ture. It will not be thought surprising that by the scene | SCIENCE, AND THE MERCY OF GOD." This story of the conversion of Mr Garstone. which I described in the last chapter, Mr Carver- was his last effort. We stood silently watching for He had been driven to infidelity by the dale was entirely exhausted. While the excite- his departing breath, when, as the sun was going stern views of the divine Being presented ment of the occasion lasted, he looked and spoke down, its beams forced their way through an openwith almost the animation of youth. But, when ing amid the branches of the thick trees which in the doctrines of Calvinism. These were it was over, he sunk down weak, trembling, and grew before the windows, and fell full upon his rigidly insisted on as the real doctrines of nearly fainting. The old cords had been stretch-face. A smile came over his countenance, and, the Scriptures, and as he was not led to ed more than they could bear, add lost their tone before it had entirely passed away, he ceased to examine for himself, he resorted to the for ever. When the people had dispersed, he at- breathe. I remembered his conversation on the conclusion, that the Scriptures were false, tempted to rise from his seat and follow them, but preceding evening, and rejoiced at his quiet deparwas unable. Several of his friends advanced to or that God was a merciless tyrant. He his asssistance. "The light is almost burned chose to believe the former; and, although down," said he, in a voice scarcely audible; he could never entirely divest his mind of "might it only go out here at the altar, how privihis early impressions, he was sufficiently an leged I should be." Some one expressed a hope that it might be yet continued for a season to the more than twenty years. infidel to make himself quite miserable for benefit of his church. He shook his head. 66 No," Our readers said he; "and why should I wish it? It is only a must know already, that Unitarians believe flickering, fitful flame. to-day, but will be dim again to-morrow, and cheer ful tendency to make infidels of literary no one. No: my poor flock need a vigorous flame,-a -a burning and a shining light. I am wasttheir reasons for this belief. men. This part of the volume assigns ed. And if it please my God soon to remove me to a place among the stars of the firmament, why should I lament, or why should you? For I have that hope; I thank God, I have that hope." This he said with frequent interruptions, showing that his spirit was stirring, though his body was weak. He seemed unable to say more, and was carried in the arms of his friends to his house, and placed in bed. He fell into a sort of sleep, which the physician declared to be the prelude of death, and which he said it would be useless and cruel to disturb by attempting to prolong life. "The machine," said he, " is worn out, and will gradually come to a stop." In less than a year after the death of Mr Carverdale, Mr Anderson was settled in his place. how different is the real character of men, He now began to learn and especially men of many and fair pro It may brighten a moment fessions, from what youth are accustomed the doctrines of Calvinism to have a powerto hope and imagine. The persons described in this part of the story, are Mr Dunbar and Mr Ellerton,-the former claiming to be strictly orthodox, but, in fact, an unprincipled hypocrite the latter anal view of what is contained in this book. We have now given our readers a generunassuming, conscientious, intelligent Ari- We shall have discharged our whole duty an. Mr Dunbar obtained the entire confi- to them and the writer, when we have dence of Mr Anderson by his abundant added that its spirit is highly "liberal,” in attentions, his sanctimonious deportment, the Unitarian sense of the term, and that and his rigid observance of all religious the style is uncommonly chaste, perspicucustoms and ordinances. He hated Mr Ellerton, to whom only his real character in which the several subjects are sustained ous, and forcible. We seldom meet a work was fully known; and by obscure insinua- with so much interest, or in which controtions, and at length by open declarations, verted topics are defended in a manner so had much effect with Mr Anderson, till the of readers. The writer has chosen to inendeavoured to ruin his reputation. This little calculated to excite the bad passions malignity from which it proceeded betray- culcate Unitarian sentiments, by exhibiting ed itself by its extravagance. after having proposed that Mr Ellerton practical effects; and by contrasting these Mr Dunbar, what he believes to be their legitimate, should be reproved for eating his usual with the effects of what are termed orthomeals on fast day, ate so much supper on dox sentiments. This species of argument the evening of that day, that he died from has some advantages over the ordinary the surfeit. Our Recollector resolved to mode of discussion: it admits less logomaknow more fully the man, whom he had chy; it regards actual life, instead of specshunned on account of slander. a degree of indecency which would not be ulative principles; and it cannot, without tolerated, descend to personal invective, and the disgusting scenes of party warfare. So far it is well; but, on the other hand, it can have little force to change