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THE CONGRESS.
The European system has, since the
close of the French tear, assumed a netv
character. The grand pens?, of Henry
IV. nf France contemplated the arbitra
tion of national quarrels by a council of
sovereigns. But the generosity of Hen
ry’s nature was not proof against the ha
bits of his country ; and his grand coali
tion was to have France at its head.—
Yet the good sense and piety of extin
guishing the conflicts of empire, were
obvious, and a multitude of the best and
wisest men had inculcated the advantage
of restraining national injustice, by iui
appeal to some great Amphiciyonic seat
of judgment. The speculation was ne
ver reduced to practice. F.ven the be
nevolent looked upon it but as one of
those theories of human happiness in
which the whole delight must be limited
to speculation. The nineteenth centu
ry has shewn its practicability. But the
wisdom was not of man’s invention, nor
the way of man’s discovery. The French
war, in its triumph and its catastrophe,
tvas the teacher, under the control of
that mighty and beneficent intelligence,
which, at all times directing the course
of things to the ultimate good of society,
seems to have in those latter dnys both
accelerated the progress, and made more
palpable the design. It is absurd to
place the French war iu the class of
those conflicts, by which nation has been
struggling against nation from the first of
ages. Its external violence, and it$ ci
vil excesses, its disruption of foreign
power, and its subversion of the domes
tic throne, have no common features with
the tribe of war. It was not an army in
hostility, but a people ; not a people
resisting a single opponent, but u peo
ple challenging conflict with the world.
The overthrow of the national worship,
the monarrb»>- tba rwlvilparcj of every
,o».,,t..ici4body, the subversion ol pro
perty within the realm, the assault tfpbth
all exterior authority, alike allied, neu
tral, inimical ; the furious and sangui
nary atpbition, by which tho ends cf the
earth were contemplated a? not too re
mote for the boundaries of the French
dominion, gave the war a gigantic
his death lias drawn a veil not to be
touched by on irreverent hand. \Vc are
Tories, and as such, we are firm haters
of the Jacobiu ferocity of the Hunts and
Cobbetts, and their abettors in all class
es of Society. But hating the sangui
nary madness of Radicalism, we not ioss
hate, though we much less fear, arbitra
ry power. The Whig of IG83 lias de
generated into the Jacobin of 1822, The
Tory of 1G22 has adopted the principles
of the freemen of 1088, and is at this hour
the most effective guard upon the possi
ble excesses of power, because he is
the most rational, consistent, and sincere
friend to the constitution. If he haunt
no nioh meetings, propagate no calumni
ous folly, or make no revolutionary pil
grimages through the jails and highw ays
of England, if he be neither luord Grey,
bending his aristocratic brow to the ma
jesty of the rabble, while the nostrils of
hi< pride arc wrinkled in disdain of their
rudeness ; if he be no Lord Holland,
burlesquing the Constitution by tho ridi
cule of his defence; if he disdain tlie
professional clamours oflhe Broughams,
and the boyish mischievousness of the
Lambtons, and similar retainers of the
cause of absurdity and evil,—he exer
cises an honorable vigilance of the con
duct of ministers, and would be among
tho first to array himself in firm resist
ance to an attack on the liberties and
honors of England. It may have been
remarked that among the public men
whose conduct we found ourselves in
clined to discuss, the late Marquis of
Londonderry was the iudividu.il whom
we the least delighted to honor. We
were perfectly sensible of his good quali
ties, his amenity as a leaderof the Com
mons, iiis freedom from venality, and his
personal fearlessness. But of all (lie
Foreign Secretaries within our memory,
he had the least of an English mind. His
adoption of foreign phrases, trivial as the
evidence is, takes a place among the
proofs that the Marquis looked with
more than English complacency upon the
habits of strangers. But the heavier
proof of the charge is, that in the whole
new distribution cf Europe, he gained
nothing for the influence, the honor, or
the dominion of England. We know the
folly of n too extensive dominion, (lie
crime of o lust of power, and the fc ir-
r-ihAT.inl of usurped donu-
U1QH. JuUtli uyl t*C fyigyittCD, mat
at the close of a war, in which vn Ir.id
taken the lead in danger, we were the
lost in compensation ; that warring for
the liberties of the world, we w ere do-
privejd ol the honor and happiness of
securing them when the contest was
one; und that the disarming of the
powers, and that almost a million of mo-1 sides. But there has been a horrid bai
noy has been paid for its suppression in- bnrity let loorc upon the uooiTendiii
IO it.e nnrL-pis nf R.n.m .„id Portugal, Islands, which took no part iu the insur
rection, have been scourged bv the
to the pockets of Spain
which might have been as wisely flung in
to the sea.
strange, and overwhelming character, a! . . , .
physiognomy of fiendish pride, unbelief, ‘ re ' ,ch Rev,,1,ll,on > un,loublcdl >' 3 K r « 3t
and blood, terribly pre-eminent over all
:he combats of mere human ambition.
