derstanding. His figures and illustrations, the ACT III.-SCENE IV. Man. The stars are forth, the moon above Of the snow-shining mountains.-Beautiful! I learned the language of another world. ments, And twines its roots with the imperial hearths, during the Journey from St. Petersburg to | hut for travellers who are detained by the From Katscha-ur to Passamaur the descent prisoners terrible examples are related. is troublesome but not dangerous. The fright At Kobi, a little fort upon Caucasus, they learned that the Katscha-ur over which their road lay, was covered with snow, and that they must wait for a convoy to open the way. In a wretched hut, buried up to the roof in snow, destitute of the necessaries of life, even of sufficient wood for fuel, they were forced to remain from the 12th to 23d November. But as no convoy came, and the wind and snow abated, they ventured to proceed with their escort only. They were forced to leave their chaise behind; a kind of basket was made of skins, it was drawn But I have found our thoughts take wildest by two oxen, and protected from accidents flight "Twas such a night! 'Tis strange that I recall it at this time; ful rocks gradually retire, and the fruitful vale watered by the Aragua appears between the cliffs. Five wersts from Passanaur, they were met by a chaise sent by the governor of that fort, in which the family, tired of their basket, together with the father joyfully placed themselves. Soon the road led down the mountain by the side of a precipice, at the foot of which the Aragua flowed they wished to alight but the driver dis suaded them; the carriage struck against a piece of rock, was instantly overturned, and rolled above twenty fathom down the precipice into the river; pieces of rock roll down by two mountaineers on each side. The after it; the father first falls out and lies mother holding the two children in her lap senseless on the ground; the nurse who was placed in this vehicle, and the father at falls out lower down protects the little boy the side. The way was narrow, the people and cattle waded through deep snow, and the valley soon became so narrow that rocks and masses of snow threatened to fall upon their heads. A mineral spring which had This interesting work, which was first pub-overflowed part of the way, afforded them a lished in French, has now appeared in a welcome refreshment. German translation, by M. Struve, the Russian Consul General at Hamburg. Even at the moment when they should array LETTERS respecting the CAUCASUS and GEORGIA, to which is annexed an Account of a Journey in Persia, in 1812, by WITHELM VON FREYGANG. The first part consists of letters written On the top of the Bigara, the first height which they attained, a family of the mountaineers, called Astokines, had erected a at the hazard of her life; the mother alone remains in the chaise, and is plunged without injury into the bed of the Aragua, whose waves foam round the carriage. Hurt, but not dangerously, the poor family assemble on the bank of the river, the escort climb down to their assistance, the carriage, which was still in a condition for travelling, was brought with incredible difficulty up the precipice, which was so steep that the travellers were obliged to be drawn | form poetic heads at Benares or Delhi, as Dangeau joined a strong disposition for up with ropes. (To be concluded in our next.) L'HINDOSTAN, ou Réligion, Mœurs, Usages, Arts et Métiers des Hindous. M. Nepoen, the author of an interesting work under the above title, lately published at Paris, has exercised his pen on every subject presenting a distinct character. He has not, like many other writers, confined himself to giving a description of monuments already described, or a copy of narratives with which we are already familiar. The observer who has drained truth from its source, and the painter who has coloured from nature, are recognisable throughout the whole of the book. A few examples will enable the reader to confirm this eulogium, which is in reality only an act of justice. well as in London or Paris. Besides, while the sciences, and, as Fontenelle says, an we talk so rapturously of our musicians and algebraical head. On this subject he singers, the Hindoos render credible the relates the following story :-" One day, prodigies which fiction attributes to Orpheus. For instance, we may mention the Pambati, when the Marquis de Dangeau went to or Enchanter of Serpents, who with no other join the king's card-party, he solicited weapon than a kind of bag-pipe, called from him an apartment in the Palace of Magoudi, penetrates into a forest swarming Saint Germain, where the court then with the most frightful reptiles. At the en-resided. It was not a favor easy to be chanting sounds of his instrument, all are obtained, since the number of apartments set in motion, all advance