I75I. LITERARY INTELLIGENCER. 99 



" In the hiflory of the kingdom of Benin in Guinea, 

 the chiefs are calkd Aree Roee, or ftreet kings. A- 

 mong the iflands in the fouth fea, Otaheite, &:c. they 

 call the chiefs Arees, and the great chiefs Aree le hoi, 

 I think this curious ; and fo I do, that it is a cuftom of 

 the Arabs to fpread a blanket when they would invite 

 any one to eat or reft with them. American Indians 

 fpread the beaver flcins on fuch occafions. 



" It is fingular, that the Arab language lias no word 

 for Jiberty, although it has for flaves. 



" The Arabs, like the new Zealanders, engage with 

 a long ftrong fpear. 



" The Mahometans are in Africa what the Ruffians 

 are in Siberia, a trading, enterprifing, fuperftitious, 

 \i'arlike fet of vagabonds ; and wherever they are fet 

 upon going, they will, and do go ; but they neither can 

 nor do make voyages merely commercial, or merely 

 religious, acrofs Africa ; and where we do not find them 

 in commerce, we find tliem not at all. They cannot 

 (however vehemently pulhed on by religion) afford to 

 ■crofs the continent without trading by the way. 



Rights of Women. 



From the St 'James'' s Chronicle. 

 — Pshaw, fays I, Mr Baldwin — rights of a fiddleftick i 

 lights of 7rien, indeed I 1 ihould not have thought ot 

 .tliC he c/catnres talking fo much about their rights — 

 while the rigbti of women he negleded — This indeed 

 would be a fubjecl-were not, as my friend Mr Burke 

 fays, the " :ige of chivalry gone !" 



Have not ue rights, Mr Baldwin, rights indilput- 

 able, natural, abflraft, and fociaj, and civil, and munici- 

 pal ? are not " all women equal ?" Have they not a 

 natural right to tlie privilege of fpeecli, and have they 

 ever bafely bartered that right ? Have they not the ab- 

 Jlracl right of vifuing from home when they plcafe ? 



N a 



