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    7 § State of Public Affairs .

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    many arc in perplexity . Whom shall they adhere to ? If th « -.-y quit Buonaparte , their crowns , which they owe to him , may fall from their heads : if they adhere to him , can he protect them , and will they not be crushed by Russia ? Sweden will be benefitted , and Denmark will be permitted , perhaps , to remain as it is . Of the new kingdom of Italy we know nothing-. The conscription is to be levied in it , and its devotion to the emperor will be tried : and if Naples now resists , there is no one to inforce obedience , and she may , like Sicily , establish a constitution and * independance . Spain is in a very extraordinary position The French have full controul over the northern and middle parts . The English have retired into Portugal . The Marquis of Wellington has sent home a dreadful account of his army , which in its retreat from Madrid and

    Burgos perpetrated horrid outrages , and according to his lordship ' s account , behaved 'worse , with less reason , than any army he had ever been with , or ever read of . After detailing such an account his lordship went to Cadiz to solicit greater powers . He has been there very splendidly received , but his

    requests are listened to with no small jealousy . The conduct of the British army has assuredly no tendency to ingratiate us with the Spanish nation , nor do we appear in other respects to be entitled to very great deference from them . Yet , perhaps , Lord Wellington ' s measure is the best devised for the

    expulsion of the French from the peninsula , who will evidently retain their ground , as long as partial at lacks only are made upon them , and till the whole stiength of the nation is brought against them under the guidance of a skilful commander . If the Cortez can bring themselves to make their duke of Ciudad

    Rodrigo generalissimo , with civil as well as military powers , we have no doubt of beneficial results from such an arrangement : but the jealousy of the Spanish character forbids us to entertain sanguine expectations of such an event , and the war will go on at a monstrous expense

    to this nation with successive irruptions and retreats of our army . Of the Spanish colonies we still continue to remain in great ignorance . Buenos Ay res is strong enough to support itself , and the neighbouring kingdom ef the Brasils does not venture to

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    The successes of their privateers have a great influence in this respect , to which may be added the expected assistance from Buonaparte ; but , when they hear of his distresses , it is not improbable , that a greater spirit of moderation will prevail . Canada is in a stale of security ,

    though it is peopled with Roman Catholics * for they fight just as zealously , as if they professed the religion of the Church of England . The Americans thieaten it with another attack . Every day , however , shews more and more and more the folly of this unnecessary war . from whichever side of the water

    it originated . The Bible Society continues its triumphs . We have already recorded a great one in the city of London , when , in the Egyptian hall , the Lord Mayor presided ; and in an assembly of twelve hundred persons , resolutions , proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , were passed unanimously in favour of

    the diffusion of bibles , without note or comment . A similar meeting has been holden for the city of Westminster , under the patronage of the dukes of York , Kent , Cumberland , Sussex and Cambridge . Lord Teignmouth was in the chair . Lord Castlereagh , a secretary of state , proposed , and Mr . Whitbread seconded the resolutions . Several

    excellent speeches wer ^ j made , and scriptural exhortations used upon the occasion . The chief fact of importance divulged was , that an edict of the emperor of China had been brought to this country and translated , which makes it death for any man to introduce a bible into hi » dominions : but the meeting was

    exhorted not to despair , as the next emperor , it was hoped , would revbke it . Edicts against Christianity are not uncommon in China , and the emperor probably argues from the Lves of Christians , on the tendency of their laws and their hooks . What , indeed , raiwt be his sentiments , should our newspaper * be translated for the use of hi 8 cabinet ?

    interfere in its concerns ; but ihe real state of Lima and Peru is enveloped in great obscurity . Mexico is still united to the old government , that is , the city and a small part of the surrounding territory , but the country at large presents a picture of confusion , which is little inferior to that of Spain . The United States , encouraged by their small naval captures , and forgetting the losses of armies , are more firmly united for war .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/78/