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LITERARY NOTICES.

Blackwood's Magazine. No. 252. October, 1836.
Our old friend " frae the north" has paid us his wel-
come monthly visit. He is, indeed, a most delightful
" boon companion." So far from presenting any symp-
toms of decay or decrepitude, he seems rather to gather
vigour with his age. The first article this month is an
elaborate review of the proceedings of " Parliament"
during the past session. This is followed by a graphic
tale under the title of " Adventures in the North of Ire-
land : the Demon of the Mist." The " Hymn to Ju-
piter" is a beautiful specimen of smooth versification,
and is, moreover, a very creditable and spirited transla-
Lion, closely approximating to time beauty and di
instruction. dignity of the
original. " Alcibiades the Man" is a soul-stirring corn-
Position, conveying much moral "The Evils
of the State of. Ireland" is evidently time result of much
patierit investigation, and displays an intimate know-
ledge of the subject. "The Murder Glen, by Caroline
Bowles," is a highly wrought, pathetic, and painfully in-
teresting tale. " The Metaphysician" is, as usual, deep,
erudite, and truly philosophical. We ate favoured with
a few more choice translations from "Time Greek Antho-
logy." The number closes with a splendid article upon
our foreign policy, in which the subject of " Spain Car-
list, Christino, and Constitutional" is discussed with very
great ability. We subjoin the following extract from
this article, which, although it has appeared in the co-
lumns of several contemporaries, we venture to recom-
mend to the perusal of our readers

FOREIGN POLICY.
We re reat, that the combined inter'erenee of all Europe is
necessary to the pacification, nay, the salvation, of,Spain. We
mean not the intervention of arms, nor that of arravd men, lu-
dicrously translated by idiots and knaves as "co-operation."
We repudiate the intervention of Englaud and France alone,
for that has been tried covertly and openly; it has been already
in the opposite sense affurdid, without effect, and has failed
without dignity. Influence, individually and morally, they
have nnne—as accessaries they might swell the general voice,
and aid beneficially in a common object. The contagion of
anarchy touches close upon France ; it cannot be without its
perils for Britain. Men, blind as ancient Cupid himself, can-
not now avoid the conviction that the criociptes which abroad
we have helped to propaeate, and at home have favoured, men-
ace the safety of all institutions, undermine- the stability of all
-thrones, and jeopardise the very frame-work of civilised society.
With the sentiment intuitive of danger-inuninent, Louis Phil-
lippe has warily resolved to retrace his course—with the i nfattlas
t ion of Ignorance, tve but the more doggedly persevere in ours.
He. with the tact and the eye of a practised steersman, detects
in the speck of cloud the incipient tornado, and hastens to
shorten sail, and, under bare poles, to ride out its fury. The
Taw landsman of Downing-street, on the reverse, unfurls every
rag of canvass, and hoists his topgallants. Trie one is unswayed
by favour, affection, or prejudice, individual or nationill, ex-
•cepting of self and country. The other is a thing made up of
personal- feelings, personal resentments, and personal antipa-
thies. Braved by Holland, he vents his paltry spleen. upon Van
Zuylen—t h warted by Russia, he insults Matusceviz—baulked
by France, he lavish-es his Billingsgate abuse upon Louis Phil-
lipe. Against the empire he misrepresents, he has arrayed the
outraged dignity, the exasperated feeling of all Europe, less the
revolutionary "capacities" of Spain. But he storms, and fumes,
and frets in vain. Louis Philippei will not enter Spain for the
deliverance of Colonel Evans, and the triumph of folly, and
Lord Palmerston—he will not dispatch his brat-es to find them-
selves dishonourable graves under the ramparts of St. Sebastian
and in the ruins of the Escurial. He has not studied the tradi-
tions of his country to no purpose, if others have—he calls to
mind the memorable language of the great Henry, his ancestor,
when pressed to make an expedition equally perilous to the same
quarter. For the instruction of the descendant of a Temple,
who would have blushed to need it, weAranscribe the words from
the " Memoires de D'Aubiga.," and commend them to his me-
ditations:—" Je sollicitais fort au mon maitre" (Henry IV.)
"de tourner vers l'Espagne un rameau ses desseins, pour
Vassaillii clans le cceur, Landis qu'on assaillarait de tous totes
ses autres membres. A quoi ne voulut point attendre, fonde sur
ce vieux proverbe, qu'il me repetait sans cesse—que qui va foible
en Espagne y est battu, et que qui va fort y meurt de faim."
'l'he recent revolution in Portugal, where the constitution and
the anarchy of 1820 have been proclaimed, in imitation of their
fellow " capacities" over the border, will but the more confirm
the French monarch in his calm and cautious resolves. If

stronger motives were wanting to determine his path, the Abbe
de Praitt bat; furnished them in a brochure, recently published,
whose'curious facts he must have read, and reading, treasured
lip. They are thus embodied:—
DESTINIES OF ROYAL PERSONS SINCE 1789, THE COMMENCE-

MENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONS.

