or their opinions, no control over their conduct, and consequently think very little about them. A government, constituted as ours is at present, may abstain from evil and do good for a time, but, for the purposes of good government, an establishment is necessary whose very forms shall secure the rights of the colony, whatever may be the character or views of the men who happen to be in power. Public opinion, in short, must be admitted, on a sound footing, into the councils of the Governor. The objections to the introduction of a representative assembly shrink from investigstion; indeed, they cannot now be seriously urged. In our last we pointed out the interest the rulers of former times took in undervaluing the character of the first inhabitants of the Cape; founding, upon the assumed demerits of their subjects, a claim to extend their power of interfering in all their concerns. on the arrival of the English settlers, to whom they ascribed every quality The same course was taken by their successors, that could serve to diminish, in the eye of the world, not only their political, but also their personal importance. Both parties have wiped off these reproaches, and proved themselves worthy to receive the best institutions, as well as competent to fulfil the duties such institutions will impose upon them. 'Nor can it be said that the Dutch inhabitants are not sufficiently reconciled to the supremacy of England, to be entrusted with the enjoyment of political power. They have now learned that it was not the British nation, but a few individuals, to whom they owed the continuance of the ruinous system under which they have been labouring, and that these few succeeded in their designs only by preventing any public expression of public feeling, on our part, from reaching his Majesty's Government. The British settlers, not being accustomed to see the frown of a master on the face of every petty functionary, and inflamed by many insults, were the first to break the spell, and to claim redress from home. To them we owe the commission of inquiry. To this succeeded the establishment of the press, by which the eyes of the public were opened, while by the violent attack made upon it, and by the memorial for a free press which followed, together with the forcible suppression of the Literary Society, ministers were at once enabled to conclude, not only that the system at the Cape was bad, but that the individuals wo administered it were past cure. The case was then introduced to the British people by means of the press, and warmly taken up in Parliament, the consequence of all which has been the appointment of a council, the absence of the Governor, and several other important changes, even before the report of the commissioners was drawn up. The old inhabitants of the colony are aware of all this, and are satisfied that their grievances not only did not originate with the English, but excited the liveliest interest so soon as they were made known in England. This objection, therefore, has lost all weight. Other objections may be started, but they will be found equally fallacious, being founded entirely on the misrepresentations that have gone abroad respecting the state of society in the colony. We can easily account for the opposition of some functionaries and their dependents to such a measure, from their inexperience, their incapacity, their love of ease, or their qualities still less creditable to them; but if the public manifest the anxiety they certainly feel upon the subject, and if the commissioners of inquiry have made a proper use of their opportunities of acquiring a perfect knowledge of our true interest, and our capabilities, a representative assembly, with its natural consequences of a simple code of laws, moderate taxation, and security of person and property, will soon be enjoyed at the Cape.' SCENERY, COSTUMES, AND ARCHITECTURE, CHIEFLY ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF INDIA. IN our Number for June last, we introduced to our readers, by a brief notice, the First Part of the beautiful Work issued to the world under this title. In the design and execution of that, we perceived sufficient excellence to justify our predicting its complete success: and we are gratified to find, that high as our expectations of general approbation for this undertaking undoubtedly were, they have been realized to their utmost extent. The First Part is now extensively known, and, as far as we can ascertain, universally appreciated: so that all the artist and the author have now to do is to maintain, by their subsequent efforts, the high character which their first essays have undeniably won for them. We are glad to perceive that this has been fully supported in the Second Part of these interesting and beautiful Views which have jnst issued from the press. In the notice affixed to this, Captain Grindlay acknowledges his peculiar obligations to Sir Charles Forbes, and to Mr. Auber, of the Secretary's Department at the India House, for the communication of much valuable material. From the latter, a series of beautiful drawings made in the island of Ceylon, and in the northern Rajpoot states of Hindoostan, have been obtained. They were executed by Mr. Auber's brother, the late Captain Auber, of the Quarter-Master-General's Department in India, many of whose masterly productions of the pencil we had an opportunity of seeing and