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BLUNT, Philosophical Instrument-maker, 38, Tavistock-st. Covent-Garden. SCALE EXHIBITING THE PREVAILING WINDS DURING THE MONTH. N NE E SE S SW W NW THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. 18.] JULY, 1815. [VoL. HI. MONTHLY MAGAZINES have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and information. The Intelligence and discussion contained in them are very extensive and various; and they have been the means of diffusing a general habit of reading through the nation, which in a certain degree hath enlarged the public understanding. HERE, too, are preserved a multitude of useful hints, observations, and facts, which otherwise might have never appeared.---Dr. Kippis. Every Art is improved by the emulation of Competitors.--Dr. Johnson. MR. EDITOR, ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. TO the most extraordinary events of the day belongs the restoration of the Jesuits so prematurely decreed by Pius VII. On this subject, the patriotic ARNDT, whose works during the last three years have so powerfully contributed to rouse the spirit of Germany against the tyranny of Buonaparte, thus expresses himself in one of his late performances:" Every thing in the world has its appointed time, which it cannot escape. That time came for the Jesuits also. The Order fell in a manner that astonished the world. Men of the most prodigious means, of the most resolute courage, of the utmost subtlety and address, were puffed away as by a breath by persons every way inferior to themselves. What was so easily demolished, ought not to be again erected. The Jesuits, who have since that time with dif ficulty prolonged their existence, were with their arts, with their skill in languages, with their crooked policy, with their sneaking, adulatory, and casuistical versatility, a paltry instrument in the hands of the church. If the latter desires to become again a truly catholic church, it must renounce all that is worldly and little in the treatment of external things, and in the use of external means."It is only by magnanimity and mildness towards those of a different persuasion, and by laying aside every thing that looks like defiance and a spirit of proselytism, that it can recover its splendor and honour. Thus, then, the wish of Riccini, the new general of the Order, (who, on the festival of St. Ignatius, pronounced a panegyric upon Loyola in the presence of the Pope and all his cardinals), that his Order might have a nest, that is, a college, in every town in Europe containing 10,000 inhabitants, cannot but be considered as premature. It cannot be denied, that in whatever related to instruction in philology, the NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 18, belles lettres, mathematics, and the higher branches of education, the Jesuits have, upon the whole, been serviceable to science, and that in this respect, Bacon's words, talis cum sis utinam noster esses, might be applied to many learned Jesuits. Much, too, might be said in praise of their missions, and the model of a state founded by them in Paraguay; but it is no longer for such pur poses that the Holy See wants these emissaries, or that they are now re-established. They are destined by ancient incantations to lay the new spirit of the times, as they were when a new æra began with Luther; in a word, to found afresh the empire of darkness. When Catherine admitted the Jesuits into her dominions, it was for the sake of the political advantages which the Russian trade to China and South America was expected to derive from them. But why should they again be let loose upon Europe? To secure thrones from revolutions?-to counteract free-thinking by a more rigid morality? Should such an idea be held out, it could not be better refuted than by extracting their political maxins and secret instructions from their own writers, and laying them anew before a too forgetful public. Such a work might have the effect of rousing those minds that are now lulled into a dangerous security. Meanwhile, the fellowing extract of a letter from Rome, written at the end of February last, may afford some matter for reflection:"New embellishments, and even the continuation of those already commenced, are now entirely out of the question. This is but natural; for bread must first be obtained, and even this his Holiness can no longer procure for the people, who are reduced to the last extremity. But, as if the government were bent on rendering itself odious, it strives to undo all that has been done. The arena of the Coliscum, whose works and VOL. III. 3 T 494 Mr. Böttiger on the Restoration of the Jesuits. aqueducts have occasioned so much speculation, has, with the whole wonderful substructure, been again covered with rubbish, that the chapel and the stations of the Passion might be replaced where they formerly stood. The whole army of monks is again in active service. At Rome, and in all the Ecclesiastical State, the convents have been re-established. The order of the Jesuits is here making considerable progress. Young men of the first families in Rome and in all Italy, are admitted into it. A Marchese Patrizi, son of the Senator and the Princess of Saxony, a Prince Altieri, a Pallavi cini of Genoa, a Marchese from Turin, belong to the number. There are already eighty of them in Rome alone; in one college in the Quirinal are not fewer than eighty novices. Hence some idea may be formed of the extensive views of the Propaganda of the Order. Nevertheless well-informed persons of long experience and profound knowledge of the world are of opinion, that on the return of more tranquil times, the furious bigotry which is the consequence of irreligion and despair of earthly assistance, would soon subside, and that the Order, which in these days can scarcely expect gifts and endowments, will languish and expire for want of support. May the Protestants only avoid two rocks, indifference and mysticism! The past will never return." I shall conclude these observations with the following just remarks by the late Charles Villers in his prize essay On the Influence of the Reformation:"To model science according to the papal interest, was the sole tendency of the system of instruction adopted by the Jesuits; to place certain objects in a clear light, and to envelope others in profound darkness; to cultivate the memory and the imagination, whilst the fields of reason and judgment were left fallow; to instil learning, but at the same time submission into the minds of their disciples, whom they wished to keep in ignorance of such things only as might shake that submission. In this respect, the Jesuits resembled the slaves of the great among the ancients, who were grammarians, poets, rhetoricians, skilful dancers, and musicians-in a word, who understood