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The Parent's Latin Grammar. By the author of the "Student's Manuel." To which is prefixed an Original Essay on the formation of Latin Verbs. By J. B. Gilchrist, LL.D.

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THE Easter recess of the two Houses of Parliament has rendered their proceedings less multifarious since our last publication; nevertheless, several important questions have been debated in the legislature. In the Upper House, Lords Grey and Holland have reprobated the conduct of the ministry in the late negotiations at Verona, urging that it was not sufficient in point of morals, nor with respect to the national honour, for England merely to point out to France the impolicy of her attack upon Spain, but that we ought to have denounced it as a nefarious violation of the law of nations, and that we ought also in a spirit of impartiality, to have communicated to Spain our reprobation of the principles upon which she was to be attacked by France. In the Lower House, the Miscellaneous Estimates for the year have been voted. Mr. Hume complained of the appointments of colonial agents with salaries amounting from 500l. to 12001. each, and whose sole duties were to accept the quarterly bills which were drawn for the salaries of the government officers resident in the colonies. Some severe observations were also made upon our government of the Ionian Islands by force, instead of by conciliating the attachment of the inhabitants.-A bill has been passed compelling merchant vessels to take on board a certain number of apprentices, and to protect from impressment the seamen in the merchant service, from the age of eighteen to twenty-one. A petition was presented to the House of Commons from the inhabitants of Cape Breton, complaining that in 1820 they had been suddenly deprived of their government, and had been made an integral part of Nova Scotia, simply by a proclamation of Sir James Kempt, the Governor. They objected to this compulsory union, because in 1784 they had received a distinct government, and which had been solemnly guaranteed to them. That under this government the population had increased from 1100 to 20,000, and they were free of debt. Whereas, Nova Scotia was burdened by a paper currency, and by a large debt, for the defraying of which, the people of Cape Breton were now rendered liable; so that property at Cape Breton, which had been worth 10,0007. had been depreciated to 30007. by this union of the governments.—Mr. Canning informed

the House that Mr. Wynn, whose ap pointment as Ambassador to the Swiss Cantons, had given rise to so much discussion, had retired, and that his successor would receive but half the salary that had been given to Mr. Wynn, -An animated debate took place on a petition presented to the House in behalf of Mrs. Mary Ann Carlisle, who having undergone the full period of her confinement to which she was sentenced for publishing a blasphemous libel, was now in jail in default of paying the fine imposed on her by the Court of King's Bench, and which it appeared was of so enormous an amount as to effect her

perpetual imprisonmet. Mr. Hume, Mr. Ricardo, and Sir Francis Burdett demonstrated the injustice, cruelty and impolicy of religious persecution; and the petition was ordered to be printed. -Sir John Newport moved certain resolutions relative to the first fruits in Ireland, which being now paid, according to the valuation made in the reign of Henry VIII. yielded only 2901. a year, but which properly levied, would amount to from 30,000l. to 40,000l. a year; and he therefore reprobated the taking of money from taxes for the poor clergy, and for the building of glebe houses. Mr. Goulburn urged, that the resolutions would be tantamount to a tax of 40,000l. a year on the Church Establishment of Ireland; and Sir John Newport's motion was lost by a division of 48 to 39.-On the Irish Estimates coming before the House, 9,2301, was voted for building glebe houses and churches, and 70001. for the Dublin Society, (of literature and the arts) both of these votes were opposed on the general ground, that the expenditure of Ireland exceeded its revenue by 2,000,000l. per annum; but the first vote met with vehement opposition. Sir John Newport observed, that the three principal persons of the Irish Episcopacy who had died within the last fifteen years, had left accumulations of their revenue to the amount of 700,000l. That the Acts of George 1. and George II. directed that every clergyman possessed of a benefice of above 100l. a year, should build a glebe house within three years of his induction, and yet numerous clergymen possessing glebes of 1500 and 2000 acres of rich land, left the glebe houses to be built out of the votes of Parliament.—Mr. Canning laid on the table of the House, the diplomatic correspondence relative to the war

between France and Spain. He stated that he had been guided in his conduct by the late Lord Londonderry's state paper upon the affairs of Naples, that, at the assembling of the Congress at Verona, our Cabinet considered that the discussions would have related to the affairs of Russia and Turkey, and had no conception that the affairs of Spain would have formed any leading question that he had instructed our Ambassador from the commencement to oppose the war as most unjust and impolitic, and to declare the determination of our Cabinet not to participate in it. That the speech of the King of France on opening of the Chambers had been deceptive, and that the para graph, which declared that power emanated from the crown and not from the people, had excited his abhorrence. That France had however in a subsequent state of the negotiation denied or abandoned that principle, which would have been a bar to any diplomatic relations existing between her and Great Britain. That our neu, trality had been finally decided by the assurance of France, that she intended to make no territorial possessions in Spain, and that she intended to hold inviolable the kingdom of Portugal. He concluded his speech amidst loud cheers, by expressing his warmest wish for the success of the Spaniards and the discomfiture of the French, Mr. Brougham, in a luminous speech, reprobated our conduct in merely confining ourselves to opicious upon the impolicy and injustice of the war, without following up such sentiments by a determination to prevent it. It was evident that our ministry had been the dupes of France, whose Cabinet they now acknowledged to be com posed of men without veracity and ho, nour. Mr. Brougham maintained, that it would be impossible for England to continue that neutrality, for the sake of which her government had aban doned the distressed to the disasters of a war which they avowed to be infamous and subversive of the law of nations.

