WORSHIP OF THE BUDHISTS. Ir there is an interest universally felt and acknowledged in tracing the history, and investigating the customs, of large communities of men, the study of their religion or mythology-the most influential of all the causes which determine their national character and conditioncannot be without its pleasures and uses. To estimate the minute proportions of truth discoverable in the most erroneous and gross systems of religion, to trace them from the only source of truth, and to account for the adulterating admixture of error which, in false systems, renders it imperceptible and useless, these are employments becoming a rational and enlightened mind. Besides, as important truths may be conveyed in negatives, as we arrive at the science of life by the examination of the dead, and learn to preserve as well as to appreciate health by investigating disease, so we shall at once fortify our religion, and strengthen our attachment to it, by observing the intellectual and moral degradation consequent upon its absence. One of the preposterous ceremonies of an absurd, but ancient and widely-spread, superstition, is depicted in the uncouthlooking engraving at the head of this article. The religious system referred to is denominated Budhism, and the particular form it here assumes is that under which it is found in Ceylon. It represents the king and his subjects listening with profound attention to the discourses of Sekkraia and Matalee, two of their imaginary deities. This system appears to have originated in Tartary. From this country it passed into Hindostan, at a period anterior to all historical record, and flourished together with Brahminism, or rather originally formed a part of that singular system. This seems to be evident from the great similarity subsisting between their fundamental doctrines. From many of the doctrines and customs of this sect we should infer that it preceded the institution of those castes or orders into which the Hindoos are divided. Among the Budhists the priests lived a life of the strictest celibacy-a practice which could never have prevailed conjointly with the system of castes, as the sacred order would necessarily become extinct in one generation. Hindooism, like Judaism, admits of no It Budhism of other eastern nations. recognizes beings superior to man, to whom are ascribed dominion over the planets, the latter being considered to exercise an influence upon the destinies of man. These beings were considered as causing all the diseases which afflict mankind, in the exercise of which power these poor wretches oppose them with charms, songs, and incantations. The prevailing doctrines of the religion of Budha are those of the metempsychosis, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, consisting in repeated transmigrations of the soul from one body to another, until it be absorbed or annihilated. With the Budhists there is no supreme God, but a heaven crowded with innumerable divinities of various conditions and functions, which the imagination of the priesthood has depicted in the most gorgeous colours. They believe that the world had no beginning, and will have no end-that variety of worship is agreeable to superior beings, but that their own form is the best, and they are ready to admit all mankind to a participation of its advantages. The Budhist nations, consequently, have never persecuted Christianity; but its morality is too severe for them, and they insist, according to a favourite expression of their own, that, although it be a road to heaven, it is one which is too difficult for them to follow. With these general remarks on the character of the religion of Budha, it may not be uninteresting to extract, for the edification of the reader, some more particular statement of their mythological creed. We quote from Dr. Buchanan's selections, in the sixth volume of "The Asiatic Researches." The god Sekkraia resides in the great city Maha-Soudassana, which has a square form, its gilded wall, surrounding it, being a perfect square. The gates are of gold and silver, adorned with precious stones. Seven moats surround the city, and beyond the last range a row of marble pillars studded with jewels; beyond which are seven rows of palm-trees, bearing rubies, pearls, gold, &c., lakes, odoriferous flowers, and fragrant trees. To the north-east of the city is a very large hall, ex tending every way 500 juzana, its circum proselytes, as the bare acknowledgment of certain opinions does not constitute a Jew or a Hindoo, genealogy being an its roof hang golden bells; and its walls, pilference 900, and its height 450 juzana. From equally important condition in both cases. lars, and stairs, shine with gold and precious Budhism, on the other hand, admits pro- stones. The pavement is of crystal, and each selytes, and refuses to recognize the sys- row of pillars contains a hundred columns. tem of castes. Hence the deadly hostility The road to this hall is twenty juzana long which prevailed among the Hindoos and and eighteen broad, bordered with trees bearing fruit and flowers. Whenever Sekkraia Budhists, which ended in the total ex-repairs to this hall, the wind shakes off all the pulsion of the latter from the continent of flowers (fresh ones instantly blooming in their India. The persecuted Budhists took re- stead), with which the presiding god of the fuge in the Island of Ceylon about 260 