Two discoveries resulted from this
tremendous convulsion ; the first, that
result, was the sole consequence reaped
from a tiiumph that ought to have been
an era of constitutional freedom through
the world. It is the peculiar and noble
But it is now gratifying to u« to speak
of the prospective good. Mr. Canning
has eminent advantages in iiis accession
to the public service. Among the first
we rcg.ird his eloquence, the next is his
disengagement from foreign partialities.
No man w ill be a favorite with the na
tion, or a beneficial servant of (he em
pire, who submits himself to a foreign
policy, or foreign predilections. The
Englishman must have an English minis
ter. The most popular speech of the
most popular predecessor of his Majesty,
was that m which be declared hiQlselt
born a Briton." The most popqtaf 1
sovereign ot England before the Bruns-
wicks, was Cromwell, the man who de-‘
dared that with foreigners no umba-sa
dor wus equal to a ship of the line. The
most popular minister that F.nglaud ever
saw—the man to whom she gave her
heart and hand with unrestrained cosfi-
deuce—-was Chatham, the avowed des-
piser ot foreign professions, the aivo of
the whole tribe ot slippered diplomtcy
abroad, and the contemptuous and reso
lute claimant of every right of England
and human nature. Chatham is the great
model for a British minister.
What Mr. Canning w ill do, it must be
idle to conjecture ; what he ought to do,
it would, perhaps, he presumptuous to
decide. Cut what the people of England
desire to ree done, is of easy knowledge ;
and it is by the public will that a minis
ter must shape his course, if he will do
honor to himself, or service to the na
tion. Popularity is essential to his pow
er of doing the greatest good. A sub
mission to the honorable will of the peo
ple is the best auxiliary for his wisdom,
i he freedom ot English discussion,—the
infinite variety ofmind, interest, and ex
perience, which are called in to act on
any high public matter,—places the ge
neral decision almost beyond error ; and
the. widest question that can he asked in
a dubious Cabinet is, what is the opinion
in the streets ? \Yc look upon (he ge
neral public judgment as next to infal
lible. In the late war, full of strange
and untried circumstances as was that
fearful shaking of established thoughts
uwU tbiugg. „ r.„i„a i, pj-eHiev
led the results of every expidi.A
from that of Qniberoo Bay to that of
Walcheren ; and its prediction was fa
tally true. It pronounced upon every
commander at once ; and defeat or vic
tory followed as sure as the stroke the
fl.ish. It is remarkable, that the first fa
vorite general of the nation was Sir Ar
bloody and torturing barbarism of l urk
ish avarice and revenge. For the first
time during centuries wc have Been a
slave trade in Christian prisoners.—
Women ol houor exposed in the human
shambles of an Asiatic butcher ; men ol
wealth and character flung into a horrid
captivity, or slain ; the servants of the
alter racked and murdered ; and the
horrors ot the wildest ages perpetrated
by tho 1 urk, with an open declaration,
that these things have been done in ha
tred of Christianity. Is England, which
could put » Atop at once to this wolfish
execution, to shrink from the common
duty of humanity, on 1 suffer it to go otj *
Her official ootes are nothing—mockery,
worse than mockery. The Turk will
feel them an excuse for her shame in
suffering these atrocities, and a pledge
that all her hostility will he on paper.—
He taunts her ambassador ; he repels
her feeble remonstrauce ; lie scoffs at
her tardy humanity ; answers note by
note ; nrid, before the seat is cold, sets
forth ugaiu on his work of massacre.
