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example of punishment , which inay , by the events of a few days , become a precedent for similar retribution ! 'I he party now in power have much to learn , and above all , forgiveness and charity . Oppression , we aie told , maketh the wise man mad ; and if ever there was an excuse for rising- up against it Spain , assuredly , affords one . Its prisons are filled with the loyal men who preserved
the country for the reigning * prince , and in tact , were the chief instruments after the Ilussiaa campaign , in the overthrow of the tyranny of the French . We may easily conceive , how brave , men must feel under the insults offered to them by their
king * and their priests : and instead of an insurrection in one province , we may be surprised that they have not been general . One of their great heros , who was called the Marquiseto , and renowned for many daring exploits against the French , has expiated , on the g * ailows , the crime of
endeavouring * to break the galling- fetters by which his nation is bound . The city of Corunna was for a few clays only in his possession , and thence he issued his proclamations ; describing * the ignominious state of the country—calling upon the juntas to re-instate themselves , and to proceed to the election of a Cortez—and
informing * them , that in the interim he would take the command of the country under the beloved Ferdinand , who was represented to have been deceived by evil counsel lers . How far his proclamations were distributed , and what effect they produced is not known . The unfortunate chief marched with a body of men to take possession of St . Jng \ - > , the capital of Gallicia ¦ , but on liis march , was betrayed and taken prisoner , with several of his officers , cast into a dungeon in the Inquisition , and thence brought forth and executed on a gallows , amidst the taunts of the priests and the populace in the square of Corunna . A pompous detail of the overthrow of this insurrection , in which , allowing much to the liable efforts of the faithful Galliciaas , the glory of the triumph was
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ascribed to St . Jago and the blessed Virgin of the Rosary . A people that can swallow such idle tales , seems but ill calculated to breathe the spirit of liberty yet the attempt has alarmed the court of Madrid , and a revolution has taken place in its officers y many having been driven
from their places and some even imprisoned . Flow far either king or people have been really influenced by the event we are yet to learn : but it is evident that Spain must be in a perturbed state , and littl e capable of prosecuting the necessary measures to reduce its kingdoms in America to their ancient servitude . The Spanish Americans are increasing in streng-th , and there seems to be a
disposition in the people of the United States to assist them . The government does not indeed take up their cause , and it will not sanction the assemblage of troops within its territories to march into those of the Spaniards . But adventurers will not be wanting , and at any rate , the Spanish Americans will receive continual supplies of arms and ammunition . Our own kingdom still remains disturbed . The peace of Ireland is not yet established , and disorders have . arisen among the
sailors in tbe north , by whom our coal vessels are navigated , which is injurious to trade and prejudicial to the morals of the people . The whole arises from a difference of opinion between the shipowners and the sailors on the subject of wages , and which ever side is in the right , the outrages on the public peace by the latter cannot be justified . It were to be wished , that a way could be discovered of settling
these differences before they produce such alarming consequences : but too often the evil is neglected in the beginning " , and then force is requisite to restore order . How desirable is peace ! How watchful ought all parties to be to preserve it But this cannot be done without strict attention to justice on all sides . u Hear this all ye people , give ear all ye inhabitants of the land , both low and high , rich and poor togetherV
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664 State of Public Affairs . —Correspondence .
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If C . R . will give his name and place of abode , with a reference for character , questions shall he answered . Senex is informed that the First Number of the Monthly Repository has been out of print for years . If a sufficient number of Subscribers could be obtained to that or any other scarce number to me-ot the cost of printing , our Printers would undertake a second edition .
The Review of Jforsl , ei / s Nine Sermons , B els ham * s Letter to the Bishop of London , Grundy ' Lectures , & . c . in our next * , in which we intend to give a Memoir of the late venerable Dr . Toulmin , a critical paper of the late learned . Mr . Sirnpsoifs , the accouu of Messrs . Wright and Cooper ^ s late Missionary Journey in Cornwall , &c . MONTHLY REPOSITORY PORTRAITS—Through the kindness of the late Rev . Dr . Toulmin \ s family , * we are able to announce a Portrait of him for tbe first Number o the next Volume . Proof Copies of the Portraits Nos . 1 and 2 of the Series , viz . Dr . Priestley and Servetus , may be had of the Publishers and Printers , price 2 s . <> d . " any remain unsold at the end of the year , the price will be raised on the 1 st of January * 1816 , to Five Shillings .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/64/
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