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lering abroad unjust and severe sayings, it is in speaking
of the frailties and delinquencies of women. For it is one
of those things where an unjust judgment, or the fear of
one, breaks down the bridge behind the repentant; and
'has often made an error into a crime, and a crime into a
life of crime. Oh that there were more love in the world,
and then these things that we deplore could not be ! One
would think that the man that had once loved any woman
would have some tenderness for all ; and love impl'es an
infinite respect. All that was said and done by chivalry
of old, or sung by Troubadours, but shadows forth the
feeling which is in the heart of one who loves. Love, like
the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shews for a mo-
ment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the
human race. He has faith, hope, and charity, for another

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being, perhaps but a creature of his imagination ; still it is
a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving, even
in his imaginations. Indeed, love is a thing so deep and
so beautiful, that each man feels that nothing but conceits
and pretty words have been said about it by other men.
And then to come down from this, and to dishonour the
image of the thing so loved ! Companions of my Solitude.

THE ARTS, ARCHITECTURE, AND CIVILISATION OF
ROME.—Roman taste gave the fashion to the garment,—
Roman skill, the models for the instruments of war. We
lave been told to seek in the forests of Germany the ori-
gin of the feudal system and the conception of the Gothic
aisle. We shall discover neither there. Architecture is
the costume of society, and throughout European Chris-
tendom that costume was patterned from Rome. Unapt
and unskilful pupils, she taught the Ostrogothic workman
to plan the palace of Theodoric ; the Frank, to decorate
the hall of Charlemagne; the Lombard, to vault the
duomo ; the Norman, to design the cathedral. Above
all, Rome imparted to our European civilisation her
luxury, her grandeur, her richness, her splendour, her ex-
altation of human reason, her spirit of free inquiry, her
ready mutability, her unwearied activity, her expansive
and devouring energy, her hardness of heart, her intellec-
tual pride, her fierceness, her insatiate cruelty, that unre-
lenting cruelty which expels all other races out of the
very pale of humanity; whilst our direction of thought,
our literature, our languages, concur in uniting the domi-
nions, kingdoms, states, principalities, and powers, com-
posing our civilised commonwealth in the Old Continent
and the New, with the terrible people through whom that
civilised commonwealth wields the thunderbolts of the
dreadful monarchy, diverse from all others which preceded
amongst mankind.—Palgrave's History of Normandy and
-of England.

LIVERPOOL MITNIncENcE.—In the month of February,
'1798, the government being greatly pressed for money to
meet the enormous expenses of the war, a voluntary sub-
scription was entered into, for its assistance, in all parts
of the kingdom. The sum raised for that purpose in Li-
verpool amounted to upwards of £17,000, which is equal
to a contribution of about £lOO,OOO, in the present state
of the population and wealth of the town. At the same
time, it was determined to raise an additional volunteer
force, to meet the double danger of a threatened invasion
from France and approaching rebellion in Ireland.
At this time of peril, upwards of eight hundred new vo-
lunteers came forward in defence of their country. The
whole volunteer free of Liverpool was then formed into
two battalions of inlintry, the firct commanded by Col.
George Case. the second by Colonel Pudsey Dawson ; a
strong body of artillery, commanded by Jacob Nelson,
Esq. ; and a troop of cavalry, commanded by Edward
Falkner, Esq., of Fairfield. These different corps re-
mained embodiei until the peace of Amiens. They, with
similar regiments in all parts of the kingdom, formed a
large part of the defence of the country, many of the re-
gulars being on foreign service, and upwards of 88,000 of
the militia quartered in Ireland. During the rebellion of
1799 the marching of troops through Liverpool was almost
incessant. No less than 7,000 militia sailed from Liver-
pool for Ireland in a single week. The suppression of the
Irish rebellion in the summer of 1798, and Nelson's vic-
tory of the Mt- in the autumn of 'list year, which, for a
while, cut off the already formidable Bonaparte from Eu-
rope, restored confidence, but did not cause any relaxation
in the preparations for the defence of the country. At the
close of 1798 there were 4,009 French prisoners in Liver-
pool.—Baines's History of Liverpool.

A PORTRAIT OF RADETSRY.—The marshal was all
goodness to his officers, and his soldiers adored him : I
have seen some into whose eyes, when he spoke to them,
emotion and joy brought tears. His generosity was pro-
verbial in the army—he liked to have a great many officers
at his table ; had been possible, he would have invited
the whole army. Every morning it was his habit to throw
out money to the pocr w:io assembled under his windows ;
and often, at daybreak, when I was sleeping on a sofa in
the room adjoining his bedchamber, I was awakened by
the impatient cries of these impudent beggars, claiming
their daily tribute. When I wanted to drive them away,
he laughed at my indignation. Although compelled to
.take most energetic measures, frequently he pityingly
closed his eyes to things he would have been compelled to
punish ; and yet he was not liked by the Italians of the
town : the women especially took pains to chew that all
their sympathy was with the Piedmont and put on
Mourning when these were defeated at Santaee' Lucia. One
of these ladies, Madame Palm.. (it surprised in so
e
.distinguished a person,) wore suspended to her neck a
portrait of Pio Nono as large as a hand, and knots of tri-
coloured ribbons wherever she could place
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constantly at her window, observing all
and on the watch for bad. news. Other women surpassed
Madame Palm.. in their demonstrations. The Countess
Gr.. went down from her balcony, armed with a dagger,
and spit upon the uniform of an officer of my regiment,
who was led prisoner through the streets, of Milan, calling
young
him a German dog and a hangman s lacquey. A you
person, at a great ['inner at Count 8.. 's, refused a dish
that was offered to her : " No, thank you," she replied,
" I am no longer hungry ; nevertheless, if it were a Croat's
heart, I would eat the whole of it."—De Ptmodan'e
Reminiscences and Scenes of the Italian War.