What treaty can bind a nation to an ac
quiescence in those horrors, that would
not sanction au individual iu a conspira
cy to see murder done, and see that none,
impeded its being done ? A few Greek
revolters landed on Scio ; they were re
ceived with natural congratulation, but
obtained no assistance, or none of mo
ment. The Turk let slip his dogs of
war among thi - ucoplc, and a great and
flourishing community of the Christian
world was made a smoking desert. Its
population was massacred, or dragged
away to indignities worse than death—
and the butcher was our ally ! In Cy
prus, there has been no alleged ground
ol devastation. The Turk found it guil
ty of peace, and wealth, and more than
all, ot Christianity. Cyprus one of the
finest islands of the Archipelago, has,
by the latest accounts, been utterly
sacked ;—tbe island a tomb ; the streets
full of blood ; and thousands, and tens of
thousands ot its innocent people flung
into a reUirnfess slavery, among the
ruthless passions and tauntings of the
savage infidel. Is England to stand by
anil sec thnne crimes before God and
man committed ? Is she to be justified
ft, tier ’-ari hmsnt trra'v am',
in the midst of the hourly violation of
its spirit, feed justified before Heaven
and earth by pointing to the letter ? If
vve have declared to tho Turk our reso
lution to prohibit a cruelty worthier of
the devil than nf man, and if he have
persisted,—all treaty is at an end,
no single powercau overthrow the unit- j} ,,lunc ’ °* Png,and, that her happiness,
„,t rrd. n„A .iw> „ f „„,t freedom, and wealth, arc palpably
cd force of the rest ; and the second,
that to secure Europe from gradual ruiu,
a combination of the iending powers was
nf absolute necessity. For the first time
in history, un army of empires was form
ed ; and by the choice of Wellington for
its chief, England was virtually declared
the head of this most magnificent of all
coalitions.
It is beyond our purpose to examine
whether all that might have been done
by this great arrangement has been done ;
whether the Holy Alliance, a compact of
a distinct order, has been pure in all its
purposes ; whether the rights of nature
have been violated, in the eagerness to
restrain the offences of national irritabi
lity. But one fact is unanswerable, that
ihe great primal object of Inc coalition
has been accomplished ; that France is
no more the disturbing spirit of Europe ;
that her Revolution, once stricken down,
has been kept down ; and that the gal
lantry which smote France has been
turned into the vigilance Ly which its
fugitive jacobinism has been cqerced in
its vow of foreign ruiu.
nected with those oflhe whole great cir
cle of European society. She sits on
the throne ot Europe by a voluntary so
vereignty of good. All nations feel dm!
the mighty Eland cannot he the enslaver
of the continent; England is the great
central fortress in which the suffering
and the brave of all countries must take
the common interest of a common safe
ty. Her renown is their security.—
They rejoice to see the battlements of
her power—the Acropolis ot - nations,
rise above all the strong holds oflhe earth
and lie glorious in its imperishable tro
phies and temples ; because they know
that her strength and glory are the hope
of freedom among mankind.
To have those feelings of the higher
minds of the Continent universal, ought
to have been the labour of the Foreign
Secretary. The Marquis of Londonder
ry occupied himself in superintending
the distribution territory, not the assur
ance of freedom. Towns aryl districts
were paid from hand to hand ; great
tract? of population in die heart of Eu-
were transferred with die unfeeling
1 tlu.tr Wellesley, and that the nalional I is seeure,—and then is the ’ime to
hopes went with him fiom the moment! ' il .“ l . icil,c 0,lr flings, our honor, & die
of his sailing for Portugal. It was re-i I 11 '' v '' c 8 ei ol nations virtually committed
markable, in other instances, how close- i ,n ,,li: "f England. By our pre-
ly the opinion of the country defined ? ? nt neutrality we make enemies of all.
that one general would blunder bravely The Turk hates us for even the triviul
AGRICULTURAL,.
i no.! tue wnscHFSTRR ntr'jauc.vN
WEEVILS.
Remarks on tlieir habits, asid means of lies
troyiiifr than.
