THE 
SELDEN’S BIRTH-PLACE, AT SALVINGTON, IN SUSSEX. 
The learned SELDEN was born at Salvington, near West Tarring, in Sussex, in a house 
now the property of Mr. James Brookbanks. Salvington consists of about twenty houses, 
mostly thatched. SELDEN’s cottage, upon the left-hand, in a lane, is built of brick and 
flint, mixed, to the height of about eight feet, and then another intermixture of wood and 
plaister to the top. The anuexed Inscription is carved in wood, on the lintel of the door, 
on the inside, and is said to be the work of its former celebrated inhabitant, in 1601, 
GRATVS HONESTE MIH NOCIA VDAR INITO 
SEDEB FVRABEA NOSV FAGA SOLVTA TIBI. 
It has been thus translated : 
An honest man a friendly welcome meets, 
My doors (though open) ne'er a rogue admits. 
Or better thus, by Dr. Evans : 
An honest man is always weleome here— 
To rogues I grant no hospitable cheer. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
POLITICS of LOWER CANADA. 
HE constitution of Lower Canada 
is modelled on that of England ; 
a Lower House,* elected by the mass of 
* The Provincial Legislature as erected 
by act 31 Geo. III.c. 31. (1791) consists of 
his Majesty acting by a Goveraor,a Le- 
gislative Council of fifteen members, ap- 
pointed by his Majesty, and a House of 
Assembly, elected for four years, by sub- 
jects resident within the province, and 
possessed in counties of property to the 
yearly value of forty shillings, in the towns 
MONTHLY Maa. No, 366. 
the people, a Legislative Council, ap- 
pointed by the crown as a kind of aris- 
tocracy, and a Governor and Executive 
Council, to represent the executive ite 
self. The Criminal Code and Forms of 
Judicature are English, while the dis- 
positions of property and its relations 
of the yearly value of five pounds, or paying 
rent to the amount of ten pounds yearly. 
As almost every Canadian, resident in 
the country, is a small landholder, and pro- 
perty in towns is increasing in value, the 
above qualifications amount very nearlyto 
universal suffrage. 
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