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folly. The word liberty signified, under of regiments regulate every morning the Robespierre, and also under the consulate, duty of the officers of their garrison. oppression, slavery. The expression, liberal ideas, means at present, outrage, military system, &c. &c.-So that one might say of a certain personage, that he is as philoso-hold the fortunes of all. They have their phical as an ax, and asɣliberal as a bayonet.

This diverging of signification was the more easy as the opposite parties laboured respectively to effect it: the Jacobins and Bonp ertists to cover their turpitude with respectable garments; the Ultras, that those respectable garments might be soiled in touching the filth of Jacobinism. The former thought of making friends in this age, by concealing themselves under the cloke of liberal ideas: the latter of disgusting the age with liberal ideas, by muffing in their cloke men devoted to its hatred and contempt.

possess great influence, because, by means of the profession which they exercise, they

orators, on whom they bestow property to render them eligible to the chamber of deputies. They have their songsters, who undertake to make respectable magistrates unpopular, and to make the little girls and shopmen of the Rue Vivienne laugh at kings and priests. They have their journals, which, not being able to attack things, make themselves amends by tearing the protectors of them to pieces; in fine, they would, upon need, find sufficient force for a coup-de-main among the men of the military system, whose hopes they buoy with

the most officious zeal.

Just as the Ultras could not war against the age, but by attaching themselves to its progress, and entering into the constitutional principles, so the Liberals. in order to attack the government, have been compelled to enter little by ittle into the principles of royalty; it is thus that the jour

And such is the confusion into which we have been plunged by these parties, that if we praise philosophy we may be accused of extolling folly; that if we decry philosophy, we may be accused of decrying wis dom; that if we extol the revolution, we may be told that we are boasting of scaffolds and anarchy; if we speak degrad-nals of the faction daily make concessions, ingly of it, we shall be told that we are enemies to the progress of knowledge, and to the natural rights consecrated by the charter; and, in fine, if we praise liberal ideas, we shall be accused of being Jacobins; and of being Ultras, if we speak against them.

Compelled as the Jacobins and Bonapartists were to unite their strength against legitimacy, they could not but choose a common banner. It was requisite that the word for this banner should be sufficiently vague, to comprehend all the notions opposed to the old order of things: the word liberal was inscribed upon them, and the party took the field.

The head quarters of this party are established in some gilt offices of the Chauséed'Antin; there it is that the measures to be taken for the common interest are discussed; there it is that the news, the anecdotes, the bons-mots to be circulated in public, for the purpose of flattering the popular passions, and maintaining the hatred and hopes of subaltern members, are fabricated; there it is that men and things of the royal party are blackened, disfigured, and dressed grotesquely to be afterwards thrown to the beasts; there it is that the apotheoses of brethren who fall into the hands of the Prevotal courts and courts-martial are decreed; in a word, it is there that all that is to be done and said through the day is determined upon, just as the commanders

a single one of which is enough to overturn all their secret maxims; it is thus that the leaders of the party, to make their cloke thicker, call themselves the first grenadiers of the hereditary magistrate. But look under this cloke, and you will see, collected in file, all the men of insurrection, from the Jacobin of 93, to the federate of the hundred days; you will see men of the ax and of the sabre, eagles and red caps.

And how should you be encouraged by the language of these men, when your enemies are not alarmed by it; when they, whose whole life the sight of the king accuses, are not terrfiied at hearing the name of the king proclaimed by their leaders and their tribunes?..........

If ever they are able, by means of the elections, to have a majority in the chamber, they will strive to obtain the administration.

If they succeed in obtaining the administration, they will seize all the employments.

Once masters of all the posts, they will tell you their seeret.

But is this secret of theirs still a secret to us? Did not one of their oraters let it slip last year, in the chamber of the deputies? Did he not say, It is USURPATION ALONE THAT CAN TRANQUILLIZE THE INTERESTS OF USURPATION?

It is not difficult to draw the inference of this proposition, and both parties have

accordingly done it, the one very loudly, the other very low.

Therefore, cried the Ultras, sacrifice the interests of usurpation, since you cannot secure them but by placing an usurper on the throne.

