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THE HABP THAT ONCE THROUGH IAEA'S HAILS.
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Unite In Time The Avarice August 5, 1848...
August 5 , 1848 . THEJ ^ ORTHERN STAR . 3
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The Habp That Once Through Iaea's Hails.
THE HABP THAT ONCE THROUGH IAEA'S HAILS .
S - TEOHAS i £ 0- _ E . The harp that once thrsugh Tara ' s halls Tbe soul of music e _« d , Sow bangs as mute on Tera ' s walls , As if that soul were fled;—So sleeps the pride of former days , So glory ' s thrill is o ' er ; And hearts that once be _ t high for praise , Now feel that pulse ao more ! No more to chiefs and ladles bright The harp of Tara swells ; The cfcord alone that breaks at night , Its tale of ruin tells : — . Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes , The only throb she gives , Is when some heart indignant breaks , To show that still she lives .
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ANALOGIES AND CONTRASTS , OR , COM . PA . RATIVE SKETCHES OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND . By the Author of ' The Revelation of Russia ' London : T . C . Newby , 72 . Mortimerstreet . Cavendish-square . { Continuedfrom our last . ) The author of this work contends for the sound and generous policy of abstaining from interference in any political movement which , not calculated to weaken England , might conduce to the advantage of France . He sees no objection to France annexing to her province of Algeria any portion of Morocco TT-ich a fair casus belli aught give her a fair claim to . He argues for the extension of France to the
Rhine , and even to the Scheldt , provided the inhabitants of these territories are willing to become French ; and he would willingly we France the possessor of the Balearic Islands , if legitimately par . Chased from Spain . French ambition directed to a practical object would no longer intrigue for a barren supremacy iu tha court of Spain , or the councils of Greece , Turkey , and Eiprpt ; and hostile realisation with Gr * at Britain in China and in Polynesia , would be abandoned for more profitable employment . In the present state of the world 'jealousy of French aggrandisement and power can only ariee from ciw-& r _ ice , ignorance , or folly , cr originate in an invidious prejudice which no Englishman would dare to
BTOW . The second volume of these' Sketches * opens with an account of Louis Philippe ' s parentage , education , life , and character . We extract the following notice of the celebrated case of
H __ I _ STELLA . The memoirs of Maria Stella have been declared libel . IOus and suppressed , but never confuted . It is well knows that she claims to be the child of the heiress of Penthievre ( who had previously only given birth to females ) by the Duke of Chartres , ( afterwards Sgalite ) her husband , who in his ambitious anxiety for a usale heir , had prepared a boy to substitute for the child about to he barn , in case it should not prove a male . This changeling , the son of Chiapplnl , the executioner an . jailor , the a _ tkor asserts to be Louis Philippe-rher . eelf the daughter of EgaliiS .
The fact that there were at one time thirteen ladivl . duals , each claiming ta be the Diuphin , son of Louis the Sixteenth , supposed to have perished in the Temple , sad that the pretention of moss of them was supported by a strong likeness to the Bjarbon family , which probably suggested the imposture , rendered it easy to throw discredit on the story ef Maria Stella , and reduced to slight importance her personal resemblance to the family with which she claimed kindred . The utter dissimilitude of Louis Philippe in feature eni in character to every branch and member of the Bourbon family—the failure of his partisans to meet end expose the fallacy of Karia Stella ' s charge—ara far more sis _ i _ e __ t features of the ease . *
For those who have been accustomed to regard her claims as no better founded than the pretensions of the thirteen impersenatora of Louis the Seventeenth , it may not be uninteresting to learn that _ b » obtained , notnithstanding the energetic opposition of Louis Philippe , a decision in her favour from a native tribunal . Ia June , 182 * , by a decree of the Episcopal court of Faenza , to which Lady Newboroagh Sterntrerfhad made application , the entry in tbe baptismal register of the priory church of St Stephen , pope and mar'yr , at Mo-< Jiglians , tearing date the 17 th ot April , 1773 , and declarisg Maria Stella Fetronilla to have been the daugh . fcr of Lawrence Chiappini and of YIce __ ia Diligeati , wag formally altered , and she wat therein inscribed instead , as child of the Coast and Countess of Joinrille , the name under which E ;» lite ( then Due de Chartres ) and his princess travelled . "We give some farther quotations from this chip , fiflr : —
_ OriS . PHILIP ? E _ SD CH-B-T-E . DuBiocrier . with whom Louis Philippe escaped to the Austrian head quarters at Mons , tired on by Divoust ' s battalion as he fled , was iatriguing to raise him to the throne . He had written to propose him as sovereign ot Prance , to the soa of : he ex-priTateerEman , the eonntry-Kntleman and Yendean chief Charette . The uncompro . DBising Charette , who entered Kantes with the white plume waving from bis hat , to treat from equal to eqaal with the revolutionary authorities , who had scattered like chaff __» hosts of the Bto _ 4 wi __» , Co __ T £ t , & fi & Bakes of York , —Charette , who having only thirteen fol . lowers , refused millions to give np the contest—replied thus to the renegade commander . — « S _ i _ teFl _ ire __ s Loops , -1 st Uov ., _ "BS . Dea _ Drao-KiEE , Tell the son of Egalit . to be d . d . ( Signed ) « C _ ev _ lie _ C _ a __ tt _ . ' LOUIS-rBmPT- ' B TOCTHFCIi IHTBIGCES ,
"When his brothers and mother were removed beyond the power ofhis countrymen he was not only willing but anxious te bear arms against them . In August , 13 ; 8 , ie landed at Gibraltar , to give military assistance to Prince Leopold of Hsples , as regent of Spain against th e French . In 1 S 09 . he set on foot intrigues with the view of being sent with a Cstalonian army , as Begent of Spain , to Invade the Preneh territory . On the 21 it of Hay , 1 S 10 , after his marriage with the Princess Amelia of Naples , he landed at Tarragona for that purpose . But here he found that Lend * had fallen , and that the army of O'Donnel ( Count of Labispal , whose eon was after , wards captured and shot , by Zumalaearregni in the Carlist war , ) had been defeated . This would not suit TJlj g . ass . He dld'nt like it . As a biographer ebjb , 'he
misted ili temptation rfoncemore rei _ mi _ g _ is place at the head of a brave army , and declining the favenr , te ., re-embarked for Cadiz . ' At Cadiz , he was requested te quit Spain , but urging the invitation he bad receive ., through a Don Hanuel Caraerero , neglected this eug . gestion , end after pertiascionsly contending for three months for a command against his countrymen , pleaded his own cause at the bar of the Cortes , with so much eloquence , that he was rewarded by a formal refusal , end obliged on the 3 rd of October to return to Palermo . Prora Louis tbe Eighteenth he accepted tbe mission to combat the tricolour undtr the white cockade—a mission which the rapid def-ctfon or the royal troops to Napoleon , asd the disgracefal flight of Louis , caused him to abandon . His inclination prompted him to oppose the Imperialists , —his judgment to retire to Twickeahsm .
