Europe and America, in 1821 (Volume 2); With an Examination of the Plan Laid Before the Cortes of Spain for the Recognition of the Independence of South America (Paperback)

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. 1822. Excerpt: ... KINGDOM OF HOLLAND. Hp is state consolidates itself, its frontiers are fortified, its interior is organized and calm; religious dissensions have been terminated, authority has made itself respected by a litigious clergy; there it is in the temples, and not in courts or in politics. The good sense of the Prince has arranged every thing. In this country, the clergy has lost more than in France; in this country, there have been emigrants, and estates have been sold, but these emigrants have not solicited the foreigner, nor raised Europe against their country; and yet, neither the clergy nor the emigrants are ever spoken of in Holland. They are not in this country, like a leaven, that ferments, agitates and embitters the State. The fate of both the one and the other has been once fixed, and it is no more spoken of; they are not seen continually renewing their demands. The good spirit of the Government has cut the matter short; that which is done, remains so. The clergy does not consider itself degraded, because it is paid: their forests have not been returned to them, the number of bishops has not been left the same as in the time of Napoleon, the clergy do not pass their time in preaching against the system of freedom nor of constitutions; the Belgian, Dutch and Liege emigrants do not demand any thing; the clergy and the emigrants have not formed themselves into aristocratical coalitions to seize upon the government of affairs; the Government of this kingdom does not admit of any thing of the kind. Order and economy reign among the administrators formed in the Dutch school; we do not hear of immense gifts being made, there, nor of men being promoted to the first rank in the state, upon whose services opinion is divided; every thing is in order in this countr...