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Affnata, a Fragment. l*fl s
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of the Cap ^ tiait-rerdlutioii had given a * h inftacned arid dangerous character io d * e proceedings of wtatijr Svho had mixed themselves iwkh titts " 'cause , de * inauding the most prompt vigilance of our government , and ~ the firmest execution af the ' laws ; hut perhaps no man existing was therefore so well qualified as nimself to have changed tnosfc turbulent excesses , and turned
them , tapon his own principles , into a safer course ; a" duty which , without assorting himself unfitly , he had the happiest opportunity of fulfilling , through an association of his own equals in rartk and eminence , who were
then discountenancing b y their io ^ uei * 6 e arid exatnple eVery departure fiem sound Opinions and declarations recently published b y himself in his own narne , and widely circulated amongst the people : yet the birth of this very association , ( as far at lea ' st as times
coincide , ) was made the signal of unirersal alarm , and a proclamation by frrs authority almost instantly followed , which toeing the obvious forerunner of war , put wholly odt of the question that politic and humane consideration for tne suffering people of Capetia , which I shall die in the opinion of having been at the period before related the interest and the duty of the whole
civilized world . T take qo delight in these observations . ^—Posthumous re putation is often 'held too lightly . —We consider that the ~ dead can gain nothing by our applauses , ijor suffer frani our censures : but supposing a man whilst living to have stood alone like a rock in the oceaa *
without children or kuidfed to represent him , 1 should still remember that this life was but a portion of an immortal existence , and fame being the high-( inheritance J , I should feel like a fel on if I robbed him of what 1 believed
' to * be his own . —1 knew , then , this * great rtjinjsterin his youth , and foresaw his future destination . — His understanding was vigorous and comprehensive—his reasoning clear and energetic —his . eloquence powerful and comipanding—and as he was supported his
ttjrpi ^ gfiout eventful caree r b y lixitneii ^ e numbers ot \ disinterested and independent men , it would be unjust " not to b e lieve that he . was kirnseJf 4 ^ interested and independent , ;—His tner |} Qry after death yeceiveu this tribute iVcjjcn manyilhifitriDUs persons who had * tfirferccl from him rn opinion , anti it H
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not only -held hy ~ his frtefttfe anwl a « fe * lierents in affectionate rerdei ^ beaaoe bm in reverence as the saviour of his eoun * Uy »— -Having from a sense of justice recorded this last testimony of an ^ exai * . tetl reputation , I hold it to be a solemn duty to question and deny it , ^ being convinced that if we retfete , * or fev € « abide by the system which characterized his administration as having Jbrmerly saved his country , we shall not save i *
Mr . Burke . When the war with Hesperia ^ w ^ s approaching , a warning Voi ( : e , ^ as it -were out of Heaven itself , from its wisdom and eloquence , though
drowtred by the clatnours of ignorance and folly in the outset , yet in the end alarmed the people into a sense of the ruin they were rushing on ; but , alas I this very voice , which had breathed so happily the gentle accents of £ eace , was now heard louder than the trurrf *
pet of war , to collect our world to battle ; spreading throughout the fatnf an universal panic , " n'tttil l tfie public councils complained of sedition , btffc the Jorum of Me'cotiipMrii dhlf *\ uflamed it . —instead 6 JfMe % vfng It fe th % * sovereign , in thetJniinii ^' cdurs ' edfltjfw / to bring the ^ iispecied to trial , ^ tW 6 ' th ^
evidence' wa * collected' r 3 ^ f 7 g ^ # dt public councils ; was e ^^ ea'irifo ^ ftsrsou of the Highest or ^ d ^ r ; arftT * pt 4 b ? fsiifeH by their cOrnmarid- ^ -It \^ a ¥ i ^^ biiW within their jurisdiction , " ah& \ £ atftfte ? ¥ highest duty to protecf the state : to proclaim a conspiracy if they befffvjjf it existed , and * to direct prose ^ ut&mi against the ofTenders : but it ^ tvas ' r ' e ^ '
pugnant to £ he very elements ^ of" tirb ' Armatian conatitunonyto invoh ^ 4 ff ^ dividuals in the accusations ? afml to circulate amongst the people the aecf * - sing testimonies stamped with" th'fcfr supreme authority , when infetfiornrU buuals were afte ' rwarfh to jadgc ^ th ^
rni-—in anyiother nation the conse ^ uehcefr to the accused irmst have been TAT At , i but there is d talisman lit ArniaeEk which , whilst it is preserved" rn \ iolai £ ^ will make her immoTtaJ , — IJf £ Jfc
COURTS OF JUSTICE SPfctfCfcL ALOUD TO HBRPAftLI AME ^ l ' r ^ THUS FAR SH-A-LT THOf ^ CS ^ AND NO FARTHER . — In returnibg ^ to , or rather bt ^ hi rHn ^ an account of thi ^ ^^ rjoYdfn oTy © 6 W- positipti , whom a ^ nhor "shw ^ hly- ^ in metaphor bro »« i ^ hr befbrfe *•• mm& * & \ ir surpnafe at its warlike stimufuns will b >
Affnata, A Fragment. L*Fl S
Affnata , a Fragment . l * fl s
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/13/
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