towards the mu- there was small; the king answered, that sician, and fall at his feet with all the extasy manifested by our Dilettanti, when listening his wish should be granted, provided it to the strains of Catalani or Braham. The was expressed in a hundred lines of Pambati rapidly seizes the first serpent within poetry, to be composed while he was his reach, and whispers a few mysterious playing at cards; but it must be a hunwords in the animal's car: on this, however, dred lines exactly, not one more or less. he does not seem to place much reliance, for When the party was finished, at which he immediately squeezes its throat, opens its Many Europeans, for instance, who con- mouth, tears out its venomous teeth, and the Marquis seemed as unembarrassed as sider the Hindoos as a species of Barbarians, shuts the serpent up in a basket. In a few usual, he repeated the hundred lines to will be astonished to learn that they not days its education is complete; whenever it the king, having composed, numbered, only derive pleasure from the dramatic art, listens to music, it raises its body in a spiral and arranged them in his memory, withbut that it is incomparably more ancient form, and marks every cadence by move-out the effort in any sort interrupting the with them than with us. They cannot, per-ments of its head, until at length it falls to rapid course of the game." haps, boast of a Shakespeare, a Corneille, or sleep. When it is considered that these a Calderon; but it is certain, that from the reptiles are nothing less than Cobra-Capellas, most remote antiquity, the peaceable inhabi- Cobra-Mapilschas, and other serpents still tants of the Banks of the Ganges, have been more terrible than the Rattle-Snake, we may charmed by theatrical representations. In cease to wonder at the bard of Thrace, whose order to enjoy these amusements, they do music tamed only Lions and Bears. not crowd together in theatres such as ours; but favoured by their fine climate, twenty or thirty thousand spectators will assemble to gether at night, and in the open air, without the least tumult or confusion, seated on the ground, surrounded by darkness and profound silence, this multitude can scarcely distinguish each other, whilst the multiplicity of lamps which illuminate the stage enables them to follow every movement of In order to fulfil his plan of tracing a general picture of Hindostan, M. Nepoen has announced his intention of completing it by making another excursion to this remote country. THE MARQUIS DE DANGEAU. The Marquis de Dangeau had the honor of being the patron of Boileau at court; and the fifth Satire of that poet upon Nobility, is addressed to him. In 1665, he was made Colonel of the king's regiment, which, during the four or five years it had been established, hitherto had no other commander than the king himself. The new Colonel distinguished himself in the campaign of Lille in 1667; but after some years he resigned his regiment to attach himself more particularly to the person of the The following sketch of the life of king. He was charged by this prince the actors, who are attired in the most this distinguished person, whose Me- with several negociations; he went as splendid costumes. "These actors," observes a modern traveller, "sustain' their moirs, written by himself, are just pub- Envoy-Extraordinary to the Electors of parts with a degree of propriety, spirit and lished, may not be unacceptable to our the Rhine, and it was he who concluded dignity, which would do honor to many of readers. the marriage between the Duke of York, our European performers." Philip de Courcillon, Marquis de Dan-afterwards James II. of England, and the As to the representations themselves, geau, was born in La Beauce, the 21st Princess of Modena. A stranger to incritics must not suppose that they uniformly of September, 1638. "He had," says trigue, to the wisdom of his character, to present a faithful fulfilment of the three uni- Fontenelle, ties of Aristotle. Their limits are indeed with a considerable share of natural ta- esteem, was he alone indebted for all the a pleasing countenance, his good conduct, and to the king's rarely confined to the description of a single action in the life of a hero; they most fre-lent, sufficient to write poetry agreeably." honors and dignities conferred upon him. quently include his whole history. Their He was of a Protestant family, but in his He was governor of Touraine; he was dramatic performances, therefore, are not, early youth was converted to the Catholic one of the six Menins appointed by like ours, terminated in an hour or two, but religion. He distinguished himself much Louis XIV. to the Dauphin, grandfather are sometimes prolonged for two or three by his courage and military talents; in to Louis XV.; he was chevalier d'honnights. The performers every evening re- 