opposing He remained in this state, apparently unconscious of what was passing around him, until I was summoned to the afternoon service. In the same state I found him on my return. In the mean time, the report had obtained currency among his parishioners, that their minister was dying. With affectionate concern they crowded around his dwelltng, and manifested the strongest sense of his worth, and liveliest gratitude for his past services. Never have I known eulogy more eloquent than that which I read in their tearful eyes, and whispering voices, as they stood silently waiting, or anxiously conversing, before the door, and beneath the windows. Their sound was distinctly heard in the chamber, as I stood with his friends beside his bed. It at length seemed to arouse him, and he opened his eyes. "What this?" said he. "The people have come from meeting," it was replied, "and are anxious to know how you do." He had been taught " to look with horror on Arianism, as little better than infidelity, and to take it for granted that there could be no religion at heart without the worship of the trinity." After becoming "They are kind souls," replied the old minister: acquainted with Mr Ellerton his prejudices opinions, for they who think the writer and, turning his eyes around as if looking for some one, he called me by name. I bent over him, and he took my hand. "Go to them, my young friend; tell them I thank them for all their fidelity and kindness. Carry them my last farewell. Bid them remember my last instructions; and God bless them." I were removed, and he became confirmed in the persuasion "that the great practical and vital principles of our religion are common to all believers." change soon followed, for he became himA still greater self an Arian, or rather ascertained that I went to the door, and beckoning to the several he had always been one, without knowing as I was desired. When I returned to the chamgroups, collected them together, and spoke to them it. He supposes that thousands of others, ber, the good old man was taking leave of his friends, and to each of them giving his blessing, He called for me. He was exhausted, and could no more speak audibly. His lips moved, and thought I would have given worlds to know what they would utter. After a few moments' silence, he exerted himself again, and we understood him to ask that there might be prayers. I kneeled down, with his hand still in mine, and commended his spirit, in such words as I was able, to the great Father of mercy. It was a solemn moment. There was a silence and awe like that of the tomb, interrupted only by the laborious breathing of the dying man, and the low voice of youthful supplication. When I had ended, he pressed my hand, but said nothing. We feared that he would not speak again; but it was permitted us to hear his last words distinctly. For, when something had been said respecting the good man's support in death, he spoke out audibly, "THE TESTIMONY OF CON and even a large majority of those educat- the practical effects of Unitarianism are far errs, would of course think his picture a false one. Nor can it have much power over those who are yet undecided; since story as they are impressed with a sense of they can only be so far affected by the its reality. Moreover, it is a weapon which is easily used, and may be used by all with who happened to possess our author's emiequal ease. A Calvinist or Hopkinsian, nent literary skill, might easily represent one Unitarian, proselyted to Orthodoxy and thus made good, and another led by what would be called his laxity of religious principle, into unqualified sinfulness. treatises on Pleas of the Crown. They furnish a full and satisfactory account of the provisions of the criminal code of England, as it then existed, and of its previous history; and their authority is still unquestioned. During the lapse of a century, however, the code has been much enlarged by penal statutes, and modified and explained by innumerable judicial decisions. Many of these decisions existed, till of late, only in manuscript, and the published statutes and cases were scattered through many volumes, and interspersed with much other matter. Before the publication of the work now before us, something had been done to facilitate the researches of the student of criminal law in its various branches. Foster had published his valuable treatise on the subjects of Treason and Homicide; Leach's collection of cases was a very useful work; and the additions to Hawkins, in the late editions, were serviceable as notes and references, but did not give that full and satisfactory information which was required. The treatise of Sir Edward Hyde East, which was published, in two volumes, in 1803, is excellent in its plan and arrangement; and if that plan had been completed, it would probably have superseded the necessity of the present work. But it was not completed, and in that treatise, as it now exists, many indictable offences are wholly unnoticed. A publication, therefore, which should comprise, in an elementary and systematic form, the substance of the law of crimes and misdemeanors, as it is contained in the works of Hale, Hawkins, Foster, Blackstone, East, and Leach, together with the modern statutes and important decided cases from the printed and manuscript