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to that party who would make the People every thing' and the Lords 

 a mere cypher. Whether the story of the ambitious but much 

 wronged Ilieuzi conveys to every mind the lesson that it does to ours — 

 that the oppressions of a proud and pampered nobility may raise a 

 noble-minded plebeian to a dizzy though well-deserved height of 

 patronage and power, from which the ever-varying and treacherous 

 will of the selfish multitude may topple him down headlong in a few 

 houi-s — we know not ; but this we do know, that we cannot look with 

 a favourable eye on a man of firsl-rate talent, who employs a seduc- 

 tive style of writing and chooses an attractive walk in literature for 

 the purpose of instilling doctrines pregnant with mischief into the 

 minds of a peaceful people. We love truth ; we would have her 

 fairly displayed ; every disguise should be torn away ; but we never 

 can consent to the employment of a fictitious machinery in a cause so 

 serious, so noble, as that in which we are engaged at present, — 

 employed to mislead a people in judging the merits of their own 

 cause. The review is excellent so far as it would refer to an event 

 of by-gone days, as it would criticise the picture drawn by a master- 

 painter of a scene whose explanation the book of history must 

 furnish ; but we cannot consent to the parallel, perhaps «mp/ied by the 

 writer, certainly and clearly expressed by the reviewer, between the 

 perturbed state of the church-deserted Rome and that of our own 

 country in the nineteenth century. The stubborn pertinacity of a 

 Roden, a Londonderry, or an Eldon may be hateful to a liberal mind ; 

 ])ut their conduct, however injurious to the country, cannot in 

 fairness be compared, even considering' the altered state of 

 the times, with the ruthless violence of a Colonna or the coward 

 revenge of a Savelli. The conservative party cannot be to us 

 an object of admiration ; but it would be worse than uncharit- 

 able to suppose them capable of acts approaching in baseness to those 

 of the Italian nobles. It may he desirable for the reviewer to de- 

 preciate one party to raise an ideal Rienzi — the idol not of 

 Roman Italy, but of Ireland, — it may be pleasing to panegyrize the 

 unswerving integrity, the bravery, the wisdom of the god of their 

 own formation,— it may flatter an Irishman's vanity to preach the cru- 

 sade of his country's independence, — but it will be difficult to convince 

 the less impetuous brotherhood on this side the channel to subscribe 

 to all his doctrines and to follow him with his own sanguine spirit 

 in the path that he chooses to pursue. 



A third political review is that on ' Raumer's England in 1835.' 

 The visit of an historical professor, a man of previously acknow- 

 ledged ability, from works of reputation on the politics of Europe and 

 particularly of Germany, would naturally interest those who reflect 

 on the state of our country during the last year ; and we are glad to 

 say that neither in the work nor the reviewer's remarks will the rea- 

 der be disappointed, and at any rate, if not convinced, he M'ill at 

 any rate admire the author's talent and the reviewer's candour. We 

 believe Mrs. Austin's translation of Raumer's England to be in every 

 way worthy of the hand that has furnished us with many previous 

 translations of very useful German and French writings. 



With respect to the second class of articles, those of a theological 



