The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-09-23
From the Boston .4doertiser.
NATIONAL PREJUDICES.

Honest brother Jonathan has always been an
object of no slight ridicule on account of his
pompous claims that the superiority of his own
republic over every other known nation on
earth shall be universally recognized. Nor is
he alone in his vain glorious boasting. The
volatile Frenchman will tell you that Paris is
the most extraordinary city of modern DAYS
in capital style and the launches of frogs de-
voured with govt The naughty Spanards
would engage your ear with a dissertation
upon the wonderful volume and richness of his
| native tongue, compared with which all others
| are barren and feeble, and fit only for the dry
details of buying, and bartering, and selling
The etfeminate Italian assures you that his is
the only land of songs, and bluff John Bull
maintains that the roast beef, porter and broad
cloths of Old England are the only articles fit
for decent man in any country to eat, drink
and wear.
In the following extract from Madden's
Travels in Turkey, it will be perceived that the
Egyptian quid nuncs, like the little knots of
politicians that congregate around our country
stores and taverns, have the same ideas of the
insignihcance OF every people beyond their own
borders that is every where more or less pre-
valent.
The Navarino business now gave po-
litical turn to their discussions, and many
of their opinions of European policy and
power were so singular, that l could with
difficulty bring myself to believe they were
seriously delivered.
A fierce locking little man, with a green
turban, high in Office, preached the subject
of the late battle: "The Giaours have
burned our Ships" said he, "but Coo will
burn them hell is hot couch, and a REV
Gus couch it shall be to them, we are told
by the prophet" "Piease the Lord" re-
sponded fat merchant, and his Inshallah
was doled out with great devotion. "Were
all the ships in the world Joined against the
Sultan in the battle ?" asked an Arab Sheik
in the simplicity of his heart: cay, ALL"
answered an Ulema of great eminence,
"all the Caffres Of Fraguestan were leagued
against the true believers, how else could
! they prevail, what ten of them could face
one true Moslem? but ten thousand to one
are too great odds; and were there not forty
thousand of their ships against u.s." "Allah
Wakbar," said an Effendi, man of learn
ing, "there is but one God, and if the Eng
! lish were not at Navarino, the Francowa,
the Nempsowa, and the Muscowa, would
now be food for the kelp ell bahr !" the sea
dogs. "Allah Karim," calculated an old
priest, "Ged is most merciful, it is only the
in6dels who say that the ships of the Sultan
were burned it is impossible, because the
Giaours could not burn them" "Callam
! thaib !" cried dozen of the party, cit is
well spoken, it is the ships of the unbeliev-
ers that are burned, not the Sultan's."
"Did not the Algerines," said a grave
old man, "destroy the entire feet Of the
English few years ago, and where were
they to find another all at once is ship
| like a pastek, a watermelon? does it grow
in the land? is it like a rain drop? does it
| fall from the sky ?" "Wallah callam thaib ~
God was called to witness by several, that
it was good saying.
"The English are a great people," said
a young Malim, secretary of the COVER
ncr's, "they are very great people, what
razors can be compared to English? what
pistols vie with those of England ? do not
the Pacha's cannons come from England ~
at is very true," replied the Ulema, "and
they have conquered all the world except
the domnions of the Sultan. India is theirs,
and some say the Indian Moslems are their
slaves" "Min Allah, heaven forbid !" ex-
claimed the priests, ga Moslem under an
infdel, it cannot be the Lord would not
suffer dog, Catfre to call true believer
Servan; Min Allah"
alt is even So" said the Effendi, "and
the English now want to be our masters,
and they will be one day. 1t has long been
prophesled we must fall STEAMBOAT will see
the son of yellowness, the Russian within
her lofty walls, and Mars will be bone
between the dogs of France and England,