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111 W The Last Number Of The North Ameri...
" A perfect Shb ___ y literature seems springing up . .. M _ whL _ xOn . ' s Life ( which we shall notice in full next week ) , Mi-. E . S . lufi-^™ L * -dead of the poet-lias just put forth , a volume of Memiwcence * of tfelZt Days « f tyro * and Shelley , to which we shall , be glad to give our ittention ; . 1 nd ^ Ho GGj the college Mend of Shb ^ t who w expe kd from , the University , together with the poet , for vindicating liberty ot conseieBce , _ ad who afterwards wot * m tto-fc * Jforf * ^— f ^ gS papers about his friend ' s youthful days , announces four volumes of « " ° U" £° ™ Ind correspondence . The first two will soon appear We cannot butantieipatethi this will be the most important and exhansUve work on ^^*<* yetT « blished . We trust , however , that the correspondence wiUbeselec ed in lach a way as to avoid profaning purely private relations-a pnncipletoo JW ^ J - x ___ 5 rttSK _ jS defies Jire which he gives leaves no doubt as to the authenhcit ^ ' of the s ^^^^ K ^ ' ^ r ^ STsS Political . Religious Tractate , wliich one can easily imagine Shexxet devouung with delight in the M _ R _ ow days .
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to be BesidesMr T HE Xi ¦ E A B 1 _ H . [ No . 41 S _ , JFjbbruary _ 2 (> , 1858 . ^ i ii I 111 I i 1 1 M 1 iiP tlr ^ —! - - ¦¦ - « --- are those which refer to Some of the most remarkable of the despatches are those which refer to
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THE NEW WELLINGTON PAPERS . ^ s ^^ ix ^^^^ ^ fiz ^^ z s ^^ TeJh . public . tioU . the importance of wiich is no , to be ™ P ~ - »^_ £ ^_ _ s ^ .-5 » S £ -H thelJm £ ™ ol 'Z present , have a sti-ong and direct bearing upon coii-SmSSv events An army of volumes had already been marshalled by SSSSSSSod ; bi £ we havehere a multiplicity of letters andmemonak ss-sssssisHafgi flrmn ^ httitieifwhich are imposed upon the masters of India . Upon tne voyage 3 ST rthS' { vtley , afterwards Welle * * , occupied the unengagedevenings -with framing instructions for the regulation ot troop-slups ; in ^ an hour Qt ssie' ^ HaEs ^ sf ? SSofOude All this belongs to the present no less than to the past ; . £ _ couW wishThat no one would write on Indian political civil , or mditary mitten without having diligently studied the book . Ifi is far from being a ^ or dTy coSection of official despatches ; a lai-e proportion is filled by ikmilTar letters in many of which , however , the allusions are blunted by the mm ^ mmm « n time biowraubv of the Duke can be written , ; the work is lett to a iutuie m g K « t has or can be effected is to assort and arrange the mmmmmwi ^ Thl cMeZf u pon what lines they may be moved , how the y may be ^ M ^ mm ^ m fc _ 2 cW ? y t ^ ut the most rigoious measures should be adopted agamst him ^ hTSherento ! L thereto * request that be and all those taken in arms t ^ huTnSy b ** ' punished with death . Lenity towards them would have Jhermosfc cpwoI effect ., by « mc _ u __ gWH 5 others to take arms and again to tlSJde 7 aSTraVage the country » nS murder its nhabifcants / A similar v . ev / Krorethan once expounded ' r but there are „„* some curious illustrates STe ^ olume of that upo * , vhi « h the I » uke was accustomed to pride h . m-Sf Ss hSh policy . Thus , whon in command ut Senngopatam he recdved Som ^ haKre Dubois un application to have returned to their husbands the wives of about two hun < W Clp istians and other unmarried Christum _^ Sn ! wUom : TiDpoo _ Saitaun had clirriod off from their husbands and fnonds ^ SffSuS ^ h ^^^^^ SSS were . pJ » u : « d , und were tliea suppoayd to be , m , hw ^» aua ^ I havo wied to comply with , this wqacsV' twd Arthur WoUesloy ^ althou « h tlio JSEifl i £ S because * U « Comply , having tak «» tlm iu « a , ly under » ta ISSoSion ii w not proper thutswtything should be done : w . lwch caa di ^ riuie fftbe eyeTof the ln < 5 iaa worUl , whicfi can in the most remote decree coat * XX upon the dead , or violate the feelings of tuoso who are ahvo . " . Hero i ! jSgrmoroUty ; U » e wholo of the Lutt « r on the subject contain * interesting details and suggestions .
