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Article NOBLE SPEECH. OF A NATIVE OF AMBOYNA TO THE PORTUGUESE. Page 1 of 1 Article A DROLL CIRCUMSTANCE. Page 1 of 1
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Noble Speech. Of A Native Of Amboyna To The Portuguese.
NOBLE SPEECH . OF A NATIVE OF AMBOYNA TO THE PORTUGUESE .
HPHE ingenious Mr . Justamond , in his Philosophical History of •*¦ Commerce , says , that when corruption and avarice had weakened the Portuguese power in India , the island of Amboyna was the first to avenge itself . A Portuguese , at a public festival , seized on a female of distinction , and treated her with insolence and inhumanity . Soon after , a Chief named Genulio armed his people ; then meeting the Portuguesehe said to them' To revenge affronts of
, , so cruel a nature as those wchave received from you , would require actions , not words ; yet we will speak to you . You preach to us a Deity , who delights , you say , in generous actions ; but theft , murder , obscenity , and drunkenness , are your common practices : your hearts are inflamed with every vice : our manners can never suit , with yours : Nature foresaw this when she separated us bimmense
y . seas , and ye have overleaped her barriers . This audacit y , of which you are not ashamed to boast , is a proof of the corruption of your hearts . Take my advice ; leave is-their present state , their quie . t and-repose , these nations that you so little resemble indisposition or milliners : go , and reside among those who are as brutal as-your-. selves , if such there are : an intercourse with you would be more ¦
. £ . " .. ! ' y us than all the evils which it is in the power of the Gods you spiaK of to inflict upon us . ' We renounce your alliance for ever ; your arms and knowledge in war and slaughter are greatly superior . to ours .-and it is your curse ; but as we are more just , and directed - . by Nature , so that enables us not to fear you . The whole natives of' the island are resolved , from this day , to oppose you during life ; 'therefore remove from ' their country , and beware how you ever approach it again .
A Droll Circumstance.
A DROLL CIRCUMSTANCE .
A PREACHER holding forth in the place called Las Mancanas , at Madrid , after informing his auditors of the sufferings of Jesus Christ , added , ' And is it not strange that we still continue to sin on , and live without repentance ? O Lord God ! ' said he , ' why suflerest thou such ungrateful and wretched sinners to Jive ? ' And instantly iving himself a violent box on the earthe whole assembly followed
g , his example , and four thousand soufllets were given and received in the twinkling of an eye . The French ambassador being present , was upon that instant bursting into a laughter at the pious ceremony , had he not been checked by one c / f hisl ' riends , who assured him , that his rank and character would not have saved him had he been so indiscreet , for the enraged
populace would have cut him in a thousand pieces : whereupon he hid his face in his handkerchief , and boxed his own ears more for he love of himself , than from gratitude to his Redeemer ,
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Noble Speech. Of A Native Of Amboyna To The Portuguese.
NOBLE SPEECH . OF A NATIVE OF AMBOYNA TO THE PORTUGUESE .
HPHE ingenious Mr . Justamond , in his Philosophical History of •*¦ Commerce , says , that when corruption and avarice had weakened the Portuguese power in India , the island of Amboyna was the first to avenge itself . A Portuguese , at a public festival , seized on a female of distinction , and treated her with insolence and inhumanity . Soon after , a Chief named Genulio armed his people ; then meeting the Portuguesehe said to them' To revenge affronts of
, , so cruel a nature as those wchave received from you , would require actions , not words ; yet we will speak to you . You preach to us a Deity , who delights , you say , in generous actions ; but theft , murder , obscenity , and drunkenness , are your common practices : your hearts are inflamed with every vice : our manners can never suit , with yours : Nature foresaw this when she separated us bimmense
y . seas , and ye have overleaped her barriers . This audacit y , of which you are not ashamed to boast , is a proof of the corruption of your hearts . Take my advice ; leave is-their present state , their quie . t and-repose , these nations that you so little resemble indisposition or milliners : go , and reside among those who are as brutal as-your-. selves , if such there are : an intercourse with you would be more ¦
. £ . " .. ! ' y us than all the evils which it is in the power of the Gods you spiaK of to inflict upon us . ' We renounce your alliance for ever ; your arms and knowledge in war and slaughter are greatly superior . to ours .-and it is your curse ; but as we are more just , and directed - . by Nature , so that enables us not to fear you . The whole natives of' the island are resolved , from this day , to oppose you during life ; 'therefore remove from ' their country , and beware how you ever approach it again .
A Droll Circumstance.
A DROLL CIRCUMSTANCE .
A PREACHER holding forth in the place called Las Mancanas , at Madrid , after informing his auditors of the sufferings of Jesus Christ , added , ' And is it not strange that we still continue to sin on , and live without repentance ? O Lord God ! ' said he , ' why suflerest thou such ungrateful and wretched sinners to Jive ? ' And instantly iving himself a violent box on the earthe whole assembly followed
g , his example , and four thousand soufllets were given and received in the twinkling of an eye . The French ambassador being present , was upon that instant bursting into a laughter at the pious ceremony , had he not been checked by one c / f hisl ' riends , who assured him , that his rank and character would not have saved him had he been so indiscreet , for the enraged
populace would have cut him in a thousand pieces : whereupon he hid his face in his handkerchief , and boxed his own ears more for he love of himself , than from gratitude to his Redeemer ,