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TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1827.

PUBLICATIONS.

This Day was published, in one Volume, Eivo. price lOs. 6d.

in boards,
DIRECTIONS for the STUDY of
THEOLOGY, in a Series of Letters from a
BISHOP to his SON, on his admission into Holy Orders.
By the Right Rev. GEORGE GLEIG, L.L.D. Sze.
Printed for T. Cadell, Strand; and W. Blackwood,
Edinburgh.

On 10th May will be published, in 3 vols. poet Octavo,
THE YOUTH and MANHOOD of
CYRIL' THORNTON.

Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies;
Have I not, in a pitched battle, heard
Loud germs, neighing steeds, and trumpete clang!
Taming of the Shrew.
Printed for W. Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell,
London.

INSTALLATION OF MR. CAMPBELL,
AS LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

GLASGOW.

(From the Glasgow Chronicle of Saturday.)

On Thursday, thd Inauguration of Mr. Campboll4
as Lord Rector of our University, took place; and,
from the circumstances that distinguished his elec-
tion, as well as those that preceded his arrival in
Glasgow, the most powerful sensation pervaded the
College, and the public generally. A visit from the
Author of " The Pleasures of Hope"—a Poem
which, though it is often too elaborate in its phrase,
and recondite in its imagery, is, undoubtedly, one
of the noblest specimens of ethical or political poetry
in our language—a visit from one of the most dis-
tinguished of our countryman, to the place of his
birth and education, after a long career in the me-
tropolis of the general Empire, had connected his
name with the literature of the hge, and extended
the reputation of his public spirit to the very ends
of the earth—returning as Lord Rector to that city,
which, a few years back, he had quitted as a humble
student, with no wealth but that of honesty, no
power but that of genius, no prospect but that of
immortality--taking his place at the head of that
University, whose junior alumnus he once deemed
it an honour to become—and so doing, in defiance
of all the little, vulgar, servile intolerance that, for
a while, arrayed itself? against him, until the mere
ascendancy of genius over " young hearts" joined
him to the long catalogue of illustrious names that
grace the rectoridl dynasty—all this, we say, could
not fail to throw around his visit a poetic interest,
that involved in it the triumph of liberal principles,
and the glory of our native land.

So far as the crowded state of the room enabled
us to take notes, Mr. Campbell spoke as follows :
" Students.— I am come, at your own generous
and hospitable invitation, to return thanks for the
honour you have done me, in electing me your
Rector, and I express a conscious feeling, when I
say it is the greatest honour ever done me—(Cheers.)
—lt will not be imagined that I speak without emo-
tion. If to enter this hall, and look around me on
the olden scene, be to recall my most pleasing asso-
ciations—and to recall the images of your fathers
and the friends of my youth—what measure of sen-
sation can be too great to give response to the kind-
ness which has prompted the young generation now
before me—the sons of these my fellow-students, to
bestow on me this their highest dignity.
" I am no ascetic, that would pretend to conceal
the expression of my natural feelings; neither would
I indulge complacency in estimating my honour—
for if I came with any such forward feeling, or any
but unfeigned reverence for the solemn recollections
which this bench inspires, the genius of the place
would overawe me, and rebuke me back to silence.

