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est falls , The fire was actually so intense , tiiat we could uot approach its margin , but sat on our Koikes at a few yards'distance watching every motion » It wfUB in the middle of the Hooly Feast , and I understood the particular cereinony was in honour of the small-pox deity , Mariamah , to whom they sacrifice a cock , before they venture into the furnace * Then besmeared all over with
some yellow stuff , tl * ey go backwards and forwards both quick and slow , with * out apparent suffering , and one man carried an infant on his shoulders which did not even cry . *' --V&h II . pi , 50 .
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Art . XIV . —Life of Sir Thomas Munro , AT . C . £ > . » . Late Governor of Madras * $ fc > Vol . IIL A suppLEWENTARir voltunfc of correspondence is always unpromising—At promises , that is , to be worse than the
preceding , and the Volume before us is all correspondence . ' * 1 n ever doubled / sayg the Editor , ' ? . how the work would be viewed , " but I had an impression chat a good deal of condensation would be required /* and ** I sipcerely rejoice to find that I was mistaken / ' He theo
proceeds to state that much of the present volume came into &i $ bauds after the former selection was made ; <( the military papers in particular which carry on so delightfully : the narrative of evente from 1780 and l # S 4 * and the extensive correspondence with Mr , Elphinstoue ,
Sir J . Malcolm , Sir T . Hislop , and other distinguished persons / ' It is obvious that the military details , if they are worth any thing at all , would have been doubly acceptable in their proper time and order , and it does not appear why they wen ? not forthcoming before ; they are , however , as Mr . G « gives us to
uuderstsmd , the best part of the volume . We have already notdced the character of Sir Thomas Munro ' s political viewsi , clear and good in detail , and narrow hi principle , ( like an arithmetical ruler , exact wfum ?/ ou have $ et it , ) and for farther confirmation we shall quote his remarks on tke ^ eoverimieiit of Lowis XVI . and the subsequent changes in France . * ' I wish / ' says ihe , to Sis friend Mr .
Foiilis , on hearing the fate of Un Prescmeuil and Moasabar , and &k $ proceedings of the bed of } U 8 ttoe , " I ¦ wififr Louis may avail hiaupeif of the powerful engine he lias in hts hands , a standing army , to crush the uMiUneers of Ine Parliament . " And why ? Because c * if they carry their point of cstabli $ hin , g a free government , commence will become
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as honourable among them as it is in England , and France will then prove by sea , what she is now by land the greatest power in the world / - ( If she be free she will flourish , therefore she ought not to be free . ) " Every means ought to be taken to discourage and suppress the spirit of liberty in a nation that is so formidable a rival as France / 1
f * I would recommend you and all your loyai party to drink prosperity to Louis and confusion to his parliament ; " and again , " 3 f I , like you , were liable to be possessed with blue or any other devils , the situation of affairs in France would be more likely than any thing else to produce such an event , for as a friend to the glory and prosperity of Britain , I cannot behold with indifference the
restoration of French liberty . "—P . 49 . A man had better be born without a country than 3 ove it in this way ! it was a grand discovery for a governorgeneral of Madras that it is well with a nation when she is free ; why was not he permitted to add that it will be well with all nations when all are free ? On
the subject of war , Sir T . Munro remarks , that "in proportion to the progress of science and the arts , war becomes more frequent and more general /' and that ( t this is the true end of civilization , " a conclusion which , it is to be hoped , was partly ironical .
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714 Critical Notices . — "Miscellaneous
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Art . XV . —A Sketch of the Principal Means which have been employed to ameliorate the Intellectual and Moral Condition of the TVorhing Classes at Birmingham . By William Matthews . 12 mo . Simpkin and Marshall .
Tms narrative is enlarged from the Introduction to Mr . Matthews's History of the Origin , Progress , &c , of Gaslighting . Its publication in a separate fprut will , we hope , promote the object of the writer , and stir up benevolent spirits in manufacturing towns to train and enlighten the population by means similar to those of which the persevering employment and happy results are here
detailed . An account is given of various plans aiicl institutions , such as Sundayschools , an Artisans' Library , a Philosophical institution ; of the exertions by which t&ey were established , the difficulties they have had to encounter , and the influence which they have exercised . We ftu < J . at Birmingham , as almost every wfrcue ( throughout the country , the clergy foremost in hostility to whatever tends to enlarge and inform the public inimi .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/58/
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