The celebrated Prince Sanders was a dark mulatto. He was a native of Boston, but resided many years in London, where he was a great favorite in fashionable circles was invited to breakfast with the Prince Regent, and received flattering attentions from distinguished literary characters. Hundreds of the Roman Catholic clergy are black and colored men. These ministers to congregations are made up indiscriminately of blacks and whites. For a century past, a considerable portion of the Roman Catholic clergy in the Cape de Verd Islands have been blacks.

The distinguished Capitein, a black, a native of Guinea, was graduated with great applause at the University of Leyden, in Holland, and afterwards became a clergyman.

The distinguished Girard, a young man of color from Gaudaloupe, who received, amongst other prizes, the prize of honor. Villemain, the minister of public instruction, placed the crown or wreath on Girard's head, embraced him, and delivered to him his prizes amidst the unanimous applauses of the collegians and spectators. Girard was then invited to dine with the king, and he spent three days 'with the royal family at St. Cloud.

The celebrated Thomas Jenkins, a black, a native of Guinea, was, for a number of years, a teacher of a parish school near Edinburgh, in Scotland; he afterwards entered the university, where he distinguished himself for scholarship. He was so great a favorite with the faculty, that the professors generally relinquished their fees to assist him in his education. He eventually became a preacher, and was deputed, by the British Society, for promoting Christian knowledge as a missionary to Mauritius, where he still resides.

The celebrated Ignatius Sancho was a black—the associate of Garrick, and the friend and correspondent of Sterne.

The celebrated Correa de Serra was a black, and the Secretary of the Portuguese academy.

A SELF-TAUGHT MAN.-At a meeting of the Synod of Alabama, on the third week in January, 1840, contributions were called for to purchase a colored man, [a slave,] of extraordinary character. It was stated that he was a good classical scholar, and wholly self-taught. He is a blacksmith; and it was stated on the floor of the Synod,

by members and others, who knew him, that he first learned the letters of the alphabet, by inducing his master's children and others, to make the letters, one at a time, on the door of his shop. In this way he familiarized himself with the letters and their names. He then learned to put them together and make words, and soon he was able to read. He then commenced the study of arithmetic, and then English grammar and geography. It was also stated that he is now able to read the Greek Testament with ease has some knowledge of the Latin Language, and even commenced the study of the Hebrew language, but relinquished it in consequence of not having suitable books. It was stated that he studied nights till 11 or 12 o'clock, and that in conversing with him, they felt themselves in the presence of their equal. He is between 30 and 35 years of age, and is willing to go out as a missionary to Africa, under the Assembly's Board. [Newburyport Herald.]

CHAPTER X.

THE GREAT HISTORICAL AGES.

THE ANCIENT AND MODERN DISTINGUISHED HISTORIANS AND WRITERS, THE DESCENDANTS OF AFRICA AND ASIA.

EVERY age has produced heroes and politicians; all nations have experienced revolutions; and all histories are nearly alike, to those who seek only to furnish their memories with facts; but whoever thinks, or, what is still rare, whoever has taste, will find but three ages in the history of the world. These three happy ages are those in which the arts were carried to perfection; and which, by serving as the era of the greatness of the human mind, are examples for posterity.

The first of these ages to which true glory is annexed, is that of Philip and Alexander, or that of a Pericles, a Demosthenes, an Aristotle, a Plato, an Apelles, a Phidias, and a Praxiteles, &c.

The second age is that of Cæsar and Augustus, distinguished likewise by the names of Lucretius, Cicero, Titus, Livius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Varro, Vitruvius, &c.

The third is that which followed the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II., a Moor.

ANCIENT HISTORIANS.

THE Old Testament was written in Africa, and Colo Syria in the land of Moab, and translated into the Greek tongue, from the Hebrew, by the Egyptian and Jerusalem Jews, by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, an Ethiopian, king of Egypt.

The Greek translation of the Old Testament was first began, at least, in Egypt; thence it found its way into Ethiopia. Greek was understood by superior persons there, and from this translation it is highly probable that, without any other teacher, the Ethiopians obtained the knowledge of the true God, and thus became first proselyted to Judaism, and then converted to Christianity.

Next to the historical books of the Old Testament, the most ancient history worthy of perusal is that of Herodotus, the father of profane history, which is in nine books. In the second book of his History of Egypt, and the manners of the Egyptians, he states that the Egyptians were black, and their hair frizzly, &c. Herodotus has been translated by Beloe, in four volumes.

Livy, the prince of Roman historians, wrote a work of 132 books. Many of these are lost; those which are extant have been translated by Baker. In this work are found the lives of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Flaminius, Paulus Æmilius, the elder Cato, the Gracchi, Marius, Scylla, the younger Cato, Sertorius, Lucullus, Julius Cæsar, Cicero, Pompey and Brutus, Ethiopians or Africans.

Plutarch; translated by Langhorne.

Polybius wrote a general history of the Greeks and Romans, in forty books; translated by Hampton.

The works of Appian originally consisted of twenty books of the history of Rome from the earliest period. Sallust, the first philosophical Roman historian. This work has been translated into English by Murphy, by Stuart, and by Rose.

Xenophon's History of Greece, translated by Smith. The History of Arrian, translated by Rook.

Thucydides, an eminent Greek historian; translated by Smith.

Dionysius Halicarnassus wrote a history of Rome; translated by Spelman.

Ephorus and Temæus.

Tacitus; translated by Murphy.

Cornelius Nepos and Appianus Alexander.

The celebrated Justin, an African, wrote his first apology for the Christians about 136 years after Christ. His history is translated by Turnbull.

Eusebius, the father of Ecclesiastical History, was born in Cæsarea, of Palestine, the inhabitants of which were descendants of Ham.

Pausanias, Aristoteles, Isocrates, Diogenes Laertius, Athenæus.

Procopius, a Roman historian, and last of the classical writers.

Strabo, an Ethiopian, a celebrated historian. His Ancient Geography was written in Greek. We hope this work will be translated into English.

Eratosthenes, an African poet of Cyrene.

Josephus, a Jewish historian, wrote his book in Greek. It has been translated into English

Euclid, an Ethiopian, a Greek writer in Geometry. Three hundred years before Christ, he was at the head of the most celebrated mathematical school, in the world. Archimedes, a celebrated disciple of Euclid. Julius Cæsar, an African.

Plato, an Ethiopian, a wise and learned Grecian writer.

Proclus, a learned Platonist.

Origen and Cyprian, learned Christian writers.,

Photius, a learned Christian writer and philosopher. Lactantius, an elegant writer, and an able defender of Christianity.

ANCIENT POETS.

THE first kind of poetry that was among the Romans was the verses made by Numa, a prince of Rome, which the Salian priests sung in his time. Pythagoras, either in the same reign, or, if you please, some time after, gave the Romans a tincture of poetry as well as philosophy; for Cicero assures us that the Pythagorians made great use of poetry and music.

Callimachus, an African poet of Cyrene.

Orpheus, Musæus, and Linus, were before Homer's time.

Homer, an Ethiopian, the greatest of the Grecian poets; a historian likewise.

Anacreon, a Greek poet, and father of the Anacreontic

verse.