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Excerpt from Scenes and Sketches in Continental Europe: Embracing Descriptions of France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland, Together With Interesting Notices of Their Principal Cities and Towns
It needs no new recapitulation of historical facts, t to throw an interest around the city of Brussels. The plains of Brahan t, with the dark forest of Soignies supposed to be a remnant of that of Ardennes, immortal in Shakspere's As you like and the little villages of quatre-bras, St. Jean, La Belle Alliance, and Waterloo, which surround it on the south and southwest, within a few leagues, have been, since the memorable eighteenth of June, 1815, indissolubly associated with one of the greatest political and poetical crises of modern times.
Brussels still rings with its sound of revelry by night, and amid all changes holds its place as one of the gayest and most elegant cities of the old world. It now stands as the capital of a new kingdom, built up in the very heart of Europe, amid the jarring jealousies of the other powerful'and time-beaten empires. 'the state of Belgium, for four centuries subjected to other powers, has achieved its independence, claimed its individual nationality, and founded a constitutional monarchy, under which religious liberty, the freedom of the press, liberty of instruction, personal lib etty, and the right of petition, are guarantied to the citizen.
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