CRIMES OR ASSASSINATIONS AGAINST THE PERSON.

. -....
Custav _ .
is 111., King of Sultan Selim ..1806
Sweden 1792 Louis, 1815;—wounded at
Louis XVI 1793 Dilligen . ....1795
Marie Antoinette 1793 Bonaparte attacked by
The Dauphin, their Son 1793 Ar6na 1800
Madame Elizabeth 1794 By the Infernal Machine 180-1
The Due d'Orleans 1794 By Georges .. 1804
Paul 1., Emperor of Rus- By the Baron de la Salha 1815
sia
The Due d'Enghein 1804 gcron 18.32
The Due de 8erry.......1820 .Bv Fieschi —.1835
The Prince de Conde.--1830 .By Alibaud.. .1836
Murat, King of Naples ..1815

DETHRONEUENTS.

Pius V I.—Died at Valencay. The King of the Netherlands,
.
.
Pius VII. from Belgium.
The Royal Family of Spain. The Puke of Brunswick.
The Royal Family of Sweden. The Emperor Nicholas, at
Napoleon, and all his Family. Warsaw.
Charles X. and all his Family.

DIED IN EXILE.
The Princo of Conti. The Wives of Louis XVII
The two Princesses. Aunts of and. Chailes X.
Louis XVI.

Lord Palmerston, therefore, will have an ally in Louis Phi-
lippe no longer; the noble viscount will be left alone in all his
glory. But if he have not one ally in Europe—for of each and
all he has in five years shorn Great Britain—at least the con-
solations of private and political friendship will be his. There
is Ilendizabel, whose laurels we have sung, still at Madrid, one
of the lords of the ascendant. Silva Carvalhoo may again, like
a giant refreshed, recover his present disgrace at Lisbon, even
under the constitution of 1820, of which he was an original
author, none the poorer for loans past; and M. Thieref from
the brighter skies of Italy, may yet return, and with the aid of
the telegraph and a Spanish war, once more fleece the Paris-
bourse out of millions of francs additional. The trio of stock-
jobbing rogues may yet be restored, in the plenitude of power,
to their posts of honour in the front ranks of revolution, pros-
perous, and to the longing embraces of the British Secretary
for foreign affairs. For the reputation and the interests of Old
England, we trust, indeed, that better prospects are in store ;
and we are willing, with all humility, to commit her destinies
into the keeping of that wise Providence, whose aid was so sac-
rilegiously and hypocritally invoked by the right honourable
member for Tiverton, as the last of his allies—the last hope of
deliverance for—himself, and the commander of his leg►on.

• This person was one of the leading and popular orators of the
Portuguese Cortes of 1820 ; he became, moreover, Minister of Grace
and Justice. In his exile subsequently, we met him at the house of
Senhor de Moura, who, during the same epoch, was President of the
Cortes, and the most able and eloquent member of that assembly,
also an exile. On his departure, the Senhor said, in answer to some
inquiries, " Sir, during his ministry justice was sold with both
hands"
+ Before 1830, this gentleman was a redacteur, and an able one, of
the " National" paper, then, as now, the organ of the Republican
party. After the accession of Louis Philippe, in whose favour, for
"'sons good, it is said, he abandoned his former opinions, he became
Under Secretary of Finance to Lafitte, his former patron. lie parti-
cipated in the enormous profits then made from admission to the use
and the secrets of the Telegraph, which the monarch reserved exclu-
sively for his own profit and that of his favourites. From an editor,
with some .f 290 or f. 300 annual salary': he became a millionaire within
a couple of years. All Paris tells the story of his marriage. In oft
der with a decent pretext to be able to enjoy his splendid fortune, he
espoused the daughter of his stockbroker, and the report was given
out, that in dowry with her he was presented with two millions of
francs. Everybody knew the honest father could not afford to endow
her with as many pence. However, M. Thiers then purchased, and
now luxuriates, in the magnificent palace called the Folie St. James.

Fraser' s Magazine. No. 81. October, 1836.
Fraser is more diversified than usual in its table of
contents this month. Indeed so numerous are the arti-
cles, and so well sustained is the style and character of
each, that we shall have little else to do than to enume-
rate them. " The Statesman" is a clever review of a
work under the same title, by the author of " Philip van
Artevelde." " The Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse"
is richly humorous. We give the following as a speci-