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to consider the science of civil and 
criminal legislation as only in its rudi- 
ments,—alleging that different means 
‘of decomposing and accurately ana- 
lysing, of rendering it more correct 
and simple, are what we should now 
‘pay the most attention to. 
Whether such language is admissi- 
ble and can he tolerated, whether we 
should réadily take for true whatever 
is thus plausibly and positively assert- 
ed, is a questionable proposition, 
which different. authors will either 
establish, or consider as erroneous. 
It appears, however, to be a matter of 
which nothing can be really known, 
but by a combination of theoretical 
generalities, with numerous practical 
particulars. It requires a knowledge 
of human nature, not only in the ab- 
stract, but as modified by the intricate 
relations of property, and the influence 
of civilization.- Legislation is diffi- 
cult, but that system of government, 
seems to be the best, which is best 
suited to the character, habits, and 
genius, of the people for whom it is 
designed. 
The late long interval of European 
revolutionary tumults was only a suc- 
cession of tyrannies, exchanging one 
species of usurpation and despotism 
for another. But there is this singular 
result, this remarkable and serious 
consequence,—an important and ex- 
tensive conclusion has been drawn, in 
favour of the political principles de- 
‘fended, with ardour, in the course of 
it, so that men no longer ‘entertain 
different opinions on the common 
ground of reforming the general eco- 
nomy and order of society. 
According to this opinion, now cir- 
culating in almost every part of po- 
lished Europe, political integrity, the 
science of morals, and virtuous philan- 
throphy, should give to the whole body 
of civil institutions, among the people 
‘with whom they have their intimate 
connexion, that general impression of 
character which is now ascribed to 
the priaciple of justice. 
In France, beth before and ‘since 
the revolution, there is a growing mo- 
ral fitness for the precious gift of civil 
liberty, But in Great Britain the ge- 
nuine love of itis the ruling passion 
_among the people, which shows that 
they are not yet become ready for sla- 
very. Itis here that we meet with true 
philanthropy, as the striking charac- 
teristic trait, principally founded onan 
M, Jullien’s Visit to Lanark. 
[Oct: i, 
inviolable regard for sublime moral 
considerations. It is here thata sense 
of personal worth, of real dignity and 
importance, is preserved, which preé- 
vents individuals from forgetting that 
they are men. . 
_ With a portion of political freedom, 
North Britain certainly unites no com- 
mon share of the beneficent talents. 
The author of this sketch, M. Jullien, 
had read the late work of Mr. Owen, 
wherein that well-informed and inge- 
nious man describes with minuteness, 
and explains, all the circumstances of 
his laboured. exertions and affectionate 
attentions to his colonial family. In 
the month of September 1822, M. J. 
personally visited the establishment of 
New Lanark, prosecuting his enquiries 
with spirit, into. the subjects, details, 
and occurrences, which render the 
situation of that institution so pecu- 
liarly comfortable.. Here he spent a 
day in noting the labours of the work- 
men employed; the instructions, the 
exercises, the sports for recreation, of 
the young persons brought up in that 
obscure, picturesque valley,—that de- 
licious retreat. In the administration, 
he traced a superior spirit, sufficient 
to incline and direct well all the pro- 
ceedings and exertions, with all their 
graceful accessories. The whole form- 
ed a safe asylum, wherein the poor 
man has left his distresses and his 
difficulties behind him, has to,struggle 
with none of those feelings and pas- 
sions, the gratification of which is what 
ambition covets almost every where 
else. 
_ It was a primary object of the 
author, in his tour through England 
and Scotland, in the summer of 1822, 
to visit Mr. Owen’s institution, to learn 
whether it was fairly entitled to the 
celebrity which fame had conferred on 
it. He set out from Glasgow to New 
Lanark, a distance of twenty-three 
English miles: through this district, in 
most branches of agriculture, he no- 
tices with approbation the improyed 
culture that prevails in the fertile and 
productive fields, meadows, gardens, 
orchards, &c. The crops were won- 
derfully luxuriant, and the success 
was proportioned to the attention 
paid, in no common degree, to the 
particular cultivation of each. In this 
excursion M. J. had a companion, 
M. B—, a judicious and candid 
Frenchman, long resident in England, 
who also, from motives of curiosity, 
a wished 
