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defended by an armed and disciplined population , and the sovereign is at liberty to employ what was before called the regular army in any "way he pleases : since not a part of it will be required for garrison service or for the interior of the
counrrv . The sword may thus be sent through the earth . To what part it will be first directed , time must discover . Rumour says Russia will be the object or Sweden , and it is not likely that an ardent mind will be long idle , when he has such an instrument to wield at his discretion .
He can now double his armies in Spain , and the only check upon his designs will be the difficulty of providing for his troops . Wherever ihere is monr y and provision , thither will they direct their their steps : where the carcase is _ , the eagles will be gathered together .
The plan is granjj in conception , and 3 s highly extolled by the French orators . Future orators , poets , and historians will emblazon it , and the unthinking multitude will dignify with heroical title * him whose object is universal dominion , and whose means of attaining it are force and warlike skill . How different are the kingdoms of this world from that of the lamb ! What a contrast between
the outward splendour of a warlike sovereign at the head of immense armies , and the humble Jesus \* ith his twelve associates , destined to proclaim good tidings to all nations and languages ! He , who admires the one cannot love the other : and they who aim at the honours of the two different kingdoms , must pursue opposite lines of conduct , and expect different rewards .
France has seized upon Swedish Pomerania ; and Sweden has been contented hitherto with simply protesting against the violence of the action . No - "where has tfoe sword been drawn to oppose the French . The pretext of France ,
is to support its measures with respect to commerce j the result might be thought to be the junction of Great Britain and Sweden , to prevent farther aggressions © n the latter , " B y such a conduct , Sweden itself will be safe from attack ,
since the French will have no means of entering the country but by" a tedious march Vound ' the Gulph of ^ Bothnia , in which' tWrediictibn of Russia must be a previous object . This is ajud' to be within the View of the enter prizing monarck , who seems to have no"Just complaint against the Autocraf ; vet what
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will not ambition do , and who is to set bounds to a conqueror ? The armistice between the Turks and Russians is at an end . More bloody battfes may be expected on the Danube , and the two powers at s * ar do not seem to be aware > A of the dangers that threaten them from their mighty neighbour . Constantinople is as easily to be attacked as Petersburg , and the march to the one is not more difficult th m to the other
place . The pride of Buonaparte may be flattered by erecting his eagles , where the crescent now predominates : and his s ^ avans will flatter him on the ti <* e of the Restorer of Greece . To speculate on such a man ' s conduct seems to be idle ; it is sufficient only to say that "wherever he orders his troops to march ,
devastation accompanies their career z but the Greeks cannot be worse under a French tlnn the Turkish * yoke . The time is approaching for the overthrow of the Mahometan superstition , and Buonaparte may be a great instrument in the hand of Providence to effect its destruction .
We hear nothing of his pretended Holiness the Pope , and the future state of his church remains to be developed . At any rate , he is not gone back to Rome , nor is he likely , to see again that seatof fraud and delusion , which , cleared of its monks and priests , begins to wear the aspect of useful Industry . In M . iiy , the old sup rstiticfh remains , and the resolution in its politics does not affect it : but we trust , that it will be attended with the free e % erci > e of tLz
Protestant religion in that country One instance of our intercourse with that island has transpired in the conversion of the eldest son of an English peer to the popish religion ; but whether the same spirit has infected our array , we do not know . We hope , that the Bible Socu-ty will not however lose the opportunity of conveying the treasures of sacred knowledge to that benighted co ntry and , if some missionaries were also sent to it , we should think them much better
employed than in the east How far "he government of the country m improved by our interference cannot yet be ascertained : bur a sound policy might make ( he intercourse between Britain and Sicily very advantageous to both countries . From Spain nothing encouraging to the viewj of the adherents to the old system has appeared The French con-Unite to consolidate and to increase their
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Slate of Public Affairs . 205
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/69/
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