The fact of Louis-Phhippe's aever having borne arms against his countrymen , so pompously set forib in 1839 , was therefore due at lex st as r _ uch to the prudence of Otb . r « as to his own patriotism or foresight . In 1893 , he actually complained to the secretary at war , that Sir Hugh Dslr . ituple had thwarted all his projects in Spain . CoUingwco _ wrote to him , * that those pr inces Who have borne u _ s sgsfnst their country _ a-e seldom been happy ia their object f and the Duke of "Wellington not only dissuaded him from that sttp , but was actually instrumental in preventing him frem obtaiclsg a commsBd against the French in Spain .
There can be no doubt of Louis Phujp-s's complicity in Didieb ' s conspiracy . His treaion and ingratitude to Charles X . cannot be questioned . _ The as = _ ssination of the Duke _ e Berri excited anspiciotts against him which were never wholly dispelled ; and the suicide or murder of the Prince de Conde affixed a stain to bis reparation which has not , nor never can be effaced . locis-philippe's av __ ic _ , Tbe young prince , whose lavish generosity had been festered b y an ambitious father A _ d preCEptrESS , who saw in prodigality , a means ef popularity—having w »_
-Cered in G _ nna _ y , where road-side notices forbade ' vagrants and emigrants to tarry mere than a quarter of an hour , '—thence into Switzerland , where tbe monks ta the St Gothard refused him admittance on sccouat of feis humble attire , aud where absolute poverty obliged b ; m to seek a livelihood as teeeher—instead of acquiti _ £ i _ such a school a practical knowledge of tbe miseries rrhich tke distribution of wealth may alleviate , and the moderate expenditure at which all enjoyments , not purely imaginary , may be procured—learne- only to wer . abip . is his God , the gold by whose privation he had Buffered , and came , when the richest man in Europe , to
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unite in time the avarice of the miser to the mona * leader ' s avidity . money . _ oms . rHU . IPP- -ITD BENJAHiK COHtTiBT Benjamin Constant , incurably addicted to gamin * died almost in actual privation—driven shortl y previous to his death , amidst signs of external epuknee , actuall . to treak his fast oa a dry crust and water . Advantage was taken of his penury to press on him , through his lady , by the instrumentality ot the Qieeu of tho French the sum of £ 6 000 as a present from the civil list . Btn ' jsmin Constant go far forgot what was owing to himself as to accept , under tha promise of secrecy , from a political adversary that gratuity , but not sufficiently what
wss duo to his country , to allow the gift to influence his political conduct . He took for an act of magnanimity what Louij-Philippe only intended as a bribe , aad that sovereign , stung to fiad the conditions not complied with , which , in his view of the case , tbe ac ceptance of his largesse implied , caused it to be published ts the world , tacked to the calumny that it was the price stipulated by Benjsmin dnstant for the abandonment of principles undeviatingly sustained in the face of strong temptation during a Ion ; life . This digclosure was the death of Benjamin Constant , who never afterwards held up his head .
PORTBAIT OF LODlS-PHILIPrE . Unlike all the Bourbons , Louis . Philippe in person is said to resemble the family of Cniappini . Middle sized , and now ofeese , his aspect is strikingly plebeian—his physiognomy rather Intelligent than intellectual , that is to sey , more indicative ff penetration than ef tbe combination of perceptive and rtrlec ; ive power . Its expression—if not flattered b y the painter—was in former years mere nobis than at present , though per . haps even now the unceasing caricature of which he has been the object lesds one to imagine , In the deepening lines of age , the sigas of self-complacent guila , which perheps have no existencs bat in association or fancy . The resemblance of his face and head to a pear , and the ingenious nse made of that likeness iu a celebrated trial , are well known populsrly to have earned for him tho nickratne of' Li poire . '
The ' Political Comedy of the Spanish Marriages ' is an Gmusing chapter—another illustration that * truth is BiriDEe , stranger than fiction . ' A chanter on * The Swiss ( Jaestion ' is followed by one on' Italian Afftirs ; ' passing by thesis we come to the chapter on ' Public Men and Political Parties in France . ' TM _ pertion of the work exhibits the celebrities of France as they were , or as they appeared to be , before the revolution of February . G . i _ rr , Thiers , Berries , Lauartise , Odilwh Barrot , Ledrd" Rcllin , Lamessais , Louis Blarc , and others who have recently lost or acquired power , are described in this chapter . The portraits of
Tni _ B 3 and Utjizyt . are powerfully drawn , particularly that of Gnus .. The description cf Gmzoi is a masterpiece of writing . It is singular that our author should have prophecied the present position of Thiers . ' When , ' eays he , ' those events take place , of which , if the writer mistakes not , a little bird sings jnst now , it is possible that Thiers is the only ene of the four [ the other three are Guizot , Mole , and De Bucolic , ] who stands more chance of figuring again in public life than the surviving ministers of Charles X . ' We transfer to our columns the 'full-length pertraits' of
( suiz jT ahd Tnreas , Both ere historians , both orators , both refustsg to participate in the struggle of July , both subsequently profiling by it , both ministers , both party leaders , both writers for a paper founded in the interest of tha Orleans dynasty , and now devoted to its downfall , both instrument-l in tbe rise of their royal mas'er , both in turn duped by Urn—tbe one—Guisot , short and slight of stature , the other , Thiers , hardly reaching with bis shoulder tbe marble of the tribune . Guisot at Ghent during the hundred days . Guizot in the three days of July , at Audry do Payraveau ' s , who boldly flung tbe gauntlet in the face of monarchy , reading the draught of a protest in which he proposed to sign that they were bounden by tbeir duty to the king ( Charles X . ) ' Thiers , during this time , refuse-taking at H _ dama de Courcbamps , in the valley of Montmorency .
Guizot , sicca the death of Ferrler , notoriously tbe most steady and unflinching advocate of the encroachments of power . The attribution to him of the stern preospt—Soyez isopitoyables ! Be merciless I if no better authenticated than the ' up guards aad at them' of the Duke of Wellington , 'lagarde meurt mats ne se rend pas' of Cambronue , or the 'Dut d'OrJwnj la meZleure dti RtpuUiques ' of Lafayette—is characteristic of his reputation . ' Le travail est un frein , ' labour is a bridle , is another of the harsh apothegms which it is less doubtful that he uttered .
-Thiers , bitterly observes a" adversary—and hia friends cannot gainsay t _ eallegatien , 'Thiers—has Identified his name with tbe state of siege of Paris , with the exploits of the Bve Trantnenain , with tbe incarcerations of Mont St Michel , with the laws on association , on street criers , on the courts « f assiza , sod on the journals , with every measure which has trammelled French liberties , tended to degrade the press , to corrupt juries , to decimate patriots , to dissolve the National Guard , to demoralise the nation , ' * Both have been doubly inconsistent , but here all point of rtsemblance ceases , esd there remains no trace , in continuing their portraiture , onl y features ef dissimilitude . Short end slight In stature , Guizit is not undigmified in aspect .
The mel-nchol ; shade eloa-lng a noMeforehead—the cold , disdainful smile of a drily chiselled lip , give to his features an habitually austere expression , which a flashing * y e de < pen > into enercy . Grave in deportment , narsh ia muusec , peremptory in gesture , do ^ znsticsl in tone , he seems—in voice full , clear , affirmative , aud devoid of modulation—less to persuade than to impose a conviction , or dictate an idea . Aged if not old—for tenuri of offica seven times re . pealed , aud now consecutively continuing in its sisth
year , between a resolutely-willed masts-, insatiabl- maiori ies . and a threatening people , does net re-jarenate . —that stsrn , contemptuously eelf-possessed , au 3 careworn figure would be more than dignified . The pale and bilUus countenance , contracted lip , ascetic sar . e » m , and doctrinal sententious speech , would conjure np one of those fatsous doctors of Geneva , who , after vindicating human thought agaia . 3 t Rome , doomed Servetus to the stake—if tha schoolmaster and pedant nera not more forcibly presented to our thought ! .
