TRIBUTE OF MR. BURKE TO THE ENTERPRISING SPIRIT OF THE NEW-ENGLAND COLONISTS. As to the wealth, 7 | Mr. | Speaker, | which the | colonies | 7 have | drawn from the | sea | 7 by their | fisheries, | 77 | you had all that matter | fully | opened | 7 at your | bar. 7 | 77 | 77 | 7 You | surely | thought those acqui- | sitions | 7 of | value, | 7 7 | for they seemed even to ex- | cite your ❘ envy; | 77 | 7 and yet 7 | 7 the | spirit | 7 by | which that | enter- | prising employment | 7 has been | exercised, | 77 | ought | rather, | 7 in | my o- | pinion, | 7 to have raised your esteem and | admi- | ration. | 7 7 | 7 7 | 7 And | pray, Sir, | what in the | world 7 | 7 is | equal to it? | 7 777 | Pass | by the | other | parts, 7 | 7 and look at the | manner | 7 in | which the | people of | New England | have of | late | carried on | 7 the whale | fishery. | 7 7 | 7 7 | | Whilst we follow them | 7 a- | mong the tumbling mountains of | ice, | 7 and be- | hold them | penetrating | 7 into the | deepest | frozen re- | cesses | 7 of | Hudson's | Bay, | 7 and | Davis's | Straights, | 7 7 | whilst we are looking for them | 7 be- | neath the | arctic | circle, | 77 | 7 we | hear that they have | pierced | 7 into the opposite | region of | polar | cold, 7 | 77 that they are | at the anat the an- tipodes, | 7 7 | and en- | | gaged | under the | frozen | serpent | 7 of the | south. | 7777 Falkland Island, | 7 which | seemed | too re-mote 7 7 and ro- | mantic an | object | 7 for the grasp of national am- | bition, | 7 7 | is but a stage | | and | resting | place | 7 in the | progress | 7 of their vic- | torious | industry. | 77 | 77 | 1 Nor is the equi- | noctial | heat | more dis- | couraging to them, | 77 | than the ac- | cumulated | winter | 7 of both the poles. | 77 | 77 | 7 We | know that | whilst some of them | draw the | line | 7 and | strike the harpoon | 7 on the | coast of | Africa, | 7 7 | others | run the longitude, | 7 and pur- | sue their gi- | gantic | game | 7 a- | long the | coast of Bra- | zil. 7 | 7 7 7 7 | No | sea | 7 but | what is | vexed by their ¦ fisheries. | 77 | 7 No | climate | 7 that | is not | witness to their toils. 7|77|77| Neither the | perse- | verance of Holland, | 77 | nor the ac- tivity of | France, 7 | 7 7 | nor the | dexterous | 7 and | firm sa- | gacity of | English | enter- | prise, 7 | ever | carried | this most perilous | mode of | hardy | industry | 7 to the ex- | tent | 7 to ❘ which it has been | pushed | 7 by this | recent | people; | 77 | 7 a | people | who are | still, | as it were, | 7 7 | but in the | gristle, | 7 7 | 7 and | not yet | hardened | into the | bone of | manhood. | 7 7 | I 7 7 | When I con- template | these | things, 7 |77| when I know that the | colonies | 7 in | general | owe | little or nothing | 7 to | any | care of | ours, 7 | and that they are not squeezed | into this | happy | form | by the constraints of a | watchful | 7 and sus- | picious | government, | 7 7 | but that through a | wise and | salutary | neglect | 7 a generous | nature has been | suffered | 7 to | take her | own | way to per- | fection; | 7 7 | when I re- | flect upon | these ef- | fects, 7 7 | when I see 7 | 7 how | profitable | they have | been 7 I feel | all the | pride of | power | sink, 77 to us, 7 and all pre- | sumption | 7 in the | wisdom of | human con- | trivances | melt, | 7 and | die a- | way | 7 with-in me. | 77 | 77 | 7 My | rigor re- | lents. 7 | 777771 pardon | something | 7 to the | spirit of liberty. | 77 | 77 | APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. Burke. 