After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye













































































































 -  There is another reason
too why these tragedies are not given; they abound too much in republican
and patriotic sentiments - Page 268
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There Is Another Reason Too Why These Tragedies Are Not Given; They Abound Too Much In Republican And Patriotic Sentiments

To be grateful to the ears of the Princes who reign in Italy, all of whom being of foreign extraction

And unshackled by constitutions, come under the denomination of those beings called by Greeks [Greek: Turannoi], I use this word in its Greek sense. Of the Tuscan Government it is but justice to say that from the days of Leopold to the present day it was and is a mild, just and paternal government, more so perhaps than any in Europe; and the only one that can any way reconcile one altogether to those lines of Pope:

For forms of Government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best.[83]

In the time of Leopold the factious nobility were kept in check, and the industrious classes, mercantile and agricultural, encouraged. The peasantry were, and are, the most affluent in Europe; and this is no small incitement to the industry that prevails. On the elevation of Leopold to the throne of the Caesars, the present Grand Duke succeeded in Tuscany; and he followed the same system that Leopold did, and was equally beloved by his subjects. Tuscany was the only country in Italy that did not desire a change at the period of the French conquest, and the only state wherein the French were not hailed as deliverers. The Tuscans exhibited a very honorable spirit on the occasion of Buonaparte's visit to the Grand Duke in 1797.

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