Rising , in fact , into notice as professor and politl . cal disciple of Royer Collard , another professor , everything about Guzit—style , elocution , and oratoryare redolent of the dictatorship of the profeisorial chair . There U , Indeed , more ef the acerbity of the vindictive p 5 dB 0 e "ne , irritated ieto severity by scholars to whom he has been preaching patience and forbearance than of the miniiter ' s unscrupulous ambition , in that dereliction of principle by which , after strenuously upholding , during & whole life , representative forms , be has sank into the ofneious tool of monarchical encroachment .
If Guizot be the pedagogus , Thiers is thoroughly tbe Frenchman of our old comedies aud pepalar prejudice—not impetnously earnest , as half a century of revolution and reaction have made the Frenchman now , —tut as our playwrights caricatured him from the monarchy , —loquacious , frivolous , versatile , and vivacious . * # Thiers , far from exhibiting the deportment of tbe Statesman , seldom rues even to tbo dignity of the man The auquette and hlox : ic wouUbeflt him better than the toga . Restless , ardent , voluble , full of gesticulation , he l » tbe precise type of those Parisian fcoj-e overiBp posts , annoying passers-by , and ripe for allimagi nahle mischief .
Guizot plumes bimself upon the strict integrity ofhis private conduct . Disiaterested amidst corruption and opportunity , no breath of suspicion has ever tainted his fair fame , and ha derives from C-iss neither personal nor family advastage . Ostentatiously incorruptible—with Roman self-denial , he leaves his nearest kindred placeltss and almost indigent—and he has never been benefitted in fortune by the immense patronage passing t _ roogb his band * during some twelve years he has conducted or formed part of the ad ministration—a patronage of which in England we can form no adequate idea , hut which , in a country whole civil government is carried on at five or six times the expense , and with fifteen or twenty times the nnmbir of officials of that of Great Britain , sometimes in a single year places three , four , five , end even ten thousand offices or promotion- at the dlapoeal of a minister .
Thiers , on tbe contrary , has accumulated vast wealth , in rrbich he lumriates with the Seen sease of enjoyment of a new Pericles in the modern At & eas . That fortune , of which the foundation was laid by the princely generosity of Lsfitte , ho has the reputation of having swelled to colossal proportions by maans illegitimate if usual amongst bis colleagues . Suspicious predilection for the manipulation of secret service money , for control of tbe telegraph , and speculations on the Stock Erohanie , are held to acsouat for tbe worldly prosperity of the statesman . * ' * * A ministerial paper observed ou a certain occasion in 1839 , that Madame Thiers wore a diamond necklace , worth several thousand pounds , the gift of Queen Christina . Guizat , on a subsequent occasion , refused almost with reproof a similar present from the Dey of Tunis .
Bat though Guizot enjoys the reputation of unshakeable civil probity , and though Thiers be accounted anything but over-BcrupnlonB , this distinction is exactly reversed In their respective political characters . Guizot , as a politician , is profoundly dishonest , whilst with Thiers no self-abaseme _ t has ever sufficed wholly to extinguish , but only to obscure his political integrity . Consistent in tho dereliction of his early convictions , or nt least of the opinions he had recorded—that is to any , in other words , persevering in dishonour—Golaot has done more than all other ministers put together to render venal the Chambers , and corrupt the electoral
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body . Abandoning constitutional theories as the price of office , he has becone the willing and even zealous instrument of a policy not only hostile 4 o their develops ment , however gradual , but directed to their actual frustration and eventual subversion . After teaching and preaching for so many years the advantages of free government , only for its own sake to be limited or restricted when driven to elect between freedom in a different degree , and attained by another process than hia own , or a retura to arbitrary and wormeaten systems , which he bad taught to be pernicious and expounded to be unstable—Gufzot chose absolutism , and took up heartil y its tendency . Unable to restrain or chesk , according to ids early theories , a sovereign resolved to govern as well as to reigo , ha resigned his will entirely to the Initiative of a rojal master .
The very glanoB of Guizit , when he looks round him disdainfully , is that of one who has eartfully weighed , testtd , aud determined the value and the price of adversaries and colleagues , whose votes he has done so much to render marketable . t 6 * Hard , uni mpressionable , and cold , Guizot sosmed difficult to bead , as a bar of stubborn iron . The supple Thiers curved , on the contrary , like the pliant bow which a strong hand inclines . Step by step , with starched and grave composure , almost imperceptibly , the solemn Guizot . —whose temper seemed incompatible with monarchies and courts , as the nustcrefignrsof John Knox with the pageantry surrounding M ury—declined into tho abject strvitor of a dynasty from tho lofty altitude to which he bad raised his professorial chair , when doctorially hcturing , so to say , from cabinet and senate and practically developing , as minister or party leader , political views on which he had philosophically theorined .
Thiers , the keen appreoiator of Danton , the panegyrist of the reign of terror , fell on the first smile of Louis Philippe at the feetof thecitlzsn king . His Majesty bad no courti « -r more servile , no servitor more daringly offi . ficlous ; the enemies of his Roveroment no more for - midable persecutor . Whether acting with military promptitude , striking with military ssverlty , upholding arbitrary laws organising the secret service , or imparting to the police an activity unknown since the days of tbe Empire and of Foucha , more devotion could not be evlnced .
Gulzot labouring , In his literary career with apposite singleness of purpose , will never be pre-eminent . Thiers , if he had written in tbe sincere spirit of the historian , might have biqaeated a sonument to the admiration of posterity , but inspired rather by the motives of the partisan and politician , he records the past as an advocate not as & judge , and to acquire popularity has misapplied the genius by which a lasting tame might have been acbieved . Neither Thiers nor Guizot are remarkable as orators , ner can either be termed positively " elequent after such mea as Berry er the advocate , or Lacordaire the preacher .
Guisot , pedantic , starched , and artificial—even in tbe inornate simplicity he effects—would never secure a listener or move an auditor , but for the pYeitige of learning with an assembly singularly deficient , ( although exceptionally comprising capacity and knowledge so exalted)—but for tbe faith with which timid conservatism regards him as the Moses chosen to lead it through the howling wilderness of innovation , and above all but for the party at his back and the interests ot which be is the banner . Cold , dogmatic , rational , he addresses the chamber as the pedagogue bis scholars , and generalising upon facts , addresses but one argumint , false or true , to the comprehension of his auditor , reproduced under innumerable forms and repeated till imprinted on their habitual in . attention .
