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THE 1T LONDON, SATI.TIMIY. JANUARY 31, 1835.

" scotched, not killed." They were a most formidable party,
and might be compared to the spider,,who having been driven
from his weli,
_watched his opportunity to crawl back to it
again, .atid-- proceeded to avail himself of all its snares and
taps ntithenit loss of time.—( Applause.) The political web
which enfolded the whole country in its meshes was spun by
parsons and magistrates, not forgetting the corporations. The
Tories had crawled back to their filthy web to plot against the
community at large. The Tories were united, as all persons
were who had a common object in view. The object of the
Tories was plunder and rapine and personal aggrandizement at
the expense of the „community at large.—( Applause.) The
Tory system might be described in two words, " exclusion
and monopoly." He feared the Tories, because they had as-
sumed the new character of Reformers ; as a writer of old said,
that he feared the Greeks most when they offered presents.
He would take this opportunity of stating a fact, which he be-
lieved bad not been publibly announced. Previously to the
first session of the Reformed Parliament an Hon. Member,
whom the Government had assisted at his election; received a
copy of a circular signed by Mr. Charles Wood, Earl Grey's
private Secretary, stating that his Lordship meant the Reform
Bill to be a final measure ; which was much as to say that the
march of Reform should be stopped. If Mr. Hume was
aware of that circumstance, it was a sufficient excuse for
his opposing the Government. He concluded by pro-
posing, as a toast, the health of the electors who, unbiassed by
promises and threats, returned two Reform members for Mid-
dlesex.—( Applause.)
Mr. H. CARPENTER, on his health being drank, returned
thanks, and proposed the following teast i--" Cheap laws,
cheap religion, and a good and cheap government," which was
drunk with great applause.
Mr. GEARY, on his health being proposed, returned thanks
on behalf of the Dissenters, and concluded by proposing
as a toast " Education to all," which was drank amidst
loud cheers.

Mr. BAILEY, a Quaker, wished to know whether Mr.
Hume approved of the denunciations used by the Catholic
Priests in Ireland, against those of their persuasion who had
-voted for the Knight of Kerry ?
Mr. HumE said that he thought the Clergy of all persuasions
ought to abstain from mixing themselves up in political con-
tests. No Clergyman, whether Protestant or Catholic, should
dare to intimidate an elector. He must however say. that he
believed that the Clergy of the Established Church used
means as strong, perhaps stronger, than any used by, the Ca-
tholics.
After a few other toasts had been drank,

Mr. HUME again returned thanks, and desired them, to be
prepared for the next election, till when he bid them good-bye.
'the Hon. Gentleman then left the room, and was escorted
through the town by an immense concourse of people, who,
after accompanying his carriage to a considerable distance, se-
parated at his request, after giving him three hearty cheers.

LITERATURE.

ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE, DURING

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Vols. 111. and IV.
Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1835.

