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THE JACOBIN OF PARIS . ( From " Historic Fancies , " by the Bon . George Sydney Smythe , MP . J BO , Si . AsTorsE i Ho , St Antoine , ttion quarter © f the poor , Arise "with all thy households , and poor them from their door ; Bonso xhy attics , and thy garrets , —Torae cellar , cell , and cave ,- — Boose over-worked and over-taxed , —the starring and thealave . © CiDMlla" —aye , ¦ we remember 11 , thai -sroid of dainty tcorn , Jiey flang xa from there chariots , the high and haughty born . Canaille—canaille—ays , here ire throng , and we trill show to-night , How nngloved ^ a ^^ fl , with , pite and brand , can help itself to right .
ft tras a July evening , and the summer moon shone fair , "When first the people rose in the grandeur of despair . Bui not for greed , or gain , or gold , to plunder or to steal , y ? e spared the gorgeous Tuileries—we levelled the BasiQle . A little year , we met once more , yea " Canaille '' met that day , In the very heart of his Versailles , to beard the man Capet ; And we brought him back to Paris , in a measured train and il * w , And we t&outed to his face for Barnave and ilirabeau .
mo , conoe , -wen taou coming , trita thy truant chevaliersj Didst tbou iwear they should avenge the Austrian wanton ' s lean ? Bo , Aitola , art thou arming , for England ' s ceaseless I » 7 . Shy Brans-wickers , and Hessians , and brigands of Y endee ? Corns , then , with every hireling , Sdsve , Croat , and Comsack , "We dare year war , beware of ours—we fling you freedom back . What , tyrants , did yen menace us , —now tremble for year own ! Ton have heard the glorious tidings cf TJmy and Arsonne !
Sow like Ihe Greek of olden time , irho in the self-same honr , ' At Flvs * . and at Mycale , twice crushed the invader ^ powtr , Bo we had each our victory , and each our double frsj , 3 > jmciiritz with the stranger , and we at tee Abbaye . O , bat it was a glorions honr , that ne ' er sgsin may be , It was a night of fierce delight we never more shall see . Teat blood-stained floor , that fo ^ a red gore , that rich and mddy wine , And the strong sense felt all within , —cur work it was divine 2
They knew that men were brothers , but in their Iu 3 t they trod On the lessons of their priests , and the warnings of their God . They knew that men were brothers , but they heeded not the Loid , So we taught them the great troth , anew , with fire and frith s"wor < l . O , but it wara glorious iour , that vengeance that we wreaked , When the ssighty knelt for pardon , and the great in anguish shrinked ! Bnt we Jeered Item loz their little hearts , and mocked their selfish fears , For we thought the while of all their crimes , of twice five hundred years .
He used to laurh at justice , that ? ay aristocrat , Ee used to Bcoff at mercy , bnt he knelt to us for that ! Bat , with untiring hate we struck , and as our victim fell , He heard , —to hear them echoed soon—the cries and jetta ef helL Mo , St . Autoine , arouse thee now , —Ho , brave Stptexnbrisu all , The tocsin rings , as then it rung ! Arise unto its call Tot the- true friend of the people , and our owe Pen Dacteae Have told us they have need cf the people ' s arms again .
Por the Gironde bath turned traitor , and the Moderates have sold The bard-earnei rights of Heche ' s fights , for promise of Pitfa gold . And the pedant , and the upstart , as npsi ° ri 3 only cin , Have dared deride , in lettered pride , the plain and working man . What we , who burst the bondage our fathers bore ss long , That oppression had seemed sacred in its venerable wrong;—What , we , who have outspoken , and the whole world obeyed , With its princes and its monarchy on their high tbrone 3 afraid :
What , we , who broke tbit mighty yoke , shall we quail before Brissot ? And shall we bow to him as lowly , as be would have ns low ? And shall we leam £ fes courtier's lisp , and shall we cringe and sue To ite my fiaad of fair Boland , like love-sick Bubaroux ? Uo—by gTeat Heaven , we have not rivEi the mighty chains of old , The state-craft and the priest-craft , and the grandeur 2 nd the gold , To be ground down by doctrines , to be -crushed by forms and schools , — To starve upon their corn lawB , but to live upon their roles .
2 \ o;—it we must iaTe leader ? , they like ourselves shall be , "Who have struggled and have corQaeied with single beaitBanfllree : Wto do not ape the noble , nor affect the noble ' s air , With Tallienfor a Bichelieu , and Lonveifor Tcltaire . 2 \ o;—we win have such leaders as the B-iman tribunes were , Ctrathon , and young St Just , and simple Robespierre ; Kow glory to tbeir garrets , it is nobler far to otto , Than tfcefair half-hundred palaces , and the Garlovingian throne .
And glory to the thousand proofs , that day by day they pve . Of some great end to which tfcty tend , those Bolemn lives they live . When lbs monarch and tie anarch alike shall pass awsy , And morn shall break , and man awike , in the light of a fairer day .
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BIOGRAPHY , JCOTE 5 , AXD POLITICAL LETTERS of FBANCES WRIGHT D ' ARUSilOST . Dundee : J . Myles , 201 , Oyerga ; e . Loncon : Watson , PsjiI ' s Alley . Of the Subject of this Hiegr&piiy it Is nok necessary fOT 115 to say much . Her inimitably elcqnem lectures ¦ pcblL-ned some years ago by Watson , aiid which are and icnst be , a s : andard Tt&ik ic poliiics and ethicr , is in all probability in the possession of no ; a few of curtetders ; and are 10 them , as they haTe-been to us , a source of instrnct : on and Euperlalive enjoyment .
Her recent letters , pu blished in thi 3 paper , will be fresh in the recoilecdoa of all to whom , we donbt EOt , their perusal has afforded both pleasure and proat . The Tfoik before us purposes to supply a Tram ] os 2 since felt by the admirere of this gifted woman ; namely , some account ofherlifeand fortunes . Its origin will be remembered in the letters -which appeared ia this paper from Mr . Myle ? , of Dundee ; they called forth the succeeding letters of Madame Jj'Arusmoni , and the compiling of the present Biography , the public&'ion of which has been entrusted to her Dundee disciple .
