reverse: they could not be other. Speaking of the spirit of that usurpation, the Royal manifesto describes, with perfect truth, its internal tyranny to have been established as the very means of shaking the security of all other States; as “disposing arbitrarily of the property and blood of the inhabitants of France, in order to disturb the tranquillity of "other nations, and to render all Europe the theatre of the same crimes and the same misfortunes." It was but a natural inference from this fact, that the Royal manifesto does not at all rest the justification of this war on common principles: "That it was not only to defend his own rights, and those of his Al"lies," but "that all the dearest interests of his

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people imposed upon him a Duty still more impor"tant-that of exerting his efforts for the preser"vation of civil society itself as happily established

among the nations of Europe." On that ground, the protection offered is to those, who, by "declaring "for a Monarchical government, shall shake off the

yoke of a sanguinary Anarchy.”—It is for that purpose the Declaration calls on them to join the standard of an "hereditary Monarchy;" and declaring that the safety and peace of this Kingdom and the powers of Europe "materially depend upon the "re-establishment of order in France." His Majesty does not hesitate to declare, that "the re-esta"blishment of Monarchy in the person of Louis the "17th and the lawful heirs of his crown, appears to

"him [his Majesty] the best mode of accomplishing "these just and salutary views.”

This is what his Majesty does not hesitate to declare relative to the political safety and peace of his Kingdom and of Europe, and with regard to France under her ancient hereditary Monarchy in the course and order of legal succession;—but in comes a gentleman in the fag end of October, dripping with the fogs of that humid and uncertain season, and does not hesitate in diameter to contradict this wise and just Royal declaration; and stoutly, on his part, to make a counter-declaration, that France, so far as the political interests of England are concerned, will not remain, under the despotism of Regicide, and with the better part of Europe in her hands, so much an object of jealousy and alarm, as she was under the reign of a Monarch. When I hear the Master and reason on one side, and the Servant and his single and unsupported assertion on the other, my part is taken.

This is what the Octoberist says of the political interests of England, which it looks as if he completely disconnected with those of all other nations. But not quite so; he just allows it possible (with an at least") that the other powers may not find it quite their interest, that their Territories should be conquered and their Subjects tyrannized over by the Regicides. No fewer than ten Sovereign Princes had, some the whole, all a very considerable part

of their Dominions under the yoke of that dreadful faction. Amongst these was to be reckoned the first Republick in the World, and the closest Ally of this Kingdom, which, under the insulting name of an independency, is under her iron yoke; and, as long as a faction averse to the old government is suffered there to domineer, cannot be otherwise. say nothing of the Austrian Netherlands, countries of a vast extent, and amongst the most fertile and populous of Europe; and, with regard to us, most critically situated. The rest will readily occur to

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But if there are yet existing any people, like me, old fashioned enough to consider, that we have an important part of our very existence beyond our limits, and who therefore stretch their thoughts beyond the Pomarium of England, for them too he has a comfort, which will remove all their jealousies and alarms about the extent of the Empire of Regicide. "These conquests eventually will be the cause of her destruction." So that they, who hate the cause of usurpation, and dread the power of France under any form, are to wish her to be a conqueror, in order to accelerate her ruin. A little more conquest would be still better. Will he tell us what dose of Dominion is to be the quantum sufficit for her destruction, for she seems very voracious of the food of her distemper? To be sure she is ready to perish with repletion; she has a Boulimia, and hardly has

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bolted down one State, than she calls for two or
three more. There is a good deal of wit in all this;
but it seems to me (with all respect to the Author)
to be carrying the joke a great deal too far. I can-
not yet think, that the Armies of the Allies were of
this
way of thinking; and that, when they evacuated
all these countries, it was a stratagem of war to
decoy France into ruin-or that, if in a Treaty we
should surrender them for ever into the hands of
the usurpation (the lease, the author supposes), it is
a master-stroke of policy to effect the destruction
of a formidable rival, and to render her no longer
an object of jealousy and alarm. This, I assure the
Author, will infinitely facilitate the Treaty. The
usurpers will catch at this bait, without minding the
hook, which this crafty angler for the jacobin gud-
geons of the New Directory has so dexterously
placed under it.

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Every symptom of the exacerbation of the publick malady is, with him, (as with the Doctor in Moliere) a happy prognostick of recovery. Flanders gone Tant Mieux. Holland subdued--charming! Spain beaten, and all the hither Germany conquered. Bravo! Better and better still! But they will retain all their conquests on a Treaty! Best of all! What a delightful thing it is to have a gay physician, who sees all things, as the French express it, Couleur de Rose! What an escape we have had, that we and our Allies were not the Conquerors. By these conquests

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conquests, previous to her utter destruction, she is "wholly to lose that preponderance, which she held " in the scale of the European powers." Bless me! this new system of France, after changing all other laws, reverses the law of gravitation. By throwing in weight after weight, her scale rises; and will, by and by, kick the beam. Certainly there is one sense, in which she loses her preponderance: that is, she is no longer preponderant against the Countries she has conquered. They are part of herself. beg the Author to keep his eyes fixed on the scales for a moment longer, and then to tell me, in downright earnest, whether he sees hitherto any signs of her losing preponderance by an augmentation of weight and power. Has she lost her preponderance over Spain, by her influence in Spain? Are there any signs, that the conquest of Savoy and Nice begin to lessen her preponderance over Switzerland and the Italian States-or, that the Canton of Berne, Genoa and Tuscany, for example, have taken arms against her, or, that Sardinia is more adverse than ever to a treacherous pacification? Was it in the last week of October, that the German States showed, that Jacobin France was losing her preponderance? Did the King of Prussia, when he delivered into her safe custody his territories on this side of the Rhine, manifest any tokens of his opinion of her loss of preponderance? Look on Sweden and on Denmark: is her preponderance less visible there?