Therefore, muttered, in petto, the Liberals, Let us place an usurper on the throne, since it is the only way to tranquillize the interests of usurpation.

could with pleasure have enlarged them, if the limits of our journal would allow of their extension. The adventures of Monsieur Joseph are terminated, naturally enough, by one of the insane patients setting fire to Charenton; in consequence of which he effects his escape to his paternal home, where he promises to abandon his vagaries, and and is, of course, affectionately received.

what is no mean recommendation, it is evidently well translated. The volume is illustrated with several engravings, in which those who are conversant with the great political actors in the national Theatre of France, will probably recognize the countenances of some well

It would, in fact, be difficult for the government to get out of this dilemma, were It is impossible not to be amused as the major proposition just as the deduc- well as informed by this ingenious protion: the question is not about tranquil: duction. Though decided in its opilizing the interests of usurpation, but leav-nions, it is moderate, impartial, and, ing them undisturbed; which is a very different thing. The matter is to act as you would with fire, to leave it its prey, but not to throw to it what it has not taken. It is proper to devote to oblivion the faults of the revolution; but this oblivion can only by extended over men, and over events accomplished, not to the principles which produced those events, and which would produce others of the same kind. We are not to sacrifice moral order altogether to the perishable interests of a party. The concession we make to the past cannot compromise the future; in short, if we would adopt the avowed object of the revolution, we would not make interests triumph, which, as I have demonstrated, are completely opposed to that object.

But we are already reaping the fruit of the firm conduct which the government has maintained in regard to parties. The necessity which has compelled the factions to abandon their entrenchments, and to arm themselves, these with constitutional, and those with monarchical principles, is a great step towards the triumph of order. Though there is every reason to suspect the candour of their language, this important truth does not the less follow, that the more they advance with the age, the more impossible will they find it to return to the points which they have abandoned. The time is not so distaut as is thought, when we shall be able to say, that there are no more parties in France, though there are party men; there will be no longer, properly speaking, Jacobinism. Bonapartism, or Feudalism, but merely Jacobins, Bonapartists, and Ultras. That is, let the government persevere, and the question will be soon confined to individuals; and to predict the end of our embarrassments, we shall have only to consult Buffon's tables of mortality. The anti-social interests depending only upon lives, the fund will be very soon annihiJat d.

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known characters.

Lectures on the Principles and Institutions of the Roman Catholic Religion; with an appendix, containing historical and critical Illustrations. By Joseph Fletcher, M. A. 2d edit. revised, corrected, and enlarged, 8vo. 9s. Baldwin and Co. London, 1818.

A treatise on the subjects discussed in this valuable work, would be interesting at all times; but it is peculiarly intitled to attention at the present time, when the claims of our Roman Catholic fellow subjects are about to be submitted to the consideration of Parliament.

As

the first edition of this work was disposed of, before we could present our readers with an account of it, we seize the earliest opportunity of announcing to them the second impression.

Mr. Fletcher informs us that the substance of his Lectures' was delivered, some years since. in a series of discourses to his congregation, in consequence of the zealous efforts of the Roman Catholic Priest, then resident in Blackburn, (Lancashire) in the public vindication of his own principles; and that Mr. F. has been induced to publish these Lectures from the attacks which have been repeatedly made on the Protestant faith, as well as from apprehensions of there

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vival of the Papal religion, and also that the rising generation may be well informed on the reasons of our secession from the Church of Rome. The topics which Mr. F. has treated are, 1. The authority of the church. 2. Oral Tradition. 3. Papal Supremacy. 4. Transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the Mass. 5. The Sacrament of the Church of Rome. 6. The Invocation of Saints, and the use of Images. 7. Purgatory and the Doctrine of Merit. 8. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy. 9. The Genus and Tendency of the Papal Religion.A copious appendix is subjoined illustrating at length various subjects which are incidentally noticed in the Lecturers and a useful analysis of them is prefixed, which will enable the reader with facility to refer to any particular points.

From a careful examination of Mr. Fletcher's volume, we have no hesitation in saying, that it is a faithful exposition and defence of the principles on which the Protestant secession is founded. He has drawn his statements of Roman Catholic tenets from the creeds, confessions, and canons of that church, and from the writings of its ablest advocates, and he has refuted them with uncommon vigour and eloquence.

A Treatise on Soils and Manures, as founded on actual experience, and combined with the leading principles of agriculture, in which the theory and doctrines of Sir Humphrey Davy, and other eminent Agricultural Chemists are rendered familiar to the experienced farmer by a practised Agriculturist: 8vo. 5s. Cadell and Davis. London, 1818.

It is only of late years that the connexion between agriculture and chemistry has been considered with that attention which the subject so justly demands. The benefits, indeed, that may be derived from the union of chemical skill with the extensive observation of agricultural facts, are perhaps incalculable. At present, the state of knowledge, among the generality of farmers, is not such as to enable them to reap much advantage from chemical experiments, and the chemist has, himself, but few opportunities of applying bis knowledge to practical purposes in

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In the Treatise now under consideration, the leading doctrines of Sir H. Davy are brought under review, in order that such as are obviously well founded, or tenable against superficial objections, may be recommended to general practice; and that such as are open to objection, may be subjected to the test of experience in so plain a shape, as shall bring them within the grasp of the practical agriculturist, who may have formed no previous acquaintance with chemical science.

