benefited by its proximity; and public opinion, to which it has given birth, tends to restrain the excesses of absolute power. In the south of Europe, as if for a warning to others to shun the evil, civil and religious despotism are still suffered by Providence to display their hideous forms; but in the New World, the incipient and chaotic state of freedom is travailing in the birth of a purer and more regular order of things. The "march sublime" of liberty is, we trust, not to be retarded for ages to come. England has led the way in the glorious career : and the last blemish which stained her fair fame, and afforded a topic of reproach to her enemies, has been removed, while her councils were directed by the warrior who so often had led her armies to victory. Esto per petua. Celestine V. Boniface VIII. Benedict X. } 1294 Michael VI. 1056 1503 Constantine X, Du cas 1059 1334 1316 EMPERORS OF THE EAST. | Romanus Diogenes 1068 1342 Arcadius Michael VII. 395 Nicephorus III. 1078 408 Alexius Comnenus 1081 John Comnenus, 1071 1370 Leo I. the Thracian 457 Καλος 1118 474 Manuel Comnenus 1143 1180 1404 tiary 491 1406 Justin I.the Thracian 518 Isaac Angelus Com 1409 Justinian I 527 Alexius III. the Ty 1417 Tiberius II. Isaac Angelus re- 1203 1455 Phocas 602 Theodore Lascaris 1204 John Ducas Vataces 1222 641 Theodore Lascaris 642 ologus 1566 Constantine VI. 780 1572 Irene 797 1585 Nicephorus 802 gonatus Andronicus III. 713 stored 717 John Palæologus 1355 1391 1424 1448 742 Constantine Palæ 668 Michael Palæologus 1259 685 Andronicus II. 1283 694 1320 1341 |