PREFACE. IN our our first Preface we had occasion to congratulate our readers and ourselves on the partial success of our labours, as evinced in the dissolution of one of our political and religious opponents, the Analytical Review, premising, at the same time, that we were too well acquainted with the active principle of JACOBINISM, to expect, from the destruction of a powerful advocate, any long cessation of its efforts for the attainment of its end. It speedily rose, Phenix-like, out of its own ashes, under the denomination of the New Analytical Review, endued with the same malignity of spirit, the same activity of exertion, and the same inveteracy of hatred to existing establishments; thereby verifying our prediction, that "the spirit of Jacobinism, though vanquished in one shape, will rise up in another." But, notwithstanding its pompous boast, that it was no "subject of partial or temporary concern," it strutted and fretted its "hour upon the stage, and then was heard no more." Thanks to the meliorated spirit of the times, imputable to causes easily traced, after a short existence of only six months, this democratic viper, of whose venom we have exhibited some notable specimens, (and many more have we to exhibit,) expired. The improvement of the public mind, thus evinced in the discouragement experienced, in the present day, by publications of a pernicious tendency, contrasted with their very extensive circulation but a short time. since, affords the most satisfactory grounds of con solation |