winds adorns the road in honour of his apyears before the Christian era, and erect-proach; and the flowers are so abundant as ed there the altars of their religion. On arriving there Budhism had to mix with the demon-worship practised by the aboriginal inhabitants, from which it took a tincture which distinguishes it from the to reach up to the knees. In the centre stands the great imperial throne, surmounted by the gold, and pearls, and jewels. It is surrounded white chettra or umbrella; it shines with by the thirty-two shrines of the counsellors, and behind these the other Nat (i. e. the col lective populace of gods), each in his proper place. The four assistant gods also attend; while the inferior gods touch their musical instruments and sing melodiously. The four assistant deities then command their inferior gods to go through this southern island, or the world, and inquire diligently into the actions of mankind, if they observe holy days and laws (the Budha's precepts), and exercise charity. At this command, quicker than the winds, the messengers pass through this world; and, having carefully noted in a golden book all the good and evil actions of men, they immediately return to the hall, and deliver the record to the four presiding gods, who pass it to the lesser deities, and they onward till it reaches Sekkraia. He, opening the book, reads aloud; and, if his voice be raised, it sounds over the whole heaven. If the Nat hear that men practise good works, and obey the Budhist laws, they exclaim, "Oh, now the infernal regions will be empty, and our abode full of inhabitants!" If, on the contrary, there are few good men, Oh, wretches!" say they, smiling, "men and fools, who, feasting for a short life, for a body four cubits in length, and a belly not larger than a span, have heapen on themselves sin which will make them miserable in futurity !" Then the god Sekkraia, that he may induce men to live virtuously, charitably, and justly, speaks thus:-" Truly, if men fulfilled the law (the Budha's precepts), they would be such as I am." After this he will, with all his train, to the number of thirtysix millions of Nat, return to the city with ORIGIN OF NEWSPAPERS. view than to evince their valour, or to riot in the vengeance of victory. Ambition, as exTHE origin of periodical literature in this counhibited in Pompey and Cæsar, seems almost try is to be traced to the reign of Queen Elizato become a grand passion when compared to beth. England being threatened with a formithe contracted and ferocious aim of Homer's dable invasion from Spain, the wise and prudent chiefs; while this passion, even thus elevated, Burleigh projected "The English Mercurie," serves to exalt, by comparison, the far different and nobler sentiments and objects of Cato and printed in the year 1588, with the design of conveying correct information to the people, Brutus. The contempt of death, which, in the and to relieve them from the danger of false heroes of the Iliad, often seems like an incapacity, or an oblivion of thought, is, in Lucan's reports, during the continuance of the boasted Spanish Armada in the English Channel. favourite characters, the result, or, at least, the They were all extraordinary gazettes, published associate, of high philosophic spirit; and this from time to time, as that profound statesman strongly contrasts their courage with that of judged needful, and less frequently as the Homer's warriors, which is (according, indeed, danger abated. The appetite for news, thus to his own frequent similes) the reckless daring excited, was not suffered to rest long without a of wild beasts. Lucan sublimates martial into further supply. Nathaniel Butter established moral grandeur. Even if you could deduct the first weekly paper in August, 1622, entitled, from his great men all that which forms the "The Certain Newes of this Present Week," specific martial display of the hero, you would and within a few years other journals were find their greatness little diminished; they started; but they did not become numerous would still retain their commanding and in-until the time of the civil wars. During that teresting aspect. The better class of them, season of contention, each party had its Diuramidst war itself, hate and deplore the spirit nals, its Mercuries, and its Intelligencers, and destructive exploits of war. They are in-which arose into being as fast as the events dignant at the vices of mankind for compel- which occasioned them. The great news-writer ling their virtue into a career in which such of that period was Marchmont Needham, of sanguinary glories can be acquired. And, whose history and writings a large account is while they deem it their duty to exert their given by Anthony Wood. At the Restoration, courage in conflict for a just cause, they re- he was discharged by the council of state from gard camps and battles as vulgar things, from his post of public news-writer, Giles Dury and which their thoughts often turn away into a Henry Muddiman being appointed in his room. train of solemn and presaging reflections, in They were authorised to publish their papers which they approach sometimes the most clevated sublimity. You have a more absolute "The Parliamentary Intelligencer,” and “Meron Mondays and Thursdays, under the title of impression of grandeur from a speech of Cato curius Publicus." In August, 1663, the noted than from all the mighty exploits that epic Roger L'Estrange obtained the appointment of poetry ever blazoned. The eloquence of sole patentee for the publication of intelligence, Lucan's moral heroes does not consist in under the designation of "Surveyor of the MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE images of triumphs and conquests, but in re- Imprimery and Printing Presses;" and he was music. OF THE CLASSICS. No. IV. EPIC POETS.