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and political franchises , for which aa entire exemption froWl every species of tax would be but a poor equivalent . . Qijanotherimport ^ at subject , Mr . Worsley corrects thejpais t ^ k ? 3 " of ^ me of im countrymen .
<* W * hmemd that the peoples complaints are loud ; nor let it Be i « iagioe 5 > tha L they areafraid offinding fault with the government , or suspicious that flieir neighbours should denounce them as . hostile to the ? sti | te . There is pofc a " gi * eater liberty of speech m England , either in private coi 3 ( ipahy or in public h&i * s& than' there is in France , relative to the proceedings ojf their risers . Without speaking < rf friendly parties ,, in which conversation every whsretaust be free , political subjects are
freely discussed in taverns and clubs ; and no one seems afraid to deelgrfe his disapprobation of public measures- If any thing personal transpire iii that ^ Qunjbry , as well as in this , a man would run the risk of being called to qrder , and in perhaps a similar way - , for it amounts to the same thing , whether a Ua&eas Corpus has no e ^ dstence , or whether it can be set asixje on every pretended emergency J * -
The liberty of the press is , however , as is well known , totally annihilated in Frarice , and persons suspected of disaffection , or any way obnoxious to the government , are f recently seized ^ nnknow : n to their friends , aiad put quietly out of tne reach of
discovery . This latter cii ; cuiristance must , one should think , have the effect , in spite of French vivacity , of shutting people ' s snoujths * Mr . W / s dfeserlpticm of Bonaparte's personal character is , I ^ e all the 4 escriptiQns which we hav ^ , seen , inconsis \ ent , but
perhaps the fault is aot in his biographers but in nature , who , if we are -not deceived , has made that extraordinary genius a coiopoun 4 o £ cantrarieties ^ -of greatness and weakness , of magnanimity and m&eanneiss . He acts alternately , according to our author , the hero and the spoiled child .
" He discovers extreme irritability , if opposed- in any favorite scheme ^ oraf his orders be not executed with grcat rapidity . He not infrequently uses the coup de pied for his argumentum ad hominem upon those who attend about his person , m& even , it has been said * mpon his confidential secretary 3 so that they who are near him are in a continual trepidation when any thing has ruffled his temper . At other times , as is usual with such characters , he is perfectly familiar and pleasant , and becomes their companion * **
The Conscription is felt as a grievous evil in the Low Countries , insomuch that the people , Mr . W . informs us , sigh for the return of their EmpeFor . They even opened their ears with rapture when a Continental alliance was first talked of , and regarded our flate ) Premier as the best friend to the interests of their country , because in him they hoped to find the deliverer © 1 Europe , T % djelivere ^ gf J&u-ape ! ! The y . did not kpow that maa s ^ well as we didL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/39/
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