Thiers , perfectly natural , is perhaps the only orator In the French chamber who speaks as he converses . Enteriainlne and witty , a brilliant master of sophism and of argument—his speeches never weary , whilst not nnfrcquently be strikes home to the ftelings of his auditors , aad carries with him friends and adversaries , The influence of Gaizat , more due to accident than to capacity , is in a great measure tbe result ef the un . yielding exterior by which his pliancy has been masked and covered . A knot of placemen and electors dispeasing or enjoy .
ing tha ruinous patronage ot tbe state , constitute an oligarchy in disguise , the natural accomplice of monuehy . Gaiiot has been the casual link of their colln slon . No extraordinary genius is required , because a common interest and a oemtnon danger suffice to keep together that iafinitessimal minority of the French people —the majority of the French representatives and eleetors But though in thus far eph ? merally borne outthough casually meeting with apparent confirmation , the \ he « iles of Guizot were always of a nature essentially inapplicable to France in a permanent manner .
Far from evincing genius in their combination , he did not even give proof of common sense . His judgment approached rather to that of children who build ap for the morrow tiny houses of shells and saad on tbe sea beach still wet with the receding tide , ihan to the forethought of a Rithalieu devising tho exti . ctlen of feudality , or tho sagacious daring of a Pitt adventuring successfully on an appalling straggle , and comprehending that It admitted of no compromise . « * » Impractical in . ' views , without fortitude to sustain them , wanting in forethought and deficient in will , what has he of the qualities , which for gotd or evil characterise the great minister , or make the statesman famous ?
Pliant where isemlngiy obdurate , intriguing whore costere , infirm of purpose where apparently most unyielding , he has descended step by step from co _ atitutioual convictions to dynastic partisanship , from dynastic partisanship into servile" agency , from servile agency into infamous connivance , and through that cennlvance , inte the abdication even of the dignity of manner by which he masked go long his gradual and uUor eubaervienceB , Whenever he passes from tbe political scene probably it will b & into oblivion , unless in as far as his name may be preserved by connection with the magnitude of
tha calamity which sweeps away tbe system with which he is identified . Perishing , as politically big credit must , in tbe vain endeavour to stay and retrograde the irresistible advance of progress—in the iasaco attempt to check its march , by linking the right band of const ) . iutlosBl government In that of tottering absolutism , he will be regarded , not as a MHo crashed by the oak ' s rebound , but simply as the unscrupulous tool broken In the hand ) of a crafty and covetous old man , wbem the fracture of tbe instrument on which he leans cannot fail seriously end perhaps fatally to injure .
Franco will recall , that for the sskeof power Guizot abandoned those constitutional principles he understood so well and taught so long , that he sacrificed to the in . terest of the house of Orleans those of France , and broke up that alliance with Great Britain of which he once appreciated so keenly the value . It will be remembered that he connived with Russia , Austria and Prussia in tbe suppression of Cracow , with Austrii and tbe Jesuits against Swiss independence , that in apposition to the sympathies of a wools nation he supp lied the anti-liberal party with money in Spain , with arms in Sffi'zerland , and that in open chamber be discouraged the liberal conduet of tbe Pope .
It will recall , that , flinging even the formal gravity aside by which he had once Imposed on friends and foes , he derogated into equivocation , trickery , and falsehood , until through each rent of the imposing garment in which he had been robed so long , appeared to all men ' s eyes the mere Btrtrand of a royal Ifacaire aiasqaeradlng In tbe mantle of a Cato . Gaizat Is not , in the estimation of the Republicans , a man ol courage . His most menacing expression is held rather to be the pedagogue ' s severity than the sternness of the terrorist . Thiers , whose political principles have inconsistentl y oscillated between the democratic equality of the Republic and the * glorious despotism' of the empire , has based his political views on a foundation far moro secure than Quiz ) t , because iu accordance with the prejafllces of a large majority of the French puopie .
It is unquestionable , that social equalisation , with Republican forms and a war policy , have almost equal and quite irresistible attractions for the masses . It cannot fairly be doubted by any one closely stu . dy ing the French people that both will sooner or later be adopted , * * # To these military instincis Thi « rs has always been anxious to appeal . The guidance of victorious hosts has been amongst the most ardent of hia political aspi . rations . He has evidently dreamed of seeing renewed the day ' s when a commissioner , unitirg in his person the whole functions of an Aulic council , accompanied the Republicsn armies of the Sarobre , Rbine , and Meu » e Ha emulates , no doubt , the career of St Just , no los energetic and daring at the military tribune than in tho convention . Only that , far from imitating the uocompromising integrity of the stern R . puHican , Thiers „ onld unquestionably have purchnsed tbe opportunity of national and personal glory by subservience to any
system . Want of apace has compelled the omission of a portion of the picture of Guizot , and also certain re . flection , of onr author , which should be read m connexion wift bis account of Thibbs . We have , however , quoted sufficient to justify the assertion that the portraiture of Gmzot is a masterpiece . As to Thiers , we think our author has over-rated that showy rather than brilliant scoundrel ; who , more fortunate than Gmzoi , has not deserved hia better fortune . We cannot see that Thibbs has anything in common with St Just . The immortal republican was the very antipodes of the living advuiturer . St Just was pure ; Thiers is corrupt . Sr . JUsl was a hero ; Thiers is a coward . St Just warred against truththat to
kines , and proclaimed tbe great , reign h itself a crime ; ' Thiers b etrayed the people to exaita traitor king , and is no * plotting to repeat his treason . St Jvbt was the champion of the enfferine and the oppressed , and terrible only to the oppressor * and torturers of the people ; TfflMW hM been terrible to the people whom he had betrayed , and h aa ever shown himself tbe advocate of privilege , oppression , and legal rapacity and cruelty . . Si Jon sacrificed hia own reputation and his We in hia efforts to save the multitude ; Thibbs , heedless of reputation , still lives to sacriBce the many to his own lust for plunder at d pewer . The menaory of St Jdsi , in spite of hia traduce .., is holy and honoured by all lovers of justice ; the memory of Thibrb , m spite Of hia panegyrists , will be accursed and abhorred . Tbii renew will be wwlcded m our next number .
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The Purgatory of Suicides . A Prison Rhyme in Ten Booko . By Thomas Cooper , the Chartist . Second Edition . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen'ahead Passage , Paternoster-row . Our estimate of this remarkable work is bo wellknown to the readers of this journal , that anything like a review of thia new edition would be quite superflaous . 'Numerous unartistio rhymes and other errors , as well as misprints , which are to be found in the first edition , ' have been corrected in fchia ; which contains also a few additional notes
some intended for the instruction of the reviewers of tbe first edition . No deubt the critics will feel much obliged to Mr Coopkk . The principal improvement of thia edition on its predeoess r , is that it is published at something less than half the original price . We do not mean to say that this poem was not worth the seven shillings and eixpence charged for the first edition , oa the contrary , we think its worth was not , and is not to be eatimited by mere' sillei ; ' but our moaning is , that in its
present cheaper form , it will be more accessible to the working classes . Perhaps it will be as well to add , that for popular convenience this work may be obtained in sixpenny parts , as well as in the shapein which it is beloro us — a neatly bound volume . Serious political differences with the author not prevent us repeating good wishes for th lation of thia wonderful poem ; which we earnestly rec-mmond to all our friends and readers , who may up to this time ba unpoi-essed of a copy of the Pur . gatory of Suicides .
