The National Register.
London, England, 1813-09-12 00:00:00

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action, and have openly tendered their agsistance to that nu-
merous class of men, in all nations, who, blinded by self-,
complacency, consider their station as below their merit's.
Gradual are the shades which tincture the opinions of men
thus acting, sometimes even unconsciously, under that
baneful influence; but the inorti concussion has been felt in
the very recesses of the mind, and feelings the most oppo-
site diverge from their natural course. to merge in and
Swell the revolutionary torrent Thus, demagogues, whom-
cven the freedom of the Briti.-th Consthoion cannot satisfy,
look for support to the revolutionary leader, who has esta-
lished the most refined tyranny under which the human
race ever groaned ; Roman Catholics bail, as their dclive;er,
the man who ityarisr6l the .PQ g and dessforml his power;
the *Wenn' entbuttaa-t sees in him the founder of the uni-
versal
Famrite which is tee precede the Millenium ; and even
the politician, boasting of superior patriotism, blazons forth
his achievements and magnifies his resources, in the hope of
wresting from his antagonises a power they have constantly
and .successfully exerted to repress his itundinate ambition.
By all those, the enormities of the revolutionises are more
or,less palliated ; conclusions favorable to their cause are in 7
variably elicited from existing circumstances„and the mag-
iaitude of their crimes seems to give legitimacy to their usur-
rations: " We must not," said a Noble Lord in the Bri-
tish Senate, " deprive Fiance of her hard-earned acquisi-
tions," as if 'the abuse of force, guided by treachery, could
transform an usurper into a rightful owner ! Another patty
would, after a-faint struggle, have abandoned the nations of
Alm Peninsula to their fate, and now that their deliverance
is nearly completed; now that the hero of Britain, pursuing
his victor ions career, proudly overlooks from the summit of
the Pyrenees the fertile valleys of Bearn, we are toll that we
:must not think, of invading France ! •
This opinion is principally maintained by a writer, who,
under the signature of ." V ETUS," fills the columns of the'
Times with his ponderous lucubrations. - In. his twenty-se-
venth letter he had roundly asserted " that the ten i•ary of
trance ought to be sacred for us :" as, henvever, some
people of more profane dispositions acre startled, and well
they might, by this strange assertion, fie has thought proper
:to qualify it in a sub'sequent• letter. In this prodtiction
Nri..!T us seems so ‘pprehensive.uf being accused :of imspropir
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diercy of the measure. llis arguments, however, are nei-
ther numerous nor solid. They are chiefly, if not solely, ''
drawn from the example of France herself, considered both
as an invadin; and as an invaded country, and as affording
us in both Ways ukeful lessons of caution and
.prudenc*
But the invaEion of. France by Lord WELLINGTON, should
it take place, would be undertaken chieflY„with '
operating a diversion in favour of our Northern
:.onsequently, the example of the French, who I
inci..ement of that nature t.) invade other client,
apply to the case. But it is absurd to assert,
time, that France " has not. been. a gainer
certain countries, and, making '.th etwellit
Then selecting the only two. CAWS a ; 111 C.,,., Ak,
Russia, Vetus triumphantly exclaim; " What:hae :4;?tt,
PARTE gained in solid strength by his two great inv43l9ns i!s
Why, sureli, nothing, and the question is perfectly idle; but
he has wasted in those two ill-concerted, and eroiligate expe-
ditions part of the enormous resources be bad gathered by
subsisting and recruiting leis troops at the expense of the
other countries he bad previously invaded, and which even
now contribute largely to the support of the war. The asi..iq-
since, however, to be derived frqm the enemy's country for
the maintenance of our troops, is fefttgland a seenndar v cort-
Sideration only, the advantages ora dill-erslon in forma of eut
Allies is the grand aim of the enterpw.e, hut this Vewes has
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carefully kept out of view.
In considering France as an invaded comntry, VET us has
enumerated in general terms the OliVaCiCaol-CIWELLINCTON
would have to encounter from the " energy of the Govern-
ment, the resources afforded by a well regulated revenue, .a
dense, intelligent, and warlike population, most rapidly con-
vertible into disciplined and zealous soldiers," not forgetting
to hint at the fate of former invasions, fled at the difference
in the mode of warfare in an enemy's or is a friendly coun-
-try. Bat the first of those considerations might equally
operate against any Attempt to resist the power of Bt:ONA•
PA RTE on the Continent. They might lave
were urged with,eq-ual propriety against the
the contest in the Peninsula, and yet how
suit i As to the " population dense, act
VeTus_believe that the powers of repredek
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POLITICAL ntS:2IIISITION. tondPrn'ess toivvds the French, that 'be complet ' . 66 out-
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---.0...... herods lieri)d," and talks of " laying xi:iste every vineysFdj; , • _
INVASION OF FRANCE. " of whilling the consuming. firebrand through tbetr:
'[N A Nswr.r. TO VETUS.S TWENTY EIGUTH LETTER.) '' proudest cities," and of dee:mating the manhood of a
•E nation of destroyers as a feeble vengeance for the miseries. .
Sophistry is the natural result of an aberration from set- .. whier.tnev have brought upon the would," This parade of
:.d .princioles; it is not to be wonde.ed, therefore, that it anger i,, however, perfectly harmless, fgt. while he admits
,ouid be the predominant failing of an age, in which dating the right and the justice of invading France, ‘‘ltic.lt indeed
novators have equblished expediency as the sole rule of! no one could well deny, he attempts to prove the inexpt.-:'
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