nclined to think that public honors
are valuable, not only as rewards but incitements. They are as politic
as they are just. When Miltiades and his illustrious ten thousand gained
their immortal victory, would not a Blenheim erected on the plains of
Marathon, have stimulated unborn soldiers more than the little
transitory columns which barely recorded the names of the victors?"

"What warrior," said Mr. Carlton, "will hereafter visit the future
palace of Trafalgar without reverence? A reverence, the purity of which
will be in no degree impaired by contemplating such an additional motive
to emulation."

In answer to some further observations of Miss Sparkes, on the
superiority of the ancient to British patriotism, Mr. Flam, whose
indignation now provoked him to display his whole stock of erudition,
eagerly exclaimed: "Do you call that patriotism in your favorite
Athenians, to be so fond of raree-shows, as not only to devote the money
of the state to the play-house, but to make it capital to divert a
little of it to the wants of the gallant soldiers who were fighting
their battles? I hate to hear fellows called patriots who preferred
their diversions to their country."

Then erecting himself as if he felt the taller for being an Englishman,
he added--"What, Madam Sparkes, would your Greeks have said to a
PATRIOTIC FUND by private contribution, of nearly half a million, in the
midst of heavy taxes and a tedious war, voluntarily raised and
cheerfully given to the orphans, widows, and mothers of their brave
countrymen, who fell in their defense? Were the poor soldiers who fought
under your Cimons, and your ----, I forget their names, ever so kindly
remembered? Make it out that they were--show me such a spirit among your
ancients, and I'll turn republican to-morrow."

Miss Sparkes having again said something which he thought tended to
exalt the ancient states at the expense of our own country, Mr. Flam
indignantly replied--"Tell me, madam, did your Athens, or your Sparta,
or your Rome, ever take in seven thousand starving priests driven from a
country with which they were at war; a country they had reason to hate,
of a religion they detested? Did they ever receive them, I say, maintain
them like gentlemen, and caress them like friends? If you can bring me
one such instance, I will give up Old England, and turn Greek, or Roman,
or--any thing but Frenchman."

"I should be inclined," said Mr. Stanley, "to set down that nobl