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Georgia Lcgi btiire.
From Uie I’eiliral U,iio|i,
: A M»t
Os such ArU ■ of the legislature of
Georgia., ffs had received the sanction
of the Governor and Steal of S/dte,
vp to December 20///.
J. An act to pardon Nathaniel Green
of Lmnpkjn county.
J. An act to alter .and change Hie 3d
and Till sections of the first article of the
(ajlistitutipil.
3. All act to repeal an net to a mot id j
the sever.*] Judiciary pets now in force m j
this Stull', so. lar .vs relates to Justices j
Courts, approved December till/ 1811,;
so far as to change the lime of holding j
justice’s Courts in the Djstrjqts in tho j
scvotu! counties.in this State, from once
a mouth to once in every tour months j
in each year, assented, to 271 h December j
IS 12.
4. An act to alter and fix the time of
holding the Superior (.'unit of the county |
of Muscogee. .
3. An act to repeal nn act to require ]
the Sheriff* and Clerks of the comity otb
Coweta, to insert their advertisements in |
the } üblic Gazette of the town of New- 1
nan, so long ns the p; per shall be con-!
tinned in tlm Circuit, assented to on the |
2Sih day of December, 1842.
(3. An act to provide for the, compen
sation of the Grand Jurors of Lumpkin j
county.
7. Ail apt to alter and fix the time of j
holding the Inferior Cpuit of the county ,
of i and ! j ■!i.
5. An act to alter the 3*l section of the j
4th article of the CouStitutnui. of this J
State, so far (is. to authorise the Ppopje to |
elect tho gepvral Militia officere of this j
State.
9. An act to chnngp the names pf,
certain persons, and to change the names j
and legitimatize qlhgr persons therein 1
named.
LAn act to repeal an act to compen
sate the Grand and petit Jurors pf the,
county of Dooly, asseuted to 22d Dec., I
ISKJ.
11. An act to autinSrise the Sheriff;
Clerks and Coroner of Fayette comity to
advertise all sales oF said comity in any .j
one of the Public Gazettes' of friis State. ,
12. An apt to authorise Henry 11. ,
Waters to erect a mill dam on his own
lands, across the lftowa, or Hightower
river.
1-1. An act to establish, abolish, move, j
and revive option hi-pcincf* in certain .
counties them-.n ntim/wd, and to regulate
the sa;,,e.
11. /Vu apt to alter rpid change the
times, of holding the. Spring term of die
Inferior Court of Clark comity, and the .
holding the terms of the Superior Court
of Macon’ comity.
15. An Uet Tor the relief of the Sheriffs, ;
(loroners. Constables! find other officers
of the State ofOporgit).
16. An act to. tegulate the Hcction and !
pay of county Treasure! so! the comities j
of Bib!) and and to reader inuhgi ,
hie any of the Justjces of the Inferior
Court of said counties to said appoint
ment.
17. An act to authorise the Justices of
the Inferior Oonrt of Troup county, to
sell nrtd dispose of a lot of land in the
tOHnh of Lagrange, containing one half
acre, more or'less. I A
IS. authorise the Sheriffs of
Gwinnett county to advertise their sales
in someone of the public newspapers
published at Milledgeyille or in Athens.
l'.l An act to repeal all laws requiring
the State of Georgia to [ ay expenses in
BE2tffOCHATIC BANNER TREE TRADE; EOW DUTIES; NO DEBT; SEPARATION PROM BANKS; ECONOMY; RETRENOHMSNT•
AND A STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION.— J. C. C.l. tIOI.V,
curred on account of Small Pox and
I ether pestilential diseases, and to require
j the GoAcrnor to procure vaccine matter.
20. An act to add an additional section
I to the sixth division of the. Penal Code of
this State.
21. An act to authorise the Judges of
the Inferior Court of Lowndes county,
to employ some fit and proper person to
transcribe so much of the Records of the
Superior Court of said county, as in their
judgment they may deem.necessary.
22. An act. to extend the charter of the
Mar nc and Fire Insurance Bunk, of the
State of Georgia, and (o continue the
rights granted by existing acts to said
Bank.
23. An net to repeal nn act, to compen
sate Grand and Petit Jurors, assented to
23d December, 1837, so fur as relates to
.tliy county y'f filyuu,
2b An ,net to 'authorise tire -plaintiff,
in .all cases, of arrest under a enpiqs ad
.satisfaciendum todiseharge fiiedefeudant
from imprisonment, and for Iris property
infill to be found for the debt.
