SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
thofe few malignant and unchrlftian priefts who have dared, 
in their prayers, to invoke the vengeance of Heaven on the 
.hand that faved them from aflafTmatio, and lifted bread to 
their mouths when, otherwife, they rnuft have been famifhed, 
thefe mifcreants have fo far degraded themfelves below the com- 
mon level of humanity, that it is not.eafy to determine whether 
they are more deferving of pity or contempt. 
In all their purfuits abroad the French are indefatigable. In 
India they have tranflated the enlightened doctrines of the 
Rights of Man into the language of fome of the country 
powers ; they converted the late Tippoo Sultaun into a citizen 
of the world ; and eftablifhed a Jacobin club in the very centre 
of Seringapatam. In Hydrabad they had proceeded to greater 
lengths. We find them in the Birman Empire, labouring to 
undermine the Britifh character, and to infinuate themfelves 
into the favour of the court by their fervlces. In Cochin- 
C4iina they have been ftill more induflrious. They have tranf- 
lated the Encyclopedic des €onna'i[fances bumaines into the lan- 
guage of the country ; they have inftruded the people to 
build fhips of war, and they have trained their foldicrs to the 
ufe of artillery. So great a favourite was the late titular blfhop 
of Adran with the king of Cochin-China that, on his death, 
after his brother mlfTionaries had interred his remains according 
to the rites of . the Romifli church, he ordered the body to be 
taken up and again buried with all the ceremonies and funeral 
pomp of the Cochin-Chinefe religion, as the greateft honour he 
could beftow on his memory : nor could all the expoftulatlons, 
or the entreaties, of the miflionaries, who were fcandallzed at 
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