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Spain. Maria Isabella Frances, The Queen...
there is nothing- but inisgovevhment , oppression and distraction ; patriots are thrown into dungeons or dragged to the block , the public credit is at the loivest ebb , the roads are intercepted by banditti , and trade is at a stand . The only vigorous institution is the Inquisition , and the onlv
* 9 % / flourishing calling is monkery . This land , so gifted by nature ^ exhibits a striking example of legitimacy ^ " The right divine to govern wrong . " Every thing- portends a change , and any change will be an improvement .
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134 Intelligtn & t ^ F & reipfis ^ North and South America .
United States Op Aiwerica. Mr. Monroe.—J...
United States op Aiwerica . Mr . Monroe . —James Monroe , the President of the United States , is a native of Virginia : he Was born in 1759 ; and in I 7 ? 6 , though so young-, he took part with
his countrymen in their resistance to the parent State . At the battle of Trenton , December 26 , 1776 , his shoulder-bone tvas broken by a musket-ball , and he was so dangerously wounded that his life was despaired of . His bravery and g * ood conduct caused General Washington to
promote him to a captaincy ; he was afterwards appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General Lord Sterling , and subsequently a colonel of a regiment . In 1782 , he was elected to the legislature of Virginia ; in 1783 , we find him a member of the old Congress . In 1787 , he was again elected to the
legislature of Viroinia . In 1788 $ kw ^ a member of the Virginia Convention , which ratified the present constitution of the United States In 1790 , he was elected a senator of the United States . He continued in ihe Hinted States' senate until 1794 , when he was selected by President Washing-ton to represent the United States as Minister to the French Republic . On his return from France he was elected Governor of his native State , and in 1799 concluded the constitutional term for
holding thai office . In 1802 , Mr . Monroe was sent , by President Jefferson , to France , to neg-otiate the purchase of Louisiana , which was accomplished entirely to the satisfaction of the nation . Having * succeeded in his negotiations at Paris , in 1803 he was appointed Minister to London , and in 1805 sent on a special mission to Madrid . On
his return from Europe he was again elected to the legislature of Virginia $ and the same year , 1810 , elected the Governor of that State . Tn 1811 , he was appointed Secretary of State ; and oti the capture of Washing-ton , in 1814 , he was bold and patriotic enough to accept the appointment ( temporarily ) of Secretary of War .
l * he following letter from the Ex-Preeident Jkfierhon to Charles Pinckney , t « q ., of South Carolina , an old fr-rentt ^ has recently appeared in the Anftarioaii papers .
United States Op Aiwerica. Mr. Monroe.—J...
Our readers % vill probably think with us , that it is not without interest as descriptive of that retirement of the spirit from worldly warfare , which is sq natural and , let us add , so graceful , after an active , honourable and important life . To taJke the hint from gentle , but ceaseless decay ,
and , gathering- 11 p the faculties , to await with serenity the approaching * close of existence , is also- particularly decorous in those who have performed conspicuous parts in the government of mankind . Such eminent individuals should never
continue to act as the Archbishop of Gra * nada wrote , that is , until every thingsmells of the apoplexy . An unwillingness to recede from busy life in due tittle has been the grave of many a meridian fame , whichj as Mr . Jefferson says , should have taken shelter " tinder the witrgs <* f a generation it had laboured to provide for . " We have before had occasion to allude to
this aged statesman as one who essentially served the United States , by catching the proper politics fVr their growth and pv # sperity , during the ef ^ vulsioirs of Etirdpe . - ~ - ( Chester Gmrdi & n . J " Mdfyicelld , Bept & nbW ) 1818 , " Deaii Sir ,- —Yoevs pi August has been duly received , with the patotpklet it
covered , in defenfce of Colonel Moaroe ^ s nomination to the Presidency , written by yourself . Colonel Monroe happened to be at his seat adjoining * me , and to dine with me the day thmt I received it , I thought I fcottld not fnaSke a better Us * *> f it than fey putting it into his handfe , awd letting him kirow his tfntefcds . You say nothing- in your letter of y ^ ur owti fae & ltn , which cannot hut be interesting to a friend . 1 hope it continues * h < m . As for myself , I weaken wry ^ ewsifoly ^ yet with such a continuance of gi > od health & s tftakoit me fear I shall wear ^ ut v ^ i y t *^ % o « sl y ^ wfcich is ? not what tiife would wish . I Sefc tfo
cotnfort in dut-livi'ttg- our fi-itend ^ and remaimng a itierfc moiiunient of € he titties which aa » e p *& t > 1 - \ fithdraw inysiellf as unucii ae (> os » ible frotn afl polilic * , and gladly shelter myself unfler tiife wingis of the gen « ra « kni Wllicti w « have laboured faithfully to ftrovidfe tthefrd- ftM ' . ^ - ^ Yo « rs truly , and With continued fi ^ A ^ sbip , . *« THOMAS JfifTE & SON "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 22, 1819, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_22021819/page/66/
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