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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!

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INDEX.

INDEX

TO THE

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.

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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-
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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
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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.

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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.,

332.

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.

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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.
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