Italy had been overrun by Hannibal-after the Gothic invaders had profaned the curule chairs of her Senate and burned the Capitol-after plebeian seditions and even a servile war had devastated the very heart of the empire and extinguished all but the undying courage of patriot hope. Our posterity will honour those brave and illustrious men who have hitherto so nobly fought an unequal battle; but it will still more, and more deservedly, honour the bolder and still more illustrious men, who, after our Constitution has passed through the Caudine forks of the Reform Bill, shall be still found not to have despaired of the salvation of England.
Let us recollect, as an incentive to hope, though it has been disregarded as a lesson of prudence, that we have once before had a revolution-a reformed parliament-a suppression of close boroughs-a subjugation of the House of Lords-and a substitution of cheap republican forms for the costly trappings of the monarchy. We have had all that; and we shall have it again; and again, we trust, with the same result. Those theories of government, which captivate and delude for the moment, cannot stand the test of time. They neither possess the reverence which an tiquity gives, nor gratify the hope which their novelty inspired: all parties-the adherents of the old system and the aspirants of the new are equally dissatisfied: turbulence, tumults, anarchies ensue and all mankind, even those who were foremost in the first commotions, are, by and bye, glad to revert, for the security of persons and stability of property, to the sober experience of better days. The Regicide Reform of 1649 ended in a royal triumph, and Charles II. rode, crowned with the garlands of popular joy, over the very spot on which had stood, ten years before, his father's scaffold. As certainly, shall we, or our children, see the Revolution of 1832, with all its consequences, however fatal or extensive they may be, terminate its execrated career in another more joyful and triumphant Restoration. Let us watch then with courageous hope and pious confidence for that day; and let us husband our strength and nourish our spirit, to enable us to take advantage of such means as Heaven may employ to bring about, in due season, that happy consummation!
FORTY-SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Esor, first specimen of the composition associated with his name, 9.
Alford, John, the Trowbridge poet-laureate, his auto-biographic verses, and lines on state reform, 95.
America, birds of, from drawings made in the United States, by John James Au- dubon, 332.
American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, by Alexander Wilson and Chas. Lucien Buonaparte; edited by Robert Jameson, 332.
Americans, Domestic Manners of, by Mrs. Trollope, 39-trash and falsehood pub- lised concerning that terrestrial para- dise,' 39-preposterous praises of repub- lican institutions, 40-great merit of Mrs. Trollope's book, ibid.-points of dif- ference between American and English Society, ibid.-boundless extent of country, 41-want of neighbours, ibid. slave population, abid.-climate, ibid. -want of an hereditary aristocracy, 43 -and of an established church, ibid.- absence of a national debt, 44-love of change, 45-absence of respect for old usages, ibid.—want of an indige- nous literature, 46-native Indians, 47 -swarms of liberated convicts, ibid.- Mrs. Trollope disembarks at New Or- leans, 49-comforts of a Mississipi steam-boat, ibid-the 'squatters,' 50 -town of Cincinnati, and its inhabi- tants described, ibid.-fashionable so- ciety of the metropolis of the western forests, 53-country life, 54—prejudice against menial service, 55-difficulty of getting help,' 56-pleasant sketch of American notions on this point, ibid.--- social position of the ladies, 58-reli- gious observances, ibid.-scene Presbyterian church, 60-a camp meet- ing, 62-actual state of religion in Ame- Vol. XLVII. No. XCIV.
America,' engraved from drawings made in the United States,' 332-his' Orni- thological Biography; or, an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America, interspersed with de- lineations of American scenery and manners,' ibid.
Bacon, Lord, quoted 23, 29.
Bank of England, historical sketch of, with an examination of the question as to the prolongation of the exclusive privileges of that establishment, 408 Banking System, 408
Barnfield, James, his encomiastic verses on Colonel Berkeley's elevation to the peerage, 94
Bentham, Jeremy, his address to his fellow- citizens of France on death-punishment, 183.
