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aay of Colonel Cadell, is, that we can only find fault with him for 

 being eo brief, and our principal regret on the present occasion is 

 that we cannot find room to proceed with him and his regiment over 

 the Pyrenees, to Orthes, Toulouse, and to Waterloo ; and then follow 

 them in their fatigues during a tithe campaign in Ireland. But we must 

 hurry to a close, which, to borrow a simile from our subject, is as 

 abrupt as the death of a soldier, although Lieut.-Colonel Cadell con- 

 tinues his interesting narrative down to October, 1834, when he took 

 leave of his regiment at Chatham, " preparing to embark for New 

 South Wales, and from thence to the East, where they will unfurl 

 their banners covered with their gallant actions with the same credit 

 to themselves and honour to their country, as they have so nobly 

 done in Europe for the last thirty years." 



NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



Our foreign intelligence teems with interest of the most lively kind. 

 The Spaniards are true Malthusians practice men ; for, in no coun 

 try is the " preventive check" adopted with such complete success. 

 Indeed, the population is decreasing in so cheering a manner, that 

 the shipment of a few cargoes of the " finest pisantry" might not be 

 a bad speculation at this moment. Our " ancient allies," on the con- 

 trary, are in a fair way to increase and multiply. They eschew Miss 

 Martineau and her anti-domestic doctrines ; and, it is to be hoped, 

 that the late " coalition" in the cabinet will have the effect of rousing 

 a united people. We have heard so many eulogiums of the prince 

 lately raised to the dignity of King Consort of Portugal, that we 

 begin to fancy him a second " admirable Crichton." After reading 

 so interesting an account as the following of his intellectual develop- 

 ment, no doubt can remain of his fitness to share the illustrious 

 inheritance of the Braganza : 



"The prince possesses talents of the very highest order. During his 

 voyage from the British shore to the Tagus, his royal highness's chief 

 amusement was to fire at sea-gulls and other aquatic birds, and proved 

 himself to be a capital shot. He generally killed twice out of three times. 

 We have not had an opportunity of seeing his royal highness on horseback, 

 hut report says he is an excellent equestrian." 



After this, no doubt can be entertained but that his majesty is, in 

 every respect, worthy to fill the Portuguese throne. The kings of 

 Portugal have always been celebrated as good shots. The illustrious 

 prince, Don Miguel, was extremely expert in that aristocratic branch 

 of education, he was a distinguished shot. But, it must be con- 

 fessed, he was fortunate in his practice ; for, when at Rio, he took 

 upon himself the singular privilege of firing from the palace windows 

 at the negroes employed in the rigging of ships in the harbour. No 

 wonder, then, with such advantages, this amiable prince became a 

 pattern to sportsmen; and, it is but justice to state, that he never 

 took these little liberties with any but blacks, unless by the merest 



