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IST COLONEL FITYCLARFNCE.

The following if an extra( t front the above Work.
just puLlisheil :
" I cannot but csioess here, thong's with sorrow, that I
am mot surprised mil religion is held in disrepute by the na-
tives of India. Being from its very VOIR ncc sontiolos to re-
reeve into its bosom any prinely se who offers, the mis-
wiessory. too ready to go tlwough the farms, dohs Clwistisios
‘l,-.vilest ...trios of the lowest class, or of no rseste, whose
ideas moo hardly reach any persuasion except 01131 ',Nth is
'imposed by early ,tine 'lieu or limy. Their desert.
Hoar fanner faith con Ise bounded only on self-interest, soil
the gratificatioss ideating what they choose, of oviallowiag
nrack, auil calling themselves of • mast er's male; seed fats.
eying themselves of sisestre's teligioso What lore made the
Hoodoos, I conceive, think ill of us, and look upon our nib.
gouts as dtgraJlog, is Ibis reception 1910 its communion of
the burnt castes sod outcasts, whom they hold in the at.
most horror, aid whose yell touch they avoid with as much
eirculasrenua as we shush! the wonted f • leper.
The natives ronsequeutly deem all Europeans.. ft their
loCiscattoloste • goodwill to all mesa; to be of the lowest
and vilest caste; because, according to their ideas, out.
casts only untold admit antessis. lint neve' dwless
the 'llp-riOrity of •ir tennis sad iolelng,ore m Ikea
its due ioropeo‘sono iso maistarmimg our • stimotwoo amongst
them 11. Noumea. Oho us that sonic Christian
Missosuarivs, •swore of the detestation in wbirhs the
lowest castes are held by the higher, sod desirous of appear.
tag like the Ransoms. refused to associate wills the despised
Voce, car lee admit them into the pale of Ilse chinch, but
were very properly reprehended by the spumonc levile for
lbs elistiottioit they had made, a being isorousisietit with
the first precepts of the Clorisnao Religion. Tier troth is,
that a Hookup of rank or family would, w eh:wrote lois re-
ligion, have to rowtroot uot wily with those bigoted prin-
ciples bidebbly in:ranted tit his mature, but with the sLesd-
lid of eicommunicatium, by which be would
too 1. its very ulijrct of enjoyment, as well w respeet mid
Is is not quite hupcless, therefore, to expect
genuiut and sincere couversoon of these people to the Chris-
loan tero ; mod would it not be doubly inipracticelele,
sl Id Ilse Missionaries attempt to extend their Ishuoirs he-
Nona Ike meanest Classes above motioned, whose abjure-
s
Icon adds still another difficult; with ~g„,d to the higher
oral. is, aho could never codeine to be classed
woe sots?
fluor hiss been, to my knowledge, an inslaoce of
AaY Ilitiovm of e Inion sir to•te being etinvertral .1.6 our
J.,11111. VW only collet., sison of any kind, if it can he cello el
so, that has come within any Owe. t 6111.11,*as that. ores 11141)-
11'6'4e Thasnin of one of the first (3111:11,4 in the (moony,
;she. is nut wily peen-city mister of the s isms, 1, nal has
ga.neil • thorough scemasootaoce wilts the Luth.li :ao;;aiage
and literature, and Wl* openly declared that the Br: ssssss 111111
1,1 416111 is no ils purity a pure .kisai, and not the gross poly.
elo ism inns which it is degeilerated. I beraine well
mil licitt.l with bon, and admits his tale sits mud moire-
Etetits. His eloquence to woe language is very moral, and I
mos told that he is still inure admirable in Arsine and Pee- '
Pilot. It herein:irk dole that he has studied mud thinuoglily
luuderstaieds the politics of Europe. but moor Joartocularly
those of Raglan.: ; sod the last time I was le 1111 eitiriP4e),
be argued forcibly alpinist a so awn; tog army ill a free country,
sad quoted oh the argoincties I..;•ouglit forward by the .11em-
her. 61 she thpposisi 0000 . l think be is, in Many seopects, a
tome extresordovory permits. In the licit place, bets a religious
refuels-I.r, who hat, amongst a people more loggideil than
show 0f Europe no its middle ages, filer" d to think fur Imam*:
His learnitia is most ratrusirr. as he is out only grotraily
versant will, the h. st lows!is lioglisle, Arabic, Persieu,
Bettgallee, sod Hilutoustsure, lint his even mooned
rhetoric in Aisbic and w Cooglisb, sod epodes. Locke and
lbseem un all ems:snows. Vl,llll the view ire Lee. thus 1114Tiil•
ir sly t k. n of the reb '6, manners, and co-touts of rn many
Icsi listi frurt his having otrularell 1:1e 11.1111bef or, &sail
modes or addressing sod worshippiug the supreme ril•l14, he
turo.tl to lois own faith with unperjonliced mind,
tooted so lit ivorlril from lice relic:ion of Itie Wiles to a gross
iiintaara, and was not afraid, though armee of toe culla,
tler111:114 to pulitols 11.1 the world, is, Bengdiee and Eags,,A,
oar rtk bugs itch 5l sans oil Ilse solijs et. °former lee was
folly hrepart'd 1.• meet Stu hush of interested enemies, who,
freel raid twilit'. a, wiaied to keep the lower classes in Ike
Mtat• of the darkest iguurauce. 1 have understood that Isis
&mil, have mooted hon ; that be loos been declared to have
lost caste, and us liar the present, as all relig.un. ran. mars
must be fur a Heir, • wail: Iss be scoffed at. Too is man of
Lis srotiiiii its and rank this loss of ca-1e most be pecoliaily
von;•,0 , not al Calmat% hr ascuuatta nolo the Else:Oslo.
He is, However, cos off from all familiar and domestic inter-
course ; iaswed room all eumontion:aiioo any kind with hr.
otheinnis asol (4.1,11.1. li ietbd, His bark, is 14 cans Moisten
Hoy He as pliirolarly lettouome, 00l ..f a yes y dark t um-
pie ann., of a pole person, soot most cans -ramose. Ile
I.l6llelWiell In lair n.. onjertion 10 rat and live as we do, Lot
relolois front at ell meter out Its i spuse binnell to the impute.