2f>. An apt to amend the road laws of
this State,.so jar as relates to the/county
o f Etliugham.
2fi. An act to authorise,the President,
Directors and copipajiy of the Bank of
Augusta, to reduce the enpitai of said
| Bank. <j
27. An net to repeal so much of nn act,
j assented to on thy 23d December, 1837,
so far as. relates to, tlje county of Lee, as
regards the payment of Grand and Petit
jurors.
.28. An act to repeal an act, assented to
December, 9, Is4l, and to repeal an act,
assented to Dec. 23d 1842, relative to the
Road laws, go far as respects the county
of Bryan,
20. An act to repeal and amend seve
ral acts, re'ntive to education and poor
schools in Bryan county.
30. An act to relieve the estate of the
late l-jhennzer Rees’, of Mclntosh county,
i from double tax, and for other, purposes.
31. An act for the relief of William
i Root.
32. An act to repeal the several acts j
heretofore passed for thp purpose of con- j
solidoting the offices of Receivers and ,
Collectors, of Taxes in the counties of!
'Prou [>, Effingham, Mclntosh, Telfair,
Seriven and Appling.
33. An act to define die office of Clerk
of lands Courts, so far, as respects the -
county of Bryan.
34. Am act to change the name of fho ,
Bank of Hawkinsvilie.
35. An act to alter,and fix the time of
hplqing file Inferior courts of the county
of Decatur,
36. An act to amend the 12th Section
of an act, entitled an act to revise and
amend tjie Judiciary system of this State,
approved, February 16th 1799.
37. An,act to repeal an act, passed 27th
dayof December, 1838, consolidating the
office of Tax Collector and Receiver of
the tax returns of the counties of Forsyth
Carroll, Madison, Habersham and Ware,
so lhr as relates to the county of Forsyth.
3S. An act to repeal all laws and parts
ofilaws compensating Grand, and Petit
Jurors for the counties of Franklin,Paul
diug and Cobh.
39. An act for the relief of Jesse Har
rell. Jesse P. Harrell and. David Harrell,
securities) of John . Harrell, on penal
bonds. , , .
40. An act to lepeql mi net consolidat
ing the offices of Tax Collector and Re
ceiver in several counties, so far as re
spects the.county of W ilkes, passed Dec.
9, is 39.
41. At) Agt to inqpupornte a, iVcslyan
Female Cffiljege, to 1/e located in the city
ol'.Waei-ii. Cff f agin.
42. An act to.ametffi an act to provide
for the election of a public printer. &c.
43. An act to repeal an act to extend
the time for fortunate drawers, to take
out grants, &c., and extend the time for
grantiugiffie same. . ~ ■
44. An net to alter an act, assented tq
Dec. 19, 4821, to authorise Justices of
tbe Inferior courts in the several counties
in this State, to levy extraordinary taxes
for COiViViy purposes, so far as relates to
i’ne county of Crawford, and an act n.-
mcnchtory I hereof
4*5. An act to a\Vi9fi(? the 3d and 33d
rules of Vtii h6l relative to rhe Govern
ment of the Penitentiary, assented to 23d
December ,1840, and to repeal all laws
prohibiting job work ip the Penitentiary.
46. An act to incorporate a volunteer
company of Infantry m the county of
Clark, ■'to be called the “ Watkiiisville
Independent Blues,” and for other pur
poses.
47. An net to authorise further pro-,
gross oil the work of flic Western and j
Atlantic Rail Road, and for other pur
poses therein specified.
48. An act to incorporate the Baptist
'Church ill the county of Randolph, un
der the same and style of Benevolence.
49. An adt to amend the several laws
now in force in relation to free persons
of color, and to exhdnemte and discharge
certainftee persons of color fromnll pains
penalties and forfeitures heretofore in
enrred, and to which they are subject
and liable.
50. Au act to incorporate the Entonton
Camp Ground of the county of Putnam,
an 1 appoint Trustees for the same.
JIACON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1844.
51. An act to incorporate the Savan
nah Port Society.
52. An act to repeal the first section of
an act assented to 24th December, 1830,
to authorise Aikins to establish a
Ferry across Tugaloo river on his own
land.
53. An act to repeal the several acts
establishing election precincts in the
county of Irwin, so far as relates to elec
tions being held at the house of Thomas
Gibbs, Reuben Gay, William Tussell,
Howell’s store and Munassar Hendersons
in said county.