reports, was required by the profession; and Mr Russell has attempted,- -we think successfully,-to satisfy the requisition. of this work is judicious, and well calculat- nitude. There are, indeed, some atrocious Mr Russell's object, in the present publication, being simply to exhibit, in a connected view, the criminal law of England as it is, and not as it ought to be,-to explain its principles and provisions, and not to discuss its merits or defects; he has not indulged in any theoretical speculations, or conjectural constructions. He confines himself within the limits of established principles and decided cases; and he fortifies all his important positions by an array of standard authorities, which seem to render them impregnable. His statements are brief, but sufficiently full for all ordinary purposes, and whenever more extensive information than his text affords may be required on any subject, his marginal references will point out the sources whence that information may be derived. It is the fault of the legislators of England, and not of Mr Russell, that the code, which his work contains, is cruel and sanMr Russell informs us, in his preface, guinary. That such is its character, cannot that he has endeavoured, in his treatise, be doubted or concealed. It has, indeed, "to dispose, in an appropriate arrangement, no secret tribunals like the inquisition; the principles of the common law, the and employs no tortures to wring from its statutes, and the decided cases relating to victims a confession of guilt. Its great and every offence which may be made the sub-revolting defect, is a total disregard of project of prosecution by indictment, except portion between crimes and punishments. only that of High Treason." This crime By the established law of England, "the was excluded from his plan, not only by the great additional space which the proper discussion of that important subject would have occupied, but because prosecutions for that crime are not frequent, and are always so conducted as to give sufficient time to consult the highest authorities. The work is divided into five books, and subdivided into one hundred and four chapters. Each book,-except the first, which is of a preliminary nature,-is devoted to the consideration of a distinct class of what may be considered kindred offences; and each chapter to a particular offence belonging to that class. The first book treats "Of persons capable of committing crimes, of principals and accessories, and of indictable offences." The law upon these subjects is stated and explained briefly, but in a manner very perspicuous and satisfactory. The general arrangement of the matter In preparing for publication the American edition of the work now under review, Mr Davis has performed an acceptable service to the members of his profession. In this edition, thirty-five whole chapters, and parts of several others of the original work, which have no direct or important application to the jurisprudence of this country, have been omitted; as for instance, the numerous English Statutes, the provisions of which being altogether local, of course, relate to subjects foreign to the administration of justice in the American Courts. Considerable matter is still retained which will be of little use to the profession in America, but it is so interwoven with other matters of importance, that it could not be omitted without injury to the residue. Considerable additional matter is furnished in this edition, consisting of Notes of decisions collected from the American Reports, and references to American Statutes. A digest of those decisions, and in some of them, the ground and principles upon which they are founded, are also given. These omissions and additions will greatly aid the enquiries of the student, and relieve the members of the profession from much labour in their researches. The former will find, in this work, less to unlearn, and the latter more to facilitate his investigations, than in any other publication of the kind now extant. We were about to enjoin it upon every lawyer to purchase it for his library, but we find, upon a blank leaf at the beginning, a pencil-mark of $12,00, and we fear, that, in these times of professional dearth and depression, our injunction would be disregarded. cutting of a twig, and the assassination of We had intended to make some remarks upon the subject of the criminal jurisprudence of the United States, but we are admonished that it is time to conclude. We will, therefore, close this article by citing, from the book before us, a single passage; less by way of specimen than of warning. It contains a wise provision of law for our own special protection and encouragement as reviewers. fair and candid criticism, by attacking the charac- It was a long, low unpainted house, with narrow who made the dairy, and spinning-wheel, the prime ter of the writer unconnected with his publication. casements, situated about half a mile from the main objects of attention. The white floor was carefully We take it for granted, that our extract-road. Near it was a substantial barn, surrounded sanded, and at each door a broad mat, made of the by a large yard, where a number of animals assem- husks of the Indian corn, claimed tribute from the ing this passage will be considered fair no- bied exhibited