virtue of the boasted British constitution, the unchosen, hereditary legislators of the land; vested with the legal power of firing upon, or hanging, (backed by an enormously expensive standing army, officered by their own relatives, but paid out of the labour of the many,) all who resist their exactions, together with the further power of annulling any law, not pleasing to themselves, attempted to be made by the other division of the legislature; whilst even that other division, though nominally chosen by the many, the many are, by the law of property qualification, compelled to choose from among the remaining portion of the falsely educated few, or property union; the many, the while, (except an attempt on the part of the highly paid relatives of the few, the clergy, to teach them the one lesson of submission to all this,) being left totally uninstructed, to the fatal influence of the ill-will-producing circumstances of a miserably unjust organization of the artificial social sys tem; by the operation of which, the idle few, with their hosts of non-productive, that is, merely ostentatious or personal attendants; and multitudes of equally nonproductive pampered animals, kept for show, and domestic ones, maintained for amusement; all live, in the most wasteful luxury, unenjoyed from its very excess, (for even the lap-dogs of the property union lack appetite,) on the hard labour of the industrious many, millions of whom are themselves insufficiently fed, and scarcely clothed or housed at all; and all of whom are most irrationally and ungratefully despised by those whose comforts, splendours, and luxuries, they live but to create." Having quoted this execrable nonsense, we beg leave to ask Mrs. Loudon whether she is productive or non-productive, not whether she has not a brood of incipient radicals hanging at her knees, but whether she gains her bread by the sweat of her brow? Does she work as a charwoman, as a milliner, or in what capacity? for, without she can prove that she exists by manual labour, she is, in the politico-economical sense, unproductive. We believe, if the truth were really known, it would turn out, that her only employment is to sit in her room, and with her pen in her hand, inflated with foolishness and vanity, to mask diabolical opinions under the cloak of religion, and blaspheming in the name of that God whom she may well think indulgent in permitting her to finish her work of abomination. If such books as these be her labour, we tell her, that she is not only more unproductive of good than the highest and the most pampered noble in the land, but that had she the talent to work out her views, she would be as much her country's scourge, as she is our scorn. Having given a specimen of her powers of libelling, we now show her acquirements in the seditious line. "Great Britain has been compared to a ship at sea, short of provisions, and not allowed to touch at any port where provisions may be had. But her case is even worse than this, for though her crew are kept on short allowance, her wardroom officers are feasting sumptuously every day, while those very officers are they who will not allow her to touch at any port where plenty may be had, because the majo rity of them are pursers, and have themselves the selling of the short allowance to the crew-all the dearer for being short! "The Saviour of mankind, in setting us an example that we should follow his steps, blessed a few small loaves, and by his divine mandate made them sufficient to feed five thousand people. The parliament of christian England follows this example-How? By cursing the bread of twenty-five millions of people, and changing, by their word, each poor labourer's portion, into half of that which his Creator has furnished him with the natural means of obtaining for himself." But as the step from sedition to treason is so easy, Mrs. Loudon does not hesitate to make it, and to tell the people that the kingly office, for that is meant under the term "crown," is but an object of ignorant worship, yielded in ignorance. "What is the pride of equipage, of title, of a crown itself, of all the baubles in pursuit of which crime is committed, but the ignorant worship, yielded in ignorance, to an ignorant and misjudging public opinion? Let, then, a more enlightened public opinion teach pride to centre henceforward in virtue, and show men that honesty and disinterestedness, not wealth and power, are greatness; talents and learning, not title and equipage, splendour." It is because this is the work of a female, that we are so unmeasured in our reprehension. It is because it is from the pen of one of the softer sex, who has thought proper to throw away her attributes, and to leap, like a political Moll Flaggon, into the arena of