We noticed at considerable length the two first vo-
lumes of this work, which brought down the history of
the French Revolution to the period of the death of
Robespierre, and .the conclusion of the reign of terror;
two more volumes are now published, embracing the
period of the Directory and the Consulate, from the
rise of Napoleon, to his assumption of the Imperial
Crown of Charlemagne. To these new volumes we
may accord the same praise that we bestowed on
the former ones, namely, that they are, with
here and there an exception, penned in a spirit of
uniform impartiality. Mr. Alison has too lofty a no-
tion of the qualifications that should characterize a
historian, to degrade- them by exhibiting any intempe-
rate party bias. The portions of his history which we
least approve, are those relating to the conspiracy of
Georges, Pichegru, and Moreau. The author has
taken evident pains with this part, and made a despe-
rate effort to show his impartiality ; but without suc-
cess ; for no one can read it without perceiving, at a
glance, that the drift of his remarks is to convert
the suicide of Pichegru into a murder, and fix the re-
sponsibility on Napoleon. Now we should think that
the remarks of the Emperor himself, to say nothing of
.those of Montholon, and a host of other testimony,
would be quite conclusive on this point. When the
former says, " What had I to gain by the murder of
Pichegru ?" we allow at • once the cogency of the
reasoning, more especially when he adds, in a
spirit that will come home to all ambitious minds,
`" A man of my character does not ace without
sufficient motives." Yet Mr. Alison labours hard to
show that the death of Piehegru was necessary to the
imperial elevation of Napoleon ; forgetting, apparently,
that Pichegru, mixed up as he was with the
worn-out Royalist party, could not possibly have
thwarted the First Consul in any of his ambitious
schemes. His day was past. lr a IYAS known
throughout France to" have lent himself to the in-
trigues of the English Government, and that one
fact . must for over have neutralized his powers of mis-
chief. Had Napoleon been bent on crushing any
one, Moreau, influential as he confessedly was,
would have been his Victim : for he was not P. man
to be balked' in his career by . any temporizing
notions of policy, But to turn to another subject. In
his estimate of Catherine the Second, Mr. Alison, is
any thing but impartial. His attempt to make her out
a great sovereign, in the same sense that our own Eli-
zabeth was great, is a rank failure. Pass over, as he
may, in a few brief sentences, her flagrant improprieties
as a woman—considering them, perhaps, beyond the
province of ail', historian—he has no right to
pass over the fact, that site ryas nnt9rms, in
the sense only that a Buccaneer is notorious, and that
her scheme of government was one founded on
the most flagrant robberies and avoliati9ns, True,
she increased the dimensions of her empire, but
she did not increase the welfare of her subjects. At
best she was only half civilized. The savage predo-
minated in all she said 'or did! OliP' was a com-
pound of Messalina and Semiramis—libidinous
as the one—reckless and ambitious as the
other, It was she who ordered 7'e Daions for the
unparalleled massacre at Ismail—she who depopu-
lated whole towns and villages to swell her triumphal
journey with Potemkin, when she went to meet
her discarded lover Stanislaus. Of all these
points Mr. Alison makes not time slightest men-
tion, fie FqmpTpilep gply that Catherine Was a
successful Queen, Yet this queell aseencle4 the throne
by the murder of her husband I If these are sove-
reigns worthy of historic praise, who among them de-.
servp; condemnation ? These are the chief defects
which, on a 1444 y inspection, we have met with in.
Mr. Alison's history. Io all AttleF Fe§wt§ 119 does
every justice tO subject, and speaks of the Code
Napoleon, just as we 01014 tian
expected from an
historian of his research and inteiligetieJ,

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

THE PAVILION, BRIGHTON, JAN. 23, 1835.

The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight-
hood upon Edmund Lyons, Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy, and
Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 24.

The King has been plc ased to present the Reverend Patrick
Jo'n Macfarlane to the church and parish of Dion, in the presby-
tery and county of Perth, vacant by the death of the Reverend
Alexander Is2ale.

The King has also been pleased to present the Reverend James
Begg to the church and parish of Libberton. in the presbytery and
county of Edinburgh, in the room of Mr. William Purdie, deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 30.

3d 'Regiment of Dragoon Gnards.—Cornet F. Garratt to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Evans, who retires ; J. Roden,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Garratt, Jan. 30.
Bth Regiment of Foot.—Lieut. J. Longfield to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Maitland, who retires ; Ensign J. Hilton to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Longgmld ; A. A. Malet, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hilton, Jan. 30.
9th Foot—Lieut. J. Donnelly to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Hill, who retires ; Ensign M. Glasse to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Donnelly ; E. Vaughan, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Glasse, Jan. 30.
22d Foot—Ensign W. G. Sheppard, from the half-pay of the
sStli Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Austen, deceased, Jan. 30. • _

41st Foot—Ensign C. F. M'Kenzie to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Fry, deceased, May 23, 1834; Ensign► J. Diddep,
from the half-pay of the 60th Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, vice
M'Kenzie, Jan. 30.

