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precisely the very principles, and adopts the
very same measures which brought his family to
ruin, his country to foreign domination and dis-
grace, to national subjection and political dope-
dation.

Ma. Eorroa—l have read with considerable
pleasure and information an excellent letter of
one' of your Currespondeuts, in your Paper of
the 26th ult. The subject of the Learned
Writer is not exhausted ; and these momentous
times in which we live, and have lived, seem cal-
culated to awaken human curiosity on what shall
take place, from reflection on incidents which
have already astonished the civilized world, as
must happen from a retrospection of the causes
which induced and accomplished the memo-
rable Revolution of Europe which we have all
seen. Man, though a versatile animal, delighted
with novelty, and marked individually by caprice
and vaccination assumes a far different character
$v hen the habitudes of the being are mixed up
with national association—a consistence, an uni-
formity is couferred not only by national but by
corporate associations—a permanency is assigned
to these deliberations, and an importance conniten.
surate with the vast objects which usually claim
the attention of any great national change.—
Men suffer long ere they confer deliberately, and
in large bodies, for abolition of past grievances—
the vast advantage men derive front hosing lived
regularly and quietly under any system of Govern-
ment, especially
under arbitrary and despotic
forms of Government, render individuals of weight
and consequence cautious how they permit their
interests and acquisitions to stand the risk of
innovation—strange to say, man sometimes re-
sembles the spaniel tribe, that positively, in the
worst and most heartless species of despotism,
they get attached to the person and family of
their ruler in the ratio of his oppres,ion. 'Phis
has happened in the Roman story, in several
epochs of republican, as well as in imperial domi-
nation. France, Limier that unfeeling despot,
Lewis the Fourteenth,exhibited the most striking
instance—but the modern French, like the an-
cient Gauls of Tacitus, ever evinced the most
singular mixture of love of change with euthu-
siustic attachment to the person of their imme-
diate rulers, if these rulers were powerful
enough to keep their subjects occupied, whether
in war, or in great national works, which fos-
tered the foible of the people's vanity.
In the age of modern military glory, that of
that unfeeling and heartless
despot, Lewis XI V.
we find the whole French nation infected with
the spirit of military aggrandisement ; this des-
pot led forth a noble chivalry, attached to his
person and to the service in which they were em-
ployed, by the excitement and energy of adven-
ture incidental to military achievement ; he per-
petrated the most horrid, heartless devastation of
the noblest and most civilized part of Europe,
in the completion of his schemes for the ;trims).
craey of Europe; he did so under the greatest
nos tinnao .ii.ted.is...hik_uoltappy subjects g matting
under every species of feuded servitude, not
short of actual starvation and beggary, while the
chevaliers and military minions of a Court, and
the parasites of prostitutes of the Monarch's
own, or of his nobles, really ruled the nation,
and feasted their f tmFtlllest--Cheese fa{itiiitrs, not
even hrencl►, but belonging
o a nation more de-
tspised than rtsost others by
whom tiny lorded it, and el
tired with the pus.
session of a principality of their ill-gotten ac-
quirement. The causes of the late Revolution
in France may be easily deduced front the long
system of bad government, and the oppressions
of the preceding centuries, during which the
Ilouse of Bourbon ruled that nation, which so
kindly took the whip, that they afforded to the
satyrist an admirable sample of the nature of the
tiger and the monkey—nor has modern habitude
induced any considerable metastasis—they are
the same silly, capricious, vain, lewd, atud (irate,
yet cruel canaille, they were wider the Capets;
we have them now, An. Dom. 1824, acting na-
tionally the meanest part in Europe (if this pet).
pie can ever act constitutionally or nationally, or
uninfluenced by the despot in his military saddle.
The first use their besotted rulers made of
AU imprisonment, or, still worse, nu eieemosionry
aliment, for thirty years, by a nation and a King
naturally their enemy, was to adopt the very
same measures, which caused their own exile,
and shed seas of human blood in the horrid at-
tempt. The French Revolution is one of pecu-
liar opprobrium to this sensitive nation ; the at-
tributes of monkey and tiger are indeed too ob-
viously blended in the whole shocking season of
their national amelioration. Nor are the emit.-
mial vices of this bad, this restless people, at all
softened down by affliction ; they willingly
bowed their neck to an unfeeling despot, sprung
from a scrivener's house in Italy. They fellow-
's' the heels of this unfeeling ruffian over al-
most all the capitals of Europe ; they prostituted
their faith, as soldiers and chevaliers, by perjury
to their restored Prince ; and, stung with the
hire 11.01110 mischief. 'Whet.
Alumnus iii C/1011110E.----pn the eight ,01
sults of a braver, because to freer, nation in the Wednesday, the 14Ith stb,truenm"jelel"rkstuJltat Kftchbi,
long nod splendid achievements of military ens who restd„",„d„„"t „Preginfoills al'arkinson, in the latutenlytarrt;
terprise, they commenced, with this fugitive and ~L'itt;heu v 1;
unprincipled Italian, another warfare, to he de- had for severs/y, enagyl"Lito'd
his
intercourse, flee fittitehr, it
"(4 seeing Parkinson's daughter, to wiwutile
this
cid ed by real genuine national stamina. Water- pears,
gam4w 'absee7lnfknseown to say, that it ever he found Alt. 1061:;
loci was a fair fight in a green field : with no fa-
nwiptiercth:dbutt end of the piece' I aacin
your, it was a combat of men and manly
--- the bowie by the young woman, her father having -
f+ler, he
I fetcher
manly nerve, muscle, arid courage gained it. stairs tin. the purpose paretiring to rest ; but it is
(or a*,
and paid worttl:l:bove evening, he was laws.
When beaten into peace, when their exiled lithoew haanaddiiosc:vsTo'r't tin'eiewXiftidttki. }:iiiisorotthAfte Irtiitatn,„4l,4;
the
,itirenthtio:surrsotlat)lgge tolfieblazpoyerassmilt.:
nehticshearrtttdh the bet King returned on the points of Britilb bayonets, armedw
with a musket. to which a hay:el:AS-A-di-m.7 -Hi
what is the advantage this antiquated migrator mediately eotisitentrolueidl a violent attack upon neteStei,
of royalty derived from his afflictions of early
scene of fraternal murder, and
toi make his eseaP"h4" while
the
fon"'
"'ell"n
solemn act of national bloodshed, shockingly
,tpotitlrtle fir
cis it;„
the assailant replied 7,“ dupz,,,":"
life, from the
1 will
Parkinson, and receivedy e 4°e' he
" 451,1144441
,nation of the frightful catastrophe? TrY
abused by the semblance of justice in the tenni-
_ w....tw0 or three other eta 4 hoilP:
This same besotted Monarch, whose brother tlltte,o, Which vial „timed in
the
nw n
amKt
wpm,.was
at
the French nation had mangled on a gibbet, is „„rdsn", inches. deer?, frog, the effects of termite he toga law.
tipired• Parkinson has atwicootted.-0110w4tites
scarcely seut'ed ou his throne, when he pursues Guardian.)

