MR. WILTON.  “They are a more civilized set than the people of Dahomey; and the Danes have furnished us with a portrait of one of their kings, whose name was Opocco.  Here is the account:—­’The monarch was seated on a throne of massive gold, under the shade of an artificial tree with golden leaves.  His body, extremely lean, and inordinately tall, was smeared over with tallow mixed up with gold dust.  A European hat, bound with broad gold lace, covered his head; his loins were encircled with a sash of golden cloth.  From his neck down to his feet cornelians, agates, lazulites, were crowded in the form of bracelets and chains, and his feet rested on a golden basin.  The grandees of the realm lay prostrate on the ground, with their heads covered with dust.  A hundred complainers and accused persons were in a similar posture; behind them twenty executioners, with drawn sabres in their hands waited the royal signal, which generally terminated each cause, by the decapitation of one or other of the parties.’

“The Danish envoy was introduced; and passing a number of bloody heads, recently separated from the bodies, approached the throne.  The magnificent flaming prince addressed him with the following most gracious questions:—­’I would willingly detain thee for some months in my dominions, to give thee an idea of my greatness.  Hast thou ever seen anything to be compared with it?  ‘No! lord and king,’ replied the obsequious envoy, ‘thou hast no equal in the world!’ ‘Thou art right,’ said Opocco, ’God in heaven does not much surpass me!’ The king drank some English beer from a bottle, and then handed it to the Dane; the latter took a little, and excused himself by saying that the liquor would intoxicate him.  ’It is not the beer that confounds thee,’ said Opocco; ’it is the brightness of my countenance which throws the universe into a state of inebriety!’ This same king conquered the brave prince Oorsoock, chief of the Akims, who slew himself.  He caused the head of the vanquished prince to be brought to him, decked it with golden bracelets, and in presence of his generals directed to him the following speech:  —­’Behold him laid in the dust, this great monarch, who had no equal in the universe, except God and me!  He was certainly the third.  Oh! my brother Oorsoock, why wouldst thou not acknowledge thyself my inferior?  But thou hopedst to find an opportunity of killing me; thou thoughtest that there ought not to be more than one great man in the world.  Thy sentiment was not to be blamed; it is one in which all mighty kings ought to participate.’”