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ed them with the worst feelings that savage and uncivilized man can en tertain and made them the abject slaves of men who have a vital interest in keeping them in this condition: after having taken the most effectual measures to prevent them from being taught the principles and practice of Christianity, or anything whatever that might change their feelings and character: after having created the most omnipotent means for keeping their worst passions continually in a consuming flame-for feeding their worst ideas with the last morsel that these can gorge and for rendering them monsters in everything that can sink and blacken the human species: after having destroyed the operation of the laws, and rendered it almost impossible to govern them by anything but the sword: after having done all this, you may then pause for a moment, and rejoice over your labours.

It will now be advisable for you to unite' your island with, to render it beneficial to, Great Britain. As you have made your Islanders, in habit, feeling, opinion, character, conduct, in everything that can be imagined the perfect reverse of the people of Great Britain: as you have rendered them ignorant, to the last degree, of the Constitution, the laws, and the whole system, of Great Britain; and as you have taken the most effectual means for protecting this ignorance from being dissipated: as you have taught them to detest the religion of Great Britain, the political principles of Great Britain, the government of Great Britain, the people of Great Britain, and Great Britain as a nation; and as you have made combined religious and political fanaticism the source of this detestation: as you have rendered it almost impossible for the people of the two islands, ever to be anything but the reverse of each other in character and conduct, and ever to regard each other with any thing but quenchless animosity as you have done all this, now pass a law to unite them to make them ONE PEOPLE-for the benefit of Great Britain. You must now bring eighty or one hundred of the lawyers, and other members of your faction-of the men who have publicly declared their hatred of the religion of Britain, who have publicly libelled the British people, in every possible way, who have

publicly displayed the most rancorous hostility to Britain, who have publicly proved that they are grossly ignorant of the Constitution, liberty, and interests of Britain, and who have publicly endeavoured to do all the injury in their power to Britain you must bring eighty or one hundred of these men into the British legislature, and a large number into the executive, the embassies, &c. &c. to manage the religious and other interests of Britain. You must involve two churches which divide the mass of the people of the two islands between them, in a rancorous and exterminating war, for the ecclesiastical wealth and dignities of the empire, and not only for these, but even for the civil trusts and dignities of the empire. The war will be carried on with all the fury that combined religious and political fanaticism ean inspire; it will render the regular clergy as violent politicians as your priests-it will make every political question appeal to religious animosity-it will fill Britain with your proselytizing priests-it will cause the lower orders to be the most unremitting and desperate in the contest-and it cannot fail of yielding to Britain every benefit and blessing that a nation could possess and desire.

If the bigots oppose you, protest that the British Constitution knows nothing of qualification, and that all men have an abstract right to be placed on an equality in a community: declare, that if it were positively known that your lawyers, &c. on being admitted into the executive, the legislature, &c. &c., would immediately destroy the Church, Constitution, and liberty of Britain, and involve her in convulsion and ruin, still they ought to be admitted on the ground of ABSTRACT RIGHT. The liberal and enlightened portion of the British people will believe you.

Our limits will not permit us to give more of the unerring counsels of the statesmen of Cockaigne. We regret from our souls, that the necessi ty for our abridging and compressing as much as possible, has prevented us from giving these counsels in the beautiful and impressive language in which they were originally delivered. If, however, any man will take the trouble of wading through the stupendous mass which the unrivalled statesmen of Cockaigne have written or spoken

on this momentous question, he will find that we have executed our task with the most scrupulous fidelity. He will find that, although the sketches of the consequences that would flow from practising their advice, are frequently our own, we have not ascribed to them a single syllable of advice which has not, again and again, been promulgated and enforced by these fearned and sagacious persons. We do not place this paper before the Ministry, or the Opposition, or partymen of any kind, for we hold the pen

for higher interests than those of a party; we place it before the intelligent, patriotic, and independent part of our countrymen, as the counsel which is daily given by a vast portion of our public press, and our public men. We will not add to it any counsel of our own-we will not say what reflections it is calculated to produce; we will not point out the conduct which it imperiously calls for. Those to whom we speak know their duty, and they will discharge it.

THE NIGHT-HAWK.

Vox, et præterea nihil.

THE winds are pillowed on the waveless deep,
And from the curtain'd sky the midnight moon
Looks sombred o'er the forests great, that sleep
Unstirring, while a soft melodious tune,
Nature's still voice, the lapsing stream, is heard,
And ever and anon th' unseen night-wandering bird.

An Arab of the air, it floats along,

Enamour'd of the silence and the night,
The tall pine tops, the mountains dim among,
Aye wheeling on in solitary flight;

Like an ungentle spirit earthwards sent,

To haunt the pale-faced moon, a cheerless banishment.

