(Page 63.) B. c. Questions. House of Commons.

1. Principles and views of foreign politics.

2. Standing army.

3. Catholic claims. 4. Currency.

5. Sinking fund and debt.

6. Policy for England, in present circumstances, with regard

to trade, shipping, manufactures, and husbandry.

7. Poor laws, and state of the labouring orders.

8. Parliamentary reform.

9. Clergy residence, and progress of the fanatics. 10. Slaves in West Indies.

11. Reforms in the law.

(Page 71.) B. c. 3. Catholic Claims.

Lord Eldon's position, that the State is essentially Pro

testant.

To reconcile Catholic Emancipation with the views and principles of the Whigs at the Revolution.

(Page 79.) B. c. 5. Sinking Fund, Debt, and Revenue.

Wm. Sm.'s (William Smith) language in last session about funds, and Dick's prejudices about stockholders and landholders. Multitude, and various classes of persons, throughout England, who hold property in the funds; in very small sums. Alarm.

(Page 91.) B. c. 8. Parliamentary Reform.

In such a country, two contending prejudices generally at work; each has its fits of greater violence occasionally, which brings about a re-action of the other; a passion for novelties for the sake of improvement, and zeal against innovation. Their conflict insures discussion. The stability of our institu

tions founded upon the improvements which work themselves out mature, from such conflict and discussion.

(Page 105.) B. c. 11. Reforms in the Law.

Insolvent debtors.

Extents in aid.

Gaol delivery in corporations.

Judgments on misdemeanour at nisi prius.

Statute of stabbing.

Statute of William, for treason trials, to Ireland.

(Page 113.) C. Course of Critical Studies to be pursued; with Views bearing upon A. and B.

a. Exact knowledge of the languages I already read.

b. More critical knowledge of the grammatical proprieties of English.

c. Studies in English composition.

d. Classical authors to be familiarly acquainted with.

(Page 117.) C. c. Composition.

Collect in standard authors those turns of common expression, which constitute the permanent, unvarying body of English idiom: works, in which to collect these, the Bible, Shakspeare, Clarendon, Tillotson, Addison's Spectators, Dryden, Pope.

1. Recent authors, from whose writings some knowledge of the appropriate idioms of English phraseology may be gleaned, but with more danger of mistaking temporary fashion for permanent modes:

Blackstone, but not in his shew passages; Soame Jenyns; Uvedale Price; Abram Tucker; White of Selborne; Sir J. Reynolds; Cowper's Letters, and Lady Mary's; George Ellis.

2. The rhythm of English prose; to adjust it to the sense,

as well as to the sentiment. Of the former, very few examples to be produced; and those only in detached passages:

Shaftesbury; Essay on Virtue; very harmonious, but the melody rather set to the sentiment of the work, than adjusted to the variations of argument and meaning. But examine it in detail.

Bolingbroke; various.

Middleton; aims at a Latin tune.

Junius; some fine instances. But in that tone of sentiment, the rhythm suggested by the sentiment more easily adjusts itself to the sense.

Johnson; in The Rambler, no adjustment; the rhythm dictates what is said. In his greater works, some excellent instances. No ear for varied harmony.

(Page 121.) C. d. Classics.

1. Poets to be habitually studied, the principles of their works to be thoroughly examined:

Iliad and Odyssey; tragedies of Euripides; Virgil, both works; Ovid, the Metamorphoses; Dante, Inferno; Ariosto, Orlando Furioso; Racine, Molière, Shakspeare, Milton.

2. Historians.-Xenophon, Thucydides, Polybius, Tacitus, Sallust, Cæsar, Livy, Guicciardini, Sarpi, Davila, Machiavel, Hume.

3. For the resources of rhetoric, or for the power of diction and expression in their respective languages-Demosthenes, Plato, Cicero, Rousseau, Massillon, Bossuet.

The orations of Demosthenes and Cicero especially.

4. Moralists, and masters in the art of thinking:- Lord Bacon's logical writings; Cicero's philosophical dialogues; Aristotle's Ethics and Poetics; Epictetus, Antoninus, and the other remains of the Stoics; Sir J. Reynolds's Discourses; Addison's Spectators; Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments; Dugald Stewart's works; Plutarch; Butler's Analogy; Paley's Natural Theology; and Hume's Dialogues.

(Page 125.) D. Detached Subjects for Inquiry and Study.

1. Books for the history of opinions:- Cudworth's Intellectual System; Beausobre, Histoire des Manichées; Plutarch's Morals.

2. Aristotle's Politics, compared with Machiavel's Discourses, as a digest of the principles and sentiments of their respective times. The notions of political justice and public morality, current among the small republics of Greece, compared with those of the Italians in their similar circumstances.

3. Plato's Style.

4. Of the exact adjustment of the rhythm of composition to the sense as it runs and varies, as well as to the character of the subject. Different great masters of writing examined in respect of this quality of composition. Conclusions with reference to English prose.

5. To read over all the Orations of Cicero, critically; and afterwards run over Rollin's Quintilian, for the particular study of the passages to which he refers.

(Page 129.) E. Detached Subjects for Composition.

1. An introduction to the art of reasoning, for the use of students.

2. A translation, into pure English, of the best parts of Aristotle's Politics.

3. Of the dialects of a cultivated language.

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APPENDIX F. (Page 434.)

RÉSULTAT DE LA SECTION DU CADAVRE DU FEU M. FRANÇOIS HORNER.

SON CORPS n'était pas très maigre, et sa peau, surtout celle de la face, avait une teinte plombée; aux extremités des doigts elle était noire.

L'ouverture du bas ventre fit voir tous les viscères et organes contenus dans cette cavité parfaitement sains; on remarqua seulement le systême veneux gorgé de sang.

La section de la poitrine laissa voir les poumons singu lièrement rapetissés, et particulièrement le poumon droit. Leur couleur était livide, et leur superficie très inégale: cette inégalité naissait d'un très grand nombre de corps blancs, transparens, de forme et de volume très inégal; les plus petits étaient comme des lentilles, les plus gros comme des amandes. De ces corps on en voy ait beaucoup à la face antérieure des poumons, peu à la face postérieure. Ces corps étaient de petits vésicules remplis d'air; sous la compression elles disparaissaient, et l'air passait dans les bronches; elles reparaissaient, si on poussait de l'air dans la trachée-artère. Ces vessies n'avaient aucune communication avec le tissu cellulaire, qui unit les cellules aériennes entre elles, de manière qu'il ne s'agissait pas d'emphysème, mais de dilatation morbifique des cellules aëriennes.

Une grande partie de la substance pulmonaire, et spécialement la partie postérieure de ces organes était condensée, durcie, et, dans beaucoup de points, entièrement hépatisée. Les lobes des poumons n'étaient pas adhérents entre eux; il n'y avait pas d'adhérences entre les poumons et la pleure. Les glandes lymphatiques des bronches étaient plus volumineuses qu'à l'ordinaire, la membrane des bronches légèrement engorgée.