120 35 , I assist in the representation of so ma- m, diﬂ‘crentqualities, as the word Great. have heard of great heroes, great cow- ,ds grout freedom, great slavory, great a seraucc, great drunkenness, &c. &c, obtain this appellation, or term, {all ages and nations have in-

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en 0 . . [variably sought. It is commonly said of :‘Lwamr” that “Men‘s minds are as dil-

faces.” We must rea- Sonably suppose that the manner in which they respectively laboured to ac- Com lish the object of, their ambition was very dissimilar. lrcs Sh, it isquite the fashion with the ‘Xankies’ to seek the appellation of great in some sense 0

the word, whether good or bad. I once heard of some heroes who got themsch yes locked up in a certain ‘l-louse,’ and while there secure from the public gaze they chatterd or bawlcd so loud, that some wag or other thought they were great men, and published in the pa- ncr that they roared like great minded incn. not knowing at the sometime whe- ther‘they spoke under the influtnceef passion, of reason, or of some of David- son’s ‘20 puns. ot'gcnuiuc malt 'Whis-

key.’

“I often heard. and by experience found.

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"That empty vessels make the greatest sound.

The time is approaching Mr. Printer, when we shall have the frogs and toads making a great noise, and l shall not be at all surprised if I hear your reporter saving they have ‘great minds.’ Now Sii'. I mustinform you of a little of my own ambitionz—when I was young, as far as my memory can trace to the sc- enes of my infancy, l was ever in the habit of gathering small bits of tin sha- rings, or parings of sheet iron, copper, &c. and hammering them together. so that my father (who was by profession a ‘Tin Plate Worker’) often said, l was s‘Grcat Tinker,’ to which I always re- plied, in my vulgar way, that it was on- ly ‘cat after kind,’ and so ambitious was Iofthe appellation of great Tinker, that lalways kept a specimen of my work, hung up in the street window, in order thatlthe public might know the dignity of my nature, in aspiring to such a pro- trssiou. Now Sir, having said so much of myself, I shall profeed toshew you with what eagerness one of my neigh- bours has endeavoured to IIl'lkC the word .greatapply to himself. Fro'n what I have alt-cad stated, you must be awrre that I was born a Tinker; well, it is a matter of fact, that my neighbour 'was

born an Ass, although in human shape,

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and though every one knew he was an Ass, yet he was not satisﬁed until he obtained the appellation of a Great £33, and in order to effect this, he went to a Toy Shop and purchased the ﬁgure of an Ass, with a bag on it's back, and pla- ced it in his shop window, by his side: ‘Cat after kind.’

"'Beasts of each kind their fellows spare. “Bear lives in amity with bear.

And in order to shew his great depra- vity, and the mantle of gloominess which encompasses his mind, ,as well as to shew that he is a miserable slave to his own passions and prejudices, and a friend to slavery, he has the Ass taken care of by African Slaves.

Coelum non animum mutant.

1 have now a few pots to mend, which will occupy a .few day’s, after which, I shall most probably trouble you again, I shall, therefore, conclude with

Grammatici certant et ashuc subjudice hs est. Your Obt Servt. TOMMY TINKER.

For the British ﬂmei'ican.

Mn. PRINTER,—I have observed in your Paper of the 23d inst. a. communication

signed “ EGOMET,” and to say the least of

its author, his ideas appear to be both “limited and perverted." He says his cu- riosity has been excited by your “ raising the corner of the curtain” in your report of Saturday last. But Sir, I think it would be a ludicrous sight if the curtain were raised, while he himself and his secretary with their ten eyes were consuming the “ midnight oil” in labouring to bring forth “The Magnum Bouum” of his “timi- ted and perverted ideas." It would be too much of the groveling out—pourings of “ Egomet” and his many eyed secretary to notice its details; more than that, " the fool is wise in his own conceit.” There is one thing however Sir, which is evident, and that is, that “Egomet” must have had

the most lll'rlllCiOlIS intentions at heart dun

ring the time of his labor,- and daring in- deed must his polluted pen have been, when he took the liberty of naming the highest personage in the Island, while wri- ting such a tissue of absurdity.

“ Pariter paenas peccandi sola Voluntas: Nam scelus intra so tacitum qui cogitat ullum Facti Crimen habet.”

There is no doubt, Mr- \Vhite, that “ Egomct” and his secretary are closely alliedin nature, as'well as in shape and manners.

m passions souls together binds,

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Rind every calling mingle: with its kind; “Soldier unites with soldier, swain with swnin, “ The mariner with him that rules the main." “ LEwu." Now Mr. Editor, I shall not trespass on your columns any longer, being well aware that the public feel very little in- terest in the “ limited and perverted ideas” of “Egomet” or his secretary. Your obedient servt. PMIJV TR U TH.

nsvmw or MR. LEWELLiN’s WORK, continued from .N'o. 33.

In page 9, he tells us that “there is here an absence of all anxiety about chil- dren.” I do not think this Sir, is now the case,,though perhaps it might» have been, if a Bill brought into the Legislature by our author, had not been “ Burked,” then to be sure a Post might have been provided for some pious matron of a Foundling Hes- pital, and many a hopeful little bantling fostered and cherished at the public ex- pence, but at present, most persons are anxious about all that concerns their chil- dren, either temporal or spiritual.

I pass over many other beauties, though scarcely a page butI detect a number; I cannot however, avoid refering to page 22, where he recommends “the importation ofsome Spanish or ltalian male Asses.” These, he says, would “ render the island- a service,” however this may be,I ﬁnd there are some animals of English breed, which he mentions un'ler hislist of “ Stock Imported” which the Island had to pay well for, as the ﬁrst article of STOCK be men- tions immediately under the above heading, is “ Colonel Ready the late Lieut. Gover- nor.” (perhaps the most expensive article of stock ever will be imported,) with seve- ral other creatures, all of which may have been of beneﬁt to some one, but I am utter- ly at a loss to guess how the stock of the country could beneﬁt from the importation of a dead Suffolk Bull calf, and two Berkw shire' pigs.” His enthusiasm as a farmer induced him to make stock ofmany persons, among the rest Mr. Lewellin, (who says he was imported in 1826,) but he does not. tell us whether or not they are Asses, with the exception of “ Tommy Chanter” who he says is a BULL now the property of the Agricultural Society. He should how- ever give the Island its ‘due, as any one will say that “ the Hon. George Wright” should not have been returned as imported, and I think’ he has done quite as much for the Island in every respect as any of his list.’ whether imported from England or Nova Scotia. ‘

In page 94, what a splendid encomium is passed on the Secretary of the Central Agricultural Sceiety, but alas! what am insinuation against other persous, softly;

softly! J. L. L.