Birds of America, engraved from drawings made in the United States, by John
James Audubon, 332.
Britton, the musical small-coal man, 102. Buonaparte, Charles Lucien, his Ameri-
can Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States,' 332.
Catechism of Health, or Plain and Simple Rules for the Preservation of Health, and the Attainment of Long Life, by Dr. Granville, 394 2 S Cato
Cato the Censor, his prescription for a fractured limb, 15.
Cavendish, or the Patrician at Sea,' an impudent bundle of trash and vice, 134.
Charles the First, Commentaries on the
Life and Reign of, by I. D'Israeli, 457. Charles the First, Trial of, and of some of the Regicides; with biographies of Bradshaw, Ireton, Harrison, and others, 457.
Chaucer, his description of a fox-hunt, Colling, Mary Maria, Fables and other pieces in Verse by, with some account of the author, in Letters to Robert Sonthey, Esq., P. L.; by Mrs. Bray, 80-interesting account of the authoress, ibid.-her lines on the death of her ma- ternal grandmother, 90-her means of self-education, 93-her picture of envy, 98-and verses to her sister, ibid. Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, by J. D'Israeli, 437 Cooke, Colonel, his Observations on Fox- Hunting, quoted, 231.
Corn Law Rhymes,' characterized, 92. Criminal Punishments, report of the Com- mittee of the House of Commons on, 171-amelioration of the criminal code, 170-crimes now punishable with death, 172-the question as to the possi bility of mitigating the law still further, considered, ibid. — forgery, 174 — re- turning from transportation, 178-dis- proportion between commitments and convictions, 183-Sir Archibald Mac- donold's opinion on capital crimes, 185 -prudence of a change in the law con- sidered, 192-transportation to the co- lonies, 208-condition of the generality of convicts in New South Wales, 210- punishment of the hulks, 211-effect of the improved state of our prisons, 212-effects of solitary incarceration, ibid.
Cranmer, Archbishop, his life by the Rev. John Todd, 366
Crocker, Charles, the Chichester shoe- maker, character of his poetry, 93. Cupid and Psyche, germ of that wonder- ful tale, 8.
Currency, state of the, its influence on the
present discontents, 407.
Currency, Letter to Lord Althorp, on the state of the, by H. Lambert, M.P., 408.
Death-punishment, Jeremy Bentham to his fellow-citizens of France, on, 183. Democracy and slavery, comparative influ- ence of, on national manners, 72.
D'Halloy, M. Omalius, his geological spe- culations exposed, 116.
Diderot, Memoirés, Correspondence, et Ouvrages inédits de, 301. D'Israeli, I., his Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, King of England, 457. D'Israeli, I., his Eliot, Hampden, and Pym, a Reply of the Author of a Book entitled, Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First,' to the Author of a Book entitled, Some Me- morials of John Hampden, his Party, and his Times,' '457
Distress, present, statement of the causes of, and remedies for, 408 Dumont, Etienne, (de Genève), his Sou vinors sur Mirabeau et sur les deux Pre- mières Assemblées Legislatives, 261- some account of the author, 264-his description of the gradual evolution of the anti-monarchical and ecclesiastical conspiracy of 1789, 265-draws up the celebrated Declaration of the Rights of Man,' 267.
Eliot, Hampden, and Pym, or a Reply of the Author of a Book, entitled Com- mentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, Book, entitled John Hampden, his Party, and his Times,' 457
to the Author of a Some Memorials of
England, prospects of, 559 England's Crisis; a letter to the Members of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institute, and the workmen in general, by Samuel Roberts, 407
English Fox-hunting, 216-see Melton Mowbray
English populace, disgraceful characteris- tic of the, 100
Eubemerus, his theogony described, 22. Expletive verb, its imperceptible introduc- tion into our language, 97
Fauna Boreali-Americana, or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British Ame- rica, by William Swainson, Esq., F.R.S., and John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.,
Flaxman, Mr., his Shield of Achilles, 32. Fowler, Mr., his Tour in the State of New York,' quoted, 69.