an appearance of comfort, which de-feet of those who entered. Where Madam Ltice, that we shall claim the protection of noted at once a kind and careful master. Cuffee was seated, she had a full view of the family, surthis salutary provision of the common law, alighting, removed the bars, which formed, or ra- rounding their peaceful board, and so cordially enwhenever presumptuous "follies and er- ther obstructed, the rustic entrance to the demesne; gaged in doing justice to its viands, that not a glance rors," in the form of a literary production, horse, who advanced his head, and bent down his and then addressed a few soothing words to his wandered to the spot which she occupied. shall obtrude themselves upon us. quivering ear, as if the sounds of the human voice were either comprehended, or beloved. Sketch of Connecticut, forty years since Hartford, 1824. 1 vol. 12mo. pp. 278. THIS little work must not be regarded as a novel, or a tale. It has but little story; hardly enough indeed to connect its different parts; but it is a series, or, rather, a collection of sketches, illustrative of the principles and habits which prevailed in Connecticut some years since; and exhibiting, not only the character and manners of the people who inhabited that beautiful country, but its appearance, and natural or artificial peculiarities. None of these sketches are bad, and many of them are strikingly exact, and very interesting. The story, such as it is, is very easily told. As Madam L entered she heard, in the clattering of knives and forks, the reason, why she was not as usual welcomed at the door. Unwilling to interrupt the refection of the family, she took a seat unobserved. She found herself in the best room in the mansion, but to this the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages would assign, neither the name of " parlour, hall, or drawing-room," avoiding the example of their city acquaintance, as the ancient reformers did the abominations of the Church of Rome. Adhering to their habits of precision as tenaciously as to their ideas of simplicity, they gave to this most honourable room, an appellation derived from its bearing upon the cardinal points. The one under present consideration, being visited by the latest beams of the setting sun, and the first breathings of the summer breeze, was denominated the "south-west room." As the furniture of this best apartment of Farmer Larkin may serve as a sample of the interior of most of the Sanctum Sanctorums of the better sort of agricul turists at that early period, it may be well to add a brief description. The table, covered with a coarse white cloth, bore at the head a large supply of boiled beef and pork, served up in a huge dish of glazed ware, of a form between platter and bowl, though it probably would rank with the latter genus. A mass of very fine cabbage appeared in the same reservoir, like a broad, emerald islet, flanked with parsnips and turnips, the favourite "long and short saace" of the day. At the bottom of the board was an enormous pudding of Indian meal, supported by its legitimate concomitants, a plate of butter, and jug of molasFour brown mugs of cider, divided into equal es. compartments the quadrangle of the board, and the wooden trenchers, which each one manfully maintained, were perfectly clean and comfortable. Farmer Larkin, and his wife, not deeming it a point of etiquette to separate as far as the limits of the table would permit, shared together the post of honor by the dish of meat. At the left hand of the father, sat his youngest son, and at the right hand of her mother, her youngest daughter. Thus the male line, beginning at Jehu, and touching every one according to his age, passed over the heads of In the town of N, dwelt the princinephew, and would-be Methodist. On the other Timothy and Jehoikim, ending in Amariah, the pal character of the work, who is spoken of hand, the female line, from the mother, who held in as Madame L. She is far advanced in The bed, an indispensable appendage, was with- her lap the chubbed Tryphosa, passed with geometyears, a widow, and childless; but has all out either curtains or high posts, and decorated rical precision through the spaces allotted to Try the comfort which can be derived from with a new woollen coverlet, where the colour of phena, Keziah, Roxey and Reuey, terminating with the exercise of the highest virtues, and red gorgeously predominated over the white and buxom Molly. She was indeed a damsel of formigreen, with which it was intermingled. So small a dable size, but of just proportions, and employed from a wise stewardship of a large fortune. space did it occupy, that if, like Og, king of Ba- her brawny arm, in cutting slices from a large loaf Her house and family, and domestic econ- shan, whose gigantic height was predicated from of brown bread, which she distributed with great omy, and social habits, are all minutely de- his bedstead of nine cubits, the size of our farmers exactness by each trencher, as soon as her father scribed. Near her reside the remains of a should have been estimated by the dimensions of had stocked it with meat, and her mother garnished powerful tribe of Indians, and the account their places of repose, posterity would do them im-it with vegetables. There was something pleas ing in the