The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-05 00:00:00

AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL

TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Ella.
Delivered at the Russel Institution, on Friday, August 8'

1834, by Joint- A. limaAro.
We attended the Russel Institution on the melan-
choly occasion which called forth the delivery of this
oration ; we listened to it with breathless attention ;
and the impressions then made on our mind are as
fresh as they were the moment we left it. 'We will not
attempt to describe the awe-stricken intensity of our
feelings, as we approached a hall, hallowed by having
formerly re-echoed the voice of the mighty dead, who
was on earth one of the hightest " lights of the world"

—too suddenly extinguished ; neither will we dwell on
the saddened anxiety which we beheld visible in the
multitude of fixed faces by which we were surrounded.
The orator appeared—bowed lowly and gracefully—
opened a manuscript—hemmed twice, after the most
courtly fashion—and raising his hand to the precise
height prescribed by Walker and most modern rheto-
ricians, lisped a sentence, the tones of which completely
restored us to ourselves. The dream in which we were
indulging vanished. We saw—we thought of nothing
but the orator, cujus ex ore melle dulcior fittebat °ra-
tio ! Enough, however, on this head. We may be
mistaken in our ideas of the inappropriateness of af-
fectation on so solemn an occasion. Perhaps out of a
lady's boudoir there is no place in which scent boxes
appear to such advantage as on the rostrum ; and that
the graces borrowed from the dancing-master are never
so well displayed as before a public auditory assem-
bled to weep over a cinder of mortality.
But our present business is less with the manner of
the orator than with the matter of which his oration
was composed. We have never had the pleasure of
seeing the illustrious man, to whose angelic virtues in
public and private life Mr. Heraud bore true testi-
mony, and of whose transcendent genius he discoursed
in terms which few feel diSposed to controvert ; but
we cannot help thinking that many might have been
found who would have discovered a more intimate pri-
vate acquaintance with the great poet and philosopher,
and who besides were fully as capable of doing justice
to his varied and extensive literary labours.
The oration before us, is more taken up with dis-
cussing the powers of Coleridge as a philosopher than
as a poet. The author very properly and judiciously
saw, that with respect to Coleridge's poetry, the world
had come to a settled opinion upon it, which no re-
marks of his would be likely to change. But with his
philosophy the case was very different, because his
works in this vast field of literature are yet un-
published. We cannot affirm whether the view
of Coleridge's philosophy, taken by Mr. Heraud,
is, or is not in strict accordance with the spirit of the
philosopher's works ; but if so, the world will gain
very little by the new system. We subjoin a few ex-
tracts, upon which we regret the want of sufficient
space to make any lengthened remarks :

"He contended that systems of philosophy, to be true,
must be constructed on a priori grounds, and that experience
could only confirm them. The process of right reasoning,'
he said, was cathartic ; a cleansing away of all matter de-
rived through sensuous media, and a proceeding in the Light
of Ideas without regarding phenomenal facts—in a word, upon
premises altogether and purely ideal, arriving at the appro-
priate conclusion. Having arrived at which, we should hold
our system up, and ask, Doe; Nature echo this ? And Nature
will echo it, if care has been taken that all the premises should
be included in the deduction. If only half the truth be taken,
the conclusion must be erroneous.' "

Paley in his " Evidences of Christianity," some-
where says, that a man who takes up a system of divi-
nity with a previous opinion that every part must be
true, or the whole false, approaches the discussion
under great disadvantages. Now, if this be true of a
system of divinity alone, which we are willing to main-
tain it is, the disadvantages under which he labours
who approaches the discussion of the truth of a system
of philosophy which, according to Coleridge himself,
comprehends a wider range of metaphysical and moral
objects, must, a priori, be much greater. But are the
operations of infinite mind on matter so unvarying and
so obvious, and is our knowledge of these operations
so intuitive, that we possess the power of constructing
systems which Nature shall ever be found to echo in
her works ? The vaunted system of Coleridge, as here
defined, is neither more nor less than that the Pythagoric
and Platonic systems of the pre-subsistence of para-
digms or models in the Divine Mind of whatever has
or can have an existenee in nature ; which paradigms
are likewise necessarily existing in the human mind, in
consequence of its being an emanation of the.,Supreme
Intelligence. These paradigms Plato was wont to call
the real realities, of which their external representa-
tions were but the fleeting forms. Hence the system
of ideas and numbers which formed the great study of
the ancient Greek philosophers, and which upwards of
two thousand years scarcely sufficed to explode.
The system here attributed to Coleridge is pre-
cisely a restoration of the same system of philo-
sophy, from which the great Bacon delivered the
world by his doctrines of induction, partly framed
by himself, and partly modelled on the dialectic
sciences of Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.
It is at once to summon the " winged stymphalidx of
the soul" to our assistance, by whom all such systems
were ever constructed. But this is clearly to begin at
the wrong end ; we must not construct systems in our
closets, and then force nature into a conformity with
them, but we must rather look to nature, and form our
systems after her model. The " cathartic process of
right reasoning" consists not in drawing from our ima-
gination, but our experience of what we know to be
true. Nature is unique in all her works but man ;
man is never so with himself, and consequently inca-
pable of drawing any system from himself which shall
be echoed by Nature. To construct a system which
Nature shall echo, we must follow, not precede her,
so long as she is not under the controul of human will.
Again
One'splendid passage, nevertheless, I may not pretermit.
speaking of Nature and Will—in reply to some remark made
by the Rev. Edward Irving___, he said, is a higher
Faculty than Reason, but a Will is none that does not act ;
and the highest act of a Will, which is the highest form of
Being, is to beget Being. There must, therefore, have ever
been the voice that said, I Ale—and the Response, Ay,
Father, thou art, and lin thee It is the existence of a
Will that constitutes Individuality.'"

