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proof of its patriotism by excluding our manufactures by a tariff which its members, at their convivial meetings, style the third declaration of independence.

While we thus struggle with difficulties at home, and are daily becoming more involved abroad, the public peace of Ireland is in a state of fearful insecurity. A noisy, insolent, turbulent faction have been cherished and protected in that portion of the empire, till their conduct has become unbearable, and till they have inflamed the wildest passions of the peasantry, and excited them to a state verging on rebellion. That part of the population which are most attached to the institutions of England have been discountenanced; their motives maligned, their loyalty questioned, and their very toasts suspected; while the Catholic priesthood, the Catholic incendiaries, the O'Connells, the Shiels, the Lawlesses, have been permitted to insult the whole Protestant population in their harangues, beard the Government at their assemblies, display every insulting badge, and appear in every insulting costume, with impunity. Our liberality towards Ireland has been marked with injustice; our avowed impartiality is an outrage upon law and good faith; and now we are receiving the bitter and the humiliating reward.

By these principles, and by this feeble system, the loyal subjects of the King have been soured and alienated, and the disaffected roused to fury. By these errors-by this wide and deplorable departure from sound constitutional and commercial policy-the peace of the country is disturbed, its trade greatly injured, its revenue falling to decay-many millions of property have been sacrificed many thousands of once opulent families have been reduced to comparative destitution-and many tens of thousands of industrious labourers converted into poachers and paupers.

Ireland is on the eve, if not actually in a state, of rebellion. The Catholic rebels who are now in arms against England, and who thirst for the blood of their Protestant countrymen, have been instigated to these acts by men who now deem themselves secure. The Irish Government has for several years witnessed the machinations of these men with blind and fatal indifference; the officers of the Crown have been asleep; and now that the impending danger calls for decided measures, the poor peasantry are to be made the victims, while the arch traitors are to escape. The Protestant institutions of our country have been so furiously assailed that they already totter; and now that those who revere them attempt to rally in their defence, their labours, their resolutions, their bold and loyal spirit, are discountenanced by the Government. But the Minister must yield to the majesty of public opinion. The spirit that now animates every Protestant bosom will, in spite of conciliation, crush Popery, and sweep away from the foot of the throne whatever Ministry may support it. The struggle may be protracted---it may be disastrous to both parties-it may even be sanguinary---but the result cannot be doubtful.

To the system which has wrought these evils, which has entailed upon us so much calamity, we shall ever be opposed; till

it be entirely abandoned it shall be the object of our unceasing hostility. In exposing the effects of it-in warning those who, sooner or later, will be the victims of it-in arousing the country to a sense of its peril, and the guardians of the Crown to a sense of their duty-we shall neither be influenced by personal fears nor party feelings. We belong to no party-we have no interests to serve but those of our country, no motives to sway us but honest conviction and a sense of justice. We therefore confidently rely on the support of all the leading interests of the nation, and all the independent and intelligent classes of our countrymen. Our columns will be open to discussion from whatever quarter it may proceed; every subject will be fairly and dispassionately treated: every communication respected; and no expense, no industry, spared to render THE MORNING JOURNAL one of the most interesting, most instructive, and most independent newspapers of the metropolis. We shall support every useful measure of the Government, and oppose none but from the purest of motives. In the illustrious nobleman now at the head of His Majesty's Government we repose great confidence; but we know he is trammelled in his measures by pledges, fettered by unconstitutional treaties, bound to a bad system by the honour of the country, besieged daily by the appeals of the selfish, and annoyed hourly by the remonstrances of the mercenary, the selfish, and the factious. We believe him to be most anxious to extricate his country from her almost overwhelming difficulties; how far he may succeed will depend more upon the feelings of the nation than his own individual exertions. Him we will support to the full extent of our humble abilities, and to the utmost limits of our conviction. We shall be as just to the Minister as we are true and loyal to the King; but we shall, nevertheless, condemn every bad measure, regardless of the name, the rank, or the character of its patron.

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On the 1st of January, 1829, will be published,

(TO BE CONTINUED MONTHLY,)

PART I.

OF

EDINBURGH ILLUSTRATED,

IN A

SERIES OF VIEWS OF THE NEW AND MOST INTERESTING OBJECTS IN THE SCOTTISH METROPOLIS AND ITS VICINITY.

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED BY MR. H. WINKLES,

WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES BY

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THERE are few cities that present a greater variety of picturesque and interesting objects than Edinburgh. It stands on elevated ground, and may be said to be built on three hills parallel to each other. On the central and highest hill is the ancient part of the city. From the palace of Holyrood-House it gradually ascends, nearly in a straight line, and is terminated on the west by an accessible and almost perpendicular rock.

Its romantic situation has attracted very general notice, being surrounded on all sides by lofty hills, excepting on the north, where the descent is gentle to the Frith of Forth. It is bounded on the east by the Calton Hill, Salisbury Crags, and Arthur's Seat; on the south by the hills of Blackford, Braid, and Pentland; and on the west by Corstorphine Hill. From each of these eminences the most beautiful and extensive views of the circumjacent country are to be obtained. They form, moreover, a magnificent amphitheatre, almost encircling the city of Edinburgh, and opening towards the sea.

To whatever part of Edinburgh we turn our attention we cannot fail to be struck with the multitude of interesting objects which attract the attention of every one who visits the Scottish metropolis, the principal of which will be faithfully delineated in this work, in which no pains nor expense have been spared to render the delineations of the public Buildings as accurate as possible: and such views of the very romantic scenery which is to be found in almost every direction in the vicinity of Edinburgh have been selected as are calculated to gratify the man of taste, and to afford pleasure to those who are delighted with the faithful representation of such objects. For these purposes an artist of acknowledged talents in the line of his profession has been employed, and has repaired to the spot for the express purpose of doing ample justice

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