The National Register.
London, England, 1809-09-17 00:00:00

POLITICAL DISQUisrno.N.

•N U 318 Irit. EIGHTY SIGHT.

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ll' PEACH BR CONCLUDID lIRTWIIEN PRANCE AND AUSTRIA,
IMMEDIATE EPPECT WILL THAT CIRCUMSTANCE
NAPE UPON THIS COUNTRY 2 ,

Ti 4 is .a question which every thinking man will have
fut. to himself, and which the most ordinary Tyro in Po-
Mies may answer without .hesitation: 'Without endeavour-
ing to specify the order, or moment of his several acquisi-
A 011169 without entering. into a detail of the _probable
Means by which BooNA P 411. TE will subject the whole *Con-
tinent, we-nisy state generally that its subjugation is ine-
vitable. He is not only become belligerent by profession,
but has acquired immense strength, and has contrived to
place himself in.the Midst of a.multitudeof objects of prey.
Re has turned'conqttest into traffic, and makes every new
One pay the expellee, of that which is to.succeed. the
energy and versatility of his genius, he converts these con-
quests into fresh resources, by adding recruits from them
to swell his old armies ; and by acquiring additional terri-
tory, he is enabled to Maintain them/ The fascinations of
uncontrotticd-power, for there is no earthly check *now to
his career, if/di as they ever have done, prove too Much
for human virtue. and human 'intellect to withstand; and
his ambition, whether it is creeping or rinipant, whether it
alttetrwith-Ohl'atabition of ast64 her; or wraps itself u ii the
cloak of his own imaginary dignity, will have but. one
aided, which it prey,• and but one enemy, which is liberty.
• No-one wilt now be hardy enough-lb deny that Buoxs-
waam without-any other check than his oWn modera-
tion, is unquestionably able to subdue the continent.
Some attention, perhaps, may be paid for a time to the
parties in possession, and they will be perinitted to remain
as military vassals; his-great object, for thq moment, being
to secure a supremacy, and a support in all his subsequent
projects, with w reversion as to the future. In this situa-
tion of-things the antientjealousy of France, will pass into
the bosom of its new proprietor, and as the navy of gng-
land will at once: affront his pride, and be the only check to
his ambition and interest; Delenda est Carthago, will be-
come the settled and increasing policy of The Tyrant to-
wards this country. That we are fast approaching to this
period, the most puerile politician will not deny. We will
not at present enter into the question as to the omnipo-
tence of Our wavy. We, will merely observe Ist. That a
navy js necessarily more or less the appendage of coasts.
clfdly. That the master of the continent must also be master
of its coasts. Silfy. That the operations of a navy are subject
to disappointments, from calms, from storms, and from
uncertaintraato -the-motions of an enemy. itthly. That
when so short a trip is in question,-..'as a passage from the
neighlitsttrifigShOltes to 'lrefand, or Erigland, a 'great deal
less:skill, a kw navy,'. and fewer" Sailors, are necessary than
format', carried oft at a distance., bth. That a successful
Ibmiling salty e.Milj. end- in- the deg-ruction • of our naval
arsenals and dock-yards. And lastly that when an enemy
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