Europe from the Peace of Utrecht. 
can excite the subjects of despotie monarchs 
to,ask at,the-same time: for liberal institas' 
wae Theix, only ;hope of; remaining, im) 
will.be|to excite insurrection 
sr hus, the whole. family, of | Eu- 
e ahee ina dreadful species 
of oi marked with all the calamities 
of °éivil War. Bld0d will flow not only in 
the field) but oi the’ scaffold, and the victo- 
rious party’ will’ join ‘the insolence of a 
foreign enemy, to the rancour of a domestic 
faction: Suéh i is the'lmelancholy prospect 
whith ‘the imistaken’ policy of the allies 
opens to Eurdpe.’ They are about to re- 
new the seenes of horror with which the 
bigotry of Philip the II. and Charles the 
IXth afflicted etn’ during the progress 
of ba Réfor mation,’ 
From the free quotations we have 
thus. made; and especially from the 
last paragraph, it,is apparent, and an 
attentive.reference to. the work itself 
will render, it. still more conspicuous, 
that. the noble author contemplates a 
lows and sanguinary strug: 
ultimate ‘breaking up of ‘all the esta- 
plished: ‘governments and systems of 
government in Europe, as among the | 
probable consequences of the arbitrary 
principles. and measures of the, federa- 
ag aN fa SIS. commonly called the 
Holy Alli: iance;, and under this impres- 
sion,, naturally, enough proceeds to the. 
consideration of the various sthemes of 
revolution*and’ government, that may 
eventually be meditated or attempted. 
With the habits of mind and associa- 
tion,” néééssarily resulting from the 
Meatish of the imputed author, 
rank 
nd considering property as 
ails which, the governments 
pective. states of Europe rest, < 
it oie that he should contemplate 
with, sufficient horror the idea of a 
deniocratic tevolution. This abhorrence 
doesnot, however, betray him into any 
intemperance ‘of invéctive or denun- 
be hg treats the subject quite as 
cal om the prejudices of rank 
cof ‘be expected; and, although we 
opinion. t that the. picture, in some 
oi atures, isa, little overcharged, 
and very, much.,suspect that no small 
part,of the, injustice and cruelty to 
whichitis represented: that one descrip- 
tionoof/persons* would be thereby ex- 
posed) is at this en time inflicted upon 
other ‘classes by th 
part jalitigs of ailating systems,” yet are 
eg ‘and w 
i rime the dnsbpreehted' Classes 
: 
n ess, ‘appearance of 
whi 
woul 2 
ele, and the - 
€ corruptions and 
“oli garchy system, _ 
a9} 
we by no means disposed to enter into 
controversy upon these points. We 
have no greater taste for democratic re- 
volution than his Lordship; and per- 
fectly, agree with, him, thatthe, results 
of past “experiments offer but little en- 
couragement to the idea of their repe- 
tition. 
But proceeds his Lordship :— 
“' On the other hand what do the agents 
of the old arbitrary monarchies propose to 
themselves by their obstinate. resistance to 
the spirit, the sense, and knowledge of the 
age? Do they believe they can stop the 
progress of man towards civilization? That 
they can debar the people of Europe from 
representative governments and a free press, 
any more than they can conceal from them — 
a knowledge of gas-lights, stage-coaches, 
and cheap cottons? — Do they suppose that 
any inquisition which the humanity of this 
age wiil bear can prevent the ardent youth 
of the present generation from reading 
Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and LOUS= 
seau? But even this would be insufficient ; 
-they must prohibit Plato, Demosthenes, 
Thucydides, Cicero, and Livy. 
make braye men, cowards; learned men, 
ignorant ; active men, indolent honest 
men, knaves ; before they can hope to ‘suc- } 
ceed in’the task of giving to baséness, igno- 
rance, imbecility, and depravity, the govern- 
ment, of the rest of mankind. They must 
annihilate England, cut off all intercourse 
with America, and obliterate history itself 
before they can finally and completely suc- 
ceed. But this is impossible. Men are 
not now to be debarred from reading and 
thinking ; and wherever there is a man who 
reads, and thinks, there they will haye an 
enemy. Wherever there is a Society, ora. 
club, called by whatever name, and for what- 
ever purpose brought together, there they 
will find a band of adversaries. _ Warned by 
their common danger, the friends of know- 
ledge, of humanity, and of freedom, will 
unite together, and recognise each other by 
They must 
- the signs of their common feeling for the 
dignity of human nature. At the approach 
of a danger which menaces_ to swallow up 
all we have, and all we hope for. in this 
world, the prudent will become enterpris - 
ing; the tranquii will be agitated; the mo-_, 
derate impetuous ; the loyal, rebels. Sooner 
than allow the dark ages to return, thou- 
sands, and tens of thousands are_ready to 
sacrifice their lives with joy. They will 
ask for no peace but acc ompanied with free- 
dom. They will watch by night and fight 
by day... ‘They will organize’ oadeng in 
their 
Sheareit oar pasewereererrre res eo 
’ of the community, than evon against & de- 
16 eh é for agi ‘of “bepgaring | 
milli” ree ne afi asily be brought 
moéeratic revolution. They were not) the 
millions who were beggared| bythe Brench 
revolution, .. how , hard. s0ever, may - mae 
been the lot of many hundreds. 
