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banon and the Mediteranean, about Kef- 
roan, and under the fovereignty of the 
rand Emir of Deir al Camer. ‘They are 
divided into a profane and a facred caft, 
make a diltinétion between clean and un- 
clean food, andintermarry with no ftrange 
women. They {wear not at all; and only 
corroborate their affirmations with an ** I 
have faid it.’” Their fabbath 1s kept on 
the Friday. Their Iman, or chief prieft, 
is elective. They are Unitarians ; but 
they acknowledge feven holy law- givers, 
or prophets. Adam, Noah, Abraham, 
Motes, Jefus, Muhamed, and Sain. They 
maintain that the fame celeftial {pirit, di- 
vine mind, holy ghoft, or angelic foui, 
was fucceflively incarnate 1m each of thefe 
human bodies. They believe the fouls of 
the four evangelifts to have im like man- 
ner re-appeared among them, in the forms 
of Ifmael, A!colamech, Ali and Behardin. 
They permit exterior conformity to the 
rites of other fe&ts, in thofe who travel ; 
but forbid the revelation of their own 
tenets to the heathens. Their Muhamed 
flourifhed in 1017, and was alfo called 
Drofi, whence they take their name; bet 
they value ftill higher a later prophet, 
whom they not only call Sain, but Hamfa, 
and whom they confider as the real Mef- 
fiah. See C. W. Liidecke’s Defeription 
of the Turkith Empire, 1780; and Eich- 
horn’s Repertory, part xii. 
GENERAL SUWARROW. 
General Suwarrow commanded, in the 
Jafi war againft the Turks, under Prince 
Potemkin, and fometimes under Prince 
Cobourg, the commander in chief of the 
-Auftrians. One time while that general 
was under the latter, on the frontiers of 
Turkey, with 22,000 men, when Co- 
boure himfelf commanded 37,000, and 
the Turks had 28,000; Prince Cobourg’s 
army, which had taken a good pofition on 
arifing ground about nine miles diftance 
from Suwarrow, was attacked and obliged 
to fall back ; Cobourg then wrote to Su- 
walrrow : 
‘¢ My dear Suwarrow, 
‘© J was attacked this morning by 
the Turks: I have loft my pofition and ar- 
tillery. I fend: you no initruétions what to 
do. Ufe your own judgment, only let me 
know what ‘you have done, as foon after as 
you can.” Signed, &c. 
Sax-CoBourG_ 
Suwarrow’s anfwer was fent immediately, 
and was thus: 
«¢ My General, 
‘© | suave attack the Turks to mor- 
row morning, drive them from your pofitien, 
and retake your cannon.” 
4 
From the Port-felio of a Man of Letters. 
[Sept. I, 
Before three in the afternoon he kept his 
word, and Cobourg’s army had the can- 
non and their old pofition before night. 
This and fuch Itke behaviour brought the 
prince into a fort of contempt in the army ; 
fo that when he got the chief command in 
Flanders in 1793, he kept away as much 
as, poflible thofe Auftrian officers who had 
ferved under him in Ruflia, who were in 
faét the bef in the army. 
ANECDOTES of FEMALE HEROISM, /rom 
HELVETIUS o7 the MIND. 
A Chinefe empercr, purfued by the 
viétorious forces of .a patriot of inferior 
rank, to extricate himfelf, had recourfe 
to the principle of filial duty and reverence, 
carried in China to a {uperftitious excefs. 
An officer, a drawn fabre in his hand, 
was difpatched to the mother of the victor, 
with a command from the emperor, on 
pain of death, to order her fon to difband 
his troops. Difdainfully fmiling, the in- 
trepid matron replied, ‘* Doth thy maf- 
ter believe that J am ignorant of the tacit, 
but facred, convention, between the peo- 
ple and their fovereigns, by which the 
mafter is bound to render happy the fer- 
vant who obeys? It is the emperor who 
has firft violated this treaty—and thou, 
vile too] of a tyrant, learn, in fuch a cafe, 
from a woman, what is due to thy coun- 
try.” Then, {natching from his hand the 
weapon, fhe plunged it in her breait. 
«© Slave! (faid fhe, as the blood flowed 
from the wound (if thou haft ftill any vir- 
tue, carry this poignard to my fon. Tell 
him to revenge the nation, and punifh the 
ufurper—He has now no caution to ob- 
ferve on the acceunt of his mether—He is 
at liberty to be virtuous.” 
The mother of Abdallah, confulted by 
her fon, who, forfaken by his friends, and 
befieged in a caftle, was urged, by the Sy- 
rians, to an honourable capitulation, made 
the following reply: ‘© My fon, when 
thou tookeft up arms againft the houfe of 
Ommiah, didif thou believe thylelf ef- 
poufing the caule of jultice and virtue?" 
<¢ I did,”’ replied the fon. ** Where then 
is the caule for deliberation? Doft thou 
not know, that cowards only are fwayed 
by fear—Wilt thou be the {corn of the 
Omnites—and fhall it be faid, that, when 
thou wait to determine between life and 
duty, thou didit prefer the former?” 
LETTER from J J ROUSSEAU Zo the 
MARCHIONESS of LUXEMBOURG. 
Madam, 
How many things have I to 
fay to you before I leave you ! but the time 
is prefling ; I muft fhorten my ek 
an 
