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policy ; but such a contingency should not prevent us from offering 

 that unfeigned tribute of respect and sympathy which the talents and 

 misfortunes of the eminent Professor so deservedly challenge. 



Let me add a few words of warning. It is our boasted privilege as 

 Englishmen to side with the oppressed, and to express boldly our ab- 

 horrence of tyranny, whenever and wherever exercised. That an unfet- 

 tered and honourable press has used its utmost endeavours to foster and 

 maintain this feeling, we have all cause gratefully to acknowledge ; 

 but indications of its apparent weakening in the public mind have, 

 unfortunately, not been wanting. A new Holy Alliance has been 

 formed ; continental Europe again groans under military despotism. 

 Let us beware, lest peradventure our apathy in asserting the sacred 

 principles of freedom encourage that insatiable and insidious spirit — 

 which, knowing and dreading its enemies, persecutes and exiles the 

 Cousins, the Comtes, the Kinkels, the Says, and the Thomas — to 

 invade our shores, now almost the only European asylum for the vic- 

 tims of persecution. 



I am. Sir, 



Your faithful Servant, 



H. F. Hance. 



To the Editor of the ' Phytologist.' 



The President expressed his concurrence in the views expressed 

 by Dr. Hance, and wished to call the attention of botanists generally 

 to the unhappy circumstances of the distinguished naturalist to whom 

 Dr. Hance referred, and to solicit pecuniary aid in his behalf. He 

 had already to announce the following subscriptions, offered for that 

 purpose : — 



£ s. d. , 



William Spence, Esq 6 



C. Zeyher, Esq. .-. , .. . . . 200 



H. C. Watson, Esq 2 



J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. . . . . . . 10 



Robert Wighara 10 



Professor Henslow ....... 100 



Bertliold Seemann, Esq 10 



James Yates, Esq 10 



Dr. H. F. Hance „ 10 



Edward Newman 10 



E. G. Varenne, Esq. „ 5 



Bedford Pirn, Lieut. R.N. ... » 10 



