nations, the object of gratitude, and respect with all. He will contrast it with the humiliating condition of her rancorous foes justly despised, hated, and suspected, and learn to appreciate the difference between right and wrong-justice and violence-good and evil. The opinion of Europe on these subjects, has been pronounced in a manner very public, very positive, and very so lemu. It requires no comment. They have a second time told France, you deserve punishment; we again, in a great measure forgive you, but beware. Do not provoke us again, for our resolutions are fixed, if you do so, to prescribe" by com mon consent such conditions of peace, as shall hold out to Europe a sufficient guarantee against the recurrence of a simi lar calamity." At the commencement of the revolution, as we have seen, France, under the mask of regulating her internal affairs, planned the subjugation of Europe. While confusing their private concerns, they never confused that great object. While planning how each should send the other to the block, it was only to change the measures not the object. To accomplish this, all interests were the same—all passions were directed. Democrat or Aristocrat; Jacobin or Imperialist; Catholic or Protestant; Atheist or Deist; still all had the same views. The Constituent Assembly, with more activity and less principle than Louis XIV., had as much ambition; the Convention more than either-the Directory as much as all the former three, and Napoleon more than all. It is the vice of the nation, which any fortunate individual who gets to its head and wishes to please, will find ambitious and aggressive wars the best and the easiest road to do so. Europe has seen re-established in France, that power, which as far as experience can go, she only can trust. It too may deceive her; but when it does so, she is resolved to resent it. French ambition, in every shape, she is determined to repel, and must repel, be it directed by a Carnot, a Bonaparte, or a Bourbon. Those who hate the latter, and who are the real enemies of European independence, thunder in our ears that the object of all the wars was the restoration of the latter family. This was the dress in which faction shielded French ambition, till mankind in general mistook the object. It was to repress the latter was the care of Europe. The object with her was to destroy

that ambition, and that the result of her labours produced the other, is one of the strongest claims of that unfortunate family to the regard and support of Europe. It is much in their favour, that after twenty-five years of every political crime, injury, fraud, violence, falsehood, and injustice, that Europe justly united and indignant would not and could not, trust France under any other form of government. Yet though the people of France have been compelled to relinquish their ambitious pursuits, still they have not abandoned their immoral and unprincipled conduct which prompted them to it. Till they do so, it is much to be feared, that though Europe may unbuckle her armour, she cannot with safety lay aside her arms. They hate Austriathey abhor Russia-they breathe vengeance against Prussia, and they cordially hate, but fear Britain. On the latter Europe depends, therefore all their Revolutionary emissaries will be set to work in every land, in order to libel our character, manners, pursuits, and to describe our finances as ruined. Every thing that is false, mean, or base, will be said of the character of Great Britain, in order to rouse the rancour of the whole French people against her again. In these endeavours she will be but too ably seconded by the discontented politicians among us, who for ever describe our burdens as insupportable, and our resources as ruined; thereby encouraging our inveterate foes to make another attack against us. It is their endeavours which prolonged the late, and may yet plunge us into a fresh war. the exile of St. Helena, why he persevered to destructionwhy he trampled upon the neck of Europe to ensure our ruin. He will say it was the gloomy accounts of instant national ruin so strongly drawn by the opposition in Britain. But another year; but another outrageous decree against her and against justice, and proud England will own me as her Lord.

They call'd, Napoleon march'd, and thus he sped.

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France complained loudly and most bitterly of the conditions of peace, which she choosed to term harsh and severe. Galling and humiliating it no doubt was, to a nation which only three years before, with her arms, threatened the confines of Asia with chains; not only to have lost every thing, but thus to have the bridle of Europe placed in her jaws, in order to curb her future motions. But she is yet too strong for any of her