political gladiatorism, that we show her no mercy. This work has unsexed her. We can imagine a drunken, emaciated disciple of the tottle-of-the-whole legislator, spouting forth such nonsense as he reeled and held on by the door-posts of a gin palace-we could feel for, and pity the poor deluded wretch; but that a lady, an educated person, one that has moved in respectable society, and who might be supposed to feel, that a woman, like the violet, is only sweet in her privacy, in attending to her domestic duties, in rearing up her children to fear God, honour the king, and all who are put in authority under him, should dare to publish a work as treasonable as it is blasphemous, as blasphemous as it is false-that a lady should, in her petty ambition and vanity of semi-intellect, point out to fools and knaves that it is high time that anarchy should stalk forward, that the bloody banner of revolution should be unfurled, and that political licentiousness should be let loose, is to us a subject of indignation and disgust. The Muse and Poetess, a Lesson from Nature. By EMILY D- We really wish that nobody would send us poetry, for somehow or another, we have almost a horror of it lately. We have the credit of being very severe upon any thing in the shape of a rhyme. Whether it is our fault, or the fault of those who write it, we will leave the reader to judge. But if we dislike reviewing poetry in general, it is still more annoying to have to review the poetry of young ladies. As Candid says, "I am the most peaceable man in the world, and I have killed two men already," so we assert, "That we are the most gallant of all editors in the world, and yet we have smashed half a dozen pretty girls already." In the present instance, we will quote the commencement of one or two of the poems in this little book, and make no comments. The work opens with a summons from the Muse, as follows: "Who is it sits 'neath yonder tree? I hastily will go and see, The Muse tells Emily D "I've other things for you to do, The consequence is, that Emily D- The sailor's wife opens as follows: دو writes this little book, and Mr. "How peaceful am I in this dear little cot, From the world far away, by the world p'r'aps forgot, and passed. On the motion that the Militia Staff Reduction Bill be read a third time, after some discussion, the third reading was carried by a majority of 100; the ayes being 109, the noes 9.-The Irish Corporations' Bill went through Committee, as did the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Bill. August 14.-The Slave Owner's Compensation Bill was read a third time.-The Budget. In Committee of Ways and Means, the Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to submit to the House his financial statement for the year ending the 5th of April 1835, but in consequence of the unusual lateness of the period at which he was introducing his statement, he was enabled to include the last quarter, ending 5th July. The Hon. Gentleman announced to the House, that in April last there appeared a surplus of 902,000l., and that in July there was a surplus of 1,205,000l.; these two estimates, however, did not include any provision for the payment of the interest on the West India loan. His calculations with regard to the ensuing year led him to the conclusion that the amount of revenue for that year would be 45,550,000l., the amount of expenditure 44,715,000l., thus leaving a surplus of 835,000l. As to the disposition of the surplus in their possession it was to be remembered that there must be deducted from that sum the amount of interest on the West India loan, which would probably not exceed 6 or 700,000l., after which deduction the surplus remaining would not be sufficient to enable him to make any very great reductions in taxation. He should propose, first, with regard to spirit licenses, that parties should be at liberty to take out licenses for the sale of a quantity of spirits limited to fifty gallons, and that in such cases the duty should be reduced. He should also propose a reduction in the duty upon flint glass, of 4d., viz., from 6d. to 2d., which would probably, in the first instance, occasion a loss of about 60 or 70,000l., but would, he had no doubt, hereafter be the means of increasing the revenue upon that article. The third subject for reduction was the stamp duties in Ireland, as regarded awards consequent upon arbitrations relating to sums under a certain amount; a measure which he trusted would be very beneficial to the humbler classes in that country.-The House then resumed.-The Exchequer Courts Bill (Ireland) passed through a Committee.-Adjourned. August 15.-The Speaker took the Chair at twelve o'clock.