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pakgi ^ of BMli fb vw&te he tntf&i&iue& ' * W . v * ,. cttijMtr 1 M | r vJojrpfraT T ^ m * c * B ? ey ^ % **« l eh * r * $ t « f . afjfc jr ^ £ jtyi 6 U wbp woa the victories * f BWbeim and RamilUes ; whence find that a Marlborough in the army , as subsequently > CoUi&jp- , wood in the navy , could convert the most reckless citiztns ijU <>
ohampions of the safety of their country and promoters of civilisation , even within the camp and under hatches ? To know really the English capacity and character ,, - let : us recollect that the nation have always led in some art tending tp greatness and stretching toward empire . We were in early times mmous in archery ; in the infancy of our navy we , coped successfully with the greatest fleet that has been equipped in modern
tunes , — . the Spanish Armada ; before we were accustomed to standing armies we raised an armament , and fought successful campaigns against a power then the terror of the Continent , winning battles against that power in the heart of the kingdom of another enemy , mastering a province of fortresses , mooting the ' lines' which were erected , first as a composition with empire and afterwards as a narrow frontier defence ; and ( but for a
change in the councils of St . James ' s ) marching to the enemy ' s capital , and dictating terms of reconciliation in his palace . The Pitt dynasty first laid England beneath the foot of her enemies , but they were the children of her soil : yes , exaction was to be submitted to , loans and subsidies were to be raised ^ one hundred trillions sterling was required for the service of one year . Mark how the epergies of England responded to that woiul necessity J
our tillage was immediately advanced to the utmost limit of productiveness ; we became the first farmers in the world * That Was not enough ; manufactures must contribute to the public purse . Then rose the epoch of the civil engineer and the cotton * - spinner . It were superfluous to expatiate on this branch of the argument ; but it may be insisted that a people who thus mount with the occasion , cannot be wanting in any of the faculties
w ^ ich , by education ( or bringing out , ) ennoble our speciea and adorn ereatitfn . And ba it remembered that , in the instances Ifee have given , it was in tha people , and not in their rulers , that England acquitted herself ai it is our boast to record . Pitt came on the scene before Englishmen had learned to distrust their rulers : should such a scourge appear again , ho might call for
• upplies , but would they come for calling ? He mu « t gather up in tys mantle all the love of all Englishmen , or be could Qoly prophesy kis own speedy downfall : he could not make us slave ? to his empire when we had perceived in him a sinister purpose . And eoujd England , from her present state , ri » e to va ^ ei wch <) pc ^ ion 9 , Jm hav * speeded her on to her old grloriea ? Perfrap * not } but that it not th « question . Are En | li « h > meo worthy of Mftfeft * iu «* &Q * h at > o ) lition disgrweftjl to their lindmge 1 ; mt art TO ^ T ^ flWt W © W ^ teFri&nea . Thert ar ^ t ^ : ^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 678, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/50/
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