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parison a much more respectable bird, and withal a 
true original native of America. Eagles have been 
found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar 
to ours; the first of the species seen in Europe being 
brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, and 
served up at the wedding table of Charles the Ninth.r 
He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, it is 
true, but not the worse emblem for that,) a bird of 
courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier 
of the British Guards, who should presume to invade 
his farmyard with a red coat on. 
I shall not enter into the criticisms made upon 
their Latin. The gallant officers of America may 
not have the merit of being great scholars, but they 
undoubtedly merit much, as brave soldiers, from 
their country, which should therefore not leave them 
merely to fame for their “virtutis premium,” which 
is one of their Latin mottoes. Their “esto perpetua,”’ 
another, is an excellent wish, if they meant it for 
their country; bad, if intended for their order. The 
States should not only restore to them the omnia of 
their first motto,* which many of them have left and 
lost, but pay them justly, and reward them gener- 
ously. They should not be suffered to remain, with 
all their new-created chivalry, entirely in the situa- 
tion of the gentleman in the story, which their omnia 
* A learned friend of the Editor’s has observed to him that this is a 
mistake, as turkeys were found in great plenty by Cortes when he in- 
vaded and conquered Mexico, before the time of Charles the Twelfth; 
that this, and their being brought to old Spain, is mentioned by Peter 
Martyr of Anghiera, who was Secretary to the Council of the Indies, 
established immediately after the discovery of America, and personally 
acquainted with Columbus. 
2 “Omnia reliquit servare Rempublicain.” 
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