-Lord J. Russell appeared at the Bar, and informed the House that he held in his hand his Majesty's most gracious answer to the resolutions of that House on the subject of Orange lodges in the army, which had been communicated to his Majesty. His Majesty assured his faithful Commons that he had perused with the greatest attention their resolutions, and that he could assure them that the subject had, and should continue to receive his best and most serious consideration, and that his faithful Commons might rely on his firm determination to adopt those measures that may appear the most effectual to discourage such injurious practices, and to prevent the formation of such societies in the army.-Mr. Baring brought up the reports on the " Ways and Means," and the Excise Laws, which were agreed to.- -The Attorney-General moved the third reading of the Bill to abolish Imprisonment for Debt. August 17.-The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. August 18.-The Prisons Regulations Bill was read a third time and passed.The Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill passed through a Committee.--Mr. W. Patten reported from the Select Committee on Orange Institutions in Great Britain and the Colonies that Lieut.-Col. Fairman had been called upon to produce a letter-book stated to be in his possession, and which contained copies of letters entered by himself and agents, and had refused to comply with such requisition. It was ordered that Lieut.-Col. Fairman should attend at the bar of the House to-morrow. Died. At Ilfracombe, aged 89, Catherine widow of the Rev. John Roget, and sister of the late Sir Samuel Romilly. At Esher, Lieut.-Gen. George Cookson, R.A. At Oswaldkirk, York, the Rev. T. Comber, aged 71, rector of that parish. The "India Gazette" annonnces that the Rajah of Jaypore died on the 5th of April. At Bayswater, aged 62, S. W. Reynolds, Esq., engraver to their Majesties. At Naples, Thomas Janies Mathias, Esq, in his 82nd year. This gentleman was the Author of the celebrated "Pursuits of Literature." In Albemarle Street, Mr. Charles Wild, in the 52nd year of his age. Married.-At St. Mary's, Paddington, Henry Bickersteth, Esq., King's Counsel, to Lady Jane Elizabeth Harley, eldest daughter of the Earl of Oxford. At St. Pancras, the Rev. Robert Deedes Wilmot, M.A., Vicar of Kennington, in Hants, to Jane, youngest daughter of Charles Teruer, Esq. A.R.A. Mr. Jonathan Wood, to Miss Sturtivant, only daugher of the Rev. Mr. Sturtivant. The Hon. J. J. B. Ponsonby, son of Lord Duncannon, and member for Derby, will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the beautiful and accomplished daughter of the Earl of Durbam. THE METROPOLITA N. OCTOBER, 1835. LITERATURE. NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. Philanthropic Economy; or, the Philosophy of Happiness, practically applied to the Social, Political, and Commercial Relations of Great Britain. By MRS. LOUDON, Author of "First Love," "Fortune Hunting," and "Dilemmas of Pride." Edward Churton, 26, Holles Street. As the light of civilization has gradually spread over man, the execrations of the good have become more general and more loud upon the religious warfares that formerly desolated the fairest countries of Europe, and, at one period, seemed to threaten almost universal depopulation. Murders committed under the pretended sanction of the cross, have always been the most horrible, as we believe them to be the most inexpiable; and thrice accursed must the inciters to those atrocities be. We are compelled to state, for Mrs. Loudon's information, that there are some characters now living, who are playing, we hope unconsciously, as far as they dare, the same impious part. Wolves in sheep's clothing have ever been looked upon as the types of mingled ferocity and hypocrisy, yet when we see the incendiary array himself in the white vestments of innocence, and assuming the attire of the Lamb of God, breathe forth provocatives to rebellion, and ultimately instigate to many-handed murder, we are bound to exclaim of such ignorance, "Lord, forgive him, for he knoweth not what he doeth." The work before us is the invention of a female Benthamite, one of those who bow to the Dagon Brougham, who as yet remains erect on his altar, but we trust soon will be prostrate-by an authoress, who, lifting the banner of equality, would remodel the social system under the plea, that it is the Lord's will, that all his creatures should be at ease and happy. In order to bring the higher classes into disrepute, and thus to assist to effect the regeneration she aims at, she thus speaks of our aristocracy. "Yet, as what calls itself education is now conducted, the few are diligently made worse than ignorant; being from their cradles imbued with forced false associations, but too welcome to selfishness; and sent into life, blinded by deep-rooted prejudices, teaching them to believe the monstrous and blasphemous falsehood, that for them, the few, and their children, from generation to generation, to prey upon the many, and their children, from generation to generation, is a part of the order of nature, as prescribed by its benevolent Author. And, as though this were not enough, a certain portion of this, thus judiciously educated few, go forth, by Oct. 1835.