" Aware of accidental Prejudices that may have
operated against me, I am, at the same time, grateful
for the kindly prejudices of young hearts that coun-
teracted them; for it is the choice of ingenious
minds, not swayed by power or wealth, and I value
it accordingly.
" Students ! I am not barely entitled, but bound,
to hail, and hold you as my friends. An alumnus of
this college, and by experience taught to sympathise
with Students, I can speak to you with a kind of
fellowship, and I do so from custom on these occa-
sions, rather than the hope of adding to the instruc-
tions of those Learned Professors, respect fdr whom
forms an indelible part of your character. What I
say cannot obliterate their instruction, and may add
force to it, from the casual circumstance of time and
place.
" Students! I congratulate you as members of an
antient, honoured, and useful University—one of
those institutions that have improved modern man.
It was through her Universities that Europe distin-
guished between the light of truth and the falseLfer-
yours of bigotry. The antients had a light, but one
that discovered evil—portentous of crime !
" Non salis ac liquida,' &c. Every one knows
that when superstition had walked abroad, covered
with the stolen vestments of religion, human learn-
ing tore them aside, and emancipated the world.
What Wickliffe began at Oxford, passed over to
Bohemia, and thence returned to our own shores;
and though our own University is not one of the
most ancient, yet it preceded. the Reformation ; and
a relish for learning led the way to a general eman-
cipation of the human mind. Though Ido not in-
tend to bring it into an odious comparison with
the institutions of England, that have formed the
intellectual character of that majestic race of men,
yet I may remark, that all your Professors lecture
daily, which might be imitated with advantage by
these great institutions.
" Amongst our Professors, we can enumerate
names above the meed of praise, as they are above
detraction ; and, I am bold to affirm, that the
dynasty of professional talent is not to degenerate ;
for re are to remember, that neither the glory of
dead men's names, nor any such ideal sources can,
of themselves, animate the character of the student,
without industry during that season of youth, the
bitter fruits of mis-spending which are so obvious as
to he lost eight of by their common occurrence; like
the great tree in St. Paul's Church-yard, concern-
ing which so many wagers have been gained and
lost. It would be easy, no doubt, to invest this
topic with a gloomy interest, by tracing the life of a
man to its end, in order to discover the bitter fruits
of bad education. But we will not appeal to the
ignoble principle of fear ; for though I might repre-
sent this to you, my young friends—since the inti-
mation would be all but welcome, and its colours all
but bright—l will not do so. And, let me say, it
is not a want of boldness and vigour I most admire
in youth ; the want may present a negative quality;
it may, however, prevent a positive acquirement—
however long be the attainment of that. Yet a de-
sire of knowledge for its own sake is the only sure
means of gaining it : for learning, is a proud mis-
tress, and will not he courted it;r her dowry, or
her family connections, or for the sake of s.how-
ing her in public, but for her own sacred self.
This love of learning is natural. It springs from our
interest in this magnificent creation—our fondness for
truth, and it hardly conceives itself misapplied when
indulging the airy dream of fiction. At the same
time, this love does not spring up
to the dignity of
a passion till the mind has acquired the dignity of
maturity. Voltaire tells us of a youth whom he
almost considered born with experience.' Preco-
cious indeed is that talent that can boast of but a
few of the effects of experience—and alas ! we have
now no such intellectual heroes, born with this wie.

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ful commodity..--(A laugh and cheers.)—There is
a stage of intellectual advancement, to which 119
talent, however precocious, can be conceived to at-
tain, without the demanded process. It is that
ardour with which an accomplished mind awaits the
next acquisition of new ideas, or the appearance of
the next new book, to a legree equal to that with
which the gainer awaits the transmission of his lot-
tery prise. In short, I rather augur well of the
mind that displays a restlessness than ill. Youth
are apt to be too nice about the subject of their
studies; but let me advise you to give your whole
attention to that within your reach, and care not
whether you acquire your ideas by one means or by
another. I should also recommend a certain mix-
ture of studies. Weak minds might doubtless be
confounded by variety of objects of thought; but a
mind of any strength comes home to its more im-
mediate study refreshed by a range of collateral
thought.
"Knowledge has now but few real enemies—and
there are none who do not consider it as power.'
No man would lay the axe to the tree—nor would
any man wish to break a single bough, though in
all its twigs there grew not a laurel for him. Sca-
ligar gained nothing by his absurd diatribe against
the mathematics ; and Dean Swift and Dr. Johnson,
in their remarks upon the natural sciences, disco-
vered nothing but their overweening vanity in their
own pursuits. I know that there is a spirit at pre-
sent in existence that sets itself against classical
learning. I advise you to meddle not with it; but
content yourselves that you are not applying at
aught but the true fountain of knowledge and vir-
tue. I should not fear for that mind that I saw
anxious for the right course, though it might lose
itself in a wrong one. To the boy poet I would say,
Go on—but forget not that learning can alone give
your poetry its enduring quality. Our great George
Buchanan considered he gave a poet his proudest
. title when •he called him 'learned.' I should find
my greatest cause for fear in a mind given to the
puerile ornament, or the flimsy declamation—l would
find my greatest cause for fear, in that mind obsti-
nately adopting its own defect, and really afterwards
considering that a merit which it cannot now see to
be a defect—like the juggler who should accomplish
his own prophecy; or the blundering physician, who
should on signs of recovery, dispatch his patient be.
cause it had been his learned opinion he was incu-
rable.—(A laugh.)
" Such of you as have been but shortly in this
Institution, I will advise not to be ashamed of a little
learning. Many wise individuals think a little learn-
ing useless; and some, in their wisdom, call it
dangerous,' with much the same correctness as a
little virtue could be called dangerous.' To de-
spise a little learning is like the action of the indivi-
dual who should shut up his windows because they
were too narrow, or that the glass had not the
powers of a telescope. Despise pedantry as much as
you please; but adopt not this miserable principle.
In your studies, I would not advise that formal di-
vision of labour that keeps the pin manufactory in
such exact order. Newton made geometry illustrate
physical science; and Richter, in later times, has
followed up the.great example. Let the mind have
its choice as far as possible; and however numerous
may be the subjects it may go into—however dis-
tracted the rays of truth may be that it gathers from
them—doubt not they will one day blend them-
selves into the white light of inspiration l—think
not the stream. of study will be shallower by its ex-
pansion ; be confident rather that, with a mind de-
voted to its subject, it will be profounder from its
breadth.

