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But why should we ifitroditee * 3 hrtefianitv , wfeei 1 5 t * precept * are * et at ouffb t by those ^ ho profess the utmost Lard to it . Lore your enemtea ; do | ood to those who revile you and despittSfirlljr treat you , are the precepts of our holy Ufaster . We are not to return evil for evil or railing for railing , out to overcome
eril vrith g-ood . These precepts afe lost si < rht of in too many of our English pa-JrS , which vie with each other in railingat the enemy . It is scarcely necessary to * probate this practice in our Retrospect , iuethat of
since tve cannot imag-, any our readers will so far deviate from the principles , which it is intended , to inculcate : sad indeed we see with considerable satisfaction , that it has become offensive c ? ea to those who are guided only by the common views of worldly politics . With
such persons ridicule Jias often a greater effect than more serious argument , and an ingenious writer has collected under the title of Buonaparte-Phobia , or the Art of Cursing made Easy j * all the disgraceful terms and the foul laiig-uage which is so gratuitously and daily lavished tipon the enemv . Thus it is she wo how easily a
person may become an adept in this low art , and we lament to say , that the pen , most fertile in this disgraceful occupation , is guided by a person , who has had al 1 the advantages of a liberal education . Surely the cause of virtue , of religion , of social order , might be defended in a better manner : and , if the enemy has all the vices
attributed to him , our indignation cannot be heightened by illiberal and unmanly abuse . The foreign papers fall short of the English in this species of abirae , but they use an argument which is little suited tt » our customs , and is very injurious to the
ngflils of the family upon our throue . With them the approaching co-nflict is for the cause of king-s and legitimate sovereig-nty . Tlie latter is entirely independent of the people , and admits of the interference of forei gn force . Of this tlie French avail themsel ves , by drawing a comparison between their present revolutionand that
, w hieh took place in our country in the year 1688 5 between the march of William the Third from the coasts of Devonshire l London , and that of Buonaparte from "if shores of the Mediterranean to Paris . * ney ask , if the new principles are to be Maintained , upon what ground will the
JJg « t of the Brunswick family to the throne ** England be asserted ! It evidently re&ts ^ act of settlement , which Set a < Ute the claimants by hereditary right , 2 ^ ! Ue ^ amil y > which appeared the existing g-ene ration the best adapted L * » l * Ort lhe liberties of the people . If ., ^ 5 *^ 8 ^ th <* y say , were justifiable in * Ottfc Mio ^ hcet , price One $ friH 1 ti £ .
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On one side they promise themselves inevitable success . The forces , which they are to bring- into tbe field must overcome all resistance ; but it requires time to bring- them into action . On the other hand , as far as the army is concerned , vigorous resistance is expected : but hopes are entertained of a division in the people . So contradictory and so uncertain are the accounts received of the interior
of France , that no judgment can be formed of the real state of the country , A gmnd assembly of the people has been called , in which may be expected some new measures to excite the attention of Europe , and to develope at lieast the view- ; generally entertained at Paxis of the fiature of this extraordinary co-ntest .
The royal exile is in the low conntries with a reg-ular court formed around- ' him , increased it is said by a considerable force of his adherents , who are hourly leaving-France to join the standard of the Lilies . He has published a strong manifesto 011 the justice of his cause , which is declared to be supported by the irresistible force of his allies . His descent from St . Louis
is not forgotten , and in expatiating on the lov £ of the Bourbons to their country , the fatal night of St . Bartholomew , and the horrors of the revocation of the edict of Nantz are passed over in total silence ^ In fact , in the sad story of the present day ' s the events of former times , on which our ancestors used so much to expatiate , seem to be totally forgotten . Every one must feel compassion for the unfortunate
monarch , and the more so , if his way to the throne must be made through the desolation of his country and the destruction of his subjects . The English force in the low countries is very considerable under the coimnaud of the Duke of Wellington , and betwee / i them arid the Rhine is the mixed body of Germans and Prussians undler the Prince
Blucher . With the latter sonic auk ward circumstances have occxirred , which prove thtit the mtietsiires of congress hai ^ eby no iheans been satisfactory . A mutiny has tftkim pl&ce in th £ Sa ^ on ti ^ 6 j > s in thai p « tt * t of them , Wnicli te » vt hyflie late Vhfcngfc ' b < seh tfratfe fcubjeot . t 6 ifrussiav
thfet act , and the , conduct of the Btmrtrons was deservedly reprobated in endeavouringto fix a Stuart upon the English throne wh ^ are the French to be abused for treating * the Bourbons in the same manner , as the EnglUh did the StuaVt *? Why are thtey not to be allowed the ri ^ ht of settling their internal government as they please * and why are they to be dictated to in this respect by foreign nations ? These questions find sufficient employment for the worldly politician , and . in the mean time the different powers are employed in collecting-tog-etlier their forces to etit the knot , which they cannot untie .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/63/
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