No. III.

REFERENCES TO PUBLISHED PIECES.*

1. On the Utility of Reviews.-East Lothian Magazine.

2. The Country Schoolmaster. A Sketch.-Ibid. 3. On the Distinction between Benevolence, Real and Sentimental.-Ibid.

4. Review of Wilson's Poems, chiefly Scottish.Constable's Magazine.

5. Review of Kirke White's Remains, Vol. III.Christian Monitor.

6. Translations from Chrysostom.-Ibid.

7. Review of the Fifth Report of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline.-Ibid.

8. Review of Mrs Judson's Missionary Journal. -Ibid.

9. Review of Campbell on Modern Education.-Ibid.

10. Review of Sheppard's Devotional Thoughts. -Ibid. Incorrectly printed.

* See p. 146, ante.

11. Thoughts on the State of English Literature. -Edinburgh Star. Incorrectly printed. 12. On Catholic Emancipation.-Ibid.

13. On the Emancipation of the Greeks.-Ibid. 14. On the Freedom of the Press.-Ibid.

15. Translations from Classical Authors.-Williams' Views in Greece.

16. On the Moral Destinies of Society.-Edinburgh Star.

17. On the Political Progress of Society.—Ibid. 18. Review of Chalmers' St John's Church Sermons.-Christian Monitor. Incorrect.

19. The Old Year and the New.-Edinburgh Star. Incorrect.

20. Review of Dunallan.-Christian Monitor.. 21. On the Cause of the Greeks.-Edinburgh Star.

22. Review of Thomas à Kempis and Gambold.— Christian Monitor.

23. Prolusion from Plato.-Ibid.

24. Review of Witherspoon, Romaine, Alleine, and Adam.-Ibid.

25. Review of Irving's Gilpin.-Ibid.

26. Review of Serle's Christian Remembrancer.Ibid.

27. Review of Beilby on Education.-Edinburgh Star.

28. Review of Tales of the Crusaders.-Ibid.

29. Prospectus of a Society for the Institution of Itinerating Libraries.

30. Time.-Edinburgh Star.

31. Prize Essay on the Character of the Athenians.-Edinburgh, 1828.

32. Sermon on the Death of George IV.-Olive Branch.

33. Memoir of the Rev. John Brown.-Appended to Glasgow Editions of Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible and Dictionary.

34. Tract entitled Him with whom we have to do.'-Published by the Falkirk Religious Tract Society.

35. Beauties of Jeremy Taylor; with an Introductory Essay.-Glasgow, 1835.

36. Lecture on Church Establishments.-Edinburgh, 1835.

37. Notes to Fullarton's Edition of Brown's SelfInterpreting Bible.-Glasgow, 1835-6.

No. IV.

EXTRACTS FROM PAPERS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH STAR.

THE reader will be gratified by the insertion of a few extracts from some of Mr Patterson's miscellaneous papers of a political cast, noticed at page 146, ante.

The following is from an essay "On the Liberty of the Press," which appeared in the columns of the Edinburgh Star newspaper of June 1, 1824:

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"The phrase, the Liberty of the Press, sounds like a watchword to the hearts of Britons. ciations the brightest and tenderest gather around the idea of that guardian of the rights of nations; and the thought of exploits which it has already achieved mingles with and justifies the hope that sublime triumphs are yet in reserve for it. Yet with all the enthusiastic feeling and all the vivid declamation to which this subject has given birth, it is wonderful to perceive how vague and undefined the ideas of most men are in reference to the nature

and extent of meaning belonging to these words. Some interpret them of a total absence of restriction, and others of a system of limited control upon the operations of the press. And those who hold the latter view are again divided among themselves with regard to the extent of the restrictive power to be confided to the magistrate: one party allowing him a jurisdiction more or less extended over works both of speculative opinion and practical application; while another confines his prerogative to cases in which private or social welfare is directly assailed.

"At present we shall speak to the first of these opinions, which, we confess, though it has been advocated with much eloquence and enthusiasm, appears to us utterly untenable. And, in order to disprove it, we shall state two very obvious cases in which the want of some control or other over the press would be attended with the most fatal consequences. The first of these is the case of seditious and insurrectionary publications. Government, it is admitted on all hands, has a general right to repel and to punish, by legal inflictions, any violent attack made on its existence or well-being. Now, what is there except that delusive feeling of imaginative sanctity that belongs to the press which should exempt it from the power of this general prerogative? Is its attack less dangerous than that of the armed hand? or must no aggression be repelled which is made with a consecrated weapon?