Fox Hunting, 216. See Melton Mow- bray.
Francis the First, an Historical Drama, by Frances Anne Kemble, 243.
Geology, Lyell's Principles of, being an attempt
attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation, 103-import- ance of the study of geology, ibid.- Mr. William Smith the father of English geology, ibid.-utility of the study of organic fossils, 105-course of dis- covery which has led to the recent in- quiries, 106-facts showing the modifi- cations which various influences and conditions effect among animals and plants, 109-the question, whether the existing laws of life can have led to such changes of the species inhabiting the globe, as those with which geology presents us, considered, ibid.-object of the Philosophie Zoologique' of La- marck, 113-doctrine of M. Omalius D'Halloy, 116-Mr. Lyell's theory, 118 -conformity of the events of the his- torical with those of geological periods, ibid.-mutual wars of the different tribes of plants and animals, ibid.- changes now going on in the earth's surface, 120-processes by which orga- nic and other objects are in modern times embedded in the materials of the earth, and scattered upon the floor of the ocean, 122-the Uniformitarians and Catastrophists, 126-evidence of the former submersion of the greater part of Europe, 127-division of the surface of the globe into distinct pro- vinces, with reference to the distribu- tion of animal and vegetable families, 130-laws of the diffusion of the species of plants and animals, ibid. Granville, A. B., M. D., F. R. S., F. A. S., F.S.S., M. R. I., &c., &c., his Catechism of Health, or Plain and Simple Rules for the Preservation of Health, and the Attainment of Long Life, 394.
of New York in 1814, 167-utility of the marines, 168-the ship-church, 169 the work altogether unique in litera- ture, ibid.
Hampden, John, Lord Nugent's Memo- rials of, his Party and Times, 457. Heavens, Mechanism of, by Mrs. Somer ville, 537.
Herodotus, character of his history, 37. Hesiod, Life and Writings of, 1-genuine- ness of his Works and Days' not dis- puted, ibid.-leading particulars of his life, 2-his contest with Homer, an ela- borate fiction, ibid.-obscurity of the age of Hesiod, 4-character of his Works,' 6-leading aim of the poem, 7-extracts from, ibid.-his fable of the
Hawk and Nightingale,' 9-his ex- alted code of ethics, 10-his rules and cautions, 11-his lesson in husbandry, 12-Hesiod and Virgil compared, 13— Hesiod's description of a land-storm in winter, ibid.-his rules for safe trading by sea, 14-his domestic advice, ibid -character of his Days,' 15-com- parative simplicity of Homer and Hesiod, 16-Hesiod's Theogony, or poem of the Generation of the Gods, 17-ac- count of, and extracts from, 19-obli- gations of Spenser and Milton to, 23- its poetical merits, 24-his 'Shield of Hercules' characterized, 29-compari- son between it and the Homeric Shield of Achilles, 32-language of the 'Works and Days,' 37.
Historical Sketch of the Bank of England, with an Examination of the Question as to the Prolongation of the exclusive Privileges of that Establishment, 408. Hoare, Samuel, his evidence on criminal commitments and convictions quoted, 196.
Holles', Denzil, instructive lesson in his Memoirs, 274.
Homer, comparison between his Shield of Achilles and Hesiod's Shield of Hercu les, 32.
Homer and Hesiod, comparative sim- plicity of, 16.
Hunters, Nimrod's remarks on the con- dition of, and on the choice of horses and their management, 216-continen- tal rivalry in the management of the stud, 217-pictures of the ancient English chase, ibid.-wolf hunting, ibid.-fox-hunting, 218- ancient and modern sportsmen compared, 219– change in the horse called the hunter, 220-increase in the speed of hounds, 221-hard riding to hounds, 228-ori. 2S2 gin
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