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Hampstead, on the distressed state of the Irish poor, and
the hardship which this parish, in common with others,
suffered from being constantly obliged to maintain them on
their way to Ireland.
Dr. LUSHINGTON moved for a copy of the report
made by the visiting magistrates of Middlesex, presented at
the Quarter Sessions, September, 1825.
ROMAN CATHOLIC LAND-TAX BILL.
On the motion of Mr. G. BANICES, the order of the day
was read for the third reading of this Bill was
accordingly read a third time, and passed.
BILL TO REGISTER VOTERS..

,ord NUGENT, pursuant to notice, moved for leave to
1.1 g in a Bill for .the reiistration of the qualification of
ro rs•in England and Wales.
.ord LOWTHER objected to the principle of this Bill,
a said that it was too late in the Session to think of in-
tr ucing such an important measure.
ir C. WETHERELL also objected to its introduction.
Ir. WYNN would put it to the Noble Lord whether it
w desirable to press his motion. He strongly recom.
m ded him to withdraw the Bill.
Ir. W. SMITH supported the Bill.
ir C. FORBES opposed it.
Lord NUGENT, in reply, observed, that if the Noble
14d (Lowther) and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
(Fir C. Wetherell) would persist in calling for a division,
tik knowledge of the inconveniences to which this course
upuld lead, in the then state of the House, by impeding
'pfblLC business, would induce him, on that account to
uithdrani ire Bill.
Lord LOWTH.NR signified his intention 9f dividing the
house.
Lord NUGENT then withdrew his motion.
THE CORN BILLS.
The Lords' Amendments in the Warehoused Corn Bill,
ald the Corn Averages Bill, were read a first and second
time, and agreed to.
The Lords' Amendments in the Petty Session (Ireland)
Pill were also agreed to.
• The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at half.past eleven o'clock.

SIR W. SCOTT'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON,

(EXTRACTS FROM)

THE FIRST JACOBIN TRIUMVIRATE.
"Danton was a man of gigantic size, and possessed a
voice of thunder. His countenance was that of an Ogre
on the shoulders of a Hercules. He was as fond of the
pleasures of vice as of the practice of cruelty; and it was
said, there were times when he became humanised amidst
his debauchery, laughed at the.terror which his furious de-
clamations excited, and might he approached with safety,
like the Maelstrom at the turn of tide. His profusion was
indulged to an extent hazardous to his popularity, for the
populace are jealous of a lavish expenditure, as raising their
favtnrites too much above their own degree ; and the
charge of peculation finds always ready credit with them,
when brought against public men. Robespierre possesSed
this advantage over Danton, that he did not seem to seek
for. wealth, either for hoarding or expending, but lived in
strict and economical retirement, to justify the name of the
Incorruptible, with which he was honoured by his parti-;
sans. He appeared to have possessed little talent, saving a
deep fund of hypocrisy, considerable powers of sophistry,
and a cold exaggerated strain of oratory, as foreign to good
taste as the measures he recommended were to ordinary hu-
manity. It seemed wonderful that even the seething and
boiling of the revolutionary cauldron, should have sent up
from the bottom, and long supported on the surface, a
thing so miserably void of claims to public distinction ; but
Robespierre had to impose on the minds of the vulgar, anti
he knew how to beguile there, by accommodating his flat-
tery to their passions and understanding. The people lis-
tened as to their Cicero, when he twanged out his apos-
trophes of pauvre peuple, peuple vertueux ! and hastened
to execute whatever came recommended by such honied
phrases, though devised by the worst of men for the worst and
most inhuman of purpoSes. Vanity was Robespierre's ruling
passion ; and, though his countenance, was the image of his
mind, he was vain even of his personal appearance, and
never adopted the external habits of a sans culotte.
Amongst his fellow Jacobins he was distinguished, by the
nicety with which his hair was arranged and powdered ;
and the neatness of bis dress was carefully attended to, so
as to counterbalance, if possible, the vulgarity of his per-
son. His apartments, though small, were elegant, and
vanity bad filled them with representations of the occu-
pant. Self-love, of this dangerous character is closely al-
lied with envy, and Robespierre was one of the .most en-
vious and vindictive men that ever lived. He never was
knoWn to pardon any opposition, affront, or even rivalry ;
to he marked in ins tablets; on such4A account, was

a ante, though peel ataf not an toatntainte,mrtence atarn:
Danton was a hero compared with thili cold, calculating,
creeping miscreant ; for his passions, though exaggerated,
had at least some touch of humanity ; and his brutal fero-
city was supported by brutal courage. Robespierre was a
coward, who signed death-warrants with a hand that
shook, though his heart was relentless. He poi-
sessed no passions on which to charge his crimes; they
were perpetrated in cold blood, and upon mature delibera-
tion. Marat, the third of this infernal triumvirate, had at-
tracted the attention of the lower orders by the violence of
his sentiments in the journal which he conducted from the
commencement of the Revolution, upon such principles
that it took the lead, in forming its successive changes.—
His political exhortitions began and ended like the howl of
a blood-hound for murder ; or, if a wolf could have written
a journal, the gaunt and famished wretch could not have
ravened move eagerly for slaughter. It was blood which
was Marat's constant demand, not in drops from the
breast of an individual—not in puny streams from the
slaughter of families, but blood in the profusion of an
ocean. His usual calculation of the heads which he de-
Mended amounted to two hundred and sixty thousand ; and
though be sometimes raised it as high as three hundred
thousand, it never fell beneath the smaller number. There
was a touch of insanity in this unnatural strain of ferocity,
and the wild and squalid features of the wretch appear to
have intimated 'a degree of alienation of mind. Marat was,
like Robespierie, a coward. Danton;murdered to glut his
rage ; Robespierre to avenge his injured vanity ; Marat
from the same instinctive love of blood which induces a
wolf to continue his ravages of the flocks long after his
hunger is appeased. It was under these hell-hounds that
the massacre of prisoners in Paris took place ; it was a
massacre in cold blood, of the defenceless, which lasted
four days—from the 2d to the 6th of September."