1658, he served in Flanders under the neur to the two Dauphinesses, of Bavasume the representation where they left it on the preceding night. We regret that the great Turenne, and afterwards in Spain; ria, and of Savoy, a Counsellor of State, limits of this article will not permit us to his success in the latter country was so Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost, make some extracts from a celebrated Indian brilliant, that the King of Spain would Grand Master of the Royal and Military Tragedy, by Bhavabhati, a no less celebrated fain have engaged him in his service, but poet. It is entitled, Malati-Madhava, and" he found him," says Fontenelle, contains ten acts. On the strength of this Frenchman too passionately attached to latter circumstance alone, an inflexible cen- his country and to his king." At his return to France his military reputation 2 a The king had not required the verses to be fine, and as it is not difficult to make bad verses extempore, it is possible that M. de Dangeau without a reading: our intelligent country and agreeable manners soon acquired him was over, instead of having compiled them woman, Miss Graham, however, affirms that the subject abounds in interest, and that the work is altogether eminently dramatic. It is therefore possible, with all due deference to European conceit, for Heaven to the favor of the Queens, and of Louis To a cultivated taste for letters, M. de during its continuance-a thing which would be much less extraordinary. 2 Menins are the title of a particular description of officers attached to the person of the Dauphin. T. Orders of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, | forms a part of the general picture, and conveyances are more safe and facile. Exand of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. then he shows himself, not because he is tensive tracts of unproductive ground are also in a state of melioration. This, in fact, bog at home, is more useful than to capture is true conquest of territory. To reclaim a an island at a distance. No sooner was he invested with the ambitious to shine, but because he was latter dignity, than he used his most there, and he wishes to tell every thing; strenuous exertions to raise again an he writes only to narrate faithfully, never order which had for a long time been to please and gain admiration to himself. Though numbers of the Irish are still disextremely neglected. He procured the The originality of this narration, and its contented with the Union, I am firmly perfoundation of twenty-five new com-extreme simplicity, throw into it an in- suaded that Ireland owes more of her prosmanderies, and, joining beneficence to describable interest; we cannot distrust perity to that measure, than to any other zeal and activity, employed his revenues any thing, we must believe every word, deed the objection against it appears to have which has ever been enacted for her. Inand rites, as Grand Master, in educating we are certain that nothing is embellished proceeded as well from a feeling of national together in a house appropriated to the or exaggerated, we are led on in read-degradation, as from a conviction of political purpose, twelve young gentlemen of the ing it by the most powerful attraction, injury. Yet why either? That there is now first families in the kingdom, destined TRUTH; we see Louis XIV. constantly no parliament on the spot, to watch over principally to serve afterwards in the before our eyes, we hear him, and curi-Ireland, is a confined and idle objection. If army. Thus to him is to be ascribed osity is fully satisfied. there were any force in it, Yorkshire, and a (a thing not generally known) the glory fortiori, Scotland, might just as well say the same. If Ireland too complain, that her of having founded the first military school parliament is no longer independent, because ever established in France, or at least to it is incorporated with the British, England have furnished the idea of such an estamay make a similar complaint, since her parliament also divides its empire with the Irish and Scotch. LETTERS ON IRELAND. blishment upon a grand scale. Some rate some of the disadvantages under which vernment. incur eternal perdition. like the three estates of the Constitution, N. B.