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Review.-Don Carlos.

21 millions of people, (Established Church and other sects,) pays more than one half!

Having thus laid the basis of his plan, the author goes into the detail. We cannot follow him further than to say that he proposes that the church lands should be sold for the national benefit, each incumbent, however, to receive for life his present income, the future clergy of all sects to be paid out of the national fund, and their salaries to be in proportion to the number of hearers in their congregations. He reckons the amount of church property available for the use of the state at 177,450,000l. The mode of the new provision for the clergy is by a per centage on the rent of lands and houses, which is estimated at 1s. in the pound, of which two-thirds would be raised from lands and one-third from houses.

A curious Table is exhibited, p. 76, of Intolerant and Tolerant nations. The Intolerant nations, in which men are excluded from civil offices and emoluments on account of religious 'opinions, are Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and Norway and England; but then the grievance is nothing in any of these countries, except England, as there are no sects in them: the Tolerant nations, in which no man is excluded from office, civil or military, on account of his sect or religion, are United States, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Netherlands, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Hanover, Saxony.

ART. II.-Don Carlos; or, Persecution. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. By Lord John Russell. Second Edition. 8vo. pp. 136. Longman and Co. 1822.

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but the peculiar character of this tragedy may justify us in laying an extract from it before our readers.

Don Carlos was the son of Philip II. of Spain, the gloomy bigot who is memorable in the English annals for having been the husband of our Queen Mary, and for having sent out the

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Invincible Armada," to reduce these islands to the yoke of Popery. The son disappeared, and his body lies in the royal tomb of the Escurial, headless. Philip has borne the imputation

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of his murder, and not without reason. The rumour has been that the vindictive father employed the Inquisition to take off his son secretly; incited to the atrocity by the discovery of his leaning towards heretics, and by jealousy of the Queen, Elizabeth of France, for whom Don Carlos entertained strong affection, previously to her becoming his stepmother. This story is the basis of Lord John Russell's tragedy. The noble author has, however, made little more use of it than as a vehicle of some excellent sentiments in favour of religious toleration. The following Dialogue states these, and from it the reader will form his own opinion of the poetical merit of the Tragedy.

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"CARLOS.

"I do remember well-too well, alas, My age but scarce fourteen, your royal self

Absent in Flanders, I was bid preside At the great Act of Faith to be per

formed

In fair Valladolid: at that green age Quite new to life, nor yet aware of death,

The solemn pomp amused my careless mind.

But when the dismal tragedy began, How were my feelings changed and clouded! First

Came there a skeleton, upon its head A cap with painted flames; this thing had been

A lady who throughout her life had borne

A name unsullied; twenty years had past

Since her remains had rested in the ground,

And now by sentence of the Holy Office,

The dull disgusting mass of whitened bone

That once had been her garment, was

dug up

To clear some flaw in her theology: Then came a learned priest, his name

Cazalla;

With countenance serene, and calm devotion,

He walked to death, and as he passed

me by,

With earnest manner he entreated me For his poor sister's offspring; she condemned

To prison for her life, and loss of

goods,

While twelve unhappy children were

bereft

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