As much injury is clone in the barns to th*
pat ly tie rejoiced in by both, the wat
would heat an end, & the peace and free
dom ol Spain would he the glorious gilts
ol England. 1 ha 1-lnqlisli people desire
to see a constitution given to Spaio.—
1 hey look with aversion on all attempts
th 7 ld ®°. vern ' J differenHiiods of grain, by these insect ?J
moot... they look with equal aversion on wist, the society to devote some attention to
the projects ot Jacobinism, thinly dis- the most efficacious method of destroying
gutsed under the name of Constitution. I diem, or preventing their ravages. 1 tim-
1 liny would abolish tho Inquisition, the j L ‘ n deavor st, for several years, to become at
Monies, the more oppressive among the *I ,l: ‘ int « d with their habits, and am willing to
noble and commercial privileges ; .-slab-1 ^ “ ,e ,Pault ' ,f < ">kIvvmo U s, hopi, t
ii,- r . => . ’ '■’’'■no may occasion, h um some abler nen
ish a tree representative legislature, n ; important information, i b.-heviMhl’y
tree press, independent judges ; lay the | linoe residents lor life, of the huildr
foundation for the prowing good r.ansc of | which chance may j>l icu th* a m 9 and that ii.- ,•
a religious (oleraliun, and baptize Spain m,t migrate from one burn ro unotlu i,
into the household of Liberty. The Kn>- ! im!ssa curried thither. That during the win-
l«8h Mmister can accompli Ii much of i u ' r "’l'? *'<? “ dormant, state near the
thi, by „ , art. The af b„ | .tallrlElrt 1 ill
Will must he powerful, when ,t is in uni- which were lying under the mam-ers iushi-
son with the obvious interests ol the na-1 bit*. Instinct, rib doubt, tenciie-; them at
lion. Let him propose Iiis plan to both, 'he commencement ofcotd weather, to seek
and declare that he will side with its ac-' 3 retl-, ' at wh -re they may hu secure, and
ceptor. The weight of England’s judo-!. , 1-<! ll >ey " ill he somewhat sheltered from
ment might torn a more uneven balance. ! r t IU1 , l ' h ' :y in the.
Ilm the of
seems completely equal, thov nre both, A, rt *** * u *-*■•»- p -•
we believe, equally friends ol' a free
constitution, arid equally haters of Jaco-
About the middle of the r.th month, May.
'bey begin to travr ’ eraoliog up the wall
and in every direction ir. seareh of food. !!
hinism. Our sincere interposition would j U’T S 1 "* 1 ' 111 iri 'G-’ barn, they find it—and 1
save their mutual honor, mi^ht quiet - e 3t ‘ r e r M ci S ht (ir tep onom
thmr mutual claims, sheathe the sword ! Wlwn Xa[ St ft
So fin alD lrft^^- something we must do. : ley, is brought into the ham, thiy pLrWato
“t uln . left to herself, will, alter long tile mow, and I apprehend, deposit their
havoc, become directly republican.... R ggs in thu grain, which serves for fond for
it is the fashion of the time....revolution *j le young insects, till they arrive at nearly
is gregarious. A republic in Spain will | . S ' I ! ! ,J| '* ll! l ,i,ren ' i probably the sweat-
seek its fellow in u republic in Italy. 11?” a™ 1 "' a . rmtl ‘ '"o". much assist in
W ith » i,i » , i 'he depositing of Ilia egg, und in bnn <r in£.
With bpaini and Inly revolutionized, the insect to perfection. '“'“hd'-Pr
how long will 1' ranee be tranquil ! How As a proof that the egg is daposited in the
long will Germany, already heaving, lie grain, it will to; found, that if wheat he
repiniDg and murmuring, before it bursts ! threshed some ebon time after haivest, ir,
into a resistless storm ? When those , barnj "here weevils abound, when it wi.j
things come, what will be the fate ofj very little eaten by them, and put into
England ? Is there, even now, no se- j -n' l |i| , VVr!'» S r ° U ‘ IJ ' i 'T'* | heo to
cret transit for the revolutionary stream mUl e£ ,md weevils'in tho
through the heart ot her soil ? We will j hags. Having thus briefly stated rnv LpiuE
pursue this topic no farther. Deus j ‘>o <T their habits, 1 will suggest a few pro-
avertat. But it is beyond nil denial, that l positions Ibr destroying them. The mo
ttle whole Continent is at this hour in a
stale of internal convulsion ; that, like
the spirits of Pandemonium, there is a-
mongthe more powerful raindsof Europe
a sense of loss and defeat, a desperate
love of fierce hazards—a wild and fiery
dream of rebel grandeur, to ba won by , - .... ,
force of arms. The Frenchman, cast b: ‘! v , e wintw' r»:titill harvest; cv
on tho ground by the fortune of war,
ilie.icioiiH mode, I apprehend, would he l<
stark the grain out for one or two year:-,
and keep all kinds of it from lying in lie*
barn, during the summer season, by tii'yt
means they would be deprived of food anil
of a suitable place, to deposit their young.
