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perft # ^^ feaflitftf taf ^ ftottt that vrepo ^ #$ ranc > e %% the Continent which the mmftrttl&l § p * t&Vtfjg-fitib ' to ? her hands ; if at a period in which religious freedom bad not ^ yet becom e a common maxim with aTF eniip-fitened governments , the British Administration in former daW could oibtain
go great a triumph on this subject over the prejudices of time and place , can any person doubt but ttjat a single word from your ministers ( whbni t ^ e House of Savoy must re § "ilM as its lestorers ) would have been snmCienl im assure , not only to the Vauddis ^ Vut to all the inhabitants of Piedmont , * ' the free exercise of their religion ?
Since then , negociators , supported by so gf&dt B . n influence , dj # hot think proper to ftlsert infhe hew treaties the ancient guarantee to the Protestants of Piedmont , w ^ must suppose that they could not fo regee that the Court of Sardinia , hy declaring every thing null which happened during its absence , Ytnat is to say , during "
sixteen years and more ) would , under this general proclamation , rob the Vaudois of all the benefits with which a paternal administration had endowed their church , and of wnicli the French fiacality ha < l not the hardihood to despoil them . Deprived of this resource , the Protestants of the
Alps will be obliged again to call upon the liberality of * the English to contribute to the Support of their religion \ but supposfrig that they should not be disappointed in &eir expectations from them , cau any one couipare this humiliating and precarious situation with that public and independent support of their ^ worship , and that perfect ; civil equality which they eujoyed for bo ; many years before the restoration of the Sardinian King ? How much
angfmsh arid uncertainty through Europe might * have been put an end to by a few words from your ministers , supported as they are on this subject "b y claims so strong * and resources so Immense ! Will they who have'd one ' so much for kings , do nothing * for the ** people , especially for that portion
° » the European people whom the sacred tieS of a common religion , and the recollectibn 6 f simflaf sufferings , bind in so close a manner with " the nation whom they profess to represent ? We hope , and dare oeneve ^ that ' these " great personag-es par ** ^^ th e ^ elves of the indignation tfgtr w&fcln We |^ e penetrated , and that ttiey wb 6 Wr headed the coalition 6 f king * * mn * t Hiieijp people , will not dhTclfiin to i £ * % * * % * ° fy- > a&uring their natuVal a ^*^« f n > m # rights to those nations ttii onl ^ cf ^ tve fo > i to ^ tii rti u ndfe r the domi-* atibti > ot th ^ r aUcitintTOAsters . "—Morn .
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•*? -Ms We ^ naVe seeh From experience , and froiii the unhappy consequences that have re ^ n ltM f 6 r ihe whole world , that the cottffee of the political relations in Europe between the Powers has not been founded : on those true principles upon which the wisdom % > f G < pd in his revelations has founded the peace and prosperity of nations ,
" We have consequently , in conjunction with their Majesties the Emperor of Austria , Francis the First , and the Kingof Prussia ^ Frederick William , proceeded to form an alliance between us , ( to which the other Christian Powers are invited to accede ) , in which we reciprocally engage , both between ourselves and in respect of
our subjects , to adopt , as the sole mean * to attain this end , the principle drawn from the words and doctrine of our Saviour Jesus Christ , wha preaches not to live in enmity and hatred , but in peace and loye ^ We hope and implore the blessing- of th « Most High : may this sacred union be
confirmed between all the powers for tTieir g-eneral g * ood , and ( deterred by the unions of all the rest ) , may no one dare to fall off from it . We accordingly subjoin a copy of this union , ordering it to be mad ? generally known , and read in all the churches .
"St . Petersburgh , on the clay of the birth of our Saviour , 25 th Dec , 1815 ^ " The original is signed by his Imperial Majesty ' s own hand , « ALEXANDER . ' * u In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity .
" Their Majesties , the Emperor of Austria , the King- of Prussia , and the Emperor of Russia , having in consequence of the great events which have marked th # course of the three last years in Europe , and Tespeciully of the blessings which it has pleased Divine . Providence to sboweir down upon those states , which place their confidence and their hope on it alone ,
acquired the intimate conviction of the necessity of founding the conduct to be observed by the powers in their reciprocal relations upon the sublime truths which the boly religion of our Saviour teaches . ** They solemnly declare , that the present Act has no other object than to publish in the face of the whole world their
fixed resolution , both in the administration ' of their respective states , and in their political relations with every ottyer government , to take for their sole guide t » je precepts of that holy reli g ion ! namely , the precepts of Justice , Christian Cbarity r
and Peace , whicn far froo > being ja ^ pii cable only to private concerns , ^ nu st jy ^ an immediate inffuence on the cown ^^^ ¦ trid ^^^^ - ^ 4 ^ W" ^ the ' only nfeaas bT ^ o n 6 ohdatin ^| j | m inatitutidwg , aud remedying ^^^ ' ^ ffi j ^ pr-Actions .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/49/
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