42d Foot—Lieut. C. Dunsmure to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Raynes, who retires; Ensign A. Cameron to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Dunsmure; H. D. Murray, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Cameron, Jan. 30.
68th Foot—Ensign A. ainwaring to be Adjutant, vice Mac-
pherson, who resigns the A djutantcy only, Jan. 30.
70th Foot—Captain C. Boyd, from the half-pay of the 2d Regi-
ment of Foot, to be Captain, vice C. O'Neill, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference, Jan. 30; Serjeant-Major R. Kaye to be
Quartermaster, vice Wilson, deceased, Dec. 12.
71st Foot—Ensign W. Speer to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Impett, promoted in the Ist West India Regiment;
Ensign W. M. Stewart, from the half-pay of the 62d Regiment of
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Speer, Jan. 30.
80th Foot—Lieut. R. E. Fullerton to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Every, who retires ; Ensign C. R. Ilderton to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Fullerton ; Gentleman Cadet W. H. Tyssen,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Ilderton, Jan. 30.
97th Foot —Lieut. D. M'lntosh to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Budden, deceased, Sep. 27.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant J. Impett, from the 71st
Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Deckner,
deceased, Jan. 30. . .

Feb. 9, at ten, and March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
rupc,cY• Y.,..ane, Argyle-street, Oxford-street ; Graham, official
assignee." -Copthall-buildings.
ROBTMT JOHNSON-, merchant, Byker, Northumberland,
Feb. 'Fs, at eleven, and March 13, at one, at the Bankrupt Corn-
inissiou Rooms, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tilsons, Squance, and
Tilson, Coleman-street, London ; Brockett and Phillipson, New-
castle-upon-Tyne ; Allison, Richmond.
The Rev. THOMAS FISHER, the Rev. JOHN FISHER,
ard MARY SYMONDS, bankers, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Feb. 16,
and March 13, at twelve, at the Hastings Hotel, Ashby-de-la-
Zouch. Few, Hamilton, and Few, Henrietta-street, Covent- gar-
den, London : .Moulsey and Barber, Derby.
STEPHEN BOND, wine-merchant, Westmoreland-street,
St. Marylebone, Feb. 10, at one, and March 13 at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee;
Wadeson and Dingwall, Austin-friars.
HENRY HAVERS, linen-draper, Hadleigh, Suffolk, Feb. 10,
at two, and March 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. '
Burt, Aldermanbury ; Waithman, official assignee, Basinghall-
strcet, London.

THOMAS JENNINGS and THOMAS JENNINGS, jun.,
livery-stable-keepers, Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington, Feb. 10,
and March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,
King's Arms-yard, official assignee ; Jones, Gray's Inn. square.
WILLIAM JACKSON, silkmanufacturer, Macclesfield, Feb.
16. and March 13, at eleven, at the Macclesfield Arms Inn, Maccles-
field. Lowe, Garey, and Sweeting. Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane, London ; Brocklehurst and Bagshaw, Macclesfield.
WILLIAM BATCHELOR, grocer, Portsmouth, Feb. 10, at
two, and March 13. at twelve, at the Royal Oak Inn. Portsea.
Hiscock, Portsmouth ; Dyne, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
JAMES FREDERICK DICKSON STEWART, coal-mer-
chant, River-street, Pentonville, Feb. 10, at twelve, and March 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Pancras-lane;
Williams, Old London-street, Mark-lane.

JAMES COLLINS,' linen-draper, St. Swithin, Worcester,
Feb. 20, and March 13, at twelve, at the offices of . Mr. G. P.
Hill, Worcester. Smith, Chancery-lane, London ; Hill, Wor-
cester.

GEORGE FORSTER, edge-tool manufacturer, Stourbridge,
Worcestershire, Feb. 11, and March 13, at eleven, at the Vine
Inn, Stourbridge. Rickards and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields, Lon-
don ; Thomas, jun., Walsall.
HENRY WILLIAM WILLIAMSON, horse-dealer, Balsham-
house, Balsham, Cambridge. Feb. 13, at twelve, and March
13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott, Nicholas-
lane, Lombard-street ; Turquand, Copthall-buildings.
THOMAS WALKER, silk-manufacturer, Fort-street, Spital-
fields, Feb. 6, at half-past one, and March 13, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott, official assignee; Hudson, king-
street, Cheapside. •
WILLIAM HENRY CLARKE, wine-merchant Budge-row,
Feb. 9, at two, and Ma:rdh 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Biggs, Great James-street, Bedford-row ; Goldsmid,
official-assignee, Basinghall-street. .
JOHN BOUTCHER FOSTER, brick-maker, Lower-road,
Islington, Feb. 13, and March 13, atone, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Haddan, Philpot-lanel Goldsmid Basinghall street, offi-
cial assignee.