away, pass to men who would raise the rents, and spend these rents out of the island, still prove, by the said unerring science, that the possession of these lands by the clergy involves the island in ruin. If the clergy at tempt to perform their duty, protest that they are generating bad feelings, and fomenting rebellion. If they la bour to teach the people the principles and practice of genuine Christianity, without reference to particular creeds, denounce them as men who are a plague to the island. Never spare them, except when they are silent-when they totally neglect their duty-and when they suffer your priests to do whatever they please.

On the other hand, you must lavish all the panegyrics that language will supply, on your priests;-declare that they are the most spotless and meritorious of God's creatures;protest that everything they do is most constitutional, lawful, just, and necessary swear that they ought to suppress the Bible, and all expositions of the religion of the State-that they ought to keep the people in the most horrible ignorance and depravity that they ought to prevent the regular clergy from performing their religious duties that they ought to occupy the first place in, and to form the chief principle of vitality and power of, a tremendous political faction, which threatens to involve the empire in war -in a word, that they ought to do any thing they please. Prove that it is impossible for them to possess too much influence and authority; and that the laws, the Constitution, the government, the public weal, the interests of society, in short, everything in your system, ought to be subordinate and subservient to them.

The lawyers and other members of your faction, your priests, and your newspapers, bribed or unbribed, must daily scatter this profusely in every corner of your island. It must be served up in such language, and with such adjuncts, as may be the best calculated for making an impression on the people. If any slanders of the Protestant religion, and the clergy of the Church of England, can be invented so foul, filthy, revolting, and devilish, that even your very lawyers and priests cannot repeat them, let any such person as Cobbett, print them in his paper, then let them be copied into your

other papers, and then let your faction, and other engines of circulation, de luge the island with the papers.

The tuition of your people will be imperfect, if you do not fill them with intense hatred of Great Britain. If they indulge any kindly feeling towards this wretched state, they will be in danger of imbibing some of its pernicious opinions and habits. Your priests, lawyers, and other instruments, must, therefore, continually tell them, that Great Britain enacted the most cruel and unjust laws against their ancestors, but they must conceal the fact, that their ancestors provoked these laws by their conduct-they must tell them, that Great Britain holds them Now in chains, and makes them the victims of intolerable oppression, but they must carefully conceal all she has done for them. Your lawyers must tell them, that nineteen twentieths of the British women are strumpets from reading the Bible. Cobbett must tell them that England is " the land of bastards," and that its peasantry are monsters of depravity. The Morning Chronicle must tell them that the English are the most sensual and immoral people in Europe. The Edinburgh Review must supply them with libels on the British people-in a word, all those liberal persons who have magnanimously filled themselves with scorn of their country, and who can only speak of, to vilify, it, must assist in causing them to detest Great Britain. When everything in the character and circumstances of your Islanders, will lead them to devour this with the utmost greediness, and when everything that may tend to contradict it can be effectually kept from them, your success in filling them with the most rancorous and inveterate hatred of Great Britain, cannot fail of being most perfect and glorious.

After having banished or destroyed almost all who could form an upper or a middle class-almost all who could set proper examples to your people, and who would have an interest in setting such examples-almost all who could fashion your population into a society, and prevent it from becoming one gigantic, unorganized, ungovernable, terrific mob: after having reduced the mass of your people to the lowest point of ignorance, penury, depravity, and lawlessness-taken from their eyes all beneficial example-fill

ed them with the worst feelings that savage and uncivilized man can en tertain and made them the abject slaves of men who have a vital interest in keeping them in this condition: after having taken the most effectual measures to prevent them from being taught the principles and practice of Christianity, or anything whatever that might change their feelings and character: after having created the most omnipotent means for keeping their worst passions continually in a consuming flame-for feeding their worst ideas with the last morsel that these can gorge-and for rendering them monsters in everything that can sink and blacken the human species: after having destroyed the operation of the laws, and rendered it almost impossible to govern them by anything but the sword: after having done all this, you may then pause for a moment, and rejoice over your labours.

It will now be advisable for you to unite' your island with, to render it beneficial to, Great Britain. As you have made your Islanders, in habit, feeling, opinion, character, conduct, in everything that can be imagined the perfect reverse of the people of Great Britain: as you have rendered them ignorant, to the last degree, of the Constitution, the laws, and the whole system, of Great Britain; and as you have taken the most effectual means for protecting this ignorance from being dissipated: as you have taught them to detest the religion of Great Britain, the political principles of Great Britain, the government of Great Britain, the people of Great Britain, and Great Britain as a nation; and as you have made combined religious and political fanaticism the source of this detestation: as you have rendered it almost impossible for the people of the two islands, ever to be anything but the reverse of each other in character and conduct, and ever to regard each other with any thing but quenchless animosity: as you have done all this, now pass a law to unite them-to make them ONE PEOPLE-for the benefit of Great Britain. You must now bring eighty or one hundred of the lawyers, and other members of your faction of the men who have publicly declared their hatred of the religion of Britain, who have publicly libelled the British people, in every possible way, who have

