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corresponding pulse in the heart of every man 
capable of honouring unhappy bravery. The 
Mussulman, bloody in his nature, his habits, 
and his religion, is now let loose uponaChris- 
tian people, a noble nation, a gallant race,— 
hallowed to the memory of every man of 
literature, and every spirit of freedom. The 
Turkish tigers are absolutely rioting in the 
blood of Greece—yet we look on; we who, 
bya single word, could bid this slaughter 
cease ; we who, individually, if we saw the 
ten thousandth part of the violences, cruel- 
ties, and cold-blood horrors that are now 
perpetrating by the savage Arab, the Moor, 
and the Turk, would feel it the first duty 
of our nature, our religion, to extinguish 
them, at whatever hazard. But we stand 
back, timid for the first time, abandonding 
for the first time the cause of humanity, 
by which our national renown was gained, 
and for which our national strength has 
Varieties. 
been given. No treaty with the savage 
Mussulman can require this crimina} for- 
bearance ; if we had made such a treaty, it 
would be guilt to. be stopped by it; no 
treaty can supersede the laws of nature and 
religion. Let the English minister. but 
pronounce the word that this desolation 
shall cease, and it will cease. There is not 
a power in Europe that would dare to raise 
its hand agamst an act,which would less be 
the act of human council, than a solemn 
obedience to the dictate of God. In the 
mere view of human policy, the war is 
ruinous to all :—to Turkey, whose resources 
it wastes, for the conquest of a desert and 
corpses; to Egypt, whose prosperity it 
will extinguish ; to England, whose natural 
allies it exterminates ; to all Europe, ip 
whose bosom it keeps a fire kindled. Yet 
one word, and all would be done, 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS. 
Arctic Circle. —A new expedition, under 
Capt. Parry, has been resolved upon, we 
understand, at the earnest solicitation of 
that gentleman, to explore the northern 
hemisphere. We understand the Hecla 
will take out with her boats or small vessels 
of peculiar construction, in which Capt. 
Parry and a party of the Hecla’s officers 
and men are to attempt actually to reach 
the North Pole, leaving the Hecla in the 
neighbourhood of Spitzbergen. 
Scientific Expedition.—The Adventure 
and Beagle, under the orders of Capt. King, 
finally sailed from Plymouth last month, to 
survey the farthest coasts of South Ame- 
rica. ‘The cares of the Admiralty have 
been bountifully exercised to provide 
them with every thing that can contribute 
to the health and safety of the crews, and 
the promotion of geographical science, natu- 
ral history, &c. 
African Discovery.—Our  enterprizing 
countryman Major Laing was at Ensala, 
the capital of Tuat, on the 4th December ; 
he was in excellent health, and expected to 
teach Timbuctoo in thirty days. Ensala, 
according to our present maps, is in lat. 24, 
about 800 miles from Tripoli, where Major 
Laing started, and about 600 from Timbuc- 
too. The country of Tuat is an oasis, or 
fertile tract, pretty nearly in the middle of 
the Sahara, or Great Desert; and Major 
Laing is, we believe, the first European 
who is known to have visited it. 
A famine is now raging in Morocco. The 
crops haye failed for the last three years 
from drought, and allthe springs and rivers 
are dried up. © The eattle have died for 
from a letter of a medical gentleman sent 
from Gibraltar to ascertain the nature of 
the disease on the opposite coast of 
Africa. His details of the sufferings of the 
people are shocking beyond imagination. 
Smyrna.—The French consul-general at 
Smyrna has founded an academy there, 
which was opened on the 10th of April, 
The object of this institution is to endea- 
vour to diffuse the, love of letters among a 
people hitherto exclusively commercial in 
their character. 
Population of the Netherlands, —The po- 
pulation of the Netherlands appears to be 
increasing. The following is the state of 
the population for six consecutive years : 
TIS 20 ers on vscpsaconuona saa 5,642,552 
TBA cence piper cs ncseaneaae 5,692,323 
1s at iets at seeteee 3,767,038 
NG) wencacnpecansscesiarase 5,838,123 
TBA va cecenccrcccccsesscanec 5,913,526 
TST RSE See 5,992,666 
The proportion of male to female births 
is much the same as in England. In the 
Netherlands it is as 1,000 to 950; in Eng- 
land, as 1,000 to 947; in France, as 1,000 
to 937; and in Naples, as 1,00C to 955. 
This agreement, of the cause of which we 
shall probably always remain ignorant, is as 
remarkable for its singularity as for its con- 
stancy- 
Chancery Costs.—In the matter of Lord 
Portsmouth, Mr. Horne stated, June 21, 
in the Court of Chancery, that the expenses- 
of this suit, in the Ecclesiastical Court, 
would not be less than £30,000, while in 
[Auc. 
the Chancery Court they would only, amount » 
1 
to £7,000. ‘The Lord Chancellor ‘thought... 
that he might be permitted to say. one word, =| 
for this poor hunted Court of Chancery; he .- 
believed that the expenses in this court .- 
were less than in any other ! !! "—The enor- ..- 
want of herbage, and in the last six months 
200,000 people have perished from famine 
and disease ; 38,000 have died in the city 
of Fez only. The above account is taken 