There could be no such thing as created individua-
lity if there was a cessation of Will whenever there was
a cessation of action ; and, therefore, will cannot depend
on action for existence. Neither can absolute Being
beget Being equally absolute, in the creative or pro-
creative sense here understood. Pity that those who
who attempt the solution of a mystery so profound, so
incomprehensible, as that involving the whole question
of the Trinitarian and Unitarian controversy, were not
contemporary with the learned divines by whom the
Homoousion and Homoousian doctrines were discussed
in the Councils of Nice and Constantinople. The ex-
clamations and responses of the " Trinity in Unity,
and Unity in Trinity," would sound less profanely in
their ears than in those of more sober Christians of
the present day. But our main objection to the above
exposition of a divine truth is its utter inconclusiveness
of proof—its barefaced assumption and false logic.
It begins with the assumption of Will, not as a mode,
property, or accompaniment of Being, but as absolute
Being itself—a proposition rather startling to be made
without proof, inasmuch as it goes to destroy what
Paley terms the " Personification of God ;" it then
goes on, and declares the only essential to the existence
of Will, namely Action ; and from this it derives the
eternity of co-existent Being I This is altogether very
like the " Grant me this, and this, and this" mode of
reasoning. The premises here are all assumed : deny
any one of them, and the conclusion, ingenious as it
may seem, is not worth a rush. Deny the necessity
of Action to the constitution of Will, and the whole
fabric falls in pieces : and admit it, and you have as
good a proof of the eternity of Matter as you have of
Omnipotent Mind—yea, a thousand times a better
one ; for God (his name be blessed 1) cannot multiply
or equal himself in his works.

" ' Nature,' he continued, is rather an appetanco to be,
than Being itself. Nature is essentially imperfect, and all her
tendencies are (so to speak), to supersede herself.' Thus
the fin of a fish is a hand, but without the uses, it only serves
as a fan ; but there it shows that an imperfection has begun to

befell : and which imperfection is removed, more or less, in a
higher scale of creatures. Nature is the Opposite to God,
and accordingly God can not be seen in Nature; but all
things are distinguishable by contrast only ; and, therefore, by
means of Nature, the idea of its Opposite may be evolved,
which is God. Now God is a Spirit. It is between these
two opposites of Spirit and Nature that there is an antagonism,
and which, existing in man, explains the principles of his
structure.' "

History, whether sacred or profane, does not inform
us that fishes' fins have undergone any change in their
formation since the Deity, on surveying all his works,
pronounced them " Very good ;" and we hardly be-
lieve that naturalists will allow a human hand to be
better formed for swimming amid " a world of waters"
than the scaly substitute here pronounced imperfect.
At all events we are of opinion that in nothing is the
imperfection of Nature so little manifest as in her ad-
mirable adaptation of the structure of every species of
creature to its locality, and means of procuring sub-
sistence. Physically considered, all species of creatures
are, of their kind, alike perfect. Some, it is true, are
lower in the scale of being than others, but the dif-
ference manifests order of gradation, not imperfection.
Neither is the doctrine of the opposition between
God and Nature less liable to be disproved. The
antagonism of Spirit and Matter in man, proves no-
thing, unless we reject the doctrine of the Fall, and its
accursed consequences, which was an act of Mind, not
of Matter. If all that is corrupt in us is the inevitable
result of the disobedience of our first parents, and if
that corruption is capable of purification, how can
Nature, which ever works the will of God by means
of His attributes, be His opposite ? The whole pas-
sage is an ingenious delusion. The opposite to Nature
is not God, but Nonentity.
" What Kant's System wanted, that of Coleridge supplies.
—Delivered from all these systems, we find Coleridge at last
resting in a region of contemplation, equally removed from the
Dogmatism of Locke, the Scepticism of Hume, and the
Criticism of Kant ;_where, emancipated from the superstition
of the senses, he might rejoice in the Vision of Omnipresence,
of the Absolute and the Indemonstrable as the ground, the
cause and fountain of all demonstration—and in the very con-
struction of the mind itself, make discovery of the Laws that
egulate the phenomena of nature, and fix the limits and ex-
tend the dominion of Reality throughout the Universe of
Being. That a philosophy so sublime, should meet with only
discouragement or neglect, was and is a sign of the times,
little to the credit of the public judgment."
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" But not only did Coleridge restore Reality to the material
World, but, in an especial manner, was it his delight, to find
the Real in the Ideal. With him our ideas of Deity, of the
Soul, of Conscience, of Free-will, of a Future State, and the
Moral Law, were not only co-essential with the Rational Spirit
of Man, but correlated to absolute Realities, which actually
exist in regions beyond the bounds of experience and the
limits of sense. In conversation, he was accustomed to call
these the real Realities—in contradistinction from those of
sense, which though real are apprehended mainly as real
Appearances. And rightly—for, in comparison with these,
whatever reality belongs to the Objects of Sense fades away
into nothingness. A beggarly element,' is the element of
their reality ! The Mathematician looks in vain for his perfect
circle there;—and a machine constructed on pure mathematical
principles would fail of its intended purpose—because, for-
sooth, allowance must be made for friction. And the Natural
Philosopher there, is nonplused, because the least and the
greatest of things are equally beyond the sphere of his ex-
periment, and the infinitesimals of existence baffle the keen-
ness of his observation. And the Moral Philosopher there is
yet worse-bested—for he has the Ideas of an absolute Right
and Wrong—and what finds he ? For one, a paltry, shuffling
Expediency—and for the other, much Suffering and much
Sorrow, and more to pity than to condemn. He has an Idea of
the Eternal Connexion between Virtue and Happiness, and
Vice and Misery—What finds he ? The virtuous man with-
out the comforts of life, and the wicked flourishing like the
green bay-tree 1 And are these the real Realities ? No—no 1
They are but a fugitive stage-play-pageant--or rather—we
PASS, in our onward and upward course, and leave them behind
us and beneath us, in our progress toward that Ideal State of
Being, to the Eternal Realities of which we are fast hasten-
ing, glad to be soon quit of this weary pilgrimage though a
phantom wilderness.
" And here I deem it proper to state, that it is precisely at
this point, we begin to feel, in contrast with the miserable de-
ficiency of other systems, the happy plenitude of Coleridge's."

