except in those works, which are founded entirely on false principles. The Play of the Tempest is an instance, whose plot depends wholly on beings, which are not in nature. In such, fancy may be allowed a scope extremely large, yet not free from restrictions. For fiction requires connection, order and consistence. There may be flights beyond the license which even fiction allows. Though Prospero caused a tempest, (which no man can do) yet we are not to suppose, he could cause any thing more prodigious in a tempest, than what appears in a natural commotion of the elements. Therefore when Miranda exclaims

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out-

She forms an image which never actually existed, and is therefore absurd.

In Hamlet, there is a striking instance of bombast, yet so introduced as to become not only pardonable, but praiseworthy. Laertes, full of grief and indignation, leaps into the grave of his Sister, pronouncing curses on the head of him, who occasioned her distraction and death. He bids them pile the earth upon them both, till they have made a mountain to "o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head of blue Olympus." Hamlet, who cannot bear to have his affection for Ophelia questioned, and is at the same time in a state of mind ready to fire at the bare appearance of injury, follows Laertes into the grave, and exclaims hotly and indignantly,

I loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love

Make up my sum. What wil't thou do for her!
Come shew me what thoul't do-

- Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?

Woo't

Woo't drink up eisel ? eat a crocodile ?
I'll do't-dost thou come hither but to whine?
To outface me with leaping in her grave?
Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
And if you prate of mountains, let e'm throw
Millions of acres on us, till our ground
Singing his pate against the burning zone
Make Ossa like a wart!

Shakespeare was sensible of this bravado, and makes Hamlet immediately add

I'll rant as well as thou.

nay, an thoul't mouth

Dryden is a striking instance, how suddenly the grand may be lost in the tumid, and the magnificent evaporate in emptiness. In "All for Love," Ventidius is lamenting the fallen greatness of his friend Antony.

But you, e're love misled your wandering eyes,
Were sure the chief and best of human race,
Formed in the very pride and boast of nature,
So perfect, that the Gods who formed you, wondered.
At their own skill, and cried, a lucky hit
Hath mended our design.

The latter part of this passage, instead of being the acme of loftiness, as it was intended, is in fact the very essence of impiety and absurdity, Over these slips and failures of genius, the critic is constrained to weep, and relaxing the severity of censure, meditates with tenderness on the inconstancy of all human nature.

SECTION

SECTION II.

STATISTICAL REMARKS ON CANADA.

In Upper Canada the soil is generally rich and fertile, which enables the industrious Agriculturist very soon to raise a sufficiency of grain, potatoes, vegetables, and animal foods, milk, butter, and cheese, for the support of his family, with a surplus after a couple of years, augmenting yearly for the purchase of cloathing, and other necessaries, and to enable him to extend his improvements, and to erect grist and saw-mills-the latter for preparing timber for domestic use and for exportation. Peach and apple orchards are generally planted as soon as possible. The first produces brandy, the latter cider, sufficient for the consumption of the family in a few years, while the refuse grain and potatoes feed abundance of hogs and poultry, the former however finding sufficient food in the woods for a considerable part of the year.

The innumerable interstices still to be filled up in these vast territories yet thinly inhabited, where each farm is surrounded by extensive tracts: of unoccupied Crown Lands, offer great encouragement to new settlers, whe would not encounter the difficulties which those who have preceded them experienced. They would receive assistance from the neighbourhood as well as instruction, as to the best mode of preparing and cultivating their lands. They would enjoy the advantages and protection of a civil government, long since established, and innumerable facilities, which do not attach to the first settlers in a wild country.

Here

Here therefore is an exhaustible resource for the beneficial employment of the redundant population of the mother country, particularly for the agricultural emigrants. The resources of the parent State would be augmented by the consumption of British Manufactures, and by the exportation of the various productions of the soil in Timber, Corn, Hemp, Flax, Flax Seed, Potashes, and other valuable articles of commerce, rendering the labour of these emigrants as beneficial to the parent State as if they remained in their native country.

The population of Lower Canada amounts to 200,000, and that of Upper Canada to 100,000, making a total of 300,000 persons.

In 1808 the quantity of land cultivated amounted to three millions eight hundred thousand acres, which is some what more on an average than 10 acres for each inhabitant. In this extensive territory, there cannot be less than one hundred millions of acres uncultivated. It is presumed that a considerable part of the uncultivated land belongs to the Crown.

The number of vessels belonging to the Colony, exclusive of the small craft employed in the fisheries and inland trade, amounted in the year 1812, according to the annual printed returns of that province, to 661, containing 143,893 tons, and navigated by 6,610 seamen.

Canada abounds in timber, which is used in buildings. in ship-building, and for various purposes. The inhabi tants raise cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, grain, vegetables, &c. These may be estimated, for the consumption, on a medium of years, at 20. a head on the population, making the sum of six millions sterling, to which is to be added the value of the Exports, 1,302,827£. making a

total

total of 7,302,827£. In the Exports are included those to the the United States, estimated at 70,000£.

The value of the Imports are estimated at 1,180,000L. In this sum those are included from the United States by way of St. John's, estimated at 180,000l.

There are very extensive fortifications at Quebec, requiring more than 5000 troops in garrison, barracks for upwards of 2000 men, artillery, ordnance, government houses, and forts up in the river St. Lawrence: the whole of the public property may be fairly estimated at one million sterling.

Good arable land is sold at 51. per acre, indifferent land at four and five dollars; wood land two dollars; the average may be taken at 31. be taken at 31. Uncultivated land, in the back townships of Canada, may be bought at the Sheriff's sales for sixpence an acre. The estimated value of the cultivated lands is 11,400,000l. and of the uncultivated, two millions and a half, Canada, as we have seen, contains 300,000 inhabitants. Of these 30,000 may be said to reside in towns, and the remaining 270,000 to follow the occupation of farmers. As it As it appears that the farms are numerously settled from the people inclining much to domiciliary habits, we may fairly suppose an average of ten persons on a farm the number of farms being 27,000, which, estimated one with another at 150l. each, would amount to 4,050,000l. On a superficial view, this number may appear to be great, but it would seem not to be exaggerated, when it is recollected that they line the shores of the river St. Lawrence for more than 400 miles, and have the appearance of an immense town.

It is presumed that there are in Canada 8000 houses and stores contained in the towns of Quebec, Montreal,

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