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lation of the original compact was acknowledged ; the landholders had been agitated with fears for their property ; the liberty of the press had "been Very much narrowed ; rumours were on foot of an intention 1 o try thfc reg icides ; principal men had been dis-1
graced by ejectingthem from their literary honours , and the conduct of the returned emigrants had excited uneasy sensations . The removal of the bones of the late king * and queen did not take place without some alarm to the persons implicated in their
death , and even the refusal of a priest to bury a player , showed the disposition of the people towards the clergy , and the apprehensions that the latter had not learnt sufficient wisdom by late events , and were to be viewed with a jealous eye . Bat what is England to do ? was the general question . If Buonaparte regains the throne to which he was raised by the voice
of the people , and by whose acquiescence , at least , he was restored to it . What is England to do ? Are we to maintain perpetual war to seat a family on the throne of France contrary to the wishes of the people ? This would be to belie the principle on which the House of Brunswick is
seated on our throne , namely , the act of the Legislature , sanctioned by the acquiescence of the people , to the exclusion of the family nearest to it by blood . But no peace can be kept with Buonaparte ! If so , there is no reasoning" on the subject ; Europe is devoted to another war , and good
men must weep in silence at the calamities which this guilty race is doomed to suffer . One lesson is , however , impressed on the world which might do good to crowned neadsj not to think themselves secure by military force without the affections of the people . The world will at last learn this
truth , and when men are duly trained to arms for the defence of their country , a standing army will be thought a monster e ( ljjally injurious to king and people . / he sovereigns had not departed from v ienna when the news arrived of the unexpected termination of their labours , of mother party interfering in their work of cutting and carving- Europe according to S ( l * iare leagues and population . Russia Jjas to bring back its hordes of Cossacks , r'issia its disciplined legions , England o advance its troops in Belgium ; but be-* n these powers could unite their opera-, ° * > tfte hlow would have been struck , 2 * Buonaparte have either regained his rone , or received the fate of a traitor .
^ ides , the gold , or we should rather say , t | * P ° f England was necessary to put ^ troops in motion , and in the state of country an addition of a thousand milv »* wed ^^ national debt collId not be Ins | without considerable agitation . bettj neV € r Was Sllcl 1 a gloom > n « r with To / £ r ° unds , fixed on the public mind . nose who entered more seriously iuto
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these subjects , and looked to higher causes than the petty intrigues of cabinets ,, it seemed as if Providence had raised the extraordinary man and hnmbled him again , to shew the folly of military glory , and that the united sovereigns , triumphing *
with the principles they had advanced , were permitted to make manifest to the world how far they really differed from the tyrant they had subdued , and what their views were for the better government of Europe .
Happily , in this perturbed state of affairs , we were set at ease with respect to America , the ratification of peace having" arrived ; though it was to be lamented that there had not been time to prevent the slaughter of our troops at New Orleans , in the v attaek on which place they met with a Signal discomfiture . On reading the
articles of peace one must be struck with the thought , why could not all this have been settled without shedding of blood ? But of what avail are the precepts of Christianity , unless they are constantly impressed on the people , and the spirit of them is
imbibed by all classes . Vital religion is wanting in both countries , and in vain do they cry out , Lord . Lord , when so little regard is paid to the precepts of our Saviour . Love your neighbour is his rule , and it is as binding upon kings as upon subjects , upon states as upon individuals .
Spain continues its relentless course . Italy is greatly agitated . The Unitarians are there very powerful , and the insecurity of Murat ' s throne may increase their strength . The war will be very bloody in that illfated country , and it seems to be very unlikely that the Unitarians should succeed in their attempt . The difficulty of placing the seat of legislature , the difference in the character of the northern and southern
states of Italy , the length of time they have lived with separate interests , ail seem to combine against that unity of government which they wish to establish . The king of Sicily looks with an anxious eye on these events . His ambassador has been received most graciously at Paris , and his Bourbon cousin has made him such
promises as are very intelligible at Naples . What Genoa will do in this commotion it is not difficult to conjecture , and they will probably make g-ood their appeal to the congregated kings , for the liberty which they once enjoyed in the republic . All these events have diverted in some
degree the public attention from the great question of the Corn Laws , a question not so important from its main object as the manner" in which it has been treated . Enffland has seen what might have been foreseen , the Commons in Parliament indirect opposition to the Commons out of Parliament , thus presentiigr to the world , if such proof were wanting " , a decisive proof that not as tbe Commons of England but
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/71/
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