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    dw tf % ; the display would be less imposing nttisnal ealintation would be less gratified * but every purpose for which ftUfcH mi assemblage ought to be convened would be better fulfilled * ¦ " What courage of heart ! what energy © f affefefen mmt hav £ animated and susiained the women of the British Legion /' says a recent writer , who describes them as " trudging m the

    rear with a pyramid of babes upon their backs , and a couple trotting at each side ! * * * A& their presence in the trobp was cohtrary to orders , they were allowed no rations , aud wer # totally without money , having ; no opportunity of receiving ati # from th £ ir husbands for the last six Weeks ; yet they traded !

    along through fair weather and foul for many a wea ? . y league ^ With light hearts and red cheeks , bidding defiance alike lo the orders of the general and the accumulated hardships of th # road , until they had the satisfaction of passing thfe gat £ s df Vittoria . "

    Comparing the women here described , v ^ ith all their ftf&fet * teneh and with all their inevitable faults to berotj faith th 6 u £$ » less daughters of fashion and fortune , how do we perfeeifri bdth the energy and enervation of which humanity i& capable ; and whd can fdrbfear to sorrow to See feebleness and folly engendered

    in one rank , while constancy , courage , and endurance g&gft nqt merely unrewarded , but unsupported , in another . Parental tenderness , like all the gentler humanities , is beautiful , but when excessive and exclusive it is disgusting , and is in its coasequences fatal to the very creature it would foster . This

    overweening and unjust partiality may find a type of its own & $ *} absurdity in the owl , who , having formed an amicable league with an eagle , they came to a mutual agreement to spare each other ' s young . The eagle required a description of the owlets , that no mistake might occur , and forthwith the owl gave sutli li florid jtictute of her prodigies , that the eagle , pouncing uptffi them some time after , exclaimed , " 'Tis iriipossible thesfe little

    frights can be the offspring of my friend ! " and so breakfasted upon them without any compunction . " Of d truth , " says the writer I have just qufctedy " vr \ t 4 n Ireland loses her men , the women may stand up and figtit fdt the good cause of her freedom , against the tyranny whieh pf& ~ claims them * aliens in blood—aliens in religion . ' " I hope * lcttig era then , they will do something better than to figtit—*« u $ tain

    thofte now ristir against oppression , and instruct and anttimtt their children ats regards htirtmn rights and hiiman duties $ if , to gain the one and fulfil the other , the social state should bfc compelled to pass the gulf of revolution , the crime wilt lie With thmp who impiously knd impotently shall attempt to oppwt the det « mit « ed bet which the currents of Immunity aru IM ^ m « ltiii # towafda their proper etnd natural ohaDiicb . < . -

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/56/