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These independent sovereigns became subjects; and either swelled, by their mediatisation, the territories of some already powerful potentate, or transmuted into a state of importance some more fortunate petty ruler than themselves, whose independence, through the exertions of political intrigue or family influence, had been preserved inviolate.
All that remains of the pragmatic arrangements of the mighty Congress of Vienna is the mediatisation of the petty German princes. But the settlement of Europe by the pseudo-Tories was the dictate of inspiration compared with their settlement of England.
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