IN our first Preface we had occasion to congratulate
our readers and ourselves on the partial success of our
labours, as evinced in the dissolution of one of our
political and religious opponents, the Analytical Re-
view, premising, at the same time, that we were too
well acquainted with the active principle of Jaco-
BINISM, to expect, from the destruction of a powerful
advocate, any long cessation of its efforts for the at-
tainment of its end. It speedily rose, Phenix-like,
out of its own ashes, under the denomination of the
New Analytical Review, endued with the same
malignity of spirit, the same activity of exertion, and
the same inveteracy of hatred to existing establish-
ments ; thereby verifying our prediction, that “the
spirit of Jacobinism, though vanquished in one shape,
will rise up in another.” But, notwithstanding its
pompous boast, that it was no “ subject of partial
or temporary concern,” it strutted and fretted its
“
hour
upon
the
stage,
and then was heard no more.” Thanks to the meliorated spirit of the times, imputable to causes easily traced, after a short existence of only six months, this democratic viper, of whose venom we have exhibited some notable specimens, (and many more have we to exhibit,) expired. The improvement of the public mind, thus evinced in the discouragement experienced, in the present day, by publications of a pernicious tendency, contrasted with their very extensive circulation but a short time since, affords the most satisfactory grounds of con
solation