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Not only in Spain , but in other quarteffs , the work of revolution is going forward * At Algiers , they have murdered their Pey and set up another . Suah work fc frequejjj : with men who are guided more 'by their passions than their reason , a <; d have no idea of
forming a government on a fixed and steady principle . At Constantinople , ^ a similar revolution has taken place . The Janis * saries fomented it , and have overthrown the plans of the late Vizier , "who seems to have been actuated by good views for his country . It was his intention to
introduce the " European tactics , by which alone can their government be supported . But ignorant people cannot bear the name of innovation , and it is easy , with a cry of that kind , to excite aspirit of discontent . The Vizier fell a sacrifice , anil the empire is in a state of confu > ion . What will be the result
time must disclose ; but these things weaken that tyrannical government , and prepare its downfal , and when the affairs of Spain are settled may call the great conqueror into that quarter . In Europe , tranquillity reigns , except
iij the quarter we have mentioned . Sweden begins to xespire , and it is reported is likely to make up "her differences with Russia . She has suffered enough for the part she lias taken in the agitation of the Continent , and may end with a rupture with Great Britain .
Such is the state of the civilized world . War , bloodshed and tumult form the most prominent feature in it . America presents to us a very different picture , and one whence tne human race may draw some hopes of
consolation . Very animated debates have taken place in the Congress of the United States , on the subject of the embargo . Jt was fully and freely discussed . The inconvenience * attending it were plainly stated . The commercial towns
naturally looked to their peculiar interest , and made a great stir upon this occasion ; but their efforts were in vain , and the continuance of the embargo was carried by a considerable majority . Thus America i * detei mined not to enter in ^ o . the foolish squabbles of Europe ; and ^ as
neither of the contending parties w&uld consult her interests , nor bend in the least from their pretensions , she has taken the wise part of abstaining front murder and bloodshed , and will ratjuer forego the advantages of commerce , than purchase them at the immoral risk ; to
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which-tSe world ha » been so long habituated * This decision is of high importance to the world , and time will determine on the practicability of similar methods to avoid a war , which may in the end throw into disgrace , that conterhptible mode of dec id . ag a difTerence of opinion .
An unpleasant circumstance . has arisen in Jamaica , which produces 4 issention between the Governor and the House of Assembly . The Commander in Chief , it seems , has refused to the Assembly the documents on the court-martial which tried the mutineers in the black regiment who murdered some" officers ,
and has also , prohibited his officers from giving any evidence relative to the transaction before the bar of the house , and has refused himself to obey the summons to appear before that bar . The G-overnor has , in a mt&sage , approved of this conduct in the General ., and , in consequence , both the General and Governor
have been declared by me House guilty of a breach of its privileges . The Speaker also issued a warrant for the apprehending of the General , and bringing him to the bar ; but its operation was suspended by the Governor calling the House before him and proroguing it . The island is in
consequence in great ferment , and iu business suspended ; and serious inconve r niences will be felt , if a good understanding is not speedily restored between the parties at variance . On the right of the case we "will not pretend to determine- ; but it must be lamented that the Governor did not rather mediate
between the Assembly and the General , than involve himself in so serious a censure from the legislative body of the island . At home , the meeting of ; Parliament
naturally brought before the public view the cfrief objects that have lately been so interesting to the country . The King ' s Speech enumerated them , and was marked by his disapp j obation of the Convention at Cintrat ; his
determination not to abandon Spain ; his refusal on that account to commence a negociation with the Emperors of France and Russia ; and his call for aid to the King * of Sweden . The Address was moved by JLord Bridgewater and seconded b J . qrd Sheffield . Earl St . Vincent gav his opiniuA plainly ; &nd fully of the tot a incapacity of Ministers , whose conti nuance , in power would be the ruin o
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State of Public Affairs . 49
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VOL . IV . H
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 49, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/49/
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