Excerpt from The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the Year 1820 Naples and of Spain, drove the court of Portugal to seek refuge in the Brazils, reduced Prussia to the shadow of a name, dictated to Austria in her capital, made even the Russian autocrat tremble on his distant throne, and found submission and inspired terror every where except in our native country. England, from the first, defied and resisted the gigantic despotism which thus overclouded the whole continent, encouraged ...
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Excerpt from The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the Year 1820 Naples and of Spain, drove the court of Portugal to seek refuge in the Brazils, reduced Prussia to the shadow of a name, dictated to Austria in her capital, made even the Russian autocrat tremble on his distant throne, and found submission and inspired terror every where except in our native country. England, from the first, defied and resisted the gigantic despotism which thus overclouded the whole continent, encouraged others to share in the mighty struggle, and supplied them with aid in the moment of need; till Europe at length roused herself from her base lethargy, and the tyrant tumbled from a throne which mouldered suddenly into dust. After a short interval, accident enabled him again to collect around him an'imposing display of force, and again to place himself at the head of the people, who had been the instruments of his past trans gressions against the human race. But the arm of England, by a single stroke, laid him once more low; and he, who for a succession of years had spread misery over the fairest portion of the globe, at whose name monarchs had trembled, and whose word had created or annihilated states, was sent to pine out his days a lonely exile in St. Helena. The peace that has been since enjoyed, has not been a period of dull inactive repose. A great deal was to be done in settling the external relations of the difi'erent powers; and the internal economy of all Europe had been so much disturbed, that the home administration both of our own country and of others has been a spectacle (if great and constant interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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