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* Maria Stella originally appeared at the age of tilte h upon tbe s'sge at Florence , where she married Lord Kewi- © rough , and after his decease a Livonian nobleman , Baron Strrnbarg , ton or nephew to the famou ? Baron of that n-me . put to death by the Empress Catherine , for the practice of trttlng up false lights on his patrimonial islsnd of Ddgoe , to lure vessels to their destruction . It has been urged tbat the stery of ber parentage may & ave originated in the degradation cons ? quent on Cbisppini ' s occupatien which in Italy transmits an hereditary t _ i _ t . and bit anxiety to free his daughter from a stigai which would have prevented evtn h _ r tducation for the stage . It is farther proven , tbat at tbe death of Chiapplnl , ehe claimed in court , as a child of the deceased , her I . are of Ms property . but this will nst account for the sudden accumulation by a coirmon hangman , of property which enabled him to give Maria Stella an expensive education , and to di . vide , rxcluding ber , s handsome compsleBfte amonggt i is : hildren . Her weakness , inconsutency , and Ingrati-«_ d ' , soon disgusted all who took ber cause in band , but ¦ kb cannat , with the piga of hiitorj before us , consider these qaallties as disproof cf her Bourbon origin .
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Politics for Workers The Reasons why John Dobson , the Weaver , had to send his child to bed without a supper . London ; W . Strange , Paternoater-row . Decidedly this is one of the most instructive publications we have ssen for many a day . For one penny the working man may learn the causes , oolitioal and social , of tho degradation of himself and his olas ?; and wh y , in the expressive words of the title of this tract , he has' to send his child to bed without a supper . ' The lucid explanation of the ? , apermoney and Ioan-mongering system ia truly valuable , and calculated to work great good in the way of veritable popular enlightenment . All' workers' will Ao well to make acquaintance with this very excellent ' tract for the times . '
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PERIODICALS . l . — The Reasomr , Part 2 f . London ; J . Wataon , 3 , Queen ' . . head-pa 8 sage , Paternoster row . 2 . —The English Patriot and Irish Repealer . No . 2 . Manchester ; J , Leach , 73 , Roohdale-road . 3 .-TAe Truth Teller . No . 1 . Stalybridge : B . S . Treanor . Melbourne-street . l . —Mr Holyoake has lately been * lionising in the provinces , ^ deliverin g lectures in Lancashire and Yorkshire in illustration of his peculiar views oa theology , politics , <_ o , One of his subjects appears to have beon Imperial Chartism / and although we have not a line of his lecture , it is easy to divine its character from the comments it provoked on tbe part of some of his honest' whole hog'listeners . At Rochdale , ' one man , ' aays Mr Holyoake' who gat before
, me , said to a friend before him , ' Yon chap ' s a Whig . ' Another remarked . 'Yon lecturer wants to bring us over to the New Move , but ic won't do . ' A third said , 'I think he ' s paid by the guVermont . ' Acquitting Mr Holyoake ef any connexion with 'the _ uverment , " wo are not sorry to learn that the Rochdale lads were rather too far north for his ' new move' veasMtnya . Mr Holyoake omits no opportunity of lauding the half Chartist member for Oldham , or of having * a slap' at tho whole Chartist member for Nottingham . When speaking ofhis visit to Oldham , Mr Holyoake takes oecasionto praise Mr Fox for bis boldness , before his election , in identifying himself with tbe principles of the celebrated author of tho ' RiehtB of
Man . ' Very go ) d . But , how ia it that Mr Fox has neglected opportunities ofidentifying his name with the principles of Thomas Paine since his election 1 We have a distinct recollection that , on two or three occasions , Lord Arundel and Surrey , Mr Drnmmond , and other ., have brutally assailed the proprietor of this paper , for advertising Thomas Paine ' s works . These opportunities should have been seized upon by the ex-oracle of the National Hall to prove his own courage and honesty , by lifting up his voice in condemnation of these cowardly assaults upon the member for Nottingham . Such a course tho member for Oldham would have pursued , had he , in the words of Paine , been ' bold onongh to be honest—and honest enough to be bold . '
As an instance of the pugnacious propensity cf onr * mildest , meckef t man' to have ' a elap' at Mr O'Connor when opportunity offers , we select the following : — Speaking of the * mountain breezes' familiar to all who ate acquainted with Hebden-bridge and its romantic neighbourhood , Mr H . Bays : — ' I think the H . bden winds , O ' Connor winds , or winds be . longing to the late National Convention—they bluster so . ' This strikes us as rather more pitiful than witty ; but tastes differ . The editor of the Re _ soner , who Bcems to hare been destined as a politician , to ' Bin ? SKitl ) , ' reminds us of that sect ) , mental worthy who entering a place of public refreshment , desired that his favourite beverage might be supplied to him ' as cool as a zephyr and as mild as milk , ' on which some 'National Conventionist'disgusted with this Hjawkiahneas , blustered out -. ' Waiter , bring me a tumbler of brandy , as hot as h and ae strong as d n !'
The ' Moral Remains of the Bible , ' and ' Rudiments of Rhetoric , ' by the editor , and the accounts of the' Rise and Progrefa of the Swiss Republice , ' by Mr Collet- , will well repay attentive perusal . But what does Mr Holyoake mean by introducing the chapters from Mill on ' Population , ' with a flourish ot ed itorial approbation ? The damnable doctrines propounded by the cold-blooded political economist . — Mill , entitle him to the execrations of the working classes , as we shall take an early opportunity of . homing . What hallucination can have induced Mr Holyoake to applaud such doctrines we cannot imagine . We do not gey this to excite prejudice against him or the Reasoned , ; but we are surprised and sorry to see him coquetting * , if not worse , with that vile creed of the Mammon-gorgera—Malthuaianism . We are obliged to the Reasoner for tbe following translation of a letter from tbe pen of George Sand , published some time since in La Vraie Republiquk —( ' The True Republic' ) .
LE PISE COMHDNI 8 HE . * I do not complain of being persecuted , because that would be very puerile , especially in a moment when all Socialists are entrapped as state criminals ( many more important than myself ); it appears to me sufficiently logical that the reaction should enfold me in its system ot reprobation ; but the moans employed al . CO varied , BO irregular , so ingenious , that it Is proper to place them in tbeir historical light , and share them with you , Forezamplo , here ia B . rry , so romantic , so mild , so good , eo calm , in this coun'ry I go tenderly love , and where I hare sufficiently proved to the poor and simple that I know my duty towards them , I am I above all others , am looked upon as the enemy of tbe human race ; and if the republic has not performed Its promises , it is evidently I who am tbe cause of it .
I have scarcely been able to comprehend bow I could have played so great a part without suspecting it myself , But at length it has botti explained so sufficiently to me that I can no longer withhold my aesent to the evidence . First , then , I am associated in the conspiracies ef an abominable old man whom we call in Paris Father Communism , and who has prevented tho bourgtoitie from continuing to ovsrwhelm the people with kindness and bene , first . This miserable wretch having discovered that tbe people were nearly famlohed , hit opon a plan to diminish the public charges . It was this : to slay all cnlldran under three years , and all old men above sixty ; then be wishes that no one should marry , but that all should live after the faiblon of the beasts of tbe field . So much for a beginning .
