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MONTHLY RETROSPECT of PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR , The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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A year has elapsed since the nation was in affliction for the loss of a deeply-regretted princess , and with her ^ the first of her womb and the hopes of the family . At the time , when the returning year brought the recollection of the past more strongly to our memory , death again struck his
triumphant dart , and levelled with the dust one of the greatest men that this nation Las produced . The loss was sensibl y felt . in , every quarter ; for though he was not iq that high station , with which the generality are apt to connect so much consequence , yet 1 ) is talents , his worth , and the honourable distinction with which he had been so
lately invested , gave every one an interest in his character , tn an honourable profession he had attained , by his own merit , that pre-eminence which merit only can confer : and as he fiad shewn himself to be the friend of the people and of the reform of abuses , the independent manner by which
he was brought into parliament for the second city in the kingdom , led us to expect , that his voice would be nqore attended to in the senate of the nation . All things had conspired to render him the object of universal admiration and expectation ^ when lie was taken from us in a most abrupt
manner , and by a calamity , which points out to us the weakness of the highest intellect , and that in a moment the powers of the linest mind may be deranged . To fill up the place of such a man is not easy and a more arduous task is imposed on the survivors , that they inay perfect the plan which he had chalked out to them . The
name of Sir Samuef BoiniJIy will long be remembered by all , who knew hi in in I 113 professipnal pursuits , or enjoyed with him the intercourse of private life ; and by the public at large it will be Jield in honour , as long as true patriotism shall be in estimation in this country .
Another losa in higher life was expected from the warnings given tyy disease , and , at the age of the Queen , a long continuance among us was less , to be expected ^ Jleij departure was attended with the usual marks of mourning attached to so high a parsonage , of whom it will become us to speak but little ; but the decorum which she kept up in lier court , and the discount tenance which she held out to immoral
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characters , at $ time whe . n it was not so easy to stem the torrent of fashionable vice , will , whenever her naine is mentioned , be remembered highly to her advantage .- — Time also will discover many traits of beneficence and benevolence , wtiich would do honour to private characters , and , from
their being performed ' without publicity and ostentation , entitle her the chore t& our respect . It may he matter of regret to observe ^ that imperfections are seized on with aridity ; btit who is free from them ? It is for the advantage of the public-, that moral worth , in high stations , should meet with its fair reward , The
character ef the great has considerable influence , and in no small degree may it perhaps be attributed to the royal personage whose loss is now deplored , that in the higher ranks of life more attention is paid in England to public decorum than in any other country in Europe .
The grand proceedings of Aix-la-Chapelle are riot fet developed . The sovereigns ' have had their meeting , and discussed , without doubt , many points of great importance to their subjects . But we cannot think of their resolutions , whatever they may be , without recollecting that , in the same place , a solemn congress
was held of the representatives of Europe , who laid the basis for perpetual amity between their sovereigns , which was overthrown in half a dozen years after . The present great men of the earth hare , however , settled one point , namely , that France may be restored to her former state among the nations , that she requires no longer an armed force to secure the obedience of th 6
subject to the sovereign , whom they have imposed upon her . In consequence , they have inarched away their troops to their respective homes , and the warriors of England are landed in their country . Ce * - tuin arrangements have also been made for
the payment of sums , by France , to the respective countries , which have co-ojperated in placing her in her present state . Their farther regulations will , in due time , appear , and perhaps , will not be exactly the same , as if they had been drawn up by 4 jjje jrepresentatives of their subjects . It does not as yet appear , that they have interfered in the dispute between Bavaria
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Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or , The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT of PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/61/
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