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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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The last month has been pregnant with great events , but in the midst of the horrors of war the sound of peace has been beard . Delightful sound ! May it be restored to distracted Europe , and may the events of the last twenty years teach the present and fixture sovereigns and subjects , to be more careful how they interfere in the
government of other states , and to vafrig the gains of peace and industry above all the plunder ( a be obtained by war and slaughter . In arranging a peace after so long and so bloody a war many difficulties must occur , and the terms of it will vary as the interests of the different parties are improved or deteriorated by victory or defeat 5 yet the course of events leads us to
ext > ect a " peace , mid the threat warrior ofrthe age has no longer the power of prescribing ft , or of giving the law to Europe . lit the ever-variable scenes that have been so rapidly presented to us , tl | eV rahid has been so accustomed to cliange , ' that nothing can now surprise us . fcast month we left the French
in terror for their capita ! , and the allies so pressing upon it that its fall seethed inevitable . Yet they have not obtained their object , and both parties cl | tim the victory in well fought fields . Tjfiij great contest has lain between tire French and Blur , tier's , or the Prtt « sfan army , which boasts of a cototptete defeat of the French at Laon ,
a ifd if * , as is now ' reported , they have aefvafrced towards Paris , we cannot dowb ' t that the French were com pel led to Yerreat , ^ fhe positions of the armie ^ fti ' e ' iiot given , nor can it be expefcted ^ Th&y they should with great accuracy . ^ We can only judge , that smce' ^ cn \ £ aHfcehberg ' s army has suffevM&i AthdcM ^ lfony k * s 3 and fresh
troops are pressing : into France in every direction , it seems impossible thai Buonaparte should resist the impression , and that if he does not sub-
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mit to the terms proposed his capital must be at the mercy of the allies . His situation is rendered almost hopeless by a new event ; the advance of the English from the south change * greatly the aspect of things ., and may give a new complexion to the treaty supposed to be in agitation . Lord
Wellington appeared to have been for a considerable time kept in check by Soult ' s army , but other causes prevented hrs advance , which took place as soon as the general thought such a step adviseable . For this purpose be made an attack upon Soult , defeated him completely , crossed the Acfour
with all his army , and directed his march directly for Bourdeaux- Sou It retreated to the eastward , waiting- at a proper distance the arrival of succours from Suchet ; but his army , diminished very considerably by the late engagements , was farther weakened by continual desertions . The soldie
rstired of the service , piled their arms ia various places , and separated fvx their respective homes . The symptoms also of general disaffection were visible in the friendly manner in which the English were every where received , of whom a detachment took possession of Bourdeaux , the capital of the
ancient Languedoc , without opposition . The municipality , it is said , went ia procession from the town to meet our troops , and there making a full surrender of the place , broke the insignia of office , and changed the tricolour for the white cockade . A prince of the house of Botu > bon is with Lord
Wellington s army , and is receiving the returning allegiance of that part of the country . The extent of this disaffection to the present constitution qf France is not known , and the act of the munici lity is . given ih such general , tei , Bis , that we do not know what reliance is to be placed upon it . On the surrender of the city their offices of course
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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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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/61/
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