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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian s Survey of the Political World.
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piablic danger , which characterise the present war , and to employ every mean which the discernment of your honourable house can devise , or its authority can recommend , for the speedy re-establishment of Peace . At the same time , your petitioners beg * leave to assure this honourable
house , that the peace which they are solicitous to obtain , is not such an one as should endanger the solid interests or debase the real dignity of their country . The prosperity , liberty , and independence of that country are , in the opinion of your petitioners , in-
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian S Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian s Survey of the Political World .
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In the space of the last four-andtwenty years , such convulsions have taken place in Europe , such murders , massacres , conflagrations , that the vials of God's wrath might seem to have been poured out on the throne of the beast : yet , in this period , the last six months have exceeded in horror and
anxiety any of the other equal spaces of lime . The speculations of the worldly politician have fluctuated from the depth of despair to the summit of exultation . At one time , Europe was
laid prostrate , in his imagination , at the foot of the mighty conqueror 5 at another , he saw him confined in an iron cage , the sport of the semi barbarians of the North , or gaining" a scanty subsistence in the wilds of Siberia , or
pining away , without compassion , in the dungeons of Petersburgh . With the overthrow of the French conqueror was connected the restoration of every prejudice that had subsisted previous to the Revolution : their nobles , their
priests , their lawyers , were to be restored to their ancient pride , superstition and chicanery . Germany was to be divided again into its miserable principalities , Hie imposture of Popery was to be restored to the Vatican , new monasteries and nunneries were to arise . In short , everything , good , bad or indifferent , that the French Revolution had swept
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separable from its glory ; and therefore it is in a spirit of steady , considerate ^ and genuine patriotism alone , that they now prefer to your honourable house their prayer for the restoration of those blessings which peace only can procure , and the importance of which they will think it their duty to urge repeatedly , in those respectful , but firm and serious appeals , which the constitution has authorised them to
make , as free-born Britons , to the justice , wisdom and humanity of their representatives in Parliament .
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away , was to be restored on its ancient footing , and mankind were to lament the existence of so much misery to produce no one good whatsoever . But God ' s way * are not like our ways , nor bis thoughts like our thoughts . What will be produced from the mighty earthquake and the following rise of the monster out of
the sea , will be duly appreciated by succeeding ages . . We who live in these tremendous times look up with confidence in Him , who directs the storm and assuages the raging of the sea , that , miserable as is the departure of
Christians in general from the laws of him whom they profess to call their Saviour , his kingdom , the kingdom of peace , shall finally be established , and glory will be acquired , not by acts of desolation , but by services beneficial to society .
A few months ago , the Emperor of France was at tbe head of an army of between tnree fCnd four hundred thousand men , of various nations , under his rule or controul , all prepared , in different districts , itear the banks of the Nieraen , to commence their
stupendous operations . The opj > osihg par * ty was not slack in bringing" his hordes into the field , and battle fdiiowed battle , each vying with the other in horror and carnage ; and polluting the earth with more blOod than was ever proba-
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State of Public Affairs . 75
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/75/
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