The Appeal of a Free Spaniard to the Public Opinion of Europe: Exhibiting Traits of Unexampled and Unchristian Perfidy on the Part of the French Government Towards Spain, in Seeking to Excite Insurrection, Civil War, and Counter-revolution, by Aggravating the Calamities of Pestilence |
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Page viii - Results of an Investigation respecting Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, including Researches in the Levant concerning the Plague.
Page 11 - Institutions of the holy alliance " that the French government found it necessary, notwithstanding the barrier opposed by the censorship to the free «irculation of truth, to abandon their plan. So palpable, indeed, had the atrocious nature of this scheme, at length, become, and so great and general was the indignation, which it had excited, that it was deemed expedient, by the French ministers, in vindication of their conduct, to make his most Christian majesty the instrument of prevarication and...
Page ii - Belgrade would afford them shelter when beaten and obliged to fly the kingdom, This double system of perfidy was, in fact, carried into practice for upwards of a twelvemonth ; besides the still more infamous practice, if possible, of the secret examination of the papers and letters of travellers, which I shall afterwards have occasion more fully to explain. Neither the notice given by the French government, at the termination of the fever of Barcelona, that this soi-disant sanitary precaution would...
Page viii - Levant concerning the Plague." which he replied, that he knew it to be perfectly correct, taking down, at the same time, from his book-case, two volumes, which he said were the identical work in question. He assured me, that the gentleman's apprehensions by no means rested on an imaginary foundation; observing, that, as he was actually in the capital, I might satisfy myself, from his own mouth, respecting the whole of the transactions. However desirous I was of obtaining correct information, being...
Page 13 - Deveze (Memoire, p. 10), had before " scarcely seen" the disease. His anathemas resemble more a sentence of excommunication, pronounced by the holy inquisition, against unbelievers, than the results of the researches of the scientific inquirer. Here the commissioner had, doubtless, an eye to the speedy re-establishment in Spain, by the efforts of his government, aided by his own best endeavors, of that exquisite tribunal, by which questions of science, and all other questions, were wont to be decided,...
Page v - ... not succeed, to be marched into her territory. 2. To create a pretext for the establishment of new lazarettos and new measures of Sanitary police along the whole line of frontier, by which travellers and their papers would be subjected to the operation of a permanent system of complete surveillance ; and the rebels of Spain, when discomfited in the interior, received, sheltered, re-clothed, and re-vomited upon their native soil. 3. To contribute to produce sickness, mortality, insurrection, civil...
Page vi - To contribute to produce sickness, mortality, insurrettion, civil war, and counter-revolution, in Spain. 4>. To consolidate and extend generally those appropriate engines of despotism, for the oppression and degradation of mankind, called sanitary laws. All these objects were to have been effected, as far as the commission was concerned, by reporting, true or false, the fever of Barcelona to be contagious ; and could not be effected in any other manner: and, as they were objects of the utmost importance...
Page 16 - ... under the very improbable supposition of the restoration of despotism and the inquisition, no code of this description will ever again be adopted in Spain. Thus, in all the most essential and permanent objects of his mission to Barcelona, for the advancement of the cause of despotism, Dr. Pariset has completely failed. He failed, because, far from being able to prove the existence of contagion, in the fever of Barcelona, by which alone he could have succeeded, its nonexistence was demonstrated...
Page x - French representatives of the views of the holy alliance wished to confer, nolens volens, as a permanent inheritance, on the people of Spain ; but which ungrateful Spain indignantly rejected. Nothing could be more worthy of such a representation, than the attempt, by means so odious and unchristian, as the aggravation of all the miseries of pestilence, to strangle the nascent liberties...