18S LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



between that State and your Government may speedily 

 subside. Our Tories (and our Whigs too) are quite de- 

 lighted at the possibility of a civil war in a republic, to 

 which Englishmen look as an example of free government 

 and liberal institutions ; and nothing would more retard 

 the progress of freedom here and in Europe than a separa- 

 tion between your States. I hope and trust all is now 

 quiet. Our enlightened men condemn the Tariff as most 

 injudicious, and leading to all the abominations of excise- 

 ment and places in a country which for centuries might 

 go on without them ; yet the principles of confederation 

 laid down by your President are considered unanswerable. 

 Our friend, Mr. Bake well, "whom I saw in London, is very 

 well, and as actively alive to his favorite science as ever ; 

 he has been, as ever, most kind and attentive to my 

 interests ; and, indeed, to him entirely I ow the publication 

 of my book, for a publisher, to whom I intrusted it, 

 kept my MS. a month, and then declined it, the delay 

 was to prevent its appearance before a geological work of 

 his own. Mr. B. came to London and heard my lectures. 

 You will have a great treat in Mr. Lyell's third volume, 

 and in Mr. Hawkins's beautiful plates. 



FROM DR. MANTELL. 



June 18, 1833. 



I WRITE on the anniversary of the battle of 



Waterloo. We are here in great consternation lest the Duke 

 should again get into power, for the Tories are making a 

 tremendous struggle ; if they do your country will be the 

 only asylum for us ; the middling classes here have suffered 

 greatly, and we had reason to hope the worst was over, for 

 things began to wear a brighter aspect ; but if that moral 

 upas, the Duke, should again rule the ascendant, there will 

 be no hope ; despotism, military despotism, or a revolu- 

 tion, will be the result. 



