THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 397.] 



JULY 1, 1824. 



[6 of Vol. 57. 



SPENSER'S RESIDENCE at KILCOLMAN, near DONERAILE. 



Here Spenser resided ten years, and composed his " Fairie Queen," and other 

 principal works. It stands on a rocky eminence, in a flat and uninteresting country, 

 and, though once of some extent, in the t'orra of a parallelogram, is now reduced to a 

 mere ruin. It was part of the forfeited Desmond estates ; and granted, with 3000 

 acres of land, to Spenser, in 1586 : but the native Irish, indignant at this intrusion of 

 English settlers, plundered it, and set it on fire, destroying the Poet's property, and 

 one of his children. Spenser returned broken-hearted to England, and died in 1598, 

 at a publie-honse in King-street, Westminster. The remains of the castle are still 

 visited and venerated by sentimental travellers, among the last of whom was Mr. T. 

 Crofton Croker, who has given an interesting account of the place. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 

 On tfie COMMERCE una POLICE o/" great 



BUITAIN; by M. DUIMN. 



THE vast creation of nrtiGciai capi- 

 tal and its rapid circulation, during 

 the late wars, having given an impulse 

 to industry in England, of which no 

 previous example lias existed, it be- 

 comes important to us to be surveyed 

 by an intelligent Foreigner, atid in- 

 teresting to peruse his reports. Such 

 foreigner is M. Diipin, and his reports 

 are printing iti Franc«? with all the 

 speed eomi)atibIe with accuracy. Two 

 volumes liHve just uppearo<l, and we 

 Monthly Mag. No. 397. 



feel it our duty to exhibit to our readers 

 some general ideas of their contents. 



Imperfect or decayed as are many 

 of our institutions, we are, nevertheless, 

 in social policy, legislation, liberty, 

 and arts, two or three generations 

 before the rest of Europe. The French 

 Revolution, on the part of its authors, 

 bad for its object our example, and 

 it was their design not merely to over- 

 take us, but, liy pursuing our principles 

 in the abstract, to go beyond us. The 

 jealousy of surrounding <lespots, and 

 the difiicuity of reconciling the habits 

 of a people to new and oven improved 

 3 Q inslitulioiiH, 