nearest neighbours, and the petty States of Germany complain, and complain most justly, that their security has been neglected by not dismembering some of the provinces formerly wrested from Germany by France, in similar unjust wars, to those that had so lately been carried on against them, and erecting them into an independent state; or adding them to the territories of the powers bordering on France, in order to secure Germany from her future vengeance. They are sensible that in the first movement of aggression on the part of France, when once she has recruited her strength, their territories will be the theatre of war. No wonder, therefore, that they are anxious to see her power sufficiently curbed and chained. For this purpose, they insisted upon Alsace, Loraine, and the territories from thence to the Netherlands, being separated from France. These contain about 4 millions of inhabitants, which still leave 23,000,000 of a condensed population for France.Prussia alone supported this measure with energy, and by doing so, she has gained the friendship of all the western and northern parts of Germany, so deeply interested in proper measures of defence against French ambition; which, whoever, may be their Sovereign, will still cry out for, and maintain that the Rhine should be the boundary of France. This unreasonable idea has taken such a deep hold of the minds of the whole population of France, that scarcely any reverses or misfortunes will induce them to abandon it. But with regard to this idea of natural boundaries, does not any one who will take up a good map, see that the natural boundaries of France are from the Mediterranean to Geneva, along the line as it run before the revolution. But she will say the highest barriers of the Alps, and therefore the natural boundary, is on the eastern side of Savoy; and, therefore, that kingdom should belong to her. Upon the same principle she may claim all Switzerland. From Geneva, the Jura mountains form a natural boundary, till these passing the bend of the river Doubs join the Vosges, which chain forms another boundary, but deviating in a north west direction, the line should run along that elevated chain, which passing between the springs of the Saone, Marne, Seine, &c. and the Mozelle, Meuse, and other rivers, is continued between the Aisne, Somme, Scheldt, and Sambre, to the east

end of the Straits of Dover, thereby separating all the waters which flow into the Rhine or its estuary, from those which flow into the Rhone, the Seine, and the English channel. This, in reality, is what may be called a natural boundary; and what, after all, may one day become the boundary of France, if not confined to narrower limits. In fact, France should never be allowed to look over the summits of the Vosges. If she sees the Rhine, she will be for reaching it. If she reaches it, she will cross it if she can, cost what it may: then the Elbe, then the Oder, and then the Vistula, will, each in its turn, become a natural boundary to her ideas; and lastly, the confines Asia of will inspire her ambition to reach them.

Short as the last revolution has been, it has been most fatal to France. Half a century will not repair the sad consequences of three months of folly. Low as her moral character before was, this has most justly sunk it deeper in the scale. Last year her word was believed; this, it is treated with derision, however candid and sincere. Something more tangible than words-more stable than promises, has been exacted by indig nant Europe. As France had oppressed every nation, so she brought them all to view her disgrace, and to confirm and continue it. Let us put into a short compass what it has cost her.

or about 148 millions sterling, in money; and at least 1:50,000 lives in France, and 50,000 in Italy. The above sum added to her national debt, makes it nearly double what her publie burdens were before the revolution. Her colonies lost, her navy ruined, her trade and her commerce gone, and her name rendered infamous and detested over the whole Continent of Europe, whose wrongs have been such, that these will be remembered by succeeding generations with feelings as strong as at the present moment. Her morals are vitiated. Her religi

ous establishments an empty name. She is torn by factions, and by a set of men as devoid of feeling, as they are of principle: who thirst only for plunder and for blood, and whom no government with ordinary measures can control. Many of her peaceable and industrious inhabitants, are leaving a land where wickedness, and her usual attendant misery, have taken up their abode. They are passing in crowds to seek an asylum in distant lands under the Russian flag, around the borders of the Don, and in the territories of the Crimea. From Alsace, the emigration for this purpose is great. Europe has also suffered much. One hundred millions sterling, at least, has been exacted from the pockets of labour and industry, to guard against, and to overthrow the lawless military banditti of France; and at least, 60,000 valuable lives, have been sacrificed around her cursed borders, and still she seems eager that these should be moistened with blood; and though humbled, yet as vain and as thoughtless as ever; she still looks forward to be able to inflict vengeance on Europe.

Those who, for thirty years, have advocated the cause and admired the conduct of France, under whatever anarchy she was controlled, had now the assurance to call upon Europe to consult French honour and French feelings, in their proceedings; and to charge the nations of Europe with injustice and unnecessary severity towards France. These men forgot that France was the aggressor, that it was her conduct which first provoked the nations of Europe to general unanimity and an universal cry for justice. Do they think that France can beat down this power? Dare she again try it? What has France suffered in comparison to what she has made other nations endure? Has she paid a tenth of the sums she has exacted in an unjust cause? has she felt one hundredth part of the miseries she has made Europe feel? Let her examine the population of the latter, and she will hear such tales as will terrify her heart; and meet such anger as will shake her soul. Let then some other plea for lenity be advanced, than delicacy for French feeling than tenderness for French honour. These cannot be admitted-they have outraged every honourable principle -they have trampled upon every generous feeling, and mus we must Europe-must the world, be bereft of peace