But they'll remember with advantages, What feats they did that day. Then shall our names, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Glo'ster,- This story shall the good man teach his son; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers! This day shall gentle his condition; And, gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accursed they were not here; LESSON XCIII. Rolla to the Peruvians.-Sheridan. My brave associates !-partners of my toil, my feelings, and my fame! Can Rolla's words add vigour to the virtuous energies which inspire your hearts ?—No;-you have judged, as I have, the foulness of the crafty plea by which these bold invaders would delude you.-Your generous spirit has compared, as mine has, the motives which, in a war like this, can animate their minds and ours.-They, by a strange frenzy driven, fight for power, for plunder, and extended rule;-we, for our country, our altars, and our homes.--They follow an adventurer whom they fear, and obey a power which they hate ;—we serve a monarch whom we love,-a God whom we adore.-Whene'er they move in anger, desolation tracks their progress!-Whenc'er they pause in amity, affliction mourns their friendship. -They boast they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error !—Yesthey they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride!―They offer us their protection—yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs-covering and devouring them!--They call on us to barter all of good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better which they promise.-Be our plain answer this: The throne we honour, is the people's choice-the laws we reverence, are our brave fathers' legacy-the faith we follow, teaches us to live in the bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with the hope of bliss beyond the grave -Tell your invaders this, and tell them, too, we seek no change; and least of all, such change as they would bring us. LESSON XCIV. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.-ADDISON. Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an Hereafter, Eternity!-thou pleasing--dreadful thought! Through what new scenes and changes, must we pass ! And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works-He must delight in virtue; But when? or where ? This world was made for Cæsar. [Laying his hand on his sword Thus am I doubly arm'd :-My death and life, The soul, secure in her existence, smiles The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds! LESSON XCV. The Coral Grove.-J. G. PERCIVAL. DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow; For the winds and waves are absent there, air: The sea-flag streams through the silent water, To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter: There, with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps throngh the clear deep seu · Are bending like corn on the upland lea : Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and goldfish rove, LESSON XCVI. On the Bill to refund to Gen. Jackson the Fine imposed upon him at New Orleans, 1815.-W. C. PRESTON. ESCAPING for an instant from our bitter party struggles, and going back to mingle our recollections and sympathies upon the battle-ground of New Orleans, I would not tarnish the moment of and pure generous feeling with any emotion or act inconsistent with them. For one, my memory and my heart revert to that scene and that time, with an entire oblivion of all the circumstances that have separated me from, and placed me in opposition to, General Jackson since. I will not detract from the glory, or diminish my admiration, of the illustrious chief, by the retro-active influence of subsequent events; but, forgetting and overlooking the intervening space, I place myself where I was twenty-five years ago, with the glow of patriotic gratitude and exulting admiration that then swelled my bosom, enhanced as it was by personal affection for its object. I see him amidst his victorious fellow-soldiers, and in the presence of a city which his skill and courage had rescued from rapine and ruin, the theme of all praise, the object of all gratitude, the depository of all the tributes of the human heart. But by the transaction (now brought to mind by this bill,) he was placed, as it seems to me, in a still higher and nobler attitude. In the very flush of victory, with his soldiers around him, and in the city he had saved, he was summoned to a trial for an imputed misdemeanour; and I confess, Mr. President, that, more than the battle, it swells my bosom to see him bend that laurelled brow before the seat of justice-patiently taking its cen sure and submitting to its award. Indeed, it was a very noble spectacle, and has embla zoned the principle of our institutions, that the military is subordinate to the civil authority, and that all men are equal in the law. General Jackson, however, was not the only person in this grand spectacle. There was, too, the representative of that quiet authority, which rests upon an unseen moral power. There was the judge, who summoned the General, who pronounced judgment upon him, at such a moment, under such circumstances. Ân Eng lish monarch congratulated himself, and with good cause, that he had "A man so bold That dare do justice on my proper son; And our republic may with equal truth congratulate herself upon having such a judge and such a general. While we propose to throw a bright and warm colouring upon one of the figures in this picture, it is equally the dictate of taste, of sentiment, and of justice, that we do not throw a shade upon the other; and this, I fear, will be or may be the case, if we pass the bill in its present shape, without guarding it against unjust implications, or accompanying it with a statement of the facts. To this end, I am inclined to move a recommitment of the bill, with instructions to report the facts connected with the levying of the fine. I should be very much ashamed of having so imperfect a recollection of the minute particulars of an affair so honourable to the country, did I not reflect, that in all striking events of this kind, details are forgotten in the general result; or rather that the impression made by the whole is so strong as to prevent any impression by the parts; and this accounts for the varying recollections of each of the gentlemen who have spoken. The senator from Pennsylvania, whose speech purported to be the most circumstantial detail, I rather think has fallen into the greatest error of any one, who has spoken. He attributes the conduct of the judge, who imposed the fine on General Jackson, to some supposed personal offence; whereas, I take the fact to have been, that the process of contempt was issued against the general for disobeying the exigency of a writ of habeas corpus, directing him to produce a person held in confinement by his orders. The case |