TRIBUTE OF MR. BURKE TO THE ENTERPRISING SPIRIT

OF THE NEW-ENGLAND COLONISTS.

As to the wealth, Mr. Speaker, | which the |

colonies

fisheries,

have | drawn from the sea by their | you had | all | that matter | fully |

You

surely |

| for

opened at your | bar, thought those acqui- |sitions of | value, | they seemed even to exeven to ex- cite your envy; 91

and yet

the | spirit | by | which that | en

terprising employment

has been | exercised, |

ought | rather, in | my o- | pinion, raised your es- | teem and | admi- | ration. | And pray, Sir, | what in the world

to it?

esteem | |

to have |

is equal

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| Pass by the | other | parts, and | look at the | manner in | which the | people of | New- | England | have of | late | carried on the whale | fishery. |11|17|

ling mountains of | ice,

While we follow them a- | mong the tumband be- | hold them | penetrating into the | deepest | frozen re- cesses | of Hudson's Bay, | and | Davis's | Straight's, |◄ whilst we are

into the opposite | region of polar cold,| that they are | at the an- | tipodes,

gaged | under the | frozen | serpent of the south. 17777 Falkland Island, which | seemed too re- mote and ro- | mantic an¦ object | for the grasp of national am- bition, is but a stage || |

and resting place in the progress of their vic-| torious industry. 11111 |

the harpoon

others run the

Nor is the equi- | noctial | heat | more dis- couraging to them, than the ac- | cumulated | winter | of both the poles. |11|17| We know that | whilst some of them | draw the | line and strike on the coast of Africa, 991 longitude, and pur- | sue their gi- | along the coast of Bra- | zil. | No sea but what is vexed by their | fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 1|17|17| Neither the | perse- | verance of Holland, nor the ac- tivity of France, nor the dexterous and | firm

gantic game

sa

|

| gacity of | English | enter- | prise, | ever | carried this most | perilous | mode of | hardy | industry |

to the extent to which it has been pushed | | by this recent people; ||a| people | who are | still, as it were, but in the gristle, 17 and not yet hardened | into the | bone of | manhood. | 771771

When I con- template | these | things,|11| when I know that the colonies in | general | owe | little or nothing to any | care of ours, and that they are not squeezed | into this | happy | form | by the constraints of a watchful and suspicious government, but that | through a | wise and salutary neglect a generous | nature | has been | suffered to take her | own | way to per- | fection; | when I re- | flect upon | these effects, 11 when I see how | profitable | they have been to us, I feel | all the | pride of | power | sink,

11111111I | pardon | something spirit of liberty. |11|11|

to the |

APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.

Burke.

It is now, sixteen or seventeen years 11

since I saw the | Queen of | France,

then the |

hardly seemed to touch,a | more de- | lightful | vision. I saw her just above the horizon, || decorating and | cheering | the | elevated sphere she | |

just be- | gan to move in: |

|

glittering, like the morning | star; || full of | life, and splendor, | and | joy. 11111111 Oh! what a revo- lution! and what a heart must I have, to | contemplate | without e-motion, | that | ele- | vation | and | I that fall.791771

Little did I dream that | when she | added | | titles of veneration to those of en- | thusi- | astic, | distant, | ▼ re- | spectful | love,||that she should ever be obliged to carry the | sharp antidote a- | gainst dis- | grace con- cealed in that | bosom ; ||| little did I | dream |

| that I should have | lived to see | such dis- | asters | fallen up- | on her | in a | nation of | gallant | men; 111111|1 in a | nation of | men of | honor and of cava- | liers. I thought | ten thousand | swords

their scabbards,

must have | leaped from

to a venge | even a | look

that threatened | her with | insult. | 1| 191 But the age of | chivalry |is| gone. || That of sophisters, e-conomists and | calculators, | has succeeded; and the glory of | Europe | is ex- tinguished for ever. || Never 1 | |

never more, shall we be- | hold

generous loyalty

to rank and | sex,

|

that

that | proud sub- | mission, ||that | dignified o

|

that sub- | ordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in | servi

the spirit of an ex- | alted 1711 The | unbought | grace of

bedience,

tude it-self,

freedom.

life, the

the nurse of

cheap de- | fence of | nations, 1997/9 manly | sentiment

and he- | roic |

enterprize is gone!

It is gone,

| that sensibility of

principle, |11|7 that |

|

chastity of honor, which | felt a stain

like a wound,|17| which in- | spired | courage | whilst it mitigated fe- | rocity, which ennobled what- | ever it touched; || and | under which vice it- | self | lost | half its | evil, } by losing all its grossness. 191 | |

ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD.

Gray.

Reprinted according to the original copy..

The curfew tolls, the | knell of | parting | day,

The lowing herd | wind | slowly | o'er the | lea; 111

The ploughman | homeward | plods his | weary | way,

And leaves the world to | darkness |

Now | fades the | glimmering | landscape |on the|

sight,

holds

And all the | air | a | solemn | stillness |

Save where the | beetle | wheels his | droning | flight

And drowsy | tinklings | lull the distant | folds. 1-། | ཤ། །

Save that from | yonder | ivy | mantled | tower | The moping | owl | docs to the | moon com- | plain |

Of | such as | wandering | near her | secret | bower | Mo- lest her | ancient solitary | reign. || ༄། ། 171

Beneath those | rugged | elms, that yew tree's shade

Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering | 1 heap

Each in his narrow | cell for | ever | laid |