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    that fitterity ts not in his power ; ami that the preseat is given to him to cultivate those dispositions , which may secure a blessing on his projects . Men , especially those in the higher ranks , are apt to frame very inconsiderate projects ; to lose sight of the dependence in which tbey live : out he is best secured who sets God before him

    in all his ways , and spendsihis short time here in such a manner , $ hat the fatal dart shall never find him unprepared ; who knows that here be is under the eye of an affectionate Father , that cares for him , and will take care of whomsoever he leaveth to his charge . The situation of the royal house cannot hut force itself on oar reflections . It

    seemed at one time to be so firmly settled , that a numerous progeny might Jong before this have been expected to secure the foundations of future stability . Two generations have been , cut off at one blow , and from the loins of the aged king is not a descendant except those who derive their birth immediately from him . Thfs is a

    case scarcely to be paralleled in the history not merely of a royal but of any private house . The branches , however , of the family which was appointed by act of parliament , to rule over us , are numerous : and with 110 distant part of the line of succession the blood of Buonaparte is

    connected . This is one among * those events which are deemed curious , that the history of lif < e frequently brings to our view : for it is aot unlikely , that through this very branch , in no great length of time , the blood of Buonaparte may flow in the veins of every sovereign of Europe .

    The aspect of the United Kingdom , from the time that the fatal news had reached its extremities , is a satisfactory answer to all that had been urged in various speeches and publications respecting- the people , on the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Aet . Melancholy as is the cause of this manifestation of the loyalty of the people of

    England , stilt it is a decisive proof , that whatever might have happened in a few place * from the distresses of the times , er the criminal acts © f spies set on , or others combining 1 to excite temporary confusion , still the great mass of the people were not affected by it , nor was it likely that any means could operate upon it , to withdraw

    its allegiance from the House of Brunswick . It is indeed oite of the most difficult tilings in the world to shake the loyalty of a people ; and in general it is the disloyalty of sovereigns , which produce * at any time general confusion . ^ The « fiVct may not

    appear in the reign of the sovereign , ifjio committed firet tfe « act o # disloyalty . Hit successors may rue the $ onae < giteae « s of previous misgorerntifcnt . Thiis-etrr Charles fell a sacrifice to his own error in governing Ktigland for so tone ; a time without a par-

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    liament , and the best of the Bouvfaoi , Louin the Sixteenth , felt the effects of the mal ~ tidministratians of lib predecessor JLouis the Fourteenth and Louit the Fif , tee nth . In all cases of distress we naturally look out for sources of consolation and matter for future improvement . Here indeed is ample subject . On the virtues of the de ^

    parted every one dwells with mournful satisfaction ; and here is the proof that if princes are not wanting to themselves , the people will not be wanting' in affection . May this reflection sink deep in the hearts of all who govern and all who are governed . Aftection is better than mvriads of armed men , and Alexander of Russia is safer from this cause , than from all the terrors that autocracy could excite .

    This melancholy subject absorbed the mind too much for the fate of some wretched men at Derby , expiating- the crime of hi gh treason by their death , to produce any considerable sensation . The poverty of these wretches , the evident folly of their proceedings , and the general belief that they were urged on by a spy to this criminal

    conduct , diminished very inneh the impressions that a charge of high treason naturally excites . There had been murder committed , and $ he chief culprit seemed to he one of those ? hardened men capable of engaging in any enterprise , but without talents for the execution of any thing but the mere work of destruction . The old

    sentence of our law fit these eases is very disgusting , suited only to the manners of a barbarous age . A great deal of what is shocking to the feeling * of humanity was omitted ; but < fi # irT the exposure of the mangled head , titfter it had been severed from the body , -stitffcfc a horror in tbe

    attendant multitude , more likely to produce a feeling' of abhorrence of the mode of execution , than of the crime which it was intended to impress the most on their minds . It may be justly doubted , whether in a Christian country , any outrage should he committed on tho dead . When tbe

    breath is out of the body , the man can feel no mote . Whatever indignity is offered to bis remains , attaches not to him . Yet fallen man is an object of respect for the sake of the living ; and if tbe vengeance of the law were satisfied with the death of the criminal , except when the body is app lied

    to useful purposes tow the sake of anatomy , and then it can no longer bo called vengeance , *«« Hviag would be as much deterred from crime mi by the present intended means to * K « it « horror also . $ " » tbe Gxeeittbnm sit Derby { wore a melierattoii of feetiftf m tbis sabred , a » 4 let us Iwpe that a farther wetfovation i » ay not be <» "ed

    for for QMS ft * com ** Another fcteof of ** barbarity of *» r anc * tors fca * b «* n brought far * to j » uW »

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/54/