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Phenix Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
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Excerpt from Mr. Canning's speech questioning Spain's diminished power, followed by a historical overview of Spain's vast former empire across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, its wealth in precious metals, and its decline due to avarice, cruelty, and tyranny. Source: Lebanon Republican.
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with that portion of Mr. Canning's late speech
in which he inquires "where can we now find
that Spain in the map of the world, which was
to have swallowed up the power of Maritime
England?" Spain was at one time mistress of
the Netherlands in the North, and Naples in
the South of Europe; of the heart of Italy; of
certain islands in the Mediterranean, and Atlantic,
and strong holds in Africa; of considerable
possessions in the East, and nearly all of the
West Indies; of three fourths of South, and the
richest portion of North America; her flag
floated on every sea; she possessed more of the
precious metals than all the world besides, and
her sovereign, in addition to the sway of his
own hereditary dominions, wore the imperial
crown of Germany. Most truly did she boast
that within the limits of her empire the sun
never set. But that stupendous power was not
obtained by virtue, nor possessed with moderation.
Avarice and perfidy stained its rise;
unexampled cruelty signalized its meridian,
the most sanguinary tyranny and degrading
meanness have brought unbounded exertion & contempt on its decline.-Lebanon Republican.
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Spain
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unbounded exertion & contempt on its decline
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Mr. Canning's speech inquires about the current location of the once-powerful Spain that was to swallow Maritime England's power. Spain formerly controlled the Netherlands, Naples, heart of Italy, Mediterranean and Atlantic islands, African strongholds, Eastern possessions, nearly all West Indies, three-fourths of South America, richest North America portions, floated flag on every sea, possessed more precious metals than the world, and her sovereign wore Germany's imperial crown. Empire where sun never set, but obtained without virtue, possessed without moderation; rise stained by avarice and perfidy, meridian by unexampled cruelty, decline by sanguinary tyranny and degrading meanness.