-VOL. XIV.-NO. LIV. F virtue of the boasted British constitution, the unchosen, hereditary legislators of the land; vested with the legal power of firing upon, or hanging, (backed by an enormously expensive standing army, officered by their own relatives, but paid out of the labour of the many,) all who resist their exactions, together with the further power of annulling any law, not pleasing to themselves, attempted to be made by the other division of the legislature; whilst even that other division, though nominally chosen by the many, the many are, by the law of property qualification, compelled to choose from among the remaining portion of the falsely educated few, or property union; the many, the while, (except an attempt on the part of the highly paid relatives of the few, the clergy, to teach them the one lesson of submission to all this,) being left totally uninstructed, to the fatal influence of the ill-will-producing circumstances of a miserably unjust organization of the artificial social sys tem; by the operation of which, the idle few, with their hosts of non-productive, that is, merely ostentatious or personal attendants; and multitudes of equally nonproductive pampered animals, kept for show, and domestic ones, maintained for amusement; all live, in the most wasteful luxury, unenjoyed from its very excess, (for even the lap-dogs of the property union lack appetite,) on the hard labour of the industrious many, millions of whom are themselves insufficiently fed, and scarcely clothed or housed at all; and all of whom are most irrationally and ungratefully despised by those whose comforts, splendours, and luxuries, they live but to create." Having quoted this execrable nonsense, we beg leave to ask Mrs. Loudon whether she is productive or non-productive, not whether she has not a brood of incipient radicals hanging at her knees, but whether she gains her bread by the sweat of her brow? Does she work as a charwoman, as a milliner, or in what capacity? for, without she can prove that she exists by manual labour, she is, in the politico-economical sense, unproductive. We believe, if the truth were really known, it would turn out, that her only employment is to sit in her room, and with her pen in her hand, inflated with foolishness and vanity, to mask diabolical opinions under the cloak of religion, and blaspheming in the name of that God whom she may well think indulgent in permitting her to finish her work of abomination. If such books as these be her labour, we tell her, that she is not only more unproductive of good than the highest and the most pampered noble in the land, but that had she the talent to work out her views, she would be as much her country's scourge, as she is our scorn. Having given a specimen of her powers of libelling, we now show her acquirements in the seditious line. "Great Britain has been compared to a ship at sea, short of provisions, and not allowed to touch at any port where provisions may be had. But her case is even worse than this, for though her crew are kept on short allowance, her wardroom officers are feasting sumptuously every day, while those very officers are they who will not allow her to touch at any port where plenty may be had, because the majority of them are pursers, and have themselves the selling of the short allowance to the crew-all the dearer for being short! The Saviour of mankind, in setting us an example that we should follow his steps, blessed a few small loaves, and by his divine mandate made them sufficient to feed five thousand people. The parliament of christian England follows this example-How? "By cursing the bread of twenty-five millions of people, and changing, by their word, each poor labourer's portion, into half of that which his Creator has furnished him with the natural means of obtaining for himself," But as the step from sedition to treason is so easy, Mrs. Loudon does not hesitate to make it, and to tell the people that the kingly office, for that is meant under the term "crown," is but an object of ignorant worship, yielded in ignorance. "What is the pride of equipage, of title, of a crown itself, of all the baubles in pursuit of which crime is committed, but the ignorant worship, yielded in ignorance, to an ignorant and misjudging public opinion? Let, then, a more enlightened |