54. An act to guard estates of deceased
persons from the liability to pay double
taxes.
55. An act to incorporate certain
Churches and Camp Grounds therein
named, aud to appoint Trustees for tho
sumo.
i 56. An art to repeal the third section
of an act to authorise the Justices of the
inferior courts 0f thecounliesof Wilk’u’n
* and Floyd to Ipvy an extra lux for coun
ty purposes, assented to 19th December.
1840.
j 57. An act to authorise the Justices of
j the Inferior court of Ware county, to
i levy and collect an’ extra fax for th’c ex
| press purpose of building a Court house
j in said county, &,c.
58, Ail act to change the name of
; Mary Tompkins to that of Mary’Hunt,
Ac.
j 59- An act to alter and amend nn net
to incOrporatethe Congregational Church
J at Jonesville, in Mclntosh county, and to
appoint Trustees lor the same ; and to
incorporate Central Methodist Camp
Ground in the county of Habersham, and
to appoint Trustees for the same.
GO. An act to repeal an act to consoli
date the office of the Clerk of the Inferior
Cou rt, apd the office of the county Trea
surer in the county of Monroe, assented
to 25tli Dec., 1837.
61. An act to exempt the Trustees of
the Inferior courts from the duty of work
ing on Roads, so far as relates to the I
county of Troup.
62. An act to point o*ut and define the
duties of Commissioners of the Poor
School fund, so far as relates to the coun
ty of Marion.
63. An act to repeal an act, assented
to Bth December 1842, to alter the law
in relatiou to drawing, summoning and ■
cnipanueling Petit Jurors, so far as re
lates to the county of Montgomery.
64. An act to authorise the Treasurer
of the Poor School of the county of
Wayne, to pay Frauris Harrison and
other teachers, who taught school in the 1
year IS 11, uuler the act of common
school/
65. An net to repeal an act, entitled 1
an act, to repeal all jaws prohibiting the
free introduction of slaves in'.o this State,
assented to Dec. 27, 1,842.
G(j. An act to prohibit certain persons
from pleading and practicing law in cer
tain ca^es.
67. An act to repeal an act, so com
pensate thr* Grand and petit Jurors in the
county of Montgomery, assented to Dec. 1
10th, 1841.
68. An act to authorise further pro- 1
i gross upon the work of the Western and
Atlantic Rail Rond, mid for other pur
poses therein specified, aud to provide for
a sale of said road, and, for the employ
meat of certain convicts thereon.
69. An act to compensate Jame 6 I.
Daniel, for property destrpyed by the
Indians. Ac.
I 76. An act to fund a part of the debt,
j and to creatipa sinking fund for the pay
ment thereof,; and to provide for the
/change and reuewal of certain bonds find
| coupons.
73. An act to authorise certain per
sons therein, named, to plead and practice
law in the several Courts in this State,
&c.
72. An act to amend an act, passed in
IS3B, incorporating the town of Spring
i field, in Effingham county, &c.
73. An act to authorise the trustees of
the Masonic Hall, in the city of Millodg
ville, or a. majority of them, to borrow
| money.
74. An act to change the time of hold
ing the Superior Courts of the counties
I of Crawford, Upson, Hike, and Monroe,
i in the Flint Circuit, and to authorise the
drawing of Grand ami Petit Jurors for
‘ kaid counties, and in the counties of
■ Newton and Henry respectively, and to
authorise the Justices of the Interior
Courts of said counties to draw Jurors
hereafter. 1
75. An act to authorise William Mil
! ler, to erect a Bridge ncross Spring Creek
on his own land, in the county of iKca
-1 tur. s
76. An net amendatory of the net pro
viding for tho publication of the Bank
Reports.
77. An act to repeal the 2d .section of
nn act, to extend the time for the comple
tion of the Central Kail Road, between
Savannah and Macon, &c., assumed to
on rhe 11th Dec., 1841.
78. An act to tux kcepets of Billiard
Tables.
7'. An act to amend nn act, to au
thorise the Surveyor General, to issue
Grants to certain lots of land therein
specified, to certain persons therein men
tioned.
80. An act to authorise the Governor,
to draw his warrant on any funds not
otherwise appropriated for the benefit of
the poor school fund ofCass county.
81. An net to add the residence of
John of Henry county, to the
comity of Newton, and to change the
residence of certain persons therein
named.
82. Art act to amend an act to exempt
from levy and sale certainpropcrtvthere
in liiehtioped, assented to 11th Decem
ber 1841, hud to exempt certain properly
from levy under attachment.
