Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1842-12-06
FROM rnE CONDITION AND FATE OF ENGLAND"
4 Neir Work bv Lester
POWER AND MAGNIFICENCE OF ENGLAND

POWER AND MAGNIFICENCE OF ENGLAND
IN England or out OF England, is everywhere met
WIN he evidence OF her greatness. Whethar he stand in
the centre OF London and feel the pnsations of thai mob
heart which sends its life blood the rtest exremes Of
'he Brush Empire or enter her palaces and
or walk along her docks, travel the world the e.c,n,
lion Is still, Great and Mighty England -
Her power seems omniprcsent, her ships circle the pole
ana put up girde round the earth. Her look in.
10 every harDor and her commerce flows into every nm
ton She has her word say i'm every mari Of the
habiiable world. Scarcely nation projects an outward
without hrS' looking up 10 behold the aspect which
hhsa'u VIII assume toward IT. Nineteen hundred years
ago The Roman standard first hoated on the shores of Br
tam Then of bnrbauns clothed in the skins of
Wild beasts roamcd the uncutivated island The tread
o the legons then heard the plans of Afc, and
Asia, and the OF Rome was written on the front of
hT world Nearly two thousand years have rolled by and
julius Cesar and all the CAESARS the Senate the neonlc
and the Empire of Rome have passed away like dream,
Her population only aiitle exceeds that of New York
Stae-whie that island of barbarans has emuated Rome
IN her conquests and not only planted and unued her
standard in the hrcequaers of the globe that owned the
Roman sway, but laid her algrasping hand new con.
nent Passing the energy and valor of her Saxon and
Norman ancestors she has remained nnconquered unbrok
en- amid the changes that have ended history of other
nations Like her island that sits firm and tranquil in
the ocean that rolls round IT, she has amid the agea OF
man and the overthrow of empires.
nation thus steadily advancing every obstacle that
checNs the progress or breaks the strengths of other Govern
eh; making every wcrdiumut wheel in swell its
umphal march, must possess only great resources but
great skill 70 manage them. Looking from her sea-home
she has made her fleets and her her voice Strength
and energy of character Skill daring and an indomita
Nnor eNered through these engines power raised her
10 her present proud elevation.
Her Navy embraces 600 vessels Resides these sbe has
fleets and steamships and packets constructed as 10 be en-
silly converted into ships. In the short space of two
months she could send $50 more paes well equipped
to sea, making in all $50 vessels 40 that she could
stretch line of battle ships from Liverpool New York
each separated only four miles from the other Twenty
seven millions OF people in the three Kingdoms sitdown in the
shadow OF her throne. In the East $50 900 600 more come
under her besides the number civilized and unci
Nzed, that nhab her provinces in every quarter of the
I'lQI lyaE
@ rncG Oh WaeS mus sums up the vast extent of the
pire 'Snlues in honor his birth will he fired i'm America
ON the shores ci Hudson Bny,-aong the whole line of
me canadian Lakes, IN New Brunswick Nova Scotia New.
onndIand IN the Beudas hundred points the West
Indies IN the forests of Guiana, and in distant Falkland
Islands, near Cape Hornln Europe i'm the British Islands
from the rock of Gibrulte from the impregnabc ortifca
tons OF Malta and IN the Ionian lslands-n Africa on the
Guinea Coast and ST. Helena, and Ascension from the Cape
To Orange rve and at the Mauritus-n Asia from the for
res OF Eden IN Arabia at karack, in the Persian Gulf by
the British arms III Aighunistan, along the maaya noun.
nins the bnnks of the Indus and the Ganges the Southern
point OF India in the Island of Ceylon beyond the Ganges i'm
Assam and Arac0an, the Prince of Wales island and
Singapore the shores of China at Hong Kong and Chu
san, and in the Australia settlements formed on every
side OF the Australian continent and Islands, and in the
STRAIT which separated these Islands Of the New Zeaanders
NO Prince has ever been born IN this other county,
~ ancient or modern times, whose birth would be hailed
WIN rejoicing o 40 many different and distant points
~ quarter Of the worlds
After gancing DER this catalogue Of countries he might
well inquire, where there spot where English cannon do
not speak English power OF her reocnp home VIC have
nothing To say. Let her hail the birth of n monarch who
may be, with acclam, bcnging and firing Of cannon
u the last anchored isle" rock 10 the Jubiate-hc world
may listen not peases. But the echo of her guns
north OF Boston and New Yor-be ond the Rocky Noun
tainssouh Of Florda-and Of Charleston; has some
hing startling and omnous in it, Along the ST. Lawrence
Lake Ontario, Erie, ond Michigan one long booming shot
rolls down these free States saying England here
and her cannon too" The wandering tribes Of the western
prdos and Guanan forests hear and cover back To their
businesses for England IL there. II sends terror through mil
lions Of hearts ihunders from the herbors and ortresse.
OF inc East Indies. The vessels entering the Mediterranean
tuh nn anxious eye the rocks of Gibraltar as the smoke
slowly curs up their sdcs and the report Of thousand cnn.
non say m the most significant language that England -
mere To the rejecting there meaning in that shot
which round the earth England sends her me sengers
abo ev'ry nation, aud the insignia her power are Sc
tfed among n the tribes o tho great family Of man; while
snc % amid the sea, ne VI her power the centre of tides
whose pulsaons felt every Shore up every con-
unent piercing river.