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excellent statesmen , and soon wat a stop to all resolutions *• —rFronr the very beginning of the disturbances in France to the present time , the kin g ' * friends have been working : iiis ruin * Burke was one ef the first of them \
alas ! he raised that spirit and called for that crusade , vvhich , by encouraging false hope * and improper actions on one side , Caused those jealousies and discontents on the other , which at- length hurled him from a throne to a prison .
Oh ! how much blood might hare been saved , and how many crimes prevented , liad not foreign powers provoked the friends of freedom , and flaade wicked men believe they should escape in the general confusion , even if they committed that most horrible of all crimes , the
crime of assassination . ' —Just recovered from the war w ' rth America , let us at least pause ; and before we enter into another , as unnecessary , unjust and imprudent , let us reject that as a relapse is generally move dangerous than the first fever , so a return of war rnav , in
the event , bring on that destruction , which the fast had so nearly effected , — There has been njuch talk here of a plot , John : but the only plot which has oeen discovered , was the plot agaiust die liberty of the press , and against the good sense of the people—the plot to frighten
them into associations , which might strengthen the hands of the minister for a war against France , and increase his majority in the House of Commons ajgaanst reform . —Yet tjie cjeath of Louis undoubtedly wilt be urged to us as a season for our approving of the intended war ; and in order to raise in us a spirit
of revenge , it will be represented in the strongest colours as cruel and unjust . But surely , brother , the shedding rivers qfbloo 49 in revenge for the olooaof one man , will )> e no proof of our superior justice f nor will the making of thousands o £ weeping widows and helpless orphan , g ive us reason to boast of our superior humanity . ' f
But - lifer effort , likeevety other tfxertlon of a sound and generous policy , were unavailing ; tfye ^ were repugnant to the madness arid CoHy of-the times . . ¦
* December I 3 f , 1792 . t January ^ , 179 a ,
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Whilst the eondaefcofMf . fttt was thus forcibly convincing Mrs . Jebb of his indifference tcfr the wek fare , -and his hostility to the ri ghts of the people , Mn Fox was gra . dually regaining the place which
he had once possessed in her e& . teem . She bad not forgotten that in all his later intercourse with Dn Jebb * after the close of tbeir political connection , he had treat , ed him with the same respect and attention , as when most decidedly his friend . She had marked his
stt-arfj support of the great cause of Parliamentary reform ; his manly vindication of the claims of conscience ; his abhorrence of the slave-trade '; and his strenuous en . deavours , above all things , to avert the calamities of war . He
had fully justified the confidence , which at a fatal crisis ,, she had so pointedly expressed P and proved himself indeed deserving of his
former fame ; in standing forward the intrepid advocate of wiser counsels , unawed by the delusion of the multitude , and the too general defection of his friends .
Hence , on every subsequent occasion , when his character was attacked in her presence , she warmly undertook his defence , resting his claims to public confidence , on those decided facts , vyhich so clearly evinced his sincerity and zeai .
But the influence of Mr . Pitt and his associates was unfortunately predominant , and the miseries of warfare extended to almost every quarter df the globe . For eight y # ar $ he Qbstinately
persevered in his pernicious schemes , regardless of the dictate ^ of reason arj p e ^ rjierjie ri ^ e , till Trance was cqnycfi " te < j ( into a mW ^ fy / fiction , anci tier other opponents suc-
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6 $ 4 Memoirs efMrs * Jebb .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1812, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1754/page/4/
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