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enemies may take advantage of the impatience, of
the disappointment of his soldiers, and of the com-
plaints and sufferings of the people, and stir up re-
volts in his camps and rebellions in his provinces,
whilst his external enemies, who, notwithstanding
his late acknowledgments, are as many as there are

continental nation:, may unite and encourage the
disaffeaed Frenchmen to throw off a degrading
yoke, which they wear in common with all other
continental people with so much impatience. Who
can be imbecile enough to doubt, that a legitimate
Prince, a loyal subjea, or a good man, exists upon
earth, who would not more rejoice in seeing Na-
poleon the First upon a scaffold, rather than upon
a throne. The compliments of Foreign Ambas-
sadors, as well as the flattery of Prefeas, and the
adulation of Bishops, are all commanded. Bona-
parte's reign of terror extends as much at present
to the capitals of Austria, of Prussia, of Spain, of
Naples, and of Portugal, as to those of France,
Holland, and Switzerland. Take away the sup-
ports of the terrifying tyrant, let mutiny break out
in his armies, and he will soon witness the prepara-
tions made for the coronation of the barbarous
usurper, serve as torches to light his funeral pile ;
and the guilty despot perish as he has lived, with-
out pity and without a friend. To preserve his life,
as well as authority, Bonaparte has no other choice
Mt an invasion of England, a negotiation with Eng-
land, or a continental war. On his present friendly
terms with Austria, Germany. and Prussia, these
countries have nothing to fear ; and the winter must
at least pass over before he can march against
Russia or Sweden ; and, as long as the Emperor of
Germany, and the Kings of Prussia and Denmark,
continue their present neutrality, he has not even
then in his power to carry on an offensive conti-
nental war. Of the danger and the consequences
of invading this country, he is well aware; nothing,
therefore, remains for him, but to try to gain, with
his political incendiaries, what his military satellites
are unable to conquer—a PLACt with Great Bri-
tain. We know, that with us, many great military
chataaers are of opinion, that during a war, we
have little or nothing to fear from Bonaparte's ha-
tred and power. Let us therefore remember, that
his treachery equals his ferocity ; and that by him
and his accomplices, dorine e lime of prier, the Re-
publics if Genoa, of Venice, and of Helvetia,
were invaded, conquered, and ruined. II lime
of peace, he attacked Egypt, and captured Malta.
In time petee, he made the Grand Duchy
of Tnscany a revolutionary kingdom, and the
kingdom of Sardinia some departments of a re-
volutionary republic. In tune of peace, he planned
a war in India by his military emissaries, and en-
couraged insurreaions in Ireland by his commercial
agents. Had he, in 1892, possessed his present
armada, the tri-coloured flag on Dover Castle would
have informed us of his perfidy, before we would
have known his perfidious intents from Lord Whit-
worth's dispatch. But it is not only the destruaion
of his flotilla, but tl,e restoration of the lost balance
of power, which is absolutely necessar►, before we
ought to listen to proposals of peace. In twelve
months, two thousand armed vessels have been
built. Suppose them destroyed, has not Bonaparte,
as long as he can dispose of the forests, the rivers,
the carpenters, and the sailors, of Italy, France,
Germany, Switzerland, and Holland, the same
mean to repair the same losses in the same shoot
period of tine.? Much move might be added to
prove, not only the ir. iminent danger, but the certain
ruin of this country, was it in present circumstances
to sign a peace with revoluflo,ary France, had we
not already passed the limits which a political dis-
cussion admits in a newspaper.