Scotland , which has given birth to so many of the great and good whose names can never die , was , it appesTs , the birth-place of Frances . Wright . She was born in Miln ' s BuQdings , Nethirgate , Dundee , en the 6 ib of September 1705 , The father of JiaEcas W «^ Lt was the only son of a wealiflj Dundee merchant . In polisics he Y ? a 8 thoroughly l'btral , aud devoted \ o the piracipks of . the Freiica UtTolution . Ifcis he showed by lidding his aid to a pretty extensive circulation of Pjice ' s Bights of Men . The Eiothcr of Frances Wrieht Utued on
the father ' s Eide frcm the Campbeli ' s of Arjzyle i and iy the mother ' s frcm the letiersd aristocracy of £ n £ iand . Madame D'Arufinont had the misfortune to iost both parents while she was y « . t In a state of icfaLcy , She ivas taken to Englacd , and reared as a TiAi « i of ChstCcry , under the guardianship of a Jnattrnal aunv . At a veTy eaTo aj ; e , her sympathles- wti < poTtc-ifuily drawn towards tie irff ^ riDgB of tumaiiity , occasiuned by what the occasionally Tfitie-K ^ of the toil and pri ^ a ' . onsof the Eriglibh peaskntry , aid ihts htr cunosiiy v » as Tiridly iscittd to cittui ' cT ilfcir ci . uses . The Bicgrathy cujs : —
Vp- -j n oiifc ccraiUn , peculiarly diEtrttsiiig to her fetlitii , Ltr tcHk ^ ty was to the tfft ct tbat some strange licit —> i-nje tXti ^ ordiELiy vice 1-j iX lie fuui . cs . iibn cf tt * -Kb ,-ie of tEican practicr . WLtt i-litu ' . rl iht itVLte tir wbtle tr-trgits to iu . t- ' . ^^ vviy ? At the ci ' - * c , > > fc ipziTiiuzicfi to bfJEtif a icleUin calh , to Ht- ^ r tvtr hi t ^ t Lfcart tb * cause vl the poor and the fctlpltfs ; aiid t-.: aid ia ail tbat tt * c ^ uiii in rtuieesing the gricTccs ¦ srengs wbkh tttiatd to prevail in *> cifcty . . She cot Bafrtqatntly irealls the engagetttct iheu f-ktn , vo& ittU && \ tii * tss docs btt ^* totulSliL
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In her nineteenth year Bhe wrote , ( though not finifhed ) her "Eplcarns ; or a few days at Athens ? a work of no small popularity . Hearing of Ameriean Kepublicanism , her mind vr&s very early directed towards that conntry and its institutions . She experienced no small difScnlty in obtaining information as to the States ; bnt once obtained , her thoughts were unceasingly occupied with the project of visiting that country , and judgiag of it 9-character for herself . This project -was contemplated fox some years prior to her being enabled to carry it into
execution ; but at length , having previously passed three years in Scotland , she embarked at Liverpool foi New York , in the year 1818 . On her return to England in 1820 , she published a volume of letters entitled , "Views © f Society and Manners in America , " which &i that lime exciied considerable attention . In 1821 she visited France , and remained there until 1824 . Here she formed aa intimacy vrith General Lafayette and most of the publio characters of Franca of that day . She returned to the United States in 182-i , which she had now determined should be the country of her adoption .
Her mind novt fixed , singly and unalterably , on the "United Slates , as on the conntry in which human progress was rendered at once Bafe and certain , by the nature of its institutions , and the condition and character of its people . The essential difference between the American institutions and those of all other conntriea has been hequentiy elncidated by Ihfi subject of this memoir . It appears in her first " Tiews of America , " and is fnlly illustrated in such ef her published discourses as are
knewn m Europe . Pwfect in theii theory , of which the principle is change , according to , and in uniton with , the progress of the sovereign popular mind , —and perfect also in that provision of their political framework which facilitates , at all times , the moulding of the CouEtitntion&l code of practice , bo as to keep pace witt ) that progress , —the duration and continuous growth and improvement of the American empire appear placed above the shock of accident , even by the very nature of man , and by the nature of things as influenced by human power .
Her attention was now attracted to the consideration of negro slavery . Her reflections on this ¦ weighty question are worthy of the most serions consideration ; and these her refactions , with the accouaiof the practical experiment she iostiluted , form by far the most important portion of the Number before \ i 3 . Bat space will not permit us to give more than the following extract : — Neither the red savage nor the negro slave can be converted into American citizens , by acts of legislation ; and this not becanse tba one is black , nor tie other red , bat because the one id a savage , and the ether a slave . As civilization , at this hour , is an impossibility for the Indian , so is political sovereignty at this hour
an impossibility for the African . The former , when nnhappily immersed in white civilization , aB he was while resident iu tha bosom of the American States , became , and could oaly become , degraded , imitating the vices , without acquiring the indnsfcry , of the white population ; and e » the latter , if legally installed iu cit z ^ nsbip , would degrade ths institutions to the level of his own moral rod mental state , long before the institutions could elevate him to their own standard . In both Cises , the circumstances of colour and feature increase , though they do not constitute , the difficulty , which has u :: til now barred the progress of either race , wbiie placed in juxtaposition with one , tbeir superior in knowledge , and therefore necessarily the sovereign disposer of tbeir destinies .
Her remarks on the Shaker and other communities Vfhich she became acquainted with shortly after her retnra to America , are too important and interesting to be passed over : — In all , Christian fanaticism and subjection were the means employed to stultify the intelligence , and hold the physical man submitted to the will of others . As will be imagued , the pbyrfcil man , thus depressed , performs his daily task w : thcut interest , and without any of the inspirations of genius . Jn conitqucnce , these communities , in which labour—easy , indeed , after the first clearing of the soil , and other rude works of preparation , have been tffected—is the regular and unvarying occupation of the mass , broken only by psalru-singing and other tedious and sometimes ludicrous
ceremonies . In consequence , these communities present nothing striking beyond well-cultivated farms and gardens , and wtll-ccndncted manufactures . ¦ No great or beant :-f nl -worts of art ; no libraries ; no laboratories , or scientific workshop * , devoted to aid the progress of invention and the snblime conquest of master by mind ; —end no men and women beaming with intelligence and that joy of the aonl , the necessary result of worldly independence , justly earned by exertions justly requited ; and no rising generations trained to excellence by the spur of emnlation , and promising to start a-bead of tbeir predecessors , and to be themselves vanqnisfced in their turn by successors profiting by their txaaiple and experience , and by the ever accumulating knowledge and capital of Bociety ! And yet such should be the resnlt of nnited labonr , or 3 t fails in it »
oiject If it centuples not the po-arer of the individual , both for the enfranchisement of tbe individual , and for tbe greatest possible welfare , ¦ orpau h . and grandenr of the body politic , it does no more than what has been tver , more or less , doce to this hour . No tyranny has ever been blind to tbe advantages of united and organised labour ; but liberty , enlightened by knowledge , can alone resort to it fearlessly atd powerfully , because beneficially to man . Poor , indeed , is the bent fit which feeds tbe body without nourishing tbe rnicd- The military despot ma ; feed his soldiers at one * liberally and economically from a common kitchen , nrd lodge tbem comfortably in clean ami airy apartments ; yet what free man would not prefer a crust , a draught from the spring , and a rode shelter from tbe weather , than snch BecommofJations pwchtsed by tbe sacriB . se of all individual nobility &cd independence .
