Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-05-16

! TICS Of this counsry--I will reserve .thsna
for some: fu are letter, when ! shall pc
more experienced IN their complicated and
seem'ngly contradictory a4ture.
+ This empire 10 governed by q grand
add most puIssani DasnaW, waom tnsy
dieoii, WIN the lille ot presldcat. he IS
.chossn by pefso VINO are CHOSEN BY an
assembly eleclso BY me people the
Ncoun,ry free The body Pelnic doubtless
resembling vessel, wnlch Is best govern.
I'd by a tail. Inc, .prcsent bashaW Is a
very spiaio old gea.ieGAn, Something they
say OF humosist.
The people OF the Uni.ed Safes have
assured me they Themselves were the most
enlightened nation uader the sun; bul thou
knawess that the barbarians ot~the desast,
who assemble al the summer solsicel t.
shoot their arrows a. the glorious loasna-
ny, In order to exunguish his buntlng
rays make precisely the same boast which
/ ct them have their suPeTior Claim, shall
not attempt to decide.
! / have observed, with some degree OF
aupr,ze, that. the men in this county do
not seem in haste 10 accommodate them
selves even <wlth. single wife, which
lone thu law permns than to marry; this
backwardaess 10. probably owing 10 the
misfortune of their absolutely hav,ag 90,
female muses amosg them. sThcu euowess
how invalugbie are these silent G. apanoas
what price is giRen%fes them in ths
east, and what en- err aiming wives do they-
make! vhas delightful ENTERTAINMENT asis-
as from behpldiag the silent es9eusoce O,
sesr aigns and gestures. But wife pos
sesssd beth Of tongue and soul-mon.
sireas! monstrous lis il sstonish;pg 1has
these unhappy inGsrls should shrink from
a union with a wonaa SO prepossefously
endowed
Thou hast doubtless read in the works Of
Abul Faral the Arabian historian the tradl-
ton waich mentions that the muses. We're once
upon the point Of falling together by the ears,
about the admission of tenth among their
nuinser, unil SIZE assured them by signs,
that she wai dumb, whereupon they received
ner with great rejoicing. J should, perhaps,
inform thee that there are but miae christian
muses., twho were formerly Hagaps, bat have
SINCE been convertel) and in this cou.try we
never hear Of tenth, unless sonle crazy poet
" ishes to pay an hyperboiical compliment to
as mistress, on watch occasion It goes hard,
DIT she figures as a tenth muse, or fourth
gra. e, even though she should be more iliite-
rate than Hottentot, and more ngsacetul
than q dancing bear Since my arrival in
{ lis COM try, have not met with less t. an a
lunIfed OF taese supernumaly muses. and
RACES; and may Allah preserve me from
ever meeting with any more
When / have Studied this people rlcre
profoundly, j viii write thee again in the
mean time walsh over my hous lold, ard do
not beat my beloved wives, unless YOU catch
t.e,n With their noseS out at the window
Though Tar distant and a slave; let me live
in thy heart. as thou livest ia niae--not, oh
friend. og my soal, taat the spiendors OF tais
luxurious capitol, its gorgeous palaces, its
stupen6ous mosques, ana the beautiful fe-
males who run wild in herds about its streets,
can c..'iterate taee from NY remembrance -
Thy name shall Still be mentioned in the five
and twenty prayers which [ offer up daily I;
and may our great prophet after bestowing
on thee the blessings OF this life, at length, in
a good old age, lead thee geatly by the hand,
to enjoy the dignity Of Bashaw OF three tui!s,
in the blissful bowers Of Eden,
ess~4ssTs. yoss~~s
Ar~.r,.n..> Taft. {ssrS. ,..%fe,es.