To prove that they who damned us then Of Grattan's fire aud Canning's wit, To take my place, 'tis thou, Sir John- That wishes Papists at the devil! To whom then but to thee, my friend, Of Bulls, half Irish and half Roman,- Yet always ending in damnation (Which shows that, since the world's creation, To prove (what we've long proved perhaps) Farewell-I send with this, dear Nichol ! Wherewith to trim old Grattan's jacket.- P. D. Among the inclosures in the foregoing Letter was the following "Unanswerable Argument against the Papists." We're told the ancient Roman nation Made use of spittle in lustration.* i.e. you need not read but see 'em) lustralibus antè salivis Expiat.-Pers. Sat. 2. I have taken the trouble of examining the Doctor's reference here, and find him, for once, correct. The following are the words of his indignant referee Gallus:- "Asserere non veremur sacrum baptismum a Papistis profanari, et sputi usum in peccatorum expiatione a Paganis non a Christianis manasse." Now, Irish Papists (fact surprising !) Which proves them all, O'Finns, O'Fagans, ! LETTER V. FROM THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF CORK TO LADY My dear Lady ! I've been just sending out About five hundred cards for a snug little rout (By the bye, you've seen Rokeby?-this moment got mineThe Mail-Coach edition *-prodigiously fine!) But I can't conceive how, in this very cold weather, I'm ever to bring my five hundred together; As, unless the thermometer's near boiling heat, But, my dear Lady !can't you hit on some notion, I remember the time, three or four winters back, * See Mr. Murray's advertisement about the Mail-Coach copies of Rokeby. But whether the Ministers pawed them too much- Has been at such places (think, how the fit cools) As old Mrs. Vaughan's or Lord Liverpool's! But, in short, my dear, names like Wintztschitstopschinzoudhoff So, get me a Russian-till death I'm your debtor If he brings the whole alphabet, so much the better. POSTSCRIPT. By the bye, have you found any friend that can construe LETTER VI. FROM ABDALLAH,† IN LONDON, TO MOHASSAN, IN ISPAHAN. I saunter on-the admiration Of this short-coated population— This sewed-up race-this buttoned nation- But live, with all their lordly speeches, *Alluding, I suppose, to the Latin advertisement of a Lusus Naturæ in the newspapers lately. I have made many inquiries about this Persian gentleman, but cannot satisfactorily ascertain who he is. From his notions of religious liberty, however, I conclude that he is an importation of Ministers; and he is arrived just in time to assist the P-e and Mr. L-ck-e in their new Oriental plan of reform.-See the second of these Letters. How Abdallah's epistle to Ispahan found its way into the Twopenny Post-Bag is more than I can pretend to account for. Yet, though they thus their knee-pans fetter I own I like their notions quite, Or longs to flog +-'tis true, they pray To wear the established pea-green slippers! T They wash their toes-they comb their chins- And (what's the worst, though last I rank it) Yet, spite of tenets so flagitious, Green slippers, but from treasonous views; To overturn the Government!) And, far from torturing, only let * "C'est un honnête homme." said a Turkish governor, of De Ruyter, "c'est grand dommage qu'il soit Chrétien.' + Sunnites and Shiites are the two leading sects into which the Mahometan world is divided; and they have gone on cursing and persecuting each other, The Sunni is the without any intermission, for about eleven hundred years. established sect in Turkey, and the Shia in Persia; and the differences between them turn chiefly upon those important points which our pious friend Abdallah in the true spirit of Shiite ascendancy, reprobates in this letter. "Les Sunnites, qui étoient comme les Catholiques de Musulmanisme."—— D'Herbelot. "In contradistinction to the Sounis, who in their prayers cross their hands on the lower part of the breast, the Schiahs drop their arms in straight lines; and as the Sounis, at certain periods of the prayer, press their foreheads on the ground or carpet, the Schiahs," &c., &c.-Forster's Voyage. "Les Turcs ne détestent pas Ali réciproquement; au contraire, ils le reconnoissent," &c., &c.-Chardin. The Shiites wear green slippers, which the Sunnites consider as a great abomination."-Mariti. All orthodox believers beat 'em, And twitch their beards, where'er they meet 'em. As to the rest, they're free to do The same mild views of Toleration The tender Gazel I enclose GAZEL. Rememberest thou the hour we passed, To camels' ears the tinkling bell, As is the soothing memory Of that one precious hour to me! How can we live, so far apart? Like those sweet birds that fly together, LETTER VII. FROM MESSRS. L-CK-GT-N AND CO. TO -, ESQ.t PER post, sir, we send your MS.-looked it through— This will appear strange to an English reader, but it is literally translated from Abdallah's Persian, and the curious bird to which he alludes is the Juftak, of which I find the following account in Richardson :-"A sort of bird, that is said to have but one wing; on the opposite side to which the male has a hook and the female a ring, so that, when they fly, they are fastened together." From motives of delicacy, and indeed, of fellow-feeling. I suppress the name of the author, whose reiected manuscript was inclosed in this letter |