Af terwards an I am a disciple cf' Father Communism , * I hove obtained from M , le dncf Rollin , that all tbe vices , all the lands , nil tho meadows of my canton shall bo given to me , and that I intend to take possession im . mediately . I shall establish there the citizen ' Communism , ' and when we have killed the ihlldren and old men , when we have established in all families the law of the beasts , we shall give to each labourer sis sous per day , and perhaps less , while they livo aa tbey can and we make merry at their expense . Do not belltve that I eiaggerate , or ji _' —tbio ia textual . It is belter yot . Since the affair of tho 15 ' . h of May , when , as every one knows , the executive commission bad proclaimed M . Cabet King of France , I have caused the beat deputies to be put into tbe Doujon of "Viiieenncs , and oven my best friends ; eo that a brave farmer fer one of them desired , moreover aot for the first time , to bury me alive ia a ditch .
It is thus , in fact , that our mild and goad peasants of the Back Valley are taught politics . Ii might be imagined , if we dldnot know them , that all these follies were born in their superstition * brains . But nobody knows their good sense and intelligence better than I , Only they are credulous , liko all who live afar frem facto , and they add facta to those things they are told , Who undertakes to touch them so faithfully , and give them all this moral and philosophical instrucilon f It wjuld seem to me easy to name thoprofesscrsof this new social science ; for within the three day s that I have returned into tho country , I know these fathers of the people , aad the o > ject of their civilisations ! predications But it ia of Httlo consequence whether it be thia man or that . That which is important is , lh it tha fac t Is produeed at the same hour In all Prance , and that by an admirable mancoutre of tho dynastic l > oui *^« oi « ie , tbe same explanation ofdrammmm Is spontaneously spread at tho moment of the elections , with tho same aooompav niment of veracity and delicacy of benevolence .
In 1789 there was a fantastic ttrror , which propagated Itael / ae an electric current from one end of France , to the other . Bvorynbtro the arrival of crlgsndi was an . nounctd—tbe towns wore barriO-dei—the p . DSantB hid themselves among their corn . Hera , they still call this ' tha jear of great fear . ' Tbo brigands were waited for —tbey came cot , WiJl . 18 ( 8 will have been a seeond
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year of fear . We have dreamed of Commuaist antbrc pophagl , and , what is better , seen them . Every candldate placed on the lodes by the reactioitnaires , if he belong to any shade of rouublicaniBm , is trinstormed into » Communist in the eyes of the scared populations . We know aemorepublicam antl-socialists , who were stranded 88 Commuaists ;' some editors of the Ateliek ( Workshop ) who have been overtaken and convicted ol Commam ? m . As the rural populations , aud even those of certain towns had never heard this word pronounced , it was necesiarj to explain it by some paipabls fact . Thus , citizen Sueh . a-one beats his wife . Surely no ! he would sooner cut off his own arm .-Oh ! do not b lieve it he flatters her in public , but ho m & kea a martyr of her in private . And good Qjd , wherefore does ha this ?_ Be . cause he is a Communist . Another has devoured the dowrj of his wife . But he is not married , and never has been I Erectly ao : he was married , and he waa not he Is a Communist . —As to tho third candidate , take care ! this is a man of Lcdru Rollin , who U a Communist ,- — But the fifth is recommended from M , Lainartlne . So
much the worse : M . Lamartm ? is a Communist , all the provislonal government is Cjmmualst ; select only those men of tho locality who have never set foot in Paris , aad consult us again ; f jr there are a great many hidden who will be discovered by time . —But tho sixth candidate , who is a workman , he will please us well . He is tha worst of all , be gets drunk from mornln . ? to night , and leaves bis family to die of starvation—he is in debt—ho reads books and knows how to write—bo is a threefold Comoauniat , — Whom then shall we trust ? Trust u « only , for the Com manlst is everywhere . The Country is in danger . If you do not take care , one ef those mornings the divisi > n of land will be proclaimed—the six sons per bead—your wives and children will be seized , and all this because you have voted badly .
History will one day enregistcr thia curious phase of our Revolution . Posterity will scarcely ba able to believ . It . From to-day , however , we can call in testimony of it all the candidates elected or non-elected In France . Some have succeeded only by inventing and accrediting those vapid extravagance *—others , beoause they have succeeded in baffling them . The majority have been forced U swear respect to fam ly and propetty , as If family 8 n 3 property had run o veritable danger . All the republicans who have succeeded can say if tha accusation of G mmanUm has not been employed to b & fiI © them . If this imputation and the imbs die calumnies attached to It have served only to falsify the election ot the national representation , tbo evil would be sufficient !; great , But they have produced another which Is not less . Tney have bewildered , abused , spoiled , brutifi . d in some sort the human species , Tbey have caused the entrance of fear , distrust , bate , iusul ' , menace , in the manners of tbe populations the most c _ lni by temperament and the best disposed at tbo outset of the Revolution .
Tbef hive spoiled the spirit of the people of the provinces , at the moment when its intelligence was about to develop and opan itself to the knowledge of its rights . Tnoy have soiled and stained what God has made th . purest and most beautiful , the consaience of the simple man ; they have troubled and hallucinated what he conserved as the most poetic and impressionable , tbe imagination ef the simple man ; they have saddened and demoralised that which God bat blessed among those things the most holy and the most rtspecable , the life of tho simple man . Astonish yourselves , hereafter , ye teachers , generous and candid , if , after having greatly insnlted and menao d the republicans , tho People , disabused , turn against you to demand an account of its reason and its dignity , of its right and its justice confiscated to yeur profit ! And if it bo rude , whom nature has made so patient—if it be brutal , who was eo mild—if it be furious , who was bo good—w'U you say that this Is tho effect of republican ideas and manners >
Happil y , tbe people is better than you , and will pardon you , but you play a heavy stske with it , and wo fear much having one day to dtftnd you , you who now endeavour to unloose It against us . Behold where we are , my dear Thore . At Paris we are factious when wo are socialist . In the provinces , we are communist when wo are republicans ; and when we are eorialiit . repnblicaas , oh ! then we drink human blood , murder little children , beat our wives—are bankrupts , drunkards , robber *—and we risk being assassinated , at tbe corner of a wood , by a peasant who believes you run mad , because bis master ( bourgeois ) , or bis priest { cure ) have set him hia lesson . Thus it goes in France , the first year of the democratie and eecial republic , We have devoted our f » rtune , our lifj , and our soul to this People , whom they wish to lead to treat us as wolves . G-0 & QE Sand , Msy 24 th . 1848 .
Since the insurrection of June La Vbaib Rkpcbliqob has been suppressed , and its editor , the talented and democratic patriot Thore , has b ? en for more than a month past the inmate of a dungeon ; one of tbe sad consequences of popular ignorance and the fatal' moderation' of the victors of Februiry .
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2 . —The editors of this publication seem determined to prove themselves ' bold enough to be honest —and honest enough to be bold . ' But in the bold course they are pursuing , will they bs upheld by n , o pular support ? Unless they are , they will ba sacrificed . The contents of this second number of the English Patbiot are interesting , and ably written , and fully enforco the motto . elected by the editors , viz : ' As Labour ia the source of all wealth , so is the just distribution of its productions the only true foundation of national greatness !'
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3 —Another penny publication , with the significant and appropriate motto : — ' You shall know the truth , and tbe truth shall make you free . ' Thoroughl y Chartist , and heartily contending for real justice to Ireland , this publication has claims upon the support of both English and Irish Democrats . The article entitled ' Do the Working Classes want the Charter ? ' is a spirited appeal to the proletarians which we trust they will answer as their safety , happiness , and honour demand . This number also contains articles on the arrest of Dr M'Douall , Ireland , «_ c & c . We commend tho Tbuth . Tellbis to all lovers of the truth in Stalybridge , Ashton , and the surrounding neighbourhood . The more such publications multiply the more rapidly will the principles of Democrac y progress , * conquering and to conquer .
