God render it lafting on its foundation, and perpetu ate, in the memory of men, the epocha of its com "pletion." "abh vdi vd doing, brad One would believe that the French nation had borrowed the idea of the language they with to adopt, with refpect to their prince, from this infcription. But, upfortunately, we do not find, in modern times, the Piety of the ancient people, drob on a dohly, acer dohly bas, etidy Inftead of paintings, which are prohibited by the Koran, the principal apartments of the Moorish princes were adorned with infcriptions allufive to the circum tances and fituation of the place. The following infcrip tion formed one of the ornaments of an open court, furrounded with galleries, that led to different apartments of the palace.

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Let God be extolled; he has given to nation, a "governor who has brought it to the highest de gree of glory and renown. Oh from how many, "and from what herefies has he delivered the people! "He has affectionately conducted them to their inheritances; but they who have fhut their eyes against his light have been reduced to lavery, and made useful "to the welfare of his kingdom. With his fword and invincible courage has he reduced nations to obedience, and conquered provinces. Thou, Naxar, haft "atchieved heroic deeds, before unheard of. Thou "didst enter and conquer twenty renowned cities; thou didft return crowned with victory and immenfe rich es, with which thou haft rewarded thy brethern and people. If they know how to direct their prayers, when the foul becomes elevated, they will afk of "the great, the fublime, and the only God, length of days for thee, and for thy ftate's duration and profperity O Nazar, although born in the midst of greatonefs, thou fhineft by thine own luftre, like the ftars of cheaven Thou art our fortrefs, our fupport, ardour arm of vengeance: Thou guideft us like a flambeau, •Water disipates darkness from before us. The far

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fear thee in their courfe; the great ftar of heaven Tight's thee with refpect and the highest tree which can bend, gains by thy fide."

We fhall conclude thefe extracts for the prefent, with the following fhort, elegant, and pious infcription, which was placed over the door of the fame court, which ap pears to have been paved with marble of the pureft white, and which was, no doubt, when in its priftine luftre, of beautiful workmanfkip. It runs thus: 290If thou admireft my beauty without thinking of God, who is the author of all things, I warn thee that is a folly; because thou mighteft make thy admiration turn to thy profit, and God may bring thee to death. O ye who look upon this marble per"fect workmanship and beauty, watch over its defence'; and that it may be lafting, protect it with your whole power *.”

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Should thefe extracts prove agreeable to our readers, fhall, in fome future numbers of this work, communicate farther particulars concerning this people, whofe character and history is in general very little understood in Europe.

Dr Anderson.

Nocuit fua culpa duobus. Ovid. Met. lib. xv. v. cxy.
His fault to both was fatal.

SIR,

To the Editor of the Bee.

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I FORMERLY told you that I was not an original genius; and of confequence my thoughts muft chiefly arife from occurrences that happen under my own obfervation, Komorne putage isj alluding to cercam tenes not understood by us. Protect it with your five fingers and your hand,”.

which you may infert of fupprefs according as you think them acceptable to the public or notfield quivisish jon

The following fpeculation was fuggested by an evENĮ which,, though diftant in time, affects me ftill with a fenfation, rather to be felt than defcribed.tus bluet

As I was walking with a young lady from the New Town to Leith, I faw a monfter who conducted a cart heavily laden, of which, the horfe, preffed with his burden, had fallen. The unfeeling wretch, with impla cable fury, lashed the proftrate creature, or alternately ftruck him with the handle of his whip, till our foals were agonized with the profpect. Oh heaven?? cried the lady, whofe frame fhuddered in every nerve with horror and compaffion, "why do you torment the poor creature in fuch a manner?" The fellow, who, to infenfibility of heart, added depravity of mind, gave her fuch an anfwer as would be too brutal to repeat. He continued his diabolical operation on the poor animal, who at laft, after much ftruggle, and many a vain effort, raised his heavy burden, and recovered his feet.