sight of so many healthy and cheerful of their customs and traditions forms an in- mense injustice. A buffet, or corner-cupboard, was a conspicuous faces, and in the domestic order which evidently teresting portion of the volume. With article, in which were arranged a set of bright pew-prevailed. facts, some fictions, as we suppose, are min- ter plates, some red and white cups and saucers, gled. In relating some occurrences which not much larger than what now belong to a doll's took place among this now degraded and equipage, and a pyramidal block-tin tea-pot. The miserable people, much power both of pa-protected by a door, furnished a receptacle for the lower compartment of this repository, which was thos and of eloquence, is exhibited. The Sabbath-day hats and bonnets of the children, each style is, throughout, eminently good, though occupying its own place upon the shelves. In the not remarkable for uncommon power or vicinity was what was denominated “a chist o' liveliness. It is chaste and correct; sel- draws," namely, a capacious vault of stained pine, dom aiming at high elevation, and yet more which, opening like a chest, contained the better seldom disfigured by false ornaments. We part of the wardrobe of the master and mistress of the family; while, beneath, space was left for two must indeed say of the whole work, that it or three drawers, devoted to the accommodation of gives distinct and continual indication of the elder children. But the master-piece of finery an accomplished and disciplined mind. Its was a tea-table, which, elevating its round disk pergreat fault, and it is a great one,-is the pendicularly, evinced that it was more for show want of a story of sufficient interest to awake the curiosity, and to sustain the attention of the reader. Its great merit is the fidelity and vividness with which many interesting sketches are drawn. than use. Its surface displayed a commendable lustre, protected by a penal statute from the fingers of the children. But an unruly kitten used to take delight in viewing, on the lower extremity of that polished orb, a reflection of her own round face, and formiWe would willingly make many extracts dable whiskers. Unhappily mistaking the appearance of these for an adversary, she imprinted from this volume, not only that our readers thereon the marks of her claws, too deeply for all might judge for themselves of its character, the efforts of the good housewife to efface, and soon but because we could hardly put upon our after expiated her crime upon the scaffold. A pages any thing which would entertain looking-glass, much smaller than the broad expanthem better;-but we hardly know what sion of the Farmer's face, hung against the roughly plastered, yet unsullied wall. A few high, straitto select. The following view of the inte- backed chairs, and a pair of small andirons nicely rior of a farm-house upon on estate belong-blacked, whose heads bore a rude resemblance to ing to Madame Land of its inhabit- the "human form divine" completed the inventory ants, is as pleasing to us, as a finely execut- of goods and chattels. Over the low, wide fireed picture. All who are, or ever were, con- place, hung in a black frame, without the superfluity of a glass, the family record, legibly penned, with a versant with the yeomanry of our country, space very considerately left for future additions. and at home in their dwellings, will recog-The apartment had an air of neatness, beyond what nise its accuracy. was then generally observed in the houses of those Those of our readers who happen live in our "river towns," will acknowledge the It will be remembered that it is particularly exactness of the following representation. applied to the country watered by the many streams which empty themselves into the Connecticut. It was one of those fine mornings, in which a softer season makes its first effectual resistance against the lingering claims of winter; like a buxom infant springing from the arms of a wrinkled dame, whose caresses chill it. Still the influence of the Sire of Storms was perceptible. The small streams moved but torpidly, between margins of ice, or beneath a thin veil which might have hidden their progress, had it not been revealed by a cold, subterranean murmuring. Over the larger rivers small boats were seen gliding, while their cheerful navigators repelled with long poles those masses of ice which essayed too near an approach; or sup porting themselves on their slippery surface, collected the drift-wood which adhered to them. Other labourers were busily employed in replacing bridges, which the swollen waters had injured or destroyed; for seldom did the spring-tide floods pass N, but the faces of the inhabitants gathered gloom from the prospect of an additional weight of taxation. While the solitary amateur admired the wrath of the resounding streams, the richer, and less roman tic burgher would calculate the cost, like Marlow in the well-furnished inn, apprehending, "how hor ridly a fine side-board, and marble chimney-piece would swell the reckoning." But the labourers, who had nothing to pay, and foresaw gain from being employed about broken bridges, and dilapidated fences, contented themselves with lamenting, in a less rueful tone, the evils of their almost insular situation. Considerable loss