In these extracts the orator has given us a glimpse
of Coleridge's entire system of philosophy, which to
us appears a complete jumble of all the systems ever
yet constructed in the world. The ancients, properly
speaking, had but two systems ; that of Pythagoras,
Plato, Zoroaster, and their followers, who examined all
matter metaphysically, and who might be said to test
earth by the revelations of heaven ; and the system of
Aristotle, which professed to admit nothing as true for
which the evidence of the senses could not be obtained.
Yet, strange to say, Aristotle, as well as Coleridge,
descanted most learnedly on the real realities of things
invisible. All later systems of philosophy were modi-
fications of these ; the most of the works which have
gone under that name were neither complete in them-
selves, nor did they profess to be so. Descartes,
Bayle, Voltaire, Rosseau (the latter's civil systems
excepted), Bolingbroke, Hume, and Gibbon, con-
structed no systems of philosophy ; they contented
themselves with endeavouring to expose what
they termed the falsehood of those which were
then held sacred. And the same may be said of
Locke, whose " Essays on the Understanding" are
confined to proving that all knowledge is, and can only
be, acquired through the medium of the senses. This
dogma was disputed by Bolingbroke, whose refutation of
Locke consisted in asserting that he knew he thought,
although thought itself was not an object of which the
senses could take cognizance. The shadowy system
of Kant is, then, almost the only one which Coleridge
had to supersede, and that the world was before-hand
with him in doing.

We are no believers in the reconciliation of reason
with revelation, as promised to us in the unpublished
works of Coleridge. We hold such a marvel impos-
sible 'to man, in a sublunary state ; and we wish all
Christian philosophers had been of the same opinion.
Revelation would cease to be revelation, were its mys-
teries within the reach of human capacity ; and no-
thing has had a greater tendency to make men Athiests
than foolish attempts to penetrate the inscrutable coun-
cils, or discover the sacred essence of the Eternal. The
real world found in the ideal by Coleridge is an old
discovery, which is treated of at considerable length in
the " Parmenides" of Plato. Christians shokild rest
content in the blessed hope of being united to God,
and of enjoying His glorious presence in another world,
satisfied in this with endeavouring to spend their lives
in conformity with the precepts of the Gospel.
We pass over, as below our notice, the learned
orator's attack on modern critics. All who know any
thing are aware that critics are not a distinct race from
authors, or rather that the majority of them are authors
of no mean rank in the literary world. Coleridgeihim-
self was a critic, as are all the great writers of the day.
And as to the castigations which some men of great
genius receive at their hands, the world has never yet
allowed them to be wholly unmerited. The orator
talks of genius being entitled to the worship of critics
when once it establishes its claims to greatness. Now,
this is very like saying that a child ought not to be whipt,
or rather ought to be treated as of mature age, because
its chin will some time or other be graced with a beard,
and its shoulder support a musket. We do not ques-
tion the " Poeta nascitur, non ft" of Horace; but we
hold that bards, as well as boys, may be very advan-
tageously corrected by their seniors.

Mr. BURKE'S HISTORY OP THE COMMONERS
OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.—WC are glad to observe
that this publication is proceeding with great regularity in
Quarterly Parts, the ith of which has lately appeared. It
is a work of great utility and interest. Its researches are cu-
rious, and the information it supplies touching the gentry of
the country is not less worthy of regard than that to which we
have hitherto been confined with the higher ranks of the titled
peerage and the baronetage.
The number of cholera deaths returned in the last
weekly bills of mortality reaches to as many as 103, and that
precise number makes the exact amount of the increase of
deaths during the same period above those of the preceding
week.
READING.—The Crown land situated at the en-
trance of the beautiful town of Reading on the right, facing
d
Lord Stowell's land, and on the high road to Bath, was sold
about two years since, in lots, and the purchasers are
dnronwwsslayoi
lay-
ing it out and building a square, two crescents,
beautiful mansions, all in Bath stone. ./../ Chronicle. and
ronicle.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

WAR OFFICE, SEPT. 5.

Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieut. G. Tom_
line to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blackett, who retires ; E.
N. Harvey, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Tomline, Sept. 5.
3d Regiment of Life Guards—A. Knox, Gent., to be Cornet
and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Marindin, who retires,
Sept. 5.

Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieut. G. R. Campsie, from half-pay
(i4th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice W. Landreth, who exchanges,
Sept. 5.

loot—Lieut. R. H. Tighe, from half-pay 60th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Edward Wynyard Young; who exchanges, Sept. t.
11th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel C. Bisshopp, from the 14th
Foot, to be Major, without purchase, vice Love, promoted in the
76th Foot, Sept. 6.
14th Foot—Capt. J. B. Creagh, from the 81st Foot, to be
Captain, vice Boyle, appointed to the 85th Foot, Sept.-5 ; Lieut.
J. .M‘Dermott to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bisshopp,
promoted in the 11th Foot; Ensign H. Ti!. F. Stirke to be Lieu-
tenant, vice M'Dermott ; Gentleman Cadet E. Archdall, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Stirke, Sept. 6.
16th Foot--Major A. G. Campbell to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Hook, deceased ; Capt. S. G. Carter to be
Major, vice Campbell ; Lieut. M. Smith to be Captain, vice Car-
ter ; Ensign W. A. Kirk to be Lieutenant, vice Smith ; L. Hook,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Kirk, Sept. 5.
19th Foot—Lieut. J. Semple to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Vignoles, who retires ; Ensign C. J. Freeman to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Semple, Sept. 5.
22d Foot—Capt. J. M'Mahon Kidd, from the 57th Foot, to be
Captain, vice T. Edwards, who retires upon half-pay 23th Foot,
receiving the difference, Sept. 5.
47th Foot—Gentleman Cadet W. W. Rooke, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Atkinson,
deceased, Sept. 5.
57th Foot—Capt. A. Gregory, from half-pay 28th Foot, to be
Captain, paying tho difference, vice Kidd, appointed to the 22d
Foot, Sept. 5.
73d Foot—R. C. Bamford, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Douglas, who retires, Sept. 5.
76th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Love, from the
11th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Clarke,
deceased, Sept. 6.
81st Foot—Captain C. R. Scott, from half-pay, Royal Staff
Corps, to be Captain, vice Creagh, appointed to the 14th Foot,

t;sth Foot--Captain Hon. R. E. Boyle, from the 14th Foot, to
be Captain, ♦iec Hon. A. H. A. Cooper, who retires upon half-pay
Royal Staff Corps.
86th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. Coghlan, from the 69th Foot,
to be Surgeon, vice Cunningham, who retires upon half-pay, Sept.s.

Commission by the Lord Lietenant of the County of Dorset.
Dorset Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry.
Cornet H. F. Yeatman to be Lieutetenant ; F. Huddlestone,
Gent., Gent., to be Cornet, vice Yeatman, promoted, August 20.

CIRCUITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR RELIEF
OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
AUTUMN CIRCUITS, 1834.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
H. R. REYNOLDS, Esq., Chief Commissioner.
Rutlandshire—Oakham, Wednesday, Oct. 22.
Lincolnshire—Lincoln and City, Thursday, Oct. 23.
Nottinghamshire—Nottingham and Town, Saturday, Oct. 23.
Derbyshire—Derby, Tuesday, Oct. 28.
Yorkshire—Sheffield, Friday, Oct. 31.
Yorkshire—Wakefield, Monday, Nov. 3.
At the Town and County of ngston-upon-Hull —Saturday,
Nov. 8.
Yorkshire—York and Cit 7, Tuesday, Nov. 11.
Yorkshire—Richmond, Friday, Nov. 14.
Durham—Durham, Saturday, Nov. 15.
Northumberland—Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Town, Tuesday,
November 18.
Cumberland—Carlisle, Friday, November 21.
Westmorland—Appleby, Monday, November 24.
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Lancashire—Preston, Thursday, December 4.
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SOUTHERN CIRCUIT.
J. G, HARRIS, Esq., Commissioner.
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Wiltshire—Salisbury, Wednesday, Oct. 29.
Dorsetshire—Dorchester, Friday, Oct. 31.
Devonshire—Exeter and City, Monday, Nov. 3.
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Cornwall—Bodmin, Friday, Nov. 7.
Somersetshire—Wells, Tuesday, Nov. 11. •
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Somersetshire—City of Bristol, Friday, Nov. 14.
Gloucestershire—Gloucesser and City, Monday Nov. 17.
Monmouthshire—Monmouth, Wednesday, November 19.
Herefordshire—Hereford, Thursday, November 20.
Worcestershire—Worcester and City, Saturday, November 22.
Oxfordshire--Oxford and City, Monday, November 24.
Berkshire—Reading, Wednesday, November 26.
At the City of Canterbury, Saturday, November 29.
Kent—Doter, Monday December 1.
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Sussex—Horsham, Friday, December 5.

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DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

CHARLES CANFOR, builder, Cottage-grove, Camberwell.
WILLIAM PROSSOR, sen., and WILLIAM PROSSER.
jun., linen-drapers, Pitfield-street, Hoxton.

BANKRUPTS.

THOMAS SHADRAKE, Jun., coal-merchant, Hope-wharf,
Commercial-road, to surrender Sept. 12, at two, and Oct. 17, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wells, York-terrace, Com-
mercial-road East.; Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee.
WILLIAM ORTON ATTREE, draper,'Newbury, Berkshire,
Sept. 11, at one, and Oct. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple ; Whitmore,
Basinghall-street, official assignee.
SAMUEL WALKER, ironmaster, Gospel Oak, Staffordshire,
Sept. 22, at ten, and Oct. 17, at three, at the Lion Inn, Wolver-
hampton. Holyoake and Robinson, Wolverhampton; Capes, Ray-
mond-buildings, Gray's Inn, London.
CHARLES WINN, blank-tray-maker, Birmingham, Sept.
17 and Oct. 17, at two, at the Clarendon Hotel, Birmingham.
Norton and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Harrison, Bir-
mingham.
CHARLES INGRAM, currier, Salisbury, B, at six, and
Oct. 17, at eleven, at the Lion Inn, Salisbury. Sept.-Newton, South-
square, Gray's Inn, London ; Housman, Salisbury.
GEORGE BENSON, innkeeper, Liverpool, Sept. 22 and
Oct. 17, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Walker,
Liverpool; Perkins and Co., London.
FRANCIS BONNAFFE, merchant, St. Michael's-alley, Corn-
hill, Sept. 26, and Oct. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
JOSHUA ANDREWS, stock-broker, Threadneedle-street,
Sept. 02, at twelve, and Oct. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.

