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ABSENCE. A weary time thou’st been away—- And yet I see thee, hear thee still : Thy form is with me night and day,^ And thoughts of thee my bosom fill. Thine image is to me like air, For it surrounds me every where. I never sleep, but thou dost show Thy lovely face to me in dreams ; I never wake, but thou dost throw Thine own bright smile, midst morning s beams; And all I think, or feel, or see, Hath ever something like to thee. I hear thee in the whispering breeze, And in the song of forest birds ; And nature’s richest melodies Have learn and the music of thy words; The waters, earth, and heavens agree - In speaking with thy voice tome. I see thee in the tall trees, when They bend to meet the storm, For in their waving beauty then, They imitate thy graceful form, The moon-beams, to thine eyes repair, And gain more touching softness there. And noon, and night, and morn, and even, Have all some loveliness of thine ; Yet, though such semblances are given, I still must murmur and repine ; For ah ! they do no not—cannot give The joys that in thy presence live. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WO MEN. From the Yankee—By John JVcal * * * * Af.er all, iii< ref re, per haps it would he bette to say of die gen tewomen of Eng and, that more admirable and wonderful faces ar to he found there than lieu-—Lees more wonderful in their proud beauty, tiieir gravity, and their com posure; hut then they are not wonderful in the same way, nor admirable with flu* same look as our women. The females of Eng land appear at first of a more heroic aim self-supported, of a loftier and more showy style of beauty, with a colder, a loss en gaging, and a lur less affectionate air.— They have more of statuary and less of poetry in their look; more shape and less fire ; a something more • f the ideal that w read of, aud a something less of the natme we hope for. At first, I say : lor such opi Dions do not abide long in your heart. A,*,- a while you would be Mire to pern i\ whether you acknowledged it or not, th an English woman would be more desira ble as .1 wife, though not desirable as a play-fellow—more desirable as a motbei, friend or a companion for yourself, anti teacher for your children, though not sr desirable as a creature to make love to, on a still summer night with the siurs multi plying themselves above you, and on even side of vou in the sky and in the air, ami among the green leaves—perad vent lire 01 the turf, or in the blue sea. And this 1 be lieve to he owing chiefly to the better phy sical education of the English woman. Sm lives better ; she lives longer ; ami ‘lie lives happier ’han her pale, shy sisier of the new world Her wisdom and strength an beauty are immortal, in comparison widi whai we observe in th.s couiiny, and parti cularly at the south ; ai <1 they aie pit ser - ed as riiey are nouusher, by plentiful exer cise iu the open air, by riding and walking, and breathing as God meant his children* fj b th sexes to breathe— not in the over crowded, enervating atmosphere of a house, but abroad where the hilis are swept ova r by the cool winds of the north—where the wood-tops are bending tor ever to the chan ges of the sea breeze—where they may dip their feet in tiie fl tshing biook with impu nity, or drench then garments without fear iu ihe morning dew or shake off their heavy tresses to the summer shower, and walk unabashed before the spiiit of the um veise. But however 1 may regard the beauty and health of English women, J would not say that of all—nor no I sny nos all—l am only trying to give the reader some mea of what a stranger from this country would think on ms fi st arrival among the British fair. By and by, however, he would begin to perceive that there w.ts mo so mud) k set them apart from ins country-women os he believed, when he tird met them—if ei a long vt;y.tge ; f. r a long voyage is a won derful quickener of mat a Inch desei ves 10 be called not merely a taste nor a feelig, but a relisn lor beauty. Alter a twelve month at sea the <vmen <Jo not appear s> very block, nor so very hideous and 1 know a man Who b ‘ o that he took co’u on his arrival at >’ ir is, d’ter a very long voyage, on hearing the rustle of a silk gown. By and by too, lie would meet with Pin ladelphia girl* their dark hair p.ued >n their foreheads a heavy shadow ; with Baltiuioie gills —the rose-limped jftppari turns, that come and go with a flash aim a thrill about tile path of the stranger, now floating by with a gracelul slow motion as if they had power to sail whithersover they wou.d with a wish or a thought ; and everv day he would he thrown into Hie socjfetv i t others, who Would make him siar! —and look up—and try to recollect where he was; so like would thty be to the handsome, well shaped, and well-educated, though m i very fascinating (that’s the vvoid now) 01 coquettish England girl. As he goes