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THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

If it rested with us, 'twould be very soon done; 'Tis a terrible thing that men won't understand, They are renll y the plague and pest of the land. Our Dadds's and Mamma's get cross and look grum, As much as to spy. you‘ve been too long at home;

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I Eulogium on Pork—The ingratitude of -.

the world is in no instance more strongly displayed, than in the terms of contempt and reproach which are so liberally bestow- ed on the prince of all animals that “ chew not the cud,” who, though thus described

titoes, nor standing pies, would ever greet our keen set appetites ; and the Christmas chine, the harslet, and the crackling, gris-

i‘kins, cruebeens, and spare-ribs, would be ‘i'men no more ; peas-pudding, apple-sauce, 31nd savoury sage woul

artake in the dis- ;race ; and sucking pig and thejolly ig’s ‘ace would cease to smile on our boar s.

These few traits of his numerous excel-

enCies, we have mentioned from the same eeling that would lead us to rescue the haracter ofa valued friend from unmerit- d obloquy ; and we trust that the slander- ,rs of this truly respectable animal will in 'uture admit—“ that they have taken the .vrong sow by the ear.”

Naturalists may say what they please of .he lion ; the wild boar is the real monarch 2f the forest; and no one who has seen him :owering at the head of the table, 111 proud pre-emnience above all inferior game, :ould doubt for a moment of his rank ; in- leed few potentates can vie with him in '.he love and admiration which he com— nands ; for there are none whose head is ;o well spoken of, We presume that no me will be either so simple or so unjust as .o confound this noble animal with the com- non bores to be met with every day at the Jest tables in this country.

With regard to the nephew of this prince )f the forest, the gentle sucking-pig, we rave merely to recommend that he be treat- ed as a tender mother does her darling in- 'ant——that is to say, that he be well stuff- :d, and, while dressing, let him be watch- :d like a miscr’s gold : above all, let him Je welldone, for as to under roasted-pig, 1 man mightjust as well eat a raw child.

The very fact, that pork is not fit for .he weak, but is best adapted to the strong

nd robust, shews its superioity-—a circum- stance remarked from the time of Hippo- crates. “ Suppose two champions,” says the famous Galen, “ of the same strength, to use the same exercise, and feed on pork ; if either of them shall change his

diet, and live on an equal quantity of any

and despised, is, in fact, one of the most . other sort of meat for but one day, he will estimable members of society; and though i immediately find himself weaker ; and for the majority of Christians of the present ; several days, he will not only grow feeble,

day are as great Jews as ever lived, yet there are few of them that do not break the Levitical law for his sake. Nature, indeed, has been so very bountiful to this her favored child. that every part of him ll equally valuable. Arms and the arts contend with the kitchen for his spoils ; and if the fame and fortune of many a

ork-butcheris due to his flesh, his bristles

ave been the instrument of glory to many a celebrated painter, as his hide is ever the seat of honor to the warrior. Were this noble but much libelled animal ban- ished from our tables, neither ham, nor brawn, nor bacon, nor smoked chops, nor Brunswick or Bologna sausages, nor forced- mest, nor black-pudding; nor pickled pc-

i sustenance.”

{but meagre also, for want of his prOper \Vhat will Messrs. Jackson, lBarclay, and John Smith, say to this? [Quere—V‘Vas it the Mendozas, and other llsraelitish fancy men, who introduced the prohibition of pork into the art of training? j If so, we would recommend the immediate 'application of Mr. Lewis Way, or to the ‘ blessed Emperor of all the Russias.

fl Temperance .flnecdote.—A few weeks since, while riding in the coach between ‘BOSton and Gloucester, the conversation of {the passengers turned upon the subject of temperance. A sailor, who had followed the seas for thirty or forty years, observ- ed that he belonged to a temperance socie-

ty ; upon hearing this the other passenoe were surprised, perceiving that he .w then about half seas over. He was ask why he still continue? to drink, if heb longed to such a society. 0, said he, I d' not join it with the intention of stoppi myself,—it does me good and Iwill drin He was asked, ‘ Ifyou are still determi ed to drink, why did you sign the constit tion which requires abstinence ?’ 0, 5a“. he, I did itto set a good example to the;- mug generalzou '

Loss and Gain.—--A man of wit one said, rightly enough, *‘ He who finds good son-in-law gains a son—he who tin a bad one loses a daughter.”

Dissembled holiness is double iniquity.

Disputations have truth in the middl and party at both ends.

had much better been concealed, viz.: th' their vanity has survived themselves.

flncicnt Roman Empire—The ancie magnitude of the Roman Empire mig well have justified the Roman pride.

It covered a million and a half ofsqua miles of the finest portion of the glob Stretchingthree thousand miles, from tl Atlantic tothe Euphrates, and two tho sand from the northern borders of Daci to the tropic of Cancer, it was the seat all the choicest fertility, beauty and weal in the world. Imagination sinks undert idea of this prodigious power in the ban ofa single nation, and that nation int hands of a single mam—(froly’s Life a) Times of Geo. 4.

A WISH.

Ifl could breathe a wish and know, That wish were not in vain,

That llcav’n upon me would bestow, What I should ask him then:

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What would I ask? not for a crown To settle on my head,

l‘d cast the splendid garland down, And look on it with dread.

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’ But I would ask some shady spot.

By some fast murm’ring brook,

Some little humble unknown eat Where angels’ eyes might look.

And I would ask for one I love, With me to call it “Home,”

So near ’twould rival bliss above, 1 lcould not want to roam. 2 Printed and Published every Saturday. ,

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