By infidelity and love of world,

To make God's work a sinecure-a slave
To his own pleasures, and his patron's pride.
From such apostles, oh! ye mitred heads,
Preserve the church! and lay not careless hands
On sculls that cannot TEACH, and will not LEARN!

The poet then proceeds to delineate what the universities formerly were, and what they are in the present day. He thus energetically pourtrays the traits of discipline by which scholars were produced, and men who were real ornaments to their country. How simple is the delineation-how replete with improvement:

In colleges and halls, in ancient days,
When learning, virtue, piety, and truth,
Were precious, and inculcated with care,
There dwelt a sage, called Discipline. His head,
Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,
Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,
But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.
His eye was meek and gentle, and a smile
Play'd on his lips, and in his speech was heard
Paternal sweetness, dignity and love.
The occupation dearest to his heart,

Was to encourage goodness. He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous worth,

That blush'd at his own praise, and press the youth
Close to his side that pleas'd him. Learning grew.
Beneath his care, a thriving vigorous plant,
The mind was well inform'd, the passions held
Subordinate, and diligence was his choice!

However, according to the poet's account, poor Discipline has a long time ago fallen sick and died. The consequences may be easily predicted. Indeed, some of our best writers have traced the evils by which we are deluged, to the want of a RIGHT EDUCATION, which is, on all hands, acknowledged to form the broadest basis upon which we are to raise the edifice, both of our private and public felicity.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE

TERRITORY OF MOROCCO,

ITS PEOPLE, THEIR MANNERS, RELIGION, &C. [From Danberger's Travels into the Interior of Africa; See our Literary Review, last Number, Page 84.]

THE

HE country of Morocco is one of the most charming and fertile on the face of the earth, though not so well cultivated as it would be by a different race of inhabitants.-The tyranny of the emperor over his wretched subjects, depresses their spirits and plunges them in sloth. If any of them be industrious in benefitting by the fertility of the soil, they are obliged to pay enormous tributes; and, if the haavest turn out ever so good, the husbandman can scarcely retain so much of the produce as is sufficient for the support of his existence; as either the emperor himself, or the rapacious and thievish governors, his substitutes, take all to themselves, using violence when they cannot attain their ends by artifice and fraud.

The emperor now reigning, is said to be far less cruel than his predecessor; and yet seldom a day passes that he does not cause several wretches to be executed, or put them to death with his own hand. The people bear the severities of this barbarian monster with the greatest patience, esteeming themselves happy to hear that they are to be killed by his own hand; looking upon him as the descendent of their great prophet, and therefore regarding what he does as the dispensation of heaven. No people are to be found in all Africa, even in its most savage and unfrequented regions, more simple and stupid than the inhabitants of this country.-Every male above fifteen years of age being a soldier, the emperor can always, in a week's time, bring together an army of two hunM

dred thousand men: though he cannot effect much with all this force; because, excepting the Moors, they are, for the most part, an undisciplined rabble. The imperial life-guards consist of six hundred Moors of cavalry, enjoying an unbounded licence, and consequently practicing every species of rapine and extortion.-The governors in the capitals, and the sub-governors in the other towns, exercise the sovereign authority within their districts, ruling with the most absolute authority; the emperor, let them be ever so intemperate and cruel towards his subjects, giving himself but little concern about them.-If a subject conceal any part of his effects, or of the fruits of his ground, and enquiry be made after it in the name of the emperor, or of a governor, if he deny that he knows any thing of it, on its being detected, he forfeits both his life and the whole of his property; nay, he must even esteem it a signal act of favour, if his sentence be mitigated to that of being bound up in iron for life, and his family banished the country. The priests, who are extremely numerous, are the proper instruments in the performance of these acts of iniquity, of horror and murder; usually running about with the Koran, as if they were diligently reading it, encouraging the people to prayer, and to observe the precepts of the Koran, going thrice a day to the mosques, bawling there to God, as if they wanted to wake him from a profound sleep; imploring the prophet that he will grant a long reign to the emperor, his son, and the like; while their aim is, certainly, not the advancement of wisdom and virtue, but the prome tion of their own importance and respect, and of an unlimited dominion over the minds of inen. Only then they pray with fervent zeal when they invoke God and the prophet to exterminate infidels, and destroy heretics. They are employed daily,

indeed for some hours, in giving lessons to youth; but what they teach only tends to suppress in their tender minds the voice of reason, and to inspire them, in its stead, with a servile fear of the prophet, and an implicit reverence for them as his servants.

Polygamy is in general practice here; the Moors, in particular, taking not unfrequently four, five, or six wives, and often getting rid of them with equal facility. No inquisition is taken when the wife of a Moor happens suddenly to die; nay, if any one offer to bring testimony that she is murdered, he is immediately sent away with reproof for his forwardness. If a Moor attach himself to the daughter of a mechanic, she must be given up to him, if the whole family would avoid the hazard of having their houses plundered, or some indivi dual of it secretly made away with.

The women are kept in a very sequestered state, living in rooms apart from the rest.-Among the primary class of inhabitants, comprehendiug merchants, priests, officers, and the like, liberal and honest men are occasionally found; the greater part, however, are people of base and sordid minds; but the priests and officers are of a pecuHar wicked stamp. The merchant is obliged to give the tenth of the articles of his trade, in kind, as a tribute to the emperor or his viceroys; but, besides this, he must likewise, every week, pay capitation-tax, war-tax, security-money*, &c.Over and above these ordinary taxes, voluntary contributions, or free gifts, are demanded in behalf of the emperor; at the same time, every one must furnish a stated sum for the maintenance of

* This money is paid to the governor, for which he keeps a guard of soldiers, who at night are watchmen at the warehouses of the merchants.

the priests. The Jews ate not allowed to traffic, or to possess any property, but are obliged to perform the meanest offices, and submit to the harshest treatment, like the common slaves.

THE

MODERN METHOD OF PUFFING 93 [Extracted from a daily Newspaper.]

HE SOCIABLE.-One of these pleasant vehi cles was crouded lately, in its way to town, with a jolly fat company, to the utter exclusion of elbow-room. The favourite topic of conversation was the near commencement of the grand half-million lottery. A Kentish farmer candidly acknowledged, that, from gaining early in life an eighth share of only a ten thousand pound prize, he had realized a fortune of above 30,oool. and which had enabled him to purchase the whole of an estate, of which he had originally rented but a few acres. Another of the company, a London merchant, as freely confessed that he had handsomely portioned off his two daughters, by having presented them with a ticket in a late lottery, that proved a prize of consequence. His right-hand neighbour, a buxom fat widow, exclaimed also in praise of a lottery ticket, which had enabled her late husband to comfort her in her weeds, with a handsome provision. “Then, Madam," cried a gentleman directly facing her, "let me join my fate to your's, for I am a widower, and have very receptly been a favourite of fortune's wheel." The voice now of a charming girl, at the upper end of the Sociable, avowed that her business then to town was to accept goool. consols. which was bought for her from the produce of a share in a recent lottery. "Bless me," cried a Bristol merchant from the lower end of the vehicle," and my business to