more into company, his idea of tiie character of the English woman al ters. He begins to itgaid her as moie loveable but is obliged to admit, if he w,,s bred hi America, that she is too intrepid, too sensible, and much too healthy ; that her chest is too broad her step too frp t , and her foot rather large ; for it is a solemn truth, that an English woman is endowed with a magnificent breadth of chest ; that being in the hahi;—one dreads to ask why —of keeping the step with tall men, she is rather apt to get astride which is not alto gether so becoming ; and that thens ei an generally as large—to say the least of them as they ought so be. Anti these ate grav matters—very crave in the view of stran ger, who was brought up . nioog a peeplt that either drag their f et af er them, i r step t>n their toes, or swing their bout in semi-circles, or jump along the high way on their heels, with their knees bent nine times out ol ten, about half us far as they ought to move at a step, and the tenth ibove twice as far. The English women Jo not mince their way to be sure—hut they straddle about over field aud hedge, highway and by-path—as our women could never do. They are not very fastidious neither : they do not call a child a babe, nor eating beef taking beef; nor would they imagine that it was more delicate to s iy that a neighbor bail a son or a daughter than that he had a boy ora girl. But then to he sure, they do not scruple to blow their noses with aloud report over the dinner ta ble. And if they do not talk as freely a bout purges aud physic as a French wo man, or with so many ridiculous rounda bouts of speech as a woman of our country, it is certainly true that t :ey are in the ha bit of calling too many things by their chi is tian names, that they do talk at times in a language that would he thought very coarse here. Nothing is more common for exam ple, than to hear a well bred English wo man talk about being knocked up orfagged to death, or done up* like a coach horse. Aud then they are not backward about speaking wi h old men before their daugh ters about marriage, and the consequence 1 marriage; and this very frequently with what, if it were confined to the married or widowed, might be called a professional air. They may not nor do they shut them selves up from the free wind of heaven, afraid almost to look out of the window., or |to touch the sweet roses that glitter and j blow about their windows ; but then—they 1 play battle-door and shutrle cock, in the iipen air long after they have married off* iheir children ; and they suffer their grown up dm liters to trundle hoops in the Fark,t ifid they do not go aside from the river path or the sea shore, either by the Canal or the Serpentine of the metropolis, or at Brighton, through a troop of naked bo vs hove the -ge ot puberty, and it may be of t iijje mei , who h ive stripped to bathe, aie ’ basing eac h other about over the turf or over the beach, at the distance of only a few yards. Notwi hstanding all this, hovv- V ••• the E nglish w -men are neither immo dest nor indelicate ; and of the two, pee ps, that nervous and writable sensibility, hicli we dignify with tlie name of a grace r a virtue, would he more unw rthy of a cnsihle, proud, and chaste woman ; for iiat have such to fear I T tell the truth, \ am rather inclined to distrust vour very, watchful and ostentatious—l might say ob streperous —delicacy ; not :hat 1 believe it • ffectation in my countrywomen ; hut I be heve it to he like the shyness of an ;wk v i rd boy, very easily overcome — and when overcome, a thing the party is apt to he o grieved at, or ashamed of, as never to tiimv where to stop. Such dispositions aie fwever in the way of trial, they live in a bad j atmosphere—they breathe fever. h is unnatural ; nd being so, when they do give way, they are pretty sure to goto a contraiy extreme. * Phrases- by tli • way, that are never heard in this country out -i the mouth of a decent woman; yet here, the very poetry and the novels of the every-day speech, and the favorite literature of th* l age. abound in others which would be thought ‘ unpardonable over sea—bloody for example 1 1 iiavo seen urge girls—fourteen, fifteen, yea sixteen years of age. running after a hoop in the middle of St. James’ Park, in broad day-light. From the L ndon Magazine. TIIE AO H THE UN E vOiNTIERS OF TURK Y. The various nations of which European Tm key is composed may he clashed in live different raee> : Turks. Greeks, Albani ans, S lavooiajis, and V'lacbiaiis. The two first are sufficiently well known; not s< tin- other three, who occupy the norh < rti provinces of the empre, from the Adri aiic to the Enxme. Indeed the whole of that wide h* It extending along the Save and the Danube, and north of the great chain of the H mus mountains, is little frequen ted by travellers, and ns topography ( s but vaguely ascertained. It is a region ol b n burously sounding