-Your fair correspondent, Hibernica, by way of defending the Irish peasantry, endeavours to prove that they are not abject, But were Emancipation conceded, and were because they are rebellious! But history the Catholic Priest salaried like the Pres- would have informed her, that the most abject Every Wednesday the Marquis and byterian, he would find it more his interest people are always the most inclined to inhis brother, the Abbé de Dangeau had a to conciliate the legislature than the people, surrection. Witness the West Indian slaves, select assembly, at their house, of men and he would form a common bond of union witness the Turks, witness every oppressed of letters and science. Among the per- between both. He would be an isthmus nation upon earth. In fact, she has done sons composing this society, were the to connect, not a streight to divide. Then me the honor to strengthen my argument. Cardinal de Polignac, author of the Anti- too, the peasant, freed from his shackles, I am sorry she considers the Irish cottier Lucretius, the Abbé de Longuerue, the posed: assuming to be the keeper of his would become more docile and well dis- comfortable enough, who has only sixpence Abbé Dubos, the Marquis de l'Hopital, own conscience, he would learn to purify it year, and who has to pay nearly half of that a day, that is, from eight to nine pounds a and the Abbé de Saint Pierre, the Abbés without a fee. He would no longer consider for his cottage, half an acre of land, and Marian, Raguenet, and de Choise. In this virtue a marketable commodity. He would forage for a cow, leaving him about four assemblage of learning and intellect, the dare to expatiate in intellectual research, and pounds to clothe, feed, and educate his faMarquis de Dangeau was allowed to would find, that the bigotry of ignorance is mily. I am also sorry that she considers bear his part with no small share of the vilest of slavery, while the frank obepotatoes a cause of riches," for it is a credit. dience of enlightened minds is not incor- proof that she has never read Malthus, patible with freedoin. Yet even now, though Adam Smith, or Stuart, who have distinctly In these days there must be a display the influence of the priest, the peculiarity of proved, that cheapness of food in any one of genius in every thing, in works of their tenets, and their depressed state in the particular class, tends to the superabundant science no less than in poetry and novels. scale of society, contribute to make Catholics increase of that class, by facilitating maSome persons will therefore be angry worse subjects than ourselves, yet, as mem-trimony. Poverty follows of course, for with the Marquis de Dangeau for not bers of a religion, they are certainly superior. where hands are too numerous, labour must having interspersed more in his memoirs; They do not practise the violent doctrines of be too cheap, because the supply is greater but let it be remembered, that it is a nient tenets of our own. their church; we do not exemplify the le- than the demand. I hope Hibernica will simple journal, written without any sort Other disorders and other remedies might for tracts on political economy, and after a lay aside Lalla Rookh and her music book of pretension, having for its sole object be mentioned, but those already touched year's hard study, send you a second essay. to retrace with accuracy all that the au- upon are the most serious. Many faults thor witnessed for the space of twenty however have already been corrected, and years. We have here, in short, the latter much improvement is visible among the years of one of the most splendid epochs, people. The commonalty are advancing in presented to us without art or ornament, more than formerly on their own estates-are expected from a recent invention, by which knowledge. Gentlemen begin to reside exactly as they passed; the author never the public ways are improved-internal na- the motion of a right line is rendered capable places himself before us, but when he vigation has made some progress, and public of producing a motion which shall be rotatory PROGRESS OF THE ARTS AND MECHANICS.-The most beneficial results that the travellers were obliged to be drawn | form poetic heads at Benares or Delhi, as | Dangeau joined a strong disposition for up with ropes. (To be concluded in our next.) its of well as in London or Paris. Besides, while the sciences, and, as Fontenelle says, an we talk so rapturously of our musicians and algebraical head. On this subject he singers, the Hindoos render credible the relates the following story:-" One day, L'HINDOSTAN, ou Réligion, Maurs, Usages, prodigies which fiction attributes to Orpheus. Arts et Métiers des Hindous. For instance, we may mention the Pambati, when the Marquis de Dangeau went to M. Nepoen, the author of an interesting or Enchanter of Serpents, who with no other join the king's card-party, he solicited work under the above title, lately published weapon than a kind of bag-pipe, called from him an apartment in the Palace of at Paris, has exercised his pen on every sub- Magoudi, penetrates into a forest swarming Saint Germain, where the court then ject presenting a distinct character. He has with the most frightful reptiles. At the en-resided. It was not a favor easy to be not, like many other writers, confined himself chanting sounds of his instrument, all are obtained, since the number of apartments to giving a description