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lation. " WTiat," exclaimed Constantine, on the public parade, "he is a brave 

 man say you ? I want no bravery. All I want is obedience ; and I order you 

 under arrest." 



The horse of an officer of the guards was restive on parade. Constantine 

 commanded a halt, erected a pyramid of a dozen muskets with fixed bayonets, 

 and forced him to leap over. The leap was successfully taken ; and disappointed 

 in his barbarous purpose, apparently, of staking both man and horse, he ordered 

 him to repeat the leap, till in the fourth eifort, though he cleared the bayonets, 

 the horse fell and broke both his fore legs The officer, escaping unhurt, threw 

 up his commission, was arrested, and disapjip.ared. — A country noble, with 

 his wife, driving through Warsaw, passed Constantine without the usual 

 observances. The coachman did not know his person. The noble and his wife 

 were ordered to alight — they were placed under arrest — the coachman had 500 

 lashes, and he, and his master and mistress also, were alike condemned to drive 

 wheel- barrows at Lazienka, where some public buildings were going on. — A 

 deserter took refuge in the establishment of an extensive brewer at Warsaw. 

 The man was discovered ; and the brewer, a man of respectabilitj', and of con- 

 siderable property, was sentenced to drive a wheel-barrow round and round the 

 square for hours during parade time. — A soldier had entered a public-house 

 — Constantine saw the man, and forthwith declared the landlord's licence for- 

 feited. Not content with this, he made his servants go into the house, and 

 brmg out all the bottles, glasses, &c. he could find. The general in attendance 

 assisted. The whole was piled up before the door, and the Grand Duke smashed 

 them with his sword till he was tired, when he commanded the coachman to 

 drive over the rest. The horses swerved ; but the Duke was not to be defeated 

 — he resumed his own efforts, and, finallj', with the aid of the general, not an 

 article was left unbroken. 



Dr. Dibdin's Sunday Library. Vol. VI. 



Dr, Dibdin has completed his half dozen volumes — thus furnishing specimens 

 of the best Church of England theology to be met with in the writers of ihe 

 present day, and within the last half century or thereabouts. We find them an 

 acceptable collection, principally, in our view, because we have no doubt they 

 are the best Dr. Dibdin could select, and because it is desirable to have brought 

 together, in every department of scribbling, specimens of the works of those who 

 have appealed to the admiration of their fellows. The specimens thus collected 

 are abundantly sufficient for the purpose ; and the multitudinous volumes from 

 which they have been fished may quietly repose on their shelves ; — nobody can 

 surely after this desire to disturb them in their "drear abodes." In this final 

 volume figures Dr. Maitby, who of course will — he is no fool — regard the dis- 

 tinction as one of the honours and consequences which follow on his elevation 

 to the episcopacy. One of his sermons is headed the " Divinity of Christ ;" 

 and to this we naturally turned as to a test, because we knew there had long 

 been insinuations afloat relative to Maltby's orthodoxy. Tlie real question, we 

 observe, is singularly glossed over. The new bishop professes, in the outset of 

 his discourse, to shew that Jesus was the " Christ" — that is, as he himself adds, 

 the Son of God, sent into the world, &c. But all terminates in establishing his 

 "divine authority" — which is a very diffeicnt thing — by an appeal to his 

 miracles. The question, however, was not — did he perform miracles ? but, was 

 he himnelf divine } Dr. Maltby's arguments only place Christ on precisely the 

 same level with Moses, Elijah, Peter, Paul, and others. For this argument, 

 founded exclusively on miracles, to be of any force for his professed purj)ose, he 

 should have disproved the validity of all miracles of «// others ; and not, besides, 

 take for granted (what is the whole matter at issue) that the Deity could not 

 commission less than a deity to be the agent of a miracle. The sermon, again, 

 on Grace goes only to shew that grace is no grace in the received sense of the 

 terra — that nothing exlrvordinury has anything to do with it. 



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