-LUCAN. flections on virtue, sufferings, destiny, and death; and the sentiments expressed in his own name have often a melancholy tinge which renders them irresistibly interesting. He might seem to have felt a presage, while musing on the last of the Romans, that their In naming Lucan, I am not unaware that poet was soon to follow them. The reader an avowal of high admiration may hazard all becomes devoted both to the poet and to these credit for correct discernment. I must, how-illustrious men; but, under the influence of ever, confess that, in spite of his rhetorical this attachment, he adopts all their sentiments, ostentation, and all the offences of a too in- and exults in the sympathy, forgetting, or unflated style, he does, in my apprehension, willing, to reflect whether this state of feeling greatly surpass all the other ancient poets in be concordant with the religion of Christ, and direct force of the ethical spirit; and that he with the 'spirit of the apostles and martyrs. would have a stronger influence to seduce my The most captivating of Lucan's sentiments, feelings, in respect to moral greatness, into a to a mind enamoured of pensive sublimity, are discordance from Christian principles. His those concerning death. I remember the very leading characters are widely different from principle which I would wish to inculcate, those of Homer, and of an eminently superior that is, the necessity that a believer of the order. The mighty genius of Homer appeared gospel should preserve the Christian tenour of and departed in a rude age of the human feeling predominant in his mind, and clear of mind, a stranger to the intellectual enlarge- incongruous mixture, having struck me with ment which would have enabled him to com- great force amidst the enthusiasm with which bine in his heroes the dignity of thought, in- I read many times over the memorable account stead of mere physical force, with the energy of Vulteius, the speech by which he inspired of passion. For want of this, they are great his gallant band with a passion for death, and heroes without being great men. They appear the reflections on death with which the poet to you only as tremendous fighting and de- closes the episode. I said to myself, at the stroying animals—a kind of human mam-suggestion of conscience, What are these senmoths. The prowess of personal conflict is all they can understand and admire, and in their warfare their minds never reach to any of the sublimer views and results even of war; their chief and final object seems to be the mere savage glory of fighting, and the annihilation of their enemies. When the heroes of Lucan, both the depraved and the nobler class, are employed in war, it seems but a small part of what they can do, and what they intend; they have always something further and greater in at the same time constituted one of the licreated office, he published two papers, entitled censers of the press. By virtue of his newly"The Intelligencer," and "The Newes," which appeared Mondays and Thursdays, until the beginning of January, 1665-6, when they were superseded by "The London Gazette," which became the property of Thomas Newcomb. From this time to the Revolution, a variety of newspapers made their appearance, both for and against the court. The most ingenious of its opponents was "The Weekly Packet of Advice from Rome; or, the Popish Courant;" written by Henry Care, and continued for four years and a half, from December, 1678, to the 13th of July, 1683. A rival paper, written with much wit and humour, against Care, and other Whig writers, was "Heraclitus Ridens; or, a Discourse between Jest and Earnest; where many a true word is pleasantly spoken, in opposition to libellers against the government." The first number appeared, February,1681, and the last, August 22, 1682. Towards the end of Queen Anne's reign, when churchmen were desirous of rendering the Dissenters ridiculous, in order to crush them, this work was reprinted in two volumes, with a preface full of misrepresentation and slander. The work itself contains some humourous songs and timents with which I am glowing? Are these poems adapted to the loyalty of the times. the just ideas of death? Are they such as Another contemporary paper, rendered notowere taught by the Divine Author of our rerious by its subserviency to the court, and the ligion? Is this the spirit with which St. Paul scurrility of its pages, was "The Observator in approached his last hour? And I felt a pain-Dialogue. By Roger L'Estrange, Esq." It ful collision between this reflection and the commenced, April, 13, 1681, and was continued passion inspired by the poet. I perceived until the 9th of March, 1687. Proper titles, clearly that the kind of interest which I felt prefaces, and indexes were then added to the was no less than a real adoption, for the time, work, which forms three volumes in folio. It of the very same sentiments with which he is a curious record of the manners and illiberal was