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ft « GiciDE . —It is to be hoped that the recent conduct of Louis-Philippe with regard to Spain , is founded on principles of a more liberal policy than he has hitherto adopted , and if he will only be as good and wise towards his own country , it will soon put an end to the king-killing furor . Nevertheless , the death of the noble-spirited Alibaud—misdirected and irrational as was the nature of the attempt which led to his executionhas caused a sensation in France of no common nature . " After his
death , " says the Droit , " the face of Alibaud was hardly at all altered . His long- hair thrown back , left his forehead exposed , and his eyes , though dim , seemed still to look round . His lips were firmly pressed together , and his countenance had a look of pride upon it . " How different was the conduct of the vain and vulgar vaunter Fieschi , who would have resorted to any abject meanness to have preserved his worthless life . But the refusal of Alibaud to sue for pardon of a wrong-doing king , though
the pardon was offered for the asking , constitutes a principle of high and uncompromising character , and has made an impression , the importance of which will be generally understood when the monomaniacal fever of regicide , that prevailed among the young men of France , has subsided in the clear and general conviction that the firm and energetic union of moral power is the only permanent power ; the only power that can effect good ; the only power that ought to be permanent .
Newspapers . —Among the various new papers which the reduction of the stamp will induce , we rejoice to see the prospectus of a country one , bearing the title of the ' Star in the East / and do not doubt of its success , and the great benefit it will confer on various parts of the country , by the introduction of liberal principles , with sound reasons for entertaining them . Many of the counties have the greatest need of such a local paper . — " Were the Chancellor of the Exchequer , " says the
prospectus , " to repeal , or even merely to reduce , the Window Tax , it is probable that many would be induced to increase their windows in order to admit additional light and ventilation to their dwellings . So the reduction of the Newspaper Tax seems an additional reason for increasing and improving our newspapers ; for , if knowledge be to the mind as light to the body , and a window the medium of light , then should a newspaper be the medium of knowledge . " This is well said , and we confess we
have good hopes of such a paper as this promises to become , judging * by the clear statement it makes of the liberal Politics it is pledged to advocate . We hear also that the ' Leeds Times ' is in future to be edited by Robert Nicoll , and as we believe him to be a high-minded and unswerving reformer , we confidently anticipate the beneficial effects throughout Yorkshire . When there are a few local papers in the counties such as these ; when , in the metropolis—the great focus of politics and literature—the Kxaminer , the Daily and Weekly True Sun , the New Weekly
Messenger , and one or two more among the not very numerous papers who have been proved sincere and thorough-going , have completely taken possession of the vast mass of the unstamped ( and the True Sun , being first in the field , has already obtained some fifteen or twenty thousand of them ) we may then confidently hope that the cause of Reform will advance far more rapidly , inasmuch as Ministers will dread the multiplied thunders from educated and enlightened quarters that will fall on their heads if they ever again stand guilty of such a session as the last .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/63/
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