his known sentiments in favour of Catholic emancipation. This impolitic, as well as wicked, explosion of the rage of the faction has led all wise and good men to rally round the government, and has presented an opportunity, which, we trust will not be neglected, of putting down for ever the insolence of a handful of persecutors, who have so long been suffered to keep the island in a state of turmoil and civil war. The Holy Alliance has held its congress at Verona. Hitherto, the official proceedings of this junta of sovereigns have been withheld from the public, but it is understood that the congress has given leave to France to make war upon Spain, in order to crush the free government there set up. Whether the French government will use the holy licence is scarcely determined. A sense of justice, however, will not restrain the Bourbons of that country from the mad attempt to enable the Bourbon of Spain to pluck down the liberties of the peninsula. Their fears may, notwithstanding, dictate sound policy. Unsupported, and even opposed by England, they would enter, we apprehend, with faint hearts upon a Spanish crusade, though cheered by the shouts of Croats and Tartars at the extremity of Europe. English opposition to the Holy Alliance, so honourable to our country, we owe to the change in the department of Foreign Affairs. The late Marquis of LONDONDERRY seemed to be pledged to the measures of the continental despots, his successor, Mr. CANNING, is free to act as his judgment shall direct, and, little as we admire his political character, we are bound to say that his conduct since he came into office has been worthy of a British statesman. Gratitude impels us to acknowledge his manly and spirited offices on behalf of our friend, Mr. BowRING, on whose liberation we congratulate our readers. The French government durst not bring Mr. Bowring to trial, but, on the contrary, confessed in the order for his being set at liberty, that they had no charge whatever to bring against him, and consequently no reason for detaining him a prisoner! This they were six weeks in discovering, during which time an English merchant was shut up in one of their dungeons. The abominable outrage upon the laws of nations will not, we hope, be suffered by our own government to pass without some measure of apology to the injured individual, to the honour of the country, and to the law of civilized Europe. The state of France is variously represented. The mad ultras are the present actors, but the more temperate royalists are said to have the greater power: the liberal party is quietly looking on. To strengthen the hands of the government by means of the church, education is gradually drawn into the hands of the priests, and the Pope has granted a concordat for the erection of new bishoprics. The nuucio of his Holiness has appeared once more upon the stage, and has demanded with success the banishment of LLORENTI, the virtuous and enlightened Spanish ecclesiastic, alleging, as a reason for the demand, his History of the Inquisition, and his other works against papal domination. It was not to be forgiven by the church, that one who had been secretary to the Inquisition, should afterwards reveal the secrets of the prison-house, and animate his countrymen in the work of destroying the horrid engine of spiritual despotism. At seventy years of age, therefore, he is sent, in the depth of winter, across the Pyrennees. His countrymen have, no doubt, by this time welcomed him back to a free country, and shewn him that the persecution of the faction that mourns over the fallen Inquisition, is a recommendation to the esteem and support of every liberal mind. Russia is still watching her interests; Turkey is convulsed with fanaticism; and the Greeks yet exist, and in sufficient strength to annoy and discomfit the barbarians, especially at sea, and to make them tremble for their dominion. CORRIGENDA. Page 682, col. 1, line 6, for " thus, by," read then, after. line 36, for "more substantial," read sure and substantial. Α GENERAL INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND SIGNATURES. The Names and Signatures of Correspondents are distinguished by Small 372 364 728 4.'s hymn to the Deity, 403 755 Adams, Mrs., letter from, on the Ame- 670 255 Aldred, Rev. Ebenezer, obituary of, 769 172. On the indefinite period of Alfred, eulogium on, 173 362 511 224 Allen, Mrs. Hannah, obituary of, Amphlett, Mr., his letter to Rev. R. 481 771 Aspland, Mr., letter from Mr. Am- 5 G 711 B.'s review of Wordsworth's Eccle- 100 746 170 Bennett, Miss Mary, obituary of, Benyon, S. Y., Esq., obituary of, Bigot, description of a, Bigotry in a public company, Birmingham Sunday-evening Lecture, 707 263 621 377 465 216 €92 525 57 125 332 16 704 690 B. M. on the Annual Association Bolton, opening of the Unitarian 248 BOOK-WORM, 200, 411, 479, 377 Bayley's, Mr. Justice, doctrine of the 29 544 B. D. on a conversation between the of, Belsham, Mr., remarks on his Sermon 706 577 Borneo, cursory remarks on the Boston, North America, laxness of Bowen, Miss Caroline, obituary of, Bransby, Mr., conclusion of his dis- B. R. D.'s obituary of Mr. Joseph 486 381 528 98 314 241 187 776 434 307 Brekell, Rev. John, some account of, 23 BRETTELL, Mr., on the review of The 47 332 160 398 329, 425, 522, 745 Bennet, Mr. Benjamin, interesting Brighton Chapel, on a misrepresenta- 225 tion with regard to, 548 Bennet, Hon. H. G., his observations British Catholic Board, resolutions of 453 the, 436 |