83. An net to amend tbe first section
of the third article of the Constitution of
this State.
84. An act to authorise the Commis
sioners of tire Poor School fund of the
county of Heard to pay Peyten Lane,
for teaching poor children, and for tliq
relief of John E. Jones of Morgan coun
ty.
85. An act to authorise the Justices of
the Inferior court of Richmond county
to have the district lines re.surveyed—
to fix tho compensation of certain magis
trates, and to grant certain privileges to
nil Engine company in Augusta.
86. An net to amend ml act to compel
tbe &Verfd Banks of this State to redeem
their liabilities in specie, &c. mid several
amendatory acts thereto.
87. An act to authorise the recovery
by latv of open accounts in favor of cer
tain classes of persons therein named,
npi'll the same proof which is now allow
ed by the laws of this- State in favor of
! tradesmen and merchanfs
-88. An act to repeal an act so add Levi
Phillips of Campbell county to the coun
ty of Houston, assented to 10th' Decem
ber, 1841, and to change the residence of
certain' persons therein named.
89. An act to repcal an act to incorpor
ate certain Academics therein named, to
appoint trustees and confer certain pow
ers on the same.
90. An act to enable phrtics, plaintiffs,
to dismiss their suits in any oftltc Courts
in this State, in vacation Soc.
91. An act to change theline between
Cass and Floyd so as to add lot No. 210,
16th district 3d section, of the county of
Cass, to the county of Floyd, and for
other purpose?.
92. An act to amend an act, to incor
porate file Eljqjay Turnpike Company,
and to grant certain privileges to the
same, and to .allow the company further
time tor the completion of the said work.
93. An act for the relief of Thomas J.
Smith, Jesse Loyal and others therein |
named.
94. An act to alter arid fix the time of j
holding the Court of ordinary and Land
Courts in the several counties in this-
State,.from the first to the second Mon
days in January.
95. An net to repeal a part of the first
section of the act passed on the 12th of
December, 1804, so amefid an act to carry
into effect, the 6th section of the .til ar
! tide of the constitution, relative to the
1 distribution of intestate estates, Ac., and
' to insert another proviso in lien of the re
i pealed.
j 96. An act for the- relief of Sntrtuel
' Jackson, late TaxCollecter of the county
of Chattooga.
97. Art act to provide for taking the
Census of the State of Georgia.
98. An .act to alter and amend the Slst
section of ah act, to appropriate money
for the support of govern men t for the po
litical year 1843.
99. An act to repeal an net, to com -
pensate one Justice of the IV/too, for ce.r
--! l ying up the returns from the several pfe :
1 eiuct elections in the County of DeKalb,
; assented to 24th December, 183&
[ 106. An act to change the names of
J certain persons, and to render them legi
timate and capable of inheriting.
161. An act to authorise certain citi
zens of Crawford county, to keep a Ferry
across Flint river.
I 162. An act to levy aud collect a tax,
| for each of tho political years 1814 and
1813.
163. An act to define ami determine,
What stage of a suit at law, shall be re
! garded the commencement of action.
164. An act to amend an act, to pre
-1 scril»e ihe mode of choosing the Electors
of President and Vice President of the
United States,passed December, 18. 4824.
165. An act to authorise Henry IJ.
W aters to receive toll nt his Ferry, on
the Etowah river, and William A. Cnnr,
l to establish a Ferry on the < tcklockuey
river, and to establish several other*fer
ries therein mentioned.
166. An act to amend an act, to define
th 4 liabilities fvi tho several Rail Roads in
this State; in relation tostock killed, iStc.,
assented to 23d December, 1846.
167. An act appropriating mojoey for
the Support of government, for the polit
ical years 1844 and 1843.
108. Ah act to authorise a grant to is
sue to Gabriel Finch of Frawkjin coun
ty, and to refuud to B. 8- Jordan of Bald
win county, the fees |>njd by hnu for n
grant, aud for other purpose?.
109. An act to incorporate the Lowndes
founty Hussars, with,exemptions therein
mentioned.
110. An act to authorise the Justices
of the Inferior court of Glynn, to levy a
tax iti the town of Brunswick, to pay
debts of the Mayor and Council of said
town.
111. An act to incorporate the town of
Mnrthasviile, in the county of DeKalb,
and for other purposes.
112. An act to incorporate the Meri
wether comity vo.'imtecrs, aud Morgan
Rifles, and to furnish arms to sundry
Volunteer corps.
