The Conservative Standard of the British Empire Erected in a Time of Trouble for All Those Who Fear God and Honour the King

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835. Excerpt: ... Well--under circumstances of so sad a nature--well may we be more than ordinarily careful, more than ordinarily anxious in our support of an Established Monarchy; in our apprehensions for an Established Aristocracy; in our defence of an Established Church, without the holy nurture of which, both Monarchy and Aristocracy would be left to beg their bread! Who could have thought that Statesmen like these--for they are sufficiently proud of the designation--would have conducted themselves in so insane a manner? That they would have done all in their power to secure their own disgrace? That they would have laboured, night and day, to identify with their regulations the alarm of every faithful and loyal subject throughout the realm? That they would have zealously and systematically, as it were, laid their plans to draw on themselves the contempt of the present times, and the interdict of posterity? Who could have believed that any set of men, not below the worst of their own Radicals, could have acted thus cruelly by their God, their King, and their Country? Quanta moves funera Dardanae Genti! Alas! the mournful intimation will, we fear, pass over them like a vision of the night! They will contemplate, they will despise, they will forget it! I cannot speak of the unpatriotic conduct of such men in terms of adequate indignation. No mind, of any good feeling, will ever bear them out in the part they have taken against the best interests, and the sin they have committed against the established glory, of their country. Even the sternest Republicans of the Protectorate would have quailed at the conduct of the Whigs, that range under the standard of modern times. Even our own immortal Milton, (little as his political feelings are to be envied) did never go their unju...