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p * t $ t the dishonour that must result torn putting UP with suctl an insult . But , if the insult was not studied , if it orJn ated from a mistalie in-the ships , if it can be repaired , and surely it may , without sending thousands upon thousands prematurely to the awful account , which they must render for the deeds done in their bodjes , why
should the sword be drawn and the $ abbard thrown away ? What are we to say to the politicians , to the men of this world ? WilL it be sufficient to remind them , that both nations profess the Chris Man religion , both are supposed « o preserve it with a greater degree of purity ? We will say to them then , Ye are brethren ; do not wrong each other ; listen to the voice of
prudence , of Christian love ; and may the God of love impress strongly on your minds * that ye must both be called to an account for the blood shed in an unrighteous cause , and in a righteous cause too , if it is pursued with vindictive malice .
The Spanish colonies cannot but continue in an agitated state . The government of Monte Video upbraids that of Buenos Ayres "with traitorous dispositions . TJie latter is increasing in strength and power , and is not likely
to yield to a doubtful authority , We have uncertain accounts of Peru , though there are gentlemen from that country here , supposed to be delegated with sufficient authority to establish commercial relations with us . How far
the disturbances in Mexico are appeased , is not known , but the Carraccas seem to fyave gained their point , and to stand in no dread of any interruption in their designs from their \ nother country . At home , the situation of the sovereign excites melancholy reflection . Little reason had we tor expect , that at
such a ti : nc of life and under such a wsorder , a restoration to the royal funcfimctions would be adviseabie or practicable . But the council appointed for jheascertaining of this point , held out J ° pes thdt the malady might abate .
urceiy , however , was their resolum known , when the king suffered under greater paroxysms than any hi-Ucr fc > experienced , and the disorder eern * to have returned with
extraordi-Kjy violence . The issuing of the bulti ns , which had been supended , was " ored , ar * d alarms were entertained rt hc Ufe of the royal sufferer . These , w ever gradually subsided i but the
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necessary inroad on the constitution by such an attack removed , to a more distant day the expectation of final recovery . The situation of any one under this dreadful disorder is known to require the utmost care , and the return
to sanity is likely to be retarded by the most trifling iricidents . How difficult then must it not be to exchange a state of restraint for one where the patient is to be addressed as a king , and to return to the cares and splendour of royalty .
The state of the king ' s health prevented the festival intended to be given by the Prince Regent on his birth day ; but as it seemed afterwards to be improving , it took place before this last fatal relapse . It was a most splendid entertainment , and Carleton House was decorated with every thing which wealth
and taste could supply , and the company , as might be expected , consisted of all that is great and noble in this kingdom . The order which prevailed in every part , both in the admission and providing for so 1-nrge a company , made this a very distinguished night in the annals of greatness ; and it is to be
lamented that similar arrangements had not been made for the following days . The want of this turned the good intentions of the prince into a source of bitterness to many individuals ; for he very kindly ordered that the public should be admitted to a sight of the
apartments , and the tickets being chiefly confined to the higher orders , it might have been expected that they could have visited the palace without confusion . So disorderly an assemblage , has been , howe \ er , seldom seen , and many persons were seriously injured in this fashionable mob .
At Cambridge , a festival of longer duration took place in honour of the new chanceJlor , and we may add , that as he deserved every token of respect , the University manifested their sense of his merits in every way that the situation of the place , with the assistance of learning and taste , admitted . A
very numerous company was assembled . The preachers on the Sunday were not fortunate in the choice of their topics , as on all accounts every thing polemical might on such an occasion
have been avoided . Great approbation was bestowed on Bishop Tomlin ' s book against the Calvinists , in which it seems to have escaped both the author and the preachers , that a very great majority of the Methodisu are Armi-
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State of Public Jfairs . 447
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/63/
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