LESSON CIV.

se di'tion, the raising of commo

tion in a state.

Im'pu tā'tion, act of charging.

Ŏb'sti nate, stubborn; not easily subdued.

ex chèq'uer, the treasury.

vŏl'un ta ri ly, freely; spontaneously.

e măn'çi pā'tion, deliverance; freedom.

fin'an çiēr', one who administers the public revenue. hăz'ard oŭs, dangerous; risky.

REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT.

Sir, a charge is brought against gentlemen sitting in this House of giving birth to sedition in America. Several have spoken their sentiments with freedom against this unhappy act,-and that freedom has become their crime. Sorry I am to hear the liberty of speech in this House imputed as a crime. But the imputation shall not discourage me.

The gentleman tells us America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.

I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute-book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. I would not debate a particular point of law with the gentleman. I know his abilities. But, for the defense of liberty, upon a general principle, upon a constitutional principle, it is a ground on which I stand firm,-on which I dare meet any man.

The gentleman boasts of his bounties to Amer

ica. Are not those bounties intended finally for the benefit of this Kingdom? If they are not, he has misapplied the national treasures. He asks, "When were the Colonies emancipated?" I desire to know when they were made slaves? But I dwell not upon words.

I will be bold to affirm that the profits of Great Britain from the trade of the Colonies, through all its branches, are two millions a year. This is the fund that carried you triumphantly through the last war. This is the price America pays for her protection. And shall a miserable financier come, with a boast that he can fetch a pepper-corn into the Exchequer, by the loss of millions to the Nation?

A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, the force of this country can crush America to atoms. I know the valor of your troops; I know the skill of your officers.

But on this ground,-on the Stamp Act, when so many here will think it a crying injustice,-I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, even your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the State, and pull down the Constitution with her. Is this your boasted peace ? To sheathe the sword, not in its scabbard, but in the bowels of your countrymen?

Will you quarrel with yourselves, now the whole house of Bourbon is united against you? While France disturbs your fisheries in Newfoundland, embarrasses your slave-trade to Africa, and withholds from your subjects in Canada their prop

erty stipulated by treaty? while the ransom for the Manillas is denied by Spain?

The Americans have been wronged. They have been driven to madness by injustice.

Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side! I will undertake for America that she will follow the example.

"Be to her faults a little blind;

Be to her virtues very kind."

Let the Stamp Act be repealed; and let the reason for the repeal- because the Act was founded on an erroneous principle-be assigned. Let it be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately.

EARL OF CHATHAM (WILLIAM PITT).

Give synonyms of sentiments, imputed, rebellion, principle, debate, dare, bounties, misapplied, affirm, sheathe, ransom, triumphant, stipulated, scabbard, and prudence.

LESSON CV.

ba salt', a black or bluish rock, formed of matter thrown out of a volcano.

eauşe'way, a raised way, or road.

de tăched', separated.

in sẽrt'ed, set in; fixed.

de elin'ing, sloping downward. pěn'ta gon, a figure having five

corners.

Is'o lāt ed, disconnected; standing alone.

eon spĭe'u oŭs, easily seen. hèx’a gon, six-cornered figure.

THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY.

The Giant's Causeway, probably the most extensive and curious assemblage of basaltic columns in the world, is in the county of Antrim, on the

northern coast of Ireland, about ten miles from the town of Coleraine. It derives its name from a popular tradition that it was erected by giants, as the commencement of a causeway across the ocean to Scotland.

This very interesting natural curiosity forms part of a large promontory, of which Bengore Head, about a mile distant, is the most northern point. The access to it by land is down a path on the western side of a verdant headland leading to two detached lofty masses of rock, called the Stookans, whence the first view of this stupendous work of Nature is obtained. This view is one of the most magnificent imaginable, embracing an immense bay, broken with capes and headlands, rising abruptly to the height of four hundred feet above the level of the sea, and consisting of lofty colonnades of the most symmetrically formed basaltic pillars, inserted in the cliffs, like artificial supporters, standing in groups like gigantic honeycombs, or scattered in pleasing disorder, like the ruins of a city of temples and palaces.

The Causeway extends, in a northerly direction, from the promontory into the sea, and consists of three unequal parts. The Little or Western Causeway is three hundred and eighty-six feet long and sixteen feet high. The Middle section, which is the shortest, contains a magnificent group of lofty pillars called the "Honeycomb." Beyond this is the Grand Causeway, which is seven hundred and six feet long, as it is visible at low water, by one hundred and nine wide in the middle. It contains an irregular arrangement of many thousands of columns of basalt. How far it extends beyond is uncertain; but, from its declining appearance, as