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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian 9 s Survey of the Political TVorld.
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Christianity is the religion of k > ve , and it is the religion now professer ! by the sovereign * of Europe . Whence then , may we say with the apostle , come wars and fightings among you ? Is it not , that while Christ is in our mouths , his spirit is far from our hearts ? To suf fer , is a difficult trial in individuals , and much more so in crowned heads . Pride ,
ambition , a sentiment of degraded greatness , will hurry men into the greatest dangers . It has been our fate to witness the departure of the last of the Cassars . The dominion , be ^ un by that : bad citizen Julius , and continued through so long a line at Rome and Constantinople , and then transferred with the title of
Holy Roman Empire to Germany , has , ic our days , in a very wonderful manner , ceased to exist . The last of the Caesars put an end to his own political existence . He resigned his sovereignty in the holy Roman empire , absolved the kings and princes under him from their oath of allegiance , and retired to the government of his own paternal estates . He could not however brook the l © ss of title , and
ceasing to be an emperor , as the head of the German empire , he assumed the title as sovereign of the Austrian estates . The title is not a commendable one , for it conveys to us the idea of a general at the head of his troops , not of a king , the head of a well-regulated state . This title might in some degree soothe fallen greatness ; but title alone will not satisfy
ambition ; and the Austrian emperor , comparing his present territories with t&e vast domain of his ancestors , required . nosmall degree of Christian forbeaiance to reconcile himself to his condition , and to enable him to consult the welfare of his remaining subjects . The house of Hapsburgh boasted of
the pre-eminence among the families of Europe . As head of the holy Roman empire , his political supremacy was allowed , not only by those under him , but by the independent nations . The Low Countries and the Milanese , those jewels in his crown , have been wrested from him , and the people of those regions fcJc&a the day which caused ike revaju-
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tion . Vienna , which gave command f regions and cities to the "west of it , novir ^ sees itself almost at the western frontier of its -master ' s territories . Austria , Bohemia , and Hungary , are his chief supports : as you go further to the east , his subjects lose in civilization , and consequently in usefulness . With the other
great resources , the house of Hapsburgb . could not resist the attacks of that king of kings , who , like Nebuchadnezzar , has created to himself this title , and imitates him in the rapidity of his motions , and the greatness of his conquests . If
Hapsburgh was inefficient before the power of Buonaparte was consolidated , what can he do against his numerous and disciplined armies , against that energy which it is impossible almost for an Austrian cabinet to excite at home , or to resist
from abroad ? The trial is however to be made . Rumours have long been in circulation of a dissention between the Austrian and French cabinets . A proclamation has arrived in this country from the Archduke Charles , which may be considered as a declaration of war ; and it is reported , that his troops have entered Bavaria .
Of the German kings , no one has as yet publicly stepped forward , to our knowledge , but the king of Wirtemburgh , whose queen is the princess royal of England ; and this king has stated to the ambassadors of foreign courts , that the imperial conduct towards him is a manifest indication of hostile intentions , a complete rupture of all diplomatic relations and a formal declaration of war .
This readiness cannot but be highly flattering to Buonaparte , who has left Paris , and . will probably , with the empress , receive soon the highest honours at Stutgard . \ Vh * at are the ostensible and what the real grounds of war between France and
Austria , the proclamation of the Archduke does not sufficiently state . The deliverance of Europe by the soldiers under his banners is but ; a stale topic . If it is wished by this expression , that the hous * of Hapsburgh should regain its wonted influmce in Europe , what man , at all a « -
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian 9 S Survey Of The Political Tvorld.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian s Survey of the Political TVorld .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/51/
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