Should not the Spanish Government have Siberian mines at its command, seeing that democracy in Spain approximates so closely to Russian despotism?

Deserted and betrayed Poland.-Dec. 20, 1836.

* ENGLAND will one day have, we fear, abundant reason to bitterly repent the faithless and pusillanimous conduct of her government to the deserted and betrayed Polish people. The colossal and barbarian power that has since wrested Turkey from our influence, by the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, and now pursues with the noiseless tread of a stealthy, but indefatigable policy, the path of an anti-British ambition, should not have been allowed to cancel, with a dash of the pen, the treaty of Vienna, and erase the Polish nation from the map of Europe.

In the year 1794, when the brave KOSCIUSKO was in the field, Earl (then Mr.) GREY deprecated, in a strain of generous and impressive eloquence, the apathy with which the tory government of that time viewed the heroic struggle of the Poles. The world afterwards saw the same Earl GREY invested with the mantle of power, which had fallen from the shoulders of a tory Premier; and did he and his whig colleagues vindicate on the treasury benches the generous sentiments towards Poland, which shed a moral lustre upon the path of their official exclusion? Far worse than apathy did they manifest. The British Government was then bound by a solemn treaty, (which did not exist in 1794,) to the preservation of the national independence of Poland. But Russian influence was stronger with our Government than the obligations of a treaty, and operated upon its policy with the force of fascination. This

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Insidious Policy of RUSSIA-" The Portfolio."-Feb. 10, 1836.

DURING several years past we have been endeavouring to excite the public attention, and awaken the public jealousy, to

the insidious, restless, subtle, and over-reaching policy with which Russia works her schemes of encroaching and indefatigable ambition. We have upbraided successive administrations with their apathy upon this subject-an apathy which has had the effect of culpable connivance in inducing Russia to proceed in her plans of progressive aggrandizement, until her power has attained a giant magnitude that makes it formidable to the independence, and dangerous to the liberties, of the nations of Europe.

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If anything were wanted, in addition to the evidence which recent events supply, to demonstrate the ever-active, the wily and treacherous character of Russian policy, it would be supplied by the documentary proofs which have been laid before the British public in that curious series of State-papers, which has been published in the Portfolio. Any one who reads those papers must be convinced, that from whatever party the Ministers of the British Crown may be taken-whether they are whig or tory, or a mixture of both the Russian diplomatists are vigilant and persevering in measuring their political capacities, sounding their intentions, and, with all the plausibility of subtle and smooth barbarians, taking advantage of their weaknesses. Those papers have only confirmed the opinions which we over and over again expressed, of the policy of Russia, and the crafty and circumventing abilities of the diplomatic "spies," who closely observe, under the protection of ambassadorial privileges, all the proceedings and movements of our Ministers, that their own Government may, at the earliest instant, know and turn them to advantage.

* * Had our Ministers acted with wisdom and firmness when Poland was first attacked—had they afterwards done their duty when they heard of the anti-British treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, there would have been no necessity now for alarming the public or burdening the people by warlike naval preparations; for on neither occasion was Russia in a condition to provoke a war with England. Russia has ever since been indefatigably active in strengthening her armies, and in perfecting her naval preparations in the Black Sea. From Sebastopol, she will be able at any time to send a fleet to the Bosphorus,

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Character of Sir James MACKINTOSH, as an Orator.—Written

in 1820.

AMONG the very few public speakers who have acquired fame at the Bar, and improved it in the Senate, is Sir James MACKINTOSH. His genius, full of the ardour of nature, has collected experience from the world, and knowledge from books, without losing anything of either its candour or originality. From law he appears to have learned every thing but its pedantry and chicane; from politics, every thing but their indirectness; and thus his eloquence preserves its ingenuous warmth, while enriched by the best acquisitions of experience.

A lawyer without professional peculiarities, he cultivated the sages, not the pedagogues of the science; and so culled the principles of justice and the maxims of humanity from those profound and liberal works on British jurisprudence, which have been too much neglected for compilations of technicalities and forms. His original powers of mind were, in consequence, corroborated by that very study which renders inferior men pragmatic, ignorant, and conceited. He brought great talents to the Bar, and they expanded there; and he returned from the chilling atmosphere of a court of law, with his frankness and his virtues.

The style of his eloquence is not the result of cultivation, though for the most part the matter of it is. The natural vigour of his intellect breaks through, and illuminates the mass of learning which surrounds it; the impassioned fervour of his sentiment gives his historical recollections a subduing utterance; and in him, erudition instructs with the language of emotion. The character of his reasoning is vigorous and comprehensive, not given to metaphysical subtlety, or ingenious cavilling. disdains to slide upon a sophism into a position which he cannot carry by the assault of manly argument; there is nothing

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