England, in relation with foreign countries.

  • Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.
Date:
[1858?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: England, in relation with foreign countries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    4 the United States, (Broadbent). English ship-builders, and artificers were in the dock-yards. Some English officers were in the Naples navy, and in other depart- ments. The then King, had powerful reasons for attachment to England. Almost all the sulphur and salt from Sicily and Naples were taken by the English for their enormous factories of sulphuric acid. The oils from Grallipoli, and Monopili ; from the province of Apuglia, wines, fruits, wheat, and maccaroni, were carried away by the English ; curiosities and antiquities also, were in considerable request. Such were the truly glorious halcyon days of Naples, and indeed of Italy, and of the Mediterranean, during the long embassy of Sir William Hamilton, up to 1796. Out of respect and gratitude, the King of Naples con- ferred on Nelson, the Dukedom of Bronti, in Sicily. Since 1796, the happy days have been succeeded by the various blessings of liberty, ecpiality—the rights of man, and of that summum bonum of human felicity, fraternization I Fraternization, the supreme felicity, not intended for all—was a “ bonne bouche,’^ reserved for a favoured few, for the elite, such as were to be annexed to the great republic, and to be made dependent on it. After a \dctory, the desired district was to be punished; over- awed ; stripped of everything ;—was to be afterwards j’egenerated, elevated into a new county, dukedom, marquisate, or kingdom, and placed under the tender mercies of a hero, with a high title, such as Duke of Abrantes, Duke of Dalmatia, King of Bavaria, King of Saxony. These kings were made from Electors to be further honoured, by close alliance, offensive and defensive, with the parent state. During six years, attempts at fi'aternization in Spain, were made in vain. Armies after armies were sent there to be destroyed by the guerillas in arms, all ovei the Peninsula; who, with the assistance of their allies, the British and Portuguese, cleared their own country to })eyond the Pyrenheaz ; so completely did they turn