The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-04-21


piece;" upon which he politely offered me
pinch of snuff which refused with cold
dignity. If know myself, haveno nation
al prejudices: bat do hate -Frenchmen.
1t is with nations as with individuals, those
who know the least of others think the high
est of themselves; for the whole family OF
pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mu-
tually beget each other. The Chinese affect
to despise European ingenuity, but they can
not mend a common watch, when it is out OF
order; they say it is dead, and barter it away
for living one. The Persians think that
all foreign merchants come to them fro n
small island in the northern waters, barren
and desolate, which produces nothing good
or beautiful; for why else, say they, dc the
Europeans fetch things from US if they are
to be had at home. The Turk will not per-
NIT the sacred cities of Mecca or Medina to
be polluted by the residence or even foot
steps of a single Christian; and as to the
grand Dairo of Japan, he is so holy that the
sun is not permitted to have the honor of
shining upon his illustrious head. AS to the
king of Malacca, he styles himself lord of
he winds; and the Mogul to be equal with
him, titles himself conqueror of the world,
and his grandees are denominated rulars OF
the thunder storm and stcersmen of the
whirlwind: even the pride of Xerxes, who
tcttered the sea, and wrote his commands to
mount Athos; or of Caligula, who boasted
of an intrigue with the moon--are both
surpassed by the petty sovereign OF all insig-
niacant tribe in North America, who every
morning stalks out of his hovcl, bids the sun
good-morrow, and points out to him with
his finger, the course he is to take for the
day: and to complete the climax of pride
and JpuOvgnce is ,un11 kprWp that "a
Khan Of Tartary, who does not possess
single house under the canopy of heaven,
has no sooner finished his repast of mares
milk and horse flesh, than he causes a her.
aid to proclaim from his seat that all the
! princes and potentates of the earth have
his permission to got dinner. "The Arab"
says Zimmerman, sin the conviction that
his caliph is infallible, laughs at the stupid
credulity ofthe Tartar, who holds his lama
to be immortal" Those who inhabit mount
Bata, believe that whoever eats roasted
cuckoo before his death, is saint, and firmly
persuaded of the infallibility of this mode of
sanctihcation, deride the Indians, who drag
a COW to the bed of dying person, and by
pnching her tail, are sure if by that method
they can make the creature void her urine
in the face OF the patient, he is Immediately
translated into the third heaven. They
scott at the superstition of the Iartarlan
| princes, who think that their Identification is
secure, provided they can eat of the holy
excrements of the Lama; and the Tartars,
in their turn, riricule the Brahmns, who,
for the better purification of their country,
require them to eat cow-dung for the space
of months, while these would, one and all,
if they were told of the cuckoo method of
salvation, as heartily dcspise and laugh at
it. have cited these ridiculous extrava-
rnp pcia tn shpu thnt how t,uo
which all sects agree, the hatred with which
they pursue the errors of others, and the love
with which they cling to their own.-Lacon.
! Revolutionary reminiscences.-Few men
OF the good old times were more loved, or
| lamented than the brave and accom-
plished Major General Warren. Early in
life he flew from all the fasciFations and
promises of professional ambition to serve
his country. He at once waived all idea Ell
thcr OF submission or compromise. He put
down the stampt act as IA settler. Looked
for redress to his sword and his pen, the one
as keen and the other as polished as any
warrior or scholar ever used in the cause Of
outraged and suffering humanity. He was
a chief amongst the chosen men of Boston,
and, just as the occasion demanded in all
their numerous plans of defence, and in all
their political conclaves and debuts, and
hopes, and doubts, and dependencies, he
was as gay as lark or as grave as car
dinal! He was born for freedom and his
country, one of her earliest ornaments, and
it may almost be said her first martyr. In
the action in which Warren fell, the loss of
the enemy was nearly equal TO the wholea
mount of the American force What an in
scription for tablet He died in the trench
cs that were thrown up. in defence of his
country and the world. What a tomb for
the hero!