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the mother of God , bat genuflexions aiMl grostrsitio ^ wttl ? ot cover the blood of the Africans spilt uppa this occasion . The return of peace was delightful . The destruction of the acegtre of the tyrant was , received with universal joy > But
when we contemplate the Inquisition in Spain , the restoration of superstition in France , the invasion of Norway , the prison ships of the slave trade , and the wars excited III iUM ^ a ? Europe seems to be uoworthy of its blessings , and we fear that that cannot be lasting , which i $ contaminated by so many
horrors . Sicily presents itself again to our notice , as tending to form itself into an independent kingdom under a new constitution . The king has znet iiis parliament , and made am
address to it in a manner similar to tjiatof ojir king < m t | ie opening of a parliament : and his Lords and Commons are to deliberate on the formation of new laws , aud the correction of abuses . Time will $ h $ m
pqw for they sore capable of enjoying the new species of liberty that j # fceld out to them ; but there are peculiar difficulties in that kiugdom from the nature of it * nobility and its subjection to the priesthood . ] £ is tme thing to Jiave the forms a ^ d another to have the spirit of a good gorernmtnt . The kinff sp « a ) i 91 *« &
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^ Henceforward ^* he says , <' Sicily has a wriftei ^ c ^ oftitutioo , destin ed to eatabli « b oyier in the movement ! of power , th ^ they be not thrown into confusion ; to assign limits to the various funcfeions ^ that they do not invade each other y to fix the
grand point , *? 3 aere private rights and public want * should meet fo protect civil liberty , and the full and entire security of persons ted property . " By their fruits ye shall know them . If the parliament makes good laws , and the people submit to them , the state of Sidfy will be much meliorated : but it i *
not the assimilating of the forms of one government to that of another , wlii eh carries with it the advantage * real or supposed of tbe latter . It remains to be proved bow fer theii
House of CoramoBs i& a represent tive of the people , or it may be merely a coyer Jb * r ancie 0 tdespot&i& The cominissioners for Englairf and America are assembled M
Ghent , ; but still the war go < & oto . Our prayer is , that the exi ^ ttne M £ fereneea may be ^ comit&daiea * and that two aatio « 3 speakiiig ike a&we language , desc ^ adbd from ttc fe » e
common ancestors , agieeing tdge tiler in so maey customs ^ and itniifed by the tie » of iwutua * aelfckterediv may both be penuatkd ^ that pea ^ e is bettor than war and rtat < ni a belter arbiter tbm the « wo * &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/76/
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