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    d ress . As the French have com . plained of the severity of our courts of justice in the case of libels , we shall on the result of these trials be able to form some comparison between the two countries . The

    king ' s influence is daily strengthening , and he is securing a military guard round his person , which may gradually supply officers for

    his army . As it seems to be the intention of superseding the old plan of officers rising by merit from the ranks , their army will gradually grow less formidable . Great fears are entertained for the

    re . establishment of monkery , for it is supposed * that nearly three hundred thousand pounds worth of land belonging to conrents is not alienated : and if this is re *

    stored to these useless institutions , they will have a very pretty fund to begin with , and by degrees may attain to their former prosperity , France is evidently recovering from her wounds : but Spain pre .

    sents to us a very melancholy ap . pearance . The policy of the sovereigns on the respective thrones has been as opposite as possible . One lias sought to secure peace by

    oblivion , the other by precipitately endeavouring to restore every thing to its former state , and punishing even those individuals by whose exertions the independence of the kingdom was preserved . The

    consequence of this conduct is manifested in discontents and tumults , and in Navarre one of the most celebrated leaders has appeared at the head of his Guerilla in oppo-• , » »*

    sition to government . His attempt ° n Panipeluna was rendered abortive by the activity of its governor ; but the mountains of Navarre will afford him shelter , and a place Presort for the discontented . How

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    far the spirit of insurrection prevails in the country is not known ; but even th ^ ignoran ce that pre * vails respecting the interior is but a bad omen for the existing go * vemment The priests and monks

    are returning to their possessions , smarting under the sense of the injuries they have sustained , and relying on the power and favour of the monarch to preserve them in the exercise of their wonted

    powers . From Europe we turn with a melancholy eye to the other side of the Atlantick , where the war is carried on with unusual features of severity . Neither side has reason to boast of its success ; for

    though both parties carry on the work of destruction with great alacrity , it is not easy to say which is the greater sufferer . In their military exploits also there is the same similarity . The English have been successful in the north and

    south of the eastern parts , and have received reverses in the north , west to counterbalance them . B « t the point , on which the attention of Europe has been deeply ffixed

    has been our conduct in Washington , the capital of the United States . Of this , by a very skilful plan admirably put into execution , our troops obtained the possession with inconsiderable loss . Here

    their stay could be but short * and their time was , according t <> the wisdom of the worldly politician , well employed in the destruction of a vast variety of stores ; but the next act , the destruction of the

    President ' s palace , courts cfle ~ gislature and justice , and public edifices , has occasioned a sensation upon the continent , which is injurious to the British character . This act is contracted with the

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    State of Public Affairs * 043

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/55/