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At Edinburgh, Captain Wright of the Royal Artillery. At Aberdeen, John Orrok, Esq. of Orrok. At Edinburgh, Mrs. Annabella Stuart Douglas, relict of the late Rev. George Douglas, of Tain, in the county of Ross. ABROAD. At St. Petersburgh, M. Steibelt, the celebrated composer. At Barrackpore, East Indies, Capt. J. Seppings, of the 2 th regiment of Native Infantry. THE LONDON MAGAZINE. DECEMBER, 1823. CONTENTS. ..... 634 The Lion's head. ADDITIONS to LORD ORFORD'S ANSWER of the OPIUM EATER to ROYAL and NOBLE AUTHORS. No. VII. Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel 605 569 Sonnet. Scene from the Medea of Euripides .. 611 574 Amicus REDIVIVUS. By ELIA.... 613 Notice of Rhodes' Peak Scenery.. 616 A MODERN GREEK ODE on the DEATH of Marco Bozzari, the Don SAAVEDRA : a Dramatic Story 617 Suliote Chief : with a Translation, THE CURSE of COLDENGAME: a 573 621 ON MODERN FRENCH POETRY, Ode to his Mistress's Lips. 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Petrocchi-Piétro Metastasio 652 New Musical Publications.... 654 595 View OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Agri. 660 Serenade, from an unpublished Poem 596 Retrospect of the Commerce of Great RECENT POETICAL PLAGIARISMS Britain for the last Six Months.... 669 AND IMITATIONS..... 597 Literary Intelligence, and List of Books Song, 'Twas not when carly flowers published 675 were springing..... 604 Ecclesiastical Preferments Sonnet. By J. CONDER...... 605 | Births, Marriages, and Deaths ...675, 676 675 LONDON: THE LION'S HEAD. 5 To the Editor of the London Magazine. Westmoreland, November 4. - My dear Sir,—This morning I received your parcel, containing amongst other inclosures, the two last numbers of your journal. In the first of these is printed a little paper of mine on Mr. Malthus ; and in the second I observe a letter from Mr. Hazlitt—alleging two passages from the 403rd and 421st pages of his “ Political Essays as substantially anticipating all that I had said. I believe that he has anticipated me: in the passage relating to the geometric and arithmetic ratios, it is clear that he has: in the other passage, which objects to Mr. Malthus's use of the term perfection, that he has represented it under contradictory predicates, it is not equally clear; for I do not find my own meaning so rigorously expressed as to exclude another* What other interpretation ? An interpretation which makes Mr. Hazlitt's argument coincide with one frequently urged against Mr. Malthus-viz. “ that in fact he himself relies practically upon moral restraint as one great check to Population, though denying, that any great revolution in the moral nature of man is practicable.” But so long as Mr. Malthus means, by a great revolution, a revolution in the sense which he imputes to Mr. Godwin—to Condorcet, &c. viz. a revolution amounting to absolute perfection, so long there is no logical error in all this : Mr. Malthus may consistently rely upon moral restraint for getting rid, suppose, of 90 cases out of every 100 which at present tend to produce an excessive population, and yet maintain that even this tenth of the former excess would be sufficient, at a certain stage of population, to reproduce famines, &c. i. e. to reproduce as much misery and vice as had been got rid of. Here there is an absolute increase of moral restraint, but still insufficient for the purpose of preventing misery, &c. For, as soon as the maximum of population is attained, even one single birth in excess (i. e. which does more than replace the existing numbers)—à fortiori, then, 1-10:h of the present excess, (though implying that the other 9-10ths had been got rid of by moral restraint) would yet be sufficient to prevent the attainment of a state of perfection. And, if Mr. Malthus had so shaped his argument, whether wrong or right-he would not have offended in point of logic: his logical error lies in supposing a state of perfection already existing and yet as brought to nothing by this excess of births : whereas it is clear that such an excess may operate to prevent, but cannot operate to destroy a state of perfection ; because in such a state no excess could ever arise ; for, though an excess may co-exist with a vast increase of moral restraint, it cannot co-exist with entire and perfect moral restraint; and nothing less than that is involved in the term “ perfection." A perfect state, which allows the possibility of the excess here spoken of, is already an imperfect state. Now, if Mr. Hazlitt says that this is exactly what he means, I answer that I believe it is ; because I can in no other way explain his sixth sentence from the words“ but it is shifting the question " to the end of that sentence. Yet again the seventh sentence (the last) is so expressed as to be unintelligible to me. And all that precedes the sixth sentence, though very intelligible, yet seems the precise objection which I have stated above, and which I think untenable. Nay, it is still less tenable in Mr. Hazlitt's way of putting it than as usually put : for to represent Mr. Malthus as saying that, “ if reason should ever get