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Would be to doom both horse and rider to a horrible death . " This humane remonstrance was not only disregarded , but was punished by the immediate arrest of the general who had thus presumed to rebel . The word of command was given , and horse and rider for the third time cleared the glittering bayonets .
* ' Rendered furious by these repeated disappointments , the Grand Duke exclaimed , for the fourth time , ' To the left about ! Forward ! ' —The command was obeyed , aud , for the fourth time , the horse leapt the pyramid , and then , with his rider , dropped down exhausted . The officer extricated himself from the
saddle , and rose unhurt , but the horse had both his fore-legs broken . The Countenance of the officer was deadly pale , his eyes stared wildly , and his knees shook under him . "A deadly silence prevailed as he advanced to the Graud-Duke , and laying his sword at his Highuesses feet , he thanked him , in a faultering voice , for the honour he had enjoyed in the Emperor ' s service .
" c I take back your sword , ' said the Grand-Duke , gloomily , * and are you not aware of what may be the consequence of this undutiful conduct towards me ? ' The officer was sent to the guardhouse . He subsequently disappeared , and no trace of him could be discovered .
This scene took place at St . Petersburgh , and the facts are proved by the evidence of creditable eye-witnesses . "Pp . 116—118 .
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Art . VII . — The New Charter : humbly addressed to the King and both liouses of Parliament ; proposed as a Basis for the Government of Great Britain and Ireland , and as a Substitute for the Reform Bill rejected by the Lords . London . Strange .
Some of our readers may perhaps echo the publisher ' s name when they read the title ; and it is strange that the people of this country should be driven to think of new Charters . Let but the old house be well repaired , and its inhabitants will not dream of a new one . They oaly-wtrat to feel themselves
comfortable , and not to be aunoyed by the obstinate defence of dilapidations . Still speculations on the leading topics of this pamphlet , viz . the Object of Government , Principles of Legislation , and Forms of Government , have their use and influence , even on changes of a
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very subordinate character . The writer is bold , and on some points we think at fault ; but he has produced a brief political syllabus which may be convenient fo * helping to arrange our thoughts on the ^ se matters . The absence of a continual reference to distinct principles has made our Statute Book an enormous
pile of specific enactments , oftentimes punishing heavily a minor offence and not touching a greater crime of the very same class , aud introducing into both civil and criminal justice that " glorious uncertainty of the Law" which tends to defeat the proper object of Law altogether . The ouly cure is to ascertain and abide by intelligible and sound principles .
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Art . VIII . —The Seventeenth Cen ~ tury a Beacon to the Nineteenth . London : Hunter . The substance of this book consists of a Letter to a Clergyman , by G . Coade , Jun ., of Exeter , originally published in 174 1 , republished by Mr , James Mar don in 1821 , under the title ( which describes its contents ) of
" Charles the First Pourtrayed , " and now reproduced by the same Editor from a conviction of its applicability to the present state of the country . And truly it does contain lessons which may be profitably studied . The Editor has noted , with not more loyalty than justice , the fact that , as to the most conspicuous personage of the two eras , we have a contrast and not a parallel .
Having made this exception , he adds , " Happy will it be if the fate of a Stafford and a Laud , the expulsion of the Bishops from the Senate , and the overthrow of the political power of the House of Lords , two centuries since , prove a sufficient warning to deter the present titled withholders of a nation's demand from goading that nation to similar steps and to a similar career !"
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Art . IX . — The Cottager * s Friendly Guide in Domestic Economy , By an Economist . London . Sherwood . This cheap little publication is truly what it professes to be , a friendly guide , and it ought to be put into the hands of
all the young labouring men in the country , and of their sweethearts also . It is as full of matter as an egg of meat . There are directions for brewing and baking , and cooking , and gardening , aud twenty other things ; from putting money into Savings' Banks to keeping
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Critical Notices . —miscellaneous . 855
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 855, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/59/
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