" I am afraid I have taxed your patience a little
too much ; and I would not, while my delight is to
express my feelings to you, wish to fatigue my young
friends. In conclusion, I hold it no profane allusion
to the Giver of all Mercies, to pray that his blessing
may be among you."
We should remark that the Common Hall, which,
by the liberality of the Professors, was thrown open
to the public at three o'clock, soon became exces-
sively thronged, and a scene of much confusion, in
consequence of some persons obtruding themselves
into the seats appropriated to the Latin and
Greek classes. Tho Greek Professor was greatly
annoyed, and even insulted, by some strangers,
which, of course, enkindled the indignation of the
students, and, at one time, from the spreading of
the flame to the students of Natural Philosophy, and
the apparent determination to clear the Hall of
strangers, amid the clamour of the College Officers
endeavouring to restore peace, and a general rush of
the Students towards the centre of the conflict, every
thing seemed preparing for an imitation of the old
Oxonian controversy between town and gown. Or-
der was, however, speedily restored, and the pro-
cession having: entered, the ceremony of taking the
oaths, &c. was performed amidst the tumultuous ap-
plause of the assembly.
Mr. CAMPBELL, whose discourse was frequently
interrupted by shouts of approbation, spoke with
much feeling and gravity, but at times appeared to
labour under some embarrassment. We arc bound like-
wise to say, that the attention of the Professors
appears to have been of the most polite and ho-
nourable kind.

CuosisTA.—On Sunday last, two parsons made
a profession of the Catholic faith in the Chapel of Crosna,
Parish of Ardcarna. They were of the pretended Refor-
mists, and seemed to express a most sincere regret for their
disingenious desertion of a church of whose tenets they
declared they never entertained the slightest doubt. The
Rev. Mr. Boyd made a very appropriate and eloquent dis-
course on the occasion. His apology for his penitents was
truly affecting.—Dublin Morning Register.

Teodolinda 11--, a young woman of
rank, had been attached to a French officer, from the year
1806 till 1814; when, during the carnival of this latter
year, she discovered at one of the masked halls, that her
lover had transferred his adorations to the Princess N.
Colonel Male!ere, her faithless lover, on returning home at
five in the morning, found a letter written in bad French,
demanding satisfaction for an insult not specified, and call-
ing upon him, as a man of honour, to repair immediately
with pistols and a friend to the Cassines des Pommes,
(the Chalk Farm of Milan.) Accompanied by a friend, he
went to the place appointed, and found as his antagonist a
man of rather diminutive stature, enveloped in furs, for the
morning was cold and snowy. As the second of the un-
known adversary stated that the affair would admit of no
accommodation, the pistols were charged and the ground
measured. When the little man was led up to his posi-
tion, Malciere now having a nearer view of him, recogniz-
ed, hint to be Teodolinda R—, his mistress. Ile endea-
voured to turn the matter off with a jest, but she over-
whehned him with the most bitter expressions of contempt;
and as he endeavoured to diminish the interval that sepa-
rated them, she exclaimed—" Approach not, or I shall tire
upon you 1" and her second had no little difficulty in per-
suading her that she had not the right to do so. "Is it
my fault that he does not lire ?" said she ; and then turn-
ing to 11Ialelerc, said—" Monster ! you have done me the
greatest of injuries—you now say the contest is an unequal
one; well, then,-let but one of the pistols be leaded, and
let US fire at three paces distance. I atn determined not to
return alive to Milan, or else to carry thither the news of
your death, and announce it to the Princess
Should I cause you to be poniarded, as I might easily do
by one of my Bali (hired bravoes), I should be called an
assassin fight, then, base and cowardly traitor !" These
facts were told me in presence of the person who served as
her second on the occasion. " I always thought," he ob-
served, that Teodolinda was resolved not to survive this
circumstance.--However she did ; but, notwithstanding
her youth and beauty, she remained inconsolable for three
years—an astonishing length of time, in a country where
constancy of resolution is not supported by vanity. She
occupied herself in learning Latin and English, and teach-
ing them to her little daughters.--Shendahrs Rome; 6-c.

EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLL

The official letter addressed by Captain Parry to
the First Lord of the Admiralty, wherein his plans
are'detailed, is a curious and interesting document.
It is as follows :

TO THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT MELVILLE, PLC.

(Copy) "Admiralty, 13th April, 1826.
".My Lord—Among the enterprises which yet remain
unaccomplished, and of which the object is to complete our
knowledge of the surface of the globe, it appears to me that
theie is none more desirable to be undertaken, and (con-
sidering the nature of such enterprises) few so easily prac-
ticable, as an attempt to reach the North Pole of theearth.
Having long been in the habit of contemplating such an
enterprise, and being confirmed in my own opinion of its
practicability by a written plan of Captain Franklin, now
in my possession, I beg leave to lay before your Lordship
my views on this interesting subject.
" There can be no doubt of the practicability of reach-
ing, in any year (as is the annual custom of the whalers)
that part of Spitsbergen, called Cloven Cliff,' lying
.in
latitude 79. 52., about the middle or towards the close ,
of May ; so that the party might set off to the north-
ward on the Ist of June. The distance of Cloven Cliii
from the Pole is 600 miles.
" The method which I consider a practicable one of ac-
complishing the proposed object, is by means of boats
having ‘. runners' attached to them in 'the manner o!
sledges, so as to admit of their being hauled over the ice
when no open water presented itself, and again launched at
pleasure. The frame of these boats, which I propose
should be two in number, should consist of larch OT
hickory, so as to be at once light, tough, and rather flexi-
ble. The principal fastenings to be of copper, of the least
brittle kind, and the rest to be lashings of thong, so as to
render the whole as yielding and elastic as possible, con-
sistently with sufficient strength and stiffness. This frame
being covered with leather,. or some such material (to be
determined on by experiment), a boat would thus be
formed, resembling the Russian baidar, in which long
coasting voyages are performed, or the surf-boats at Ma -
Ora., and in every respect suited to the intended purpose.
" The number of individuals I should propose to be
employed on this service is twenty-four—namely, two
officers and ten men to constitute each boat's crew. An-
nexed to this letter is a het of the articles required on
such an expedition ; also an estimate of the weight of each,
together with a further explanation of some of the details
to which I beg to refer your Lordship.
" In this estimate provision has been made for seventy-
two days, at a full and ample allowance, of every articl,
which is known by experience to be required on such so
occasion during a polar summer. This interval of time
would make it necessary to traverse 163- miles per day it
order to effect the proposed object, which (unless favourer;
by considerable extents of open water) is perhaps too mud}
to expect to accomplish. But having on repeated trials,
found that seven days such allowance may without any pri-
vation whatever, be extended to nine days, I feel confident
that the supply mentioned in the estimate, aided by birds.
seals, &c. would be found quite sufficient far ninety-twe
days, reducing the daily distance to IS miles.
" Au oilskin cover completely over the boats, answering
also the purpose of a sail when required, would make the
people comfortable during the time of rest, each man being
provided with his blanket bag, and a suit of extra clothing
as a dry shift.
" From my knowledge of the qualities of the Esquimanr
dogs, I am inclined to think that the object might be ma-
terially assisted by employing from twelve to twenty of these
useful animals for draught;' a portion of food might be
taken for them, and more would probably be procured as
the party advanced ; but even in case of the failure of then
provisions, the flesh of the dogs themselves would furnish no
inconsiderable addition to that of the men.

