. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. g from a Frenchpaper, shows that they endeavoured to put a totallydifferent construction on the withdrawal of their troops, orrather to make light of it. Whilst the German papers,with much noise, make more troops march than all thePowers together possess, France, which needs not toaugment her forces, in order to display them in an imposingmanner, detaches a few thousand troops from the Army ofEngland, to cover her frontiers, which are menaced by theimprudent conduct of Austria. England is preparing fresh September II, lS
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. g from a Frenchpaper, shows that they endeavoured to put a totallydifferent construction on the withdrawal of their troops, orrather to make light of it. Whilst the German papers,with much noise, make more troops march than all thePowers together possess, France, which needs not toaugment her forces, in order to display them in an imposingmanner, detaches a few thousand troops from the Army ofEngland, to cover her frontiers, which are menaced by theimprudent conduct of Austria. England is preparing fresh September II, iva. iiS TJIE NINETEENTH CENTURY. (i«o5.) victories for us, and for herself frcsli motives for decryingher ambition. After all, those movements are not yet acertain sign of war, &c. The greatest loss the English Nation sustained this year,was the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle olTrafalgar, which was fought on the 2ist of October, 1805. On the 6th of November the glorious news of the Victorywas published, and there was but one opinion—that it was. IlKATII OK NELSON*. purchased too dearly. That evening London was butpartially illuminated. On the 7th these symptoms ofrejoicing were general, but throughout them there was asombre air—a mingling of the cypress with the laurel, andmen went about gloomily, thinking of the dead hero : atleast most did—some did not; even of those who mighthave worn a decent semblance of woe—old sailors—someof whom, according to the Jiiiics, behaved in a somewhat (i8o5.) VICTORY OF TRAFALGAR. 119 unseemly manner. A squadron of shattered tms weredrawn up in line of battle, opposite the Treasury, at anchor,with their Hghts aloft, all zvcll stoived zvith grog, flourishingtheir mutilated stumps, cheering all hands, and making thebest of their position, in collecting/;7,0t vioiiey. A General Thanksgiving for the Victory was proclaimedto take place on the 5th of December. The good Volun-teers were duly marched to church, and one memb
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