and suffering had frequently been sustained in the southern extreme of the town, which occupied the ground at the junction of the two principal rivers. These waters, when swollen by dissolving snows, and the increased revenue of their tributaries, came rushing down with great power. Inundated streets, merchants lamenting the loss of their goods, and sometimes of the warehouses which contained them; or millers gazing with uplifted hands after their floating fabrics, attested the ravages of the triumphant flood. Here and there, the sharp eaves of a fisherman's hut, or the upper story of some building of larger dimensions would rise above the encompassing element; while the boats employed to take from their windows the sick, or the softer sex, encountered continual obstacles from trees partly immersed, and fences planted like chevaux de frise, beneath the treacherous waters. Fixing his keen glance upon her for a moment, Martha covered her face with her hands, and 'I go, where is no shade of complexion-no trace of sorrow. I go to meet my parents, who died in faith; my Edward, whose trust was in his Redeemer. I shall see thy daughter, and she will be my sister, where all is love. Father! Mother! that God, whom you have learned to worship, whose spirit dwells in your hearts, guide you thith er also. Extending to each a hand, cold as marble, she said Occasionally, a bridge from some neighbouring town has been borne along, a reluctant visiter; in I was a stranger, and ye took me in; sick, and one instance a structure of this sort glided by, disAnd now go I unto Him, playing in unbroken majesty a toll-gate, upon ye ministered unto me. who hath said, "The merciful shall obtain mercy.' whose topmost bar, a red-winged cockerel was They felt that the chilling clasp of her fingers reperched. Having evinced his fidelity to his favourite roost, by adhering to it during all the shocks of laxed, and saw that her lips moved inaudibly. its midnight disruption, morn beheld the undaunted They knew that she was addressing Him, who was bird, clapping his wings as he passed the town, and taking her unto himself. A smile not to be described sending forth shrill notes of triumph, from excite- passed, like a gleam of sunshine, over her countement at his extraordinary voyage of discovery. nance; and they heard the words " "joy unspeakaOnce, an infant, in his cradle-ark, suddenly wash-ble, and full of glory." Something more was ed from the cabin of his slumbering parents, glided He was resover the bosom of the pitiless surge. cued-not by the daughter of Pharoah, and her maidens, but by the father urging on his light boat with eager strokes, while the mother, not standing "among the flags by the river's brink," but wading unconsciously into the cold, slippery channel, received with extended arms, the babe smiling as he awoke. breathed in the faintest utterance, but she closed wards, the vice, and wretchedness, and miserable death of a vagabond soldier, whom Mr Ashton made to relate to his son the vicisitudes of sin and suffering which composed his life, considerably weakened the determination of Charles; and the good work was finally accomplished by the history which a Colonel Gordon gave him of his earlier days. He was living in honours able retirement, broken down by the diseases and debility of a shattered and exhausted frame; but he had been active in his profession, had passed with honour through its gradations of rank, and had brought with him, to cheer his retirement, wealth and fame. He well knew all the business of war, and all its character, and he spoke upon the subject plainly and truly. This cured Charles effectually; and he soon felt that it was neither his duty nor his inclination to contribute his mite of effort to the savage and brutalizing work of war. In point of literary merit, the "Factory Girl" is decidedly inferior to "Charles Ashton." The story, however, is calculated to interest those for whom it is intended, and not only to interest, but to profit them. Mary, the Factory girl, is poor and friendCharles Ashton; the Boy that would be a less, but well instructed in the principles of Soldier. Boston, 1823. 12mo. pp. 108. piety and of virtue, and habituated to reThe Factory Girl. By the author of " Fil-gard them as of infinite value. She lives ial Affection," "James Talbot," &c. in a village where a large manufactory has been established, and works in the mill for Second Edition. Boston, 1824. 12mo. some time. She passes through much pp. 105. temptation and distress, but constantly prefers her principles to her wishes, until at length her duty and her inclination be The following extract is of a different description. Oriana, a young English wo-WE put the titles of these books together, man, follows her husband, an English officer, to this country; he is slain in battle; and notice them in one article, because she is taken prisoner by the Indians, and they strictly belong to one class. They are-like others of similar size and literary doomed to a death of agony. She is rescucharacter which the press is now perpetued by an Indian Chief, who adopts her as his daughter; she afterwards goes with her ally pouring forth-intended solely to do protector and abides with him in the vil-good. Talents of the first order are brought lage near Madame L, until