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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian 9 s Survey of the Political TVortd.
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A fast day has intervened since our last , aaaii we had -the-Satisfaction © F hearing , til at the appropriated prayers for * he day , were » ot written in the strain , "which was so peculiarly offensive in / some publications of this kind , some years back . If at any time the human * mn £ should be kept from the agitation
of bad passions , it is at the moment vh « n meti present themselves before the majesty xj £ "heaven . They are address sng prayers to the god t > f io ^ e : how shocking must it be then to apply terms fit only ^ for a Moloch , a Mars or a Bellona ! How far fast-days are suitable in df
a Christian country m ^ y a < knit a < ioubt ; but there can Jbe no doubt , that i £ they produce dispositions unsuitable to the Christian religion , they ought to J > e exploded . "We axe taught to pray for *> ur enemies . Of course , to go into a church with a desire of revenge against -the French , with a spiirt of implacable
resentment , is to turn our prayers into curses against oxtsstfives . We may add . also that , if the fast-day does not produce a disposition towards 'peace ; nay , if it is ordered , when there is a deterruination not to listen < to any terms of ^ peace , the proper use o £ the fast-day would be to pray to Ood to soften our
• stony hearts , and to create in us dispositions worthy of the religion whitfh we profess . How far'fast-days have been , tjr not , a mockery of God ' s justice , in 'this and other countries , is a question well worthy the attention of kings and
-princes . It is a vevy awful thing to appear in the presence of the living * Ood : and if t&e appointment of a fastray is an outward acknowledgment of his authority , still if there is nothing but an-outward acknowledgment , the day is worse . than useless : the true test of a
fast-day is the disposition , that it has ^ created in us towards our enemies . In this kingdom , however , an cmploy-« w « t was 45 iven for tfae fast-day , which to judge by JLondon , must have very much -operated against the solemnity . The newspapers have been filled of late with some very extraordinary transactions , and an interesting examination
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took place in the House of Commons , tht might before the fs ^ t , relative to the Duke of York , and one x > £ his late mistresses , which excited the greatest attention . This business has occupied completely the thoughts of the country ; so that all the important transactions , that have lately £ aken place , have sunk
before * t . The question is , whether the Duke of York nas 'been privy to the negociations that have taken place with his mist revs , relative to places in the army ; for as to those relative to . circil appointments , they do not seem to be q £ so much weight . Yet many of our
readers may perhaps feel a degree - # f astonishment , that it . has been thought adviseabte by jpersons of hi gh rank , officers of the army , dignitaries of the church , to make application to Mrs . Clarke , the "mistress of the Commander in Chief , to obtain preferment .-
Whatever their astonishment may be , very extraordinary facts have come out . ; namely , that Mrs . Clarke -has received solicitations for her interest , and has re--ceived money for her interest ; that
aocording to her account the Duke of York was acquainted with these circumstances ; and that her establishment W « U of such a nature , ami her receipts * from the r Duke of York so inadequate to it , that ^ he could not h ave qarried it on
without these helps . These things have led to very extraordinary examinations , and to the production of letters , which have by no means tended to . raise the character of the Duke of York in the estimation of the public . Grass abuses
have ' certainly existed ; the detection of them has been difficult ; the remedy in future is not easily to be discovered , nor if discovered can it easily be applied . If it tends to a general inquiry into the mode of giving away civil , military and ecclesiastical promotions , there may be some chance that merit will take the
rpreccdence , of connexions , or money . JBut the arguments against such « in improvement in our system are too obvious for us to exrpect that this reform will be speedily announced to the world .
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Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian 9 S Survey Of The Political Tvortd.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian s Survey of the Political TVortd .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/48/
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