names, inhabited by a semi-barbarous people, under a more than baib r us government; and we km w lit le of such c< unit ies as Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Servia, beyond the mere cn logue. A*, however, in that struggn v htch.'sooner or later, must end in liie dis aemberment of the Ottoman dominions, liose provinces will necessarily become die theatre ot war, and as.iheir population* cannot be neutral in such a conflict, we will udeavour to throw some light on that con !used portion ot European statistics. Albania has been often confounded with Epirus. The chain of Pindus and the \croceraunian mount tins, winch are a branch of the former, divided these two irovirices ; Albania lying on the northern cud Epirus on the southern side, of ihe chain. Albania is the ancient Greek m M icedonian lTyrmm; it extt lids ior h as far as Austrian Dalmatia. The Albanian i iiiguage is peculiar, and quite different Irom the Sclavonian. It is p ssiblv a mii ant ot ilie old 11 lyric languages winch have been lost; but it has, however niai.y words ol Greek or Latin origin. It has no written alphabet ; but us sounds have much similarity with those of the French, among others the Fiench u and ; Tin Albanians call their country Skip, and themselves Skipitar. The name of Arna ntsofArvani.es, which the Turks have riven them,* is of Greek origin. The Al banians make use < t tin* Greek language in writing, and in all public transactions. — These people appear to be a very ancient race, perhaps the descendants of ihe an cient Illy i. an>, who were once naitly sub jected to ilie kiiis of acedonia and Ej irus, and alto wards, in the san e man lier, to the Romans; their remoteness and ben mountains protected them from total ‘fib. jug a I ion, as will *is from the subst i eoi irruption of tiie north) rn haibariaiis. 1 u lie tune ol the crusades, Albania was a threat thoroughfare for the western Chris i ins, aim tlit* ciicoiuchn* of the nine spi*ak ‘l*’ Hs populous mid ;i Warlike nation; many of the people followed the forlimes of the ciusadtrs and spread themselves over Gieece. Even now great part of the eas- tern Greece, and some districts of the Morea and of the islands, are peopled with Albanians who have remained Christians; and, what is more remarkable, there are Albanian colonists to be found in the other side of the Adriatic, in tire mountains of Abruzzo in the kingdom of Naples, who siill speak a distinct language, and preset ve the dress and manners of their country. Albania is one of the most populous provinces of Turkey It is said to contain nearly one million of inhabitants. All the men are soldiers, and they enlist, like the Swiss, into the service of various countries, without troubling themselves about the merits of the cause they fight for. They have long served in the Ottoman armies; they form an effective corps in the pay of the Pasha of Egypt, Mehemed Ali, who is himself an Albanian by birth : and they are found also in the service of the regen cries of Barbary. The king of Naples used formerly to have regiments of Albanians who were considered as very good sol diers. Sober aud economical, hut great marauders, they amass considerable money in their campaigns; and those who survive the fortune of war return to their native valleys to ei and their in comparative affluence. The Albanians have often rendered themselves formidable to the Porte. In the time of the famous Scan dcibeg they withstood all its power ;to the woof the Morea in the last century they revolted against the Ottomans; and under ihe late Ail Pasha ihey might have con* qu-ed Turkey had Ali been less a barbarian. The Albanians are divided into various feud and or municipal commonwealths, often at variance with one another, and they are de facto independent of the Porte.— There ar* Turkish governo s in Albania, among whom the Pashas of Berat, and ot Scodra or Scutari, are the most impor tant : but they are generally natives ; tiieir authority is less arbitrary, find they aie less dependent on the Sultan; and their oftice in most cases descends from fuller to son. The famous Ali Pasiia of Janninn, having conquered two-thirds of Albania; had destroyed many of the beys or feudal despots ; but since his death things have goto* back to the old system. Omer Biions is now one of the principal Alba nian chi fs. The Christian Albanians, who do not amount to ooe-thiid of the population, wear arms aud follow the same pursuits as tin it Mussulman brethren. In the event of a gm e: S invasion of the Turkish t mpire by the Russians, much will depend upon the conduct of the Albanians; and the p wer tli. \ shall have them for enemies will met* with a most formidadle obstacle to its success. Under a native chie* of trust and abilities these people might yet j.et a con siderable put in ihe approaching ciisis in the east. Little faith, however, is to be placed in them by strangers, tiieir meicen ary