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countries, for the attainment of objects of which we have been long in undisputed possession? We look down upon those struggles from the point to which we have happily attained, not with the cruel delight which is described by the Poet, as arising from the contemplation of agitations in which the spectator is not exposed to share; but with an anxious desire to mitigate, to enlighten, to reconcile, to save;-by our example in all cases, by our exertions where we can usefully interpose." Canning's Speech.

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These are not merely the defensive arguments of an accomplished orator, but sound commentaries upon the history of the past, with a sagacious application of them to the present and the future. Such reasoning, and such declarations, are well received throughout the country; for they convince us of the wisdom as well as the talent of our rulers. Proudly as ministers triumphed, in the debate now before us, over their domestic rivals, we feel a livelier pleasure at the more signal success which must attend a comparison of them with foreign statesmen. This is a national, and not a party question. The diplomatists of the Continent are as inferior to Mr. Canning in the soundness of their political reasonings, as in the justice of their cause, or the brilliancy of their wit. And it would evince a most unbecoming want of confidence in the good sense and virtue of nations, to apprehend that allies and supporters would be wanting if we were forced into a war with the invaders of Spain. Britain may be, and ought to be, the object of some jealousy to foreigners on the Continent; but it will not venture to unite against her while she continues so decidedly in the right.

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racter, we are treated with a contrast between Goldsmith and Pope, and a panegyric upon Tommy Moore. "He stands in this age, alone and unrivalled, the master of the sweetest and only minstrelsy." These praises are followed, (after a short and somewhat unnatural digression upon Burke, Grattan, and Curran) by an animated description of the ladies.

"The women of Ireland represent the national character better than the other sex. Like an Italian landscape in the moon-light, we see its beautiful outline softened, but yet more distinctly, than when the sun poured upon it his fierce and burning splendour. In the soothing softness of this picture, we discern all that gave value to the deeper tint of the noon-day radiance; the kindness and goodness of the Irish heart, without its depravity; its faithfulness and devotedness, without its fierceness.

"All its original gentleness and truth, such as was before yet calamity and oppression had disfigured and corrupted it. Its playfulness and gaiety, touching every subject of thought and taste, and feeling and fancy; fearlessly because pure, and freely because above suspicion. Gentleness is civilization-woman, is therefore, naturally more civilized than man. Full of the natural genius of the country; the acuteness, the bright intelligence, the lively fancy, the fine imagination, without the pretension which so frequently in the other sex spoils and disfigures these precious gifts of nature. We have seen these brilliant, dangerous talents, in all their richness and glow and glory, like the lambient flame that girt the head of Anchises' son, the delight and wonder of the surrounding circle, without a thought or consciousness of their existence disturbing the mind of the possessor.

"The women of England, if they possess the talent which belongs to their sex in the sister island, have not the courage to use their brilliant stores; or use them awkwardly, or give themselves up to a taste so refined as to approach the last shade of insipidity. The strength and freedom of Irish intellect, and of the Irish heart in its large and warm pulsations, would look something like vulgarity in England.

"We have heard it said, that an English woman would not be safe in treading the path which would be firm and secure to the foot of an Irish female. We do not think this: we think more highly of the women of England." O'Driscol, Vol. I. p. 32.

From these delightful themes, the "large and warm pulsations" of Mr. O'Driscol's pen lead us but too quickly to English policy and penal laws-the protracted misgovernment and inexcusable cruelty of the Plantagenets, the Tudors and the Stuarts. We are not positively certain that we understand the meaning of these chapters, for it is so closely enveloped in similes and metaphors, that a glimpse

here and there through the net-work is all that our eyes may attain unto. But we believe there is some sense at the bottom, if a man knew how to come by it. The following passage comes nearer to the mark than Mr. O'Driscol's shafts are wont to do.

"The confiscations and grants of land which followed every defeated insurrection, were the golden ore which consoled the adventurers. Irish confederates and allies, though sometimes found, were reluctantly admitted, for they narrowed the field of confiscation. The Lord President of Munster, in the reign of Elizabeth, refused to admit a man of rank into the peace and service of the Queen, until he had committed murder upon some person of consequence, of his own kindred and party. These were the terms of his acceptance; and, more wonderful still, they were complied with. And in the reign of Henry VII., Lord Gormanston, after a victory over the Irish, turned to the Earl of Kildare, and exclaimed, We have slaughtered our enemies, but, to complete the good deed, we must now cut the throats of those Irish of our own party.'

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"Of the wickedness of this system there can be no question. Of its impolicy we have to say a word or two. It utterly destroyed the gentry of old Irish race. The uninterrupted working of five or six hundred years had accomplished their ruin. They were rooted out of the land of their fathers; but the memory of their race has not perished. New families have taken their places, but as yet are far from having acquired their privileges. Between the new race of gentry and the people there is no sympathy or confidence yet established." O'Driscol, Vol. I. p. 47.

"The unhappy policy pursued in Ireland threw insuperable obstacles in the way of the Reformation in that country. The gentry, indeed, adopted the religion of the state, but the people would not follow them, for they were strangers in the land. If the rage for confiscation and a wiser policy could have spared the ancient gentry, these too, would have embraced the religion of the crown, as did the O'Briens, and a few others, whom an extraordinary fortune preserved; and the people would have followed their leading.

"The descendants also of the bold and turbulent chieftains, who brooked impatiently the dominion of a foreigner, would in our time be found as complaisant to the government, and as faithful to the British throne as any Scotch or English peer in parliament. And from them would have descended to the people a true knowledge and just impression of the king and the constitution. The father of his people-their most precious inheritance. The people would have sent back, through these natural channels, the full tide of their warm affections." O'Driscol, Vol. I. p. 49.

The chapter on the Penal Laws is still more effective.→ It exposes their enormities in the most unanswerable manner,

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