animated. spirit of the times. The events that followed the Revolution gave a new stimulus to inquiry, and multiplied the productions of the press, which also increased in value, and began to assume a more permanent form. Following the spirit of the age, Dunton projected "The Anthenian Gazette: or, Casuistical Mercury. Resolving all the most nice and curious Questions proposed by the Ingenious." The first number was published, March 17, 1691, and the last the 8th of February, 1696, which closed the nineteenth volume. Before this time, the public journals were either restricted to temporary politics, or to the angry discussion of controverted subjects of an ecclesiastical nature, and of little benefit to the reader. Dunton has the merit of first giving them a literary turn; but his paper excluded politics, and the quaintness of the style rendered it uninviting to his readers. It was in the following reign that our periodical literature first acquired that polished style, and intellectual vigour, which had so decided an influence in improving the taste and manners of the age. Upon this account, the reign of Queen Anne has been sometimes called the Augustan age; and it certainly abounded in men of genius and refined taste, in every department of learning. The writings of Swift, Steele, and Addison, who adorned that period, were long considered as the standards of good style; and, although not the inventors of essay-writing, contributed to throw a charm over it, such as it had never before attained. Amongst their precursors in this line, there can be no question that De Foe is entitled to the foremost rank; and that in the graces of language he as far outstripped his contemporaries as he was himself excelled by his successors. Numerous as were the periodical writers in the early part of this reign, there are three only that challenge particular distinction: "The Observator," of which the first number was published April 1, 1702; "The Review," which commenced February 19, 1704; and "The Rehearsal," which appeared the 2nd of August in the same year. The first and last of them were written by way of dialogue, and distinguished by their personalities. Tutchin, who wrote "The Observator," was the organ of the Whigs, as Leslie was of the high-flyers; and the writings of both are plentifully seasoned with the hostile language of party. De Foe's politics were those of the old Whig school, but he never ran the full race of party writers. In the late reign, he was rather a Williamite than either Whig or Tory; and, in the present, his political connections were chiefly amongst the new Whigs. Soon after he started the "Review," this party came into power, and received his zealous support so long as its leaders continued true to the grand principles of civil and religious liberty; but, when they sacrificed them to their ambition, he followed his own judgment in descanting upon affairs. It was his opinion that government should be supported so far as is consistent with reason and sound policy, but no further; and it was upon this principle that he conducted his "Review." This paper differed from its two rivals, in partaking more of the nature of an essay, which was better adapted for discussion. That it did not outlive its day, may be ascribed to the great proportion of temporary matter with which it abounded. There are to be found in its pages, however, many instructive pieces of a moral and political nature, besides others devoted to amusement; and also some useful historical documents. A complete copy of the work is not known to be in existence. It deserves to be remarked, that De Foe was the sole writer of the nine quarto volumes that compose the work; a prodigious undertaking for one man, especially when we consider his other numerous engagements of a literary nature. A modern writer, speaking of this work, bestows upon it the following eulogium:-"Contemporary with Leslie's Rehearsals, came forward, under a periodical dress, and of a kind far superior to any thing which had hitherto appeared, the Review of Daniel De Foe, a man of undoubted genius, and who, deviating from the accustomed route, had chalked out a new path for himself. The chief topics were, as usual, news, foreign and domestic, and politics; to these, however, were added the various concerns of trade; and, to render the undertaking more palatable and popular, he with much judgment, instituted what he termed, perhaps with no great propriety, a Scandal Club, and whose amusement it was to agitate questions in divinity, morals, war, language, poetry, love, marriage, &c. The introduction of this club, and the subjects of its discussion, it is obvious, approximated the Review much nearer than any preceding work to our first classical model." I allude to the wretched and degraded condition of hundreds of white persons, wandering about as vagrants, and uniformly treated as such, throughout the whole length and breadth of the island. These unfortunates are denounced, by the West India party, as unprincipled villains, destitute of all character, and a disgrace and pest to society. But to what cause is their present unpitied condition to be attributed? Simply and undoubtedly to the continued abuse of lawless power, vested in the planters, over their white dependants, no less than their slaves; for, allowing that numbers of these walking buckras, as they are styled, have had their own bad conduct