The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-25 00:00:00

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:Ile interest amodg the has Men order; has altenly
, Toured asusethinc in the way of ill-natered criteeism.
This is not to be wondered at when we recollect that
tr,e•anther is a Liberal; or, according to the dis-
t:oction !Inv a-days adopted. her Ladyship is politely
.*redid a ItildieoL The whok work we haveNtset yet
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snood, nee are inclined to consider it such nape-
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awful, sad 'lord a vafiet► of lIIIVONSIOOt. We eon-
ken the, it woald not hare bees lens estimated by the
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Waal of room compels as at present to gin 'a very
limited extract. The one we have selected is taken
from the eoncinsion of di. first simpler, entitled

Historic Sketches.
"lip to the middle of the eighteenth century Spain
ruled the two Skilies by viceroys, who otreasiontilly
maddened the people into insurrections by cruelties
and exactions; and she gave Princes, by conquests,
treaties, and alliances, to the feudal States of the in-
/Prior ; while Tuscany and Lombardy lay benumbed
in lifeless torpidity under the house of Austria. To
general and long operating causes which had nearly
extieguished the primitive elements of the Italian
'character, was added one necessarily and powerfully
inlaeatiaL a peace of fifty years. The despotism
which had depraved, new ceased to gall: the sybarite
•stiblects of the Italian sovereigns vegetated ender a
bondage, which became mild in proportion as it was
liners/stet,. Deprived of every principle df re-aetion
within, anti totally unmolested from without, exrlntled
.alike from all collision of interest and all communi-
cation of intellect, the deseendan•s of heroes, of poets,
of patriots, and of sages, were lost in a voluptuous
ttranquillity and steeped in dull licentiousness: in re-
ligion bigots, in morals abandoned, in intellect infan-
tine, and in the scale of nations a non-entity. In the
midst of this universal and death-like repose, the
crash of distant thunders, such as the Capitoline
npiter or the chief of the Christian Vatican had never .it
lutinated, was heard bursting over the eternal sum-
mits ,f the guardian Alps. The electric lights which
briia along the political chain of Europe, let fall their
sparks upon the plains of Lombardy; the shock was
felt in the voluptuous bowers of the Arno, in the gor-
geous galleries of the Quirinal, and from the Seniplon
to Vesuvius all Italy responded a fearful vibration. A
revolution in public opinion first manifested its exist-
ence by terrible symptoms in France, where every
human abort had reached the utmost possibility of
endurance. This was the arrival of one of those great
epochs in the history of humanity which return at
remote intervals, like astronomic phenomena. Grand,
splendid, and overwhelming, they are the tesults of
the moral instinct of man urging forward the cause of
that truth, which is to lessen the weight of his evils
and to increase his sum of good. For all tends but
to that, the here and the hereafter, the ox offered to
Isis, and the light analyzed by Newton. history has
recorded these epochs as they appeared, the luminous
avatars of mind, in Egypt, in Greece, in Italy, and in
England. She has also recorded the shock of tem-
porary interests successively opposed to their duration
and influence. But though power and system have
from age to age forced a recoil, they leave neither
broken the spring of the impulse, nor obliterated the
trace of the passing impression. It is thus the tide,
ebbing as it cows, marks the circle of each successive
wave on the sands front iltiCh it retires; until, trolly
effecting its immutable law. it covers with its waters
.the whole waste of shore where rocks and shoale have
vainly stemmed its incursions. To trace the result of
. this European revolution in Italy, which broke up for
•ever the stale institutes of feudality, and the power
'Of the Church, is the object of the following page; to
which the foregoing brief sketch of Italian story has
been deemed neenenary. Fur while the classical
annals of Italy, with all theirtelees and crimes, make
a part of the established education of England, the
far t &der history of the Italian Republics, "les sit'cles
des merit's ignore:ts," remain but little known, not-
withstanding the analogy of the freedom of political
institutiora to our own, and their early dissemination
of knowledge through the rest of Europe."

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COURT OF CLAIMS.
The Conrt sat again en Thursday to determine upon
h claims as were brought before it.,,,The Earl of Har-
m b: acted as president, and was attended by their
ft oval Hightivises the Dok.*s of Clarence and (;luster,
Oa. Doke of Montrose, the Marquess Camden, Lord St.
litters, Sir W. Scott, and several other Noblemen and
11.1eutlenien, who were appointed Commissioners by his
Mait sty. The free Barons of the port of Dover claimed
to hold a canopy ever his Majesty, and to sit on his
right hand at the Coronation banquet. 'This privilege
iviiialso claimed by the Mayor, Corporation, and Com-
mit)? Councilmen of the same port. The Court did not
dectdevo which of the two parties the right of electing
eight free Barons of Dover belonged; but said that it
would be expected !hat eight of them would attend for
tii.st purpose. The parties therefore are left to settle
among themselves to whom the right belongs.
The Marquess Cornwallis claimed to act at the Coro-
nado u Builerof Ireland. He founded .his claim to
DA'
ivilege upon his descent from Sir T. Boleyn, whit
lb the same capacity at the Coronation of Henry_
1: 'This honour was conntercl;imed by the Marquess
fatHrmond, to whom it was derided to belong, the rights
ditlie Doleyns having merged in the Crown on the mar-
Alp Of Anne Boleyn with Henry Vlll. •
A eetition was presented to the Court by Lord Peter-
sham, claiming to perform the service of Naperer, in
right of the Manor of Ashby, in the county of Nor•
folk. The Clerk of the Rolls attended the. Court, and
.prollueed the grant on condition of the service. The
Cook, after examining the grant, were of opinion that
itbad fallen to the Crown, and that there was an end of
die claim, and that the Crown bad aright to grant a new
service if it thought proper. •
Tithe being no further claims, the Conrt were of
epihion that their !Mullin were at an end, and they ex-
pressed their satisfaction on the occasion.
Win. Batt, Esq. the Depntv Sergeant at Arms, in.
formed the Court that they were mistaken iu their opi•