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HEAR, OIf, YE KINGS! thua saith the King of Kings, Hear, oh, ye Kinza! consider and be wise, And humble your proud hearts unto the dust.Ye cid exalt yourselves on earth too much\u2014 Now therefore be yo prostrate in humitity.Th unnatural exaltation ye did own Being in life, and to your sans bequeath, Earth's new condition will no longer yield.Partly Ly your misdeeds, parily by change Of human opinion, ye have lost all hold Upon men\u2019s minds : the ohl reverence and awe, Which waitod ou your paume sud state, are gune.Hvar, oh, yo English Kings! consider, be wise\u2014 Abate your wrath against the land of France.Out of her bosom hath sprung up a tree Shall spread its brauches to tho ends of earth, Under whose shale all nations of the world Shall surely be gathercat together In good time.The hidden roots, even now, strike deep and wide : L:aly fcelsthe pivreinz of those fibres : And in the teemors of her firet cundion Shakes hier unstable throne Oppressed Spain grows ripe fur blow, were blot In Portugal the (ratricid 1d knee Bodes either victor short-lived tyranny.Russia, best despot, with las myriad nerfs, Bill sowing the feudal soil with groans and tears, Spite of his swon!, aud na rebellivas crustal, Repoases upon eathquakes, Germany With spasm of held-in breath, heaves to and frs The bosom\u2014burden of her daice ten throie Hear, Oh, Ye Kinga ! consider and be wire, Britain, the mighty realin yo whilom ruled, Is bedded on a fiery lava lod That threatens to overimrat the jocambent earth, Mingling her high and low in one destruction, Behold the charasls of her kines are tull\u2014 The worms that have devoured them, cry © Fiucuch!® Yea, where Estand, the very soces deny More space to hone hee iliastrios dead, Saying, ** Bat one more King, and we are filled.Hear, Oh, Ye Kinga! consider amd be wise, And humble your proud hearntg inte the dust.Yea did exalt yo:irwives on earth tos much\u2014 Nuw, therefore, be ye prostrate in humiity\u2014 Ko ye may better meet the coming norn, And your great judge, with spirite abased aid lowiy\u2014 Tait's Magazine\u2014The Statues :\u2014a drama.SELECTIONS, From the London Speclalor.MackKENZIE'3 SAETCHES or Canana.\u2014The author of this book is the gentleman who las lute- ly visited this country In the capacity of delegate to our Government in ordezto represent the grievances of the provinee of Upper Canada: he is al- + so remarkable as having een one of the ost zeal.| ous advocates for these reforms in the colony, which have been in part lately consented to by the Administration, and for having been 10 fewer | than three times expelled from the House of An- | sembly for his supposed writings, and as often perseveringly returned by the county of York, | whose representative Le was.He 1x vaturally.enough an object of no lutle detestation antorget those who depend upon the places, penstons, and offices of the Colonial Government, No country in the world is better supplied on this head than the Canadas.Mr.Mackeazie's career has con-, sequently been no sinecure: (or these péntry, though they take little trouble themselves, ape | careful to mive ploy to the reformer who we ull disturb their luxurious repose, Mr, Mackenzie | was received here with respect, and has, we have uo doubt, eflveted aood service.How far it may | nv be neutralized by the recent transference of Mr.Stanley from the Islan called Sister, but not treated as such, to the Colonics and the Slave | Question, remains to be seen.It is certain that the admimstration of Lorde Goderich and Uow- ick was gradually restoring the alienated affections of the Canadas to the Mother Country ;! and had their measures been allowed to take full: effect, or should they be fathered by the present : men, then the ultimate ruprration of this noble\u2019 territory from its parent will be postponed for many a year, each year being spore and more productive of mutual advantage \"The Canadas have become far too tate m to remut saddled with à seffish and exprisive goverz ent, which serves none other thay the purposes f à clique of plice- men and their conneawns, Who bato for n long timo looked upon these provinces os their hereds- tary farms, Mr.Mackenzie is not a «kilful Lookmaker ; and his information, copiuux and curious as it is, \u2018 might have been disposed in a far more taking form.It aught to have been entitled Notes on the United States and the Candas; forth character of the work is entirely that of a note-bouk the intelligence is of all dates, ail forms, and on all acalee : or r and atransement have not been sttemptad ; but asthe author recoliected or met with any thing relative to the subject nearest his Leoart, he appears to have jotted it down, cut it out, Or pasted at in Al will agece, haweser, that here are the wits of 1 grand book ; and that the author is a right-thinking, zealous, and patriotic citizen Thu (veling tavard» this country is altogether auviasie .but even ta the utanost : extremity of disappmintment, amd, as they eon: ceived, oppressicn, the iatemperanee of the Rad- cals of Canada never equalled the egotict treason of the officials and their organs when it wis discovered that the Government st hotne was opening its eyes 10 the abuses ofthe cotony Tw absurd to expect Lo preserve oo sng eorvoration eo- lany entire, in the sens no ghbourhiond of the Gui.ted\u201d Staten: and they who