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TRAVELS IN EUROPE.aproad, sufficiently shows what they would have been capable ofat hoIlle ,upder a wise 1'egime.\tVhen we reduce the vast apparent mass of business, of forms, .oftnodes,of moral evil diffused ovcr the world, to their simple principlés,these lie in a nut-shell.Inadequacy of system depres'ses France:' ac-'cumulation ofabuses, Spain: fanaticism, Morocco; while Portugal seemsto inherit in heir loom, imbecility, and uncongenial exterior relations.l\fendicancy is prevalent bere, and indeed practised without any senseof shame. 'Vhere distress has not.poor-laws'Îllstituted, judiciously,torecul" to, emigration, that enfeebler of a nation, must take place, andnlendicity become a fashion at home, the hopelessness reigning thereinhaving stocked the western ,world with inhabitants from this peninsula.England is guarded against the drain of emigration*by her wise institutions;a wisdom the less noticeable,as its operation is complete. ThepOOl" are enabled to struggle, to hope, andfinally to re-establish them.selves in pursuits of industry.The conventual establishment in .thecoulltries of the Romish religion does nutch, bu~ itcannot preV'ent th~tobliteration of shame, that humiliation ofhuman nature which must'prevail when man condescends to beg.'l'he prolongation ofexistence'is a right in man as inherent to daim of his brethren, as his obligationto labour is due to society.The north wind prevails clown the coast of Portugal during summer.Investigation ever confirms one great trutll, that Natl1re is as uniformin her principles as she is inexhaustible in her modes. llarefaction and·condensation are the two balancing principles which sway our elasticclement destinc,J never to beat l'est. One of the packets on this station,• Parlldoxical as it May seem, it is demonstrable that indolence is a nurse, ofemigration.