the infidel and demoralizing doctrines of the times? The Enemy of mankind, whose element is sin, and whose good is evil, is alive to this strange and lamentable defect, and neglects no opportunity to sow his tares in a soil so superficially cultivated, and so exposed to his incursions. He well knows that the best refutation of error, and the best fortification against its attacks, is a sound knowledge and belief of the truth. Under its pure and discriminating light, all those sceptical and political arguments which tend to kindle an insurgent spirit, and to inflame the passions against God and man, lose their attractions; they find no predisposition favourable to their reception in minds embued with Christian principles, and disciplined by its holy precepts. Hence the subtlety of our spiritual adversary is as great as his malice, in his attempt to undermine the Madras System of Education, by either a systematic exclusion of, or by a frigid indifference to, all its principles, except such as are common to discordant sects and parties; and what these are, it will be difficult to ascertain in this age of innovation, when our numerous controversies about religion seem to be bringing, at length, religion itself into doubt and controversy.' pp. 24, 25.

After this passage, we are quite sensible that nothing, even in the Tract before us, can have a high relish. Yet there are some other notable matters, political as well as religious. Mr Lloyd really is an advocate of Ignorance, by its proper name. It is true he seeks to qualify this doctrine, (if we may so term it), by saying that knowledge is good under proper restrictions; and he even declaims at some length against those who would fetter the human mind, or keep it in darkness. But he plainly avows, that he deems the instruction communicated by the British and Foreign School, and the slight addition to it provided by Mr Brougham's bill, does not amount to a Christian ⚫ education;' and he adds, that if asked whether it is upon the just assumption of the fall of man, and the perilous cir'cumstances of the country, preferable to ignorance?'-he ⚫ does not scruple to answer in the negative.' (p. 28.) Wherewithal he breaks out into a rhapsody upon the dangers of knowledge. Knowledge is power.-It tends, by the authority and influence it confers, to equalize distinctions,' and so forth. Now we question whether, in any age, a more plain defence of ignorance was ever openly made.

We conclude with a specimen of Mr Lloyd's politics.

No sooner had the late Bills, in contravention of seditious meetings, which menaced the revolution of the country, passed so triumphantly through both Houses of Parliament, and we began to experience that tranquillity which arises from a full confidence in the wisdom and vigour of the Legislature, and to anticipate, with grateful exultation, the splendid period of the King's coronation, a period il

lustrated by a light reflected from a succession of brilliant victories, and from a glorious termination of a war, arduous and protracted beyond all former precedent, than the unfortunate arrival of the Queen rekindled that insurgent spirit which had nearly subsided, and she was made, at once, the unhappy medium through which every species of blasphemy and sedition have vented their rage against the constituted authorities of the realm. The constitutional head of the government has been, and is, insulted, reviled, caricatured. He is held forth, in our public prints and windows, under all the forms of ridicule and contempt that the most diabolical malice and ingenuity can devise. What will other nations think of English liberty, when they behold our King thus contumeliously treated by his own subjects? a Monarch so beloved in the private circle of his family on account of his amiable and relative qualities; so admired as the ornament of his court, no less by foreigners than by his own subjects, owing to his refined manners and splendid accomplishments;-a Monarch, moreover, who has, by a patriotic endeavour to concentrate the best talents of the country in its defence, and by the signal triumphs of his Regency, exalted and aggrandized the throne of his ancestors; and whose illustrious reign will, doubtless, descend to posterity, and shine in the page of history, when the factious and clamorous invectives, and all the foul conspiracies of his enemies shall, with their names, have long sunk into perfect oblivion!' pp. 44-46. That he is not quite an optimist, however, the following note may show-addressed, we presume from its opening, to the present Chancellor of the Exchequer.

What a public evil is the Lottery, with the gambling it produces! What nurseries of idleness and vice, leading to distress of families, and to a vast increase of poor-rates, are the numberless public-houses throughout the kingdom! How injurious to the interests of religion and morality, are our Sunday newspapers, and public coaches, and various houses of ill fame!' &c. &c. pp. 51, 52.

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