" In ease either of meeting with an island or of find-
ing ice which appears to he perpetually fixed or firmly
grounded, an obvious part of the plan would be to leav,
there considerable portion of the baggage on the out-
ward passage, to be taken up on their return so as ti
be enabled to push on snore rapidly. It is 1110E8 than
probable, that the party would find some such mode o.
disencumbering themselves of a part of their baggage ;
besides the certain daily diminution of weight (amounting
to sixty pounds,) occasioned by the expenditure of provi-
sions, fuel, &c.

" To enable the party to take advantage of the season,
it would he necessary for a ship to leave England with
them about the beginning of April, so as to reach Stbee-
renburgli, towards the first week in May. By tin
middle of that month the whalers usually advance as fat
as Cloven Cliff. As it would be proper for the ship to bi
somewhat strengthened for resisting the ice, I beg ti
suggest that the fleela would, in every respect, be well
adapted to this service, from 20 to SO men, including
officers, being added to the 24 forming the party intended
to go to the Pole.
" Immediately on arriving at a proper station, thi
ship might be permanently and securely moored in am
small and sheltered cove, of which there is no want in
that neighbourhood. The expedition would then set off
about the Ist of June, directly to the northward, beiie..
accompanied for the first hundred miles by about twelvi
extra men, for the purpose of assisting in the transport
of the baggage, so as to make a rapid progress for the first
few days.

" This extra party would then return to the ship, di
rections being given to the Commanding Officer imme-
diately to employ them in transporting to the northern-
most of the Seven Islands marked in the chart a smal'
quantity of provisions, &c. as a supply for the expedi-
tion on its return, that station being 50 miles nearer the
Pole than Cloven Cliff, and consequently the best to steer
for in coming back.
" It may 'flare be suggested, that, as regards the stay o.
the ship at the northern part of Spitsbergen during thi
three best months of the summer, the plan now proposed
might be made subservient to the interests of science, In
sending out some duly qualified perscn to employ himseit
during that interval, in conducting a series of experiment,
on the pendulum, in making a variety of interesting snag-
netic observations, in attending to the various meteorologil
cal phenomena, and in collecting specimens of natural his-
tory. At the same time the party proposed above to hc
sent to the Seven Islands might afterwards be engaged in
exploring and surveying the Eastern Coast of Spitsbergen,
of which we are at present wholly ignorant, and which it
would be a matter of no ordinary interest to examine. /

mention these collateral objects to show that during the
absence of the party sent towards the Pole, the rest of thr
expedition might be constantly and beneficially employed.
" The practicability of thus reaching the North Pole
appears to me to turn wholly on the question of resources.
This being the case, it would very soon become a matter
of simple calculation, whether or not the object was within
the reach of the resources with which the party was fur-
nished ; so that they might at any time proceed or return.
according to circumstances. In other respects I can per-
ceive nothing whatever, that should make it an enterprise
of extraordinary risk. The summer temperature of tim
Polar regions is by no means uncomfortable ; the sun would
be constantly above the horizon, and our men have always
enjoyed remarkable robust health during excursions of this
nature. If open water should frequently occur, it is always
sure to be smooth, and even if it were otherwise, a boat
hauled up on a flow of ice, is as secure as on shore. In
fact, the more open water is found, the more easy would be
the accomplishment of the enter-prize; and, taking the chance
of such occasional assistance, I cannot but entertain a con-

fident hope that the whole might be completed by the end
of August ; and the Expedition again in England before
the middle of September.
" With respect to the nature of the ice on which, in case
of little open water, the boats would require to be hauled
the testimony of every individual who has visited these
parts is highly satisfactory, affording a confident hope that
the travelling over it would be easy and expeditious.—
Phipps, 13tichan, Franklin, and Scoresby, all describe it as
remarkably flat, and, within the sea margin, consisting for
the most part of large, level, closely-joined floes. Scoresby
indeed, expressly remarks, that a coach and four might
drive along it for miles without interruption. Much of
the ice which 1 have myself met with, has been of that de-
scription, and th% probability is, that in higher latitudes,
where it may have been less disturbed, this will be found
the case in a still greater degree. On this account it might
perhaps be desirable to have the means of putting the boats
on wheels, thus furnishing a third mode of conveyance,
which might occasionally be resorted to, if found conve-
nient on trial.

