QUESTION of improvement examined. Scene, the ruined village. Small farmers and peasantry, certes worsened. ManuServants an altered END of all disputed successions with the factures a new class. Union of the Roses. one. ceeded it in Portugal, and boys of course became little men. men only should have been discharged at first who wished their discharge, others kept on for one year at least, till they could find STEAM engine. Mail coach. Arkwright. employment for themselves. Watt. THE only means by which such countries as Naples and Spain can be regenerated without a long and dreadful age of suffering, is by an enlightened king or minister possessing his entire confidence and support. Free passage given to as many as chose to go out and colonize; officers tempted to colonize by grants of land, passage, and their half pay, either by drawing for it, or in stores, &c. upon the spot, at English prices, for a certain number of years, till the land could well support them; and till that term, the half pay to be continued to PRINCIPLES of order and association turned their widows and children in case of death. against society. THE present race are what Johnson em We have rats from Norway and cock-phatically called bottomless Whigs. Their roaches from the West Indies, bugs and attachment to the most sacred institutions blasphemy from London. of the country is so lax, that no person knows how far the loose tether of their A LAW nicety kept the lawyers cold.— principles extends. R. NORTH, Vol. 1, p. 185. "It had been a prime jest," says ROGER NORTH (Vol. 1, p. 284), “if, under the pretence of a defence, the criminal should be allowed to vent seditious libels, full of mutiny and reflection, to amuse the people, and so to come forth and be published in print." And so "he took unto the treason trade." -Ibid. p. 285. By Lord Keeper Guildford's advice, counter-pamphleteers, Sir Roger, &c. were set up, as a better way than prosecutors, "they soon wrote the libellers out of the pit, and during that king's life, the trade of libels, which before had been in great request, fell to nothing."-Ibid. p. 301. A TIME of long continued deterioration every where, except in arts; the light being only preserved among the Jews. Note this lapse from the patriarchal and golden age, in the second Dialogue. THREE cries occasioned the acts after the war-cheap bread, retrenchment, and a metallic currency. IN Utopia, "extra senatum aut comitia publicè, de rebus communibus inire consilium, capitale habetur." - P. 129. This was a precaution against tyranny. BROUGHAM. "While these terrified petitioners were brooding over the dangers of Catholic admission to Parliament, it might afford some comfort, as diversion to their fears, to know how slight a phrase it was which prevented Roman Catholic Bishops from sitting in the Upper House, but which precluded Jewish Rabbis, or even the great Mufti himself, from coming into Parliament, either by creation from the Crown, or election by the people. (Hear! and laughter.) It was barely the accidental insertion of the word Christian, in one of the tests, which prevented that consummation, dreadful as it would be to the good men of Kent. Neither the Mahometan nor the Rabbi had any objection to the oaths; they could digest the supremacy, the allegiance, and the abjuration of Catholic doctrines; nothing kept them out but the fortunate insertion of all this I promise upon the faith of a Christian.""-Courier, Saturday, May In reducing an army after a war, those 11, 1822. Such trash as this is uttered in Parlia- | fore the revolution.-See MRS. CAREY'S ment and passes current!! "THE reason," says SWIFT, "why the Whigs have taken the atheists, or freethinkers into their body is, because they wholly agree in their political schemes, and differ very little in church power and discipline." AT Westminster, the College ought in this to resemble a college, that each scholar should have his separate apartment, and that to all others it should be his castle. THE fault in Europe seems to be too much government and too little police. HOBBES says, in his Dialogues concerning the Common Law, 66 perhaps the greatest cause of multitude of suits is this, that for want of registering of conveyances of land (which might easily be done in the townships where the lands lie) a purchase cannot easily be had which will not be litigious." MANUFACTURERS seditious when provisions are at a high price: the agriculturists when they are cheap, and both classes showing their total want of reverence or attachment towards the institutions of their country. WRITS-" de inquirendo de prodigo" proposed in that very sensible tract called England's Wants.-SOMERS' Tracts, vol. 9, p. 223. MR. HUME" the great toe of the assembly." "LAWS and church discipline."- LORD BROOKE, p. 40. OWENITE communities in Auvergne be The Flemings put the estates of prodigals, as they did those of lunatics, under guardians. See suprà, p. 616.-J. W. W. Tour, p. 347. HAYLEY says, "I remember to have heard it said by a late anatomist, in a professional discourse on the female frame, that it almost appeared an act of cruelty in nature to produce such a being as woman." IN a Monarchy there certainly is something more like a moral responsibility, more like a conscience than in a Republic, as Dryden says, "Well Monarchies may own Religious name, But States are Atheists in their very frame, They share a sin: and such proportions fall That like a stink, 'tis nothing to them all." SEE a horrid passage concerning original sin in SOUTH, vol. 7, p. 131. AN opinion that departed spirits do not see what passes on earth.-Ibid. p. 346. Books composed without a grain of research or a pennyweight of reason, a scruple of conscience: a dram of impudence or of slander suffices. SOCIETY with books.-ERAS. Epist. p. 297. OPPOSITION like the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, from the proudest Whigs down to the most desperate levellers. "IN Cretâ Iouis simulacrum confingi certum est sine auribus, quoniam principem uirum, et omnibus late dominantem audire addecet neminem, sed id demum persequi quod dictat rationis examen, et iustitiæ nusquam præflorata integritas. Hæc Cœlius, li. 6." "In quibus, neque tibi neque mihi satisfeci, propterea quod rei quæ non ratione nititur, ratio nulla reddi potest."—SCALIGER. Ep. 85, p. 220. "LITTERÆ quid aliud sunt hodiè, quam "THE pit wherein Democritus imagined Truth to be buried, was questionless the heart of man."-JACKSON, vol. 1, p. 887. MILNER, &c. and our martyrs. "Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak "AND let the counsel of thine own heart | against the righteous.”—Ps. xxxi. 20. |