of monuments already set in motion, all advance towards the mu- there was small; the king answered, that described, or a copy of narratives with which sician, and fall at his feet with all the extasy his wish should be granted, provided it we are already familiar. The observer who manifested by our Dilettanti, when listening has drained truth from its source, and the to the strains of Catalani or Braham. The was expressed in a hundred lines painter who has coloured from nature, are Pumbati rapidly seizes the first serpent within poetry, to be composed while he was recognisable throughout the whole of the his reach, and whispers a few mysterious playing at cards; but it must be a hunbook. A few examples will enable the words in the animal's ear: on this, however, dred lines exactly, not one more or less. reader to confirm this eulogium, which is in he does not seem to place much reliance, for When the party was finished, at which reality only an act of justice. he immediately squeezes its throat, opens Many Europeans, for instance, who con-mouth, tears out its venomous teeth, and the Marquis seemed as unembarrassed as sider the Hindoos as a species of Barbarians, shuts the serpent up in a basket. In a few usual, he repeated the hundred lines to will be astonished to learn that they not days its education is complete; whenever it the king, having composed, numbered, only derive pleasure from the dramatic art, listens to music, it raises its body in a spiral and arranged them in his memory, withbut that it is incomparably more ancient form, and marks every cadence by move-out the effort in any sort interrupting the with them than with us. They cannot, per-ments of its head, until at length it falls to rapid course of the game." haps, boast of a Shakespeare, a Corneille, or sleep. When it is considered that these The Marquis de Dangeau had the a Calderon; but it is certain, that from the reptiles are nothing less than Cobra-Capellas, honor of being the patron of Boileau at most remote antiquity, the peaceable inhabi- Cobra-Mapilschas, and other serpents tants of the Banks of the Ganges, have been more terrible than the Rattle-Snake, we may court; and the fifth Satire of that poet charmed by theatrical representations. In cease to wonder at the bard of Thrace, whose upon Nobility, is addressed to him. order to enjoy these amusements, they do music tamed only Lions and Bears. not crowd together in theatres such as ours; but favoured by their fine climate, twenty or thirty thousand spectators will assemble to gether at night, and in the open air, without the least tumult or confusion, seated on the ground, surrounded by darkness and profound silence, this multitude can scarcely distinguish each other, whilst the multiplicity of lamps which illuminate the stage enables them to follow every movement of still In order to fulfil his plan of tracing a general picture of Hindostan, M. Nepoen has announced his intention of completing it by making another excursion to this remote country. THE MARQUIS DE DANGEAU. I In 1665, he was made Colonel of the king's regiment, which, during the four or five years it had been established, hitherto had no other commander than the king himself. The new Colonel distinguished himself in the campaign of Lille in 1667; but after some years he resigned his regiment to attach himself more particularly to the person of the The following sketch of the life of king. He was charged by this prince the actors, who are attired in the most this distinguished person, whose Me- with several negociations; he went as splendid costumes. "These actors," observes a modern traveller, "sustain their moirs, written by himself, are just pub- Envoy-Extraordinary to the Electors of parts with a degree of propriety, spirit and lished, may not be unacceptable to our the Rhine, and it was he who concluded dignity, which would do honor to many of readers. the marriage between the Duke of York, our European performers." Philip de Courcillon, Marquis de Dan-afterwards James II. of England, and the As to the representations themselves, geau, was born in La Beauce, the 21st Princess of Modena. A stranger to incritics must not suppose that they uniformly of September, 1638. "He had," says trigue, to the wisdom of his character, to present a faithful fulfilment of the three uni- Fontenelle, a pleasing countenance, his good conduct, and to the king's ties of Aristotle. Their limits are indeed with a considerable share of natural ta- esteem, was he alone indebted for all the rarely confined to the description of a single upon him. action in the life of a hero; they most fre- lent, sufficient to write poetry agreeably." honors and dignities conferred quently include his whole history. Their He was of a Protestant family, but in his He was governor of Touraine; he was dramatic performances, therefore, are