Her strictures Hpon the New Harmony experiment we are compelled to omit , save the concluding remarks , which we commend to the serious consideration of tho ? e who in this country assume to be , par excellence , ** Social Reformers . " It is time now to distinguish that » 01 individual experiments neither have been nor can be , of ¦ any practical account beyond tbe inquiry they may elicit , the ideas they may generate , a » d ptrhops the warning they msy teach . Reform , to be effective , must be rightly understood is its principles by a collective body politic , and carried forward wisely , consistently ,, with dne regard to the interests of all concerned , by that tody politic .
The acting in opposition to the prirciple contained in the above , is the rock on which Socialism mu 3 $ split . Model communism may be a very pretty experiment , and / or our part we wish it every succets ^ bnt for the regeneration of a people it is a hopeless attempt , and one that cannot but disappoint all who , for a t ; me , may have faith in it . Tbe present Kumber eloses with a too brief account of her first appearance a 3 a public lecturer in Cineisnali , S :. Louis , Baltimore , & 3 . We are promised , in fn : ure Numbers , an account of the course of events which followed her arrival in New York . The Biography , &c . vrill be published in Number ? , at a very low cos : ; and will , we should thick , command an extensive circulation . At all events , we have much pleasure in giving it our hearty recommendation .
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similar solicitude for the welfare of her husband , had well nigh consigned him to a madhouse : — " For In « calPd some druggists and physicians . And tried to prove her loving lord was mad ; Bat as he had some lucid intermissions , She next decided he was only bad / Yet when they ask'd her for her depositions , No sort of explanation could be bad , Save that her duty both to man and God Required this oonduct—wbich Beem'd very odd . ' Powers eternal 1 think of the author of Childe Harold , . condemned to that worse than hell to a sane man , —a madhouse !
From the Bethnal Green establishment , Mr . was removed to another at Koasington , and subsequently to several others . Mr . was finally released again some time in 1842 , solely through tbe chivalrous endeavours of bis friend Mr . Perceval . With respect to the charges brought against the Commissioners , we must refer our readers to the pamphlet it ? elf . A lengthy appendix is added , written by Mr . , giving Borne particulars of his treatment while under coafinement in one of the so-called asylums . From a number of revolting exposures , we can only afford room for the following : —
There is another matter I see I have omitted to men . tion , but notwithstanding the length of my letter , it is of so mnch importance , that I must not neglect to draw your attention to it I assure you , gentlemen , even at this distance of time I ebuddei , and my blood tuna cold , at the recollection of tbe barbarities and cruelties I have seen daily practised within these walla , and ithich could never have occurred , or have been seen , or sanctioned by the superintendents or managers , if they had bad tbe feelings of responsibility attached to their actions . I aJlnde now mare particularly to tbe treatment of the pauper patients , who lie in tbe straw room ; aad who are made to come out every morning into tba middle of tbe yard , one after the other , or two of them together , naked and bare foot , having to pass over about two yards of flag pavement , and about five or six
yards of sharp pebble pavement , and walk up to an iron cistern , standing in the middle , at one end of tbe yard ; there they srand and are cleaned down by one of the patients with a mop , in tbe same manner as a stable boy mops down a horse , when be comes in covered with splash and mud ; or rather , with as much care and tenderness aB he mops the gig . I have seen both young and old pushed down under the operation , and fall upon tbe pebbles . I have seen the operation performed , when icicles have been hanging down round tbe top of the cistern . I aave passed by them , \ ihbn tbe snow , » nd the rain , and the sleet , haB been pelting on tbeir naked bodies . If anything else could be added to render this exhibition more barbarous and disgusting still , it is supplied by the fact of its being overlooked by some of the females' bed-room windows .
The above , if true , would justify the severest possible punishment of the proprietors and managers of a place where such hellish barbarites could bo enacted . The most searching interference and rigid supervision of these places on the part of the government , is evidently absolutely necessary . Mr . proposes to publish a detailed statement of his case , and the oiroumstauces attending ) Dearly fire years spent in madhouse confinement , in order to show how—Tbe confidence of the public has been abused ; the
very ignorant and lot » class of persons employed as kee-pers , and the consequeut wretched treatment of the patients ; tbe ind-. ffsrt-nt accommodation provided for them , and to txpose tbe mismanagement and enormities of tbe four different Metropolitan Lunatic AaylumB , in -which he bas been placed , ¦ w ith suggestions for the amendment of the system . The matter will be sufflcitnt to fill a five shilling book , acd as s « on as a sufficient number of subscribers declare themselves to tbe publisher , Mr . Wilson , the woik shall be published , in the hope of a full inquiry being instituted by the Legislature previous to any further alteration in the laws .
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THE NOTTINGHAM EXECUTION . A Lecture delivered in the Old Meehkg House , MANsyiELD . Bt William Linwood . London : Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . This lecture , or sermon , is founded on the recent executionof SavilJe , aE Nottingham , whose exit was accompanied by that dreadful catastrophe with the particulars ef which our readers are fully acquainted , ana winch u is therefore unnecessary we should 7 flu ; e Iecture w » 3 delivered oa Sunday , the 11 tn August , and repeated the following Sunday . It appears to have become very popular in Mansfield ana its neighbourhood ; and having ourselves perused It Hii US present shapeWe think deservedlso
, y . Thu Jeoture may be considered not so much in the lignt or a mere discourse as to Saville , ss an oration at once eloquent and argumentative against aeam-pums hments ; and , indeed we may add , against tne present political and social system , which by negleotmg the education and wants of the masses , causes crime , breeds murderers , and then punishes tne one , and immolates the other . Against that system , Mr , Linwood , " in thoughts that breathe and words that burn , " launches his bitterest and soul-sttmng denuaoiation .