" Such, my Lord, is a brief outline of the plan by which
Y. Captain Parry has since been compelled so far to alter this
part of his plan, as to employ Lapland rein-deer instead of Zs-
quimaux. dojo, :11:,E,

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in the
View. The enter_priss 4 Ming A !Attire,
and it otiniateted mititanlisent "iCkrionS Scientifie
enquiry, tilikt 5t914 1,41-te-twthiS/IT
creditable to the A0144e; !Ail? the
xpence Weida .: • „ - • .
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trawdinarY, and'the'. tlitedinf +Wild lit the ahott
space of six niontbsi • ' : rod
" I have thus aitrly'subtaitick,lY Pla4*':ol#i4co4:tl
ship, because, in case edits asloption,-1 Cageider it,essentlel
to success, that various trial' should be Made,* iithe course
of the present autumn, toll:4 NM' 4MitettrAk.d'ec*"'
struction for the hoets and other articles ei-igitilexieut.)agia
would also he of importance to procurathis ',summer. ftout•2.'.-
Greenland by way of Copenhagen, the neceeverl law*
of dogs, as well as of their excellent waterproof boots for,
travelling. It would moreover be desirable‘that'the offi-
cers and men should be selected, and trained- -to -their te•
spective duties, in the course of the ensuing autoune,• to
as to be ready for proceeding to Spitsbergen-early In -the
next spring.
" I need scarcely add that, should Tour Lordellip think
favourably of the plan now submitted, I shall feel honoured
in being entrusted with its execution ; confidently- enter-
taining the proud, and I trust not unreasonable, hope of
planting under your Lordship's- auspices, die. British flag
upon the North Pole of the Earth. •
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's faithful and obedient servant,
(Signed) "W. E. PARRY, Capt. R./41."/,
ESTIMATE FOR EACH :OF TWO /WATTS,
Weight.
Boat (for tiVelve persons)
Paddles, twelve B2
Mast to be made of paddles, yard to be made ofpikes -
Oil-skin orduck covering (to be used as a sail) ...... 23
Small iron grate for cooking (1Olbs.), for each boat
Coals (31011 s.) for each boat 155
Wood (some covered with brimstone) ..... ...... ; . 35 (a)
Bread (at Ilb. per man a day)
Meat, or Pemmican (at two-thirds of a pound per day).- 5'76 (a)
Proof Spirits (at half a pint per man a day)
Cocoa Paste (sweetened)
Medicine
Ammunition
Tobacco (for eight men using it) - 4000
Fowling-pieces, three, 211b5., and To...maiyawki, tiro
101bs
Boarding pikes, 4 (vrith boat.-1;ooks at the other end)._ 25
Spare clothes for men
Pannikin, knife, fork, spoon, pepper, and salt l6
Lead-line (using shot for lead) 2O
Blanket bag (12)
Packages cf provisiona, including cooking-pot SO(s)
Citric Acid, crystallized 5 (a)
Materials of wood, canvas, thong, hammer, nails, &c

for repairing boat.
Soap, twine, needles, thread, shoemakers' tools, books,
pencils, pees, ink, India rubber S
Pocket telescopes (two) for each boat 2
Three Sextants, three Artificial Horizons, 2lbs.oaf Nor.

curl
A Small Transit Instrument, 3 Rater's Compasses
Six Pocket 'Chronometers, 6 Thermometer., 2 Pccket

Compasses

12)3,6001b5.

3001bs.
N. B. The article narked (a) will be daily Todusted In weight.
to the amount of Vibe. in each boat.

SKETCH or nig CHAR..kCTER, or BURKE,

BY THE REV. GEORGE CROLY.

Another extraordinAry intellect was summoned
for a separate purpose, scarcely less essential. The
Revolutionary influence had made its way extensively
tin ough. the country. A crowd of daring writers.
From whose pens every drop that fell was the venom
of atheism and anarchy, were labouring to pervetr:
zhe public into general rebellion. Success had made
them insolent; and the country was filled xvitli
al-
most the open array of revolt. The connexion with
France was palpable; for every hue of tempest in
that troubled sky there was a corresponding reflec-
don in our own ; we had the fetes, the societies, and
the spirit of France; every burst of strange fire
from the wild and bloody rites that Republicanism
had begun to celebrate flashed over our horizon ;
every voice of its fantastic and merciless revelries
found an echo on our shore.

