Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-02

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

"As well, perhaps, read Mr.. Rush's book itself
as a review Of il spun out after this fashion " So
doubtless is already saying many an impatient rea
der. We, on our side, reverenty but stoutly stand
ready to answer and say, i" Dear reader do so, by
all means tbs Just what we would advise. But
ah whittier are fled the times of courageous study
when our brave ancestors touched none OF the puny
volumes OF degenerate authorship, and read the
vastest folio without drawing long breath! Mean
time, consider: abstract WILL after all, be but
moderate review, not one-twenheh the length OF the
book. Ii you flag already with us, would you ever
have persevered through thick octave! Are we
not laboring only that your lazlness may be eased
But hold if this is our reward-if we are to be
huffed in this way-do your own abrdglng! wen
cut short great deal that we might have extracted
Of instructive, tell you only where you may find it
for yourself, spare our fingers that have often ached
for your amusement, and cite little further from
the book but what is fit for the indoent pleasure
of laughing.'
Among the very useful passages which we must
thus pass as too long, is beginning at page 1872 and
ending at l47) an excellent account OF three-days
visit to that matchess farmer, Mr.. Coke Of Hok-
ham. also known as the Earl of Leicester, the very
model of the baronial gentleman of England, and
equally the example of rural economy the most
enlightened, put into successful practice estates
embracing an area of not less than thirty thousand
annual survey under the name OF the sheep-shear-
ing of all the operations and the entire state of his
great and admirably -managed properly, which then
Welded him. from the soil alone, an income of sixty
thousand pounds annually. On these anniversaries
he was accustomed to assemble some sixty or one
hundred regular guests out of the great landed gen
try, and to be visited besides by all who chose TO
examine his methods and compare them with their
own. In a word, it was a sort of grand exhibition
and comparison of the best methods of agricultural
science, at which assisted great body of farmers
and of farmer-nobes, and where the daily company
sitting down to dine with Mr.. Coke was from five |
to six hundred
Another long and very striking passage, of the |
same useful sort, describes an examination of the |
commercial and royal docks of London-those huge |
and admirable aids of England sed-srength, which |
90 so far to give her command of the commerce and
therefore the wealth of the world. We, and we |
alone, have some hope of rivalling her; but shall |
expect it in vain while possess almost nothing of
these great national establishments-whileev even
public marine is so little provided with these great
mechanisms. This is atp. III A like and equal |
ly interesting account of the great royal arsenal of
Woolwich may be found at p. 30l, and few addi- |
tional particulars at p. 3ls. 1t is such as must
place in terrible contrast the constant and vast ac
emulation of the supplies of war which England
keeps, with our own destltuton las il almost s) of
this sort of preparation.
At D. ITO, and some Others we were not little
surprised to meet satisfactory evidence 1--WE mean
satisfactory to Mr.. Rush and to this Government
that during the suspended ratification by Spain of
the Florida treaty, Britain, whom suspected of in
stgatng Spain in that course, in reality, as far
as she nterfered at ALL doing just the contrary The
Castlereagh Ministry, il appears frankly avowed TO
Mr. Rush that they would gladly, by any fair means,
have prevented our acquisition of Florida, but that
the treaty of cesslon once concluded and war be-
tween us and Spain inevitable if she failed to CON-
ply with the terms settled, Britain interest Of peace
outweghed her aversion to our territorial ag-
grandizement and she counselled Spain to ratify
the treaty. We begin TO suspect that her conduct
in the present Texas business will prove to have
been much the same. But we must proceed, as we
promised, to liveer matters.
At p. 1877 he tells, authentic, a story which |
has been looked on one Of those caricatures of
Oriental manners which Mariana or Montesqueu or |
Goldsmith Morier might have invented. Itseems |
that his contemporary. the Shah's ambassador con-
ceved some displeasure at two of his attendants
and either thinking it prudent, amidst the oddness
OF Unbelievers and their laws, not TO be hasty or
perhaps meaning to be civil only or, finally, not |
having in his train any expert persons, he sent to
the Ministry asking that the heads of the two of
tenders might be taken off for him. This, to be |
sure, is mlder punishment for slight offences than
is just now in vogue hereabouts: for what is chop
ping off young mans head to handing over faith
full old man to starvation After ALL the Turks and
Persians not so cruel in their manners as some
think they are Well, the Ministry returned am
swer TO his Excellency that they were sorry they
could not obge him but that really peoples heads
could not be taken off III that way in England, and
that his Highness must not think of the like. The
Emir, greatly astonished and annoyed, remonstrat-
ed but IN vain. He was even assured that it
would be unsafe for him to make his followers de-
YOUR meal Of that sort which, in Orient, is fgura-
lively called " eating slick feast of the heels
bastinado. so his Emincnce was obliged to aban-
oon ms humane purpose-al least for time How
ever, ne comorted himself and the delinquents by
assuring them that they were to look on their heads
as only loan; for off they should certainly come
as soon as they got back 70 Persia
Al ?. 232 he mentions conversation with his
late host Mr.. Coke, who dimes with him. Mr.
Coke was, It seems, good deal of the liberal and
reformer but the methods which he proposed such
that Mr. Rush tells, apropos Of them, the following
story:
"The Duke Of Medina Cell, spain, once finding his ex-
penses too great determined on retrcnchucnt Calling M
his butler chamberlain equey all Others he desired to
know what could be dispensed with and upon receiving
ports from ALL twas ascertaned that the only which could
possibly be struck from the annual xpcnse consistently with
the comforts and dignity Of his household was one qp in
the hall ~
A little later, Mr.. Rush might have found far
stronger illustration among the party with which he
IL associated and their refor,ns (. -. e. ;.,a.