That the degree of a man ' s criminality depends not only on the nature and extent of bis crime , but also on tbe previoua associations by which be baa been surrounded , the intellectual and moral advantages which he bas enjoyed , this I shall assume . The Ignorant and the educated man , though committing the same crime , cannot with any show of justice be 'issumed equally criminal , and any ByBtem of punishment which does not recoguise this truth , and provide accordingly Jn its several ponal allotments , is of necessity , imperfect and onjust But I have no apace to enlarge on thia point
, aud muBt now content myself with a hurried sketch of SaviUe - u history . Deprived during infancy of a mother ' s care , he was subject solely to tfie influence and guidance of an abandoned father—by influences the moat debasing was his youthful mind surrounded—the school room in which his mind expanded , was one of vice most unbounded , violating alike the moral laws and decencies of life and rendering its victim a mere boast in all but form—a man in all but those qualities which ate the characteristics of tbe human being In contradistinction to tbe animal . For him no band was found
to conduct in boyish days to the stream of knowledge —to pluck for him the fruit which hange within the reach of inquiring mortals on the sacred tree of trathno voice—no generous voice poured into hia ear the tale of virtue and dignity . Ignorance was bis portion—read and write he conld not—moral power Iu bis case ¦ wub dormant—the soul tbe divine soul within was sloping—he had sense , but no cultivated sentiments—tbat capacity which constitutes us men and renders us responsible , was unknown to him , I mean the capacity to discern tbe human mission , to estimate its duties , face itB difficulties , and amid the prtssure of temptations coming from without , to Require thab might of will , with which we gather up our
energies and do our appointed work in the great field of action and endeavour . No more morally helpless beiDg ere trodjGod ' a earth than this William Saville . In his ease there was the animal but not the man—he progressed from youth te manhood , educating as he went , but educating for evil , and not for good—educating to become a social pest , and not a blessing , and acquiring only the capacity to wie ; ik an unconscious vengeance on the community , whoso members bad left him to all the infectious and contagiouB influences of demoralising circumstances , without paining themselves to call forth those in ward but incipient faculties , which make each well disciplined man the cocqueror of circumstances , the enaoblec and regenerator of tbe world .
This is & fact , an all solemn fact—We are nursing felons as ; well as heroes—we have our school rooms of crime as well as virtue . There are Savilles innumerable in this our land , and their number is daily and hourly multiplying . Ministers preach—schoolmasters teach , yet still the evil of wbich 1 speak goes on increasing . Prisons , hangmen , scaffolds do not crush it—in their very vicinity it lives , moves , and bas its polluted being . And how is this 1 I hear some ask . The reason ia sitnpl& Poverty and ignorance areeducators mere potent than Sunday or day schools , chapels , or churchts . Tfie
causes of crime must be removed ere the crime itB-. lf can cease . Social reform as well as national education is necessary in order to put a atop to national crimisa'ity . Improve the poor man ' s dwelling , remove his destitution , allow him to assume his just position as a citizen of the state , yea do this , and then not in vain will ministers preach , and teachers labour in the r . rena of tuition , fur a brighter morn will dawn o ' er this now degraded land , and tbe race of criminals decline amid the holier influence Bhed around by the characters and homes of a happy , free , and improving population .
Here follows a withering exposure of the priestly humbug of whitewashing murderers , and turning felons into taints . The society which cares not to prepare him to live will use its every effort to prepare him to die . Now I humbly think that this amounts to , no more than tv mere . piece vt gratuitous absurdity and presumption . Men who are loaded with tbe accumulated filch and moral corruption of years , aTe clearly not in a condition to be rtnovated , and tutored inta . aafHttrfcy the teachings of a fetf bribi" a . ^ a . Besides , tbe stats of mind in which the felon-pupil must , of necessity be fouud , is very clearly unfavourable to the reception of those moralizing impressions from without , which reuse to activity the dormant germs of goodness that reaide
within . It William Saville was unfit to live , en what sober grounds do you pretend , as if by magic to prepare him to die ? He is too vilu for time ; and yet you would fain have us believe , that in ten days he becomes surBtfiently reformed and purified for the happiness of Eternity ? Is there something so miraculously potent about these creeds of youis , that they can achieve moral impossibilities ; wipe out in days the biota and sia stains of years , ucd sub ime a murderer into a saint almost as speedily as the workman of the law can erect a ficaffcld on which to execute him ? If this be really the case , surely 'tis a pity you do not bring theee creeds to bear on the mighty horde of criminals who as yet have not fallen within the reach of law l Why not let Saint AtbanaauB ride a tilt at once against all pickpockets and petty robbera . Commence a crusade , with the Church Catechism as your weapon of attack ,
against tbe members of the swell mob who must our fairs and streets ; and plant the creed of Nice , the Articles and Homilies , between the throats of victims and tbe upraised knife of murderer and assassin . Yes , do this , yd preachers of righteousness who work such wonders io jails—try your power of regenerating the abandoned without the fear of the hangman , ignorance , and consequent superstition to aid you in your taskpreach and pray away national criminality—batter down the edifice of British sin by a pelting shower of scripture texts ; and by the time you have made some hundred ; shoplifters good ChristianB worthy of being canoniz d , we may be in a position to give credit to your assertion , that by your tffotts the murderer becomes so far pure and saint-like , that he etaDds on the drop a man ripe * *< r Heaven , tl . ougb still not safe on earth , — " leaps ( to quote your own vigorous phraatology ) from a scaffold to a tbrcne . "
Mr . Linwood argues as though this " mummery " performed by Christian ministers , was opposed to the spirit of Christianity ; and that the conduct of so-called Christian ministers , and indeed the whole existing political and social system , is a violation and j desecration of Christianity . Be it so . Uufc how comes it that after Christianity , in all shapes and forms , and in its thousand and one different versions , has been preached for eighteen hundred years past , j that no better results have been produced than those too faithfully depicted in Mr . Linvvood ' s lecture ? And these results have been the same , or similar , whether pope or presbyter , priest or parson , have been
in the ascendant . Brutality and crime , murders j and executions , wars and massacres , have up to the ; preseat heur defiled and de-solaced the earth despite ; tho " pro £ rets of Christiajiity . " Mr . Linwood is a Christian : but he is but one man . It would be no ! hard task to find hundreds ot Christian ministers who justify executions ; aye , and prove their accordance with Christianity too , —prove it from the Bible . ¦ In Mr . Linwood ' a own town of Mansfield , on ihe i very game day , that hia Kcturo was deliverod , the ! Rev . Mr . Weaver , Independent Minister , preached j a sermon on the same subject , in the course of which he justified executions fbi murder .
" Whose to decide when doctors disagree V * But let the philanthropist take hope . The experience of the past , and the vvide-spread diffusion of knowledge , warrant us in believing that , though slow the progress , present frauds will jet meet the fate of those which preceded them . Yes" Even gods must yield—religion take their turn t — and ether creeds Will rise with other years , till sun BhaU learn ainly his incense soarB , bis victim bleeds ; Poor child of doubt and deats , wbose hope ia built on reeds . " The lecturer concludes as follows . May his hopes of a better future be realised and that speedily .
It is to a purified public op inien tbat 1 look for the overthrow of these , gigautic evils—to that bloodless power of opinion , which baa already driven back bo many abuses , and dashed the erownof unmerited fame from many a tit ' . ed assassin ' s brow—which tries and dooms both men and systems to a throne of glory or a tomb of shame . To that all pewer do I look with confidence r and close in the assurance that I shall not look vain , In that the spirit of mercy will yet reside in all roens' heart ; , that a divine philanthropy will tre Ions refine their characters and quicken their sympathy with thepoodj f ae beautiful ; and true ; and that amid the beanie of an aroused btuevolence , such ecsnea as executions will p ? as away , and be remembered only with unmitigated honor as the creations of more barbarous timfjs . ' .
