portico are each as largé as Pompey's Pillar ten and a half feet in diameter. and no two are exactly alike — a favorite mode of building with the Egyptians. In this temple are seen representations of the views which the Egyptians entertained of a future state; as the passage of the souls across the dark river some of whom are seen ascending the steps leading to the higher regions and several superior beings are holding in their hands tablets, and noting down the good and bad actions of those who seek to pass, that they may be brought forward at the final judgment. In the neighborhood are a number of sepulchres, on the walls of which are representations of human sacrifices rites which some suppose have never been performed by any nation.

THE EXPLANATION OF FIVE GRAND VIRTUES.

TRUTH.-Truth is a divine attribute, and the foundation of every virtue. To be good and true, is the first lesson we are taught in Scripture. On this theme we contemplate, and by its dictates endeavor to regulate our conduct: hence, while influenced by this principle, hypocrisy and deceit are unknown among us; sincerity and plain dealing distinguish us; and the heart and tongue join in promoting each other's welfare, and rejoicing in each other's prosperity.

JUSTICE. Justice is that standard, or boundary of right, which enables us to render to every man his just due, without distinction. This virtue is not only considered with divine and human laws, but is the very cement and support of civil society; and as justice in a great measure constitutes the real good of man, so should it be the invariable practice of every friend, never to deviate from the minutest principles thereof. * * * * *

TEMPERANCE.-Temperance is that due restraint upon our affections and passions, which renders the body tame and governable, and frees the mind from the allurements of vice. This virtue should be the constant practice of every man; as he is thereby taught to avoid excess, or contracting any licentious or vicious habit, the indulgence of which might lead him to ruin.

PRUDENCE.-Prudence teaches us to regulate our lives and actions agreeably to the dictates of reason, and is that habit by which we wisely judge, and prudentially determine on all things relative to our present as well as to our future happiness. This virtue should be the peculiar characteristic of every man.

FORTITUDE.-Fortitude is that noble and steady purpose of the mind, whereby we are enabled to undergo any pain, peril or danger, when prudentially deemed expedient. This virtue is equally distant from rashness and cowardice; and, like the former, should be deeply impressed upon the mind of every man, as a safe guard or security against any illegal attack that may be made, by force or otherwise, to extort from him any of those valuable secrets with which he has been so solemnly intrusted.

THE GRECIAN PHILOSOPHERS.

Plato, an Ethiopian, was an eminent Grecian philosopher, called the Divine.

Socrates, a Grecian philosopher the best of the wise

men.

Thales, of Miletus, travelled into Egypt acquired the knowledge of geometry and philosophy, and returned to Greece.

THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS.

BOETHIUS, a Roman platonic philosopher.

Epictetus a stoic philosopher, who was once a slave to Epaphroditus, an officer of the Emperor Nero's Guards.

Seneca, Nero's tutor, the celebrated Roman stoic philosopher. He was put to death by Nero.

CHAPTER IX.

MODERN EMINENT COLORED MEN.

MODERN EMINENT COLORED MEN.

THE distinguished colored president of the South American states, General Guerrero, late president of Mexico, was a colored man; so is General Alvarez, one of the most distinguished of the Mexican generals, and some of the most prominent men of the Mexican Congress are mulattos. General Paez, the distinguished president of Venezuela, is also a colored man. General Piar, who bore a conspicuous part in the commencement of the Columbian revolution, was a mulatto. General Sucre, the commander-in-chief at the battle of Ayacucho, in 1824, the most remarkable ever fought in South America, was a black man. In 1826 he was elected president of Bolivia.

Colored lawyers and physicians are found in all parts of Europe, and some of the highest offices in the state are filled by black men.

Alex. Dumas, a black man, was one of the most literary characters of the West India Islands, and a general of artillery. General Dumas for a long time commanded a legion in the French army, and was one of Bonaparte's favorite generals of division, and named by him the "Horatius Cocles of the Tyrols." His son, a mulatto, is deemed second only in literature to Victor Hugo, and it is said he has received the distinguished honor of being elected a member of the French Institute.

Geoffroy L'Islet, a mulatto, originally an officer of artillery in the French army, was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and was living a few years since.

Scipio Africanus, an African, in his boyhood, was one of the playmates of Louis Phillippe, the present king of the French, and was one of the family of the Duke of Orleans, [Egalite.] Scipio afterwards became an officer in the French army, under Joubert, and was killed with that officer at the battle of Novi, in 1779.

Pellet, a highly respected and popular officer in the National Guards of France, is a dark mulatto.

The celebrated Kina, a black, was a favorite officer in the British army, and who, on a visit to London, received the most flattering attentions in honor of his services in the West Indies.

Annibal, an African, was a general and director of artillery in the army of Peter the Great, who conferred upon him, as a mark of honor, the order of Saint Alexander Neuski. His son, a mulatto, was, in 1784, lieutenant general of artillery in the Russian service.

It is a fact well known, that some of the highest officers in the Turkish and Persian empires have been filled by blacks and mulattos.

Some of the most distinguished officers in the Brazilian army are blacks and mulattos.

Prejudice against color" has never existed in Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Italian States, Prussia, Austria, Russia, or in any part of the world where colored persons have not been held as slaves. Indeed, in many countries, where multitudes of Africans and their descendants have been long held slaves, no prejudice against color has ever existed. This is the case in Turkey, Brazil, and Persia. In Brazil there are more than two millions of slaves. Yet some of the highest offices of state are filled by the black men. Some of the most distinguished officers in the Brazilian army are blacks and mu lattos.

There are distinguished lawyers, professors, physicians, &c., [blacks and mulattos,] in Lisbon and other parts of Portugal, in France and England, in the West Indies, and in all parts of the civilized world, except the United States and Texas.

The celebrated M. Pay, a mulatto, was one of the most popular lawyers at the royal court of Martinique.

The celebrated Mentor, a black, a native of Martinique,

was one of the members of the French national assembly between forty and fifty years since.

The distinguished Price Watkis, a mulatto, recently deceased, for the last ten years of his life was at the head of the Jamaica bar, and for a long time a distinguished member of the assembly.

Mr. Osborn, a mulatto, was elected to the assembly by the parish of St. Andrews. Mr. Osborn was, a few years since appointed, by the Governor, a magistrate of the parish in which he resided, and a judge of the court room of common pleas.

Richard Hill, a dark mulatto, has been for a number of years at the head of the special magistracy in Jamaica, a body of about sixty magistrates, and their official organ of communication with the government. When Lord Sligo was governor of Jamaica, Mr. Hill was his official Secretary, and an inmate of his family. His lordship, when in New York in the summer of 1839, on his return to England, speaking of Mr. Hill, said, “with no gentleman in the West Indies was I, in social life, on terms of more intimate friendship."

The distinguished A. De Castro, a mulatto, was aid-decamp to the governor general of the Danish West Indies, and, also, his son is aid-de-camp to the governor of St. Thomas.

The secretary of the governor of Antigua, in 1837, was a mulatto; so is a Mr. Athill, who was at the same time postmaster-general of Antigua, and a member of assembly.

The celebrated Gustavus Vasa, a black, was born at Benin. He resided many years in London, where he mingled with refined society, and was highly respected. His son, Sancho, was assistant librarian to Sir Joseph Banks, and secretary to the Vaccine Institution.

The celebrated George Washington Jefferson, a mulatto from St. Domingo, who resides near Brighton, England, associates with the most respectable society, and is a director in a bank there.

Edward Jordan, a mulatto, has been for many years editor of the ablest and most influential paper published in Jamaica. Mr. J. has also been, for some years, a leading member of the Jamaica assembly, and alderman of the city of Kingston.