The following is the official return of the exportation
of the precious metals from the port of London from the 22d
to the 28th ultimo inelusil e :___.
Gold coin to Oporto 1,161 ounce
Ditto Hamburgh 1,359
Ditto Lisbon 16,659
Silver coin to ditto 83,660
Ditto Algoa-bay 3OO
Ditto Boston
Ditto Malta 5,196
This is independent of the exportations from Dover, Ports-
mouth, Falmouth, and Liverpool.

LACONIC LETTER WRITTEN BY BLAKE TO
THE ADMIRALTY.—" Please your honors and glory, yesterday
met with the French fleet, took, sunk, and burned, as per

" THOS. GILL."
FEEDING DOGS ON HUMAN FLESH.—Las Casas,
speaking of the Spaniards in Jamaica says—'they banged
these unfortunates by thirteen, in honour of the thirteen
Apostles. I have beheld them throw the Indian infants to their
dogs—l have heard them borrow the limb of an human being
to feed their dogs, and next day return a quarter to the
lender ?

margin.—Yours, &c.,

There is now in the orchard of Mr. Hardwick, of
Brislington, an apple-tree in full blossom.
STRANGE PIIENONIENON.—There is a pear tree
growing in a garden at Manningham, near Bradford, part of
which is bearing rich fruit, and the other is in full blossom....
York Courant.

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BUNKERS HILL.—In the desperate contest of
Bunker's Hill, au anecdote, celebrated in prose and verse, oc-
curred, for when all the officers and non-commissioned officers
of the flankers were knocked down ; when, at this crisis, it
a man who sought no other name, here stoppod.
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isearidp,re"seFna
t, 11 back, there is no one to command," the oldest
forth, exclaiming, " Never retreat, boys, for want of a leader,
country,Kensin
while I have a musket to point the way to go, le
gittoUsntitanilllbreL;rd_i
to:
eins,matghagforlidenidn'sthaet
To THE COBBETTITES.—MaIIy have called
Bolt-court to obtain information relative to the p•gma at
decorated with laurel, firmly fixed in
horses, and thus carried, slow
tAhiethGorpridlierao:.ie.s
ul s t
march, to Bolton-court, and
there fixed up on the front of the house
main till a sovereign in gold will ; and there it shall Yo-
sell for twenty-one pound
notes ; and then as soon as we have hoisted the gridiron we
will have a dinner, at
which we will laugh to scorn all the
stupid and malignant beasts that have been abusing me for so
many years, I had a right to put up the gridiron long and
long ago, my prophecy having been fulfilled; but I thought I
would stop till the finishing stroke came; and now we shall
pretty soon have it in one way or another.—Cobbstt's Register.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

" The Lord Chancellor's conduct during the dis-
cussion and the passing of the Bankrupts' 1111, ought
to have silenced his calumniators for ever. He al-
lowed the Judges of Assize to nominate all the Coun-
try Commissioners of Bankrupts—those Commissioners
no-bad prize to an intriguing, minister, being no less
than 600 in number—with salaries from 2001. to 600/.
per annum each ; and he referred the choice of the
‘fficial assignees to a Court of the principal merchants
in the City of London ; thus entirely divesting him-
self of the patronage which had afforded such a fertile
theme of obloquy. It is the fate of ever.zi real Re-
former to encounter imputations on the purity of his
motives; but experience ought to have taught a
man like Lord Brougham to disregard them ; es-
pecially as no one is better qualified to strip from Jac-
tzon and selfishness the hypocritical mask under which
they would disguise their object and their origin. The
whole gravamen of the charge against Lord Brougham
is, that he is relieving the poor of England from the
miseries of costly law and often unattainable justice."
Perhaps our readers will scarcely believe, in perusing
the above observations, that they are the genuine sen-
timents and sober advice of the obscure private gentle-
man in Printing-house-square, the " redacteur en chef"
of the " leading journal " of Europe, on the Bth
of July, 1833. " Shew me thy faith by thy
works "—illustrate thy principles by thy practice,
is a scriptural axiom, and we fearlessly ask
whether or not the facts here recorded can be disproved
—or on what foundation the Times now supposes
that Lord Brougham is not still actuated by
honourable and elevated motives ? Till some-
thing more than insinuations of being a betrayer, a
slanderer, &c., be adduced—we ask whether " expe-
rience" ought not to teach Lord Brougham, as he is
directed, to disregard the imputations of his " affec-
tionate" friend, who for fifteen years has striven to
maintain and extend his Lordship's influence through-
out all classes of society ? What is, we repeat, the
" gravamen" of the insinuations, for they are only in-
sinuations, against the Chancellor, by his quondam
pitron, and which caused the " diabolical" article of
the 16th August ? Truly, a supposition, upon the
assurance of a correspondent, that Lord Brougham
had, through the columns of the Caledonian Mer-
leury, paid a tribute of unconscious veneration for the
conductors of the Times journal, accusing them
Of wanting to be no less than Prime Mi-
nisters of Britain. But the Caledonian Me • cury
has altogether denied the imputation, though the
Times has not had the candour or generosity to
acknowledge this ; and while it fills its columns
with extracts. from the Albion, Standard, Parson
Gleig's Gazette, and even Cobbett,—papers certainly
very much in accordance with the sentiments of the
Times—altogether omits those of the leading liberal
journals, whose manly defence of the Chancellor would
at any other period have obtained ready access to its
columns. But, to use the redacteur 's own words,
when, on another occasion, speaking—on the 18th
June, 1833—0 f Lord Brougham's triumph over Lord
Lyndhurst—" How delightful to see this triumph of
reason over party" T. We shall content ourselves
with one more extract from the Times, which we
would advise the conductors of that journal to " read,
mark, learn, and inwardly digest." January 2, 1833,
upon a report that on the failure of the Tories to break
the peace of the continent, they meant to break up the
Reform Government,byfabricating divisions between its
most distinguished Members !—" The organs of daily
and weekly slander have been circulating the nonsen-
sical hopes of their patrons. We venture to predict
that the leaders of the ousted faction will take smart-
money,'—[in despite of the adulation of the Tory
press. The Times, it is pretty well known, is already
paying the smart' in the diminished circulation of
the paper. We will not venture to state the deprecia-
tion ; but the stamp duty will, we confidently assert,
prove it]—and enlist under the banners of Lord Grey,
before Lord Brougham will swerve one jot from the
principles he has professed since his entry into public
life, or from the pledges of judicial and other practi-
cal reforms on which he has more recently staked hiv
future appreciation with the country. How must so
lynx-eyed and clear-headed a man as the Lord Chan-
cellor smile at the adulation of the infatuated Tories."
—Morning Chronicle.
The loquacity of last Session, which nothing could
check until the Usher of the Black Rod, like a good
genius, struck his magical wand at the door, and com-
manded the novelty of silence within its porches—the
loquacity of last Session has left a deep impression on
the public mind, and the question now uppermost in
almost every man's mouth is—" How can the evil of
eternal clack be prevented in future ?" We are not
for extreme, or, what some persons would call, bold
measures in this case. 'We do not, for instance, see
What advantage would be gained by imposing restric-
tions on the free agency of our Representatives, which
would be the consequence of submitting all motions to
a previous scrutiny by any Committee, however chosen.
The plan might save us many an absurd and mis-
chievous motion it is true, but then it might intercept
some useful ones, and in time might degenerate into
an instrument of despotism, for the suppression of
wholesome and necessary reforms. The remedy would,
therefore, be worse than the disease. In fact, it smacks
too-:much of the old tyranny of licensing the Press to
find mai advocates in a country where any preliminary
tampering with men's opinions and conduct is viewed
with a becoming jealousy. Besides, it is not merely
motions we want to get rid of, but talk, and the talk