every thing, except the science to be free." An effectual antidote to the Loyolists upon the Continent would be the fraternity of Freemasons, especially if upon the system of the old English lodges, which admits of no more than three de [July 1, grees, and which has spread from Ham- Dresden, March, 1815. MR. EDITOR, SOME of the later biographers of Milton have in the warmth of their admiration of his political principles, thought proper to wander into a discussion of the merits of the Restoration, for the purpose of vilifying the royalists and panegyrising Oliver Cromwell and John Bradshaw. This republican zeal has gone even so far as to pour a torrent of abuse upon Charles the Second for his cruelty, though that accusation is at direct variance with all that we read of this monarch's character in the writings of those who knew him most intimately, and who had little inclination to speak of him in terms of flattery. That Charles, however, did not deserve the obloquy which has been heaped upon his name, I shall now prove, by the adduction of a very curious fact and document, from which it will appear, that at the very be ginning of his restoration he shewed more indulgence to Milton than the House of Commons would have wished him to extend towards that great man, On the 16th of June, which was less than three weeks after the landing of the king, the house came to a resolution, "That his Majesty be humbly moved to call in Milton's two books, and John Goodwin's, and order them to be burnt by the common hangman." In consequence of this vote the fel lowing proclamation was issued :— 1815.] Dr. Watkins on a Proclamation respecting Milton. sonable passages against us and our Government, and most impious endeavours to justify the horrid and unmatchable murther of our late dear father of glorious memory. "And whereas John Goodwin, late of Coleman-street, London, clerk, hath also published in print a book intitled, The Obstructors of Justice; written in defence of the traitorous sentence against his said late Majesty. And whereas the said John Milton and John Goodwin are both fled, or so obscure themselves, that no endeavours used for their apprehension can take effect, whereby they might be brought to legal tryal, and deservedly receive condign punishment for their treason and offences. "Now to the end that our good subjects may not be corrupted in their judgments with such wicked and traitorous principles as are dispersed and scattered throughout the before-mentioned books, we, upon the mo tion of the Commons in Parliament now assembled, do hereby streightly charge and command all and every person and persons whatsoever, who live in any city, borough, or town incorporate, within this our kingdom of England, the dominion of Wales, the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in whose hands any of those books are, or hereafter shall be, that they upon pain of our high displeasure, and the consequence thereof, do forthwith upon the publication of this our command, or within ten days immediately following, deliver, or cause the same to be delivered to the mayor, bailiff, or other chief officer or magistrate of any of the said cities, boroughs, or towns incorporate, where such person or persons so live; or if living out of any city, borough, or town incorporate, then to the next justice of the peace adjoining to his or their dwelling, or place of abode: or if living in either of our Universities, then to the Vice-Chancellor of that University, where he or they do reside. "And in default of such voluntary delivery, which we do expect in observance of our said command, that then, and after the time before limited is expired, the said chief magistrate of all and every the said cities, boroughs, or towns incorporate, the justices of the peace in their several counties, and the Vice-Chancellors of our said Universities respectively, are hereby commanded to seize and take all and every the books aforesaid, in whose hands or possession soever they shall be found, and certify the names of the offenders to our Privy Council. And we do hereby also give special charge and command to the said chief magistrates, justices of the peace, and vicechancellors, respectively, that they cause the said books that shall be brought so unto any of their hands, or seized or taken as a foresaid, by virtue of this our proclamation, to be delivered to the respective sheriffs of those counties where they respectively live, the first and next assizes that shall after hap 495 pen: and the said sheriffs are hereby also required, in time of holding such assizes, to cause the same to be publicly burnt by the bands of the common hangman. "And we do further straightway charge and command, that no man hereafter presume to print, ven 1, sell or disperse any the aforesaid books, upon pain of our heavy displeasure, and of such further punishment, as for their presumption in that behalf, may any way be inflicted upon them by the laws of this realm. "Given at our Court at White Hall, the 13th day of August, in the twelfth year of our reign, 1660.” When we consider that near two months were suffered to clapse before any thing was done in compliance with the parliamentary resolution, we shall see cause to admire the lenity of the king and his government, rather than to censure either the one or the other for unreasonable severity. It was during this interval that Milton saved his perwhich favour it appears to me, that son and his property; in return for though he continued a sectary in religious matters, his politics underwent a very material change; but the proofs of this I must reserve for another communication. May 5, 1815. MR. EDITOR, J. WATKINS. ON turning over the pages of your magazine, I was surprised to find that one of your correspondents had found it necessary to solicit the opinion of your readers on the grammatical construction gree, and that he should find an oppoof the adjective in the comparative denent to argue himself, not only out of temper, but against what appears to me as obvious as any other established grammatical rule can be. If you compare one thing with another, one can only be better than the other by comparison; but if you compare one thing with a number, it may be the best of the species or of the class, and the superlative degree may be admitted with propriety. I perfectly agree with your correspondent in thinking, that in the examples he has given, "the best of the two,” "the worst of the two," &c. are wrong, and that the superlative could not be used without a violation of the generallyreceived and acknowledged rules of propriety. Dr. Campbell observes, the comparative degree implies commonly a comparison of one thing with one thing," and that "consequently it requires to be followed by the singular number." And Mr. Grant, in his very "that |