The National Register.
London, England, 1808-07-31 00:00:00

SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1808.

PRICE Bd.

scale of her destinies. A people, whose moral sense, 6,01
institutions, and national resources give them a prepon-
derance more than sufficient to incline the balance.
The measures adopted for their assistance are as compre-
hensive as they are judicious. The choice, the prompt!.
tude, the execution, are equal to the exigency, and afford
an honourable testimony of the capacity of the men to
whom they were confided. Nothing has been left to chance.
Every thing which wisdom could suggest, or honesty ap-
prove, has been adopted. The gauntlet, which the foe
had been threatening, for more than fifteen years, to throw
on our shores, we have wrenched from his hand, and are
ready to fling it on his own coast. NVherever the combat
is to be decided, it would be worse than pusillanimity to
doubt of its success. We have the justice of our cause,
the wishes of mankind, our undivided, national strength,
and the approbation of Heaven in our support. There
never was a period of our history, in which this country
offered so imposing an aspect. Unanimity at home; our
army more numerous, and better disciplined than at any
former time—our fleets riding, without a rival, on the
ocean—The riches of the state and of individuals double
what they were thirty years ago—our national character
with a strong reputation of probity, and oar Government
of vigour. Such is our situation.
Let us now turn our attention from Spain to her Colo-
nies. Here we must pause for a moment ; and revert to
a circumstance, the disastrous effects of which will now he
the more sincerely regretted. It has left unfavourable
impressions which even our conduct towards the Mother
Country will not easily efface. It is unnecessary to men-
tion that we advert to the unfortunate expeditions to
Buenos Ayres. Without endeavouring to increase the
public contempt or indignation against the projectors or
commanders of the ignominious euterprizes, we reprobate,
strongly do we reprobate,the callous insensibility of those
men who brought this•stigma on our arms. In a vast ex-
tent of country, where our name was revered, the bravest
and most d. Nth branded with
the epithet r the justice
of his much his doom ;
and we wi of his con-
science and inions. Let
us turn away our atten-
tion on the c
The Transatlav present us a con-
siderable fit ruercial and
political poi we could be
biassed only by motives of interest in the assistance we
afford the Spaniards, we would find a snffic;ent compensa-
tion for any sacrifices we should make in the advantages
we should enjoy from an unprohibited intercourse with
their Colonies. In an immense tract of country, wirer.:
the climate, a defective system of internal adinicistration,
and the jealousy of the Mother Country -restrained the
progress of industry, a free market will be open for our
manufactures. Almost every article, from the coarsest
rug to the most finished articles of luxury will find there
consumption. Whether we shall enjoy the privilege of

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