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'■ boasts, is a true patriot or patriotess, Jidele au roi, au hi, and especially 

 * to France, and able to shoot from behind a hedge any Prussian, Austrian, 

 Swiss, or Russ, who dares invade the sacred barrier of the " grande 

 nation/' 



But the most prominent and fatal feature of the whole aspect of Eu- 

 "'Irope is, that jacobinism is rapidly penetrating the whole mass of the 

 "population. A wild and bitter impulse against authority has been given 

 by the " three days of July." The day of clubs is reviving, fierce ap- 

 ^ peals to physical force are no longer matters of astonishment, deposed 

 ' sovereigns, abolished constitutions, and " regenerated states," are no 

 longer the solitary contemplations of a few beggars and exiles, those ragged 

 ' enthusiasts who cover robbery with the pretence of public good, and 

 * differ from the highwayman only in being the baser rogue. The mos* 

 sweeping political changes are discussed with the most perfect simplicity, 

 alterations to be wrought only by massacre, are calmly argued, with a 

 familiar knowledge of the cost ; and the time is made a matter of calcu- 

 lation when every man who can rob or murder, will enjoy the full fruits 

 of his patriotism. Philip of France is a king, so long as it shall please 

 the shopkeepers of Paris, and not an hour longer. But jacobinism looks 

 to a higher conquest than the tottering throne of France, A spirit 

 of fury is gone forth in England ; the pictures and blazoned banners of 

 of bleeding heads, and the exploits of the pike, are the accompaniments 

 of our mob meetings. This spirit may be subdued for a time, by energy 

 in the government, and manliness in the higher classes. But the revo- 

 lutionists of Europe have every eye turned upon England, and the 

 first serious convulsion here will be the signal for an explosion, which 

 will leave the continent without the vestige of a throne. 



THE BOARD OF HEALTH, AND THE CHOLERA. 



The Cholera is now the prevalent topic, and unquestionably the mere 

 possibility of its reaching England has excited great anxiety. A few 

 nights before the close of the session, the subject was brought forward 

 by 'Sir R. Vivian. In answer, Mr. P. Thomson said, that in the course 

 of last week government had received information that the cholera 

 morbus had reached Hamburgh. On the receipt of this intelligence 

 the government issued orders enforcing a stricter quarantine with 

 respect to all vessels coming from Hamburgh, and had directed further 

 precautionary measures to be taken with regard to vessels coming from 

 any part of the coast lying between the north of Denmark and Rotter- 

 dam. The recommendations which government had issued to the au- 

 thorities in the country, contained a statement of those precautionary 

 measures which govermnent tliought it desirable should be taken, and 

 he had no doubt that if carried strictly into effect, they would, if the 

 disease should appear in this country, check its progress, if not entirely 

 confine it to the place of its first appearance. 



A numl)cr of letters have been since published in the papers, gene- 

 rally ridiculing the public alarm, and treating the attempts at precaution, 

 quarantine, &c., as tofcdly nugatory. But one thing we must observe, 

 that almost tlie wliole of those letters are from mercantile persons, who 

 dread the interruption of their trade, and who, in nine instances out of 



