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and foremost,” while occupying no 
higher rank than that of a colonel of 
dragoons. This request was denied, 
because, according to the duke of York, 
it was expressly stipulated, when the 
prince received his regiment, that he 
should receive no further promotion in 
the army. ‘This is denied by the prince 
of Wales, and here the matter rests for 
Arr. LIIL. Observations on the Temper and Spirit of the Irish Nation at the present ° 
Crisis. By J. P.Winver, £sqg.  8vo. pp. 50. 
THIS pamphlet is written with con- 
siderable elegance: our readers will be 
gratified by the following extract. 
«‘ Unfortunately there are men, whose 
chief object seerns to have been to perpetuate 
discord; who, assuming to be themselves 
the support of government, have been at 
ains to deprive it of the support of millions. 
es, there are those whose loyalty is more 
fatal to the state than the treason of others. 
These men are not the advocates of power, 
that all may be secure under its protection ; 
but they would fain ally themselves to power, 
that they may injure and defame with more 
audacity. In the midst of a populous nation, 
they have no country: they are but the mem- 
bers of a party. Reviling all who subscribe 
not implicitly to their opinions, continually 
repeating and perverting the taie of our cala- 
mities, they suffer not the better feelings of 
the country to prevail, and unite us together 
in amity. They seem fearful lest harmony 
and concord, established among all ranks and 
parties, should deprive them of their wonted 
gratifications, and, leaving them no object 
to vilify and insult, should leave their minds 
without occupation. 
«« Should any symptoms of discontent 
break out in the country, (and it is perhaps 
too much to flatter ourselves that there will 
be none) these men will immediately cla- 
mour for the adoption of the harshest and 
most violent measures, such as their intem- 
perate zeal may dictate, and which shall give 
full scope to their vengeful passions. Let 
us, for the sake of the country and huma- 
nity, hope that their wishes will not be in- 
dulged, nor their suggestions listened to. It 
is undoubtedly reasonable, when the safety 
of the state is endangered, that the hands of 
government should be strengthened, and mea- ‘ 
sures of additional security adopted. But 
there is a point, beyond hic a just and 
honourable man will not go, even to protect 
imself from threatened destruction. These 
violations of order to preserve order; these 
outrages to restrain outrages; these short 
euts of policy by which the innocent and 
the guilty are confounded, however they are 
retended to be justified by necessity, do in 
Beck originate in some vile and contemptible 
passion; in party rancour, which seizes the 
opportunity of gratifying its malignity, or in 
eoward fear, which thinks every thing excused 
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND STATISTICS, ‘ 
do not presume to give any opinion ; 
but we think that the national interests — 
are by no means endangered, in refusing _ 
to entrust the command of an afmy to — 
an officer who has never had ah oppor- 
tunity of being engaged in actual mi- 
litary service. 
the present. On these transactions we 
; 
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by its apprehensions of danger. The man 
of true greatness of soul despises no less than 
he abhors them. He prepares such means 
of defence as justice and honour sanction, 
and waits the event with calin intrepidity.. 
He maintains the justice of his cause with - 
firmness and resolution, but, rather than 
stoop to be the doer of wrong, he prefers to 
perish. 
«‘ Nor is this character of. magnanimity 
less’wise, in the main, than it is humane and 
geucrous. I[t gives a lustre and respect to a 
cause, which do it much more effectual ser- 
vice than the dishonourable precautions of a 
timid or cruel policy; which virtuous minds 
participate in with reluctance, or keep aloof 
from with indignation.—It never surely can 
be the interest of a government to confound 
itself with the violators of law and the per- 
petrators of outrage. Thought it may be 
necessary it should unsheath the sword, it 
never ought to throw aside the robes of jus-+ 
tice. When it appears disarrayed and di- 
vested, of the sacred symbols of its ightful 
authority ; when it enters the lists with its 
opponents in their own mode of warfare, 
and.engages them with their own weapons, 
we are puzzled at the scene before us: we no: 
longer tecognize the deposslaries of legitimate — 
power and the public majesty ; we see onlv 
violence and faction, and scarcely know 
where to fix our hopes, or whether any 
ground of hope remains. Such is the state 
tea which a country is reduced by intemperate 
counsels; but let us trust that we shall never — 
thus witness their fatal preponderance.” 
It ought to be the object of all politi- 
cal writers to define the remedies of the 
wrongs they state; to recommend mild- 
ness and conciliation is not enough. 
Will any thing, ought any thing, short 
of catholic emancipation suffice to give 
quiet to Treland? What forbids this” 
emancipation? Is it the bigotry of the 
church of England? Let the tolerant: 
bishops be translated, and the liberal | 
clergy patronized, until the literary tone 
of the body changes, Is it a conspiracy 
of orange-men? Letthe public enemies: 
be impeached. “ The ancient encous- 
ragement (says Pym, in his admirable 
speech touching my lord of Strafford) 