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BRUTAL BUFFOONERY . On a correspondent of tbe Daily Nb ws complaining of the charge of two shillings admission to the gallery of tho Old Bailey during the late Chartist trials , Punch delivers himself of the following brutal j-ke : — THEATRE ROYAL , OLD BAILEY . The performers , both in tbe Pock and on the Bench , are extremely cos ; ly to tbe country ; nndae the principle of paying to enter Courts of Justice is , It appoars , fully recognised , it sbonld either be abandoned altogether , or thoroughly carried out . If followed up with skill an . l energy , a profit might be realised sufficient to pay the CJit of criminal prosecutions , especially if the working cf this plan were intrustsd to the parent of public economy , Me Home . M . antime , we would modestly suggest that a prograonme of each day ' s perforreence ehould be published , as at the other theatres ; something after tbii fashion : ¦—
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Immense Attraction ! First Appearance of the Loan Chief Justice this Session !! Ma Sebjeant Wilkihs in two new Pieces !!! Triumphant success of the Attosne-. Genebai . !!! ' . The Performance will commence with a New Trial , to bo entitled SEDITION ; OB , THE CiBINET MAKE- OP C _ EB _ -HW _ L _ . 8 _ EEN . First Conspirator ... Ma Ibe »_! 08 Fr / sBEL , ( Who wil bs assisted on this occasion by his Bve Infant Prodigies , with real dagger * , and now pinaforon . ) Second Conspirator ... Ma F . L'OMEr . Other Conspirators ... Messrs Vebnon , Wiliiams , Sbabpb , & c . Counsel for the Prosecatlon Sir J . Jebvis . The part of Counsel for the Defence by Ma Sebjbawt
Wl-KINS . First Judge Sia Tnosiis Wilde , Sscond Judfte Mr Babom Paeee . First Alderman \ In full ^ Ma Sidney . 2 ud AUerman J costume ^ Sib G . Cabboii ., Clerk of Arraigns ... Ma Stbaioht . Crier , „ ... ... 11 a Hakeeb . Policemen , Witnesses , Pcnny-n-liners , i _ c . & c . < fcc .
afteb which , THE BATTLE OF BONNER'S FIELDS ; Ca , TBE CHARTER AMD NO 6 UB & INDEB . ! The Charter , bi an ikvimblb Pebfobmeb , Firflt Ranter Me Ebn . st Jones . The other Cbaractrrs bs above . Gallery , 2 s . Jury-in-waiiin ? ; Boxes , 4 j , ; Stam . 9 , one Guinea each , to be engHped at the principal Police Stations . —O . . No Eiff-priea —D : 8 < iHga ( 8 _ -d forr . ijtners may secure 8 ; ats on the Bench far the Season , at twenty pounds apiece .
TO-MOBBOW , A CASE OF MURDER OF THRILLING INTEREST ! BY AN EBTIBBLY NEW COMPANY . Support tfee British Drama ! Come early !! We think Punch mii 8 t bo at his wits end , when he could find no other subject to jest with tban tbo sufferings of human beings , who—however much he may be opposed to their princip les—arc undergoing the law ' s penalty for their opinions . A charge tor admission to public courts of law is an abuae deserv . ng the lieenest satire and deepest reprehension ; but when we reflect that before trial Fus ^ ell was gtossly caricatured in order to ensure his conviction , we think there ia no one possessing a calm and dispaasionate judgment , but would turn from the paragraph above quoted in disgust at the morbid mind ot the writer . .. .
_ We find no fault in calling the Old Bailey a Theatre Royal . The proceedings in courts of law too generally are little better than a farce .
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Mak the Mobt Brutal . — Bears , wolves , tigera , dogs , and even oats , will courageously defend each other , when assaulted , and lose their lives in vindication of their own kind . Man fight * frith man , end for hire combat , his own likeness .
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' YTt cuUthe choicest . ' HOW THE HONEY O 0 E 3 . We are paying thousands a year to the descendants ' of the derairepa and M oll Fiagona who infeatcd and polluted the court of Charles II . Ii thnt , riulu ? We are also paying for the immoraiit . ies of William IV . Is that ri ^ ht ? We have been paying two thou , sand pounds a year , ever since 1798 , to the Prince of iVfecklenberg Strelifz What are his claims upon England ? What did he ever do for his money ? We are paying a little , but a Httlo too much , for the peccadilloes of the hte Duke of Susaex . And who is Augusta Arbuthnot that we should even pay her £ 100 a year ? Or Arabella Bouvcrie , that ehe should
have £ 300 ? Or Augusta Brudenell , whe gets £ 202 and why the odd two ? We have been paying £ 10 per annum to the Hon . G . A . F . Smytbe i vtr since he was ten years old . What baa be done for hia country at those tender years , and wbat has he done since ? Mylea O'Reilly has £ 222 ilurina the life of Helena White granted by George IV . Why was it not granted for hia own life ? And who is Helena White ? Some Schomberg , a Dutchman , gers £ 2 880 a year because he ia lucky enough to be tlie greatgreat-great nephew ofaeoldier of fortune who waa killed when fighting for William III ., 160 years aince . And thousands , and tens of thousand * , and hundreds of thousands are regularly thrown away , year by year , in other abu & ea of the same kind .
LORD CHATHAM OS RKSISTANCB TO OPPRESSION . The liberty of the subject is invaded , my lords , not only in our distant provinces , but at home . Tha people are loud in their complaints ; they demand redress j and until the irjuriea they have received are redressed tbey will never return to a state of tranquillity . Nnn oi-onr thev ; for in my judgment , my lords , and I speak it boldly , better were itfor Uiem . to i erish in a glorious contention for their rights , than to purchase a ala-rish tranquillity at the expense of a single iota of the Constitution .
JOHN LITTLEJOHN . John Iilttl . j ibo wae atauacfa and strong , Upright and downright , ( corning wrong ; He gave good weight , and p » id his way , He thought for himself , nod he s & id hij say . Whenever a rascal etruve to pass , Instead of silver , money o * trass ; Ha took his hammer , __ : ! naid , with a frowa ' The coin ia cpuriouu , nail It down . ' John LlttUjohn wao firm and lro » , You cou'd not cheat Li in iu ' two and two ¦ ' When foolish augurs , might and main , D * r _ ened and twlsttd the clear and plain , He saw through the mazes of their tpeooh The simple truth beyond their reach ; And crushing their logic , eaid , with a frown , ' Your coin it spurious , nail it dofrn , '
John Llttlejohn maintained tho right , Through storm and shine , in the world ' s despite ¦ Wh en fuol » or quacks desired his vote , Dosed him with Arguments , learned by rote Or by coaxing , threats , or promise , t led To gain his support to the wrongful side - * Nay , nay , ' said John , wi . h an angry frown , * Your coin is spurious , nail it down . ' When told that ftings bad a rirht divine , And that the people were herds of aw : no , That nobl'a alone were fit to rule , That the poor were unimproved by school , That ce » a less toll wee the proper fate Of all but ihe wealthy and the great ; John shook his head and » wor >' , with a frown , ' The coin is spurious , nail It donr '
When told that events might justif y A falao and crooked p .. Hoy , That a decent hogs of future good Might escuBO departure iroua rectitude , That a He , if white , was a email offunce To bs forgiven b > men of sense ; ' Nay , nay , * said John , with a g lgh and frown , 1 The coin is spurious , Bail it down . ' When told from tVe pulpit or tbe press That heaven wsa a plscj of excluaivenesi , That none but those could enter thtra , Who knelt with the orthodox at prayer , And hild ail yir . ues out of their pale A 3 idlo works of no avail ; Jobn ' a face grew dark , as he swore , with a frown , ' The coin is spurious , nail it down . '
Whenever the world our eyes would blind With false pretecces of such a kind , With humbug , can * and bigotry , Or a specious , eharo , philosophy , With wrong dreeied up in the guise of right , And darkness passing itsslf for light ; Int as imitate John , and eiclalm , with a frowa , 1 The coins ore spurious , nail them down . ' National Prosperity . — ' The peace and prosperity of a nation will always depend upon uniting , aa far aa possible , the heads , hearts , and hinds of tho whole people , and on improving , not debauching their morals . '—Lord Bollingbrohe .
