d not be
made a pretext by sensuality and wickedness, for using them to excess,
by which some of our greatest blessings are converted into curses; as
whatever tempts or occasions us to overstep the bounds of nature and of
temperance, can never be defended by the canons of the church.

The Roman prelate concludes his rational and truly pious book, written
in Latin, not unworthy of the Augustan age, with the following words,
which ought to be written in letters of gold, in some conspicuous part
of every eating-room in Europe:

"The infidel and voluptuary may ridicule the idea of the Almighty
Creator of the universe, being pleased, or displeased, with a man for
having a full or an empty stomach; but whatever tends directly or
remotely, to subdue rebellious passions, and subject a creature like man
to the restraints of reason and religion, cannot fail being a matter of
the highest importance to our well-doing, and our everlasting destiny
hereafter."

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MONUMENT IN HONOUR
OF THE
LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD.

ERECTED IN RUSSELL SQUARE, BY R. WESTMACOTT, ASSOCIATE
OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

This monument consists principally of a colossal statue of the late Duke
of Bedford, habited in his parliamentary robes. At the feet of his
statue, or rather around the fragment of rock on which it stands, are
"the seasons personified by genii, or children in playful attitudes."

"This group surmounts a pedestal composed of granite; the sides of which
are embellished by _bassi-relievi_ of pastoral subjects. On the angles
are bulls heads; the intermediate friezes being occupied by
_bassi-relievi_ of groups of cattle. The whole composition is about
twenty-five feet in height."

The latter part of this general description, which we have marked as
quotation, is taken from Mr. Westmacott's own modest account of his
work, in the 'Academic Annals.'

The whole forms an imposing, and, in some degree, magnificent pile of
sculpture, and seems the worthy ornament of a great metropolis; yet it
has such defects as inform us that it has not fallen from Heaven. The
statue is doubtless meant to be stable, manly, easy, and dignified; yet
it is not perfectly these, though perhaps no other words could be so
nearly used with propriety in describing its first bold impression on
the mind of the beholder, as he approaches from Bloomsbury square along
Bedford-place.

A noble and sedate simplicity characterizes the general