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    tneijr voice is scarcely to be heard in the rernote provinces of Spain . If the mother country is thus torn to pieces , what must be the condition 6 i the Colonies ? They know not whom to obey . They must act for themselves , and they do not seem , in this trying occasion , to be incapable of performing the duties of citizens , le t , as it were ,

    without a head . Intelligence has arrived , that two large districts , the ^ Garaccas and the territories of Iia Plata , have taken steps for their government . They have established a representation , and summoned the members to the chief residences for the formation of their government . The whole is done in the

    hame of Ferdinand : but it is evident , that when these bodies begin to act , they will frame laws upon the separate interest of their respective districts . The great authority will be lodged in South America ; and if the name of Ferdinand Is retained , the power will be in the delegates . Thus one benefit will arise

    from the confusion ' s of burope * The Americans will begin to make a native apon the globe . They will carry on an extensive commerce . They vvill introduce new ideas , new competitions .

    Happy will it be for them , if they establish the liberty of the pres , destroy the Inquisition , emancipate themselves from priestcraft , and m Ice a proper use of the advantages , which Providence has bestowed on them in a rich and fertile

    country . The benefits to England are incalculable , if we leave them to themselves , and are contented -with the advantages of trade , an intercourse will be established of mutual benefit , and we may be the means of accelerating the improvement of those countries .

    Commerce is thus likely to be enlarged , and a relaxation has appeared in the French plans upon this subject . The Freneh Emperor has published a new rate of customs , on the payment of which foreign goods may be imported into his country . The duties are very high , and he has improved upon our

    tarif . To this no nation can have any objection , as every country has a right to name the terms , on which its subjects are to have the produce of other countries . The world is not yet so far enlightened as to see , that the same benefits will arise to different kingdoms , as to different countries of the same kingdom , on the opening of a free trade . How would the commerce o £ this coun-

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    try be impeded , the internal commerce we mean , which is the oest part , if barriers were fixed in different counties for the payment of duties , on tho passage of goods from one county to another . But different nations must have funds for war ; and as long as that evil subsists , so long will each kingdom

    ( injure itself and its neighbour . It is a melancholy proof of our dereliction of Christian principles ; and the whole system will be altered , when we begin to follow the precept of loving our neighbour as ourselves ; but when will the preachers of Christianity dwelt upon this doctrine as ' they-ought !

    Buonaparte , it is said , is to visit Holland . There he may take a-new lesson on commerce ; but despotism and trade are two articles , which can never be brought to agree together . The Dutch have sent to the Emperor the usual present of herrings , and have received in return the kindest assurance of

    encouragement from him . Time will discover how far he jwill be inclined to realise them Durine ; ¦ ' the war he cannot be expected to do much in their favour ^ and his ships of war in their docks will be the object of his thoughts . The

    poor kin ^ , who retired from the state , which he cotild not govern , is in Saxr ony , at a watering place , Jiving like a private individual in the house of a Physician , We hope that he may be permitted to enjoy this repose .

    The diet in Sweden is assembled . The results are not transpired . A new candidate for the succession has been mentioned , in the person of Bernadotte , the French general , but upon -what grounds we cannot determine . The king of Denmark has also entered the lists , and a motion of the deposed king

    rendered ir . probable , that he would also submit his pretensi o ns to the choice of the people / He is- said to have left Switzerland , and to have travelled to the north of Germany . It is not impossible , that he may still have adherents : brit they must be inconsiderable in number , and he has the misfortune to have been once tried . The influence of other

    countries will be felt upon this occasion ; and it will be singular , if t | ie" choice should be made on an impartial view o £ the merits of the different candidates . At home the usual effects af this season of the year have been felt . Even the question of Sir Francis Burdett is at xest , and opportunity is given for a calm

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    State of Public Affairs . * 4 l 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/43/