We hope Mr . Lin wood ' s lecture will have tha wide circulation to which it is so justly entitled We commend it to the patronage or our friends .
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Isle of Wight Waggery . — " Is this the way to Byae . ! " said a traveller who was as ignorant of horsemanship as he was of the place he was inquiring for . The unsophisticated native to whom the query was addressed , after carefully surveying the equeatxian artist , naively replied , "Na , ual thee turns out thee toas too much , "— isle of Wight Advertiser *
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BURNS , THE ] POOR MAN'S POET . ' * O ye ! or we J or tie f or she I reflect , That one life saved , —— . is a tbiiig tojrecollect Far sweeter than the gresnest laurels ep run % From the manure of [ human clay , though & eck'd With all the praises ever said or sung . Though bymn'd by every harp , unless within Your heart join chorus , Fame is but a din . " i 2 ? , 'iron . We promised in our last to offer this week some comments on the general character of the wrii ings
of Burns . We are , ! however , prevented douu 80 by personal illness , which would have occasioned the postponement at leaBt for the present , of anvth \ ' ng from oar pen relative to tbe Poet ; but justice demands that not a moment j should be lost in bringing before the public the claims of one nearly related ti » the bard , and whose situation is , we believe , such as to call for an expression of the public ' s immediate sympathy . These considerations induoe us to a # aia . take up the pen , which otherwise wo would gladly ' have left unemployed for the present .
We the less regret the necessity of postponing our intended comments on the writings of Burns to some future period , seeing that at best all we could have hoped to have effected would have been the directing the attention to his deathless productions of those of our readers who may have hitherto negtected them . Anything higher we could not hope to have accomplished , after what has been performed by Campbell , CuNMNpius , Wilson , and other biographers and essayists , who have made the works of the Poet the * theme of literary effusions which must last while the English language endures . Moreover , rnere praise from our pen is almost superfluous . We might as vainly attempt " To gild refined ; gold , to paint the lily . Or throw a perfume on the violet , "
as to hope to add to tbe oxteat or lustre of tho Poet ' s fame , by praise of ours ; and cause for censure we have never yet been able to find . The poems and songs of Burns are above criticism . No praise can do them full justice ; 1 and the fats of the "hireling paragraph" mongers who have tried their hands at censure , shows the good sense of the public , whose tuiud has been sought to be poisoned by these reptiles . They have one and a ; ll died self-suffocated in their own gall ; and if any are remembered tho stink of their bad names forms their only apotheosis . The matter we have now to lay beforo our readers is concerning not so much the toet , as the P <; ei >' s child .
THE DAUGHTEB OF BURNS , of whoso existence , however sceptical we may have been , wo now feel assured , and which assurauce wo have no doubt will ; be participated in by our readers when put in possession of tho following evidence . j Our first information of this interesting matter camo from a correspondent at Hamilton , a Mr . John Park , the pith of his first communication being as lollows . } Tha writer expresses his approbation of the Burns Festival , but adds : —
" But alas 1 the beautiful principle of equal justice was woefully wanting . Burns had a daughter , his ' dear bought Bass . ' He had dandled her upon bis knee , and charmed her infaat ear with his own delightful songs . * That daughter is still alive ! and would have been the brightest gem of his family circle , bad she not been so shamefully neglected . Bat the stigma of itl&jitimacy is stamped upon her ; and the worid . as if of one accord , baa resolved to let her drag out a miserable exis'tnee in pe ury and ( obscurity . No one calls upon her Uit her father ' s sake . INo one recognises tbe daughter
of Scot and a noblest bard tn the deep-settled melancholy face of Elizabeth Burns . She is despised by the learned of her native country ; and none visits her to inquire of her father , although she ia a woman worthy indeed of such a genius . Her language is fraught with much intelligence Red penetration . In fact , she not only " smacks tbe daddy in tbe face , " but in tbe mind also . Yet for all , nsne desires to know her . If tbosa who wish to pay tribute to the memory of the bard would recognise one whom he dearly loved , and who so nearly resembles him , it surely Would be doing only what they ought to do . "
The writer added that this daughter of Bir , ns ' s moat strougly resembled him in features , aud was residing at Pullockshaws , uear Glasgow . As Pollockohawrf was known to us ; as we had been in that town , at a time too when we were certain ly not less enthusiastic in our admiration of the Poot than at tbe preseat , we confess we felt some doubt as to the truth of the above statement . Thia doubt was considerably strengthened when on referring to Allan Cltwikgham ' s edition of the Poet ' s works , we found it stated lhat the Poet's illeguimate daughter , tho " sonsie , smirking , dear-bought Bess " had died in 18 l 7 . It appeared clear to uathat oar correspondent wns mistaken as to the persen of the particular daughter spoken of by Allan Cu . nsjkgham : whether there was another daughter ; another " dear-bought Besa" was a question , to arrive at tne solution of which we inserted tho notice which appeared in the Star of the 24 ih of August .
