torius, which interdicts the reading of every educational or theological work, which has not taken part with the Church of Rome.

Another great point in this question is, that our gracious sovereign should be made thoroughly acquainted with the nature of the question regarding this University, which redounds so greatly to the honour of her Majesty's truly great predecessor. Naturally, our beloved sovereign cannot feel any prejudices against an institution so remarkable for its unshaken loyalty to the British throne; and we cannot conceive that any one would be so hopelessly wicked as to attempt to create any unfavourable impression of it in the royal mind. Our gracious sovereign has, perhaps, some idea that her Irish subjects are too turbulent to be honoured with the royal presence. But her majesty's ministers should remove so unfounded a prejudice, (if it exist,) and advise a royal progress to that country; for certain we are, that such a mark of kindness and condescension would restore every thing there to harmony and good humour. And the smiles of a British Queen, with the power of enchantment would bind in an irresistible spell, and for ever, the Typhon of vulgar party feuds, and stay their inhuman consequences. This could a Royal Personage effect speedily, with Divine assistance, and this would indeed be a true passport to terrestrial happiness and everlasting glory. And we must remember the great moral lesson of Bossuet, that "History is, so to say, the monitor of princes; degraded by death, they enter the dark portals of the tomb, where, no longer surrounded by flatterers, they await in awful silence the irrevocable judgment of an impartial posterity."

Should this high pressure screw upon the human intellect come into fashion in England, as some appear to think it will, nine tenths of the printers and booksellers of Great Britain may give up their trade and look for some other mode of living, and the ovens and baths would have for many years, a plentiful supply of heretical literature.

Oration funèbre, sur la Princesse Marie d'Orleans.

G. Woodfail and Son, Printers, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London.