and ‘awless character being proverbial. The country of Epirus proper lies to the south of Albania, and extends to the gulph of Ambiae hi, which divides ii from Arcau auia * r western Greece. Epirus is a Greek country, in manners, leligion and language although St nn° of is uorthcru and maritime districts are also p< o le with Albanians, pari of whom are Mussulmans; but the iu erior of tiie country is essentially Greek. S nee Hie Ueaih ot All Pasha this un fort u n . e country has been the theatre of cruel persecute ns against the Christian part of the popular- ii To tin i.i r.h of Albania is situated the ‘I n kisli j,j. ir.ee of Bosnia, wiiicli is part ol the ac.eei Mcesia; it is hemmed be twtii n die Yus ri <n territories of Dalma iia, C,r alia ..ml Sdavonia, and forms til most advanced projection of the Ottoma, domino ns on the side of Get many. Bos nia ex <. i (is as far as the river Sava, which divides it from the Austrian dominions.— ! rn- Bosmacs, as well as the Servians and Bul^aiurns, are of Sclavonian race, and speak a dialed ofibat language, like the Dalmatians, Croats, and Sclavonians who live unuer the Austiian empire. The Bi>s mes a: e robust and brave their o untry was for a tong time the seat of vvai between Aus iia, Venice, and tne Turk; and the people have s nee remained in a barbar ous slu e A pasha rules them from bis residence ~t Serai. They are partly Mus sulmans and partly Christians The latter toim the rtiajoiity of the population and are again subdivided between Catholic and Greek. Turkish Croatia is a small prov ince adjoining Bosnia The Mohamedan Bosmacs still live under a sort of heredita ry feudal government; tiie chiefs are called Ag is, and are obliged to serve the ultan in person, accompanied by a certain num ber of their vessels. The troops of Bos nia and of Albania, therefore, constitute a sort of auxiliary force, like the Hungarian cavalry in the Austrian service. This vtuy condition ofihose two provinces, and the difficult nature ofthe country, render ilie Bodniacs and Albanians the most vv r like pi ople of Turkey. The provinces or kingdom of Sevia is ilie most civilized of the Turco-Sclavonian states. The Servian is a written languge, and is considered as one of the most pol ished of the Sclavonian dialects * They make use of it almost exclusively, both for civil and ecclesiastical affairs. The Sei vians .ire Christians of the Greek church; (he Mussulmans among them live in the towns. At the beginning of the last cen tury, when Prince Eugene took Belgrade, pari ofthe country was given up to Austiia by treaty, but was restored by tbe Turks n consequence of the bad success of tbe succeeding wars. Austria however, still s, H'ins to claim a sort of protectorate over Servia. In our times tbe famous Czerin Georges rt veiled against tbe porte; and *ince lus de.itli the Servians have obtained pi ivileges, by which they are more inde * The Servians have poetry A Servi an of tin* name of Vick has published a collection of popular poems, printed at Leipsic, in 1824, in three volumes, fiom which Mr. Bowring has translated some pleasing specimens. j [pendent than the other Ottoman subjects. They wear arms, and have their own mu nicipai administrations. We m ist say a word here of the I urkish military teudal system. When ihe Ottoman Sultans conquered the territories of the Brazautiue ernpho, they bestowed some of the lands upon Hie soldieis ; with other portions they endowed mosques; and another part they gave for lif? to their own officers, or to those chief- , tains who had embraced Islaniism. Fnis was the case in Asia, Minor, and in Alba nia, Bosnia, and Macedonia. An aga or feudal chief can obtain leave, fora sum ot money, to bestow Lis fief on bis son ; hut if* lie neglect this piecaution, at his death the estate is sold by auction, or more often becomes the subject of a petty war be tween rival pietenders According to the original custom, at the death of a feudal chieftain, his estate reverted to the Sultan, who, alter drawing one year’s income, bes towed it as a reward upon some officer, or on tlie son of an aga; but the exercise of this right is become obsolete, and even the courtiers of the Seraglio would not, among the Albanians, and Bosniacs, or the Turcomans, of Asia, dare to deprive the heir of his fathers property. In the As iatic provinces all the fiefs are become hereditary by custom. The Turcoman chiefs live like patriarchs; and, in case of need, take the field with the whole tribes of their shepherds and labourers. Hence the immense number ol Asiatic troops which the Porte can call to its assistance. This sortofforce, little available in an offensive war, would become formidable as a defence against an invader especially were the war carried into the heart of the empire, According to Malte Bum there are more than nine hundred great fiefs in European Tukey,and about eight thousand of second rank, and nearly the same number in Asia Several families, such as that ot Kara Os man Oglu, and the Khans of the Crim ea, have r uled for ages over entire provinces. The descendants of the latter family, who took refuge in Romania after the Russian conquest, have even pretensions to the throne of Constantinople. The province of Bulgaria, the third Turco Scluvonia state extends to the east of Servia, along the sout ern bank of the Danube and as far as the B 1 ick Sea. It is livided on the south from Romania, by the chain of the Mount Hemus, the last natural barrier of the Ottoman capital.