will learn from the signs of the titges, mizht be in-trueted from this Look, that there 1s a spirit in Canada that cannot\u201d be emuthered by the Colonial lucubus, nor putdown from home.Itty be directed into tho mont wholesome channels : hut it\u2019 the attempt is made Lo confins it, ane} Chat without leaving a safety-valve, ter Colonin! vessel will explode,! The business ofa truly maternal goverment now is, withregard to the Cant-las, to teach them the art of cheap selÉgovertinent : but alus ! we have not learnt it ourselves.From the Culvad lilrocate, IhisTony or \u201c Butrisu Astenica,\u201d by John Macgregor, Ezy.lute High Sherif] of Prince Edward's Island, in two vols.Sve, published July, 1833, by TVilliem Blackwood, Edinburgh, Dedicated by specisl permission, to His Majesty\u2019 the King.Twenty years aga, the candid, liber], maaly sentiments incorporated by Mr, Macgregor into | his valuable waik un Aimerica,-wonld have been cremptorily refused the sanction of royalty.\u2014 No history of th: New World, any past ot the olject of wich wus the fearless exposure of {provement of the province, an colonial abuses, would in those days have met the approbation and received the avowed patronage of the court of Et.James, But there isa change, a great and marvellous change; and we now find monarchs willingly counte- nsncing, tory cditors favorably reviewing, and conservative booksellers (even Blackwood) rinting, publishing, and widely \u2018circulating ooks of exceeding liberality, and many statements in which must be gull and wormwood to the aristocracy of the country.The reasons for this change are, first, the people are Letter informed ; sccondly, they aro become more united ; and thirdly, they have had their full share of dear bought experience.Hence we have the second edition of Macgregors British America, dedicated to Lis Majesty the King, and published by the proprietor of Biuekwuod's E- dinhurgh Magazine, In July, 1833.We are glad that such books as those of Mr.Stuart and Mr, Macgregor have been published \u2014they will be of infinite service to the cause of federal government ; and, from their extensive circulation and the high character of their authors, will go n great way in removing falscand \u2018injurious impressions concerning the people of North America, made by the erroneous, prejudiced, und interested statements of certain other writers who have undertaken to acquaint the British nation with the manners, customs, and habits of the dwellers on this side the Atlantic.M:.Macgregor's second edition is far more full and satisfuctory than hisfirst.\"The account of the Canadas is greatly extended ; also many nartivular.of importance in their history, which had been omitted before, are given, and given too in a spirit of fuirnces und candour which cannot be too much admired.The space left for selections in a periodical like ours is necessarily very limited, nt we shall cndeavor to find room far a eufficient number vf extracts to exhibit the politicul character of the work, and to show that an intelli- gout and high-anaded Englislunan travelling through our conutry fur information has not dia.«laine tu do justice to the character of its inhabitants : Mr.M.approves of the colonial policy of Great Britain up to 1755 : \u201c England, on planting her American Colo- nics, granted them the full privilege of governing themselves, and the right of toring such laws as the wisdom of their respective legislu- tures should consider necessary ; and, in giving them such ample powers to provide for their interest and prosperity, only reserved the polis tical connection under the same rovereign, with the general benefit resulting to the empire from their trade,\u201d\u2014Vol.1, page 16.\u201cBut,\u201d he adds, * after that period, those who wish for the partition of great empires will learn useful instruction by studying the history of the measures that led to the independence ol the United States.\u201d Upper Canada\u2014 Causes of Discontent, In Mr.Macgregor's historical eketeh of this Province, he plainly avows the fact of Sir P.Maitland's and Sir Jol Colborne\u2019s unpopular i{ character as Civil Governors, and relates ut length the chief causes of the present discon- teats, Speaking of the Gourlay banishment act, and the alien bill, he admits their absurdity and ujustice ; and gocsontoshow the misconduct of the authoritics und the folly of the system, as foiluss : \u201c Licutenant-Governor Gore returned to the province in 1815, and continued administering the government until the arrival of Sir Pere arine Maitland, in 1318, who remained as licu- tenant-sovernor (or ten years, not certainly to the satisfaction of the habitants, who have been very generally dissatisfied, not only with his government, but also with the administration of his successor, the present governor, Sir Julin Colhorne.In accounting for the discoutents of tbe inhabitants, and their causes of complaint, we must, to conclude without bias, examine facts.In i| the first place the large grants wade with the best intentions by Governor Simcoe, and afterwards by his successors, who have had, itis believed, the misfortune to be ill advised, have impeded the prosperity of the country, and the general improvement of the province, The leasing instead of selling the crown reserves has pastiaily had the same effect; but a far grvaterevil results from the reservation made ofthe v-