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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; V OR, The Christian*$ Survey of the Political World.
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Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; V Or, The Christian*$ Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; V OR , The Christian * $ Survey of the Political World .
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The actions of individuals and councils are in their own power , the results of those actions are not * They depend on circumstances , on which the actors may
have no con t rol . This is wisely ordained , that the upright and conscientious man may have one satis * faction left , whether his designs turn out well or iU ; that he acted
to the best of his ability and knowledge and with perfect integrity ; whilst the intriguer , intrapped in his own plots , sees that , by deviating from the path of rectitude , he has only marred his own happiness and comfort . But we are to be cautious in the
success or ill success of measures , how we attribute sinister motives to the planners : and men may act conscientiously , though we presume th&t if they had foreseen the consequences , ' they would have acted otherwise .
The forms of the constitution are now restored to this kingdom . The executive government , under certain restrictions , is in the hands of one person , or to speak more properly , it is under greater restrictions in the hands of the
Regent than in those of a king . For it is the excellence of kingly government to be under those limitations , which are unknown to the despot , and for want of which
bis country is the frequent scene of insurrections and rebellions , and the sovereign comes so frequently to an untimely end . How far it ^ as useful to place the executive government under
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the present restrictions has been so amply dicussed , that it is needless to dwell longer on that topic : it is no small satisfaction , that
all parties agree in the person , in whom the regency ought to be vested , and in the hopes , that he may be able to perform , notwithstanding the restrictions , the duties of his exalted station with
satisfaction to himself and benefit to the country . The latter is most assuredly indebted to him in the highest degree , for the dignity with which he has conducted
himself throughout the whole of so trying a situation , and for accepting an office , which if he had declined , it could not have been placed in hands so proper , nor in any other perhaps without very great danger and inconvenience to the country .
After the two Houses had agreed upon the modes and restrictions , and passed the act , as it is cailed , for vesting the Prince of Wales with the powers necessary in their opinion for exercising the office
of regent , his royal highness took the oaths prescribed before the privy council , and from that time became ; the representative of the sovereign- Previously to this
ceremony he had informed the ministry , that no change would take place in the cabinet , and in intimating these his royal intentions , he in * a very open and candid manner declared' the grounds on
which his resolution was founded , namel y ** his elffection for his father , hi * wish that he might
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/51/
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