SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER 
to tHe FIFTY-NINTH VOLUME or rar 
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
No. 412.} | JULY 31, 1825. [Vol. LIX: 
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Retrosrect of the Errorts and Pro- 
Gress of Manxinp during the Last 
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. 
[This article is principally taken from - 
the Revue Encyclopédique; but the translator 
has not serupled to make occasionally either 
such omissions, additions, or alterations, as 
might be consistent with his own views of 
the. subject, wherever they happened not 
exactly to coincide with those of the ori- 
ginal author. That author, however, who 
(according to the manly system of conduct- 
ing the periodical press of France) stands. 
forth with the signature of his name, is no 
less respectable an ornament to the litera- 
ture and science of his age, than the cele- 
brated J/ C. L. de Sismondi. 
It becomes us, therefore, who sneak into 
the world anonymously, while we ascribe 
the merit of the disquisition to its primitive 
source, to take upon ourselves the respon- 
sibility of the sentiments—to some of which 
we have given a colouring which does not 
exactly belong to the original, and which 
M. Sismondi himself (even if be had writ- 
ten in England) would not, perhaps, have 
given tothem. We have done more; we 
have not only incorporated with ‘this philo- 
Monruty Mac. No. 412,.—Supp. 
sophical retrospect, the substance of a con- 
siderable portion of another article from the 
same pen, on the subject of “ British In- 
dia,”” but have added freely, sometimes to 
the extent of whole columns, of our own ; 
as will be apparent to whoever may think 
it worth while to compare the translation 
with the original.] 
HE Roman Church was desirous 
i that the year, through one-half of 
which we have now run, should be signa- 
lized by public solemnities and rejoic- 
ings; and that the church, of course, 
should be enriched by the offerings and 
atonements of the faithful. It innovated, 
therefore, upon the secular festivals, 
which, from the ordinary duration.of hu- 
man life, the greater part of those faith- 
ful could never witness; and deeming 
even the sectional jubilee of fifty years 
rather too precariously remote for the 
chances of a majority thereof, considered 
.the fourth part of a.century a more con- 
venient portion of mundane existence 
for that pause of contemplation and re- 
flection, heretofore prescribed to the 
entire, or the moiety of that period. . 
This, then, said the infallible head of 
the religious world, when the year was 
approaching, is a proper season for ac- 
4 F knowledging 
