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REPLY TO LORD LYNDHURST.

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All, all his victories should have rushed and crowded back upon his memory; Vimieira, Badajos, Salamanca, Albuera, Toulouse; and, last of all, the greatest

6. Tell me, for you were there, I appeal to the gallant soldier before me, who bears, I know, a generous heart in an intrepid breast; - tell me, for you. must needs remember, — on that day, when the destinies of mankind were trembling in the balance, while death fell in showers; when the artillery of France, leveled with the precision of the most deadly science, played upon them; when her legions, incited by the voice, inspired by the example, of their mighty leader, rushed again and again to the onset, tell me if, for an instant, when to hesitate for an instant was to be lost, the "aliens " blenched!

7. And when, at length, the moment for the last decisive movement had arrived; when the valor, so long wisely checked, was at last let loose; when, with words familiar, but immortal, the great captain commanded the great assault, tell me if Catholic Ireland, with less heroic valor than the natives of your own glorious isle, precipitated herself upon the foe! The blood of England, Scotland, Ireland, flowed in the same stream, drenched the same field.

8. When the chill morning dawned, their dead lay cold and stark together. In the same deep pit their bodies were deposited. The green corn of spring is now breaking from their commingled dust; the dew falls from heaven upon their union in the grave! Par takers in every peril, in the glory shall we not be permitted to participate? And shall we be told, as a requital, that we are estranged from the noble country for whose salvation our life-blood was poured out?

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In latitude, altitude, century, tube, &c., attend to the y sound of the sevl for lev'ěl; ́tremendyous for tre-men'dous; Artic for Arc'tic.

1. ICEBERGS are those masses of ice, r mountains, which abound in the polar seas sometimes found floating in the moderate In the Arctic regions, the snow, which ann on the islands or continents, being again dis the progress of the summer's heat, pours for ous rills and limpid streams, which collect a indented shores, and in the deep bays enc precipitous rocks.

2. Here this clear and gelid water soon fre every successive year supplies an additional after the lapse, perhaps, of several centuries mass rises, at last, to the size and aspect of a n equal in elevation to the adjoining cliffs. The of the snow, which is afterward deposited enormous blocks, likewise contributes to their and, by filling up the accidental holes or cr renders the whole structure compact and unif

3. Meanwhile the principle of destruction is at work. The ceaseless agitation of the sea g

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eight, when it has perhaps attained an altitude of a Lousand, or even two thousand feet, it is torn from s frozen chains, and precipitated, with a tremendous unge, into the abyss below.

4. This mighty launch now floats, like a lofty island, 1 the ocean, till, driven southward by winds and curnts, it insensibly wastes and dissolves away in the ide Atlantic. Icebergs have been known to drift om Baffin's Bay to the Azores. Being composed of esh water, the ice is clear and solid; and from the vities the crews of the northern whalers are accusmed, by means of a hose or a flexible tube of canvas, o fill their casks easily with the purest and softest

ater.

5. Some of the masses of floating ice in the polar eas are two miles long, and a mile or more broad. n idea may be formed of the immense depth to which ebergs descend, from the fact that the mass of ice elow the level of the water is about eight times reater than that above. Captain Scoresby once ounted five hundred of these bergs drifting with the urrent. They rose above the surface, from the height f one hundred to two hundred feet, and measured om a few yards to a mile in circumference. Many f them were loaded with beds of earth and rocks.

6. An incident is related by Dr. Kane, that shows he wonderful powers of endurance of the Esquimaux. wo of these people were hunting the walrus, on the pen ice of the frozen sea, when a north wind broke p the ice, and they found themselves afloat. An iceerg being near, they urged their dogs toward it, and ade good their landing on it with them and the carass of the walrus. It was at the close of the last sooson when devlight is un

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tied the dogs down to knobs of ice, and b of screen from the wind for themselves. drifted toward the south, and here, for a who drifting, drifting along the coast-line of Baf dwelt these two hardy adventurers, wedge eating their walrus-meat, and sustaining life of the intense cold. At length the iceberg § and they contrived to make their way, on ice-raft, to the main land.

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The story of Belshazzar may be found in the Bible, in the Book of Dani

THE midnight hour was drawing on;
Hushed in repose lay Babylon.

But in the palace of the king

The herd of courtiers shout and sing:
There, in his royal banquet-hall,

Belshazzar holds high festival.
The servants sit in glittering rows,

The beakers are drained, the red wine flow
The beakers clash, and the servants sing,
A pleasing sound to the moody king.

The king's cheeks flush, and his wild eyes
His spirit waxes bold with wine;
Until, by maddening passion stung,
He scoffs at God with impious tongue;

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He spoke the word, and his eyes flashed flame!
The ready servants went and came;

Vessels of massive gold they bore,

Of Jehovah's temple the plundered store.

And, seizing a consecrated cup,
The king, in his fury, fills it up:
He fills, and hastily drains it dry,
From his foaming lips leaps forth the cry,
'Jehovah at thee my scorn I fling!

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I am Belshazzar, Babylon's king!"

Yet scarce had the impious words been said,
When the king's heart shrank with a secret dread:
Suddenly died, the shout and yell,-

A death-like hush on the tumult fell.

And, lo! on the wall, as they gazed aghast, What seemed like a human hand went past, and wrote, in sight of all

And wrote

Letters of fire upon the wall!

The king sat still, with a stōny look,

His trembling knees with terror shook;

The menial throng nor spoke nor stirred;

Fear froze their blood, no sound was heard!
The magians came; but none of all

Could read the writing on the wall.
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At length, to solve those words of flame,
Fearless but meek the prophet came
One glance he gave, and all was clear!
"King! there is reason in thy fear;
Those words proclaim, thy empire ends,
The day of woe and wrath impends:/
Weighed in the balance, wanting found,
Thou and thy empire strike the ground
That night, by the servants of his train,

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