sanction which our neutrality gives to
die Greek. T he Greek hates us for
our alliance with the Tnrk. The llus-
rJmivuwi' 11 . |r| *hrone» une*tin-
fttitsnetl , tnii uennan, wuu iu*
his country under tho promise of a Con
stitution, feels Iiis hopes defeated ; the
Italian, proud of Iiis ancient
and flung ten thousand fathoms deep
from Iiis late ideal independence, fe.el.
and groans ; the Tole, loaded with Ihe
Russian tetter, feels and curses his de
gradation. Through the whole circuit
ol the Continent there is but one pre
paration, great and terrible, for n catas
trophe, of which no man can
the horrors or the close. Thu field E
Many of them may be destroyed by Iwu
mg no grain in tlve barn from the time thr\
cept about a double handful of Indian corn
in a place, and in several different places.
"jjhio to lfiftae f,
into death, and another meet it gallant
ly in retreat and repulsion ; how a third
would loee his presence of mind in the
field to recover it on his trial ; and how
another would dress, dine, and sleep a-1 march <0 lllG 1 ro l n ’" tl3 - ' J
way an expedition. The result of the ! ! be V ntu1 ' P eo l ,!R ,0 sce
higher operations of diplomacy was fore
seen with
ness. The
coalition,
Amiens,—and the return of Napoleon
Irom Elba.—were topics of common con
viction. But this spirit of disastrous
prophecy, fearfully confirmed ns it Was
by the long calamity of Europe, was es
sentially separate from the professional; ? onar< %:
them in some clean place with a wheat ri v -
dle, the inserts will tall through, widt h may
memories, be gathered isp mid thrown into the fire.-—
oms deep A,lulll, r mv'hod is ta Enve a little straw j.
the stables at this season, and before Inn
vest gather il all up carefully, and draw it
out inlo a field, many weevils will thus b-
taken out end perish. It is said, thou -h >
have never experienced it, that they have a
great antipathy to hemp, that a few layer.
ut B, spread among the grain, at the.tirae t,i
ilcaTilo I puUi “o i !, i “ ! he barn, will prevent thoir ra
'age?. -io doubt, members nfihevocictv
-ind others are possessed of lads on th
sown with the serpent teeth of hitter-1 subject which wmild he highly Vntercstin'-'t
ness, ruined ambition, and inveterate j those who are troubled with those insert
discord. Are we to see it send up its | about their barnc. It is hoped they will E
sian hates us fur standing in his line of| harvest of the spear ? The thrones of! ''"Imad, through the medium of the sorieiv
‘"he desire of the Continent stand at this hour in i "r olhenvise, to make them pubtir, as r.
might In* tho moans of paving many busho]
orHiionfl OI CJ»[UOmHCy U’JtS fore-• l " '*uciuu mu uciiti Bii.il
I the same prophetic distinct- j sian enlbr03ei1 in Constantinople ; but j the. dead, and the nations n
i'he failure of the successive; ,0 see *‘ ie Greek islands and main—all j whether (lie. trumpet slial
—(ho fragility oflhe peace of bore lbo n;, me, dear and hallowed, I graves be broken up, and ;
see neither the; mighty cemetery. It is in the will of! ,'!r, •. r L ,
Turk trample the Greek, nor the llus- j God whether the dead shall he added to . nimiilv. ’'iSAAC SHARBLES& I,1<
melt away, or ’
shall sound, the;
,cr , - -i-.-. , lid all he (error,; .freounf »r a method of preventing ihe pr<
ot Oreeco.-—combined into one v igorous 1 judgment and rum. ; mature decan of Frail » f i
and free shape ot’ power. What the I •• ■ ■ fii:.. ..<• r * 1
detail of their constitution might he, time Sir Walter Scott, in the “ Brefaratory
and the general choice should decide : 1 ettcr” to Iiis new novel Tcveril ojthe.
