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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
According to the censurers of this great man , 'his recent writings and eloquence afford the most extraordinary instances of powers of the first magnitude , misapplied to the most hurtful purposes , and producing the most lamentable effects . He repressed the increasing spirit of liberty , which would , if allowed to operate , have , by safe and peaceable means , effected in these realms a reform of abuses and corruptionsbecoming daily more numerousmore extensiveand
, , , more destructive . His Avriting . * : and eloquence Avere the means of obstructing the improving exertions of unfettered raww ., and of again binding her in the chains of authority , prejudice , priestcraft , and tyranny . He stirred up an abhorrence of the French revolution , an alarm against ail principles of freedom , because their abuse or excess , arising from circumstances not necessarily contacted Avith them , had
caused some disorders . Through his writings , eloquence , and influence , incidental excesses were identified with freedom itself . Emancipation from civil and ecclesiastical slavery AA'as reprobated , because resentment for Jong suffered and long felt oppression had stimulated to violence against the oppressors . Monarchical , aristocra- , tical , and clerical "usurpers were-defended , ancl were not only defended , but represented as martyrs in the cause of virtue , when deprived of power which they never had any right to possess . . Those principles which have established our excellent constitution ; for-which
a Somers and a Locke reasoned , a William and a Marlborough fought , a Hampden in the field , a Russel and a Sydney on the scaffold , bled ; for the maintenance of which our illustrious Sovereign ' s ancestors were called to the throne : to preserve which they and he most solemnly SAVore ; principles which drove slavery from this happy island , became generally reprobated from the writings of Edmund Burke . It was he that broke the Whig phalanxindisposed the men of rank
, and property to a reform , which , before abuses were arrived at such a hei g ht , many of them had deemed absolutel y necessary to the salvation of the constitution . He revived the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance , of unlimited submission to kings and hierarchs , doctrines -fit only for a Laud , a Jefferies , or a James . He effected a fatal change in the British character . Having rendered
' the majority of his countrymen inimical to the French republic , and to the principles of liberty which gave it being , he prepared them for hostilities against France and freedom , ancl for joining the combination of despots . In short , according to them , Mr . Burke prevented the reform of abuses that had increased , were increasing , and if not speedily removedmust ruin the country ; and by changing the
, sentiments of Britons , and exciting a hatred and alarm against the dissemination of freedom , caused a war , in principle absurd , unjust , and inexpedient—in event disgraceful and disastrous—in its consequences pregnant with destruction . '
This is the opinion which the opponents of the system and plans of the present Administration , whether hig h or low , learned or ignorant , able or weak ; from a Lauderdale , an Erskine , a a Mackintosh , and a Fox , down to a Jones or a Thehvall , entertain of the conduct of Mr . Burke and its effects . However different the language , the assignation of motives , and reflections of the informed .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
According to the censurers of this great man , 'his recent writings and eloquence afford the most extraordinary instances of powers of the first magnitude , misapplied to the most hurtful purposes , and producing the most lamentable effects . He repressed the increasing spirit of liberty , which would , if allowed to operate , have , by safe and peaceable means , effected in these realms a reform of abuses and corruptionsbecoming daily more numerousmore extensiveand
, , , more destructive . His Avriting . * : and eloquence Avere the means of obstructing the improving exertions of unfettered raww ., and of again binding her in the chains of authority , prejudice , priestcraft , and tyranny . He stirred up an abhorrence of the French revolution , an alarm against ail principles of freedom , because their abuse or excess , arising from circumstances not necessarily contacted Avith them , had
caused some disorders . Through his writings , eloquence , and influence , incidental excesses were identified with freedom itself . Emancipation from civil and ecclesiastical slavery AA'as reprobated , because resentment for Jong suffered and long felt oppression had stimulated to violence against the oppressors . Monarchical , aristocra- , tical , and clerical "usurpers were-defended , ancl were not only defended , but represented as martyrs in the cause of virtue , when deprived of power which they never had any right to possess . . Those principles which have established our excellent constitution ; for-which
a Somers and a Locke reasoned , a William and a Marlborough fought , a Hampden in the field , a Russel and a Sydney on the scaffold , bled ; for the maintenance of which our illustrious Sovereign ' s ancestors were called to the throne : to preserve which they and he most solemnly SAVore ; principles which drove slavery from this happy island , became generally reprobated from the writings of Edmund Burke . It was he that broke the Whig phalanxindisposed the men of rank
, and property to a reform , which , before abuses were arrived at such a hei g ht , many of them had deemed absolutel y necessary to the salvation of the constitution . He revived the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance , of unlimited submission to kings and hierarchs , doctrines -fit only for a Laud , a Jefferies , or a James . He effected a fatal change in the British character . Having rendered
' the majority of his countrymen inimical to the French republic , and to the principles of liberty which gave it being , he prepared them for hostilities against France and freedom , ancl for joining the combination of despots . In short , according to them , Mr . Burke prevented the reform of abuses that had increased , were increasing , and if not speedily removedmust ruin the country ; and by changing the
, sentiments of Britons , and exciting a hatred and alarm against the dissemination of freedom , caused a war , in principle absurd , unjust , and inexpedient—in event disgraceful and disastrous—in its consequences pregnant with destruction . '
This is the opinion which the opponents of the system and plans of the present Administration , whether hig h or low , learned or ignorant , able or weak ; from a Lauderdale , an Erskine , a a Mackintosh , and a Fox , down to a Jones or a Thehvall , entertain of the conduct of Mr . Burke and its effects . However different the language , the assignation of motives , and reflections of the informed .