113. A" act to establish nn additional
electiop precinct, at the store-house of
Jones, in the comity of Coweta,
and to remove another from the house of
Allen Summers in Newton county.
114. An act to authorise the justices
of the Itiferior Court of DeKalb countv,
to levy an extra tax for certain purposes
therein mentioned.
115. An act to authorise the several
persons therein named, to plead and
practice taw in Hie several Courtsdn this
State, and to define their liabilities.
116. An act to incorporate certain
Academies therein nana and, and appoint
Trustees for fiie same.
117. An act. for tlie relief of Wyatt
Merideih, of Wilkin.%on county.
118. An act to authorise. Hie Surveyor
General to issue a grant to Timothy B.
Kingsbury, and the heirs of Mary Ann.
1 19. An act to alter and amend the
Penal Code of this State, so thr as .relates
to the sentence of persons convicted of
often subjecting them to lknitcutinry
imprisonment. .
120. All act to lay cut and assign a
parade ground, for tire-several Volunteer
companies in the city of Macon.
121. /An act for the relief mid l/encfit
of the Chief Engineer and Fire Masters
of the city of Macuti.
122 An act for the relief of Gideon G.
Norman, Tax Collector for the county of
Wilkes, . ,
123. Ail act to carry into etlect the al
ternations, and amendments at this ses
sion o( the General Assembly, in and to
the 3d and 7th sections ot ihe first article
of the constitution of this ,State.
124. An act to jay olf and divide the
State into eight Congressional Districts,
and to point out tire mode of electing
members to Congress in each District,
and to provide against illegal .voting.
A mcrican Democracy.
BY- T.oftn BTtOrGHAM.
It is impossible to close the page of
history which records the foundation of
the Grca,t RepiH/lic,'without adverting to j
the siip-'i’ar change that seems of late i
years to have come over some friends of
liberty in this country, inclining them
against the popular institutions which j
that system consecrates, and upon which j
it reposes. Writers of ability, but scan- j
lily endowed with candor, observers of]
moderate circumspection, men luboring
under the prejudices of European sooie- i
ty, and viewing the social system of the i
New World through the medium of hab- j
its and associations peculiar to that of the i
Old, have brought back for our informa- 1
tion a number of details, fw-whidi they
needed hardly to cross the Atlantic, and i
have given up as discoveries a relation j
of matters necessarily existing under a |
very popular government, arid in a very i
new community. As those travellers,
had pretty generally failed to make nia- i
nv converts among the friends of free in- j
stittitinns. either in Fiance or in Eng
land, there would have been little harm i
done to the cause of truth, and no great i
interruption given to the friendly re!a-,
turns which the highest interests of both
countries require should he maintained :
unbroken between them. But unhappi
ly some persons of a superior class’ap-
pear, from party or from personal feel- •
ings, to have, without due reflection* on j
the mischief they were doing suffered |
iheir minds to he poisoned by ihe same
prejudices ; and, a single indiscretion j
having suffered their private letters, writ
ten under the influence of such prepos- j
sessions, to sec the light, it becomes eve- ,
rv one, whose genera! opinions coincide j
with those of the individuals in question, (
to protest against the inference that such ,
sentiments are shared by Ihe Liberal par
ty in England. This becomes the more ;
necessary, in consequence of the fenden- f
cv which the most reprehensible conduct
of some of the States in the Fmonto-j
wards their public creditors has to pre
pare the wav for the reception of such ■
unsound opinions; opinions which, if!
left to themselves, would probably soon \
sink into oblivion, bow respectable soev- 1
er the quarters which they may, without I
duo reflection, have been suffered to !
reach. I allude more particularly to!
some letters lately published of Lord Sy- ;
den ham, written confidentially to his late j
colleague.?, while he was acting under;
them as Governor General of British
.North America —letters, the publication !
