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Brown's admirers, of endeavouring to bring 

 about a counter-revolution, and to restore 

 the ancien regime, with all its despotism of 

 strait lines and perpetual symmetry. It 

 is true that I have some attachment to the 

 old monarchy, though I should not like 

 to have it restored without strict limita- 

 tions : but my wish in this instance is 

 to combat the despotism of modern im- 

 provers, as resembhng in a great degree that 

 of religious intolerance ; for they allow no 

 salvation out of their own pale. In this 

 case, as in most others, I should rather 

 choose to follow the example of ancient, 

 than of modern Rome. The old Romans 

 not only tolerated every style of worship, 

 but mixed and incorporated them with 

 their own. The gods of Greece and of 

 Homer, still kept their eminent stations ; 

 but there was always some corner where 

 devotions might be paid to Apis or Anubis: 

 and such there might be in any place, 

 whatever its character, where a man who 

 had a taste for the Dutch style, might €n- 