of which we complain does not necessarily presuppose
a motion, or a subject, or even an idea of any kind ; it
is a stream that will continue to run, if it be not
checked by some interposition of man, or of Provi-

Bence, whether it run to any purpose or not. How
often have we known a long discussion to end in the
discovery that there was no question before the House?
Indeed, the circumstance of having a specified ques-
tion before them would seem to be an impediment to
some of our Parliamentary orators, who are never so
much inclined to talk as when they have nothing to
say. For these reasons we think it would be vain to
expect that the mere act of limiting the number of mo-
tions—and that is often all the practical result contem-

plated in the plan of a licensing Committee—•would
have the effect of limiting the number of speeches.
The want of matter is no limitation, but the contrary.
Can we suppose that the want or the restriction of mo-
tions would be attended with better success ? There is

one consideration, however, which would seem to point
. . .._

out a method of getting over some part of the difficulty.
It is obvious that the unprepared manner in which
Ministers contrive—at least they have so contrived of
late years—to meet Parliament at the commencement
of every Session has afforded opportunity and encou-
ragement to the mere babblers for the exercise of their
vocation. If Ministers came prepared with well-

digested plans, if they came pre-pared to commence
the business of the Session at once, not the mere tech-

nieal routine business, but those important measures
which the circumstances of the country call for, it is
impossible to suppose that impertinence or folly would
be permitted to interfere with the substantial demands
of legislation. A recurrence to the Parliamentary
history of the last Session would prove that much of
the talk arose out of the delay of expected measures,
and that even some of the idle motions for the

assertion of abstract propositions which could lead
to no result had the same origin. The cure for so
much of the evil as can be traced to this cause would
be, as we have already intimated, to begin in time, and
not to postpone important motions until the House and
the country are wearied with listening to speeches that
mean nothing but mere sound, and lead to nothing but
an unseasonable and unwholesome sleep in the side
galleries. But something should also be done by the
constituent bodies themselves. Members have at pre-
sent an idea that their constituents expect them nolens
volens to hold forth in Parliament. It would be well
to disabuse them of this idea—to let them know that
the vote is, after all, the great test of their opinions,
about which their constituents and the public at large
are most anxious ; and it would be well if this were
followed up by making the Representative accountable
for any interruption to the public business which mere
vanity or mere loquacity might induce him to commit.
This may, perhaps, be too much to expect in the
present state of information ; but we are coming fast
to that state of things in which a silent Member will
not only be a rare but an enviable acquisition. Let

