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quainted with the politics of that family , conJd wish for such an event ? Will the Milanese , will the Brabanters , will any Germans flock to an Austrian standard ? The two former countries are released from a yoke which they bore with the utmost impatience , and which was pressed upon them by barbarian soldiers .
^ Germany has got rid of a variety of feudal tenures , and would dread the restoration of its former system . We see nothing in the moral world , that can - give the least encouragement to Austria ; and what its physical resources may be ,
to judge from the past , they must be lit-. tle able to cope with its adversaries . As the die is however cast , we cannot suppose that the archduke could enter into this conflict without having made a calculation on the probability of success .
The archduke is generalissimo of the forces . If by this is meant , that he is released from the trammels of the Aulic council , he "will have a better opportunity of shewing his skill in the art of war . But , when we contemplate the power of
his antagonist , the discipline of his armies , the superiority o £ his tactics , the skill of his generals , the brilliancy of his fortune and the improvement in the condition of every country which has submitted to his arms , we can place but little confidence either in the skill of the
generalissimo , or in his vague promises of liberty . What , indeed , is the liberty contended for ? To change the influence f one family for that of another , a Buonaparte for a Hapsburgh , a rising for a falling dynasty * We shall not be in the least surprised , if Buonaparte is in Vienna before our next report , and this city should cease to be ' the capital of the Austrian dominions . If the house
cf Hapsburgh does not follow the fate of that oi Bourbon , H will be reduced to a level with that of the kings of Germany . Supplications are said to have been made to England for money , which can arrive at Vienna only about the time to replenish the coffers of the French emperor . The banks of the Danube will be the
acene of warlike exploits . Sweden was in danger of being overrun by the troops of its' eastern neighbour . The meditated blow has been stopped , and there are come hopes of its be t ing rescued from ruin . This country has afforded another lesson tQ the sovereigns of the earth , and teaches them , what Wisdom some thousand years ago proclaimed from rpyal lips : By me , kin g * ixigu and princes execute
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justice . The king of Sweden is now ^ close prisoner . The duke of Sudermania his uncle , has assumed the reins © f go * veenment , and has convoked a diet . Whether we shall see another trial of a crowned head , a formal deposition , aa execution ; or whether the king ' s actions will be ascribed to insanity , and the usiu al confinement of such unhappy persons be his lot , time must determine . The
diet will naturally inquire into the causes of the calamities that have befallen their kingdom ; the loss vt their German territories and of Finland ; to whose pernicious councils are they to be ascribed , or are they to be attributed to the unforeseen and irremediable events of war ? If
greater event * did not press upon us , Sweden would occupy a great deal of public attention . There is much of freedom in the constitution of this country , but the inroads upon it have been severely felt . Russia has consented to an armistice , which will probably be followed with peace , and Sweden will return to
its ancient line of politics . The great point for this unhappy country to obtain , is a good government ; and it may then recover from the wounds inflicted upon it either by the indiscretion or the want of intellect of its sovereign . He has shewn the flighty disposition of a Charles
the 12 th , without any of his martial virtues ; and his politics were of little weight in the great disputes of Europe , though they redounded to his own injury . Russia retains its usual position , though reports have arrived , that its emperor has been assassinated , and that its nobles are anxious for a re-union witk
England . This mode of redressing real or pretended grievances is too common in despotic countries , and receives therefore a ready belief ; but we cannot sec sufficient grounds for it in the state of the country ; and the emperor , with the example of his father and grandfather
before his eyes , bdth of whom came to an untimely end , will surely be upon his guard against a similar catastrophe . The part he is to take in the Austrian quarrel might excite more attention : for it i * not , probable , that the French have entered into it without having sounded his disposition upon this subject . Spain presents to us a melancholy p icture , l ^ he horrors of war are likely to reign for a long time triumphant . Reports are on float of resistance to the French in the Gallicias , but the extent of it is not easily a $ c « rtaiued ; . and to $ c
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228 State of Public Affairs *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/52/
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