A wild low sound-a melancholy cry,

Now near, remoter now, and more remote ;
In the blue dusk, unseen, it journeys by,
Loving amid the starlight calm to float;

Now sharp and shrill, now faint, and by degrees
Fainter, like Summer winds that die 'mid leafy trees.

I listen-in the solitude I stand,

The breathless hush of midnight-all is still;
Unmoved the valleys spread, the woods expand;
There is a slumbering mist upon the hill;
Nature through all her regions seems asleep,
Save, ever and anon, that wailing sound and deep.

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Doubtless, in elder times, unhallow'd sound!
When Fancy ruled the subject lands, and Fear,
Some demon elf, or goblin shrieking round,
Darkly thou smot'st on Superstition's ear;
The wild wood had its spirits, and the glen
Teem'd with dim shapes, and shades inimical to men,

Here, in this solitude all vast and void,

Life seems a vision of the shadowy past,

By mighty Silence swallow'd and destroy'd,
And thou of living sounds the dirge, and last;
Serenely quiet sleeps the moveless scene,
As if, all discord o'er, mankind had never been.

Nocturnal haunter of the homeless sky!
Most immaterial of terrestrial things!
On the grey cloud in slumber canst thou lie;

Or 'mid the flooding moonlight fold thy wings?
'Mid shooting star-beams lovest thou to roam?
This gross earth, sure, for thee is scarce a fitting home.

Lovest thou, when storms are dark, and rains come down,
When wild winds round lone dwellings moan and sigh,
And night is hooded in its gloomiest frown,

To mingle with the tempest thy lone cry,
To pierce the rolling thunder-clouds, and brook

The scythe-wing'd lightning's glare with fierce unshrinking look ?

On Summer's scented eve, when fulgent skies
The last bright traces of the day partook,
And Heaven look'd down on Earth with starry eyes,
Reflected softly in the wimpling brook,

Far, far above, wild solitary bird,

Thy melancholy scream 'mid woodlands I have heard.

And I have heard thee when the wintry snow

Mantled with chilling white the moonless vales, Through the drear darkness wandering to and fro, And mingling with the sharp and sighing gales Thy wizard note when Nature's prostrate form, In desolation sad, lay sunk beneath the storm.

It is a sound most solemn, strange, and lone,

That wildly talks of something far remote Amid the past-of something scarcely known→→ Of Time's most early voice a parted noteThe echo of Antiquity, the cry

Of Ruin brooding o'er some Greatness doom'd to die.

So parted from communion with mankind,
So severed from all life and living sound,
Calmly the solemnized and soften'd mind

Sinks down, and dwells in pensive thought profound,
On dreams of yore, on visions swept away,

The loves and friendships warm of being's early day.

Most lonely voice! most wild unbodied scream!
That hauntest thus the silent wilderness,
Thou tellest man that life is but a dream,
Romantic as the tones of thy distress,
Leaving on earth no lingering tract behind,
And melting as thou meltest on the wind!.

Faint come the notes-thou meltest distant far,
Scarce heard at intervals upon the night,
Leaving to loneliness each listening star,

The trees the river and the moonshine bright,
And 'mid this stirless hush, this still of death,
Heard is my bosom's throb, and audible my breath.

Lo! 'mid the Future dim, remote or near,
Lurks in the womb of Time a dreadful day,
When shuddering Earth an awful Voice shall hear,
And Ruin make the universe her prey,

And Silence, when the pulse of Nature stills,
In viewless robe shall sit enthroned on smoking hills!

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NOTICE RESPECTING MA BROSTER'S NEWLY DISCOVERED SYSTEM FOR THE REMOVAL OF IMPEDIMENTS OP SPEECH AND DEFECTIVE ARTICULATION.

AMONG the numerous calamities to which our nature is incident, there are few so generally distressing as that of defective utterance, whether it appears in the mild form of a hesitation in speech, in the more confirmed stage of continual stammering, or in its crisis of muscular contortions.

