What their own personal interests would prompt, they cannot, and what the public good requires, they will not,-perhaps they dare not do! They are caught in their own trap, and are the first victims of their own short-sighted perfidy.
Nec est lex justior ullâ
Quam necis artificis arte perire suâ.'
But alas! the danger is not theirs alone-it is ours-it is the nation's; and when we look at all that is passing around us, we cannot but fear that the Movement Press is right, which boldly and candidly tells us, that nothing but a complete, avowed, and radical Revolution can solve the otherwise inextricable embarrassments in which the bewildered ministry and their impracticable system has involved all the constitutional powers of the state.
We live in times that will be history ;-events are in progress, the enormous magnitude of which is concealed from us by our very proximity; those who stand at a distance see them better: and every European and American publication, from whatever parties they emanate, and whether they hail or deplore it, all admit the fact, that we are in a state of Revolution! Our children too will see clearly the progress of our ruin, and will wonder how any man amongst us could have been blind to it. Let those, at least, who are not blind, vindicate themselves in the eyes of the European world and of posterity. Those whose order in the state, and whose position in society impose any duties of interference, are invested-as they are but too well aware-with a most painful responsibility,—if they acquiesce, they will be accused of helping on the ruin; if they resist, they will be charged with creating it. Hear what a writer, one of the most moderate of his class, is not ashamed to advance :
Probably the overthrow of our institutions is not so certain through the agency of the Radicals, as it is by that of the Conservatives. Indeed the former would be rendered innocuous by the adoption of remedial measures which are strenuously denied by the latter, who thus furnish the elements of mischief.'-Reflections on Foreign and Domestic Policy, p. 209.
So, though the Radical aims at 'the overthrow of our institutions,' his intentions are only remedial, and if accomplished would become innocuous; and those who would resist this remedial and innocuous ' overthrow of our institutions' are the very persons who accomplish it; and are accordingly in the deepest degree criminal, if, by their agency, shall be brought about what is remedial and innocuous. This is true revolutionary logic. So the guilt of the 10th of August was on those who resisted the cut-throats who attacked them ;-so Buonaparte would have held Palafox responsible for the thousands of lives lost in Saragossa, because he
was rash enough to oppose an invasion which would otherwise have been quite innocuous ;'-so it was the Police, and not the National Conventionalists, that created the Calthorpe-street riots, -so, when a robber blows out the brains of the passenger who will not quietly deliver his purse, it is not he, but the victim, who is, in foro radicali conscientia, the murderer.
Yes, for all this the Conservatives must be prepared. If the bishops exert a right which the law and the constitution give them -they shall be slandered in the lowest places, and rebuked in the highest-and shall moreover forfeit that right-unless they will engage never again to exercise it. The Commons will admit the House of Lords to be a power in the state, but on the express condition that it shall have no power whatsoever; and the King shall continue in the undisturbed privilege of naming his ministers, as long as he shall choose no one whom a body of 10%. householders may not approve; and if any of these parties should be so blindly obstinate as to object to being thus made nonentities, they, and they alone, shall be responsible for the state of non-entity to which they may be reduced!
For all this, and for more, we repeat, the Conservatives must be prepared-but the knowledge of their danger should only make their course the more steady-they must be at once firm and conciliatory-not seeking, rather avoiding the exercise of extreme rights-but, on the other hand, abandoning no great principle, and trafficking with no question of conscience. They, perhaps, cannot promise themselves immediate success, but they may be assured that they will be thus laying the foundation of a certain return to a better order of things, when either suffering or good sense shall bring back the people to a true notion of their own interests, and to some respect for the ancient institutions to which they have so long owed all their happiness and all their glory.
FORTY-NINTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Algiers, policy of England towards, 523. Amaltheus, Cornelius, 250.
Girolamo, epigram by, 249. Americans, superiority of their steam-boats in point of speed, 212-their unfounded pretensions to the invention of the steam- boat, 213.
Anacreon, account of, and of his writings, 371-inquiry into the genuineness of the odes attributed to, 374. Animals, cruelty to, necessity of a law for punishing, 81.
Apollo Belvidere, 101.
Archilochus, account of, and of his writings, 355.
Aretæus, prophetic powers attributed by,
to persons dying of peculiar maladies, 180. Aristotle, his Hymn to Virtue, 379. Ashley, Lord, his exertions in behalf of the factory children, 81.
Atkinson, James, Esq., his translation from
the Persian of 'Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions,' 512.
Bacchylides, account of, and of his writings, 377.
Baillie, Dr. Matthew, Sir Henry Halford's tribute to the memory of, 198. Bajazet, explanation of the iron cage' in which he was imprisoned after the battle of Angora, 295.
