WONDFRFUY, LAMP. Wr

into Tartary, without any sensation to those who were contained
in it. Aladdin went to the princess's apartment, and embracing
her, said, “I can assure you, princess, that your joy and mine
will be complete to-morrow morning.”

‘Aladdin rose at day-break in the morning, and put on one of
his most splendid habits. At an carly hour he went into the
hall, from the windows of which he perceived the sultan,
‘They met together at the foot of the great staircase of Aladdin’s
palace. The venerable sultan was some time before he could
open his lips, so great was his joy that he had found his daugh-
ter once more. She soon came to him ; he embraced her, and
made her relate all that had happened to her. Aladdin ordered
the magician’s body to be thrown on a dunghill, as the prey of
birds. Thus Aladdin was delivered from the persecution of
the magician. Within a short time afterwards the sultan died
at a good old age ; and as he left no sons, the princess became
heiress to the crown: but Aladdin being her husband, the
sovereignty, it was agreed by the great officers of the state,
should devolve upon him. Great preparations were made for
Aladdin's coronation. Throughout the East there had never
been so magnificent a ceremonial as this was to be. At length
the morning arrived. ‘The procession to the principal mosque
was several hours proceeding. Aladdin was seated on a throne
under a canopy of gold; the crown being placed on his head,
when—he awoke, and found that he had been fast asleep on
his father's shop-board !