ODE TO THE PRINCE REGENT, BY OWEN AP HOEL, ESQ. O MUSE! did winter, bleak and cold, Save when a nation's sighs, in grief profound, He drooping saw a lovely flower, The bitterest drops of sorrow flings: With keenest anguish he was taught, That e'en the circle of a crown He saw it bow in anguish down, When to the best of hearts affliction's arrow sped. A nation's sighs, a nation's tears, But doubly was the monarch lov'd, While wrapt in gloom Britannia lay, She saw the feeling heart was thine,. GEN. CHRON. VOL. III. NO. XV. 2 L While Since this old dance has now beconte the rage, If you are women, don't give up the fashion! Guard it ye fair ones free from innovation, In love-and dancing, bear your sovereign sway. SUR LA WALTŻ. ADLITAM Asor. AVEC un peu d'adresse on peut tout altérer; Non, la Waltz n'est point cet exercise infame, Où l'homme est sans pudeur, où la femme se pame.' Où tout flatte l'oreille et tout doit plaire aux yeux; En attaquant les sens, cherche à corrompre un cœur; Et pour leur honneur même, il doit se respecter. H. DU B. Alluding to a defence of the Waltz, published under that signature.-Ed. ODE TO THE PRINCE REGENT, BY OWEN AP HOEL, ESQ. O MUSE! did winter, bleak and cold, Save when a nation's sighs, in grief profound, He drooping saw a lovely flower, The bitterest drops of sorrow flings: That e'en the circle of a crown He saw it bow in anguish down, When to the best of hearts affliction's arrow sped. A nation's sighs, a nation's tears, While wrapt in gloom Britannia lay, She saw the feeling heart was thine,. GEN. CHRON. VOL. III. NO. XV. 2 L While While tempests threaten'd to o'erwhelm, The vessel through the foaming tide, 'The tyrant, on his blood-stain'd throne, But while the muse o'er havock mourns, Which dawns with hope's all-cheering beam, To thy maturer ray. THE 481 THE OCCASIONAL REVIEW. ART. I. A Letter upon the Mischievous Influence of the Spanish Inquisition, as it actually exists in the Provinces under the Spanish Government. Translated from El Español, a Periodical Spanish Journal, published in London. Svo. pp. 31. Johnson and Co. 1811. IT Tis stated, in the advertisement prefixed to this letter, that the some design of its publication is that of dispelling some prejudices favourable to the Inquisition, which,' according to the writer, have been lately rather too much in fashion.' The author continues, It is not the Inquisition, armed with flames and instruments of torture, that the present letter attacks it is the Inquisition under the mask of gentleness and mildness, ranging itself, and seeking for protection, under the banner of liberty and patriotism. Let those who, upon reading the title-page, might either look for, or shrink from, those thread-bare, though unluckily but too true, descriptions of inquisitorial trials and executions, be not mistaken in their hopes or fears with regard to this pamphlet. It contains nothing but a few observations from a man who was born, and who has spent the best part of his life, in a country under the sway of the Inquisition--a man who has no personal grievances from that tribunal to complain of nay, among the members of which he has even had friends to regret, -Preface, p. iii. Consistently with the views for which we are thus prepared, the author makes the following statement of the influence of the Inqui sition, as it actually exists in the provinces under the Spanish government :' It is beyond a doubt that that institution had dwindled to a mere shadow of what it had been. The diffusion of knowledge throughout Europe had diminished the barbarous rigour exercised by that tribunal during the first years of its establishment. Nor was it possible that victims should be burnt by thousands at the end of the eighteenth century, as they were at the beginning of the sixteenth. Even if the fanaticism of the inquisitors had not yielded to the character of the times, that of their victims was much too weak to keep up their resistance to the stake. The fact is, that whatever disposition this tribunal might have to burn, there were very few who had any to undergo such an operation; and that he who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Holy Office, if he could not deny his heresy, was in the greatest hurry to abjure it. This, then, was latterly the true state of the Inquisition. Its laws, its forms, its principles, were the same; the people only were different. He |