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    and the taxes , that burnish the sign-board ' glory , ' will accuse us of an intent of robbing the Exchequer . Then we shall be asked , ( or we may start the inquiry , ) whether a great and proud city , wbeTe individual character is almost lost in the reigning fashion , and pre-eminent worth smothered in the pretensions of a . crowd , is all that it assumes to be : or whether ' the cloth' in the bale

    might not be as fair a representative of wealth and importance as when it is paraded , as we see it from our window , the envelope of many-shaped caste and calling . We might similarly stumble on an inquiry whether the adding house to house be always a multiplying of happy hearths ; or if not , how many lazar-houses , 'hells / bagnios , gaols , usurers * dens , surgeries , with their appendant dispensaries and drugs , saws ,, screws , and wrenches , should be

    thrown into the shade when St . James ' s would smile its contempt on lowly hamlet of the forest side , or thriving township on the river ' s margin . We might be led to doubt whether Fashion and Pomp are the magic bases they pretend to be , setting forth in grace the ugliness they support—hollow friends , false mistresses , treacherous partisans , backward-looking bachelorhood , ennui

    passing the ivory knife through the pages of the newest novel , and every disease flourishing under the very nose of all that can add lustre to the healing art . When we had satisfied ourselves on these topics , we might set forth the value of ' Hail fellow / in the woods , the merriment of a' clearing / the comforts of a' shanty . * We might then prepare a homily on emigration , omitting to address all who are doomed to attend the rise and fall of stocks

    until capital has ceased to float on to the port of London , and all who by the instinct of an artist ' s immortality must spend a life in chiselling a stone that has been for centuries the corner stone of arable acres , and all whose necks ache if not bowing to a customer across the counter , or whose palms itch in the golden expectation of a' refresher . ' How deep we might proceed in our argument , how many turns it might make about the doctrines of Malthus , or how profound a reverence it might

    vouch-» afe to M'Culloch , we have not fully considered . But without answering all who would be our opponents on this theme we make bold to say , that all who profess to wish to preserve their home are not in our apprehension animated with the Swiss passion , nor would they be the last to fly to foreign ports if the tide of exchange should warn them that commerce was preparing to mark her ebb in the port of London or Liverpool . *

    * A work entitled ' Colonial Policy , Military Colonization , &c ., ' deserves consideration , ( publinhed by Cochrane ana Co . ) though many tirejudicen are apparent . IV hy should the writer make the cane of one successful military township in Canada s ^ ground for Manning all othvr pUn « of settlement P Colonel Cockburu'a Report shows that civilian * were euually thriving in their township *; and the Canada Company ( the writer has a feeling of hostility to public compatriot ) hai , under its own ctou establish m * nt , sown rathsr densely a whole province with towmhips . The case o £ the majffitd soldier in barracks , and th # syiUm of enlistment for life , are blemish ** in the administration of the Horse Guards . If the writer had restrained ais theory

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    5 & 4 Canada .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/34/