INDEX. Mahratta Camp, Letters from a, i. 225-228. Mahrattas, devastation caused by, i. 226; their barbarous justice, 227, anecdote of a female soldier of, 227. Malays, their character, i. 39. Malthus, Mr., tribute to his memory, i. 8. note. Manufactures of America, i. 240; Ashantee, Marriage in Denmark, i. 57. 43. Marsden. Rev. Mr., ii. 14; his bearing towards Marsh, Bishop. See Peterborough, Bishop of. Mary, Queen, her persecutions, ii. 237. 351 Munro, Colonel, his conduct at Madras, i. 192 Murray, Lady, review of her Narrative of the Murray, C. K., his letter to the "Times," ii. Musk-rat, account of the, i. 44. Mussulmans of India not converts from the Mutiny at Vellore, i. 102; at Nundydrook, 102. N. Napoleon. See Buonaparte. Nares, Archdeacon, review of his Sermon of National funds, project for supporting the poor Natural children in Denmark, i. 57. Massacre at Jaffa, evidence of, examined, i. 64, Nature, Darwin's Law of. i. 42. 65. Medical men, their courage, i. 66. Melbourne, Viscount, his character, ii. 278. Methodism drives many to insanity, i. 99; re- Methodistical reasoning on the interference of Methodists, terms by which they designate Metropolis, Police of the, reference to, i. 48. Middlemen, the standing grievance of Ireland, i. 309, 310. 314. Milbank Penitentiary, i. 337. Ministers, their duty towards an obstinate Minorities almost always in the right, i. 360. Missionaries, opposed by the Brahmans, i. 114; Modern Changes, Letter on, ii. 332. Monk, Bishop. See Gloucester, Bishop of. Moore, Thomas, review of his Memoirs of Cap- Moral sense, its effects on governments, i. 11. Necker, M., review of his Dernières Vues de Politique et de Finance, i. 17-26; his plan of a Republic, 21. Nelson, Lord, notice of Dr. Rennel's Sermon New Holland, pamphlet by the Hon. Grey Nicol, Mr., on the Poor-Laws, review of, i. Nobility-of Denmark, classes of, i. 54; of Norfolk Island, its condition, i. 31. 33. North America, review of Hodgson's Letters from, ii 42-52. Norway, description of, i. 53-62; its nobility, 55; Jews prohibited from entering it, 61. note. Norwegians, their longevity, 59. Nugent, Lord, review of his Statement in support of the Catholic claims, ii. 120-128. Nundydroog, mutiny at, i. 102. Nunneries, Protestant, in Deumark, i. 54, 55. 0. Oath, continuity of laws by, ii. 63; coronation, its binding nature, 64; scruples to Catholic emancipation on account of it, 64; royal scruples upon it, i. 152. Obstinacy in a juryman, illustration of, ii. 209. O'Connell, Daniel, ii. 231. 237; his conduct about Repeal, 334; his trial and release, 334; much virtue and good meaning in him, 335; the vanquished reasoner of the trans- enlightened republics, but of employing atlantic world does homage to the my money henceforth in buying up physical superiority of his opponents. Abyssinian bonds, and purchasing And now, having eased my soul of its into the Turkish Fours, or the Tunis indignation, and sold my stock at 40 Three-and-a-half per Cent, funds. per cent. discount, I sulkily retire from the subject, with a fixed intention of lending no more money to free and SYDNEY SMITH. November 22, 1843. "The good of ancient times let others state, I think it lucky I was born so late.” Mr. EDITOR, Ir is of some importance at what period a man is born. A young man, alive at this period, hardly knows to what improvements of human life he has been introduced; and I would bring before his notice the following eighteen changes which have taken place in England since I first began to breathe in it the breath of life- -a period amounting now to nearly seventy-three years. Gas was unknown: I groped about the streets of London in all but the utter darkness of a twinkling oil lamp, under the protection of watchmen in their grand climacteric, and exposed to every species of depredation and ⚫ insult. ment of London; and I now glide without noise or fracture, on wooden pavements. I can walk, by the assistance of the police, from one end of London to the other, without molestation; or, if tired, get into a cheap and active cab, instead of those cottages on wheels, which the hackney coaches were at the beginning of my life. I had no umbrella! There were little used, and very dear. There were no waterproof hats, and my hat has often been reduced by rains into its primitive pulp. I could not keep my smallclothes in their proper place, for braces were unknown. If I had the gout, there was no colchicum. If I was bilious, there was no calomel. If I was attacked by ague, there was no quinine. There were filthy coffee-houses instead of elegant clubs. Game could not be bought. Quarrels about uncommuted tithes were endless. The corruption of Parliament, before Reform, infamous. There were no banks to receive the savings of the poor. The Poor Laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country; and whatever miseries I suffered, I had no post to whisk my complaints for a single penny to the remotest corners of the empire; and I paid 157. in a single year for re- yet, in spite of all these privations, I pairs of carriage-springs on the pave-lived on quietly, and am now ashamed I have been nine hours in sailing from Dover to Calais before the invention of steam. It took me nine hours to go from Taunton to Bath before the invention of railroads, and