That notice brought us a reply from Mr . Park , who had this time gone to Poliockshaws purposely to see tho alleged daughter of Burns , and satisfy himself beyond doubt as to her existence . The following is tho pith oi his second communication : — " I was a little surprised to see the announcement in the last Star concerning the death of tbe illegitimate daughter of Burns in 1817 , commonly known as his 1 dear-bought Bess : ' Ii therefore called on tho friend from whom 1 received the information I sent you , and we both proceeded Immediately to Poliockshaws ; and found there ( a « I had stated ) a person who ia most decidedly a daughter of the poet . In answer to our enquiries , she stated to us that she was born in 1791 . and tbat her
mother's name was Awj « Park , who belonged to Samfries . She further stated tbat Bhe resided two years With her mother ' s parents , and at that age was taken home to ber father , with whom she lived till his death , making ber then five years old . She was afterwards sent to her mother'a [ friends , and lived with them twelve years , when she got married to her present husband , John Thomson . The only misstatement in my last is , that this Elizabeth Bu&ns waa tbe ' dearbought Bess' luantioned in he * father ' s poems ;—still she was dear-bought enough ; for her mother died shortly after giving herjbirth . The only reference made to her is iu the ' Lines to a posthumous child / beginning with (
• Sweet fljwret , pledgeV meikle love , ' &o . On entering more minutely into conversation with thia neglected ptreonage , we elicited that the Colonel , her brother , called on her in winter last , and recognised ber as the daughter of his far-famed father ; but he left her in that indigent stale in which he found her . And further she stated that Mr . Crum of Thornliebank , a most respectable manufacturer , had written to Professor Wilsoa a fortnight previous to the fcstivJ , of her near relationship to the Scottish bard , and stating her present circumstances . But 0 ! whisper it not for the fair fame
of ( hat learned mau—UB RETURNED NO ANSWER . Owing to the penury aad neglect under which she has suffered , she would appear to a stranger to have borne tbe blast of seventy years : yet there remains sufficient in the eyes and brow to ' ttll the admireia ot Buraa tbat tbat man has left behind him a likeness of himself . She is undoubtedly a womau who has suffered much , and still HveB to suffer more . How long will the worshippers of the Poet manifest to the world tbeir utter inconsistency ? They ( venerate tbe dead because they are dead ; but pass by the living because they are alive anil POOR . " '
The foregoing communication appeared to us so conclusive , that we at once resolved to give it publicity ; but further evidence was forthcoming . Tlie notice in the Star of the 24 t . h ult . had attracted attention at Mauchline , where the Poet resided when farming at Mossgul . In Mauchline there is still living a brother and one or two sisters , we forget which , of " Bonnie Jean ' s "; persons who were likely to know something of the trath or falsehood of this report . From a { friend at present ia Mauchline we have received the following : —
•« It is quite true that a daughter of Burns is residing in P oliockshaws She was born in Dumfries . She was not a child of j Jean Arbour's ( Barns' wife ) . Her mother was a servant in a public-house which Burns frequented . jThe child was brought home % t ber father ' s , and Jean ! Armour nursed it She alike same time had a baby of her owt . Jean ' s , father went from MauchliDo to see her . When be saw the two children , he said , Prjeeerve me Jean , hae ye twins ?' She replied A o ; the " child bslowjed to a friend of hen .
who had been taken badly , and she teas keeping it for her for a week or two , till she got tetter . ' It waa never known by Jean S relations that the child belonged to Bubks until after bis death . ) Mrs . Burns kept the fad from them ! This daughter ; wa 3 in after years married . Sbe went to PollockBhawa jwith hex husband , and still lives there . One of the Burns' bas been to see her , but I oont know whether it was this time or when he was in Scotland ou a previous occasion . The folk here say that she is more like Burns than any ot bis sons . She is the very image of her father . "
After the above , bur readers will require , we think , very Btrong counter evidence to induce them to disbelieve the identity of the alleged daughter of the Poet . For ourselves , we consider that question as decided . The question remains—what will " repentant Scotland" do now ? Will the high and mighty , who harnessed themselves to the dead Poet ' s car , in the recent ovation paid to his manes ; will they act consistently Will they relieve the physical wants of the living daughter , and pour oil and balm on the wounds which blasting poverty aud withering neglect , have caused I Will they , prove the sincerity j of their " repentance" for the I abominable treatment of the father , by now , though ' at the eleventh h > ur , doing justice to his inaigeut daughter 1 Or will they avow that their recent
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show-off of " repentance , " was but the mockery of : hypocrisy and theatrical bombast ? v We shall see . We speak warmly because we fear there ia a disposition on tho part of those who have the iufluence and means to do and act otherwise , to keep the daughter of Burns in her present state of exclusion aud unmerited penury . We are led to this conclusion from the allegedVfact that Professor Wilson has been applied to on the subject , and has not deigned to notice the application . Perhaps no man in the kingdom possesses similar power to the like extent that the Professor does to act in this matter , with the best results to the party concerned . We shall take care to afford him tho opportunity of at least inquiring into it ; for we shall take care to send him a copy of this article .
In our article copied from Punch , on the Burns ' festival , an allusion was made to the sons of Brows as having by no means proved themselves worthy of Jj" ** * P »« nta « e in their treatment of their aunt-( tho Poe ^ sister ) Mrs . Bigg . Mr . Robert Chamm \ of Edinburgh , who has worthily distinguished himsslf by bis generous advocacy of th& claims of Mrs . Begg , throua ; h whose means she has beea , though only recently rescued from the condition ia which now exists the Poet ' a daughter , has replied to the writer m Punch , vindicating the sons from wltu O iSr 2 ? huns msde in * hat Poblication . Whether Mr . Chambers could with equal success vindicate the Cct . onel from the charge brought against iim by our Hamilton correspondent er wnether * 2 ie Colosel oan vindicate himself , remains to be seen . Our columns are open to-either .
The sor / 8 of BuR * aa should understand that their only clait » upon public aff-ction rests on the mere accidtat of their parentage . They may ba worthy mes . In the professions jn vrhich they have served , or the pursuit * they have followed , they may have justly earned the esteem of all who knew them . All this we are willing to imagine . Still their mere abilities , or virtues , could not entitle them to a nation s affections . There are thousands of able and excellent men , of whom the people , as a whole , can . care to know nothing . It is , we repeat , the mere accident of birth that endears them to the nation ^ It is for their father s sake tbat they are honoured Let them see then , for the sake of their own characters , that they do nothiag unworthy of their high and noble name . Nothing unworthy of that holy sentiment of their father : — ° Affliction ' s sons are brothers in distress ;
A brother to relieve how exquisite the bliss . " The brotherhood meant by tbe Poet was that of mankind generally ; bat bow much more to be regarded are the ciaims of a sister by blood , the daughter of their sire ; and that sister in a state of undeserved poverty . Lot as contrast the alleged conduct of the Poet ' s sons with that of their own mother , Mrs . Burns ; or as our Mauchline correspondent calls her , Jean Abmour , her more familiar name . She had eveiy motive which an injured woman could have to . frown hostility upoa the helpless infant , left mo herless , and cast upon her for protection . Did she do so ? No . She gave the shelter of her home and the nursing care of a mother to the unfortunate little One , whose very existence wf -j the too sure proof of her husband ' s frailties and her own injuries . Observe too the exalted sense of honour which actuated this noble woman , in
concealing from her friends , and as far as she could do from the publio , that which might tend to dim tho glory of her husband ' s name ! And this too under peculiar circumstances of aggravation , and when cumbered with the cares of aa infaat Of her own . To us this appears a heroic act , worthy of lasting remembrance and eternal praise . Were we the reverse of what wo are ; were we as Btrongly sceptical of woman's nobleness of nature , as on the contrary we are proud to own we are faithful believers in woman ' s transcendant virtues , th's epi&ode in the history of ""Bonnie Jean" would at once anihilate our scepticism . The utter disregard of every selfish feeling ; the devotion oi the wife tor the fair name of her husband ; and the boundless humanity of heart exhibited in such trying circumstancts , should ensure for Jeah AhiiovR & tame even more enduring , wore that possible , than that which Burn ' s deathless songs have achieved ner .
