Literary and Philosophical Inlelligenee. 



460 



lliat association was directed by as much 

 Eeal as can animate any partizans, yet it 

 was under no dirty, petiy-fogging, job- 

 bing influence, and therefore did not 

 assume or usurp tlie office of ))ublic 

 jirosecutor. It appealed in scholastic 

 language to the patriotism, interests, 

 and passions of the public, and acquired 

 an inglorious and unfortunate triumph, 

 which cost millions of lives and ex- 

 hausted the energies of the nation ; but 

 it forebore to ins\ilt the government 

 and the people, by presuming to direct 

 the powers of one against the other. 

 That association is therefore no prece- 

 dent for the practices now assumed, 

 and it behoves Ministers, Parliament, 

 Judges, Jurors, Magistrates, and People 

 to unite in resenting the flagitious at- 

 tempts making to paralyze the energies 

 of freedom, and carry us back to the in- 

 tellectual level of tlie dark ages, or what 

 is lower, to tliat of these conspirators, 

 and reduce public spirit in this country, 

 great because free, to the stale in which 

 it exists in Russia, Turkey, and Mo- 

 rocco. In the law-officers of (he Crown 

 we have the security of liberal educa- 

 tion and professional character, com- 

 bined with the discretion of ministers, 

 that the press will not by them be ha- 

 rassed by frivolous, vexatious, and nar- 

 row-minded prosecutions, while in se- 

 cret irresponsible associations of low 

 and uninformed bigots, managed, per- 

 haps, by sordid, needy, or malicious 

 attornies — we, on the contrary, lose all 

 security of cliaracfer, education, and 

 sound policy, and are abandoned to 

 such feelings as in different ages have 

 lighted tiie fires of persecution, and 

 committed every species of enormity 

 and oppression. 



The next part of the Journal of New 

 V^oyages and Travels will contain the 

 fullest account that has appeared of the 

 last voyage of discovery to the North 

 American Seas. It consists of the let- 

 ters of an Officer to his brother, and 

 exhibits every circumstance of interest 

 in new and original features. The 

 publication was reserved from motives 

 of delicacy till after the appearance of 

 Capt. Parry's own narrative; but as 

 the price in the Journal will be only 

 3s. 6d. instead of 31. 13s. 6d. or one 

 twentieth, many persons will be likely 

 to possess no other narrative, and it 

 aft'ords another proof of the deserved 

 popularity of this monthly Journal. 



A Cosmopolite Society has been 

 formed in London for the encourage- 

 ment of Artists of everv Lountrv, ari 



[June 1, 



it now presents to the Public, in the 

 form of an Exhibition, the result of its 

 labours. Under the auspices of this 

 Society there have been executed views 

 of the most interesting objects, which 

 exist in nature, or liave been pro- 

 duced by art ; the nuist celebrated 

 relics of antiquity, and the most re- 

 markable Cities, Places, and Edifices, 

 noted in History, and of every oraa- 

 mcntal work in repute, extant in the 

 world. These views are to be repre- 

 sented with panoramic efiect, that 

 mode l)eiug deemed best adapted to 

 convey the most perfect idea of their 

 grandeur and beauty. It is thus in- 

 tended to represent all that remains of 

 the grandeur of Syria, Asia Minor, 

 Arabia, Persia, Judea, and the Holy 

 Land. The Ant^iquities of Ancient, 

 and all that is interesting in Modern 

 (ireece. The relics of Ancient, and 

 the edifices of Modern Rome. Thefirst 

 exhibition is now open, and contains 

 views in England, Italy, France, Spain 

 and Switzeiland. 



In a few days will be published in 

 small folio, the Kit-Cat Club, contain- 

 ing portraits and memoirs of the forty- 

 eight members of that celebrated asso- 

 ciation ; and among others, those of 

 Addison, Steele, Cougreve, KnelJer, 

 Montagiie, Marlborough, Sir R. Wul- 

 pole, Dorset, (iurth, Walsii, and Jacob 

 Tomson, with a prefatory sketch of the 

 origin and progress of the society. 



Mr. MAfKENZlE's Thousand Expe- 

 riments in Chemistry, advertized as 

 ready for publicati<m, is accidentally 

 delayed for a few days. 



Captains Parry and Lyon have 

 sailed in two vessels for the North 

 American Ocean, in t!ie hope of rc-dis» 

 covering the passage through whicli 

 Maldonado sailed to Behring's Straits 

 from Hudson's IJay in 1.574. What 

 has been done before may probably 

 without a miracle be effected again, 

 and iiereafter such a voyage may be no 

 more thought of than one to Archangel. 

 The land expedition to Copper Inline 

 River, seems likely greatly to facili- 

 tate the nautical expedition, and the 

 two cannot fail to set the question at 

 rest about a N.^y. passage to the Pa- 

 cific, though after all there may be 

 more of novelty than utility in if. 



Sermons and Miscellaneous Pieces, 

 by the Rev. Robert WynellMayow, 

 formerly of Exeter College, Oxford, 

 and Curate of Hardwick near Man- 

 ch»"*''r, are preparing w i(h a memoir 

 6i his lilt. 



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