not, early youth was converted to the Catholic one of the six Menins' appointed by like ours, terminated in an hour or two, but religion. He distinguished himself much Louis XIV. to the Dauphin, grandfather are sometimes prolonged for two or three by his courage and military talents; in to Louis XV.; he was chevalier d'honnights. The performers every evening re- 1658, he served in Flanders under the neur to the two Dauphinesses, of Bavasume the representation where they left it on the preceding night. We regret that the great Turenne, and afterwards in Spain; ria, and of Savoy, a Counsellor of State, limits of this article will not permit us to his success in the latter country was so Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost, make some extracts from a celebrated Indian brilliant, that the King of Spain would Grand Master of the Royal and Military Tragedy, by Bhavabhati, a no less celebrated fain have engaged him in his service, but paet. It is entitled, Malati-Madhava, and" he found him," says Fontenelle, a The king had not required the verses to be contains ten acts. On the strength of this Frenchman too passionately attached to fine, and as it is not difficult to make bad verses latter circumstance alone, an inflexible cen- his country and to his king." At his extempore, it is possible that M. de Dangeau return to France his military without a reading: our intelligent country and agreeable manners soon acquired him was over, instead of having compiled them woman, Miss Graham, however, affirms that the subject abounds in interest, and that the work is altogether eminently dramatic. It is therefore possible, with all due deference to European conceit, for Heaven to the favor of the Queens, and of Louis To a cultivated taste for letters, M. de during its continuance-a thing which would be much less extraordinary. 2-Menins are the title of a particular description of officers attached to the person of the Dauphin. T. tensive tracts of unproductive ground are also in a state of melioration. This, in fact, bog at home, is more useful than to capture is true conquest of territory. To reclaim a an island at a distance. Orders of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, | forms a part of the general picture, and conveyances are more safe and facile. Exand of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. then he shows himself, not because he is No sooner was he invested with the ambitious to shine, but because he was latter dignity, than he used his most there, and he wishes to tell every thing; strenuous exertions to raise again an he writes only to narrate faithfully, never order which had for a long time been to please and gain admiration to himself. Though numbers of the Irish are still disextremely neglected. He procured the The originality of this narration, and its contented with the Union, I am firmly perfoundation of twenty-five new com- extreme simplicity, throw into it an in- suaded that Ireland owes more of her prosmanderies, and, joining beneficence to describable interest; we cannot distrust perity to that measure, than to any other zeal and activity, employed his revenues any thing, we must believe every word, deed the objection against it appears to have which has ever been enacted for her. Inwe are certain that nothing is embellished proceeded as well from a feeling of national or exaggerated, we are led on in read-degradation, as from a conviction of political ing it by the most powerful attraction, injury. Yet why either? That there is now TRUTH; we see Louis XIV. constantly no parliament on the spot, to watch over before our eyes, we hear him, and curi-Ireland, is a confined and idle objection. If osity is fully satisfied. and rites, as Grand Master, in educating together in a house appropriated to the purpose, twelve young gentlemen of the first families in the kingdom, destined principally to serve afterwards in the army. Thus to him is to be ascribed (a thing not generally known) the glory of having founded the first military school ever established in France, or at least to have furnished the idea of such an esta blishment upon a grand scale. Some scholars from the inferior classes of the community were admitted into M. de Dangeau's school; Duclos says that he was educated in this house. The establishment, however, continued only 12 years: after the death of the founder, the bad state of the public finances would not permit of its being continued by the government. vernment. there were any force in it, Yorkshire, and a like the three estates of the Constitution, LETTERS ON IRELAND. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR,-In my last I endeavoured to enumerate some of the disadvantages under which briefly mention one more. In the present the Irish peasantry labour. I shall now state of things, it is the interest of the Priest to preserve an undue influence over his flock, for the purpose of exacting from them more ample contributions. This object he best attains by keeping them in ignorance and error, and alienating their affection from the gothem for his salary, the moment they should For, as he is dependent upon begin to despise his power, that moment they Attendance at court, public business, would cease to remunerate his services so useful private occupations, never prevent-liberally as they now do, when they believe, N. B. Your fair correspondent, Hibered M. de Dangeau's cultivating literature that to withhold the dues of the church, is tonica, by way of defending the Irish peasantry, and the sciences. He replaced Scuderi incur eternal perdition. endeavours to prove that they are not abject, at the academy. But were Emancipation conceded, and were because they are rebellious! But history the Catholic Priest salaried like the Pres- would have informed her, that the most abject Every Wednesday the Marquis and byterian, he would find it more his interest people are always the most inclined to inhis brother, the Abbé de Dangeau had a to conciliate the legislature than the people, surrection. Witness the West Indian slaves, select assembly, at their house, of men and he would form a common bond of union witness the Turks, witness every oppressed of letters and science. Among the per-between both. He would be an isthmus nation upon earth. In fact, she has done sons composing this society, were the to connect, not a streight to divide. Then me the honor to strengthen my argument. Cardinal de Polignac, author of the Anti-too, the peasant, freed from his shackles, I am sorry she considers the Irish cottier would become more docile and well dis- comfortable enough, who has only sixpence Lucretius, the Abbé de Longuerue, the posed: assuming to be the keeper of his day, that is, from eight to nine pounds a Abbé Dubos, the Marquis de l'Hopital, own conscience, he would learn to purify it year, and who has to pay nearly half of that and the Abbé de Saint Pierre, the Abbés without a fee. He would no longer consider for his cottage, half an acre of land, and Marian, Raguenet, and de Choise. In this virtue a marketable commodity. He would forage for a cow, leaving him about four assemblage of learning and intellect, the dare to expatiate in intellectual research, and pounds to clothe, feed, and educate his faMarquis de Dangeau was allowed to would find, that the bigotry of ignorance is mily. I am also sorry that she considers bear his part with no small share of the vilest of slavery, while the frank obepotatoes a cause of riches," for it is a dience of enlightened minds is not incom- proof that she has never read Malthus, credit. patible with freedoin. Yet even now, though Adam Smith, or Stuart, who have distinctly In these days there must be a display the influence of the priest, the peculiarity of proved, that cheapness of food in any one of genius in every thing, in works of their tenets, and their depressed state in the particular class, tends to the superabundant science no less than in poetry and novels. scale of society, contribute to make Catholics increase of that class, by facilitating maSome persons will therefore be angry worse subjects than ourselves, yet, as mem-trimony. Poverty follows of course, for with the Marquis de Dangeau for not bers of a religion, they are certainly superior. where hands are too numerous, labour must having interspersed more in his memoirs; They do not practise the violent doctrines of be too cheap, because the supply is greater but let it be remembered, that it is a nient tenets of our own. their church; we do not exemplify the le- than the demand. I hope Hibernica will simple journal, written without any sort Other disorders and other remedies might for tracts on political economy, and after a lay aside Lalla Rookh and her music book of pretension, having for its sole object be mentioned, but those already touched year's hard study, send you a second essay. to retrace with accuracy all that the au- upon are the most serious. Many faults thor witnessed for the space of twenty however have already been corrected, and years. We have here, in short, the latter much improvement is visible among the years of one of the most splendid epochs, people. The commonalty are advancing in knowledge. Gentlemen begin to reside MECHANICS.-The most beneficial results presented to us without art or ornament, more than formerly on their own estates-are expected from a recent invention, by which exactly as they passed; the author never the public ways are improved-internal na- the motion of a right line is rendered capable, places himself before us, but when he vigation has made some progress, and public of producing a motion which shall be rotatory a PROGRESS OF THE ARTS AND |