whether they were to ho united under a Peak, describes the author of Waverley
a form of government of dif- paying a visit to “ Dr. Dryasdust,” and
. .... rope were transtc
One more ^important consideration is, I f aci | itv pf „ Kul#inn PS , u , e , & multitudes
" liinings of party. Whigpism was the ■ llG ul' application to their locality’,—or to take9, occasion to offer by the mouth of
screech-owl, flying wherever there was const ' tu ' c a firmly allied system of se- ‘‘
a sick-chamber, and trying to scream I P i,r,lte Rovernments, sending deputies to
sickuess into death. There was a nobler' P uir,l;int:nt cea'rM council for the j
and moreimpcri.il bird, that, sometimes *
driven down by the storm, yet kept Iiis
plumes expanded, and his eye on ilea-
till, at the first gleam of sun-shine,
what England is to suffer and to do. A ; of inlolligcnt me:l> distinguished literati,
new minister has been placed in chaise rcat morchlintai am1 90 j difir , who had
nrher externa interests. We are not k IcJ for ln dependence, were trafficked
about to pay undue homage to h.s powers. ,-. om powef ‘, 0 „ olver , ike
Ills promotion has been the result of the 1
general reliance on his abilities. There
may have been private interests active
in his elevation ; but in the eye of the
nation, he has risen on Ihe simple con
viction of his public fitness. The pub
lic voice declared at once, that no man
was so competent to fill up the chasm in I offlcia | note nnd lho ,
he Administi at.oh an, the public coni,- sincere minister . To hi, restorations
donee Iin^, uitn the ^tronge?t and must
Russjun
peasantry. It might have been dillicult
altogether to counteract this ; hut an
English Secretary ought not to have seen
those tilings done without an honest re
monstrance. The Melternichs and Har-
he shook his wet mid weary wing, and,
eagle-like, again towered to tho sun.
j Th" Spanish war was the war ol the
I British nation. Whiggistn, Ihe univer
sal abettor of insurrection, hero found
one insurrection entitled to the honor of
its hostility. A mighty revolt to protect
a king not to murder him,—to protect
a nobility, not to rob and massacre them,
]—to protect a national worship, not to
I wash the altar? in tlie blood ol tlie priests,
I—was a revolt repulsive to English ja-
Icobinism, and tbe old rejoicings over po-
honm able tpsliinonirs of confidence, ac
knowledged the appointment of Mr. Can
ning. The English Minister has before
hiui the first field ever offered to a high
spirit for establishing an immortal name
for himself, and an irresistible, yet ge
nerous influence for his country.
The death of the late Foreign Secre
tary would of itself, entitle him to tie al
luded to with respectful pity. He fell
almost a sacrifice to hi- zeal. Iiis per
sonal faults we leave to the investigation
of his personal enemies, if he has such ;
bis failures as a statesman are of a more
denhergs have sagacity enough, to dis- |
linguist, between ihe displeasure ofau '’»»■>%* "ere «
; determination of a! re P™ ba “ n . n . of P°H'>r virtue. The
punlic opinion, sneered at Ly the Oj
territory, it is not our purpose to otject.
T hey may have.been improvidently li
beral. tLey may have been wi-e. But
wq foel deeper regret in the fact, that
to this hour the promises of the Conti
nental sovereigns, either to England or
their subjects, have been almost wjthout
exception eluded ; that among the lead
ing powers no constitution has been giv
en to the people, except partially in
France ; that no general equivalent pri
vileges have been given, if such could
be ; that the favorite and honorable wish
of England, the extinction of the slave
trade, has been eluded in the grossest &
“■■owaldfi discussion ; and ypl over these ; most nefarious manner bv the tradine
position, was adopted by the Govern
ment; and those noble Lords who had
cheered the insane declaration, that
“ the troops sent to Spain under Welling
ton might belter have boon shot in St.
James’s Park!” were refuted Ly tri
umphs, which were nt once those of mi
nisterial energy nnd public opinipn.
We now come to the most important
inquiry :—What is the desire of the
English nation in its foreign policy ?—
The most inlcresting object is Greece.
Il is beyond at! doubt the national desire,
that the.butchery of this war, should be
stopped at onep. There lias been much
guilt and sacrifice of guilty life cn both
higher concerns of a!! ; a mode of go
vernment suited tithe noble lecollec-
tinns and the natural circumstances o!
Greece. The new Greek representa
tive empire would at once check the
ambilion of Russia in the Mediterranean,
strengthen Constantinople and Ionia, and
give n powerful and honorable ally to
England. Deeper and richer hopes
might come forth to light from this
draining of the deluge of misery and
blood. The climate of Greece, its
mountains nnd sea«, its brilliant skies and
balmy air, are made for the finest e’e-
volopemcnt of the human body, and with
it of tho mirnl. It is idle to doubt the
influence of climate upon races of people,
when every man feels their daily action
on himself. Greece wants nrthing but
lho impulse of honorable ambition....the
hope of distinction,....the certainty of a
tree range and reward for her powers,
to be the Greece of JEschylns and Peri
cles.
