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everywhere, and their influence reaches every one.
The same is the case in the Army. The Minister of
War has only to give the word, and thousands of
zealous emissaries are ready to propagate it like
lightning through the ranks of 600,000 men. Has
this influence been used in the present instance to
excite the feelings of citizen and soldier against
England ? We believe it has, and we believe it for
three reasons. First, we believe it because it is
quite clear that an instrument less secret, and in the
present state of society in France less efficient,—
the Press,--has been employed for this purpose.
dire believe it, secondly, because the results arc such
as an action of the Government upon the people
would be likely to produce; and we believe it,
thirdly, because we have observed in the open acts
of the Government of France symptoms that it does
not shrink from stimulating ill, will against this
country. We will mention two instances—first,
the issuing the medal of St. Helena, and, secondly,
the erection at the public expense of a monument to
commemorate a repulse sustained by the English on
the coast of Brittany a hundred years ago.
We have therefore, we think, established that
there is considerable irritation in the mind of the
French army and nation against England, and that
that irritation has mainly been caused by the action
of the French Government. From this it neces-
sarily follows that the French Government wishes
that irritation to exist, but it does not necessarily
follow that the French Government has resolved to
go to war with this country. It may well be that
a profound politician like the Emperor of the French
is not unwilling to have it believed that his people
are burning to avenge the misfortunes of the last
war upon England, and that if peace be preserved
it is entirely owing to his good sense and modera-
tion. It may be that the Emperor Napoleon, while
exciting the national spirit of his subjects against
us, and making such preparations as would be re-
quired if a war were really in contemplation, only
means to place himself in so commanding a position
that England, which desires peace above all things,
may be intimidated into following whatever im-
pulse he may please to give to the affairs of Europe ;
or, lastly, it miy be that these things really mean
what those who are politically opposed to the Em-
peror declare they mean, and that we have danger
to confront in the existence of which we cannot yet
persuade ourselves to believe. Unhappily, we can-
not afford to speculate on the alternative. The ha-
treds and passions of mankind are more easily sti-
mulated than allayed, and it is not our fault if we
are forced to act in a time of profound Fine as if
the camp of Boulogne was already forined again,
and another flotilla awaited the orders of its Impe-
rial master.