Kobbepierre ' s Aims . — ' KobespierrVd doctrine was , that the revolution ought to oaanje altogether the material and moral condition of ihe labouring classes ; wherea ? , en the revolutionary aide of tbe Assembl y the grand affair wa 3 to transfer to the rich , crafty , active shopuoracy , the authority hitherto usurped and monopolised by the nobility and clergy *' —Bvanarotti .
SOUK INCIDENTS OF » 4 LEIQ _' s | £ XEC 0 XI 0 N , In cencludon ho spake and behaved bim » eif eo , with * out any show or fear of affectation , that ho moved much commiseration , and oil t > at skw biro c ^ nfonud ; hat bis end was , as faros man can dlrcern , eviry way perfect . It will not be amies to set down some fen passages of divers that I have heard . The morning that ho wtnt to execution thoro wag a cup of excellent sack broug t to Mm , and being aslsedhow he liked it , 'Ai tbe fellow , ' said he , ' that , dri-klngof St Giles ' s bowl as ho went to Tyburn , said , that um good drin _ If a man ml ^ ht tarry by it , ' As-ewentfrom WcaiminetT hull to tbe gatebouse , he spied Sir Hugh Baitso . in tho throng , and calling on him prayed he would eeo him die tomorrow . Sir Hugh , to make euro work , got a letter from
Secretary Lake to the sheriffs , to see him placed conveniently , and , meeting thorn 09 they came no & r to the BCeffeld , delivered his letter , but tho latter , by mishap , had lelt his epectae'es at home , aad put the letter in bis pocket . In the meantime , Sir Hugh biin , thrust by , Sir Welter bade him farewell , and said , ' I know not what shift you will make , but I » m sure to have a place . ' When tho hangman a > k « d hie forgiveness , ho desired to ¦ ee the axe ; and , feeling tbo t ^ 'go , he said that it was a sbarp medlcmo to care him of all his disease and miseries . When bo laid down some found fault tbat > . is face was westward , and would havahim turned . iVner - upon rising , he said , ' I ; was ao great _ iat-er which wciy a man ' s head stood so his heart lay rirfht . ' Ho had given ordeia to the executioner that after sotm short mud it a .
tlon , when ho atreiehcd forth his hanrfs , hi should d . s patch him ; after once or twice putting forth bis han'lp , tbo fellow , out of timoroasnuBE ( or wbat other dun ) , forbearing , he wss fain to bid blia fl . riko , and no , ac two blows , he took off his he _ d , chough he seined not a whit atUr the first , Tbe p-oj > le were much i . tiVctr . l at the sight , insomuch that one was hand to sa ; , we bed not such another head to cat off . Another wished tbe bead and brains to be upon S . N . ' s sboulders , Tbero was great means made for hU life ; and I hear ih Q 101 n wrote vtry earnestly to the King es be tcr . d . r ii hrr health ta spare him , fer that ehe bad r < cei \ cd great good by his receipts . —John Chambeilain , Esq , to Dudley Carleton , London , Oct . 31 1 C 18 .
He bad the favour to diu a gentleman s death , and to be beheaded . His end was , by the general report of all that wore present , very Ctiiistian-iike , and co full of rerolutlon aa to & ovo all men to p ' ly aud wonder . In going Iroui the prison to ihe scaffold , emongit others that throrged to a > e him , o _ u o d man tbat was bald pressed forward , insomuch as Sir Walter Kallcgh took notice of him aud asked him whether bo would liuve aught of him . To whom tbe old man aoswerod , ' Nothlnj ; hut to see him , aud to pray to God t > have i _ oicy upon hia soul . ' I thauktueo good irlend , ' riplUd Sir Walter ' and I am eorry I have no tettir thing u s he thee ; but take this uightcp' ( which was a very rich one that he were , for ho had bad two ins of 0 fevti ) 'for tbou bast more neid nf it now than I , —7 . Vu Thomas Larking to Sir TItjmas ructerivy Lomlon , r . os . 3 , 1018 .
A RtP & oor cf Foppeht . — Dean Swift was & grew * enemy to extravagance in tin as , aud particularly to : iia ' destructive OBttn ' ation in tha middling clas-ea , which led them to make an appaar . nca above Uuir ccudliion ia life . Of his mode of reproving t _ i » foil ) in tboiepoissns for whi > m be had an esteem , tha following hniUht'O has been recorded : —When George Faulkmr , tho printer , rtturnedfrom London , Bhcrahebed bttn s ^ . ' citing sab . scrlptfona for lis edition of the Dean ' s works , he rm t to pay hU respect ta him , dressed ia a laced ivaisicnt , a bag wi ; , and other fopperies . Snlfc received him with the eame ceremony as It ho bad b . es a stran ^ ir . ' And pray , sir , ' said he , ' what ate your oommimds with me \' ' I thought it was my duty , sir , ' rep ied Georg » , ' to wait upon you immediately upon my snivel froiu Lonlou . '
' JEV » y » 8 ' » nao ore y ° u ' 'George Faulk . er , the printer , sir . ' 'You George Fuu'kntr , the jr ' nter ! Why you are tho most impudent , bare-lncrd scoundrel of an impostor I ever met with ! George Faulkner ia a plain , sober citizen , and would aovn trltk LimsUfout in lace and 0 'her fopperies , Get jou gone , jou ra-c & l , or I will imm . diatelj tend you to the House of Corr . ctiou . ' Asay wmt George as fasi as ho could , . » . n £ hevlng changed hisdrtos , returned to the Desniry . whe't !^ « as received with the ere-test cordinliry . 'My ii u
Tyrants aud Slaves . — When a free peop ' e croroh , lik- oatnt la , to be loaded , the next at hand , no nu ter who , mounts them , and they soon )' o . 1 the whip ;* ud the spu ¦ of their tyrant ; for a tyrant , whether prince or raini .-ter , resembles tha devil in many r-. st « cr . iparticala [ y in thia . He is often both the tempter and tormentor . He makes the criminal , and ba punishes the crime , — £ <>>•<« Mingbroie .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 5, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05081848/page/3/
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