After a few preliminary observations on the use and bases of soils, and a definition of terms for them, the Author treats on the various means by which soils may be improved; such as the admixture of earths, draining, paring, and burning, turning in green crops as manure, fallowing, irrigation. The application of earths as manures, the introduction of mineral and saline substances as manures, and the application, in the way of manure, of substances that are not, as well as of those which are excrementitious.

The work is written with considerable perspicuity, and in a manner which we think cannot fail to engage the attention of that important class of persons for whose use it is more immediately designed.

The Elements of Experimental Chemistry. By William Henry, M.D. F.R.S. The Eighth Edition. 8vo. with Plates, 2 vols. £1 8s. Baldwin and Co. London. 1818.

Although this is only a new edition of a well known work, published long before the commencement of our journal, we deem it proper to introduce it to the notice of our readers, on account of the very considerable and important additions which it has received, and also of our high opinion of its value, as the

best elementary work on experimental | chemistry perhaps, that is extant in our language. From a comparison of the present work with former editions, we can with confidence state, that the author has spared no pains to render his work worthy of the public favour, by incorporating into it every new fact, and by continuing the history of chemical discovery to the latest possible period, which the publication would admit. The instructions for conducting the various chemical experiments, are drawn up with singular precision; and various useful hints are given for performing them with safety to the operator. The plates, nine in number, are beautifully executed by Lowry; and the value of the work is greatly enhanced by the collection of chemical tables that are appended to it, and which are more numerous as well as more copious, than are to be found in any other treatise on this very important science.

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complete Guide to the Almanack, contain-Richards, H. Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, ing an Explanation of Saints' Days; comparative Chronology; Astronomical Occurrences; Naturalists' Diary; a Decription of Fruit Trees, and a compendium of Chemistry. 12mo. Sherwood and Co. This elegant work is replete with amusement and instruction, and fully supports the character we have given of the five former volumes; they who take a peep through Time's Telescope for 1819, will not repent the money they have paid for this gratification. It is an acceptable Christmas present for youth of both sexes.

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ANTIQUITIES.

Mr. Britton announces a History and Description of Lichfield Cathedral, to be illustrated with 16 engravings, from Drawings, by F. Mackenzie; among which is one representing the justly famed monument, by Chantrey, of the Children of Mrs. Robinson. This History is to be finished in the present year, and form a portion of the Author's Series of "The Cathedral Antiquities of England."

Miscellaneous Antiquities, No. 8, (in Continuation of the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica) handsomely printed in 4to. Price £22s. a New Edition, corrected, enlarged, and embellished with numerous Plates, of a Comment on the Fifth Journey of Antoninus tnrough Britain; in which the Situation of Durobrivæ, the Seventh Station there mentioned, is discussed; and Castor, in Northamptonshire, is shewn, from various Remains of Roman Antiquity, to have an undoubted claim to that situation. Also a Dissertation on an Image of Jupiter found there. Printed from the Original Manuscript. By the Rev. Kennet Gibson, late Curate of Castor.

To which is subjoined, The Parochial History of Castor, and its Dependencies, to the present time; with an Account of Marbam, and several other places in the neighbourhood of Castor. By Richard Gough, Esq.

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A Short History of France, for Young Persons. By a Daughter of the late Mrs. Trimmer. In 12mo. embellished with Six Plates from Original Designs. Arithmetic for Children, by the Author of Letters for Young Persons in Humble Life, will soon appear.

The Youth's Spelling, Pronouncing, and explanatory Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, in which all the words of the four leading parts of speech, in the New Testament, are arranged under their respective heads, & the explanations given in as simple, clear, and concise a manner as possible.

To which is added, an Essay, by way of introduction,on the several parts of speech; and also a correct Alphabetical Index. 12mo. 7s. fine paper, 9s.

HISTORY.

Shakh Mansur will soon publish, in 8vo. a History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat, with an account of the countries and people on the shores of the Persian gulf, particularly of the Wahabees.

Hora Britannica; or, Studies in Ancien British History. By John Hughes, 2 vols. 8vo. 18s.

MEDICINE.

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Dr. John Bacon, of Gloucester, has in the press, an Inquiry respecting some of the Diseases of the Serous Membranes of

the Abdomen and Thorax.

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Dublin, 4to. vol. 12, part 2.

Mr. Hazlitt has in the press, Lectures on the Comic Genius and Writers of Great Britain, now delivering at the Surry Institution.

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