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    Retrospect , the conduct of the Friends appeared in a very unfavourable light , we are very glad to see them step forward in their true character , and to act under the genuine principles of their

    society * To them we are indebted for the abolition of the slave trade ; to tjiem we ¦ hall , we rfope , be under similar obligations for the abolition of war , a state as degrading to humanity , as it is contrary to the principles of the gospel . The lamb and the -wild beast cannot have

    adherents in the same person , and to delight in war is a feeling that cannot be too much discouraged . The Friends liave the honour of being the only sect of Christians , which has addressed the throne upon this important subject , and they have spoken , as they always do in that quarter , the language of truth

    and sincerity . They submit to the most serious consideration of the Prince Regent , the highly important cause of suffering humanity . War they declare to be an evil , from which the spirit of the gospel of Christ would wholly deliver the nations of tkc earth ; and they therefore petition the Prince , to take

    such early measures for putting a period to its dreadful devastations , as the wisdom of his counsellors , in seeking for Divine direction , will discover . The Prince received them most graciously , declared himself to be deeply , sensible of

    the calamities attending a state of war , and ass a red them , that it would be most grateful to his feelings , to perceive such a change in the views and conduct of the enemy , as would permit him to gratify their wishes

    -This address of the Friends is printed in company with others , on the subject of the death of Mr . Perceval , by the hands of an unhappy maniac , and it forms a striking contrast by its pure , affectionate but respectful style , to the fulsome adulation , which for some time past hag been presented to the throne . la

    addresses from public bodies , whether religious or political * there cannot be a doubt , that a sovereign will be much better pleased with one , that comes in the garb of truth and sincerity , than in the nackneyed phraseology of courtly adulation , so little becoming the English constitution and the character of the

    people . ) The act of the wreijpHed maniac , not only deprived the country of a minister , whose loss has been deplored as if he had manifested very superior talents in

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    his office , but threw the higher classes into a confusion , which could not have been e > pected from such an event . The ministry deprived of its hea < J , was deemed by the Commons inefficient , and they voted an address to the Prince Regent , to request him to form , one , mote suited to the offices of government . In consequence the Prince commissioned the Marquis of Wcilcslcy , to negociatc with the heads of the different parties , and he laid down as a basis , conciliation with the Catholics and vigour in Spaiii . The remains of the administration were released from giving their opinion on either point , by their determination not to act at all with the Marquis ; an * * the Grey and Grenville party could find objections to the latter point , and what was more , could not brook any superiority in the negociator , whose plans therefore fell to the ground , and the charge was committed to the hands of * the Earl of Mwra .

    - The earl was not more successful than his noble predecessor , and the business of the nation did not admit of farther delay . The Commons began to be impatient , when it was announced , that the Prince had appointed the Earl of Liverpool to be first Lord of the Treasury , Mr . Vansittart'to be Chancellor of the Exchequer , Lord Castlereagh to

    be Secretary- of State , Lord ? Melville First Lord of the Admiralty , and , in short * the supposed weak and inefficient administration were in futt ' pnftession of power . This put the * flteuse of Com * mons into a very awkward situation , and their conduct became the subject of

    public expectation . The same gentleman , who had-procured the censure of ineffi ^ ciency by his original motion , brought forward another , by which eventually it was removed , for the new administration appeared to possess the fullest confidence of the House , and carried their question by a very large majority .

    The public , during this time , was kept in continual agitation by letters and conversations and explanations be * tween Lords Welleslcy ^ Grey , Grenville , Liverpool , Melville , Moira , and * Messieurs Canning , Tieritey , Sheridan , &c »

    * cc « - Never were the acts of public men so publicly sifted . Every word almost that passed between them was committed-immediately to writing , and circulated , by mean * of the newspapers , over the-whole of the kingdom . The fact i * , that the higher parties ¦ ' concerned , 1 % . .

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    405 State of Public Affairs *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/62/