highest crimes and abuses ever perpetrated on earth? Christ commanded his followers to love their enemies. Christians destroy their enemies by war, and gibbet them upon the gallows. God says, all souls are mine. Christians have trafficked in the sculs of men no less than the heathen world. The Bible declares that no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God. Intemperance costs England and America several hundred millions every year. But it is needless to enumerate the vices of Christendom, and I should not have alluded to the subject at all, except to account for the slow progress Christianity has made in India.

[But the days of East India oppression are numbered. Until recently, very little has been known in England of its extent and horrors. The facts, however, which have been collected, and diffused over England, within the last year, have aroused the British people, and they have risen in their might, determined to overthrow this gigantic structure of wrong. Dr. Lushington, not less from the deep interest he takes in promoting the general freedom and happiness of mankind, than in compliance with the

urgent solicitation of the reforms, has assumed the conduct of this great question in the House of Commons; and he will be supported by the whole Liberal Party in Great Britain. Success attend the effort!

At present, when we look at India, we see 150,000,000 human beings, natives of the most productive climates on the face of the earth, who ought to be in prosperity and comfort, and under the British banner enjoying freedom, but who are actually in a worse condition than that of slaves, and rendered beggars by oppression.]

Faithfully yours,

The reader, if at all acquainted with the history of India, and its present state under the British rule, will not fail to observe that the author's philanthropy has led him to adopt a tone of great exaggeration in the foregoing letter. He attributes sins to the government with which they are not fairly chargeable, totally omits all the benefits due to their efforts on many points for ameliorating the condition of the natives, and severely blames them for not doing that which was impracticable, viz, altering, at once, the institutions of a country with 150,000,000 of inhabitants, by eradicating slavery, which constitutes a most stiking element in their social condition.-ENGLISH ED.

To

Esq., of New York.

London, 1843.

SIR,

I have been told that, some years ago, you lived in one of the elegant houses of LPlace; sporting your coach and four, with servants in livery; made a turn-out in Broadway every evening at six, for the special benefit of the street-gazers of all characters and no characters at all, who crowd this great promenade; that you were the leader of fashion, the "lion" of every party "up town;" gave the finest entertainments New York had ever seen, with the new and superb attraction of theatrical dancers and musicians; that you were in our world of fashion the "observed of all observers;" in fine, a sort of second, but not improved, edition of Count d'Orsay.

It is understood that this was your reputation just before the "Specie Circular" made its appearance. But since that great era in the history of American finance, you have, in

some very mysterious way, disappeared from the bon ton, and left your post of honour to be filled by some other personage, who like yourself, shall be able to flutter in the plumage of "folly's giddy throng," so long as his credit lasts; and then, like his illustrious predecessor, take a house in Greenwich-street, and measure off tape behind a counter in Maiden-lane.

I have also been told you have been heard to say, that you "had rather be invited to Almack's once than to be president of the American Republic." I believe, however, that your wish has never been gratified, to mingle in the splendid circles of those rich saloons; and since you think so much more of Almack's than you do of the presidency, I thought it might be grateful to your feelings to hear a word about it; so that, if the glorious days of universal credit should again appear in our land of liberty, you may be able to establish an Almack's for New-York. My observations in this letter will be of signal advantage to you, in carrying into execution so philanthropic a design; for the "American London" would rank you for ever among its benefactors,

if you should perform so distinguished a service for its circles of fashion and rank.

A few evenings since, after being present at a musical soirée at Lord -'s, as I was passing through King-street, St. James's, I heard two gentlemen conversing about the last ball at Almack's. I had often heard of Almack's, but I knew very little about it. Since then I have, from various sources, gathered the following information concerning this "Temple of Fashion."

It is a place where the very soul of enlightened society centres; where the most splendid and noble, of the noblest aristocracy, of the noblest and most enlightened nation of the earth assemble; where the spiritual and ineffable quintessence of the sublimate of fashion, refined from the clarified essence of wealth and rank, is collected in one hot and luminous focus. It is, in fact, to London, what London is to England, what England is to the civilized world; a place, in short, to which the most ancient and honourable nobility look with reverence; nobility, whose ancestry can be traced back in one bright chain of fox-hunters