It is possible that some may carp at these remarks as tending to make still more visible the frailties of the " fliau BuftNa . ' To this we answer , that were it so , justice to the living would still require that the facts above narrated should become known . Without their publication , the claims of the daughter upon publio sympathy would be necessarily null and void : and again we repeat the fame of the Poet ia not to be iajured by the faults of the Man . If any straight-laced puritan would be disposed to Vent hi 3 spleen on the poet's name ia consequence of this expose , we beg of him , in the first place , to remember that none are perfect : no , not one ; and to look into bis own heart , and inquire whether , with clear conscience and clean hands , he can fling the first stone . We would have all such remember the charitable , the elevating , the loveable sentiment of the Poet : —
O cently scan your brother man ; Still gentler sister woman ; Though tUey may gang a kennin wrang , T * step aside Is human : One point must stilt be greatly dark , Toe moving why they do it : An' juat as lamely can ye mark , How far perhaps they rue it . " And , above all , let them think of the noble conduct of Jean Armour , and biuah mantling shame at their own uncharitableness .
But we fear there are too many , who not content with assailing the Foet , would " visic the sins of tha father upon the child . " Illloitjmacy , in the eyes of the " unco guid , " is a deadly sin : nor do they generally scruple to punish those who have had the misfortune to be boru out of wedlock , unless , as is sometimes the ca ? , Royalty ennobles bastardy . Theo , indeed , the " rigidly righteous ' judiciously shut thoir eyes , and are blind to the fact of illegitimacy . Mrs . Thomson is unfortunately not a Fnz Clarence ; not the child of Royal Priace or Sailor-King ; sheisow / ya Burns ; only the daughter of a Poet ; a man who in genius and heart was worth more than all the princes and kmg 3 that ever existed . She is therefore suffered to pine in poverty , and know the miseries of want . Most consistent world ! How just in thy awards How righteous ia thy decrees I
Bat this 19 not true of all . All men are not hypecrite 3 . All are not cold-hearted , and selfishly cruel . To all then who have the means to elevate Buffering worth , aud rescue from poverty the helpless , whom departed genius has left to society ' s guardianship , we appeal , —earnestly appeal , to make inquiry into the facts detailed in this article ; and if found to ba mainly aud substantially true , to do their duty ; to afford to one who is now fast descending in the vale of years the means of spending the remainder of her days in comfort and peace . She is the daughter of Burns . That we are
assured by our correspondents is proclaimed in every linament of her features . Let those who profess to be her lather ' s admirers , imagine in their mind ' s eye , the face of that father , when on his death-bed he penned his letter for the loan of £ 5 to save him from a gaol ; a fact which will for ever remain a monument of disgrace , not to the country bat the generation in which he lived . Let them thentbink that tbat face again reproachingly gazes on them through the features of the neglected daughter , and let them lose no time in doing that which , independent of all humane considerations , tbeir professed admiration of Burns demands they should perform .
We shall take eare that copies of this article are forwarded to some of the mora prominent of the admirers of Burns , both of the wealthy and the literary clasa . We shall also forward copies to some of tho principal journal ? , particularly ot Scotland , the conductors of which will , we hope , lend us their influential assistance in obtaining justice for the DAU 6 HTER OF BCRNS .
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Captain Warner ' s Invention-. —M . Jobard , of Brussels , who has devoted much attention to pyrotechnio works , has communicated to the French Government what he states to be the composition of Captain Warner's destructive power . It consists , he says , of a Congreve rocket , made- in this way : — The head of it is composed of a hollow iron cone , of great strength , containing a kilogramme of fulminate of mercury , on which ia placed the usual charge of the rocket , of which the body is twice as long aa those in general use . He discharges hi 9 projectile
from a directing tube . from the port-hole of the vessel , and on a level with the water , so that his projectile , skimming along the waves , which support a part of its weight , fixes itself ia the side of the enemy s V « ssel , -where it bursts , v * aen the fire-reaches the fulminating powder , and , making an immense opening in it , sinks it at once . The proper range of this rocket ia only three or four miles , but , Captain Warner imagines ho can send it five or six by discharging it from a cannon . He does not say that he will attain his object in the first attempt , but he will try until he succeeds .
A Recapture . —Our readers will probably recollect that three prisoners effected their escape from Durham gaol early on the morning of the 30 ih of Jnne , 18 l 3 , and that two of them were Boon afterwards recaptured and brought back to their old quarters . The third , named James Grierson , has ever since remained at large , until last week , when curiosity , or a , desire perhaps to relieve some of his fellow subjects of their sapeifluona coin , induced hi . a to attend the Newcastle and Gateshead
Regatta . Alas ! for the short-sightedness of human nature ; he was there recognised by a young mail who wa 3 the principal witness against him on his trial , and forthwith handed over to the police , while he stoutly denied haviug ever before seen his accuser . He was safely lodged in Newcastle gaol , and information having been forwarded to Durham , aa officer from the county prison here , nam * d-Totf * was immediately despatched to *«>*; & J'f fcjg gggssms
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THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE —September . THE CuNCORDiU-M GAZETTE— SEPTEMBER . The former of these psblieations contains reports of tbe progress of the temperance cause , particularly in America- and the South Sea Islands . The latter contains articles on the usual subjects , but nothing requiring particular nonce .
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A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT , UPON THE CONDUCT OF THE METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY , & . o ., &c , By Johh Percivjx , Esq . Loudon , tfiagham Wilson 5 18 , Bithopgate-street Within .
The anthor ot this letter is honourably known to our readers as a gentleman distinguished for his philanthropy and defence of the oppressed , especially exhibited by the part he has taken on the Poor Law question . Anything from his pen nm » t therefore command attention , particularly when devoted to the exposition of the wrongs of a fellow-creature . The occasion for the publication of tbia "letter" appears lobe britfly aa follows : — Mr . , a man distinguished not only by his enterprise and clever inventions , but by his ardeni advocacy of liberal principles , was by an unfortunate
speculation plunged into ruin . The upshot of this was that his zcife employed two doctors , whose names are given in the pamphlet , to visit him and to certify him a lun&tie . This being done , he w&a forcibly taken to St . Luke ' s Hospital , and from therertmoved to an establishment at Hoxton . Mr . prolt » t » d tbat he was not insane , and demanded to be examined by the Commi ^ iontrs . He was cot brought beforo ibtm umil he bad been confined marly six months , and then was put back and finally only liberated , after being confined above fifteen months in the company of the insane , Mr . ¦ being all this time , as alleged ty Mr . P ^ rcival , of fane mind .