us hope, however, that something may be expected
from the forbearance of Members themselves. They
should surely have some consideration for a public
whom they have so bespeechified that the very name of
debate is enough to set them yawning. Speech is,
said to be a gift. It may be so to those who exercise
it, but not to those upon whom it has been ex-
ercised in the unmerciful manner which the remem-
brance of the last session has impressed upon a wea-
ried, exhausted, perplexed, and absolutely stupified
population.—itiorning Herald.
Mr. Marshall, the agent to the Emigration Com-
mittee, feeling his occupation endangered by the me-
lancholy statements which we have recently published
on the subject of female emigration to Australia, has
put forth a pamphlet, which pretends to refute, but
which in reality confirms and substantiates, them.
The pamphlet consists of Mr. Marshall's letter to our-
selves, dated the 7th of August, on which we ventured
to make a few comments on the 14th and 28th of the
same month—of a letter of Mr. Henty, an ex-banker,
respecting Van Diemen's Land, to which our informa-
tion does not extend, and our remarks did not apply—
of two articles of news which appeared in the Times
of the 2d of May, and in the Morning Herald of the
11 th of July, relating to the equipments of the
Strathfieldsay and the David Scott, and which, if not
written under the infpection of Mr. Marshall, were
beyond all doubt written upon information furnished
by that gentleman—and a few remarks of Mr.
Marshall himself, now published for the first time,
upon a leading article of ours on the 28th ult. After
calling that article a virulent misrepresentation, to
which he trusts that his first letter has given a satis-
factory reply, will it be believed that he meets the
charge preferred against the superintendent of the Bus-
sorah Merchant by two of the female emigrants, not
with a direct denial, but with the stale trick so often
employed to palliate and screen oppression,—we mean
a high-sounding eulogy upon the general kindhearted-
ness and respectability of the alleged oppressor ? Will
it be believed that, after expressing great indignation
at our assertion that " that superintendent remains in
the colony a sort of barker to the Emigration Com-
mittee," he is, in the very next sentence, so uncon-
scious of the import of his own words, as to write that
" beyond receiving his reports not the slightest con-
nexion exists" between him and that committee ?
Will it be believed that Mr. Marshall can be guilty of
the folly of accusing us of " assailing the Emigration
Committee by assertion where facts fail," when he
himself admits that the committee " have had occa-
sion to regret their selection of the person who
accompanied the females by the Layton, and to
be much dissatisfied with the manner in which
he performed the duties to which the, appointed
him ?" And yet of this person s miscon-
duct not a syllable would have been whispered
to the world by Mr. Marshall and his committee, had
we been backward in stating the complaints which
reached us ; on the contrary, in his first letter Mr.
Marshall availed himself of the testimony of this man
—whom he now gives up—to contradict the state-
ments which we had received from a gentleman of re-
spectability and character. It is tedious, and nothing
but the necessity of vindicating the truth would
compel us, to repeat the assertion that the supply of
water and provisions was as scanty on board the Lay-
ton as it is alleged in the letters we published to have
been on board the Bussorah Merchant. Even on
Mr. Marshall's own showing, the female emigrants on
their voyage had only 176 ounces of solid food
allowed them per week—a quantity which is con-
siderably less than that allowed to the female convicts
at Hobart-town, who, according to the information
obtained by Mr. Chadwick from the Colonial-office
as a check upon the dietary of our workhouses, have
220 ounces of solid food furnished them in the same
time. Mr. Marshall is not content with defending the
conduct of himself and his committee with regard to
the female emigrants sent out by the Bussorah Mer-
chant and the Layton—he also volunteers the defence
of those who chartered the Princess Royal and the
Red Rover. He tells us that the Emigration Com-
mittee " have received information that the young
women who went out by those two vessels, much as
their selection has been complained of, were generally
successful in the Colonies." This may be true or not
—we believe it to be untrue ; but how does Mr. Mar-
shall reconcile it with the following passage in his first
letter ?—" With the Princess Royal and Red Rover
the Emigration Committee have had nothing to do ;
they were sent out from two to three years ago, and it
teas in consequence of the complaints sent home of the
description of persons who proceeded by those two
vessels, and the indiscriminate manner an which fe-
male emigration had been previously conducted, that
the Colonial Department, during the time Lord
Goderich presided over it, arranged to vest the se-
lection of
,fit and proper women in a committee,
tvith a view of ,preventing the great abuses previously
complained gf.' Now we cannot allow Mr. Mar-
shall to blow hot and cold in the same breath, and
therefore we ask him by which of these averments does
he mean to stand—by that proceeding from the Go-
vernment, or by that proceeding from the Emigration
Committee ? If lie adopts the former, which is Per-
haps necessary to bolster up the existence of the Emi-
gration Committee, then lie must reject the testimony
of his volunteer associate, Mr. Henty, of which be re-
cently has become so proud ; but if he adopts the la-
ter, and thinks the testimony of Mr. Henty, the ex-
banker of Worthing, better than all the other testimony
received by the Government from the southern colonies,
then he cuts away the necessity for any expensive en-
couragement of female emigration under the auspices
of the Colonial Department, for he shows that it can
be as successfully prosecuted by private speculation as
it can by all the multifarious arrangements of a com-
mittee and agent in London. In either case, we wish
him joy of the dilemma in which he has involved his
friends. Mr. Henty or the committee, or more probably
both, must be damaged not a little by Mr. Marshall's
unfortunate forgetfulness of what he has already written.
But Mr. Marshall not only forgets what he writes,
but he also forgets what 11:2 reads while he is writing.
" The Times," lie says, " refers to a work by the Rev.
Mr. Carmichael, and states that I quote it as a work
of authority. I have never seen it." It is very strange,
then, that Mr. Marshall should quote in his letter an
extract of more than a dozen lines from the 38th page
of that work, which is now open before us. But Mr,
Marshall goes on—" The work to which I referred
was the New South IVales Calender and Directory,
published at Sydney some time after [mark the date)
the two ships sent out last year had arrived." Softly
and fairly Mr. Marshall : this was not all that you
said ; your words were these,—" I would refer you to
the New South Wales Calendar and Directory
for this year, a work now in extensive circula-
tion, and of considerable authority. It is there
stated in an article called" —what ? " Hints to Emi-
grants?" Impossible ! No, not quite impossible,
for there it stands in black and white, " Hints to Emi-
grants." But Mr. Marshall has not yet done flounder-
ing from bad to worse. "Ifl do not mistake,—l am
not sure this moment on the point, but I am strongly
persuaded of it,—Mr. Carmichael's work existed be-
fore either of the ships sent last year had arrived
out, and has reference to emigration as previously
conducted. If I am right in- this impression, the
extract from the same work, with which the editor
of the Times closes his article of the 28th ult., and
relies so much upon that he gives it in order that it
may more effectually contribute to his object in italics,
was also published before the Emigration Committee
sent out a single ship--_b fore, infict, they had any ex-
istence at alt. It is perfectly obvious, therefore, that
all which Mr. Carmichael wrote, and which the Times
seizes upon with such avidity to bend to its purpose,
had reference to the abuses in conducting emigration
before the emigration committee was originated, and
for the correction of tvhich abuses they were expressly
constituted." Now we request of our readers to peruse
this paragraph at least twice over—to consider the ob-
scure cunning with which it decries the authority of
Mr. Carmichael's book as applying to existing circum-
stances,—to reflect upon the aitful malignity with which
it charges us with falsifying dates, and garbling quota
ions to serve our own purposes,—and, above all, the deli-
beratc and crafty suppression of the quotation which we
made, and which we again produce, to destroy this hateful
tissue of what not even charity itself can denominate
unintentional falsehood. The words of Mr. Car-

