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ruins. They found the patient constancy of the Hindoo superior 

 to their violence; that the fear of torments and of death was 

 unable to make him desert the tenets which his ancestors had 

 handed down to him from an unfathomable antiquity; but that, if 

 left in the quiet possession of these, he was a peaceable, indus- 

 trious, and valuable subject. Accordingly, we observe among the 

 Mussulmauns of Hindostan a great deference for the prejudices 

 of their neighbours or dependants of the Hindoo persuasion, par- 

 ticularly in the hooty, or saturnalia of India, when liberty of speech 

 and action towards superiors are allowed to as great an extent as 

 among the ancient Romans; the Mussulmauns are seen to enter 

 into the diversion with as much alacrity as the Hindoos them- 

 selves." 



These remarks are very just; they establish the liberality of 

 sentiment which now generally prevails in the mingled society of 

 commercial cities. We had no invidious distinction between Maho- 

 medan and Hindoo at Baroche; but a very unpleasant schism 

 existed among the Parsees, who formed a considerable part of its 

 inhabitants. 



However delightful it is to cherish the idea of such liberal 

 opinions among the Hindoos and Mahomedans in the British settle- 

 ments, it is well known there exist under the Turkish and Persian 

 governments thousands of intolerant bigots, who act diametrically 

 opposite to those philanthropical sentiments, and pervert certain 

 passages of the Koran to the most cruel and diabolical purposes. 

 In this number, few have been more active, determined, and power- 

 ful than the late Tippoo Sultaun, whose misguided zeal led him to 

 commit the most atrocious cruelties. In the curious history found 



