Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1832-11-15
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Turkish Rcform.--l, may be remembered thai,
sometime since the Seraskici Pssha, Generallissi-
mo of the troops Of the Sultan, sent five Turkish
children to Paris, where they were pluced N the
immediate superintcndence Of M. Laplerre, Jun.
In the COURSE of last week, NJ. Lapicire has for
warded to the Paris papers the following very cut
rio,s letter which the oerasklcr has addressed 10
his young proteges
"To MEnEMED pEY, AHMED, EDiiEhi, hussEth, AND
AEprLLAT1F.
nEski Serial, the 10th OF Mouharren, 1918,
l5lh June, lo32)
"My Dear Children--l have thought that you
would be glad to henr news from me, and listen To
nv advice When selected you from amongst all
the young people who came under my notice. IN Or
der to send YOU TO France to receive your education
there, confied in yon all my hopes OF the educa-
ton of the youth. From your progress the gran
dees of our Empire viii decide whether they ought
to initiate my example, and TO enlrust the educa-
ton of their children to the learned men OF Europe
Upon you, and upon your success, depends the
uagmen. which they will form. You arc destined
thea to serve ms models This is difficult bu,
glorious task-do not forget tfs-omPloy every
moment to fulfil my views and to Justify The hopes
of your sovereign. You belong to a nation which
has long been thought incapable OF taking pnrt IN
the sciences and in the arts of Europe, ami IN the
advantages which result from them. Prove that
we have been wrongly judged-show that the Will
to do good and application to labor arc also within
the power of our intelligence and the precepis OF
our religion. You owe to your country, and TO the
generous Prince who governs you, the assistance
Of your arms you will therefore learn with pcrsc-
verance, and with the strlcttst ettent'on, every
thing which relates to the military arr. The edu-
n tt,ak oIt nf hntt la ka-
cause he knows the extent OF hi. duties and the
value of his honor. What pleasure for you,
when YOU return to your own country, TO shine a
mongst your equals, not more by fayors which
nigh, be able to shower upon you than by educa.
ton, by an ncontesllblc superiority over your com
patriots. You will then be cited as the most kilful,
and the sultan will proclaim you the best of his
children have yet another word TO say on the
necessity that you should profit by yonr studies.
You are at Paris in the very metropolis Of science,
and of all those talents which tend TO elevate man,
and TO render him useful. The Sultan, rsformer
Of a system, the foundation of which has become
dccayed, labors necessarily to introduce into his
empire the knowledge which may ameorate the
condition Of the Ottoman people. have sent YOU
to draw from this fourtsin oilight; and on your
return it will be your duty to show what civilized
Europe can do for our happiness and for our ad-
vancement. You will be the chief ties by which
the Sultan seeks to attach his States to those OF
Christianity. five obtain from you instruction,
manners, and social virtues, what support will not
these give to the views Of our Prince? IT, on the
contrary, you bring hthcr only ignora &C, OF me-
diocry, you will discredlt the reputation Of tile
schools Of Paris, and disseminate an erroneous O.
pinion Of the results which civilization offers 10 us
You have Therefore, double duty to fuihl--that Of
facilitating the advancement of our country and Of
sustaining the honor Of France to which you are in
debtcd for hospitality and education conjure
you, my dear children, to think every moment of
your lives on the glorious part that have assigned
to you in the cause Of our country and our Sovcr-
eign Present my thanks to your professors tell
them that ! much depend on their cares for you
on their endeavors instruct you aud to store your
minds with good principles. They will have a
great share in the glory which awaits youth the
strength which your success will give TO the new
system of the Standardization my dear children
1.-THE SERASKiER PACHA."
RrpupracANisM--From a Return lately printed,
we find that Mr. Onslow, who was Speaker 80
years, retired in l76l, with pension of f30o for
his own life and his sons. 1t appears that the
son died in 1914, and that in the So ears between
that period and l76l, father and son together drew
fl59884! five suppose that the father lived
nine years afte, his retirement from the chair, the
fortunate youth. The younger Onslow, mus, hive
received 900 for performing no services what
ever but simply for being born the son Of sielbic