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families will inherit their renown . The two nobilities , the old and the new , will after a time coalesce together and both may recollect , that they owe celebrity to a common origin . The heroes of Charlemagne and those of Napoleon , indebted for their Greatness equally to the swocd . In due time it is to be hoped , that their title will be amended hy the virtues which belong" more to civilized life .
Spain has given to the public a specimen of what may be expected from her , in the proclamation of her infamous Inquisition . It does not scruple to hold out the doctrines which were promulgated at the commencement of this cruel institution , whose boast it was , that in the space of a year twenty thousand persons had expiated the ciinoe of their pretended heresy by fire , by
torture , by imprisonment , or public confession of their supposed errors . The land is now to ie purged from the stains it has received from the heretics , who contaminated her soil , and delivered it from the yoke of its bitterest enemies . The prisons are filled with the defenders of their country , but it is said , and we hope it is true , that remonstrances hare been made by . the allied
powers on this subject . It will be a singular thing * , that in the combination for the deliverance of Europe , in which co-operated the Protestant , the Greek , and the Roman churches y ' the latter should be permitted to retain their domineering * influence , and popery should again revive with all the horrors in its train . The true Christian
will not however be alarmed at these events . The times and the seasons are in the hands of Divine Providence ; but we are assured , that Babylon the great is doomed to perditioD , and every thing- which opposes itself to the kingdom of the Laml > , will be finally annihilated .
An army of Spaniards had enteredFrance , but by nrgociations with the Duke of Ang-ouleme it was withdrawn . The general of the Spaniards on entering the kingdom declared , that he carne onlv for the support of the sovereign on the throne , and hopes that the refusal of his assistance may
not he injurious to the Bourbon cause , 'he Duke of Angoulerne has gained great credit by the resistance to their interference , fid in fact , the Spanish armies have a call jo another quarter of the world , in which however happily for mankind , there is every k reason to believe that their efforts will be ^ effectual
AH accounts concur that the independence of Spanish America is on the point of bein g completely established . There seems CVe 'y reason to believe that that of the Vast district of Buenos Ayres is now placed ntirel y out of danger . It is prepared to resist all the force that can be brought gainst it by the mother country . The ext great and important region is the fc ° ^ rnm « at of Mexico- and we may soon
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expect to hear that the capital is in the hands of the independent party . The V iceroy is cooped up in this city , and oblig-ed to call in from all quarters his troops to its defence . The Americans are very busy in supplying the contending parties with arms and ammunition , and in no short time the trade of all Spanish America will be laid open to Europe . The formation of the new governments will present some noveL features . The inhabitants are overwhelmed
with superstition , whose arms are used on both sides . The old party has got the priests on their side , who avail themselves of the Confessional to terrify weak minds into allegiance to the former powers ; but this has produced a manifesto from the
independents , to confine the priests to the business of their office , and to prevent their interference in political concerns . It may perhaps open the eyes of the deluded inhabitants to shake oH' entirely the chains of priestcraft .
Among these convulsions abroad we are sorry to notice symptoms of disorder at home ; but the sister country , we lament to say , has been marked by many outrages on the public peace . To what fatality is it -owing that Ireland and Scotland under the same government should so differ from each other ? Is it the difference of education or
difference of religions ? As far as the former is concerned a change may easily be produced ; with respect to the latter we may not expect speedy conversions from the popish faith , but it will be recollected that the church of Rome does not g-ive its countenance to crime any more than that of Calvin .
We regret to say , that this improper spirit is not confined to the lower classes . The public has been insulted by a long detail of the preparations for settling- a point of false honour , which are a disgrace to civilized life . A person was offended with language used by another . This led to the usual mode of calling to account . The parties were prevented by peace officers from the attempt at mutual assassination in Ireland , and they agreed to take a journey to the Continent to settle their differences .
There were it seems to be two duels on this foolish occasion ^ buttwo of the parties were stopped in their career in England , and bound over to keep the peace , not only here but elsewhere . This had the effect , and the doughty champions sent over a . message to their antagonists , who had already arrived on the Continent , that they were prevented from giving * them tlie intended meeting . Thus the fear of losino * a few thousand
pounds bad the effect , which neither the . Jaws of God nor of tlieir country had previously produced- How ridiculous as well as impious is this whole system of false honour ! What slaves do not the men of this world make themselves ! An idle speech will excite a commotion in the miud not to
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State of Public Affairs * 59 a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/67/
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