of which, lias to me, who knew their 1
writer, and respected his gencrallyyound
principles, heap a subject of much regret,
which lie appears to have written in a
moment of some irritation, hut which
would do serious injury to the good un
derstanding that happily has been resto
red between the two nations, if they
were supposed to speak the sense of those
among as \yfio are most friendly to Amer
ica. j,, . - , *
A great deal of vague and general
i abuse may be passed over, us that the
Americans “ are a calculating people,
and fight not for glory but plunder”—
“ such a set of brugadocios, that their
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public men must submit to die claims of
their extravagant vanity and self-suffi
ciency”—that there is among them a
“general debasementthat those who
aim at place are corrupt and corrupters,
arid the masses who bestow preferment
are ignorant, prejudiced, dishonest, apd
utterly immoral.” I fear me most if not
all of .those railing might be retorted up
on a certain nation whose wars in China
have been warmly eulogized by l.o:d
Sydenham in another letter, though he
is greatly scandalized that all the g’ory
of his friends is not likely to prevent
their seats “slipping from under them
a nation whose general elections have of
late years been found a scene of the
most batefu) corruption, although we
should be guilty of a most gross and un
pardonable exaggeration, wore we on
this account to stigmatize the whole peo
ple, as “utterly immoral !” in the terms
rasfily applied to his neighbors by the
Canadian Coventor.
But tiic chargeswhich he allows him
self to lay, and which his relatives have
thought it riglit to publish, are more spe
cific. “ Tire Government sedms to mo
the worst of tyrannies, that of tbe mob'
supported by tlu* most profligate corrup
tion. Np rtyiQ who aims at power dare
avow an opinion of his own ; he must
pander to .the lowest prejudices of the
people, and in theirparties (the two great
ones which now divide the Union, the
I.pco fiocosapd Hie VVhigsj.the only sub
ject of the leading men of either is to in-
I stil some tv retched ly low sentiment into
I the people, and then explode it for their
own advantage. There is scarcely a
statesman ot either who would not adopt
the most violent or the basest doctrine,
however, if he thought that lie could
work it to advantage with the majority—
peculation and jobbing are the only ob
jects ; delusion, aud the basest flattery of
Iho people, the means.” “ If,” adds this
discreet statesman, “they drive us into
war, the blacks in the Suith will soon
settle all that part of the Union ; and in
the North I led sure that we can lick
them to their hearts’ content.” ‘A Re
public could answer in former times in
countries where there was no people, or
few; "the bulk of the population Helots
and slaves ; but where there is a people,
and they have the power, government is
only possible by pandering to their worst
passions, which makes the country un
bearable to a man of any education, and
the Central Government itself n byword
amongst civilized nations. I hope (he
concludes, perhaps consistently enough)
that we may live long enough "to see this
great bubble hurst ; and I do not believe
that we need be very long-lived for
that” (31G.)
I am sorry to be under the necessity of
declaring that one is at a loss whether
most to marvel at the total want’of com
mon reflection, or the extraordinary
want of common information, in this pas
sage—the production of n man in high
office, addressed to a tniui still higher,
and u ho presumes, without any delibera
tion, and with no knowledge of the cub
ject, to pronounce so sweeping a Censure
upon tho whole body of a great nation,
nil their statesmen, and all their institu
tions. It is fit that tho Americans sh&ukl
well understand that these are the errors
and this the rashness of the late Govern
or General of Canada, and not shared by
the Libera! party, or by any but the most
ignorant and the ruo-t prejudiced in this
country.
First of at), Lord Sydctibam is no au
thority on the subject of the United
States, merely because he was Governor
of Canada, and never in the Union at all.
Had, ho remained in London lie would
have been as..well qualified to judge of
those States, as liis living nc/ir them lor
two years could make him; nay, a great
ileal better; for his residence in Canada,
without giving him one title more of in
formation, had the manifest tendency to
fill his mind with Canadian prejudices;
and Hk'pc views seem to gain a still
greater ascendant over him by the dis
putes of a border Mature, iq which he
was involved. 1 should, during the sep
nration of England and Scotland, before
the seventeenth century,• never have
looked fothe Warden of the West March
es for a candid account of the people ors
the Scotch border when he lived at Car
lisle. But, had tho-Warden directed his
hostile operations from York or from
Lincoln, 1 should have believed him just
as ignorant as if he had lived in London,
and a very great deal more prejudiced.
Next, let us observe bow little the Gov
ernor General had studied constitutions
when he assumes the office of deciding
on their comparative merits. It would
not be easy to crowd more manifest er
rors'into one sentence than are fonud in
the few lines about ancient republics.—
M.Viy tilings respecting those systems
are obscurely known, and are therefore
the sulyect of controversy ; but no one
ever effected to doubt of the matters on
which this strange sentence errs, and
errs dogmatically. Sparta is of course
alluded to by the mention of Helots'; but
Spdrta Was not a republican ; it was art
aristocratic government. Then Athens,
which was a republic, so far from pro
ving such a government “could answer,”
is precisely the example always resorted
to in order to prove what Lord Svden>