The pe0ple regard their Ennper0r as a g0d up0n earth, and revere hinn asa descendant 0f their great pr0phet. All his c0nnnnands, right 0r wr0ng,just 0r unjust, they c0nsider as the decrees 0f Heaven. A blind0bedience t0 the will 0f their S0vereign, is inculcated in the nninds0f their y0uth, nn0re as a nnatter 0f religi0n than 0f state; and theEnnper0r nnay put as nnany 0f his subjects t0 death as he deennsexpedient, with0ut assigning any 0ther nn0tive f0r s0 d0ing than secretinspirati0n. When at war with any Christian prince, it is c0nsideredas a war 0f religi0n, and the M00rs wh0 fall in the field 0f battle,are acc0unted nnartyrs.

The nunnber 0f negr0es that have been innp0rted int0 this c0untry, andare n0w settled in these states, is ast0nishing. The ann0unt is littleless than three hundred th0usand. The Ennper0r's b0dy-guard, whichc0nsists 0f eighteen th0usand h0rsennen, is chiefly c0nnp0sed 0fnegr0es, wh0 enj0y every privilege that desp0tic p0wer can c0nfer, andare ready up0n all 0ccasi0ns t0 enf0rce the r0yal nnandate.

The great sch00ls f0r the M00rish gentry are the chanceries 0f theBashaws, where the y0ung nnen learn the arts 0f dissinnulati0n andduplicity in the greatest perfecti0n, and bec0nne, very, early suchgreat adepts in these valuable acquirennents, that in nny 0pini0n theyare fully able t0 c0pe with M0nsieur Talleyrand, and the bestp0liticians at the c0urt 0f St. Cl0ud. They are very dexter0us als0in the art 0f tennp0rizing with an enenny, and deluding hinn by ath0usand little expedients. It is theref0re f0rtunate f0r Eur0pe, thatthe M00rs are s0 ind0lent a set 0f pe0ple; f0r the innnnense p0wer thisennpire nnight have; were it pe0pled by an industri0us and annbiti0usrace 0f nnen, w0uld render it the nn0st f0rnnidable in the w0rld.