the mastery over all our actions, we shall then be governed entirely by our physical appetites” (which are Mr. Hazlitt's words), would be objected to even by an opponent of Mr. Malthus : why “ entirely?" why more than we are at present? The utmost amount of the objection is this :—That, relying so much upon moral restraint practically, Mr. Malthus was bound to have allowed it more weight speculatively, but it is unreasonable to say that in his ideal case of perfection Mr. Malthus has allowed no weight at all to moral restraint : even he, who supposes an , increased force to be inconsistent with Mr. Malthus's theory, has no reason to insist upon his meaning a diminished force. interpretation even now when I know what to look far; and, without knowing what to look for, I should certainly not have found it: on the whole however I am disposed to think that Mr. Hazlitt's meaning is the same as my own. So much for the matter of Mr. Hazlitt's communication : as to the manner, I am sorry that it is liable to a construction which perhaps was not intended. Mr. Hazlitt says " I do not wish to bring any charge of plagiarism in this case ;" words which are better fitted to express his own forbearance, than to exonerate me from the dishonour of such an act. But I am unwilling to suppose that Mr. Hazlitt has designedly given this negative form to his words. He says also—" as I have been a good deal abused for my scepticism on that subject, I do not feel quite disposed that any one else should run away with the credit of it." Here again I cannot allow myself to think that Mr. Hazlitt meant deliberately to bring me before the reader's mind under the odious image of a person who was “ running away” with the credit of another. As to “ credit,” Mr. Hazlitt must permit me to smile when I read that word used in that sense : I can assure him that not any abstract consideration of credit, but the abstract idea of a creditor (often putting on a concrete shape, and sometimes the odious concrete of a dun) has for some time past been the animating principle of my labours. Credit therefore, except in the sense of twelve months' credit where now alas ! I have only six, is no object of my search: in fact I abhor it: for to be a “noted” man is the next bad thing to being a “protested" man. Seriously however I sent you this as the first of four notes which I had written on the logical blunders of Mr. Malthus, (the other three being taken not from his Essay on Population, but from works more expressly within the field of Political Economy): not having met with it elsewhere, I supposed it my own and sent it to complete the series : but the very first sentence, which parodies the words of Chancellor Oxenstiern-(" Go and see—how little logic is required,” &c.), sufficiently shows that, so far from arrogating any great merit to myself for this discovery, I thought it next to miraculous that it should have escaped any previous reviewer of Mr. Malthus.“I must doubt, by the way, whether Mr. Hazlitt has been “ a good deal abused” for these specific arguments against Mr. Malthus; and my reason for doubting is this: about ten or twelve years ago, happening to be on a visit to Mr. Southey, I remember to have met with a work of Mr. Hazlitt's on this subject-not that which he quotes, but another (Reply to Malthus) which he refers to as containing the same opinions (either totidem verbis, or in substance). In Mr. Southey's library, and in competition with Mr. Southey's conversation, a man may be pardoned for not studying any one book exclusively: consequently, though I read a good deal of Mr. Hazlitt's “ Reply,” I read it cursorily: but, in all that I did read, I remember that the arguments were very different from those which he now alleges; indeed it must be evident that the two logical objections in question are by no means fitted to fill an octavo volume. My inference therefore is that any “ abuse,” which Mr. Hazlitt may have met with, must have been directed to something else in his Reply; and in fact it has happened to myself on several occasions to hear this book of Mr. Hazlitt's treated as unworthy of his talents; but never on account of the two arguments which he now claims. I would not be supposed, in saying this, to insinuate any doubt that these arguments are really to be found in the Reply; but simply to suggest that they do not come forward prominently or constitute the main argument of that book: and consequently, instead of being opposed, have been overlooked by those who have opposed him as much as they were by myself. Finally, Mr. Hazlitt calls the coincidence of my objections with his own “ striking :” and thus (though unintentionally I dare say) throws the read, er's attention upon it as a very surprising case. Now in this there is a misconception which, apart from any personal question between Mr. Hazlitt and myself, is worth a few words on its own account for the sake of placing it in a proper light. I affirm then that, considering its nature, the coin, cidence is not a striking one, if hy " striking” be meant surprising: and I affirm also that it would not have been the more striking if, instead of two, |