The experience of every person who has mixed much with society, will furnish him with examples of all these varieties of imperfect articulation; but unless they have been observed within the circle of his own friends, or within the sphere which circumscribes the exercise of his own feelings, he has, perhaps, never reflected on the agonies to which its victim is exposed, or on the heart-breaking anticipations which it excites in all those who are interested in his welfare. To a young man of great talents, of refined wit, and of extensive information, who seems destined to enliven and adorn the circles in which he moves, the occurrence of such a calamity is perhaps the greatest to which Providence can subject him. Conscious of powers which he cannot exercise, without being the object of ridicule, or with out giving pain to those who hear him, he resigns himself to the tranquillity of silence; and in so far as regards the pleasures of social intercourse, he is on a level with those who are utterly destitute of the organs of speech. To those who are destined for public life, for the bar, the pulpit, or the senate, the evils of defective utterance are still more appalling. All the early hopes of professional success are at once extinguished, and the unfortunate patient either becomes a burden to his friends and to himself, or must embark in a new profession, for which, perhaps, neither his talents nor his education have prepared him. When imperfect articulation deforms the female voice, its effects are yet more distressing. Under its mildest form, all the enchantments of youth and beauty disappear ;-every accomplishment, however great, is thrown into the shade, and all the hopes of female ambition are for ever blighted.

The disease to which we have alluded, is admitted on all hands to be beyond the power of medical skill, and those who have devoted themselves to its cure have generally been teachers of elocution, who have considered defects of voice as coming within the range of their profession, Without depreciating, in the least, the humane and skilful efforts of these respectable practitioners, we may be permitted to say, that no decided methods of cure have been discovered, and that the causes of defective utterance have been as little understood as they have been studied.

In this state of our knowledge on a subject of the highest importance to society, we were surprised to hear that Mr John Broster of Chester had discovered a method of removing impediments of speech and defective articulation. Such a discovery we were strongly disposed, along with many others, to rank among those extravagant pretensions, which are so often intruded upon the public; and Mr Broster seems to have been so sensible of the prevalence of such an opinion, that he appears to have declined making himself known in Edinburgh in any other way than by the cures which he performed. Several cases of a very striking nature soon occurred to shew the success of his method.

A personage of rank and fashion, whose defective utterance had been generally known from constant intercourse with society, was so completely cured, as to excite the astonishment of every person. The celebrity which Mr Broster acquired by this cure, brought him a number of pupils, some of whom came even from London, to receive the benefit of his instructions, and the success with which these cases were treated, far surpassed even the most sanguine expectations of the individuals themselves. Persons who had almost lost the power of giving utterance to particular words, were completely emancipated from all embarrassment of speech. Others, who could not articulate without contortions of countenance, and other ner

vous indications, were enabled to speak with ease and fluency; and one gentleman, who had scarcely ever ventured to breathe a sound before company, was enabled to make a formal speech before a large party, who had been assembled by his father to commemorate the almost miraculous cure of his son.

The removal of impediments of speech, has always been considered as the work of time and laborious exertion, and those who professed to have studied the subject most deeply, required the constant attendance of their pupils for months, and even for years. Mr Broster's system, however, is of a very different character. Some of his most striking cures have been performed after a single lesson, and, in general, a few days is all the time that he requires for effecting it. This rapidity of cure, indeed, is one of the most valuable features in his system. The hope of a speedy remedy encourages the patient to apply his whole mind to the system, and enables the poor, and those who cannot quit their professions, to avail themselves of a discovery, which otherwise could have been of no benefit to them.

Hitherto we have considered this new method as applicable only to the ordinary impediments of speech, but we have reason to know that Mr Broster's method embraces a much wider range. He has applied it to the cure of cases of weak articulation; he has, as it were, given the power of speech to those who were supposed to be labouring under bodily disease, and he actually communicated the power of reading aloud before company, to a venerable philosopher, whom a paralytic affection had almost deprived of the power of speech.

During our inquiries into the success of Mr Broster's system, we have

had occasion to peruse several of the letters which have been addressed to him by the individuals whom he has cured, and by the parents of those pupils who were unable to express their own gratitude. The respect and affection which these letters breathe, while they shew the value which has been set upon the cure, evince also the kindness and gentleness of the treatment by which it has been effected. Mr Broster's humanity to the poor, and to those whose circumstances do not permit them to prove their gratitude by their liberality, deserves to be especially noticed. We know of cases

where he has refused any compensation for his trouble; and we are sure, that in every case where it is necessary, his liberality will be conspicuous.

As we are not acquainted with the nature of Mr Broster's system, we cannot give any opinion of it as a scientific method. We understand, however, that it is as simple as it is efficacious; and that though much depends on the skill and judgment of the person who applies it, yet it is capable of being successfully practised by those who have been completely instructed in its principles and details.

This important discovery has hitherto excited little general curiosity. The interest which it has called forth has been chiefly local, and confined to the relatives and friends of the persons whom it has benefited; but, as Mr Broster's pupils increase in number-as the remarkable cures which he performs become better known, it cannot fail to excite that notice which it so justly merits; and if its success shall continue to be as great as it has hitherto been, we have no doubt that the legislature itself will rank Mr Broster among those public benefactors whose services entitle them to a public remuneration.

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