ben Behie Mulud, God assist, and peace be with Ihee, and the mercy and grace of God be upon thee !

" We command thee forthwith to procure and send to our exalted presence every Englishman that has been wrecked on the coast of Wedinoon, and to forward them hither without delay, and diligently to succour and attend ix)