— The Bulgarians* are mostly Christians of the Greek church, speaking both Scluvonia and Greek; there are, however, more Mussulmans to he found among the n than in S-tvi i. The Bulgarians are industrious peo le; — heir country is fertile, but they are ignorant and illiterate. Bulgaria has more th m a million of inhabitants. In the event of the Russians crossing the Danube, this piovince will become the theatre of war. The fortresses of Vidiu, < f Silistria, and of Rtulschuck, defend the pass of the river. Bulgaria suffered much during the last wars; and the Mussulman part of the population was nearly destroyed, partly by the sword and afterwards by the plague It iHav be observed that the Sclavouian nations have tak< n no part in the present Greek war. The Albanians have sent some auxiliary troops to jo a those of the Sultan, hut they have acted in general with a sort of reserve and indifference in tiie struggle. The vast provinces of Valachia and Mol davia may he nuvv considered as virtually detached fiom the Ottoman Empire.— These two provinces submitted to pay a J tribute to the O tom m, reserving to them selves the right of choosing their own na tional princes to govern them. But at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Porte deprived them of this privilege, and appointed a Greek of Constantinople to each province, under the title of Hos podar Since that tune both Greeks and Turks have enriched themselves at the expense of the Valachians and Moldavians. The Hospodars and then courtiers mana ged to ’mass enormous wealth, while, on the other side, Turkish inteudnnts came every year with a firman in hand to seize sheep, ‘ utter, cheese, and wood, for the supply of the capital, at the p ice they choose to fix, for those two provinces were called the Sultan's pantry. Count Salaberrv ill this disruption of Valachia, gives a frightful picture of the condition ;f the people.—“ The criminals, says hr, “condemned to work in the mines, could alone envy the fate of the poor Valachi ans “ The people ofVilachia and Moldavia are supposed to be the descendants of the Dacians, and of their Roman conquerors, with some admix Ure of Sclav nians.— Thev speak a dialect, or corruption of Latin, and call themselves Rumuni or Rum niasi The people of Transylvania has the same orgin: hut since their annexation to the Austtian Empire they have become much Geimanized Under the govern ment of the Greek Ilospodars in the two principalities, many of the native nobles or boyards have enfranchised their serfs and enable them to acquire propei ty. The sons of the boyards frequented the Emo pean schools, and colleges have been foun ded at Jassy and Bucharest. The Rum niasti language has hardly any literature, except some books of prayers. M. Ros setti, a gentleman of Bucharest, residing at Le ipsic ha> lately made an attempt uu’s t ‘hhsha journal in that language. The Valacliians ate a fine race, and their wo men remarkably handsome. They are a mild and intelligent people, although indo lent and ignorant. Their country, as well as Moldavia, is naturally very fertile. Toe name of Valacliians,winch means, in Scla vonian, shepherds, was giv< 11 to them in consequence of the eai ly emigrations of these people with their cattle to the sou h of the Danube ; and many of their des cendants inhabit to this day the chain of Mount P indns, and several parts of Mace donia . no Ti.iaciti, where they lead a pas toral life in ns almost pnmilive simplicity. They hud built a town iu Macedonia, culled Voscopolis, which was very flourish’ century ago, but ihe Albanian niai jf ■ destroyed i , and tiie people Hungary, where the V darhians cor, ‘ ■ ted a considerable part ol the popuht*" l1 * that kingdom, preserving their | }| ~(>B and iiiH-.iicrs distinct from the ’ and Magyar, m Hungarian population^ 111 **! The Valuchiutis and Moldavians a I most all Christians of the Greek c j lu *1 , and they have adopted the i,! *| phabet. Valachia reckons somethim’ j’■ than a million of inhabitants, and !