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London, England, 1820-10-17 00:00:00

OUTINIAN LACIVRES.

The vets, title of these discourses was sufficient
to excite curiosity ; and that feeling must have been
liiightened by other circumstances attending the
delivery of the Lectures. We leave for some time
past wished to give our readers a specimen of the
compositiou, but have hitherto been prevented by
the press of public matter. The following extract
front the sixth lecture, delivered on the 811, of July,
and vevcrul tithe* subsequently, will utlord a fair
test of the Lecturer's talents
Could I aspire to address you assist of those great Grano*
" is Athena, or free &tome, where eioquenee douristeree," or
in free England, where yet I menial say, that " she is
mute'—could I appear 4wfore you !Meuse who
" 't'osome great Vitae Ilifilreaseil,
Stood iii himself collected, white each past
Must,,,,, each act wow audience ere the tongue
S•latelietits is height begat, as so delay
01' preface brooking, through hisses' of right;'
I could cat with more of that heartfelt ardour, which wool
animate the fasciaating Bow of language I should posses.,
apostrophise a tingle subject of say praise or blame, than I
now must humbly express the honest, simple feelioes of the
hvart, is my sinpremerlitated thanks both fur myself and fur
our society to all of you; pots whir compose that part of the
e:latiuns, friend', sod acrtuaintauce of is. enterprising and
beurvident menilsers, whose prmenee here serves so cheer
them to their laborious said very delicate task ; trot, who,
though uniuditeoccd 'mauves, have us•utiested She good
sense to follow their highly lendable example. I doubt not
that many have adopted the conduct opposite to putts and
uuravuurable to us, who have smell from unimpeachable mu.
lives, and insist he acknowledged highly praisewustlty mem-
bers of society ; but it is your privilege to have proved, to all
the extent of lists proof, that you have out combined logethet
against the miserable aunoticed sufferers from evils which
these lectures lament, but scorn to strike into the beaten
track of bode self-interest and cold-bearteiluess, in sidisir,
with the welt-protected domineering many slants, Lis
cs-
supporled,fets. lau thus anew that you have Not shooed the
advantage,. of rank and natural celebrity, to misrepresent,
flout auy hateful private prejudice, three rational recreations,
as ell ansalgansatiog with the pursuits of high life, and nut
rat iser reasonably lore of the tendency to dissipation
of its employments sit the frolic watts sir other of its mute
16011011 ms pleasures. dad you thus strew pull tan as little
be named among those, who, haring &ought their way to
1...5h00s its these but vtesteru bassets, adopt she same vulgsr
estiiustout her ualuir trim Os 'vial taste, assisted by this
mi.represeslaliuoof the others, as Huse lance will insincerely
applaud mut recommend as bug as truth, and even fashion
herself, shall permit Ili. it spurt-lived triumphs. Fur, with
the recollection of what I have just said at the concluding
put of the first ii.vonow of this lecture, as well as
souse ether occurreuces whirl. may have come to your
knowledge, you must ore, sod (to use language like that
of while 1 am pleading a better cause) I keg
you to (isuse well bow extensive is !Repining this la-
boured preparaliou, and this threatening stray of hostile op.
position; as well as bow multiplied are the prayers put up is
the market-place, tor the rllawmrnt of um more sagacious—
no more upright au end, than that wawa the marl mode-
rate and the most autism tiled by our customs, should nuts he
iudulgral lit the community. But I rely first us, Heaven,
said that holy fteligiou we profess; and s. (molly on the laws
of my country, and the good stow which charscieiista its
inhaltitaiiis, that nu pump sod circumstance ul tuunleal
uppoi.ilioli will ie.,- prevail in pier muds (through power
magnified by fancy to hum in appreltensimii agaimt ruttier
the letter and spirit of the orate,, laws of the realm, ur die
• d dictates of rittlarci jilaliCC. Among those thus lac-
ttcally cuisfrusited to its, you will perhaps consider HI.:
au-
thor of a severe ciiticisni against our see 1 ireinre, in a
Nlagasine, wins, Sri Ent, with decrepit or feeble efforts, hi.
cited to defend a beleaguered citadel, of which, nut rseu its
long-lust Hector, iii its present state of expu.tire to assail•
aolp, could materially delay the inevitable doom.
Fur little does the *rater earn, fur the monthly pithlicat ~,,,
with which be eurinerls his lame, the return id peculiar fa-
vour and altruisum fruits that eloquent Senator, toe object of
my allusion, by heavy Cesislirt M. defect in usinseasercd sen-
tences, which I have stride iustrumeutal to serve else cause
of law and unite; by a departure from pew/dant rule, not
emulative indeed of a 3ePon's in stare trrtrfnre, yet wills
the success your cosstaut presence proves. However that
eloquent orator may have given to the world orations illus•
Italie.. of British liberty, rivalling a Itarkes when addreas-
tit to his owes destined cousiituesits, sod rivalliug lass favour.
ite 51luistet'a awl Statesmau's when addressed to the Repre-
sentatives of the nation, I shall nut shrink from having im-
puted to me a very inadequate imitation of the conlisuous
march of Pitt, provided the least proof exists to animate
me, of au atiaiument of its great cod of safety and happi.
max so mankind, thyugh only in the degree buond:d by my
bounded powers.

The statement which (mil LtvtArooL made, that he bad
sent of a twirler to bring hack H►BT[LLI, as won as he
knew that he had left the rouniry,requires explanation ; fur tru
the 18th of September, wily a few day■ after the 'angina was
granted to R►eTLLLI, Mr. lILNE, in hi'. place in the Millie
of common•, lammed bard CAsTLLRL►on of the Get of
RAtrect.Ll baring left England fur Italy. and lie asked
C.ASTIARIAGIt a the same time, by whose orders Ilusfetli
hart been sent away? Although sufficient intimation was
thus given to M insiders of IRMITELLI'a absence on the 18th,
yet it appears that the Bat courier scut tar afterwards was
cm the 28th, ten days after public notice was given; it
therefore, fair to challenge the statement of laird LIVER-
root., if be spoke as nue of the Ministers who must base
known the act (from laird CASTLERT•GIIon 181 h.
Jn the cross-examination of Dr. IoI.4►ND by the SoLict.
• tt IL AA L, in the House tit Fords, en fistuiday last. the
Learned Gent lentil', with an sir of mysttriona s;: as ity, asked
the Moor if he was aegisainied with a Minister at Turk ?
which question was answered is the affinigiiime; do whirls
the Soucttott.“ said—" Having, Hr. ROLLAND,
reminded you of that, allow me now to nab whether you
ever slated to that Gentleman that you disapproved of her
Royal Highness's Collninti towards BanGAIIII?" The answer
to which question was, " I never have; 1 never stated any
thing to that effect to any persnis."—We happen to know
something Of this matter from a source tin w►ich we eau r. ly ;
and one information is this—that 4,e Minister in question
never dill hear or receive hum Dr. HOLLAND soy such state.
men!, and that the whole story uu which this grave question
of
the SouctTon-tirmtcaes seated is a groundless repuut,
raised by some idle gossips in that city, loot which the Mi-
nister alluded to has himself over and over again contradicted.
Vie state this fact to show bow little Guess is to be laid opus.
these kind of ittsinutht. questions —(Lads Mercury.)

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