I held some slack allegiance till this hour- But here I stand and scoff you:-here I fling Your consul's merciful. For this all thanks. Or make the infant's sinew strong as steel. This day 's the birth of sorrows!---This hour's work Will breed proscriptions.---Look to your hearths, my lords, WILLIAM TELL IN THE FIELD OF GRUTLI.-Knowles. YE crags and peaks, I'm with you once again! With all my voice!-I hold my hands to you, Scaling yonder peak, I saw an eagle wheeling near its brow Of measuring the ample range beneath And round about, absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot!--'T was liberty!---I turned my bow aside, And let him soar away! THE TORCH OF LIBERTY.-T. Moore. I SAW it all in Fancy's glass- 'T was like a torch-race---such as they I saw the expectant nations stand, And, oh, their joy, as it came near, And each, as she received the flame, From Albion first, whose ancient shrine The splendid gift then Gallia took, And, when she fired her altar, high Next, Spain, so new was light to her, Yet, no-not quenched-a treasure, worth Who next received the flame? alas! Scarce had her fingers touched the torch And fallen it might have long remained; And Fancy bade me mark where, o'er 'Shine, shine forever, glorious flame, From Greece thy earliest splendour came, 'Take, Freedom, take thy radiant round; CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. Extracted from the Rev. SYDNEY SMITH'S Speech before an Assembly of Clergymen. [It was spoken at a meeting of the clergy of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding of Yorkshire, (England) held at the Tiger Inn, at Beverly, for the purpose of adopting a petition against the Catholic claims. The meeting was numerously attended by clergymen hostile to the bill. The Rev. S. Smith stood alone in his opposition.] WE preach to our congregations, Sir, that a tree is known by its fruits. By the fruits it produces I will judge your system. What has it done for Ireland? New Zealand is emerging-Otaheite is emerging-Ireland is not emerging-she is still veiled in darkness-her children, safe under no law, live in the very shadow of death. Has your system of exclusion made Ireland rich? Has it made Ireland loyal? Has it made Ireland free? Has it made Ireland happy? How is the wealth of Ireland proved? Is it by the naked, idle, suffering savages, who are slumbering on the mud floors of their cabins? In what does the loyalty of Ireland consist? Is it in the eagerness with which they would range themselves under the hostile banner of any invader, for your destruction and for your distress? Is it liberty, when men breathe and move among the bayonets of English soldiers? Is their happiness and their history anything but such a tissue of murders, burnings, hanging, famine and disease, as never existed before in the annals of the world? This is the system which, I am sure, with very different intentions and very different views of its effects, you are met this day to uphold. These are the dreadful consequences which those laws, your petition prays may be continued, have produced upon Ireland. From the principles of that system, from the cruelty of those laws, I turn, and turn with the homage of my whole heart, to that memorable proclamation, which the Head of our Church, the present monarch of these realms, has lately made to his hereditary dominions of Hanover-That no man should be subjected to civil incapacities, on account of his religious opinions. Sir, there have been many memorable things done in this reign. -Hostile armies have been destroyed; fleets have been captured; formidable combinations have been broken to pieces -but this sentiment in the mouth of a king deserves, more than all glories and victories, the notice of that historian, who is destined to tell to future ages the deeds of the English people. I hope he will lavish upon it every gem which glitters in the diadem of genius, and so uphold it to the world, that it will be remembered when Waterloo is forgotten, and when the fall of Paris is blotted out from the memory of man. Great as it is, Sir, this is not the only pleasure I have received in these latter days. I have seen, within these few weeks, a degree of wisdom in our mercantile law, such superiority to vulgar prejudice, views so just and so profound, that it seemed to me as if I were reading the works of a speculative economist, rather than the improvements of a practical politician, agreed to by a legislative assembly, and upon the eve of being carried into execution, for the benefit of a great people. Let who will be their master, I honour and praise the ministers who have learned such a lesson. I rejoice that I have lived to see such an improvement in English affairs-that the stubborn resistance to all improvement -the contempt of all scientific reasoning, and the rigid adhesion to every stupid error, which so long characterised the proceedings of this country, is fast giving way to better things, under better men, placed in better circumstances. I confess it is not without severe pain, that in the midst of all this expansion and improvement, I perceive that in our profession we are still calling for the same exclusionstill asking, that the same fetters may be rivetted on our fel-` low creatures-still mistaking what constitutes the weakness |