1822.]. 
disgraced this work, and which no 
name or talent can redeem from public 
contempt. / It is‘a comprehensive exa- 
mination of various recent accounts of 
the United States, and particularly of 
the very lively and able Views of 
Society and Manners in America, by an 
Englishwoman. By an Englishwoman 
these Views were certainly written, as 
the Reviewer knows abundantly well, 
whilst he asserts the contrary. Buthe 
will excuse us for doubting if he be 
really an Englishman, who can avail 
himself of a pretextlike this to launch 
his virulent personalitics against an 
amiable and accomplished woman. 
But she is guilty of the unpardonable 
sin of admiring and praising the Ameri- 
can government: she was treated as a 
friend by the Americans ; and, as a 
friend, she speaks of them. The pe- 
tusal of her volume will form her best 
defence. But the injury to the indi- 
vidual is trifling, compared to the per- 
nicious tendency of this paper in a 
public view. Every thing favourable 
to the United States is carefully sup- 
pressed ; and every anccdote is studi- 
ously detailed on the other hand, 
which can render them odious and 
ridiculous. Is it by contemptible arts 
like these that this high-minded patriot 
thinks that. his country is to be served? 
Would he stop emigration to America? 
Instead of abusing that nation, let him 
convince his countrymen that ‘ peace, 
with her concomitant blessings, spreads 
her benign iniluence over the land, 
and all we want is thankfulness.” Is 
it for sport, or for life, that the emi- 
grant flees into the wilderness?) Does 
he wantonly desert his home, or does 
he escape from the grasp of necessity? 
No matter which, no doubt, if he did 
not take refuge ina republic. Here is 
the grievance, and until Mr. Monroe 
be crowned and anointed in Washing- 
ton, the senate transformed into earls 
and viscounts, the thirty-nine articles 
established in full authority, and a 
competent number of rotten boroughs 
constituted. and duly sold, we sce not 
how itis to be remedied. More than 
ence, indeed, the reviewer flatters 
himself with an anticipation of mo- 
warchy being adopted by the States ; 
und we, with more reason, flatter our- 
selves, that the American nation will 
see, in such lucubrations as these, the 
outbreakings of a jealous and bigotted 
mind, with which the manly and Jiberal 
opinions of the British public do not, 
in any degree, sympathize. 
» Monrary Mac, No, 872, 
The Quarterly Review, No. 53. 
129 
Whilst in the last article the re- 
viewer labours to. give a positive 
check to American emigration, in the 
next, which treats of our colony in Van 
Diemen’s Land, and strongly recom- 
mends it as a place of settlement, he 
aims indirectly at the same object. 
It is undoubtedly a fine country, com- 
bining more advantages than perhaps 
any other of our colonies; and the re- 
viewer thinks that facilities might be 
afforded to the labouring poor and 
their families to emigrate thither. But 
why emigrate at all, when ‘‘ the mass 
of the people are no where so wellfed, 
clothed, and lodged, as in Hugtand;” 
why “replunge into that state of 
savage life, and forego ull the comforts 
and all the blessings of civilization ? 
asacrifice which must be made by the 
settler in Van Diemen’s Land as well 
as in America. Through the incon- 
sistencics of this politician, the uawel- 
come truth appears but too plainly ; 
that, for ‘‘food, and clothing, and 
lodging,” numbers of his countrymen 
are compelled to forsake their native 
soil, and seek them in foreign lands. 
In natural advantages Van Diemen’s 
Land is equal, and perhaps superior, 
to America; but it forms a_ very 
serious objection to colonial settle- 
ment, that the government is admi- 
nistered, for the most part, by military 
hands, in a summary and arbitrary 
manner. ‘The consequences of this 
are visible in the frequent distur- 
bances in New South Wales. When- 
ever the society becomes of suflicient 
importance, it should be admitted to a 
due share in the administration of its 
own concerns; but, as this principle 
would interfere powerfully with the in- 
fluence of the crown, we see no proba- 
bility of a deviation from the old prac- 
tice, of recognizing rights when they 
ean be no longer withheld, and con- 
ceding to the compulsion of necessity, 
those claims which had becn asked, 
and might haye been granted as 
favours. 
The -siath article is devoted to the 
discussion of several cases in Chan- 
cery, affecting the right of property in 
works of an alleged mischievous pub- 
lic tendency. In the instances of 
Lord Byron’s Cain, and Lawrence’s 
Lectures, applications were made by 
the publishers to the Lord Chancellor 
for ant infunction to restrain the pobli- 
cation of those works in other quarters. 
The rule of law is, that no man shall 
claim a benclicial property. ina subject 
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