I now go in six hours from Taunton to London! In going from Taunton to Bath, I suffered between 10,000 and 12,000 severe contusions, before stone-breaking Macadam was born. that I was not more discontented, and | stage coaches, in which luggage was utterly surprised that all these changes then carried, had no springs, your and inventions did not occur two clothes were rubbed all to pieces; and centuries ago. that even in the best society one-third of the gentlemen at least were always Z. THE following unrevised fragment, have objected to his later writings, found among the papers of the late Rev. Sydney Smith, if it serve no other purpose, will at least prove that his last, as well as his earliest efforts, were exerted for the promotion of religious freedom, and may satisfy those who| because his own interest appeared to be *Send ambassadors to Constantinople, and Lord F. Egerton's plan for paying the Ro- agreed to take the money. *Old mode of governing by Protestants at *Vast improvements since the Union, and *Dreadful oppression of the people. * These subjects are treated of in the Fragment. THE revenue of the Irish Roman ments of old clothes; and those, Irish Catholic Church is made up of half-old clothes. They worship often in pence, potatoes, rags, bones, and frag- hovels, or in the open air, from the want of any place of worship. Their wife is in very delicate health: when religion is the religion of three-fourths she cannot attend, we cannot muster of the population! Not far off, in a well-windowed and well-roofed house, is a well-paid Protestant clergyman, preaching to stools and hassocks, and crying in the wilderness; near him the clerk, near him the sexton, near him the sexton's wife-furious against the errors of Popery, and willing to lay down their lives for the great truths established at the Augsburg. the number mentioned in the rubric; and we have, therefore, no service on that day. The good woman had a cold and sore throat this morning, and, as I had breakfasted but slightly, I thought I might as well hurry back to the regular family dejeuner." I don't know that the clergyman behaved improperly; but such a church is hardly Diet of worth an insurrection and civil war every ten years. There is a story in the Leinster family which passes under the name of "She is not well." Sir Robert did well in fighting it out with O'Connell. He was too late; but when ne began he did it boldly and sensibly, and I, for one, am heartily glad O'Connell has been found guilty and imprisoned. He was either in earnest about Repeal, or he was not. If he were in earnest, I entirely agree with Lord Grey and Lord Spencer, that civil war is preferable to Repeal. Much as I hate wounds, dangers, privations, and explosions-much as I love regular hours of dinner-foolish as I think men covered with the feathers of the male Pullus domesticus, and covered with lace in the course of the these follies and ferocities, I would rather turn soldier myself than acquiesce quietly in such a separation of the empire. A Protestant clergyman, whose church was in the neighbourhood, was a guest at the house of that upright | and excellent man the Duke of Leinster. He had been staying there three or four days; and on Saturday night, as they were all retiring to their rooms, the Duke said, "We shall meet tomorrow at breakfast."- 'Not so (said our Milesian Protestant); your hour, my lord, is a little too late for me; I am very particular in the discharge of my duty, and your breakfast will in-ischiatic nerve-much as I detest all terfere with my church." The Duke was pleased with the very proper excuses of his guest, and they separated for the night;-his Grace perhaps deeming his palace more safe from all the evils of life for containing in its bosom such an exemplary son of the Church. The first person, however, whom the Duke saw in the morning upon entering the breakfast-room was our punctual Protestant, deep in rolls and butter, his finger in an egg, and a large slice of the best Tipperary ham secured on his plate. "Delighted to see you, my dear vicar," said the Duke, "but I must say as much surprised as delighted."- -"Oh, don't you know what has happened?" said the sacred breakfaster,-"She is not well.”—“ Who is not well?" said the Duke: "you are not married-you have no sister living-I'm quite uneasy; tell me who is not well.” — “ 'Why the fact is, my lord Duke, that my congregation consists of the clerk, the sexton, and the sexton's wife. Now the sexton's It is such a piece of nonsense, that no man can have any reverence for himself who would stop to discuss such a question. It is such a piece of antiBritish villany, that none but the bitterest enemy of our blood and people could entertain such a project! It is to be met only with round and grapeto be answered by Shrapnel and Congreve; to be discussed in hollow squares, and refuted by battalions four deep; to be put down by the ultima ratio of that armed Aristotle, the Duke of Wellington. O'Connell is released; and released I have no doubt by the conscientious decision of the Law Lords. If he were unjustly (even from some technical defect) imprisoned, I rejoice in his libera. tion. England is, I believe, the only country in the world, where such an event could have happened, and a wise |