The papers which have been laid before the House regarding the Cou gress at Verona, and the war between France and Spain, display a greater apparent contradiction of views between the leading powers than can in reality exist, and the frequency with which the various parties contradict themselves, must convince every dis passionate person that none of these documents have been composed in a spirit of truth, or for other objects. than a deception on the public. One of

Lord Londonderry's first letters declares that the Congress has no right to interfere in the internal state of other nations, but that its object was confined to securing the condition of Europe at the time of her being reseued from Napoleon; and yet the first acts of that Congress violated that state of Europe in the cases of Genoa, Venice, and the small Italian Republics, &c. Mr. Canning, so far from such restricted views of the rights of the Congress, allows that the last Congress assembled chiefly to discuss the affairs of Turkey and Russia; but states that our Cabinet had no idea that Spain would be a leading subject of their discussion, aud yet it turns out that Spain not only formed the leading, but almost the only object of their attention. Our Cabinet and our Ambassador repeatedly confess their opinion, that the attack on Spain by France will be utterly hopeless of success; and yeş subsequently they betray very great uneasiness for the fate of the Spaniards. But the whole of the documents ema nating from the French diplomatists, if compared with each other, or with the speeches of the King of France, display the utmost tergiversation and a total destitution of religion, morals and ho. nour. The King of France, in his speech to the Chambers, declared that the sole intention of his assembling the troops forming the Cordon Sanitaire, on the borders of the Pyrenees, was to prevent the contagion of the fever spreading into France, and that nothing but mal-veillance or ill-will and calumny.could find a pretext for giving this precautionary measure a different pur pose; this assurance is reiterated in many of the French diplomatic notes and protestations, and yet it subsequently appeared by others of such documents, as well as by the speeches of the French ministry, that these troops had from the very first been intended for purposes of war. It is also evident that at the time when the French Government was giving every solemu assurance to our cabinet that their disposition and intentions were pacific, they were secretly resolved upon war, and were practising every sinister manœuvre to effect their object, with the connivance, if not with the assistance, of the powers at the Congress. The historian and every individual, who considers the cause of religion and morals more sacred and important than the temporary views or interests of any Government, ought to reprobate this complication of falsehood, perfidy, and spoliation which is thus displayed

by the Bourbons in their very first transaction of foreign politics after the recovery of their throne. It is lamentable to see all the great interests of mankind sacrificed to the personal vices of this infatuated family, and we cannot but admire Mr. Canning for the spirit with which he has denounced their nefarious career.

Mr. Canning and the Duke of Wellington repeatedly confess that the French can have no hope of ultimate success over Spain, how hopeless then would have been their cause had we drawn the sword in aid of the Spaniards. But the moral effect of our assisting Spain must have been prodigious. Our finances have been brought into too ruinous a state to admit of our undertaking an expensive war of Governments, but had we annulled our foreign enlistment Bill, had we appealed to the people of Europe against a war which Mr. Canning has declared to be subversive in its principles of all Free and Independent Governments, we are persuaded that Europe might have been saved from witnessing the disgraceful and cruel aggression now practising in the Peninsula. In point of arms we could have rendered essential assistance to Spain at very little expense. We could have destroyed the Commerce of France, have deprived her of her Colonies, and we could have

succoured and have assisted in the defence of all those strong fortresses on the coasts of Spain, and in which the Spaniards put their principal hope; or, departing from a purely naval war, we might have defended the entrance into Spain by Navarre, and the western side of Aragon, leaving the whole Spanish force to defend the almost inaccessible barrier of the Eastern Py

renees.

With respect to our most recent domestic policy, it appears that the cause of Catholic emancipation is to be totally abandoned this Session. Ireland is in a dreadful state of disorganization, and it would be impossible to put the finger on any spot of the maps of Europe, of Asia or America, and perhaps of Africa, the population of which exhibit so fierce a spirit of inhumanity, or so little of adaptation to the security and happiness of social Government. But whether we view Ireland with respect to her trade, her commerce, her finances, her government, or with regard to the physical condition and moral state of her people, her regeneration seems hopeless but by a course of measures requiring a greater sacrifice of interests by the predominant party, and a greater sacrifice of prejudices and passions from all parties, than any person read in the history of mankind can hope for or expect.

WE were unable to give any very great degree of interest to our digest of foreign news in our last publication, for the proceedings of the French Cabinet had been so exceedingly dilatory as to create almost an intire stagnation of political events upon the Continent. Motion may be imperceptible to human vision from its prodigious velocity or from its extreme slowness, and the movements of Buonaparte may be compared to the first, whilst those of the present government of France might certainly be assimilated to the latter idea of philosophical motion. We never heard of Buonaparte's intention of going to war until masses of troops, too large for any intellect but his own to direct, were assembled upon some central point, so judiciously chosen that the enemy could never devise his ultimate designs, or the line of his intended operation. Nor did Europe hear of his having declared war until his armies swept from this focus like a torrent, overwhelming every oppo. Eur. Mag. April 1823.

sition. Victory followed victory, capitals were occupied and kingdoms subdued in rapid succession, and the course of Napoleon was that of a resistless meteor; yet hardly has he ceased to reign, when the French government relapses into all the comparative impotence, the dilatoriness, the petty ineffectual manoeuvrings and verbose pomposity and rhodomontade of the old regime. The Duke d'Angouleme was prevented passing the fine military roads over the Pyrenees by the falls of snow and the severity of the weather. Napoleon passed the Alps, immeasurably higher and covered with snow, where there were no military roads or even the track of human footsteps; in his directions to the Duke of Tarentum to press into Italy from Dijon, he said, "all seasons are indifferent to the soldier, and an army can pass wherever two men can stand a breast." But it is more important than such comparisons to reflect, that the invasion of Spain by the Bourbons

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