Beaufort, Cardinal, death-bed of, 176. Beaumont and Fletcher, 14.
Beer-shops, mischievous tendency of, 78. Boswell, James, Esq., his portrait by Mad. d'Arblay, 112.
Bland, Rev. Robert, his 'Collections from
the Greek Anthology.' See Greek Lyric Poetry.
Brissot, Warville de, his character as drawn by M. Dumont, 172.
Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, anecdotes of, 104, 122, 123.
Burney, Dr., Memoirs of, arranged from his Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections; by his Daughter Madame d'Arblay, 97— literary character of the work, ib.-sup- pression of the doctor's autobiography, b.-specimens of Madame d'Arblay's style, 98-Dr. Burney's birth and edu- cation, 99—becomes pupil of Dr. Arne, ib.-and domesticated in the family of Mr. Fulke Greville, ib.-his imprudent marriage, ib. becomes organist at Lynn, 100-and acquainted with Dr. John- ib.-removes to London, and gives lessons in music, ib.-death of his wife, ib.-visits Paris, 101-translates and adapts Rousseau's Devin du Village,' ib.-his second marriage, 102-becomes a doctor of music, 103-publishes Essay towards a History of Comets,' ib.- makes a musical tour' to France and Italy, ib. and to Germany, ib.-pub- lishes his History of Music,' 104-be- comes, through the friendship of Burke,
organist of Chelsea College, 104-his death, 106 singular omissions in Mad. d'Arblay's work, ib.-its real object, 107 -the authoress's first appearance in the literary world, ib.-her Evelina,' 109 -her Cecilia' and 'Camilla,' 110— age of the authoress, ib.-her Wan- derer,' 111-causes of the bad taste and style of these Memoirs, ib.-her portrait of Boswell, 112-her anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, 115-and last interview with, 117-her father's interview with George III. and Queen Charlotte, 119. Burton, his accurate description of mental malady, 186, 187-his account of Hip- pocrates' visit to Democritus, 188- wrote his Anatomie with a view of re- lieving his own melancholy, ib. Byron, Lord, 17—his 'Prophecy of Dante,' 449-his Francesca of Rimini,' 450— his 'Don Juan,' ib.
Camille Desmoulins, attorney-general to the lantern,' 41, 43. Carwell, by Mrs. Sheridan, 229. Cary, Mr., his translation of Dante. See Dante.
Castlereagh, Lord, his character of the Duke of Wellington, 333.
" Cavendish,' one of the most vulgar and witless of the sea-novels, 486. Chabot, 37. Chapman, 29.
Chaulnes, Duke de, account of, 104. Chalmers, Thomas, D.D., 'On the Use and Abuse of Literary and Ecclesiastical En- dowments. See Church and the Land- lords.
Charles X. of France, causes of his over- throw, 170. Chesney, Captain, his Reports to Govern- ment on the Navigation of the Euphrates,' 212. See Steam- Navigation to India. Chess, game of, 317.
Church and the Landlords,198-ministerial proposition for the confiscation of church property in Ireland, ib.-suicidal con- duct of the land-owners, 199-favourable position of the clergyman of a parish for bracing the upper and lower orders of society together, 200-the clergy the best outworks of the land-owners, 204- benefits of an established national church, ib.-case of the two states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, 205- state in which the Dissenters would be placed by the fall of the Church of Eng-
land, 207-consequences resulting from the seizure of church property, 209- claims of the Established Church to care and protection, 211.
Church of England, great improvement in the clergy of, 79.
Cibber, Colley, anecdote of Shirley, related by, 5.
Coleridge, Hartley, Poems by, 517. Clergy of the Church of England, great improvement in, 79.
Colman, George, Esq., his evidence before
the Committee of the House of Commons on the state of the laws affecting dramatic literature, 7.
Court ceremonies, unwise neglect of, 337. Cowper, William, character of his mental
malady, 186-various modes of self-de- struction attempted by, 190. Crabbe, Rev. George, his correct delinea- tions of mental malady, 187-the most searching of moral anatomists, and most graphic of poets, 203-his patriotism in lifting up the veil spread between the upper classes and the working-day world, ib.
Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, his 'Boswell' quoted, 47, 115, 251. Cromwell, Oliver, his terror on the recital of Shirley's stanzas on the fall of Charles I., 11.
Cruelty to animals, necessity of a law for punishing, 81.
Cunningham, Rev. Francis, obligations of the Protestant cause to, 49-instrumental in making the English reader acquainted with Oberlin, ib.
Dacre, Lady, 'Recollections of a Chaperon,' edited by. See Novels of Fashionable Life.