she falls a victim to consumption. The death scene is thus described. Exhausted in body, but confirmed in faith, Oriana waited her dissolution. Such was the wasting of her frame, that she seemed reduced to a spiritual essence, trembling, and ready to be exhaled. Every pure morning, she desired the casement to be thrown open, that the fresh air might visit her. But at length, this, from an occasional gratification became an object of frequent necessity, to aid laborious respiration. The couch, which she had been resolute in leaving while her strength permitted, was now her constant refuge. The febrile symptoms of that terrible disease, which delights to prey on the most fair and excellent, gradually disappeared; but debility increased to an almost insupportable degree. Smiles now constantly sat upon her face, and seemed to indicate that the bitterness of death had already passed. The irritation of pain, which had marked her features, subsided into tranquil loveliness, which sometimes brightened into joy, as one who felt that "redemption draweth nigh." One night, sleep had not visited her eyes; for, whenever her sense began to be lulled into transient repose, the spirit in its extasy seemed to revolt against such oppression, desirous to escape to that region, where it should slumber no more, through fulness of bliss. Calling to her bedside, at the dawn of morning, the old warrior, for her mother for several nights had watched beside her, she said— * Knowest thou, Father, that I am about to leave thee?' come one, and her efforts and sacrifices are rewarded by prosperity. MISCELLANY. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. to this work. The first of these little works across the waters to look after certain real | which do not altogether bear a testimony course would be a wise one, if it were purestate in South Carolina, which some one, of praise to the pure excellence of every sued, as a system of national recrimination. in some way related to his mother, had giv- thing English; true it is, he does assert, If the best intellect of Great Britain used en him some sort of interest in. He tarri- and show too, not only that there is much all the facilities afforded by its literature to ed awhile in this barbarous land, and then bad taste, and many foolish habits, in that defame us, it might be a question how wise returned to Somersetshire. Having profit- fine country, but that vice aud villany have it would be to rise in wrath and hurl back ed exceedingly by his foreign travel, he ripened there to a monstrous maturity, far foul reproach and obloquy, with no regard concluded, in pure love to his countrymen, beyond any thing attempted or imagined in to any other restraint than that imposed to make a book. Accordingly he prepares this country. But it is equally evident, by exact adherence to truth. But the his octavo, but sinks the Carolina agency, that he attributes these things to the true case is not such an one as this. Gladly and and so far forgets what he came for, as to cause; as, to the contrast between the ex- sincerely do we believe, that the scholars announce in his title page, that his journey treme poverty of one class, and the enor- and the gentlemen in England are disposed was "principally undertaken to ascertain mous wealth of another, to the intolerable to think of us as they should. They breathe the condition and prospects of British emi- severity of the public burthens, to the un- a different element from us. The kingly grants." This book is an unbroken tissue happy circumstance, that almost every name and office is with them the very esof villanous falsehood. We do him the change of trade or fashion, exposes numer- sence and abstract of all grandeur and justice to say, that he appears to have tried ous bodies to the misery and temptation of power. All authority and all honours emhard to believe all the ill he could, and no resourceless poverty. But is all this pe- anate from him; the very law of the land doubt really did believe some things, which culiarly disgraceful to England? If it be does not suppose that he can do wrong, and any one less candid than we, might consider so, is he who asserts it, an unprincipled the subject of the crown can have no words wholly beyond the reach of any possible slanderer of a great nation? No; he only and no thoughts for greatness beyond that credulity. Mr Gifford, editor and autocrat asserts that, while human nature is there which appertains to royalty. Their lords, of the London Quarterly Review, laid hold what it is elsewhere, the temptations which perhaps their cradled lords, who must be of this very excellent and valuable work, grow out of her eminent prosperity and visited with almost bended knee and signs and in an elaborate article, did his ut- social activity, bear, in their strength and of worship, whose attendant men and womost so to use the materials which Mr their number, some proportion to the effi- men must stand round with reverential Faux supplied, as to cast the most unquali- ciency and fertility of the causes which awe, while His Grace, the Most Noble fied discredit, nay, the foulest infamy upon produce them. Now, what is this, but the ob- Duke, swallows his pap, and all the attriour national character. We have no room vious and unavoidable truth? And England, butes