admiring in his own portfolio in the country itself, and rejoice to find they are about to be given to the world. Captain Grindlay states, that from abundant materials of his own, and the kind contributions of many friends, he will be able to extend the Views to be contained in his Work from the Island of Ceylon, at the southern extremity of India, to the Rajpoot states, which press close on its northern boundary, in the neighbourhood of Bhurtpore, the great military fortress recently captured by the British forces in the East:-and from Hyderabad, in the eastern Deccan, to Muscat, and even Mocha, in the Persian Gulph and Red Sea, presenting thus, as he justly remarks, a more diversified series of scenery in the Indian Empire than has hitherto been given to the Public. It is a convenient feature of the arrangement of these Parts, that each portion of the work, consisting of two such parts, with six plates in each, accompanied by letter-press descriptions, will form a separate and independent volume, perfect in itself, and not necessarily connected with the one preceding, or the one following it, thus leaving any single volume accessible to whoever may desire it. It is announced that Mr William Westall purposes adding a Supplementary Volume, consisting of two parts, to correspond in every respect with this Work, containing the fruits of his labours at the wonderful Cave-temples of Elephanta and Carlee, near Bombay, as well as the scenery painted by him in that island itself, during his stay there: and judging from the specimens of Mr. Westall's talents contained in the Part now before us, we doubt not but that his contribution to the general series will be quite worthy of his name: while the whole will form such a complete collection of Indian Views, as every former resident in that magnificent country must be gratified to possess. Having said thus much on the nature and plan of the Work, to which we have been led by an impression of its excellence, and a desire to place our readers in possession of the minutest details, we shall say a few words only on the Views contained in No. II.; to understand the full beauty of which, however, the reader must see them for himself. No. I. is a View of the Green at Bombay, a large open and level space within the walls of the Fort, which was formerly the most busy spot perhaps in the Island, being then the great place of deposit for bales of cotton and other goods, and filled with Native merchants, brokers, markers, weighers, clerks, porters, &c. The whole of this is very faithfully delineated;-while the Church of Bombay, and the office of Messrs. Forbes and Co., shaded by the full foilage of overspreading trees, give a characteristic idea of the architecture of the place; and the groupes of natives, male and female, scattered over the fore-ground, add a useful and agreeable variety to the picture. No. II. presents a more sublime association of objects. It is a View of the Approach to a celebrated Ghaut, or pass in the mountains, ascending from the plains near the coast to the higher country of the interior. This is drawn by Mr. Westall, from a painting by Colonel Johnson of the Bombay Army, and is eminently beautiful. The wavy outline of the mountain-summits, the rich clothing of forest foliage, the descending clouds, and the pure tints of atmospheric light, are all most happily blended into a perfect whole. No. III. is another View at the summit of the same Ghaut, with peaked hills, a descending torrent, and a distant plain, from the same Artist, and not inferior in execution to its predecessor. No. IV. is the same class of Ghaut scenery, but differing from the two former, in the wild grandeur of its simple outline, the large masses of its mountains, and the complete [solitude that sits upon their summits. The reposing figures introduced, are in perfect harmony with the scene; as it might be inferred, from the silent aspect of all around, that no other human footsteps than their own, were within sight or hearing of their halting place. No. V. The Fort of Dowlutabad, or "City of Riches" of the Moguls, the ancient Deo Gurh of the Hindoos, is a fine specimen of the Hill Forts of India in general. The picture is agreeably relieved by a light towering minaret on the right, and a foliage-crowned ruin on the left, with groupes of Native warriors beneath the bastions and battlements of the fortress in the centre. No. VI. Among the very many Drawings we have seen of the Great Excavated Temple at Ellora, we remember none that appeared to us equal to this, which was drawn on the spot, for Lady Hood, by Captain Grindlay, in 1813. The dark shadows of the superincumbent rock are finely contrasted with the light sky against which its outline is traced: and the rich and laboured ornaments of the sculptured temple itself, are finely brought out from the surface. The letter-press descriptions appended to each of these Views, must add considerably to their interest, especially to persons not already familiar with the country and the scenes pourtrayed. With their aid, they cannot fail to be acceptable to all classes, and we shall rejoice to see the success, we think so well deserved, attend the pnblication to its close. MEMOIR OF THE LATE DR. HEBER, BISHOP OF CALCUTTA . THE very recent arrival of the late melancholy intelligence from India, would permit us only to notice, on the concluding page of our last