D'Ancre, Maréchal, account of, 165. Dante, the Inferno of, translated by Ichabod Charles Wright, 449-excellence of Cary's translation of the Divine Comedy, ib.-his version, from the measure, no likeness of the original, ib.-failure of the attempts to introduce the terza rima as an English measure, ib.-Lord By- ron's Prophecy of Dante and Frau- cesca,' 450-difficulties of executing the translation of any long poem in rhyme, ib.-the various readings of a true poet an interesting and instructive study, 451 -Mr. Wright's new version of Dante uncalled for, ib.-his great obligations to
Cary, 452-his measure Dantesque to the eye only, ib.-the sense of Cary twisted out of blank verse into rhyme, 453-specimens of the two versions, ib. -the versions of the episode of Fran- cesca of Rimini,' by Cary, Lord Byron, and Wright, compared, 459-Taaffe's nonsensical commentary on the story of Francesca and Paolo, 463-Mr. Wright's faulty rhymes, ib.-his ear at once Scotch, Irish, and Cockney, ib.-his notes shrewd, sensible, and always mo- dest, 464.
D'Arblay, Madame, her 'Memoirs of Dr. Burney, arranged from his own Manu- scripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections,' 97. See Burney. Darvill, R., his Treatise on the Care, Treatment, and Training of the English Race-horse.' See Turf.
Dealtry, William, D.D., his 'The Church and its Endowments; a Charge,' '198. See Church and the Landlords. Death, 175-Sir Henry Halford's remarks on the phenomena of the death-bed, ib. -the two immediate modes by which death is brought about, ib.-death by syncope, ib.-death by asphyxia, ib.- contrast between the state of the body and that of the mind, 176-delirium, ib. -death by lightning, 177-the coup de grace, ib.-the sting of death not con- tained in the physical act of dying, ib.- conduct to be observed by a physician in withholding or making his patient ac- quainted with his opinion of the fatal issue of his malady, 178-death-bed of George IV., 179-prophetic power at- tributed to individuals dying of peculiar maladies, 180.
Death, Shirley's exquisite verses on, 13. Delirium, Abernethy's description of, 176. Democritus, account of Hippocrates' visit to, 188.
Denman, Lord Chief Justice, his opinion on the general question of libels, 36. Dionysius, the tyrant, 11.
Dry-rot in timber, 125-proposition of Mr. Matthews for the appointment of a rot- prevention officer or wood physician, 126-his treatise On Naval Timber and Arboriculture,' ib.-Merits of Mr. Knowles's 'Inquiry into the Means taken to preserve the British Navy,' ib.—ad- mirable article on the dry-rot in the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britan- nica, ib.-results of some recent expe- riments, 127-discovery of a means of preventing this disease in timber, ib.-
Mr. Kyan's patent, 127-Sir Robert Sep- pings's report in its favour, ib.-causes of dry-rot, ib.-Pliny's doctrine on the origin of the disease, ib.-schemes for dealing with the juices in the felled timber, ib.-process of desiccation, 128
instances of its failure attested by Mr. Knowles, ib.-Sir Humphry Davy's hint for preventing the growth of fungi, 129-Mr. Kyan's theory, ib.-Fourcroy's dictum, ib. Mr. Knowles's comment thereon, ib.-substance of Mr. Faraday's lecture thereon, 131-the fungus pit' at Chatham described, ib.-Sir Robert Smirke's experiments, 132-duration of the antiseptic virtue of medicated timber, 133-benefits which would re- sult from the discovery and general adoption of a cheap, safe, and efficacious preventive of dry-rot, ib.
Dryden, John, his inferiority, as a drama- tist, to Shirley, 13.
Dumont, M., his 'Souvenirs de Mirabeau' characterized, 155 his enlightened views of the French Revolution, ib.- his testimony to the services of Mr. Burke, 156-his character of Brissot, 172.
Dyce, Rev. Alexander, 29.
Edgeworth, Miss, useful lessons conveyed in her Tales, 152.
Edye, John, his 'Calculations relating to the Equipment of Ships,' 125. See Dry-rot.
Eichenberg, Professor, his translations of Shakspeare, 120. English climate, 330.
English race-horse, Treatise on the Care, Treatment, and Training of, by R. Darvill, V. S. See Turf.
English Revolution of 1688, 170. Erskine, Lord, anecdotes of, 123, 124. Euphrates, Captain Chesney's reports to government on the navigation of the, 212. See Steam Navigation to India. "Evelina,' character of, 109.
Faraday, Mr., his lecture on Mr. Kyan's discovery for preventing the dry rot in timber, 131.
Forbes, Duncan, A.M., his translation from the Persian of the 'Adventures of Hatim Taï,' 506.
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