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abroad at . this tnae , hut tha * Che creatures of France have made it their business in all the considerable courts and cities of Europe , to magnify the opulence of that kingdom , the happy state of its su bjects , the grandeur and puissance of its m onarch , and the excellency of that kind of polity and government their
stupendous master hath set Up . To obviate such parasitical eftcomibtaiS , this small piece is made ptfbHcy 1 wherein may be seen the tinsomtdaess of those maxims , by which the more than inhumane Jesuits have led that ambitious tyrant ; and would influence other crowned heads if their interest couJxJ compass it . "
Our traveller , smitten * with < the desire of novelty /' -whiafe-if-you would suppress " you might as welt go abemt to stop the rapid floods of Nilus , " determined " to take a ton ? into France , to see what proportion there was between the representations that
noisy strumpet Fame had made concerning that so-nmeh-talked-of country , and the reality , as demonstrated by matter of fact" ( p . 2 ) . He arrives on " the fatal sands of Calais , " the arena chosen for their affairs of honour by the duellists of the 17 th century , " where the last sand of
many a bully ' s glass hath run out , and a French pass hath past their souls into another world / ' On this subject the traveller thus enlarges , assailing with well-merited ridicule what should rather be abominated as a crime of no trivial magnitude .
" The justs and tournaments of old Ji ^ vc not been more famous for exerting youthful vigour and a profusion of enamoured blood ; nor the . celebrated fields where the Olympic Games were kept , never reeked with more . exasperated gorcy
when the fierce £ omba £ a #£ s lay weltering under the wheel s * , 0-f each others chariot . Hut the hands of Calais ha , vp J > eeu ofteuer * t . lined with the purple jelly of an irrigated Monsieur , or a distrustful g allant . Hardly can a Monsieur be chouced of a
s miff-box , or have his fehibletnatic inush-1 ( > om picked out of his pdcket > which was *<> have been grilleed or rugustetl for supl cr , hut ouj ccujaes the tilter , ami away *<> the sands , where . tbe / w'ltm * tle-guerre lu » st decide th&tirjc . .
' As for our cutyies f >\\ thjs aide , their ^ hnu ; out is o ften about matters more involous and contemptible : for if Miss <»> es hut Jook askew , ov cast a glance on pother gallant , away goes footboy witli »« ' ch allenge , the yatch is presently hired oi Calais , and there is fop decently run trough the lanes : and thnre ' . s an end ~—
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of a paiiited , essenced , all-to-be-spruced thing , that ha * treated half the jilts in town , made two or three broils at Bar ^ thqlomew Fair , and afterwards went * expire on the shore of that country whose modes he aped and whose follies he was so fond of . "
His " business , " however , " being an affair of another kind than that of the poniard / ' our traveller proceeds to describe Calais . Against " the opinion of some , that the Gallic and Kentish shores made one entire continent in ancient time , " ( p . 5 , ) he alleges the " vast disproportion in the figure and disposition of the natives on , that side and this , " and thus are introduced " the rattling of the wooden shoes about the streets : the mean mid
dejected aspect of the inhabitants" and " their contemptible and sordid way of living * in their houses ; " which , in a detail rather disgusting " , is , no doubt , exaggerated by no small portion of Antigallicau prejudice . " From hence , travelling to Paris , there
was opportmujjf " enough to observe what a prodigious state of poverty the ambition and absoluteness of a tyrant can , in a few years , reduce an opulent and fertile country to ; there were visible all the marks and signs of a growing misfortune , all the dismal indications of an
overwhelming calamity . The fields were uncultivated , the villages unpeopled , the houses dropping to decay , the inhabitants that remained peeped out at doors and crevices , as if the King ' s booted apostles had been coining to plant the faith
amongst them , by plundering the little that was left . —The country looked no more like what it was re-presented to he in Louis XHI . ' s time , than an apple h \ like an oyster . ( Pp . 8 , 9 . )
() a his journey to Paris , our traveller forms mi acquaintance witli a gentleman who Endeavours to assign " the reasons vVh y this great calamity is come upon trance , " ( p . 18 , )
attributing a large share of the evil to the clergy . This stranger is indeed so (little disposed to Church and King ' in a holy alliance , that he cannot * think of a national clergy , without reflecting on that voice which was said to be
heard over all the empire , that day when Constantino endovyedtke Church with temporal patrimonies and profits , Hac die vencnum infuriditur in ecclesia , of which every age since has been more and more sensible . " ( P . 20 . ) The ecclesiastical state of France is
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Boo ^ PFarm . No . XXVII . 201
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/9/
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