and contempt, charged with fuch nefarious defigns, as are imputed by us, only to the despised vagabonds of the CAST of Harri.

THE pagodas or temples, in which we place the image of the great Brumma, of Vavafwata, of Mahadeva, and of the other Gods, into which we never enter without ablution, and from which we never depart without proftrate devotion, are here thrown open upon common and profane occafions. In them they affemble to debate concerning their public affairs; to elect their Rajahs and Sultans; and fometimes, to exhibit a ftrange kind of performance, called a comedy or tragedy, in which the fcenes of real life are profeffedly exhibited, perfons and manners are ridiculed, blood is fhed, and war waged in jeft.

THOU knoweft that a Hindu never fpeaks of his Sultan, but with the most reverential respect; his character he always defends; his mandates he ever obeys; and his death he fincerely de-

plores. The Sultan is confidered, by the Hindu, as the head, the prince and the father of his people; and to enable him to promote his people's welfare, their lives, their talents and their fortunes are placed entirely at his difpofal. His glory is their glory, and his profperity their happiness.

BUT in this country the Sultan is the Servant of the people. By them, his merits are freely difcuffed, his failings magnified, and his virtues diminished; he is the jeft of every vulgar tongue; his meafures are examined, cenfured and opposed; and, as he is indebted to the people for his elevation, fo he depends upon them for the existence of his dignity; and therefore, defcends from his precarious throne, whenever his fovereigns, the people, see fit to direct.

I AM told that the state of things which I have defcribed, is imputed in part, to the influence of the new philofophy. It is the spirit of this philofophy to reduce all things to one common level; to pull down the Gods from their thrones, and

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to trample the kings of the earth in the duft. It interferes in every concern of public, and of private life; and aims at a total change in every department of fociety.

A SYSTEM of philofophy fo fingular, and which has already produced very extenfive and fatal effects, cannot be uninterefting to a philofopher.

I SHALL therefore, my dear El Haffan, endeavour to trace the operations of this new philofophy, upon the affairs of this western world; and shall not fail to communicate my difcoveries, connected with fuch other interefting remarks, as have probably never reached the walls of DELHI, nor employed before, the contemplations of a Hindu Philofopher.

THOU, who inhabiteft a country, whose laws, customs and ideas, are immutably fixed, wilt learn with astonishment, that no custom is here fo facred, and no doctrine fo venerable, as to be fecure against the innovations of the new philofophy.

For a number of years it has filled the finest countries of Europe with defolation and carnage; and those regions; which it has not ravaged, have been rent asunder by factions; every man has taken his fide, and, not unfrequently, members of the fame family, and partners of the fame house, are seen in oppofite ranks.

THE latter part of this description is ap plicable to America. Even here, the moft diftant regions of the empire, although equally remote from each other, as the mountains of Kuttner from the mouths of the Ganges, are hailing, with the most extravagant exultation, the first dawnings of the NEW illumination,

THE new philofophy is the ruling topic of difcuffion; it is perpetually contef ted and advocated, by the learned and the great; while the lowest claffes of fociety, of the fame degree as thofe in Hin duftan of the cafts of Sudder and Harri, implicitly believe the dogmas, which they are taught.

NOT the mufic of NARED, fhould he

tune to sweetest harmony his heavenly lyre, nor the melodious numbers of the fifters GOPIA, finging, by moon-light, in the fragrant groves of the facred mountain Goverdhan, would be able to allure a modern Philofopher from these bewildering fpeculations. May the almighty Brumma illuminate the mind of my dear El Haffan, and preferve him till he shall again receive the embraces of his faithful