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not be passed orer in silence . He has been most actively employed in diligent researches after the state of education in this country . It is well known that our ancestors , with becoming zeal for this object , appropriated by bequests and gifts considerable property in different parts of the kingdom to the purposes of education :
but it is equally true , that in many instances these funds have been either perverted from their original purposes , or have been much injured by being made subservient to private interests . Many facts have been substantiated , and the proposed committee will bring more to light . From an accurate investigation
and restoration and improvements of the funds , it . is expected , that a fresh impulse will be given to education : and when we consider what Scotland has gained by at * tention to this object , - it cannot be doubted that equal benefit will result from a similar degree of zeal , exercised in a similar manner in this country .
The poor laws have also exercised a great deal of the attention of the legislature . The debates have tended to remove much of the misapprehensions on this subject , occasioned by the amount of the poor rates , from which it should seem , that there was that sum expended on the poor . However ,
a considerable deduction is proved to have been necessary , as a great deal of that money is expended on other objects , besides the maintenance of the poor , such as making up out of them the wages of labour and suits of law . The subject is very difficult , and the new plans , when brought into action , will probably produce
new causes of complaint . A proper examination of the modes used by certain parishes , in which the poor are maintained in the best manner at the least expense , will point out the causes of the contrary result in other parishes ; and they ought to suffer ^ who , from want of proper examination of their own concerns , permit enormous , abuses to prevail .
A dissolution of Parliament i& . looked for , and it may probably take place before our next . In the short space of a month from the time that the writs are issued , what a quantity of riot , confusion ancl crime , will be the result ! Yet we are
called a civilized people , an enlightened people ! But how does this become a civilized and an enlightened people ? The election of representatives is a matter of'too great importance , if good legislation were the object , to be transacted with riot and confusion : and a civilized and enlightened people could easily devise means , by which
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the elections might be carried on in a man ner worthy of tbose who claim a right 10 such titles . The guilt , however , lies more with the higher than with the lower classes * If they , who have money to throw away , or places of trust at their disposal ,
encourage scenes of tumult , or wtiu . t is worse , immorality by bribes and ensnareuients to vice , however they may pride themselre * on their gentility , their rank or their education , they are more disgusting ; objects to the liberal mind than the poor besotted elector , overcome by their temptations
S pai n has been obliged to ma ke the amende honorable to the American United . States , for the imprisonment of one of . the subjects of the latter at Cadis : and it is evident , that the States will not tuffer themselves to be trifled with . They Irate been making laws with respect to their navigation , which seem to prove , that they have imbibed a great deal of the spirit of
our famed navigation laws . They do not seem , however , inclined as yet to further the cause of the Spanish colonists , Whose situation from the Oronouko to the Spanish Main , seems still problematical . If we can credit the accounts of the colonists , the sanguinary Morillo met with such a defeat , as will ultimately tend to dme him from the Terra Fir ma .
The republicans in . Domingo have lost their president and elected another . The condolances on the one hand , and congratulations on the other , prove them not to be inferior to the whites in expressions
of attachment ; and with respect to sincerity , there cannot be a doubt they are at least on a par with their brethren on this side of the Atlantic , who have had so much superior advantages from religion and education .
In Poland has been witnessed a degree of cordiality between the sovereign and the representatives of the people , which is highly honourable to both parties . The Autocrat ' s language is not tliat of a despotic prince , but of one who really prefers
the public good to his private interest ; and the excellence of his conduct is duly appreciated by his subjects . Though this must increase greatly the strength of Russia , yet the revival of Poland is desirable , and the results of it m list be left to time .
Nothing could be more wicked than the Jacobinical conspiracy of the three sovereigns , which produced its first partition , and little did they foresee the consequences of their atrocious measure . They have been bad enough already , but probably still worse remains to be recorded in his * tory-
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Suite ofPitllic Affairs . S 43
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/55/
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