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Search - Life And Times Of His Late Majesty George The Fourth : With Anecdotes Of Distinguished Persons Of The Last Fifty Years - Vol II

Life And Times Of His Late Majesty George The Fourth With Anecdotes Of Distinguished Persons Of The Last Fifty Years - Vol II
Author: George Croly

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF HIS LATE MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH WITH ANECDOTES OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS OF THE LAST FIFTY YEARS. BY THE REV. GEQRGE CROLY, I N TWO VOLURIES. VOL. 11. -- CONTENTS THE SECOND VOLUME -- CHAPTER I. FAG13 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - - - - a The Volunteers of England, The Princes Offer of Service. CHAPTER 11. PARLIAMEN - T - - -... more » - - 30 The Deaths of Burke, i t t a , n d Fox, Lord Erskines Character of Fox. The Abolition of the Slave Trade. The Slave-traders, France, Spain, and Portugal. CHAPTER 111. THE WHIG CABTNET - - - - - 5 G Lord Grenvilles Auditorship of the Exchequer. Lord Ellenborough in the Cabinet. Lord Yarmouths Negotiation with Talleyrand. Cannings Satire on All the Talents. CONTENTS. CHAPTER IV. P A G X THE S PANISHW AR - - - - - 84 - The Berlin and Milan Decrees. Napoleon at Erfurt. Moores Retreat to Corunna. Lords Stewarts and Pagets Defeat of the French Guard. CHAPTER V. THE R EGENC - Y - - - - - 110 Character of George the Third. The Princes Letter on the Regency. Assassination of . Mr. Perceval. CHAPTER VI. QUEEN CAROLINE - - - - - - 133 Sir CValter Scott-The Coronation. CHAPTER VII, NAPOLEON - - - - - - - 158 Waterloo. French Anecdotes. CHAPTER VIII. THEREIGN - - - - - - 191 The Battle of Algiers. The Panic. Death of Lord Liverpool. Death of Mr. Canning. CONTENTS. CHAPTER JX. PAGE THE C ATHOLI Q C U ESTION - - - 205 The Wellington Ministry. Speeches of Messrs. Peel, Dawson, c. Protestant Defence of Idolatry. Death of Lloyd, Bishop of Oxford. Death of his Majesty. Containing Anecdotes of George IV., W illiam I V., Queen Adelaide, c. c. NiEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF GEORGE IV. CHAP. I. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE French Revolution was the offspring of infidelity. The tyranny of Louis the Fourteenth, one of those monarchs whom Providence gives in its wrath to nations destined to fall, had expelled Protestantism by the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 1683. The first punishment of this act of consummate treachery was judicial. A general war finally broke down the military character of France, extinguished its alliances, devastated its provinces, and sent the grey hairs of the persecutor to the grave, loaded with useless remorse, with the miseries of his people, and the universaI scorn of Europe. . - GEORGE THE FOURTH. 1803. But the deeper punishment was still to come, - in the degeneracy of the national religion. From the hour in which Protestantism was exiled, the Gallican church ran a race of precipitate corruption. It had lost the great check and it cast away at once all that remained of its morals, and of its literature. The Jansenists, a feeble reflection of Calvinism, were assailed by the Jesuits with the concentrated subtlety and violence of the ruling sect. But the struggle between the domineering and the weak always excites the sympathy of man and the whole intelligent body of France were summoned by the contest to examine into the rights of both. They were found equally groundless the arguments of the Jesuits were the dungeon and the sword. he arguments of the Jansenists were pretended miracles, the hysteric follies of nuns, and the artificial enthusiasm of hirelings and impostors. Common sense turned fi-om both the controversialists with equal scorn. The Jesuits finally trampled down their adversaries but they had scarcely time to feel the triumph when ruin fell upon themselves. Their ambition had prompted them to the lofq 1803.1 THE FRENCH EEVOLUTION. 3 insolence of mastering the thrones of Europe. Conspiracy and assassination were the means papal supremacy was the object. Kings at length took the alarm and by a simultaneous resolution the Jesuits were overthrown, amid the general rejoicing of mankind. But when the national eye was no 1onge...

ISBN-13: 9781408617069
ISBN-10: 1408617064
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 296
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