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ed s and among the nations , that will gain by the Emperor ' s propositions , none will derive so great a benefit from it as the French . The state of their army is such , that the crown whilst it exists
cannot be free from apprehension , and it will be long before the numbers who have led a wandering life , subsisting upon or in hopes of plunder can be brought to the more honourable mode of existence
upon this earth , that of gaining support or contributing to the welfare of others by the arts of honest industry . We must , however , wait some time before the acts of this Con .
gress are known . Much has most probably been already done , and if diversions occupy the evening , the mornings have been given to real business . The partitioning of territories without forgetting just claims must be attended with great
difficulties : and , if it is true that all parties wish to shew their de ~ testation of the tyranny that has lately been overthrown , other acts of oppression besides those of Buo . naparte will receive proper animadversion . None of his acts are
worse than the partition of Poland ; and no military execution of the French can be compared with the massacre at Warsaw by Suwarrow . To the Emperor of Russia is at .
tnbuted the design of restoring to Poland its independence , and the raising of it again into the rank of kingdoms .
Rome is next to Vienna in bustle and activity . There the pretended holy father vvitli his cardinals are at work night and day in the endeavour to restore what is called lhe church to its ancient footing . Monks and nuns are collected together from all quarters : but the
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great plan , the re-establishraent of the Jesuits , does not meet with success by any means adequate to the sanguine expectations of his pretended holiness . Even in Italy
it is looked upon as a lost case it is not thought , that the sovereigns of Europe can be again so duped as to admit under the pretext of religion the most dangerous corresponding society that ever was formed . The words of a
Venetian writer have been quoted upon this subject ; who states , that within half a century after the death of Ignatius the postage of the general of the Jesuits amounted from sixty to a hundred golden crowns on the arrival of each
courier . Thus Rome was the depot of intelligence from all quarters , and in the conclave of the Jesuits every political matter was agitated . The expence of postage was nearly the only expence they were at , for their agents in all kingdoms ,
except the Protestant , were kept at the expence of each respective govern ment ^ being either father-confessors or high officers of state , or apparently private monks in their respective monasteries . Education was an inferior concern , and the Catholic states must be much at
a loss , if they cannot provide for education without associating with it religious vows or political
views * But Prussia presents to us a new and very important feature . We do not allude to the organization of its military arrangements , though even in them we trust much will be done to relieve that
unhappy country from the dreadful system , under which it has so long groaned . Prussia was a vast barrack . The father of the great Frederick , as ha is called , was
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State of Public Affairs . 842
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/53/
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