MISCELLANEOUS. 



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the coal and waistcoat embroidered 

 with gold bees, and with the grand 

 star of the legion of honour 

 worked into the coat. 



He passed no one without no- 

 tice, and to all the ambassadors he 

 spoke once or twice. When he 

 reached general Armstrong, he 

 asked him whether America could 

 not live without foreign commerce 

 as well as France ? and then added, 

 without waiting for his answer, 

 " There is one nation in the world 

 which must be taught, by experi- 

 ence, that her merchants are not 

 necessary to the existence of all 

 other nations, and that she cannot 

 hold us all in commercial slavery ; 

 England is only sensible in her 

 compters." 



The audience took up little less 

 than two hours, after whicli the 

 emperor withdrew into an adjoin- 

 ing apartment ; and the company 

 departed in the same order, and 

 with the same appendages as upon 

 their entrance. 



Of the Country of Magad'ha, 

 the Kings of which were Lords 

 Paramount and Emperors of 

 India for above Two Thousand 

 Years. [^Extracted from an 

 Essay on Anu-Gangam, or the 

 Gangetic Provinces, and more 

 particularly Magad'ha. By 

 Captain J. Wilford. Published 

 in Asiatic Researches, or 

 Transactions, Vol. ix. Printed 

 verbatim from the Calcutta 

 Edition.'] 



The country of Magad'ha was 

 thus called from the numerous 

 families descended from the sage 

 Maga, the offspring of the sun. 



and the grandson of the venera- 

 ble Twashtah in the west They 

 came into India in the time of 

 Crishna, at the request of his son 

 Samba. They settled in the pro- 

 vince of Cicata, now south Baha. 

 There are two tribes of Brahraens 

 in India ; those of Can^ydcubja, 

 or Canoge; and the S'acas or S'a- 

 calas, thus called because they 

 came from Sacam, or Saca, dwipa. 

 They are also called Magas, from 

 their sire Maga ; and from them 

 are sprung all the Magas (or 

 Mugs) in the eastern parts of In- 

 dia, the Burman empire, Siam, 

 and China. I shall give an account 

 of their origin and emigration to 

 India, when I come to treat of the 

 White Island. The other Brah- 

 raens in India are called Can^ya- 

 cubja because that was their first 

 settlement on their arrival in India. 

 It is universally acknowledged, 

 that the kings of Magad'ha gave 

 every possible encouragement to 

 learning, which they endeavoured 

 to diffuse through all classes, by 

 encouraging learned men to write 

 in the spoken dialect of the coun- 

 try. Tradition says, that there 

 were treatises on almost every sub- 

 ject in the Magad'hi, Bali, or 

 Pali dialect, which are supposed to 

 be still extant. I could not, how- 

 ever, procure any ; and I believe 

 that they were doomed to oblivion 

 by the Brahmenical class, who by 

 no means encourage the composing 

 of books in the vulgar dialects. 

 Should they exist, however, they 

 are to be found among the follow- 

 ers of Jina; and major Macken- 

 zie says, that these sectaries are 

 in possession ofagreatmany treatises 

 on different subjects. That this is 

 the case here, I am credibly in- 

 formed : but the Jainas are not of 

 a communicative 



