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„ MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS O.R, The Christian s Survey of the Political World.
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himself , ft was not material whether the defendant was the original inventor or the translator t > t tins selector , or had nothing- to do with the authorship of the libel : he had read it , t ** td Vtnt his aid to the diffusion of it . What , if it had been published many years ag * o—
the poison had subsided , and but for him and his Associates might nerer have been spread ag-ain . The defendant furnished the paper for the work ; and the Court could not be parties to any stipulation to deliver up the remaining copies ' of it : they were
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X > EFOIlE our next Report it is probable , " ^ " ^ that the decisions of the great Congress at Vienna will be before the public . Such a meeting * , and on such important topics as must have been brought before it , create n era of great importance in Europe . 3 y this we may form an estimate on the progress of political science , in what is called the civilized world . We shall see
what are the leading * principles on which the great republic is in future to be conducted . Whether it is likely that the spirit of the accursed Cain is to be as predominant as heretofore , or whether nations have gained wisdom by past experience , and have learned that mankind were not made
for the mutual slaughter of each other , but for acts of mutual kindness $ that kingdoms , in short , may live at peace together , and submit their differences to a better arbitrement than that of powder and shot , and all the false notions which have seduced mankind under the terms of g-allantry , heroism , and other qualities which belong * to them in common with the beasts .
The gTeat point to be looked to is , whether in the new system , the same necessity will e $ ist for larg * e standing * armies , which arc the decided testimonies of a pernicious spirit existing- among * the parties combining- together , which will break out at certain intervals , and renew all the horrors of war This was the worst feature in the
system of Buonaparte . If man is so degraded that each kingdom feels , or thinks it feels , the necessity of being * ever prepared for war , then the nations , whatever name they may g * ive to their treaties , or with whatever solemnities they are sanctioned , are living" in fact , in the state only of an armed truce ; their standing ; armies
betray their mutual fears of each other , or indicate that there is something rotten in their internal government . This is a state contrary to the real ejid of man ou this earth , and it must be corrected by a farther advance in civilization : he is only a half-tain $ d savage , if he is ) kept within bounds by the fear of the bayonet ; he cannot be advanced to a higher state , till
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not now destroyed or delivered up if * i had been , it might be taken into the cj $ consideration in mitigation . As it w » ' was the imperious duty of every posse 8 'J of a copy to destroy it , and it was nottheltt his interest so to do 3 for if y after this a * copy should be disposed of with or ttithwt profit , such act would render the dispose liable to a criminal information . The sen tence of the Court was , thai the defendant should pay to the King a fine of 2001 . ^ be imprisoned in Newgate two years . 1 - — -1— — - ) ¦ ' ¦ —— . (
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he has imbibed the principles of the kingdom of peace , and whether the CongreL at Vienna will tend to accelerate or retard the im provement of mian , the future historian will determine . It is needless to enter into the surmises of the writers in different countries on the movements of the Congress . Of all of
them we might say , almost without exception , that they leave entirely out of their system what ought to be the leading * feature in it : namely , that there is a God who ruleth the earth . They seem to think that man is a being' of little or no consequence as to moral feelings or religious
dependence ; that he is a mere machme capable of certain powers , to be weildedat the discretion of a few of his fellow-creatures , whose views also are confined within the bounds of the most sordid self-interest . Their policy is reducible almost to a mathematical calculation , and they talk daily of th transference of this and that collection of
individuals , merely as they carry with them the power of preserving certain districts from inichief , or entailing * it upon their neighbours . The governors of countries are , according to them , no longer entitled to reverence for great moral qualities , a strict regard for truth and justice ; but every thing bends to their fanciful political code , made up of number and admeasurements , and the higher sentiments o ( duty to God and man are totally out of the question . How far such notions have infecte d the negociators we shall soon sec : hut till we do see them , we shall not readily give up the opinion , that the coalesced sovereigns maintain in their cabinets the saniR principles which they declared to t » world , when they conducted their arnue
against the tyrant of Europe . A great opportunity we fear , has e lost upon this occasion . The sovereig ^ are of different relig ious persuasions ^ a ^ not agreeing * with each other , ""^ , ? . - opportunity of declaring and establi ^ it as a general la ^ v , that relig ion should ^ free . Tbc Catholic , indeed , mig bt not able to emancipate himself from tne
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136 Stxt * ef Public Affairs .
„ Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs O.R, The Christian S Survey Of The Political World.
„ MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS O . R , The Christian s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/62/
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