publicly displayed the most rancorous hostility to Britain, who have publicly proved that they are grossly ignorant of the Constitution, liberty, and interests of Britain, and who have publicly endeavoured to do all the injury in their power to Britain you must bring eighty or one hundred of these men into the British legislature, and a large number into the executive, the embassies, &c. &c. to manage the religious and other interests of Britain. You must involve two churches which divide the mass of the people of the two islands between them, in a rancorous and exterminating war, for the ecclesiastical wealth and dignities of the empire, and not only for these, but even for the civil trusts and dignities of the empire. The war will be carried on with all the fury that combined religious and political fanaticism can inspire; it will render the regular clergy as violent politicians as your priests-it will make every political question appeal to religious animosity-it will fill Britain with your proselytizing priests-it will cause the lower orders to be the most unremitting and desperate in the contest-and it cannot fail of yielding to Britain every benefit and blessing that a nation could possess and desire.

If the bigots oppose you, protest that the British Constitution knows nothing of qualification, and that all men have an abstract right to be placed on an equality in a community: declare, that if it were positively known that your lawyers, &c. on being admitted into the executive, the legislature, &c. &c., would immediately destroy the Church, Constitution, and liberty of Britain, and involve her in convulsion and ruin, still they ought to be admitted on the ground of ABSTRACT RIGHT. The liberal and enlightened portion of the British people will believe you.

Our limits will not permit us to give more of the unerring counsels of the statesmen of Cockaigne. We regret from our souls, that the necessity for our abridging and compressing as much as possible, has prevented us from giving these counsels in the beautiful and impressive language in which they were originally delivered. If, however, any man will take the trouble of wading through the stupendous mass which the unrivalled statesmen of Cockaigne have written or spoken

AMONG the numerous calamities to which our nature is incident, there are few so generally distressing as that of defective utterance, whether it appears in the mild form of a hesitation in speech, in the more confirmed stage of continual stammering, or in its crisis of muscular contortions.

The experience of every person who has mixed much with society, will furnish him with examples of all these varieties of imperfect articulation; but unless they have been observed within the circle of his own friends, or within the sphere which circumscribes the exercise of his own feelings, he has, perhaps, never reflected on the agonies to which its victim is exposed, or on the heart-breaking anticipations which it excites in all those who are interested in his welfare. To a young man of great talents, of refined wit, and of extensive information, who seems destined to enliven and adorn the circles in which he moves, the occurrence of such a calamity is perhaps the greatest to which Providence can subject him. Conscious of powers which he cannot exercise, without being the object of ridicule, or without giving pain to those who hear him, he resigns himself to the tranquillity of silence; and in so far as regards the pleasures of social intercourse, he is on a level with those who are utterly destitute of the organs of speech. To those who are destined for public life, for the bar, the pulpit, or the senate, the evils of defective utterance are still more appalling. All the early hopes of professional success are at once extinguished, and the unfortunate patient either becomes a burden to his friends and to himself, or must embark in a new profession, for which, perhaps, neither his talents nor his education have prepared him. When imperfect articulation deforms the fe male voice, its effects are yet more distressing. Under its mildest form, all the enchantments of youth and beauty disappear;-every accomplish ment, however great, is thrown into the shade, and all the hopes of female ambition are for ever blighted.

The disease to which we have alluded, is admitted on all hands to be beyond the power of medical skill, and those who have devoted themselves to its cure have generally been teachers of elocution, who have considered defects of voice as coming within the range of their profession. Without depreciating, in the least, the humane and skilful efforts of these respectable practitioners, we may be permitted to say, that no decided methods of cure have been discovered, and that the causes of defective utterance have been as little understood as they have been studied.

In this state of our knowledge on a subject of the highest importance to society, we were surprised to hear that Mr John Broster of Chester had discovered a method of removing impediments of speech and defective articulation. Such a discovery we were strongly disposed, along with many others, to rank among those extravagant pretensions, which are so often intruded upon the public; and Mr Broster seems to have been so sensible of the prevalence of such an opinion, that he appears to have declined making himself known in Edinburgh in any other way than by the cures which he performed. Several cases of a very striking nature soon occurred to shew the success of his method.

A personage of rank and fashion, whose defective utterance had been generally known from constant intercourse with society, was so completely cured, as to excite the astonishment of every person. The celebrity which Mr Broster acquired by this cure, brought him a number of pupils, some of whom came even from London, to receive the benefit of his instructions, and the success with which these cases were treated, far surpassed even the most sanguine expectations of the individuals themselves. Persons who had almost lost the power of giving utterance to particular words, were completely emancipated from all embarrassment of speech. Others, who could not articulate without contortions of countenance, and other ner