Burke arose ; his whole life had been an uncon-
scious preparation for this moment. His early po-
litical connexions had led him close enough to demo-
cracy, to see of what it was made, like Milton's Sin,
" Woman tsi the waist and fair,
But ending foul in many a scaly fold."
His Parliamentary life had deeply acquainted
him with the hollowness and grimace, the selfish dis-
interestedness, and the profligate purity of faction;
and armed in panoply, he took the field. He moved
among the whole multitude of querulous and malig-
nant authorship, a giant among pigmies, he smote
their Babel into the dust, be left them without e
proselyte or a name. His eloquence, the finest and
most singular combination :that the world has ever
seen of magnificent fancy and
.profound philosophy,
yet too deliberate, too curious in its developments.
for the rapid demands of public debate, here found
its true region, here might gather its strength like
cloud on cloud, touched with every glorious colour of
heaven, till it swelled into tempest, and poured down
the torrents and the thunders. No work within
human memory ever wrought an effect so sudden,
irresistible, and saving, as the book on the French
Revolution. It instantly broke the Revolutionary
spell ; the national eyes were opened. The fictitious
oracles, to which the people had listened as to wis-
dom unanswerable, were struck dumb in the mo-
ment of the true appearing. The nobles, the popu-
lace, the professions, the whole nation from the
cottage to the throne, were awakened, as by the
sound of a trumpet; and the same summons, which
awoke them, filled their spirits with the patriot ar-
dour that in the day of battle made them invincible.
Burke, too, made a class in himself. As a public
writer he had no equal and no similar; his place
was alone. Like Pitt, when his labour was done,
he died!

England had now been prepared for war; and had
been purified from disaffection. Her war was naval,
and her fleets, commanded by a succession of brave
men, had been continually victorious. But a strug-
gle for life and death was to come. From 1798,
France was in the hands of Napoleon. His sagacity
saw that England was the true barrier against uni-
versal conquest ; and he forced the whole strength
of Europe against her. A man was now raised up
whose achievements threw all the past into the shade.
profession
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of instantlyta transcended sacyedl d
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His
valour
and
l
genius were meteor-like ; they rose above all, and
threw a splendour upon all. His name was svnony-
mous with victory. He was the guiding star of the
fleets of England. Each of his battles would have
been a title to immortality; but his last exploit, in
which the mere terror of his name drove the enemy's
fleet before him through half the world, to be anni-
hilated at Trafalgar, has no parallel in the history of
arms. Nelson, too, made a class by himself. Emu-
lation has never approached him. lie swept the
enemy's last ship from the sea ; and, like his two
mighty compatriots, having done his work of glory,
he diedl

The Spanish insurrection, in scarcely more than
two years after the death of Pitt and Nelson, let in
light upon the world. England, the conqueror of
the seas, was called to be the leader of the armies of
Europe. A soldier now arose, equal to this illus-
trious task. He, too, has made a class by himself.
But his prides must be left to the gratitude of his
country, and to the homage of the future.

We understand that efforts are now making to
re-establish a pack of fox-hottnds in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Nottingham, to hunt the country lately hunted
by Mr. Holleston. A very spirited subscription has been
commenced, and no doubt is entertained that sufficient
funds will soon he raised for the purpose. John Musters,
Esq., will have the direction of the hunt.—Doncaster
Gazette.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO
Muitoxß.—Yesterday morning, (Friday) about half-past
eleven o'clock, a man servant of Mr. Davison, of the Brand,
near Market Drayton, travelling on horseback, was stopped
by three meu,on the Witmore road, about three miles from
Newcastle. They robbed him of 21. lbs. and endeavoured
to cut his throat, but as he pressed his chin downwards,
the cut intended for his throat passed across the lower
part of his face. Two of the men appeared about five feet
five inches high, and were dressed in black velveteen coats,
made like keepers' coats, black waistcoats, and blue troweers.
The other about five feet seven; and had on a brown rel..
veteen jacket. The men seemed about 23 years of age.
The boldness and cruelty displayed in this outrage, excited
the indignation of the persons in the neighbourhood, who
commenced a very vigorous pursuit immediately. WI
hope, ere this is read, the villains waken been secured.
--Stafford .4dsertiwr.