Europe fromthe Peace of Utrecht. 
his i favousitto ilious the: happinessoofian> 
ageibf chiviley, whoseibest features live jorly: 
in rowianceq Therone called upon the world 
imits mawhood to regret that period. of cits, 
infaney whep-arts, were; unknown, and, the 
ide ld. epeasts were the only covering 
ang 3 the- other, endeay oured to re- 
ore and to preserve the. remains of the 
dark and dismal times of the'middle ages, 
when Europe was’ barbarous and misérable. 
Yetboth»these authors could call to their 
assistance:the soundest’ maxims of reason ; 
thésmost profound doctrines of philosophy : 
Rousseat ‘availed’ himself of sentiments 
which nattrecinspires, and good sense ap- 
proves 5; Burke ‘combined with his most ex- 
tispeculations; the most solemn de- 
visions! of law, andthe: practical lessons 
whicli adong contest for liberty had taught 
toan enlightened nation. «Thus each had 
peal for yhis\:proselytes, I fear I must 
svictims.»:' France, seduced by the 
er neat of the: Swiss philosopher, sunk into 
the imostabominable vices im attempting to 
realize an unattainable pitch of virtue: Eng- 
dand, srovzing:atithe trumpet of the Irish 
‘orator, Inade war upon a neighbouring coun- 
because their people had become too 
frantic and too wicked to be amicably treated 
iwvith. Thus, atthe close’ of the eighteenth 
eeentury,: when the oracles of Delphi were 
laughed at, the leaves’ of ‘the Sybi_ consi- 
dered, fabulous, and.our rude ancestors de- 
ised for, following the call, of Peter the 
Hermit ; a death and havoc made their har- 
st in every quarter of the world, because 
2 vo most enlightened nations of Europe 
ohed themsélyes to the guidance of 
plendid énclrasidsts, of whom the one 
Jévidently insane; and the other totally 
o wanting in°sourid diseretion: 
on) “ Dusust now’ pass over an eventful pe- 
\aiods || The wat between the revolution and 
nitheold monarchies; after lasting a few years, 
_ suddenly, changed its shape, and became a 
contest between one man at the head of 
France, and the rest of Europe, led by 
ngland.” For twenty years, Napoleon Bo- 
oe made the destiny of the civilized 
World. ‘His life will’stand in history, like 
“isth imus between two great ages, and 
“not less memorable than either of them. 
: The, eat eet acai of this extraordinary man 
t, in his time, to occupy the 
he raat of ‘Eitrope ; to assist or op- 
rae ojééts Was the o¢cupation of the 
Ee hi arts, thé wisest heads, of all the 
gmat Op Brurope. oN that’ he has been 
gine sete eis Pusy with its own 
~ in vie ons n, and every individual 
pint Ric own peciliar project, or 
i ea ai a igs zement. 
Ee 
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pate Hof Vienna Was’ not 
bi grits ache tide of reform which 
was sett ake rap an 
2} ie cag int digester 
Bates nea “each Cular 80 
eit 1 bse det of ere 
rset om) 
rong ia ae sila slaves, thai “the * 
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long'promised deliverance of Europe, ef- 
fected: by rmighty: sovereigns./« The. mo- 
narchs;| and: their, - -ministers;). seemed. to 
imagine. that they had got rid. of the people, 
and, popular revolutions for. ever; and. had 
nothing moré to do than to divide the: spoil. 
They distributed among | themselyés. terri- 
toriés and towns, and the souls of. men, as 
if it were so much gold and silver which 
they had captured as lawful plunder, 
“The revolutions of Spain’and’ Naples, 
however, roused the Allied Monarchs from 
their stupor, and obliged them to: disclose 
their real intentions towards, the people. of 
Europe. Theseare, to be, gathered. from 
their declarations with regard toSpainjand 
Naples ; the latter, especially, being a weak 
power, they did not hesitate to disclose at 
once all their sentiments towards her. 
_ “ The following then may be stated as 
the principal articles. of the new law of 
nations. 
1. The monarchial principle ‘Tejects 
every institution which is not determined 
upon;'and: accomplished by the gine 
himself of his own free will’ — 
2. ©The Allied Powers ¢ exercise an’ un- 
doubted right when they consider: of >med- 
sures of. precaution against states:in’ which 
the overthrow ‘of the ‘government effected 
by rebellion, even considered ‘as an exam- 
ple, must give oceasion toa hostile: atti - 
tude.’— 
3. The powers havea right of xen 
ing a ‘spirit of discontent ‘and’ bitterness, 
dispositions hostile to their government, 
and a passionate desire of political: innova- 
tion,’ existing ‘ amidst all classes of people,” 
in aforeign nation, to be the work of '‘ a 
sect working in the dark,’ the changes 
which result from it, ‘a revolt ;? and “m- 
stitutions sanctioned by a national ‘parlia- 
ment to be ‘'no less in contradiction to the 
character than to the’ wanates of that foreign 
nation.— 
4. ‘ The powers asst a right. ‘ to:pnt-an 
end by a common ‘effort to the result ‘of 
such changes.’ 
“ While the sovereigns put forth this new 
system of international law, they at the 
same time declared they were friendly to 
the introduction, in a legal manner, of 
‘institutions conformable to the progress 
of civilization and the wants of the age.’ 
The whole of their doctrine, however, with 
respect to the legal manner of introducing 
new institutions, is contained in the last 
circular dispatch; dated from Laybach, and 
expressed in a mannor which, _ not clear, 
is yet intelligible.” 
For the: curious specimens of royal 
logic contained in this notorious docu- 
ment; we refer our readers to the ame- 
Moir itself, p: 56, &c.' A ‘single para- 
graph, as comprising in fact, the’ essence 
of the whole, shall suffice for ‘our pure 
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