Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-06-24
PANEGYRrC ON AMERICA.
PROM the RICHMOND COMPILER.

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ear, to listen to such tribute as the
following on the Institution Of this
Country, from an intelligent writer
II is a tribute not so much to ourselves,
as TO the cause of Liberty Itself.
More of our readers have heard, than
have seen the Lectures on Physiology,
Zoology, and the Natural History OF
Nan, delivered at the Royal College OF
surgeons, lin London by ". Lawrence
4. Il. ). Professor Of Anatomy and sur
gerry to the College" sc. sc. This
work contains many free sentiments on
the subject Of politics and religions---in
consequence of which, it was not per-
mittted to have a free circulation and
the Lecturer himself, we believe lost
his Professorship. The Lectures are
marked hot only by great boldness, but
vigor of thought-and the writer ranks
| as one of the first Anato.nists in Great
| Britain.
The Introductory Lecture is devoted
to the Modern History and Progress of
Compar alive Anatomy. After sketch
ing most Of the celebrated ANTAGONISTS
of the age, he comes to Cuvier and
Blainville, who has succeeded the for
mer ia his lectures at the Jardin des
PIantes. He then breaks out, at the
close of his Lecture, into the following
strain:
1T is perhaps yet too soon to deter
mine how these and similar pursuits
may be influenced by the recent polti-
cal changes in France. Hitherto,
however, science has not patakcn in
the triumph Of Legitimacy.
LIE SEUR, the fellow-traveller of
Peron, who had long promised a natur-
al history of the medusa, to be illustra-
ted by those inimitable delineations
which he brought back from their voy-
age of discovery to the ausdal regions,
has found himself unable to complete
this undertaking, and is gone, with many
others to the new world. If we can
not repass sigh when we see men of
peaceful pursuits thus torn from thier
native soil and driven into foreign climes
let us rejoice not only for them. but for
all mankind, that such an asylum for the
victims of power and oppression exists;
that there is, not spot, but vast re-
gion of the earth, layishly endowed with
natures fairest gifts, and exhibiting at
the same time the grand and animating
spectacle of country secured to civil
liberty, where man may walk erect in
the conscious dignity of independence,
that
"Lord ofthe lion heart and eagle eye"
and enjoy full freedom of word and ac-
ton, without the permission of those
combinations or conspiracies of the
mighty, which threaten to convert Eu-
rope into one great state prison. The
numerous people, whose happiness and
tranquility are so effectually secured
by the simple forms of free govern
ment, are the growth of yesterday-at
the same rate of progress, they may
reach, in onr lives, as gigantic supe-
riority over the worn out despotisms of
the old world, as the physical features
of America her colossal mountains, her
mighty rivers, her forests, and her
lakes, exhibit in comparison with those
of Europe.0
West Mclies.-The thirty three West
India Islands contain an aggregate of
los, 900 square miles; 100000 whites;
100000 mulattoes and blacks; 1885,
600 total population Fifteen of these
Islands belong to Britain, five to France,
three to Spain, three 10 Denmark, four
to the Dutch, one to Sweden, one to
the Colombians, one independent.
THE BRAzILs-Late information
received from Rio Janeiro, represents
the political situation of the Brazils
as apparently calm. In some of the
provinces slight indication of dis.
content appeared among few of the
lnfluentialclasses of society; but the
government of the Emperor was sup
posed to be sufficiently powerful and
energetic, to prevent any iniormidable
opposition to its influence.
Biography of Mr.. Read, the follow
ing pleasant anecdote is introduced
into an account of the attack made by
the row gallies, in l776, at the mouth
OF Christian Greek, Roebuck and
Liverpool srigates.
"We are informed by venerable
revolutionary naval officer, that he