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• 'OM pnt down the upstart usurper &the
• f tbellourboni, or reduce England to the ab-
of a French province; not a war that
restrain her trade or lop of her. Colonies,
against her existence, as an independent
its AVM agaiast her constitution, her liberties::
and her laws,--If such be the perilous crisis to which
we are come, how, it may be asked, are we to account
for the slightness of the hnpression which it has
amide, sad that we see so little of the anxiety and
Alin that naturally attend the dreadful transition
Aims peace to a state of warfare. The answer is
obvious. The change,from the state in which we
were, to that in which we are, is trifling. Since
the Treaty of Amiens we have had a hollow
truce, a disguised warfare, and by the rupture of
the negotiation, we are only advanced to a state
of open hostility, a state certainly More immediately
decisive, but not less dangerous, than the fretful fe-
ver that has been hitherto wasting our strength and
undermining our constitution. For what has been
the oondua of the FIRST CONSUL, upon the Conti-
nent, since the Treaty of Amiens? Piedmont,
Pafma, Placentia, Holland, Switzerland, Portugal,
and Hambu-gh, will answer, in_ tile words of his
MAJEST VN Declaration,'" one continued series of
aggresion, violence, and insult." With respect to
England his hostility has been still more violent ; he
has called upon her to change her laws; he has de-
sired her to destroy the liberty of the press, and
threatened vengeance in case of refusal; he has per
secuted her friends; and her interests, all over the.
world, insulted hei Ambassador, whose person was
sacred by his office, and under the protection of his
roof ; and in the face of Europe he has challenged
flngland to fight singly with France. From such
a state the change to open warfare has been small ;
and, therefore, we cannot wonder if it has produced
a slight sensation. The next question that arises is,
Kow comes it that the English Government should
have suffered such a doubtful, dangerous state, to
subsist so long ? To this the answer is..equally ob-
vious; the peace, if such it can be called, was a
peace of experiment. These most enlightened politi-
cians were of opinion, that we could have no real
peace with France under her present Government.
The object of the war was also held to be indefinite,
and its origin douh•ful. These differences of opinion,
upon essential points, could not fail to paralize
our energies ; and in this state, with our resources
drained to their utmost, though unexhausted by
a ten years war, it was thought worth while to
try the experiment of peace. The experiment
has been tried, and the result is, that peace cannot
subsist between this country and the Government.
of BONAPARTE. If then the Cape, if Marti-
nique, have been surrendered, let them not be
called concessions, made by a feeble and timid pa
licy, to the insolence and ambition of the F IRST
CONSUL of France. Our concessions, our modera-
tion, our patient forbearance, under a c'ontinued
series of insult and aggression, have been so many
sacrifices to the opinion of the petiple of England,
and of the nations of Europe. if then, in the per-
son of her Ambassador, Englani'i has borne with in-
sults from the First Magistrate of France, which
the rudest barbarian, in the resdest ages, would have
blushed to offer, our conduct must not be attributed
to weakness or insensibility. Our forbearance has
been an appeal to the world, and a refutation of
every suspicion and jealouly that the intrigue and
artifice of our enemy had excited against us. We
have proved by our coace htsions that the present Go-
vernment of France is in capable of maintaining the
relations of peace and amity, Riad we have placed our
cause upon a solid bottom, which must unite every
heart and hand, and destroy all difference of opinion;
. for however some may tsbjea to the conduct of Mi.-
nisters in some of its details, there can, we believe,
after a perusal of the papers laid before Puna-
, ment, be but one opini.on now as to the justice of
our cause.—at may be sod, Ministers should not
'have conceded so much, they should not have given
'up the keys of the East and West Indies, they
'should not have so fax reduced our army and our
navy, or held out finch. confident hopes of peace ;
' but it must bc remembered that they could not
'have afted otherwise without inbjea-ing themselves
to that charge -which now exclusiiely applies to the
Flats. Consulof Erance. The extent of their con-
:cessions pares to all Europe their sincerity in their
.profasienenepeace. -Had they retained Martinique,
the Car, and kept up a greater army and navy
,establialtment, they Might be open to the suspicion
itill harbouring an tostlle mind. But if the COR•
!dna of the ?tan Gelman. has beed a continued se-
arise of aggesas..lo.9,'Fid if it has been borne so long,
;whaabnibent theamestreiniag point which bas worn
;out oar pelmet, ridd dialled the question of war ?
/The' dettleipioing pOkii *tic the avowal of the
Fran Coarvn.'s intention to seize Egypt upon the
first opportunity ; Egypt; which he had guaranteed
to Turkey by a solemn treaty;:and which he de-
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