The Public desire to see the Spanish
civil war extinguished. They lament
tho havoc of .Spanish life, the ruin of a
noble country, and the execution of the
finest peasantry of tbe South. ..they hear
of the battles, in which those unhappy
men are left to the dog &. vulture, with
indignation & sorrow...they feel that now
is the moment to interpose. The roy
alist and constitutional armies are stand
ing face to face, like charged thunder-i
the Doctor, the following compliment to
the author of ihe Sketch Book.
“ Il struck ine forcibly, ns 1 gazed on this
portly pfcrson (Ihe author of Waverley) that
lie realized in iny imagination, the Stout
GentleinanNo.il, ivho afforded such, subject j 'he winter’s frost. This may he uscion,lined
qf varying .speculation to our most amusing j by observation; the track of the worm from
and elegant Utopian traveller, Master Geof-! 'lie seat of the egg being visible at its tie-ii,
FIIUIT TREES.
f a method
decay of
Jltlis, e/ .Vi u-llcrsey
From 'i*e T ransactions of (lie American
sopliical Society.
'I he decay u| peach trees is owing to a
worm, which originates from a large (ly,
that resembles (tie common wasp : tliii fl-
perforates tlie hark, and deposits an egg in
the moist or sippy part of it. The mu ’
common place of perforation i3 at the sur
face of the earth, and as soon as the worm
is able to move it descends into the earth
probably from an instinctive effort ty avoid
•dorms ; the mediation ol England erouldj of the recent productions nf th
conduct ifu light..lag fronibutli. would pul-! master-hand.—.Yctiona’ tic -
fry Crayon : Indeed, bnt for one little trail
in lho conduct oflhe said Stout Gentleman
— I mean the gallantry towards his landlady,
a thing which would greatly derogate Irom
our Senior’s character—I should be disposed
to conclude that Master Crayon had, on
that memorable occasion, actually passed
Iiis time iu the vicinity of the Author of
Waverley.”
We have read two of the three vo
lumes in which Pcveril nf t!u Peak is
comprised in the American edition.—
ihe work abounds iu striking incidents,
stmugly drawn character?, and historical
scenes of a romautic cast. It includes,
rw' only the immediate period of the
Restoration, but that of thu Bnpish plot ;
and a part of the complicated and tissued
story is formed of the intrigues and agi
tations connected v.iih that famous hoax.
Towards tha conclusion of the second
volume, Charles II. and his favorite the
Duke ol Buckingham arc introduced and
elaborately pom tray ed. These per
sonages, their humors, and the composi-1
lion of the Royal Court &i the vices ol J
the administration of government, open!
a wide and suitable field for the author’s
genius. The whole narrative, in varie
ty, colouring, movement, situations, will,
we think, he found by most readers,
more interesting and admirable than any
same,
mag, and gradually increasing, m com?
poniicnce with tbe increasing size ( ,f t|,,
worm: its course L always downward:
The progress ot the young worm is f:.
trernely slow ; and if the egg is deposited
at any considerable distance above the sir.-
'■ice of ihe earth, it is long before the worm
rearhes the ground. 'The. worms are una
ble to bear the cold of winter, unless cover.
•d by the earth; and all that are above
ground, after frost, are. killed.
I ■} Itu? history of the origin, programs orr.
iBlurc u! till: iiai.rt, ivc rim explain (lie ,■
feeds of my method, which in as follow
In Ihe spring, when the blossoms are oi:
el;; r sway ihe di.t so as to expose lire roe
of the tree to thq depth of tlirco inches
surround (tie tri;' with straw, about Hum
feet long, applied lengthw-.-e, so that it mtp
have n cm ering one inch thick, which ex
tends lo the bottom of the hole, the bu
endsii the straw resting upon the ground
the. bopnjn. Bind thii straw round tin
tree With llirec I ands, one near the top, n: ,
at the middle, and the. third at ihe ran a.
of the earth; then fill op Ihe hole ;.t jJ.
Unit vi; earth, and press i’ cioBcly room
Ihe straw. When the white fro:
the straw should tie removed, a-n, I
should remain lira eve red unti' ■
put pm m the spring.
R. '.he •. r-icess, ti e fly it pi
depositing it .-?g v ■ three I
root, and although it n iv plac,. i
above lhat ci.- . ..ce, the . , , ;1 t,
slow, |jatit cannot n ,ch Ihe gro
fore fro»r. anrl th „e is killed |.,.f
appe.,
ail tie