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cesfclvely overthrown * Every attempt for the redress of grievances wa * v in ¦ tbe mean while , resisted ; a system of coercion prevailed ; and the friends of peace and reform
were idly stigmatised as hostile to their country ' s welfare . At length a partial change in the administration , in 1801 ^ put a stop to the calamities uf war ; though hostilities were , alas ! too soon resumed ,
on the pretence of checking the career of a usurper , whom such fatal policy had seated on the throne . of France ! Mr . Pitt was afterwards recalled to power ; not indeed to the paramount authority which he had formerly exercised in Parliament ; but , persevering in the same counsels , to encounter
the same humiliating defeats . On the death of this minister , in January , 1806 , Mrs . Jebbhad the satisfaction of seeing Mr . Fok inviU
ed to the counsels of his sovereign , although she was too well awafe of tbedifficulties by which hewassurroimded , to expect the immediate accomplishment of almost any of their common views . She looked
forward , however , to much partial advantage frith ' the event ; conceiving inat whatever tended to restore the blessings of peace , must be of the most essential importance . On the first appearance , indeed , of-any change of qnihistry , she had ctearly expressed her con * viction ' of the very delicate circutn . stances in which Mr . Fox and life
adherents must now succeed to power * in a letter to Dr . Disney , Jfttu S 3 & , 1806 , sfaesftid : . f'K ^^ e 0 ^^ J ^ ty ^ vSi 9 to inform mctl ^ t Mr . Pitt died at four this
3 HTO ? } j ? m , * * w fflfc . * w > * no wished tym to live . 1 aid not fipar ^ 1 $ W ? 7 S 7 ^ £ * * * & **** £ & wit tnat lie might be the cause or good •«» ng done by othns . An opposition to
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the minister , and a pretender to the throne , often causes that kind of fear in a king and ministry , which makes them see the necessity of exciting themselves to gain popularity , in order to render their situation permanent . If the opposition therefore should come in , they must at least give us some pi < oof that their opinion is not changed with their
situation ; that if they delay , it is merely to wait for the most favourable opportunity . * they must give us some kind of bond , as it were , for our security . But , alas ! they will come into power , if they do come in now , in perilous times , and will find it difficult to please any party . As a friend to the opposition , at least to some of them . I could have wished Mr *
Pitt to have made the peace , bad as it must be , and to have had sill the odium of it ; and also to have raised the new taxes , which must be very heavy indeed . —I keep praying for a peace , a good one if possible , but zny peace rather than continue in the direct road to rain . **
And on ike 20 th of February , when the arrangements for a hew ministry were completed , she again observed to the same correspou dent ,
c < I believe that we think pretty nearly alike of the present crisis , and that our fears and hopes are of a similar magnitude : but my constant prayer continues to be for a speedy peace , with as little loss of honour as ' possible . As for what would be called a good peace , it is more
than we have any right to expect , and I fe £ r the prcs en £ imhistr ^ , dare not agree to sucri cci-rhs , ai Buonaparte wity think , in his situation , thai he has a right to insist tipou . My hopes , therefore , of a speedy peace are not very great , though I rather oxpect to heat of a negociatkm for that purpose . —I have only seen Mr . VityvjJl once : he was thefi ' satisfied ^ fth Mr . Fox : but I see not What can be
done at present , except making peace , and raising taxes to prepare fpr war if necessary . —Mr . Pitt did not live long enough tpj convince jhe , city or the pco » pie suntcientl ^ V thkt lie was driving the nation to % precipice ^ and left it just iq time to avoid the odium , of die strong momnc ^ f , wM ^ i > n ^ u ^ t be resorted to * in the , effppe m ade for its preservation . I Zam one of trioae who w&h tha ^ lie had Mvtd till qthcr people Md kn ^ wn and
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Memoirs of Mrs . Jebb * 66 »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1812, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1754/page/5/
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