once have measured to the proudest standard of what we call the hero-a chosen figure for the field of battle-and his limbs, though visibly shrunk by decay, could still boast a less emaciated sign of the fair proportions of manhood, than the attenuated, thread-like, shadowy forms of some of our dissipated youth they were limbs that measured to the

standard of something more than the mere hero; they composed a figure for the field of peace; yet, as the sword has, in every age of the world, been, alas! as necessary as the plough, and as the one has been frequently drawn to protect the other, it behoves us to do honour to both, by entwining the garland of industry with that of glory, the corn-sheaf with the laurel; - O, my friend! that we could, in this terrible crisis, mingle the olive in our wreath.

"Pure source of every joy! mild concord bring, Each healing blessing on thy snowy wing: Teach the wild storm of ruthless war to cease,

And charm the nations to the reign of peace."

O, may the wish and prayer of the Poet be soon granted!

But I dare not, at present, trust myself with a subject that to the eye of Pity discolours every scene of the sun that has been shining on my quiet path, and cheering every unmolested object within my view, from the poor gateman on his bank, to the small bird that I now hear whistling near his shed.

Blessed sun! and blessed country! where freedom still adds lustre to his beams! In the wide travel of his orb, around this his zone of attempered radiance-where else, even on this beauteous day, can its inhabitants promise to themselves either the herb which he expands, the fruit which he matures, or the varied seed which multiplies itself in the abundant earth?

The question has the energy of a self-evident proposition, and includes its answer.

*Henry James Pye, Esq. in his poem of Naucratia: a work equally poetical and patriotic.

And this, Baron, is amongst the prime beatitudes of our land. In almost every other, the establishments of society, the arrangement of nations, and the harmonies of nature are either broken or destroyed. Even in yours, my friend, they are endangered. The Baltic and the Rhine, which partially lave your shores, only partially defend them: and you feel already the difference between a Continent, vast and almost immeasurable, without a navy, and a small insulated speck, girded by the ocean which it commands, and guarded by the im. pregnable castles that repel the billow and the foe. The visitations which have been inflicted, on the territory of your Emperor, in the circle of Burgundy and the Belgic provinces, and the contributions since the unstable peace, in districts bordering on the Lhan, without counting the spoliations on electorates, palatinates, and other principalities, have already desolated their beauty, and drained the internal treasure of an enormous sum; and that only in two campaigns, and a third is begun. In the mean time, our palace and our hut, our bounteous fields and

beauteous gardens remain to us.

"In Britain,

thank GOD!" says an animated writer," the throne stands above the cottage to protect it; but its basis is too sound to fall upon and crush it." It looks down benignly upon it — it smiles even upon my poor gate-man's shed, my friend, like a tutelary guardian from above.

A very short residence amongst us will carry the conviction of these awful truths from your eye to your heart. You are coming to us with improved faculties; with the partial endowments of nature highly cultivated - and with an expanded soul-with feelings too, which an intimate acquaintance with man, in different climes, and under different governments, have instructed and enlarged. The wisdom thus collected, will prepare you for an early, unprejudiced, and honest confession, and for a full enjoyment of what would, indeed, inspire in the breast of every foreigner a sentiment of admiration; though in some bosoms, it would be mixed with envy; yet, what is envy but admiration in despair? In your manly bosom, the emotion will be as generous as honourable. T

VOL. IV.

A survey of England, were you now its visitant and could that survey of it be taken, even at this perturbed crisis; its still uninjured scenery, its life-sustaining surface, its prospering agriculture, its protected arts, its guarded commerce, and its unviolated property — however hard certain levies on it, in this dread season of uncommon exigence, and of expedient, may seem to bear on those UNTRAVELLED natives, who, happily for them, have not had, -and O, my lov'd countrymen, may ye never have! the various opportunities which you, and I, my friend, and thousands more have but too often possessed, of comparing themselves with others- of being eye-witnesses how much more tranquil, more rich, more happy, and more secure in rights, in morals, in freedom; in their treasure, their progeny, and their religion—in all that the ALMIGHTY gives, and that man receives - however, I say, the reverse of these simple yet solemn facts may, by temporary pressures, or seductive arguments, be imposed on some of those who daily possess, though they do not enjoy, the blessings of England, You

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