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try , where was its last hope of support ; and , whicfi-evet way we turn our eye , those domains , which for ages have supported an indolent race of men , are sacrificed to very different objects , and such men can no longer exist . We hope and trust that , hi th-h case , due allowance has been made for those men , who entered into these orders , perhaps , more from advice of friends and parents , than their own inclinations ; find the reversion of the monastic lands , in the Austrian dominions , was a
sufficient gain for the state . We hove seen the evil effects of the grant of lands to pernicious institutions . It was a very early mischief in the Christian church , and when men forgot our' Saviour ' s words , and
endeavoured to regulate his kingdom by the maxims of worldly policy , nothing could follow but the tyranny of priestcraft , and the depression of the community .
The war between the Russians and Turks goes on with languor , though there has been , if we can depend upon the intelligence from those quarters ; some sharp fighting
between those powers . But their quarrel excites little interest either here , or elsewhere , except in the neighbourhood of the scenes of action , or the territories of the
eofribatants . Spain and Portugal continue to present such horrors a 9 cotild not exist ill ft christianised world . Vast districts have been
laid waste s and fire and the sword have destroyed populous cities and villages , with their inhabitants . Such is the fate of < war , that is , of the folly and the wickedness of man . When the passions are on ft sat , no one knows to what ex .
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tent they may be carried ; and they are the instruments of wrath to correct what probabl y , could not , by other means , be amended * The Peninsula is in such a state * that a new order must take place ! The old system cannot b , e restored
but dreadful has been the process of its overthrow . The boasts of the French have vanished into smoke . Massena , with his immense army , could stay no longer in his positions ; nor was there any possibility of drawing the allies from their intrenchments , where they were plentifully supplied with
every necessary . Compelled , by want of provisions , to break up his quarters , he has made a most masterly retreat , but carried with him havock and desolation ; and the land , through which he passed , must long mourn his progress . The English followed , but had
skirmishes only with his rearguard , in which they were always successful ; and they have the satisfaction of being the deliverers of Portuoai ,, and of having given to Spain a full opportunity of asserting its independence .
Massena was compelled to retreat ; and Spain is before him to recruit his famished army . Unhappy country ! To be defeated , he must be pursued by another
army ; and how are they both to be provided for I In either case that country is doomed to suffer . If he is not pursued , the Spaniard * must bend under his yoke ; . if he is pursued , their , country will be
ravaged . Great part however enjoys some repose , and there is , still strength hi the country , if P ~ perly organised , to resist th « power of France . Lord Wellington has shewn what may be done-The mighty conquerors way *
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* 42 State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/50/
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