michael, who is the author of the " Hints to Emi-
grants," in the New South Wales Calendar of this
year, are these :—" It is much to be regretted that
accounts regarding the state of things in this colony
had reached England of such a character as to autho-
rise"--whom? "the Emigration Committee at Home
to publish statements calculated very seriously to mis-
lead a large class ofthe industrious population of Great
Britain." But we need not reprint the rest of the
extract. 'We have given enough to prove what Mr.
Marshall can do when he sits down with malice pre-
pense. to misrepresent and pervert written documents.
"If I do not mistake !" Mr. Marshall made no
mistake here. He knows he did not. He had the
extract before his eyes. The Emigration Committee
at home was expressly named in it ; and yet, to de-
ceive his readers, he omits the extract altogether, and
unblushingly declares that the book was published
" before the Emigration Committee had any existence
at all." We cannot help asking, " What next ?"
Times.

Since the above article was written, we have re-
ceived another letter from Mr. Marshall, in which he
—the writer of the paragraph on which we have just
commented—calls upon us to have some regard to that
truth which we have just shown how highly he
venerates. We published his letter on Tuesday,
from which it will be seen that he denies Mr. Wal-
kinshaw's statement that the expense to the Colonial
Department of sending out the female emigrants by
the David Scott amounted to 6,0001. Now we are
not surprised at Mr. Walkinshaw falling into this
error, if it be one, for we find it stated in the article
from the Morning Herald of the 11th of July, which
Mr. Marshall has republished in his pamphlet, and
which he lauds in the highest terms as the result qf
close observation and personal inquiry on board, that
" the David Scott, which is capable of carrying 1,000
tons, is the largest ship yet sent out with emigrants.
The expense of this outfit to Government will exceed
6,0001." Now, if this statement be untrue, why did
Mr. Marshall republish it in his pamphlet without
contradiction ? Was it that he was afraid that by cast-
ing doubt upon one part of that elaborate eulogy upon
his instructions—which by a strange coincidence of
language in the writers of the Times and Herald are
described in both as "forming an excellent institute
upon which a code of regulations may be based"—he
should also be throwing doubt upon the whole ? The
statement, however, was not given upon our authority,
but on that of a letter addressed to us by Mr. Wal-
kinshaw. Mr. Marshall says, that in stating that the
David Scott is a second rate ship we " doubtless
mean" to insinuate something as to her unfitness for
the service upon which she has gone. Had we thought
her unfit for such service, we would have stated so in
direct terms ; but we had no idea of the kind, for we
had seen her seaworthiness fully admitted in Mr. Wal-
kinshaw's pamphlet ; and as a proof that we have no
wish to state anything but truth respecting Mr. Mar-
shall, we readily give him the benefit of Mr. Walkin-
shaw's testimony. But the fact is, that a reference to
Lloyd's Register Book will show that the David Scott
is in the second class of ships, and 20 years old. What,
then, has Mr. Marshall to complain of?--Times.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-SEPT. 4.

(Before Commissioner WILLIAMS.)
THOMAS DEAN ALDERSON'S BANKRUPTCY.

In this case the bankrupt was a mQrchant carrying on an
extensive business in pewter and lead, and the fiat was
issued against him some time ago. To-day was appointed
for the creditors to meet in order to prove their claims, and
to make a declaration of the first dividend on the estate.
The Court was applied to enter a claim for 1,0001., part
of a legacy left to Mr. George Douglas Alderson, by his
father, Sir George Alderson.

Mr. Thrupp, the assignees' solicitor, opposed the claim
being made, and wished to know the consideration given for
the bond upon which the proof was now sought to be made.
The Solicitor, on the part of the claimant, said that the
legacy was left by Sir George Alderson to Mr. George
Alderson of 2,000/., and the bankrupt was appointed one of
the executors. One half of this sum had been paid, and a
bond had been given for the other half, and the claim was
made on this bond. There were assets to provide for the
claim, it being admitted by the bankrupt that he had re-
ceived sufficient out of the estate to pay the 2,000/., there
being, besides the personal estate, a freehold estate.
The claim was then entered.

Mr. Thrupp before the next meeting should require ac-
counts from the bankrupt respecting certain property it
was alleged he held in his possession.
The bankrupt's solicitor replied that his client had not
possession of any property belonging to the estate ; if he
bad, an action might be brought against him for it.
The Commissioner said the only action he could agree to
would be to have a diligent investigation in that Court.
A day was then named for the private investigation into
matters important to the estate.
The amount of proofs is about 15,2001., and the claims
about 6,300/. A dividend of four shillings in the pound
was declared, it being stated by the assignee, Mr. Clark,
that 1,7001. had been set aside to meet the expenses of law
proceedings which might be entered into.
Further proceedings were then adjourned.