the material organization adapted to an' Anglo-Indian army . Upon the employment of light artillery , the opinions of the Duke of Wellington , who was not , as he says , " regularly bred to artillery , " are well known . He mio-ht have doubted , perhaps , whether it would be possible to advance the 24 ^ pounders of a frigate with the front line of skirmishers , as Sir William . Peel and his naval brigade did at the battle of Cawnpore . With reference to that and the other stations on the Oude frontier , the volume contains a memoir of singular interest , which may be studied in connexion with the actual war . There is no method of annoying and disarming the enemy so effectual he affirms , as the establishment of sm « ll fortified posts , not made stron" enough to stand a siege , or "that we find any difficulty , in retaking them" if abandoned by our own troops or captured , but they should be of the nature of the mud forts in the Camatic , which afford protection to a small body of infantry against a large one of cavalry , and enable officers proceeding with convoys to put them in security almost every night . " After pointing tx > the value of Allahabad and Futtehghur , and enumerating- the positions at Calpee , Etawah , and Abopshee , he adds , " The Nabob of Dude ou ^ ht to be called u pon either to regulate or to dismiss his iorce , " and " the main object should be to keep the enemy from Lucknow . In contrast , with these elaborate papers , we have some characteristic drafts of letters to be written at large by his secretary . There is one for despatch to Colonel Cotton , now Lord Combermere *•—„_ _ ... ??! ... That I be" - to know what he thinks of Mr . Guthrie , his sergeant ; that in general I have an objection to making officers of people from th , e ranks ; that I can ' t go to him . — , Arthur Wellesley . * ,,..-, Wellington formed an early and accurate opinion of the distinctive characters of the Madras and Bengal troops . Referring to the latter he said , l 798 . " There is no army that lays claim to the title ol disciplined that is in so bad a state ; " while of the former he wrote , under the same date :-" Notwithstanding that their grievances were heavier than those suffered by a- officers in Bengal ' , there was not the same violence of complaint or any reLon to fear tht consequences of discontent . " Again :- « To their credit it may be said , that if it had been necessary they would have gone to Bengal , and fuelled a mutiny for the redress of grievances , in the success of which they were more interested than those who mutinied . " But while the distinguished commander surveyed these large subjects his mmd was not less S 3 [ with tixe minutest details of military management , to the lesser pointe of which he would frequently refer in a very jocular spirit , as when Eton a question of money and provision purchases he says :- ' If - tlieie be any necessity for it , I'll sea if I can ' t beat Ben Roebuck , . hsq ., out of the six ^ da ^ sTcherry draws on him at thirty . " There is agood deal ot SmUarlv li-ht matter in the volume , in addition to that which will prove of m ? re hiterest to a certain class of readers-deta Is connected with personal inpMpnts W the scandals of the time , such as the harmless duel between Soli airAston , and the fatal duel in which Aston fell , shot through the Dackbon ^ by Sor Allen . Indeed , upon the whole state of India during effht memorable years , upon the force , condition and discipline of the ESoiXnTid native armies , upon the course of politics and war , upon the JSSoTo ^ lSLrGoveVnSieai . with the several »^ e pawen jjhge nosers throw a valuable and much-needed hght . Nor are the despatches ££ letter ? V « nt » g in allusions to the grand movements P ««» 8 £ «^ rreneral world . That was a stirring and momentous period . When young wXnUon arrived in India , Sir John Jervis was bearing down . on & . V ^ eent , and Duncan on Comperdown ; the second coalition aga m .,-INapoleon was preparing , and before tlie last date m the volume a great buist of competing victories had illumi . iated the Pyramids , the Nile , the north o 4 Italy £ orengo , Heliopolis , and Hohenlinden . The next volume will traveisc five ^ m morS important yeon ; it will lead through the battles of Alexandria and Copenhagen ; the rise of the French Emperor , the battles oi Elching ? n , Ulm , Austerli ' tz , and Trafalgar Wellington himselt wJl assume a more glorious prominence , invading the Mahratta btates , lighting he battle of Assaye , and op ening up a vast arena of conquest , lo the completion of the book , so far as India is concerned , we look forward with eXeme curiosity ; but the volume before us is in itself invariably interest-S & ^ o cmitribuUon to history , . b a chapter in the autobiogrnpl . y of the Duke , and as u study ' of Indian aflkirs , very opportune at tins crisis p i our Easte n liLtorv The book is essential to the library of every English SntpalrS ^ should be found in all public collections in London and the provinces . . '
Liberty Of Conscience. La Libcrtd De Con...
LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE . La Libcrtd de Conduce . Par Julca Simon . Deuxi 6 . no Edition . Park ,: _ Haohette . TiiiB nuestions discussed in this book are now more than ever ni 1-runoo auestions ^ f ! ho day 5 *" « lltl »» u - h tho loarnod aIld olo 1 uent ^ hw t"T . 0 C 1 S whole of Eur <> pc , and proves that in no country religious liberty Bk ^ i ^ ri : ^^^^^^ S &^ i- ^ = ffl-- fe ^ s fe : ? t : S'ltne " a \ fhioh showed that l « himself ftlt tho weig ht oi o . ro . . o » , that he wus pleading his own cause as well as that of ti utn . The teuA vSat ahhoug h . much talk is ndulged in on ^ ecjuah y of il ^ SSSiSSli s ESi ^^^ J ^^^^ M ir ^^^ ' liberty of = ; 31 ? J iotTe Sj observed , the liberty of conscience , but the right ol ill mow toZZ \ -Lnd ILTtW God after their awn fiuihion . But this artieh ..- ui « w hySSay like so many other arti « l « 8 of . that . forsworn cpiwUfution . I » Knee " 5 public worship can bo oarried on w thout prulmimary aui » or ^ tion ; und tliis authorization is not grunted , like a license , on to fug of certain formalities , but depends entirely on tho arbitrary will ot JUayoi-
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 20, 1858, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20021858/page/18/
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