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    plan in view , and leaving the fugitives to the north of the Danube to the care of his generals , he pursued the Ausrrians to their territories , and gave them another complete defeat on their own borders . The way was now open to Vienna , and this was ^ evidently the first point , on which he fixed his place of repose , and this point he reached on the ninth of May . Thus the south of the Danube was in a manner completely in his

    possession . The troops in that quarter m Germany and Austria were completely routed and dispersed , and his generals had driven back the Italian army of his adversary . The future acts of the campaign time must develope , but there seems little reason to believe , that the

    Archduke will be able to make any great stand against the enemy . He is now separated by the Danube from the greater part of his resources . Bohemia lies open . to him , but in his rear are the French , and Buonaparte can easily cross over the Danube at Vienna and oppose him with a superior force . In fact his .

    situation is most deplorable , andhisjbrother ' empire seems to lie completely at the mercy of the conqueror . Here the mind ^ naturalry pauses to reflect on the vicissitude of human affairs . The counts of Hapsburg were once men of little name , but they rose by

    degrees , till they established themselves to be the greatest family in Europe . A few years ago Buonaparte would not have been admitted at their court ; he would have been regarded with contempt by the majority of the courtiers , if he had visited Vienna as a lieutenant

    in the French army . He is now raised to such a summit of glory , that kings are in his train , and an emperor must be a suppliant to him for future subsisrence . True is it , that God giveth the dominion to whomsoever he pleases , and vain is thebocst of any son of man , that his glory shall continue . Still will the

    human race be infected with pride , and the d escendants of a Buonaparte ' s family may hereafter exhibit the same scenes of imbecility , as have been seen in the Bourbons and the Hapsburgs . The re-!* & ° u 8 intolerance , which has marked both those families , renders their fall less an object of pity , yet time must discover ; whether the new dynasty will rul N better principles .. whilst Buonaparte is giving law at * enna , the Russians are advancing * pmst the Turkish empire . They have preceded their »> arch with a declaration

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    of war , and the pretext seems to be very futile . The disturbed state of Turkey is however the grand reason for attack , arid it is not improbable , that we snail now soon see developed the plans of the meeting at Erfurt * It will be an extraordinary phenomenon , if the Austrian and Turjcxsh dominions should be dismembered at the same time . There is space between the Danube and the Grecian part of the Mediterranean for the erection' of new kingdoms , and the plan of the late empress of Russia may be realized , and a Russian be seated on the throne of Constantinople . The times teem with prodigious events , and a great conflict must be endured before Oreece is restored to the civilized world .

    Whilst feats of aims call our . attention to on , e part of fc-uiope , the north presents a scene of a different nature . A king has been set aside from his throne without scarcely any tumult , and . his subjects have met together to form a new constitution , and to redress the grievances which they suffered under his mismanagement . The diet has been assembled in Sweden : the king ' s resignation of his crown has been received :

    they have set him -aside and all his family for ever : the duke of Suderxnauia remains the regent , and is expected to be the king : but he h ^ s not as yet assumed the title , and waits till the diet has determined in what manner in -future the kingdom shall be governed . To those , who believe that kings rule by right divine , that they are answerable

    only to the supreme Being for their conduct , that the whole business of subjects in relation to politics external or internal is contained in one word , obey ; this will appear to be a most horrible transaction : but on the other hand they , who have a more enlarged view of things , and contemplate the reciprocal relaiion of king and subjects , and that a whole kingdom is not to be ruined for the sake of a

    single individual and his family , and who moreover reflect , that whatever may have been the theories of political writers , or the maxims advanced in state declarations , still the history of the world is filled with the depositions of kings by

    their subjects , in uncivilized states , generally accompanied with violence and murder , and in a higher degree of civilization with different degrees of order in their proceeding , persons , who reflect on the state of things past and present , wiil not capriciously condemn the Swedish

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/49/