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foreign commodities, but she aimuntle in the neces-
saries of life. During this interruption of her
communications with different countries, her inter-
nal navigation is improving, and highways are, iu
all directions, opening between provinces, the di-
versity of whose productions presents the most ad-
vantageous and solid commerce to the ingenuity of
the speculator, the industry of the artier's, or the
labour of the agriculturist.
What are the advantages that England derives
from a minopoly odious to all nations? A few indi-
viduals grow rich, but the mass of the people suffer.
To a particular speculation, that of haviug the bro-
kerage of foreign commodities, the Government sa-
crifices the more solid advantage which it previously
drew from the national industry. It has reduced a
part of its population to a state of misery ; it teaches
the rest of Europe to dispense with its productions;
it places itself at the mercy of events ; it snakes its
power and wealth subordinate to resonrces.which are
quite foreign to it. The superiority of its marine
dazzles its eyes. It is by having a few vessel. mare,
that it thinks to 'Mil the inevitable a.cendattcy of
France ! It is by the acquisition of • few petty
islands, that it thinks to counterbalance the incor-
poration of many large States with the great EIS*
pire ! But how h has the relative potter of Eng-
land and France changed since tiO3 !
With less pride in his pretensions, with more
frankness in his policy, the genius of Napoleon :las
laid the foundations tat a power henceforth insmore-
able. The war of 1803, which Mr. Pitt looked
upon as a master-piece of policy. gave rise to the
League of the Rhine. and the kingdoms of West-
phalia, and Naples. That of Prussia, ex-
tended the boundaries of the League of the Rhine

to the Vistula ; and the obstinacy of the British C;o-
-vernment. in refu..ing every overture of peace, after
the treaty of Tilsit, and during the conferences
at Farina', and the intrigues carried on in Spain
and Portugal against France, have put the Penin-
sula under .he inevitable dominion of the Empire.
Finally, the last efforts of the disciples of Mr.
Pitt to seduce the Austrian Cabinet, have laid, be-
tween two nations made to esteem each other, the
fiinndationa of a peace, of which a recent august al-
liance will perpetuate the duration. 'rims has
France been pr.— wily strengthened by all the
had

allies that England , .. at the commeneensent of
the war of the Revoluinin ; said the Emtlisli Minis-
try. constantly blundering in the employment of its
military ane...na, his shevrn an equal want of fore-
sight in it, political combinations. They might
have appeared with some advantage, or at all events
with seine honour, in the field of battle, when the
ir:..nies of the Coalitions maintained theeonteat with
France. During those memorable c impaigns, there
were twenty occasions in which 40,h00 English,
landed in Italy or Germany, might have created a
diversion truly 'mindless!. But then the English
Ministry were employed only iii such Expeditions
as this of Cope:Magni. They thought less of
a, reing their allies than of weakening all of
them, and of de.droying even the very shadow
of a ,Maritime and Commercial Power. Their

conduct his discovered their secret. Th, y
became smisihle of their error, when the un-
expected victories of France deprived them of
ail hope of repaiifing it. From that mown,.
as to a war by land, they ought oely to have taken
a defensive attitude; yet, all of • sudden, they as-
attuned the offensive, when they had nothing else to
expect but the useless loss of men and money.—
Out of one error they have fallen iato another, and
put to hazard their internal security, without rts-
conqiienng the military honour they had lost.—
The same spirit of absurdity made them undertake
and misconduct the Expeditions to-Spain and %Val-
cheren. They will exhibit nearly the same results
in the history of the war. Hitherto the English
army seams only to have kept its genuud, because
there was no French army to contend with it. But
the Ministers themselves have no serious intentiou
of defendieig Portugal when it shall be regularly
attacked. S-cin they will only be embarrassed as
to the means of saving the fragments of an army
that would beet been better employed in the de-
fence of their own territory.
Thus is the sown-tool of the present war. that of
having given to France all the Allies that Eitg'and
hail at the commencement of it—baying ang.iient.
esl the direct dominion of France by a population
of from 25 to 30,000,000 of inhabitants--litivisa
given bet an extent of snore thau 4/00 leagues of
(-Awn, many miptiine ports of the first rank, and
several new dnek-yarns on the North Sea, the
Ocean, Mediterranean. rod Adriatic—having given
her a Coutinental commerce, which the whole
British navy commit obstruct—an influence which
nothing can henceforward diminish. As to Eng-
land, the result of eight years of war has been such
an increase of her debt and expenditure, that she
cats no longer do without paper money, the first
step towards flaokruptey —the isuginentistion,
and the necessity of a still greater auLpuentatiour,
of a maritime esitablithenent, which is oat of all
proportion to her population and her demands for
the defence of her colonies—that of being left, as
to ber foreign coneerns, in the same insulated slate
its which she wished to place France, with the loss
of all her commercial relatimie with the Connivent
of Europe—(for the alliance she still maintains
with Turkey will he as short-lived as the alliance
which prolonze the calamities of the Stet:4.h penin-
tat it—that of soon having t• batch 2 Wu les2u.s
of mast, tad sixty maritime porta. whence. in de-
ft inre of her, will sally forth numerous fleas cis-
ruble of disputing with 'seethe freedom of the seas:
when that moment shall have'arrived, England will
be stro.--e with terror at the obviating by a success
struiof weak or perfidious Min:stars. .

If the prepe.st can supply any certain (late of,
the (owe., this war must gradually
pro.loce obsolote ruin of that once ftruirshing
station. hitherto she has supported her financial
system by oneommon efforts and estraurili,:ary
sa•aaers :kat are flatly disuinishing. Sirs has slap-
11111fitilite awl military ertahlwiliraent
the Aar has fostered among the t'aanti-
vented Pnwer•—by the trrachLviiiid Iletrf, jell of
furriers sablies and usitoes. she has taken
anon her pay, his, for . time, pro:onsted the
trai-t• ace of her c•Hasneree be ensugglitsg. She hid
th. feet for lire colonies, Cianig to the ancesaity to
ulnas slit rrttured France of att.-mimic Ploll4l'o3'
to the affair. ref the Continent. But, tencth.
setters% tralucuitlity t. on the pntrit of caring e.to-
bl.atted E %laud, hilLerio has 'hall to