1830 POLITICAL FRAGMENTS. BY ROBERT FORSYTH, ESQ. ADVOCATE. COELUM IPSUM PETIMUS STULTITIA; NEQUE PER NOSTRUM PATIMUR SCELUS IRACUNDA IOVEM PONERE FULMINA. HOR. CARM.-ODE III. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON. MDCCCXXX. 94. POLITICAL FRAGMENTS. A GENERAL REMARK. We have long been a people highly favoured among the nations. Beyond all former example riches long continued to increase among us, and have adorned the British Isles. Every art has been improved, every science extended; all the accommodations of private life have been augmented; we have seen Europe desolated by wide-wasting war, from the vicinity of the Polar circle to the Mediterranean Sea, while no enemy has insulted our shores. The British empire has been extended over the globe till the sun no longer sets upon it. In spite of sanguinary conflicts fought at a dis A |