The North British review

536 Thomas Carlyle-Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell.

nestly commend the book to our readers, as one they cannot read without amusement and instruction. And for the hero of the tale, whatever were the faults which clouded his greatness, and how bitter soever the upbraidings over his cold ashes, he was a man such as seldom has appeared on the page of history. Unused to arms-bred neither in court nor camp-he started on his military career, and first wooed Fortune at that age

peace.

"When she her best-loved Pompey did discard;"

and unlike most conquerors or usurpers, he not only won, but wore her favours to the last. His skill as a General was evinced by his unbroken success-and that success not the result of happy circumstances, but of sagacious, unceasing energy, equally undaunted by reverses, and unelated by victory. But he possessed also the rare gift of preserving in peace what he won at the point of the sword; and though the stage on which he played his part was more limited than that of the mighty Corsican, he shines out to our eyes a hero of truer lustre, as of equal genius in action, and far calmer and more truly great in the policy of If he swayed an arbitrary, it was a brilliant sceptre, under which Royalist and Fifth Monarchy men quailed alike, and to which all Europe, even the haughty Mazarin, did homage. It matters little to his countrymen whether his memory be honoured by monumental marble, or even that the poet's promise, that "his ashes in a peaceful urn shall rest," should have remained unfulfilled. The record of his fame is engraven in our history, and all our subsequent glory does it involuntary homage. The annals of legitimate monarchy show few who so well deserved to be remembered; and beside the imbecile James, the perfidy of the first, and the profligacy of the second Charles, he shines like the orb of day among the lesser fires. Peace, we say, to his memory! The concluding lines of Dryden's funeral stanzas, already alluded to, were not altogether empty panygeric.

"His name a great example stands, to show

How strangely high endeavours may be blest
Where piety and valour jointly go."

537

Note by the Editor to Article on Danish Researches in Greenland, ante p. 77.

IN reference to the remarks at the conclusion of this Article, (pp. 93-95,) in regard to Missionary operations in Greenland, we are enabled to state, upon the authority of the Secretary of the Missions of the Moravian Brethren in London, that the Moravian Missionaries in Greenland have no concern with trade, either on their own account, or on account of the Mission; the secular employments in which they engage, being such as are forced upon them by the necessities of their situation, or adopted in order to save expense to the Mission; for which reasons they, to a great extent, build, repair, and furnish their churches and houses, cultivate their own gardens, and collect their own fuel, &c. At some of their stations elsewhere, various handicrafts are carried on for the support of the Mission; but this is not done in Greenland, and the application of this practice, existing in other Moravian settlements, to those in Greenland, which are exceptions from it, naturally led to an error in our former statement on the subject. We also learn, upon the same authority, what is indeed consistent with the statement in the Article referred to, that the Moravian Missionaries have no connexion with the traffic carried on with the natives by the merchants at the Danish factories, and that they are not, like the Danish Missions, dependent upon the Government; while they experience the hinderances which we conjectured to exist, from the factory regulations requiring a considerable number of the natives in connexion with their Church, to occupy stations on the coast, more or less distant from the Missionary settlements. Of the 6000 native inhabitants, 2000 are stated to be in actual connexion with the Moravian Church, comprising, it is said, the great majority of the inhabitants of the western coast, to which the Moravian Missionaries have hitherto had access, from the neighbourhood of New Herrnhut, on Baal's River, in lat. 64° 30′′ N., to that of Fredericksthal, in lat. 60° N.

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INDEX

TO THE

FOURTH VOLUME OF THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

Andalusia, New-excursions of Baron Hum-
boldt and M. Bonpland to the mountains
of, 207-209.

Antiquity of the Gospels. See Gospels.
Arago, M., Secrétaire Perpetuel de l'Acadé-
mie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de
France, Eloge Historique de Joseph Fou-
rier, 380. See Fourier.
Araya-visit of Baron Humboldt and M.
Bonpland to the salt marshes of, 207.
Australia-slowness of its progress as a
colony accounted for, 282-284. Charac-
ter of M. P. E. de Strzelecki's physical
description of New South Wales and Van
Diemen's Land, 285-of Mr. E. J. Eyre's
journals of expeditions of discovery into
Central Australia, &c. &c., 286; charac-
ter and mode of living of the aborigines,
286-289 their government, 289; injus-
tice of extirpating the aborigines of a
country to make way for emigrants, and
erroneous views entertained regarding
their proprietary rights in the land, 290-
293; statements by Mr. Eyre, Captain
Grey, and Dr. Lang, showing the feelings
and habits of the natives of Australia in
the matter, 293-295; unjust treatment
of the aborigines, 295-298; improper
policy of the British Government to-
wards the natives, 298-300; causes of
the extinction of the indigenous cribes of
Australia, 301-303; agriculture and pas-
toral state of Australia, 303-309; object
and account of Mr. Eyre's expedition,
310-312.

Bell, Benjamin Robert, Esq., advocate,
character of his supplement to Hume's
Commentaries on the law of Scotland re-
specting crimes, 322, 323.

Bonpland, Aimé, acquaintance of Baron
Humboldt with him, and their various ex-

peditions together, 206-219; his settle-
ment at Paraguay, captivity there, and
ultimate expulsion from the country, 219,
220. See Humboldt.

Bossuet, his character as a preacher, 72.
Bourdaloue, his character as a preacher, 72.
Buckingham's, L. S. F., Memoirs of Mary
Stuart, Queen of Scotland-character of,
6, 7.

Caraccas, its destruction by an earthquake,
210, 211.
Caracciolio, Francisco, Lord Nelson's con-
nexion with his murder, 443.
Carlyle, Thomas, character of his writings,
505-507-his faulty style, 507-515-faults
of substance the religious tendency of
his writings, and his views on heroes and
hero-worship, 515-522-character of his
"Letters and Speeches of Oliver Crom-
well," 523-526-sincerity and general
character of Cromwell, and manner in
which these are treated by Mr. Carlyle,
527-536.

