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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; t OR , The Christian s Survey of the Political JVorldi
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AMONG the strangle events which the •*** state of Europe has produced , a treaty entered into by three sovereig-ns , and to which the other states are invited to concar , now calls our attention . It was signed at Paris during- the time that the sovereigns were there , and in this instance they may be considered as the representatives of the three great sects , whose religion-is
established by law . These are the Greek Church , the Romish Church and the Protestant Church . Tlje personages are the Emperors of Russia , Austria , and the kingof Prussia . The object of the treaty differs materially from that of the voluminous
ones which hare been laid before parliament . It is not to settle boundaries , to annihilate republics , exchange provinces , set up or dethrone kings j it is a solemn appeal to the whole world , a testimony in favour of the Christian relig-ion , a determination to make it the rule of their
actions both in their conduct t «» each other and to their subjects , and what is , however , a suspicious covenant , to assist each other in the promotion of their laudable designs . The signatures of princes * have been so often affi xed to treaties , broken almost before the wax of their seals has had time to
cool , that their Iang * uag"e ceases to carry with it that confidence which ought to attach to persons of their exalted rank . In this case , however , there seems not to have been any call for this voluntary association
ana voluntary declaration . We may easily conceive , that the great events in which these sovereigns have been enag-ed , may have made a deep impression on their niuds , may have led t ^ em to p ros trate * heuigelveft before the throne of the Al-
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mighty , and contemplating * the vanity and folly of human policy , they may have felt , that the only way to govern wisely was , by ad he i ing- to the precepts delivered to us by him who is emphatically styled our Saviour , the Prince of Peace . If this is really the case , we cannot but congratulate the worlA
on so great an event . If m the extensive regions of Russia , Austria and Prussia * every thing contrary to the mild spirit of the Christian laws is abolished ; if a new system is set up , in which mildness and Christian love should be as much predominant as heretofore crueltv and intolerance :
we cannot doubt that the example will spread itself , and that other nations , observing their order , propriety , love of justice , and hatred of war , will gradually assimilate their laws to a purer standard .
As yet we can know nothing of the effects of this treaty . We must allow a sufficiency of time for the great potentates to introduce the gradual reformation into their respective dominions . The boors in Poland and the slaves in Russia cannot
immediately be placed m the rank of freemen , nor is it adviseable that such a change should be instantaneously enforced . Austria may find some difficulties from Popish superstition , Prussia from its military system . But we shall be glad to hear of a beginning made in the respective
countries , and of the manner in which it is received by the subjects . Some things may evidently be done without great difficulty ; as , for example , the seizing of a person on suspicion of crime , and treating him with as much severity in a prison as If he had been g-uilty of it , will be no more . All tortures should be abolished . Persecu tion ou account of religion should cease .
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Committee of Deputies , of the Three Denominations of Protestant Dissenters , for the year 1816 . Messrs . William Smith , M . P ., Chairman , Paik-street , Westminster ; Joseph Gutteridge , Deputy Chairman , Camburwell j James Collins , Treasurer , Spitalsquare ; John Towill Rutt , Bromley , Middlesex ; Samuel Favell , Grove Hill , Camberwell ; B . Boswell Bed dome , Walworth ;
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William Hale , Horoerton Wiffianf Bulls , Loth bury * James Esdatfe , Bun hill-row 5 William Esdaile , Claphatt Common ; Wit . Ham Alers Han key , Fen church-street ; John A deling ton , SpUal-atquare ; Joseph Bunuell , Southampton-row $ Samuel Jackson , Hackney ; James Gibson , Highbury-place , Islington ; Joseph Wilson ,
Milk-street- WilliamTitford , Union-street , Bishopsg'ate-street ; Joseph Towle , Walworth ; William Dudds Clark , Hig-hstreet , Borough ; Joseph Luck , Clapton ; William Freme , Catharine-court , Tower-Hill ; Edward Shrubsole , Bank ; James Blacky York-street , Covent Garden 3 B . P . Witts , Friday-street .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/61/
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