7 It is now, 7 | sixteen or | seventeen | years 7 | since I saw the Queen of | France, 7 | then the | Dauphiness, | 7 at Ver- | sailles: 7 | 77 | 7 and | surely | never lighted on this orb, 7 | 7 which she | hardly seemed to touch, 7 | 7 a | more de- | lightful | vision. | 77 | 77 | 7 I saw her just a- | bove the ho- | rizon, | 7 7 | decorating and cheering | 7 the | elevated | sphere | 7 she | just began to move in: | 7 7 glittering, | 7 like the | morning | star; | 7 7 | full of | life, 7 | 7 and | splendor, | 7 and joy. 7|77|77| Oh! what a revo- | lution! | 77 | 7 and | what a | heart 7 | must I have, │7 to contemplate | 7 with- | out e- | motion, that | ele- | vation | 7 and ❘ that 7 | fall. 7 | 77 | 7 7 | Little did I dream | 7 that | when she | added | titles of vene- | ration | 7to | those of en- | thusi- | astic, distant, | 7 re- | spectful | love, 7|77| that she should ever be o- | bliged | 7 to carry | 7 the | sharp antidote against dis- | grace 7 | 7 con- | cealed in | that bosom; | 77 | 7 7 | little did I dream 7 | that I should have lived to up- on her 7 in a see 7 | such dis- | asters | fallen nation of gallant | men; 7|77 | 7 7 | 7 in a | nation of men of honor | 7 and of | cavaliers. | 77 | 77 | 7 I thought | ten thousand | swords 7 | must have | leaped from their | scabbards, | 77 | 7 to a venge | even a ¦ look 7 | 7 that | threatened | her with | insult. | 77 | 77 | 7 But the age of | chivalry | 7 is | gone. | 7 7 | That of | sophisters, | 7 economists and | calculators, | 7 has suc- | ceeded; | 777 and the glory of | Europe | 7 is ex- | tinguished for ever. | 77 |77| Never | 7 7 | never | more, 7 shall we be- | hold 7 | that | generous | loyalty | 7 to | rank and | sex, 7 | 77 | 7 that | proud sub- | mission, | 77 | 7 that dignified o- | bedience, | 77 | 7 that sub- ordi- | nation of the heart, 77717 which | kept a- | live, 7 | even in | servitude it- | self, 77 the spirit | 7 of an ex- | alted | freedom. | 77 | 777 The unbought | grace of | life, 7 | 7 the cheap de- | fence of nations, | 77 | 7 the | nurse of | manly I sentiment | 7 and he- | roic | enterprize | 7 is gone! 7777 It is gone, 7 | that | sensi- | bility of | principle, | 77 | 7 that | chastity of | honor, | 77 | 7 which felt a stain 7 | like a wound, 7|77| which in- | spired courage | 7 whilst it | mitigated fe- | rocity, | 7 7 | which en- | nobled | 7 what- | ever it | touched; | 777 and under | which 7 | vice it- | self | lost | half its | evil, | 7 by | losing | all its | grossness. | 77 | 771 ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. Gray. Reprinted according to the original copy. 7 The | curfew | tolls, | 77 | 7 the | knell of | parting | day, 7 | 7 The | lowing | herd | wind | slowly | 7 o'er the | lea; 7|77| 7 The ploughman | homeward | plods his weary | way, 7 | 7 7 | 7 And | leaves the world 7 | 7 to | darkness | 7 and to me. 7 | 77 | 77 | Now | fades the glimmering | landscape | 7 on the | sight, 7| 777 And all the air | 7 a solemn | stillness | holds 7 | Save 7 where the | beetle wheels his | droning | flight 7| 7 And | drowsy | tinklings | lull the | distant | folds. 7 | 77771 Save that | 7 from | yonder | ivy | mantled | tower | 7 The moping | owl 7 | does to the moon com- | plain | 7 Of | such as | wandering | near her | secret | bower | 7 Mo- | lest her | ancient | 7 7 | solitary | reign. | 7 7 | 7 7 | 7 Beneath those | rugged | elms, | 7 that | yew tree's | shade 7 | 7 Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering | heap 7 | Each in his narrow | cell 7 | 7 for | ever | laid 7 | |