number, the sudden and justly regretted deccase of Dr. Reginald Heber, the pious and learned Bishop of Calcutta. For such a full narrative as we would wish to record on our pages, of the virtues and accomplishments which attended his literary and theological career, we must wait till some friend, intimately conversant with the circumstances of his life, and the progress of his studies, shall have performed, what cannot be long neglected, the duty of a biographer. In the mean time, on a subject especially interesting to our Oriental readers, we proceed to offer the fullest account of the late Bishop's family, and of his life and writings, chiefly previous to his emigration, which our present opportunities for information have allowed us to collect. The late Bishop of Calcutta, required not, to render him truly respectable, the high ecclesiastical rank to which he attained, nor the consequence of the family from which he sprang. Nor, indeed, would these alone have been sufficient; for, as that distinguished ornament of the seventeeth century, Bishop Wilkins, has remarked, on concluding one of his curious philosophical speculations," whatever the world may think, yet it is not a vast estate, a noble birth, an eminent place, that can add any thing to our true real worth; but it must be the degrees of that which makes us men, that must make us better men, the endowments of our soul, and the enlargement of our reason.' We learn from Dr. Whitaker's History and Antiquities of Craven,' that the family of Heber occurs in very ancient documents, connected with that district of the County of York. Their rise into their present consequence as Lords of the Manor, and ecclesiastical patrons of Marton, is thus described: "Marton gave name to a race of mesne Lords, who flourished here, though under great changes of fortune, till the beginning of James the First's time. Upon the ruin of the Martons arose the family of Heber, or more properly, as it is vulgarly pronounced, Hayber; so called, undoubtedly, from a place in the neighbourhood named Hayber or Hayberg." To a description of the "Parish of Marton," Dr. Whitaker has annexed a genealogical table, tracing from the earliest record, down to the subject of this biographical attempt, the family of "Heber, of Marton and Stainton, in the County of York, and of Hodnet in the County of Salop." In this table we find, "Reginald Heber, A.M., of West Marton Hall," first "Rector of Chelsea," afterwards "Co-Rector of Malpas, in Cheshire." He had, in 1766, on the death of an elder brother, succeeded to his manorial rights and ecclesiastical patronage; and to the occupation of the family mansion. By some clerical contrivance," he held the Rectory of Hodnet," though" in his own patronage." and Of the Rev. Reginald Heber, his friend, the Rev. Ralph Churton, communicated some information to the 74th volume (p. 470) of the 'Gentleman's Magazine.' He was born at Marton in 1728, became Fellow of Brazen Nose College, Oxford. He does not appear to have written any thing except an Elegy among the tombs at Westminster Abbey," which first appeared in Pearch's Collection, and among the Oxford poems, " Verses to George III." on his accession. This "learned and amiable clergyman" died in his seventy-sixth year, at his Rectory of Malpas, January 10, 1804, soon after his return from Oxford, where he heard his second son speak in the theatre, his poem on 'Palestine.' To' the life and writings of that son, by his father's second wife," Mary, daughter of Cuthbert Allauson, D. D.", whom, according to Mr. Churton, he had married in July 1782, we must now confine ourselves. Reginald Heber was born in or about 1783. Of his earliest education, we have not been able to procure any information, yet the harvest has sufficiently discovered that the seed-time was not neglected; nor a parent's most serious duty unperformed. He was entered at All-Souls College, Oxford, probably, as early as other Academics. His poem on Palestine' was written there" at the age of nineteen;" and esteemed by Dr. Whitaker," one of the best college exercises ever written. From such blossoms," he adds, may reasonably be expected fruits of Paradise." 66 This Prize-Poem was recited by the Author, in the theatre, Oxford, at the commencement, June 15, 1803, and published in 1809, with the addition of a poetical "fragment entitled, the Passage of the Red Sea.' Palestine extends to more than four hundred lines, of unequal merit, as may easily be supposed. We shall select a few, which, if we are not mistaken, will bring no discredit on a juvenile poet's college exercise. Recollecting the dreary and desolate condition of Judea, the "widowed queen, forgotten Sion," is thus addressed, on the comparison of her former grandeur with her present debasement "Where now thy pomp, which kings with envy view'd? No suppliant nations in thy Temple wait; Folds his dank wing beneath the ivy shade." The poet next avails himself of a notion prevalent in the East, and adopted by some later Jews, probably from the Oriental Sages, that the protection of each country was specially 'committed to certain celestial authorities. He then proceeds to propitiate the holy angels to whom Palestine had been entrusted. "Ye Guardian Saints! ye warrior-sons of heav'n! O, wont of old your nightly watch to keep, A host of gods, on Sion's tow'ry steep! And mourn the captive land you lov'd so well; |