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- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tcm 
     
     And to 
     
    
   
   
    
     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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ftrent 35 thel " 
     
    
   
   
    
     "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, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     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, 
     
    
   
   
    
     973 
     
    
   
   
    
     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.