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ttbalf a year , and consequently for tlie next year their purchases will be Jess by that sum . Next year a similar loan may be made in the same manner , and till all the money in the commissioners' hands is thus appropriated , we may go on with the war , without a new tax . To enter into an examination of
the demerits of the sinking fund , on the former plan , and bow far the new system js capable of improvement , would take up too much of our time ; but where is the mind that is not impressed with grief at at the appropriation of these twenty-seven millions .
and with hopes that the time will come , when man , entertaining better views of his destination , will turn iijs loans , in every country , to the benefit , not to the destruction , of his species . Twenty-seven millions , expended in this island , would drain its marshes , excavate canals , form roads , and remove
every nuisance , and obstruction to air or water in populous cities . But the god of £ hi « world has blinded the hearts of wen , that they should not see how their temporal and eternal interests would be consulted , by taking upon themselves the easy yoke of the Prince of Peace , and fitting themselves for tbe inheritance promised to all his true followers .
Dreadful csurdera have excited alarms in the bosom of every family . The horrors of a field of battle aud the destruction of the villages where they were perpetrated , created a far less ftfiglSAtien than the murder of a worthy couple in their l » eds , by a ruffian , who put an end to their existence with
savage ferocity and a profusion of blood . We would not diminish the feeling for our fellow creatures , thus preSnaturely taken out of the world : but let those who delight in waj * reflect , how many similar horrors are perpetrated , not on the . field af battle merely , foul v ^ va ^ rious places where a licentious soVJi ^ r have the mastery over the feeble'fiihabitants In the . comments of writers
on the New Testament , and in liHa ««* irion »/ ofipreacbers ' , it is not uncommon to have an improvement as they call tj ^ on the teitt ^ and an improvement on these domestic murders might
be made , by prater to the Almighty , to turn our hearts , pot onl y from tjtie uWddin ^ of the btoo d of our fellowcreatures , but from every evil passion which tends to their injury . A cessation from slaughter has taken
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place in one part of Europe * The Russians , Prussians and French have agreed to abstain for six weeks from the perpetration of tho&e acts which have lately stained the fields of Germany with so * much hrqjian blood . May the Supreme Arbiter of all events infuse into the breasts of tbe
respective sovereigns an ardent desire to extend this to a more lasting period , and that all the nations concerned in the late animosities may , with a spirit of conciliation , search into the cause of their disputes , and arrange them as beings ought to do who are eudued with reason ! The armistice was not settled
till after many a hard-fought field , in which both sides claim the victory : but the continual advance of tbe French proved , that whatever might be the language of their opponents , with themselves lay the real advantage . The political grounds of this armistice cannot be ascertained in this country .
The sources of information are Y $ sy scanty the real state of the con tending armies is very ini }> erfectly known . It was a great thing for . the French Emperor to have brought into the field an army potent enough to drive back his enemies , and instead of fighting for hits dominions on the banks of the
Rhine , to stand forth in the heart of Silesia , tbe avenger of bis weuuded honour . He cannot lose by the armistice , as , in the period assigned tp it , he can recruit his armies , and
particularl y be able to make up his deficiency in cavalry , Russia vrill have more difficulty in this respect , « nd perhaps &fce begins to be tired with the war , and would gladly listen to terms of accommodation .
The part that Austria has to act ja now of high importance , and this power is said to be tbe mediator of the intend * ed peace . A congress , at one time , was to be established for this purpose - but a rumour jhas arrived , that the four sovereigns » o £ Frajice , Austria , jiu ^ jaja , and Prussia ai < e to meet and to make
I heir own arrangements , independent of subordinate officers ' . It cannot be doubted , in this case * that every thing will be conducted "with- greater ease ; b « t little ffere 8 iirjjt is aeceusary to
deternVijne which will Have the greate&t advantage in the conference . In the tnean thhei ttie troops Of the respective powers are stationed within certain lines of demarcation , and of course each party will prepare itself for reoeir *
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State of Pubtic Affairs . 423
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/67/
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