and accidents of their established he-and no disposition—for periphrasis, and or Englishmen, have no more right to be reditary aristocracy, necessarily affect with therefore say at once what we would have offended with it, than we should have to be powerful influence the whole intellectual understood. Mr Gifford, in his strenuous very angry at a fair exposition of the sins and moral habit of the people. But, it endeavours to vilify this country, utterly and follies which form a part of our na- would be foolish and wicked to reproach disregarded every principle of politeness, tional character. It would be just as ab- them and quarrel with them, only because decency, and veracity. If we knew any surd to doubt, that within the social mass their opinions are somewhat affected by words which would express this fact more of England, principles of evil are most ac- vain prejudices which they are born to, and distinctly, we would use them, and we tively at work, as it would be unfair to deny which the many can no more cast aside, refer either to Mr Gifford's Review, or the energy and excellence of many valua- than they can shake off their skins. Let to the Review of that Review in the North ble institutions and national habits. We them be willing to see and admit the good American, certain that any honest man must be permitted to quote a pargraph that is in us, and let us gladly acknowlwould find in either article, direct and pos- from the article in question, which refers edge the good they have; then they may itive proof of the truth of our allegation. particularly to this subject. laugh at our plainness, and show, if they The London Quarterly was republished For his country, the country of our fathers, we can, when it becomes rudeness, and we here, but the article on Faux was omitted, entertain the tenderest sentiments of respect and will laugh at their pageantry, and show because Mr Law of Washington threatened veneration. The memory of the great and good them, as we may, its vanity. No matter Messrs Wells & Lilly with a prosecution, men, the countrymen of our ancestors, is dear to how much laughing there is, if it be without if they reprinted in this country the libel us in the next degree to that of those, whom we bitterness,-if it be far removed from bruupon him, which that Review contained. honor and love at home. In the English constitu- tal insolence, or malignant falsehood. Such tion we see some things, in the state of society and We approach to the end of our statement; condition of the arts in England, we see much to a relation between the countries as this, the last North American contains an ar- admire and to emulate. We also see monstrous would be, perhaps, as good a one as could ticle upon Faux and his reviewer, treating defects, enormous contrasts, institutions most per- be expected to exist, for a long period, at them both with great, and with equal jus-nicious, customs and practices corrupt beyond the least; and this would be, we do believe, tice, severity, and ability. We have heard the actual relation between them, were it many comments on this article, and some not for the efforts of such men as Gifford, whose opinions we, in the main, respect, or rather of Gifford himself. The history have said that its severity if not unmerited, of the London Quarterly Review with rewas unwise. Moreover, the course which spect to this country, is strongly marked, the North American takes, in this article, and easily told. We quote the following is new, and is worthy of some examination from the North American Review, not merely for its exact sketch of this history, but for the soundness and importance of the sentiments which it contains. on that account. example of imperial Rome, and an excess of pri- Association.' It merits consideration whether he of commanding influence, to turn into bitterness In the first place let it be distinctly understood, that it forms no part of the object of the writer of this article to vilify England. He speaks of that country, of its institutions, its habits, and its whole char-will do all, that can be done by a literary journal acter, with, as we believe, exact truth; and we believe it, because all the facts which he mentions are of common notoriety, or rest upon unquestionable authorities, which he cites; and the inferences which he draws from them, and from the general condition of things there, are simple and obvious. True it is, that he does state some things But it may be objected, that, supposing all this to be true, and to be no more than can be said with due honesty and candour, yet there exists no good reason for saying it. Now, it is one question whether such a He sees in Faux's book itself that England has too many and too partial friends here. The numpolitical feuds could not do, is rapidly doing by ber, it is true, is daily growing less. What our publications like the Quarterly Review; and it is matter of notoriety, that the feelings entertained in this country toward England are less friendly now, than in the hottest of the late war. This alienation has been mainly effected by this very journal. For the purpose originally of discouraging emigration, shut up in your empire a crowded, starving, riot-a policy very unsound in itself, for why keep ing, maddening population-some writers in this |