to know; the language is understood by all; the errors of the Armenian church are unmasked; and he has derived great benefit himself. When the tracts were distributed at Bussorah, great inquiry was made after them by many, and a young man gave out that he was going to reply to them. As soon as I heard this, says my brother, I went to him and said, 'Friend, I hear you are going to reply to my brother's Armenian tracts.' He said, 'Yes; I have written about four or five pages.' I wished to see what he had written; but he replied, 'I cannot shew you, till I finish it.' ' Friend,' said I, 'have you ever seen or read any of the tracts?' He replied, 'No, never.' I said, 'You had better get a copy first, and, after you understand well, then you will be able to make a good reply.' He consented, was supplied with a copy of the last Armenian tract, which he gladly received and began to read. To the inquiry, after a few days, if he had read it, he replied, 'Yes, but I have nothing more to say, because the author proves the Scriptures to be the only rule and guide of our faith, life, and conduct; so that I cannot write any thing more.' Poor Armenians! Yet they are my dear nation. Some of them are trying to hurt me, but how they will do it, they know not. However, my dear brother, himself, was despised for the sake of the truth, for he left the Armenian church, and is thinking to be baptized."

Besides the descendants, collateral and direct, of the primary Portuguese settlers, there are other dwellers in India of European extraction-of Dutch, Danish, French, and English descent; and an intermixture of all with the Hindoo family. They are far from being insignificant in number, and by the political relation to their mother countries, a link between both, they are doubtless destined to fill a place in the moral movements of that great and multitudinous empire, in which they must soon, we apprehend, be denizened; and in the history of that country, where they have recently acquired a designation, as Eurasians, distinct from Hindoos and Britons. Joined to the members of the Portuguese community resident in India, it will, perhaps, not exaggerate their numerical strength, if we estimate them at three hundred thousand souls. At all the presidencies there are schools under government patronage, where English reading, writing, and arithmetic are taught; to these schools the children of many of this race are eligible: there are, besides, schools supported by the contributions of enlightened and generous individuals, among which are the Black Town Chapel free schools, and the Black Town missionary free schools, and other missionary institutions, which are maintained for their instruction. There is, too, an apprenticing society, for communicating to them the knowledge of trades, as also a battalion or corps of artificers supported by government, in which particular attention is paid both to their moral improvement and their progress in the mechanical arts. There are, moreover, many among this class who are wealthy enough, and disposed to send their children to boarding schools, or private tutors.

In the times of their greatest prosperity, those who exercised the control over the Grecian and Roman colonial politics, seemed more anxious to secure a reciprocal affection and intercourse, by a community of privileges between the mother country and her distant emigrants and colonists, and to possess their attachment and cooperation, their efficiency and courage, in times of danger, than to reserve a mercantile monopoly of the produce, manufacture, or civil immunities of distant possessions. There has hitherto been a departure from the ancient model in our colonial arrangements in respect of India; we do not determine whether this has been wise, but we anticipate that a change may ere long be found practicable and judicious.

"A Briton knows, or if he knows it not,

The Scripture placed within his reach, he ought,

That souls have no discriminating hue,
Alike important in their Maker's view;

That none are free from blemish since the Fall,
And love divine has paid one price for all."

There are many intelligent and generous minds among this class of our eastern fellow-subjects, who are not only capable of discriminating the justness of principles, and rectitude of procedure, but have also a keen eye to detect the blemishes, or to discover and estimate the consequences of the political and judicial administration : every expanded and unprejudiced mind will desire the increase of such talent. But the general character of the Eurasians does not reach so high a standard. For one mature mind and judicious observer, who will sustain an equanimity and inflexible adherence to purpose and principle, fifty will be found whose attainments are limited and superficial, and whose opinions are as various, fickle, and incoherent, as may be the vicissitudes and uncertainties of revolving time. As an isthmus between two contiguous continents, connecting European and Asiatic society, their materials may be characteristic of the temperament and constitution of the opposing masses with which they are united. Too long, and unjustly, and from a most impolitic principle, shut out from desirable and improving society among Europeans, and habituated to the intercourse of uneducated mothers, of frivolous and dissipated societies; it is not to be wondered that they should imbibe the crude and erroneous fancies of the one race, and that while claiming the lineage and rank of the others, they should ape such manners of the Europeans, as most corresponded with their earliest and heartfelt predilections. Their employments are unfavourable for the development of mind, or the increase of intelligence. The incessant repetition of manual labours in the transcription of official documents, the mere mechanical details of mercantile transactions, or the fractional calculations of the merchant's counting-room, without any of the excitement incident upon hazard and enterprise, will not expand the intellect, nor exercise nor improve the judgment; while the hours of their pleasure and their seasons of recreation, are times of dissipation and of gayer follies. There are few manufactures where they may be led to study the practical operations of scientific principles, and observe the progress, and be excited to emulation by the advancement of others; and the wholesome, active, and vigorous engagements of the field or garden, can seldom engage their attention, or lead them to devout, rational, and elevated contemplation of a great First Cause.

Yet there are means which may be employed for their moral amelioration. They know the English language-a key to every science and storehouse of literature; they are ambitious of conforming to English manners, and they appreciate English society; they trace their relation to the nations of Europe, and participate with a keen sympathy and a fond ambition in the honours of their parent stem. They are accessible to the European teachers; and while in an infant state of society, they possess immediate access to the sacred Scriptures, that fountain of pure knowledge and cheering consolation, of practical wisdom and ennobling principles: and if they can be induced to study this hallowed record from the pen of inspiration, and to walk in the way which it prescribes, then will their course be as the path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day; and their experience and example will prove,