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    of national honour and independence has been the more frequent object of those who followed the profession of arms . Yet even one of these it destined to close his

    life in the calm of retirement instead of the tumult of battle , must often regret his laurels t € Wet with the soldier ' s blood and widow s tears . "

    Dr Johnson , in his justly admired Imitation of Juvenal , on " The Vanity of Human Wishes . ' * de ~ scribes how , in life ' s last scene , u From Marlborough ' s eyes th $ streams of dotage flow /"

    They might not be all tears of dotage shed by the hero of Blenheim . He might recollect deeds of cruelty and injustice sanctioned under his command , such as are inseparable even from the warfare deemed most honourable . Of

    wars , indeed , for defence or aggression , to oppress or to resist the oppressor , it may be said , as the poet distinguishes great wit and madness ,

    « ' That thin partitions do their bounds divide . *' As for national honour , its demands have too often silenced the claims of justice and "humanity . This was remaikably discovered

    Qi \ one occasion during the present , now 1 trust concluding , contest * A British commander gave up a hoptless defence of Alexandria in Egypt , and capitulated , that he mi ^ ht save the inhabitants , who bad no interest in Ins nation ' s

    quarrel , from the miseries of famine . For this conduct be was *^ yt ? rt ly ( censured , especially by the professed friends to the liberties at mankind . From the Morn- , iiig Chronicle * of June \ 6 , 1807 , the most liberal and philanthropic

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    of our diurnals , I copied on that day the following humane-decision of the question ; 4 i Rather than compromise the honour of ih $ country , let the inhabitants of Alexandria be driven out to eat

    grass like oxen , or to furnish food for the crocodiles of the Nile *" But a pamphlet now before me carries me back through two

    centunes , to the age of Henry IVth of France , whose slavery to sensual pleasures tarnished the lustre of his siiname , the Great and whose martial deeds are almost

    forgotten amidst the fanic of more extended modern achievements-Yet his project for establishing an universal and perpetual pea ^ estiU

    attaches , and must ever attach honour to his memory among the humane and considerate . YVhej that prince had been , for a . centi * - ry , in his grave , the ^ recollection of his pacific designs gave occa * sion to a publication by a learned Frenchman , of which the transla- ^

    tion is thus entitled ,... ** A Project for settling an everlastingPeace ! \ i % Europe , first proposed by Henry IVthj of . France , and apprpv ; ed of by Queen Elizabeth , and ifiost

    of the then princes of Europe , and now discussed at large ..-anti made practicable . By the Abbot St * Pierre * of the French Aca . cleipy London : Printed for J . \ V . and

    sold by Ford . Burleigh , in Amen Corner . 1714 . ^ . . Henry ' s project would have been unknown but for the Memoirs of Sully a work composed by that great minister iu his re . Ureipcpt

    from public life , andlpng farriiliar to the English reader , by ^ - thq iranblation of Mrs . ; Lenp ^ * . v r Jjt * $ following passage } n , which Sully introduces his detail of the ly , irj £ * * design , vvil ' , r think , be read a !

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1814, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2439/page/30/