• iV-'l about halt that number. Formely jyj 4 via extended also beyond the Pruth* ‘ I the Russian conquest fixed that Rive/ ■ the boundary. ‘ 8, 8 The greatest confusion prevails genera’ ! . I in Turkish statistics. The Turks keej ‘■ registers, and it is c nly by comparison approximation lb twe can get at ihr |, r .! able numbers of the population oftheej. | tries under their dominion. Even thee ! Ration tax is not a safe guide for reckon ~! the Christian population ; for it an 1 that the gross amount of the tax ui>o. a whole province being once fixed, no ■ lion is paid to the decrease ol inhabitants! which has taken place in almostevjry I kisii country, and the repartition >i)iv tal l heavier on the survivors. The calcul.tjjl of travellers and of geographers therefore, considerable upon tins Taking a medium, the probable amount all pears 10 be nearly the following* p Population of European Turkey. Valachia and Moldavia 1,400 OiVjl Servia _ 950’000 Bosnia, Crotia, and Herzegouina 700,000 Bulgaria l 200,’(ty Albanians 800,000 Epirus - 370,000 Macedonia 500 00<j Roumelia, or Thrace 2,300 00) Thessalia 370,000 Gieece Proper, Morea, and I „ „ the Islands ( looc^D Total , 9,890,000 Dividing this population by iaci>, \ V e have about three millions of Greeks, two millions and a half Sclavonians, two millj. ons Tmks, nearly one mil.ion Albanians one million and a h If Valachians, or Rum. niasty. Tin* Greeks and Turks are sc t tered in every province, and the Alb niam and Val clnans are also found iu coloniet out of theii respective countries. Again, if we classify the population by religions, we have about three millions of Mussulmans including ihe Albanian and S lavonianpr -1 selyies, six millions of Christians of the Greek Church, not quite Uall a million of Catholics, and the rest Jews. With regard to Asiatic Tu* key the cal culations are s:ili more uncertain. Asia Minor, or Anadouh, as the Turks call it, is supposed to contain about five millions, almost all Mussulmans and genui e Turks; Syria about threfe millions As.meuia a mil lion and a half, and the country be wiea Mesopotamia, Irak, and Curdistan, two millions, making about eleven millions and a halt iu Asiatic Turkey, and ib ut iiwn v one millions for this whole Ottoman em pire, Egypt not included. Out of oil these immense territoiies, Asia Minor is the only part where the Turks constitute really the m iss ot tiie populatioi , as ii was the entitle of their empire For tiie rest, with tiie ex ception of Constantinople, they may be considered as military colonists They garrison the fortresses, fill up the ( ffices, er live upon feudal income, government sala ries, monopolies, and extortions upon th unbelievers. They ate all armed, and ex pected to do militaiy duly Few of them cultivate the grounu. It must also be ob served, that among the European Turks only a small proportion are ol Tuikish ori gin, or Osmanless, their number having been swelled up by the renegades from all the countries submitted to tiie.r sway. At ttie present time, when writers on eas tern affairs are either infected w ith a re l or pretended admiration of the Tuikish charactei, or given to the opposite excess, of despising, beyond *ll justice, tne peo ple, their habits and their institutions, we may refer our readers to an author who writes sensibly and impartially, and who was not carried away by any particular hostillity to the Ottoman T tie late ft. Ma te Brun, in his memoii ‘On the Great ness and Decay of tiie Turkish Empire,’ published since the beginning of die nr - sent Greek war has examined the proba bilities as to the fate of that state In an swer to the question, Have the Turks de generated from what their ancestors were at the epoch of the conquest ? lie affirm* that the Turks, as a body have now the same character and the same qualities good and had, itli which the authors - t the fift* enth centurv have them. Indolent, when at peace, sanguin ary if irritated, grasping and oppressive with their subji cts, but honest towards strangers ; they destroy villages and bniln hospitals; they respect their oaths, but de spise our principles of public right: they are alive to a sentiment of honor but insensi ble to pity ; they aie attached to the iP ,n * archy though they rev It against the n i s’ ,m i sultan ; they are gross nd sensual n their ideas of pleasure, though moderate* 11 the indulgence of their passions, and they bear without murmuring, a sudden traps'* tion from luxury to privations; they are generally good parents and husband;, |rl spile of polygamy, which is however, r ot univeisal among them, and is with most * matter only of vanity and pomp ; they are capable of exalted friendships, but f* !so prone to atrocious revenge ; their c* is sometimes displayed by an almost ch:v;d ric temeri'y, and at other times by a sta cal indifference; thev will rush regard” > of numbers into the enemy s ranks, or * low themselves to be slaughtered with tiie pipe in their mouth; they pass with iu roP ‘ ( l ivable calmness from a palace to ex: ’> from a throne to a scaffold ; they lav di^’j 1 their life with tho same cm • Iness.with w!m \ the*v have immolated their victims, f°‘ V consider themselves the humble slaves ■ fearful ministers of an irrevocable dcst-iv