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tom of loving changed his religion for the piaci things of
this world. He will sit at table with us while *l.. meat is on
it, whet Itft ”tkrr Bramia will dn. He eontinueibi:Allnilte
dress, but keeps • rammer, .mugs man of sunse property.
He is very des' ))) us to •teit England and enter tine of our
Universities, where 1 shall be moot anxious to see hip), and
to learn hiv ides. of our ronotiy. it. 'simmers. cosmos, Scr.
have Itemil of another Drnmio in Bengal, who, within the
last three years, has written a hook to prove that eleii•t'imil
Maliontet are inearniitiou. of Vishnu ; and this belief i. per.
fent ly consistent with their religious opinion*, a. Sir W ahem
Jones informs us the Muttons believe that the Deity has ap-
peared tutionwrable times in many part. of the world Cut
the salvailusi of his cm:wolf.% and though we adore him in
one appearintry, and they in others, yet we adore, they siiy,
the same God, to "rllll/11 our SIAM' worships, though air-
&resit in form, are spially neeeptable, if they be sincere
iu sithstaime. Nay, one of their authors assert., that Al.
mighty God delighted in the various forme of religioo, jiwt
as he delights iu the various face of nature which he has
treated.

" On our return from the bills, we went to the *rot where
the guar*, to the number of sixiy.fire, taken Gum the ene.
my on the 16111, were stationed, and where they made a very
►plendid slww. They ate of all sizes and shapes, and the
carriages hum a WIJUNIIPIII 111111M1171 ON wheels to our most
filll.hrli CUIIVIIMICC. TWO Inge guns, about twelitY-five
feet long, which were meal (arum 1 sof the Rajah, bid not
tarn l•runght in, their weicht being immense, These hare
Len christened by our officers Gni( and Mitg. I was Noir-
prised to Itad many 'Dutch guns among the re,t, thonozli
their having (mind their way here is nut inure singular than
the following circumstance.

" When the Rajah of Rewak was to pay al. shout five or
six years ago, re %um of money, to the astiio.hensait of the
coltertJr he offered in part several if sated Venetian
viquins In gold. I am well aware of the pervading While
running through the hawk of this Republic leefiese the des-
coveey of the Cape of Gond Hope; yet that these flans
shushd have made their way into a conniry et riabely seven
hundred miles from the sew, is a circumstance worthy of
remark. The sequin is still well known in India by Millie,
though it is core opted into the word claheen its value is
four ropers. The Spaitish dollar is current io China ; and,
from the vast quantities drawn to that country anuually en
exchairze for it. tea, has become almost a drug. Roman
coins have at different times hero found in various part. of
India. WS is easily accounted fur, (ruin the ancient corn.
plaint that loam has at all times attracted the veld sued silver
of Europe to itself. II remained foj• so European Power, by
tsiahlialsieng a pre-eminent gores Helmut on the spot, to rehire
to Europe in private fortunes, and by other inseams, a por-
tion .'f this wealth."