To me, unlefs I had feen it, it would hardly have been conceivable that one living being fhould be thus capable of tormenting another. I could not have imagined that education and habit could have fuch dreadful effects upon a rational being. Predatory animals, indeed, with unfatiable voracity, devour the victims which they pursue; but they are ftimulated by the rage of hunger, and probably unconscious of the pain they give; even boys do not torment flies, reptiles, infects, and birds, from a wanton propenfity of giving anguish; they are only amufed by the ftrange contortions and uncommon attitudes into which the creature is thrown by what it fuffers; yet this cruel cuftom loudly demands fevere animadverfions from parents and tutors; but for a man, endued with a rational foul, thus to harden his heart against the fharp compunctions of nature, is in my view a degree of wickednefs that is fcarce conceivable.

I am not even convinced that those philofophers are not deferving blame, who, for the fake of experiment, put poor animals to exceffive and agonizing pain; important indeed fhould the objects aimed at be,, which Thould authorife fuch cruelties; and are the objects of refearch, for which fuch experiments are made, always of great importance? Or, can the facts wanted be af certained in no other way? It is furely on these condit tions alone they fhould be tolerated. We are told by an ancient oriental fage, "that the merciful man will be merciful to his beaft; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruelty." I am no Pythagorean; yet my foul abhors the gratuitous and wanton cruelty daily practifed upon animals.

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If neceffity should extort from us the otherwise unnatural measure of hurting or even of killing them, let it be done with a gentle hand, and a compaflionate heart.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,

Had he thy reafon would he fkip and play? Pleaf'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft raif'd to fhed his blood. - Pope's Essay on Man, Epift. I, 1. 77-80.

b Humanity is one of the moft pleafing and important feelings of our nature. It enters into all our conduct; it is the mother and guardian of the virtues, which without it would degenerate into felfish habits or mercenary collufions.

Next therefore to piety towards heaven, let us cultivate these precious fentiments; let us beware of becoming fpectators in fcenes of cruelty, left, by repeated and horrid fpectacles of this kind, we lofe the fympathetic fenfe which vibrates at the pain of another. When the natural horror of recent blood, even fhed by animals, is leffened or extinguished in us, we foon transfer the fame callous difpofition to fufferers in our own fpecies; and when any advantage of their perfons, fortunes, or reputations, may be taken with impunity,

Feb.g. which either gratifies our avarice, bur talte for illegitimate pleasure, our ambition, or our revenge, we imburt prove with avidity the infernal occafion, till at laft' we fall the victims of our own infatuation, and fuffer the miferies which we have inflicted. Domitian and Calfgula did not arrive at the height of their atrocity all at Once. "Is thy fervant a dog, faid Hazael, to the prophet that he fhould do these things wo

But I fear I have dwelt too long on this fubject, though in itself interefting, and fhall therefore conclude with fubfcribing myfelf Your, moft humble fervant,TOYS ADAM EARD-APPLE I

On Imprisonment.

Of all the evils to which mankind are fubjected in their peregrinations in this world, perhaps those which refult from imprisonment are the most deplorable. Bodily pain, when it becomes exceffive, muft foon be ters minated by death. Sickness, while it weakens the human frame, deadens the fenfes, and mitigates that diftress to the sufferer, which afflicts those who behold it. In the fame manner, almost every other evil brings with it a natural remedy, which tends, to alleviate diftrefs. The very fympathy that nature irrefiftibly ex torts from every person who beholds another in distress, affords a healing balm that tends to adminifter comfort to the afflicted. But from the folitary prifoner, every kind of thing that could adminifter comfort is withdrawn, Confined in a dungeon, out of the fight of every per fon, he becomes dead to fociety, while ftill alive to the anguish of life. He is forgot by the perfon who con fined him; and, in confequence of that forgetfulness, is fuffered to spend whole years, perhaps, in agonizing diftrefs, which the perfon who fhut him up could not have tolerated, could he but fee it for one hour. It is with juftice then that all nations have exalted their