Under the awkward artilice of preventing 0114
access of an infections disease, he wisely sends: 1';
large and well appointed army, instead of a kidd.
establishment of military physicians, to invade a
brave people struggling against the very horoor4
of despotism, from which his own subjects bad
just emancipated themselves. No man cats ha
deceived by this wicked attempt ; the disease wai
laughably inert in its violence, the frontiers of
France were abandoned by their " sanatory:Of-
don," and the green vallies of the Pyrenees Itl4v
sounded to the trumpet's blast, known only ,to
Gaul by the disgrace and retreat of her embat-
tled sons before our glorious armies and their
triumphant General.

What are How the symptomatic appearances,
the same stultified besotted France, who will
not learn wisdom from adversity, because a de-
spot speaks. writes, and thinks, and not a na
tion's voice is heard, as happens in our own more
happy Constitution ; this same military set of
adventurers are now resolved, because they hat;
not lead enough of the slaughter-house for flee
last thirty years, to interfere in the contest of it
young nation pluming its eagle wings to adven-
ture liberty. This unantiablo people and
King, to be taught by no former suffering-, alter-
nately brings large military succours to support
an old, a condemned, and a frightful despotism
worthy the united house of Bourbon and Braganza
in their most benighted clays. Let Europe be dis-
abused; let our statesmen evince what it is evi-
dent they feel, know, and understand, that,
whatever France may say, however she may dex-
terously avert inquiry and satisfy diplomatic
doubts her object is too manifest---leer ships
will perfornt for the South American Colo-
nies what her hireling armies did for the unfeel-
ing and heartless despot Ferdinand—Let the
communion of Sovereigns, blasphemously termed
" Holy Alliances," be feared.
" Time° Di nuos Dow, ferentos."

What have kingly commurrions of a persona;
torture ever erfeeted ? the human character is so
metamorphosed by assuming royal attributes,
that the personal Idiosyncracies of the creature
are forgotten, or, if preserved, they merge into
some little personal self-importance and
(crest, which it was most curious to observe, was
the leading feature of two out of the three groat
Monarchs aisetohled its London in 181.1.
kings are most useful Rulers of that factitiou.s
biped over which they lord it, by usage and ac-
knowledged utility for the prevention of the evils
of competition ; they are vastly more in their
places in these days, when they least appear to
the gaping rabble, and England's Monarch sets,
iu feet, the most salutary example to his brother
Sovereigns, whether of old or modern creation.—
like some or the inferior classes of animals
kings, never unite but to constitute and regulate
simultaneous and concerted systems of national
or personal aggrandisement. Juckalls bunt in
packs, and really are harmless in the ratio of
their assuming individual enterprise.
But time must onamiable feature of kingly com-
mullion and holy Alliances, is the notorious one
of not only neglecting, but absolutely laughing,
at the very power which enabled them to hold
their conferences.—Would embattled Europe,
with her vassulled Sovereigns at the head of her
armed thousands, ever have atchieved the sove-
reignty over the arch-despot, but for the noble
burst of partriutic ardour, engendered by liberty.
and fostered by national views of supremacy nod
consistence ? The chain, however, is really dis-
solved ; men are not now to be hoodwinked after
the lessons of Italia century, spent in the afflictions
and persecutions of war and military vassullage.
Are we a set of beings who require every test
or twenty years new food for the human butcher?
Are the blessings of peace and good order, nr.,-
tional faith trod national virtue, only to be ota-
tained or appreciated by men and nations vtliu
have writhed under the iron rod of bloody nut:
oufeeling military despots ? Are the evils of war
absolutely necessary to make us appreciate their
converse blessings ? do we require the castigatill
of having military rulers exert their cold
sin-
frelit►g policy, to value the uniform anti pacitis;
code of mutual jurisprudence?

Let at least England awake, 410 by a en.-
rous devotion to the infant libertie* of Etsroyw,
and her Colonies, under a wise and ellicrint
Minister, check this unworthy combi""i"" ut
royal robbers, ere their efforts b. matured, era
their sultjects be butchered.
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