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This was quelled by tbe disbanding" of the effenders , and the execution of the ringleaders . The forces of Russia are rapidly advancing , and if the war takes place , we may expect to bear before our next-of bloody renc nitres . Austria is * however a great gainer in tins strangle confusion , for she has now , with the consent of the con federate sovereigns , united to her territories two kingdoms . The republic of V enice is completely overthrown , and is changed into a kingdom , and Lombardy is raised to the same dignity . The fate of V enice will afford matter of regret to future historians ,
who recollecting the splendour of its independent state , and the duration of its government will lament the instability of human affairs . Yet Venice with the name of a republic was far from eu joy ing government favourable to liberty and virtue . It is not the name of republic which should lead us to infer that its government is better than that of despotism ; since tyrannical laws may emanate from aristocracy or democracy , as well as from
pure monarchy . It is to the laws that we should look , and according to them , not according to the form under which they are executed a country should be judged . Yet Venice may boast of the resistance it made to papal authority , and its annals contain a sufficiency of that false glory , by which the pride of man is so much fostered . Its encouragement of
licentiousuess to prevent the people from catering into the concerns of , £ overiijnent will , however , be a dreadful blot ia its history ; it disappears from the theatre of Europe with scarcely a rear ret , and ' it
may be doiibted , whether the people , can be worse governed under the Austrian yoke , than they were hy their juohles a ; id a state inquisition . A futile attempt lias been made to rear the standard of independence in Italy . Its patron was the Kiu < r of Naples , who probably foreseeing- that his own throne was
lasecnre , look this method of establishing £ t , by the endeavour to elevate Italy into a kingdom of which he was to be the sovereign .- The Italians , however , did not second his efforts . ' Whatever may be their aversion to the name of Tudesco , which with them comprehends every thing * that is barbarous and odious , they did not see in
Marat the deliverer they regarded . The state of France did oot permit him to expect succours from that quarter , and his conduct towards Buonaparte was little likely to excite a zeal in his favour . 7 'he account of his jajj ^ entures is very vague ; as far as can be collected , he has been defeated and compelled to make a precipitate retreat , it being" doubtful whether the Austrians will not reach his capital before him . Indeed , it is asserted that his queen ha . s taken her departure witli all the treasure she could " secure , and this king of
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Buonaparte ' s creation must agab merrr into a private station . Little favour couM he expect from the confederate soverei-n / and whei . be forsook the oause of his n \ al % ter , he could scarcely expect- .- hat he ' should be permitted to . reia ; , i , a .. crmy ^ * o whj ch he iiidebted solel
was y to one rendere d by himself incapable of preserving hj m - ^ Naples , it is said , is to be restored to a Bourbon , but whether in the person of the former king or one of his sons , it is not settled . The country has been so wretchedly governed under that race , that this new revolution-Will not add , it is most pro - bable , to the welfare of its inhabitants
By this change in the afiairs of Italy , the pretended ftoly Fatber vvill be restored to his estates , and the Order of the Jesuits has another chance of . being established . Thus the political changes ai-e far from being * of the consequence that is attributed to them . It is of little import whether a
Bourbon or a Mural should reign in Naples but the restoration of a pope carries with it consequences involving the greater part of Europe . Still the power of the triple crown is shaken :, and we should rather see , it fall by the emancipation of mankind from superstition and bigotry , than by the arm of force .
At home , these warlike preparations hare ' produced a melancholy effect , the renewa . of the Property Tax , of which a very great proportion will be expended in subsidies , and the remainder will . be swallowed u-p in our own expenses . 11 appears that
an agrcepeii . t has already been made fur a subsidy of , five millions to the powers of Russia , A usfrjii and Prussia . Meetings have been , hoidcu-, however , in opposition to the war , and the Cities of London and WcsiwhiEiQY and the Borough of
Southwark , L : i-ve sent petitions to Parliament , expressive of their disapprobation of the present interference in tfie internal affaire oi France . The petitions of London and ftestraiuster were nut allowed to remain on thfi table of the House , © wipg" to expression * which , were construed into a disrespect oi that bodv :
Before our next the dreadful pause will be a : aa end . The work of blood will most probably have begun . Let tyim not boast who putteth on the harness of war ; thp event is uncertain . Yet there is every reason to conclude , tLat the ' confederates will attain their end , unless tbe French are aniamount
mated with a spirit which must almost to desperation . The issue ot sucn a spirit cannot be contemplated without horror , and no one can tc \ l what way its efiects on the ci / ilizati . > : * of Europe . There is too much reason to dread tnatin 1 ^ tary governments will be u ; ii / ersal , andt e part of the woild which boasts tbe ipostjM its proficiency in science , iu ^ f * turC 'ir religion , must confess , tliat it is farmery from being- qualified to live uader W m » influence of the gospel . mmm
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328 . State of Public Ajffairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/64/
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