Above two yeara after this , bein fc in treaty with a certain auctioneer fur a business which the same Mr . proposed conducting some differenced took place between the two , wkich ended in Mr . , who conceived he was injured and unjustly treated by the auciioneir ihrcatenicg to horsewhip ihe latter . For this threat he was held to bail ; and pending the obtaining of lie Decenary tureties waa removed lo the Bridewell , at To . ib . ili Fields . At thi 3 prison cne of the doctors who bad before ccrnfit-d as to bis insanity , atain > i .-ited him , by his wife ' s orders . ' , fcud tLia > :. s ; multed in J ' r . ' a r « inova ]« sa lunatic to an establishment ' at Bethnal Given , iiupposii k tte stawments-of thi 3 pamphlet to be true , there can be but one op . uion as to tbe ic > fc of the unfortunate luaii . It . is not difficult to see who has bet n his prime persecutor , aud how heartless and cruel has beer , that persecution . Tbe conducl ©{ vhe lady \ n q \> estion strongly icniiads us of thai of tlie wife V . &a UloBirious pott , who , eyincinf
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A VISION OF JUDGMENT , ( new version ) A DRAMATIC POEM , suggested by THE DEATH OF THE LATE LORD ABlNGER . Croyden : Frost , Surrey-street . We cannot promise the author of this poem that he will become a second Byron . Our readers however ehall judge for themsolves . We should premise that in the following dialogue the " First Spirit" is that of a Chartist , the " Second Spirit" is that of " his Lordship . " Second Spirit— Whom and -whence art thon ? First Spirit—Know ' Bi thou not ? I am ti ' tn aa thyself . And from the eartb , our common mother . S . S—If , a » thou Bayest , thou art from the earth , And knowing me to be a bod of earth , I marvel thou payest not the reverence due To dignity .
F . S . —Dignity ! Idle word 1 I know what was called dignity on earth ; I likewise knov that we were only atoms , Alike and < qual by ihe laws or nature . Bat viewing ihyacll with microscopic eye , ( That self-illusive focus of the brain , ) Thon Bvell'rt thjBelf beyond thy just estate . S . S—Atrocious libeller ! 1 was thy superior And , if I am not wrong in my cor . jccture , I knew tbee as a teacher of sedition . P . S . —Libeller ! I am none .
I throw tbe imputation back with scorn . The accusition ' s just , which I repeat . True dignity illumined not thy eoul : Thou wast a deadly curse upon tbe land ; An execrable compound of intolerance . Shall I , xebo stood before thy base tribunal , . And blanched not at tfcy gat , pay thee homage i Who , -when surrounded by thy perjured minions , "With all the concomitants of thy court , And not e ' en then would bow and sue to thee ; And wouldst thou even now extort tbat homage , Now thou art stripped of all thy earthly tinsel ?
Here is the meeting of Asmodeus and " his Lord-» hip . " Tbe former asks , — Spirit , whither art thou ? Spirit—To you I do not deign an answer . Asm . —This doth imply thou kneweat thy destination . Sucti haughty bearing will be duly tamed , And thon , proud spirit , made to bend before me . Spirit—1 ne'er yet stoopep to menials . Asm . —There thou liest . If , vrhtn thy life "was young , Thou badBt not bo wed and cringed to menials , Thou ne ' er badst risen to tbat wealth and power . But whether I be menial or chief , Thou must obey wy power . With me away !
They seem to have a rare opinion of " hia Lordship" below stairs : — Belial—Since Jeffreys of the law , hath not been known In vice his parallel . Mammon—He should have been his compeer . Lucifer—On the eartb ; but now It is expedient they be k * p t apart , Or their concoction would o ' ertbrow our empire , And we , perchance , become their meanest vassala . For the fate of "his Lordship , " we must refer our readers to the " Vision" itself . EVIL—Rhuiks n * Relation to an appeal now BV FORE PaBLIAMENT , FOB THE SVl-PRESSION OF AN INTfLfcKABI . EMM-ANCE , &C ., &C— BY LUKB JaMES Has ^ akd . London : Hansard , near Lincoln ' s inn Fields .
The pnbiicau ' oB of this pamphlet has been occasioned by the effort * receatiy made by the Bishop of Exe'er , to procure the pasting of a law for the suppression of the Jrade of prostitution , or rather the BHppression of brothel-keeping . The author ' s object is a righteous one ; but bid pamphlet is so oddly and drt-amily written , that ww doubt if many will be found possessed of sufficient patience to read it . Hi 3 plan for suppressing brothels is to form a facd by the principal of every house in the metropolis subscribing ono guinea . This would raiBe in round numbers , ^ 189 , C 00 , with which he proposes to purchase the leases of all houses devoted to iafamous purposes . The scheme is well meant ; but l ; ke many more things based on " good intentions , " is perfectly impracticable ; and even if it could be carried out , would be found useless to check the existence of prostitution .
Who aie the patrons of prostitution but the rich They are the arch-seducers , and suppliers of the marnet with victims for the cupidity of the loathsome wretches who traffic in the ein , shame and suffering of their fellow creatures . This is admitted by Mr . Hansard . Speaking of brothel-keepers , and asking for whose especial uses they pander , ha
answers . — To indulge the pampered appetite of the depraving rich , already shown to be tbe first and principal seductis of innocent and beautiful young females , meitly to fiil up the vacuum excitements of their idle and unemployed moments ; often only to gntify tb « luBtful boastings imongst themselves of the new and many instances of captures they have-made in the first desecration of beauteous woman ; and even \» hen satiety has accomplished its negative influence upon tbe plea-• uresjof falsely-excited desires , then la the aid of . these powfcTS , tbat be for evil called to assist in tarrying out toeir depravity to a refinement of their wanting Bomeiting more than natural , even to stub , depravity , as to piece tbe infant or youtb / ul child &i their disposal , not matured to womanhood . Thise objects bave bII found wlllinc instruments &a procurmn ut tt » price of their
vinai Dy . Now , if this be true , an 3 true H is , of what avail would be the mppressioa Vi bvothels ? Those who comnihiid neoLfy can & 1 w ' jjb command means ; in-Eirumeiits to aid iherftiu carrying out their villainy ¦ will Dtver be wanting . While tho present state of i society lasts , prostitaii mU 8 t continue . The maioy i are placed powerless al the feet of the few , to be { trampled on aud de oascd aBlhe latter may think tit . Ihe evil is rooted \ nto . and forms part of tho pres&at j social ty stein j w d vMlo tte 0 Be i ^ ta fte olhef must necessaril y W ^
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* She relates , that as long back as she remembers , she Bat upon her father ' s knee , who would Biny I " Th . 9 bonks and braes o' bonnie Dooo , "
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^ Bjptembhr 7 , 1844 . - THE NO R T H & ft N ST A R . i '< 3
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