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<* ft hurts me to see the friends 4 f liberty abusing one another to the great diversion of the ^ ° ret party , and without tie least hope ' of finding , in ; the whole k&gdom , an administration that would be suffered to do us half the good we wish , even if they were ever so well
disposed . " The atrocious attack on Copenhagen , the first fruits of tbese new ministerial arrangements , as a Christian she decidedly condemned , conceiving it equally repugnant to every principle of sound policy and justice . In the letter last quoted * she said ,
" You do not imagine that I can he blind or indifferent to what is passing abroad or at home . Denmark has verylong taken up my attention * I feared we should not let those friends to peace remain quiet , although Buonaparte has not once desired them to give up their
ncutralityyand they were entirely unprepared to defend themselves . Every exertion , I believe , will be made by prince and people to repel this invasion 5 and 1 would advise the authors to prepare their backs for a scourge so highly deserved . "
Again , on the 12 th of October , she observed , " The prospect both at home and abroad appears more gloomy every day . * wa $ much struck this morning with some Terses in the beginning of the seventh Psalrti . I think they will put you in mind ol the kings of England and Denmark , and that we shall agree in giving to each his due . Great pains are
taken to commend our exploits * t Co-Pcnhagen , and to shew not only their wisdom and necessity , but even their tamairity and justice t the former of tiuae , because we might have beaymore cjiiel ^ though > scarcely see how 5 * nd ^ ttlattei ^ because they refused our dewand , although they knew what would , »* the cousequcrtce , "
Hbk > ttv ^ rsiop tQ wur , that ew the most plausible pretences , ad . tffi $ W ^^^ the peninsula , were insufficient ttf con-** nce her of the propriety ^ i any
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interference . She observed > August 17 th , 1808 , in writing again ti > £ JL > r . Disney ,
"As to Spain , I think the prospect of a * xy good is far from being c Jear ^ andrit is yery shocking to think of the blood which they will have to wade through . la short , the whole business is such a jumble of contradictions , and is supported by men of such very different principles , and for such very different reasons , that I am : sick of the subject ; ' *—
September 28 th , she resumed , " As for peace , I fear I shall not live t * see it ; nor do I see any goo 4 we are doing by sending troops to Spain at a great expence , where they seem unwilling to re * ceive them ; and doing every thing we ; can in Portugal to disgust and make tEcm jea lous of us . —Our expeditions , I fear , arc time and labour thrown away > doiqg
much mischief to others , without any chance of benefiting ourselves . We may gain a bloody victory in Spain oner day , and the next may lose bur whole army * . —I wish we could be led to make a peace , but I fear nothing bigjt driving will do . Whatever else is done , the door must be left open wide enoufgi for peace to enterf . ' *
In these sentiments Mrs . Jebb persevered to the last ; July 520 th , 1811 , she declared , * As for Portugal , I wish we had done with it . We are draining our best blood , parting with our treasure , and starving
our own people , only to . lengthen a war , which 1 fear will prove Our ruin ; because we will be tyrants of the ocean . Inatime of peace there is no-necessity for it , and tm lime of war , we are always successful ; and may Jong continue to be so , if w « do pot ruin ourdeives *
And she conekided this very interesting correspondence , Nb * vember 2 U , 14511 , in these words : ** Ji % length popple begin to open their c ^ s / and to see ' thV desperate situatib * into which this d ^ teBtable war h ^ brought us ? ^ but > torn .-1 * % < &m QiU OF it grpwa every day more difficult y an * . : . ¦ ••• • - ¦ ¦¦» , » " - ' - r . ' • ' " - — - * -- ¦ - - —¦ * *
? Mttb AiV&tst « * " xo 9 . » n L 13 A March , i 8 l # .
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. Memoirs of Mrs * Jebb I , 66 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1812, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1754/page/7/
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