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Spain presents to us a very melancholy picture : the French making systematical attacks , the Spaniards engaged fn desultory warfare and domestic disputes . V ^ e may conceive to what height the latter have risen , when our minister at Cadiz thought himself under the ne' cessity of / writing to the government to coniplain of the calumnies , publicly propagated against the English nation , and the endeavours to sow dissension
between the two countries . He disavows on our part any intention of aggrandizement at the expense qf the Spaniards , and pledg e es the national faith on the honour of our views in the present contest . The government of Cadiz has published this letter with its answer , in which it acknowledges the services rendered by Great Britain , and its firm
conviction of the good faith of this country ; and it attributes the calu ^ nnies to the artifices of the French , or the weakness of a very few misguided Spaniards . Such is the state of affairs at Cadiz . At Valencia a different scene pens to our view . This province is
threatened by the French , and the Marquis Palacio issues a proclamation to the inhabitants to arm in its defence , assuring them of success by means of his powerful auxiliaries . " From afar , " says he , «« I see the uncpnquerable'bfass walls of Valencia . I see likewise a cloud
of protection over all the kingdom , similar to that which defended the people of God forty years . The walls of brass are the Valencians , whose character for loyalty is not to be shaken : and the cloud , which protects us , is the queen of angels , the generous and adorable mother of the distressed , and ner omnipotent son . I give up my truncheon to this queen of heavenshe is the general who has hitherto kept the kingdom free—she will keep it free , -when she has placed it under m general ' s truncheon , which is not
mine , but heis and the God of battles . " Mow besotted must not that people be , to whom such nonsense and blasphemy can be addressed ! How—but we re"train ourselves . The reader has enough ^ re him to excite the mos t painful r eflections .
th \ Portu S > Lord Wellington is in ineJYbrth expected every day to produce £ ^ e measure of importance to Spain . J " u d Rodn £° frequently reported * Lfi surr € ndered to bis arm * , but no O ^^ wn has artjvcd of triis news , vn trie other hland , the French are sup-
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posed to be planning a very great enterprlze against Portugal , with a view ( 6 attack it at different points . In the mean time , they are annoyed greatl y by the guerillas , and there seems no prospect of a speedy termination of the evils yyith which the Peninsula is overwhelmed
The Russians have ail their business to do over again . It is now certain , that they have been driven aeross the Danube , and that rhe Mu ^ sulmen axe triumphant to the Spuih of this river . The official account of the Turks breathes the usual enthusiastic spirit of that nation It attributes its Victories
to the Most High with the same f ^ ith as any Protestant country would do , but it joins to his aid and assistance the spiritual succours of the Prince of the Prophets , and it ends with a prayer too much like what we have read in the history of Christian nations fighting against each other . " We entreat the
All-powerful God , that he will enable us to take a speedy and signal vengeance on the enemies of the faith and of the empire . ' Such is the spirit of the Mahometan ; " and in fact he acts agreeably with the spirit of his religion , and the practice of its founder , when he thus talks of vengeance on his enemies . Such
a sentiment s prchihjtevL to a Christian . The Founder of our religion i \ the prince of peace : he gives no countenance to his disciples to delight in w / a . f arid bloodshed , Mid instead of vengeance orders us to pray for our enemies . If there are men in this country , who , professing to be Christians , have their
minds filled with malignant sentiments towards their eneniies , let them reflect , that , however becoming this may be in a Mahometan , in is totally against the religion of Christ . He who canijot pray for his enemies as in a state of worldly-minded ness and of enniijty against God . '
The Spanish colonies in South America are steering strait for independence , and we shall next year have to record the debates of the parliament of Biieiios Ayres . Mohfe-Video is surjposeA ' to have surrendered , but fhis cbr ^ fecture waits for confirmation . The cburt of Portugal at the Brazils and outf rriihWter there offered their mediatidnY and J > ur
naval commander has acted With great spirit and prudence , hot sidmg With any party in this civil war . Thtis the" question will be hfoughi t 6 inst&rtt issue with the mother country /\ Vfyich Offers
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State of Public Affairs . 575
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/63/
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