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——— . . ,. „ __ ,r-r " J " MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS j OR, The Christian 9 s Survey of fhe Political World.
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And raise a worse devil than Poland e ' er saw , With loot far more cloven and more rav e nous maw ; They ' re farther from 4 church , ' and they ' re nearer to HellJ In rapid descent , to the place where they'll dwell . Then what if reproach mark the old Polish name ! 4 Socinians' should take ' it , to hide their worse sharae .
4 They differ from him ! yes , as Despard from Cobbett ; He dirtied Church * holy—but they dare to rob it . To be candid ^ these men are in Priestley believers , Then dub them * Priestleians * ; the hateful deceivers ! But , to put aside candour and give my opinion , You have a Half-Deist in every Socinian / No more then let ' s Christians call Newton and Locke ,
And Lardner and Lindscy , and such sort of folk ; Their places we'll instantly , properly fill With Romaine and Whitfieldy MeGowun and Gill .
——— . . ,. „ __ ,R-R " J " Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs J Or, The Christian 9 S Survey Of Fhe Political World.
——— . . ,. „ __ , r-r " J " MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS j OR , The Christian s Survey of fhe Political World .
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The horrors of war are not likely to $ ease . The time does not appear to be approaching when the sword shall be turned into a plough share , and the spear into a pruning hook ; when nations shall cease to learn war , that savage and debasing employment of man , and engage themselves in the noble occupation for which they were created , in subduing the earth to useful purposes , and
making it a fit abode for reasonable and religious creatures . —r-So far from ceasing to learn war , this detested occupation is to become the primary object of a great and populous nation , -which will thus compel its neighbours to attend to the same pursuit . The age of Cyrus , of Alexander , of Caesar , of Charlemagne , is revived , and Buonaparte , no longer rivalled by them , seems determined to surpass all his predecessors .
Melancholy has been for some time the state of Europe . In every direction the bayonet and the cannon are seen , and fields of battle have been . drenched with blood in every quarter . A respite from such calamities has been the prayer pf every sincere / Christian ; for who can utter the daily ejaculation , « May * fc y kingdom come ! ' without feeling for the disgrace thrown upon Christianity Jby the bloodshed and strife among its jprexfesscrs . Yet all the evils of this state
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seem likely to be increased rather than diminished . The number of m , n in arms is not sufficient for the designs of the great Hero of Fracce , and he has conceived a plan , which increases his powei and means of aggression in a manner that strikes with awe and horror every one who contemplates it . France is to becomo really an armed nation , since no one , between the ages of twenty and sixty , is to be exempted from taking his share in the burden .
For some years past every young man in France has been subject to the conscription , and a certain portion of all between the ages of twenty and twentyone "was drafted off < o supply the wants of the army . The remainder were free to pursue the ordinary occupations of life . But a new system is now laid down . All those young men of the last six years , or those from the age of
twenty to that of twenty-six , ate subject to a new call , and they are % o form an army of a hundred thousand men , to be incamped in various parts of the empire , to be ready to march to any part of it , where their services are required . The remainder of the men between twenty and sixty are to be regularly disciplined in regiments at home , so as t « take upon themselves the entire defence <* f the country . Thus France wjll be
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S © 4 State of Public Affair *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/68/
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