to blame for their present destitution (as may in many instances hold true), still it is a decided and undeniable truth that the far greater number have lost RESPECTABLE situations, and consequently all farther chance of promotion, through the mere caprice or malice of an attorney or overseer. In my opinion, their case is truly a bitter one, and second only to that of the slaves themselves. They are both the degraded victims of that horrid system that blasts their morals and sickens their hearts. Let those who have relatives in Jamaica of whom, for years together, no tidings have been heard, and who have, therefore, been numbered with the dead-let those startle when I tell them that such relatives may still be alive there; but only as wanderers and outcasts, without a friend to relieve or a home to shelter, misery and want staring them ever in the face, and their recollections embittered by the worst of treatment and disappointed hopes. Unable or unwilling to bear up against unexpected misfortunes, they throw up the reins to the grossest dissipation, as long as their means will allow them, until at length they are compelled to solicit charity from those whites who once befriended them, or even from the despised negroes themselves, no parish relief being in store for them. They must, consequently, either resort to casual assistance, or die by the wayside, unknown and uncared for. Frequently have I seen such victims of slavery, bare-footed and in rags, soliciting charity at the door of the overseer's houseentreating, in the humblest manner, for a morsel to eat from the domestic slaves. It depended greatly on the humour the lord of the sugar-canes was in at the time whether the supplication of the walking buckra would be attended to or not. Sometimes he would be sent a few scraps of meat in a plate, to eat at the foot of the steps; at other times he would be angrily ordered off from the estate, with a threat of the stocks, and something worse, if he ever presented himself there again! It not unusually happened that the poor outcast thus maltreated was at once of better family in the mother country, and had received a better education, than the unfeeling overseer he was now forced to fly from; but, from having had higher feelings, better morals, and a spirit ill brooking the despotism of a sugar-estate policy, he had drawn down upon his head the hatred of his overseer, been dismissed from the estate, had his golden hopes dashed to the ground, and himself, ashamed and disgraced, rendered a drunkard and a villain! Many a young man lands in Jamaica with the highest hopes of advancing himself in a land he at first sight considers overflowing with gold and silver, till, on some ill-omened morning, he arrives too late at the field, receives a scowling look from the overseer at the moment, and, on his return, finds a letter containing his discharge. Thus is he branded with disgrace and infamy throughout all his after life. Scouted and shunned by those whom he once called countrymen, but who now own no such tie, he can never again hold up his head even in Jamaica society, but must be content to associate with, and be constrained to accept charity from, the negroes, who, in most instances, are readier to extend to him a brother's hand than the whites themselves. Since such is the true state of matters, it seems a dangerous sort of policy for the planters; as these ruined whites would not scruple, for a morsel of food, to give the negroes every information they possessed regarding the working of the means for their emancipation, and thus increase their desire for freedom, and dissatisfaction with their present undoubtedly wretched lot. 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The following are some of the notices of this animal, given us by Bruce, as he observed it in Abyssinia : I do not think there is any one that hath written of this animal who has seen the thousandth part of them that I have. They were a plauge in Abyssinia in every situation, in the city and in the field, and, I think, surpassed the sheep in number. Gondar was full of them from the time it turned dark till the dawn of day, seeking the different pieces of slaughtered carcasses which this cruel and unclean people expose in the streets without burial. Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace, and it was not my duty to lie there, in going across the square from the king's house, not many hundred yards distant, I have been apprehensive they would bite me in the leg. 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THERE is in Abyssinia a curious species of oxen called the Galla oxen, or Sanga, celebrated for the remarkable size of its horns. They are brought by the Catilas from Antalo, being sent there as valuable presents from the chiefs of the Galla tribes, a bordering people far to the southward. When Mr. Bruce first gave a description of this extraordinary animal, and the very incredible length and extension of its horns, popular scepticism placed it to the account of those marvellous recitals of his which suggested the travels of Baron | horns of one of them are now deposited It might have been expected that the animal, carrying horns of so extraordinary a magnitude as four feet, would have proved larger than others of the bovine genus; but, in every instance which came under Mr. Salt's observation, it was otherwise. The ox is undersized, and |