Castile, Old and New, their present state,
157, 158.

Catholic claims. See Ireland.
Champollion

service rendered him by
Baron Fourier when Prefect at Grenoble,
397.

Church and State in Ireland. See Ireland.
Coatbridge, description of its mining popu-
lation, 144.

Cocayos, or phosphorescent insects, obser-
vation of, by Baron Humboldt and M.
Bonpland, 214, 215.

Coleridge and Hall compared, 66.
Cordilleras, ascent thereof, by Baron Hum-
boldt and M. Bonpland, 216, 217.
Creation, Vestiges of the Natural History
of-Explanations by its author. See Ves-
tiges.

Creator, Indications of the, Extracts bearing
upon theology, from the history and the

philosophy of the inductive sciences, by
William Whewell, D.D., 364. See Whewell.
Criminal Law of Scotland. See Scottish.
Cromwell, Oliver, his Letters and Speeches,
by Thomas Carlyle. See Carlyle.
Cuvier, Baron, born same year as William
Smith, the Geologist, 96.

Danish Researches in Greenland. See Green-
land.
Darnley's Murder incidents connected
with it Mr. Tytler's views on the sub-
ject, and Queen Mary's guilt in the mat-
ter, 22, 23.

Davy, Sir Humphry, remarks of, as to the
beneficial effects of the dispersion of the
human race, 198.

Dobbin, Orlando T., LL.D., Trinity Col-

lege, Dublin-his Tentamen Anti-Straussi-
anum. The Antiquity of the Gospels as-
serted on philological grounds, in refuta-
tion of the mythic scheme of Dr. David
Frederick Strauss - Nature and defici-
encies of the work, 349-362.

Ecclesiastical Miracles. See Miracles.
Egypt-Napoleon's scheme for its civiliza-
tion-organization of the Institute of
Egypt, and appointment of Professors
therein, 391, 392.

Elastic Surfaces-Baron Fourier's Memoir
on Vibration of, 406.

Estremadura-its present state, 155-157.
Ethnographic Society of London, Proceed-
ings of. See Physical.

Eyre, E. J., Character of his Journals of
Expeditions into Central Australia, and
account of the manners and customs of
the aborigines, 286, 293, 294-object and
account of his expedition, 310-312.

Ford's, Richard, Hand-Book for Travellers
in Spain and Readers at Home, 149. See
Spain.

Foster, John, intimacy of Robert Hall with

him, and difference of their tastes, 69, 70.
Fourier, Baron Joseph-Eloge Historique
de, par M. Arago, 380; conduct of the
French philosophers during the Revolu-
tion, 380, 381; birth and early years of
Fourier, 381,382-his appointment to the
mathematical chair in the Military Col-
lege of Auxerre, 382-his work on the
"Resolution of Numerical Equations of all
Degrees," and labours of Budan, on which
his theorem on the subject is based, 383
-his influence as a member of the popular
Society of Auxerre, 384, 385-creation of
the Normal School, and his election to
it by the town of St. Florentin, 385
-reasons of his rejection in the city
of Auxerre, 386 description of pro-
fessors appointed under the ancient re-

gime as contrasted with those appointed
by the Convocation, ib.—teaching of the
ancient professors as contrasted with that
of their successors, 387-evil system of
patronage pursued in regard to the uni-
versities of our own country, 387, 388—
importance of intellectual power as an
auxiliary to a government, 389, 390-
Napoleon's scheme for the civilization of
Egypt, 391-organization of the Institute
of Egypt, and appointments of Fourier
and others therein, 391, 392—his political
services in Egypt, 392-return of Napo-
leon to France, 393-eulogy pronounced
by Fourier on the death of General Kle-
ber, 393, 394 his return to France, and
nature of his work on Egypt, 394, 395-
honours conferred on him-his appoint-
ment to the Prefecture of the Depart-
ment of Isère, 396-service rendered by
him to Champollion, 397-nature of his
work on the mathematical theory of heat,
397-402-Napoleon's attack on Grenoble,
and Fourier's appointment as Prefect of
the Rhone, and subsequent recall, 402-
405-his appointment to the office of su-
perior director of the Statistical Board
of the Seine, 405-his memoir on the vi-
bration of elastic surfaces, and appoint-
ments by the Academy of Sciences, 406-
illustration of his fascinating powers of
conversation, 407-his death, 408-his
character, 408, 409-horrors of Revolu
tion, 409 advantages of the state patro-
nizing scientific and educational institu-
tions, 410-412.

154.

Galvinism, experiments on, by Baron Hum-
boldt, 204, 205.

German theology, unsoundness of, 347, 348.
Gospels, Antiquity of the, 347-unsound-
ness of German theology, 347, 348-na-
ture and deficiencies of Dr. Dobbin's
"Tentamen Anti-Straussianum; the Anti-
quity of the Gospels asserted on Philolo-
gical grounds in refutation of the mythic
scheme of Dr. D. F. Strauss," 349-362.
Graah's, Captain, voyage of discovery to the
East Coast of Greenland in the years 1828-
31. See Greenland.
Greenland, Danish researches in, 77—im-
portance of the present expedition in Lan-
caster Sound, 77, 78-French expedition
of discovery in the northern Atlantic, 78,
79-objects of Captain Graah's voyage
of discovery to the east coast of Greenland
in the years 1828-31, 79-traditions re-
garding the situation of the Icelandic
Colony in Greenland, and efforts made to
discover it, 80-84-faulty equipment of
Captain Graah by the Danish Govern-
ment, 84, 85-incidents in his voyage,
and notices of the manners and customs

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