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London, England, 1801-11-05 00:00:00

'of national honour to the polity of female r. to.
and aliens that the nation, which in unr fiazle trl
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Rance yields this point, accelerates, tic, lis. t‘z,"
its approach to infamy and difgrace
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now go on, Sir, to fpcak more diredly •
terms of this Peace. What, Sir, is the Rate of theh-
Continent at this time ? Does it prefent to us
thing like a counterpoife to the inordinate p 4n,f,
v.
of France t Auftria, Sir, is humbled by th-e',"%i--
queror : the has 101 l her rank in the fc.de ;
raptors Powers. France may, in a moment,
tack her, while (he poffeffes nu adequate means
refittanee, and in a few (lays the armies it,
public may take their Ration at the g is'.
capital. Such is the humiliating and
of Auftria at the time when we have coeci,t,i. • ~-
Peace with France. In the Eaft, France !1,;
tained .z reftitution of Cochin and Pon.iit:ie ,}
and in the Welt Indies (he has procure,'
large and valuable !Rands which we had ivreo4
from her by commit. The potfiAlions of Spain t,„
may fairly be Paid to be het 's; the has thole i.n
her eontroul to whom they nominaliy
Thefe potlelEons the may occupy with impuniir,
nay the may occupy them without in the linat:4
degree violating any of the au tides of tit: pre.
fent Preliminaries. This, Sir, is what a.,
done by this Peace; this is what we have urea
up to France, ago) antli7ll a.. the is .);v0... I id
example on the Continent of 1--,nrope.
we done a thin;; altogether 1111kruo.vn in the 1
of this couatry ; a thing which wouid havz
all former politicians ; a thing which, if .our old
Whig politicians we' e now to he., r, day uid 'tin,
in their graves. If we have mad: Peace v iti! Ft ante,
thus mere:lied in power, we ung`tt to inquire
what are likely to be the conleuptc ices of. 11,th a
meafure. What France can du, lo•fiefied a. the is
of fuch extended power, is evident; anti t:.e
quellion is, in what manner the is likely icy
this power? The grand ols;eCt of the Frets!: Gn.
vernment, I am firmly convinced, is to dirnit.alt
the greatnea, and finally 'o annihilate, the poser
of this country. In purfuance of this object, at:l
poiretfed of there /mans of fuccefsfully protecute
it, the French will furround us, Sir, by tir.;
foreign poffeftions. They will bury as ; they wa
grow over us as effesßually as in any of the Nat.
morphofes of Ovid. We have taken root, Sir,and
we thall Come morning awake and fearch in vain
for our freedom and independence. The arga-
aunts did by foam Gentlemen in favour of the
conclufion of the Peace, appear to me to proceed
on the fiippoliticin of our inability to pmfecute the
war; but I would silk thofc whir hold fuch lan.
guage, Whether this inability is likely to gray lefi
than it is at this time ? So far am I from thinking
that this will be the cafe, that I do verily believe
that the difparity of powerbetwixt the twocountries
will conaantly cncreate. The enemy will furrnund
us by fettlements in all parts of the world. Ira,
indeed, now flops in her career of cceltsell, bat
the flops within one Rep of univerfal
that can be hoped for, by the terms of this Peace,
that the may not at this time think it ex; ediert to
exert the power the has obtained in ende teat:rag
to accomplith our deftrudtion; but it is never to be
forgotten that univerlal dominion has ever been
the grand aim of all her exertions. This, Sir, was
the pinatas nsolik of the Revolution; this was the
obje& to which the French Ruler, have ever made
their dettruttive principles fubfervient. They with.
ed the extinDion of religion and morality, as the
means of accelerating the fubverfinn of neighbour-
ing Rates. They had two empires, the one the
empire of opinion, and the other the empire of
power. The empire of the one was, however, at
all times, fubfervient to the empire of the other.
At one time the principles open& the road to the
power, and at another the power prepared a place
for the reception of the principles. In France it
is true that thefe principles were at preterit difece-
raged at home, bust it is wrong
,to Imagine that
they will not receive fitpr-rt in foreign nations.
At prefent they were articles not employed in home
confumption, but deftgned for exportation. The
Jacobins in France, it mull be allowed, have no
great obligations to the protedion and patronage
of Bonaparte; on the contrary, they had fuffered
every fpecies of abnfe, infult, And difgrace. Bat
Bonaparte knows well enough how to he the !
porter of Defpotitin in Trance, and the Friend of
Jacobinifm in Holland. He knows how to h .1.1
down Jacobinical principles with one hand, and to
raife them up with the other. If any of thole also
talk here fo freely of caihiering Kings, were ao
indulge in fuch language at the Court of the
Chief Conrail, they woul4 probably Ilion exhibit
the firs of the good WOM.III without the head!
What, Sir, I would an:, (hall we think of clonng
in the bonds of peace and fricndthip with a peo-
ple dettitute of religion, and the foes of moraine!
What, (ball we think of holding intercourfe with
a nation among whom the ficred inftionion 4
marriage. the Foundation of all dorneftic tumidity,
has been abolillied ; for. if the decree to this ct-
feCt Ins been refcinded, I confer.. lam ignorant
of the circumftance : a nation among whom wises
are held on a lei tecure tenure than a ready fur-
nithed lodging. The French,Sir,arediftinguithedby
their infinuatung manners and their arts of addrefs.
In their fyßem of profelytifin it was laid down by
the French illuminati that their end was 10 lie •Ic-
complithed through the medium of tl.e lotto ti.t~
of morality, and that their fcheme
lhould be addretfed, above all, to the
of the creation. This, Sir, was at one:. .t
the ingenuity and the dang:r m ultg
for as the female part of fusi,tv is its
ornament when dittinguithed by a Clla
purity and delicacy of manners, wizen it. ;Ff." of
.
there ornaments, they were frequently made bit:
bun:lents adze molt slaogerou, deigns. t.aa.,: ..111;-
aneolirrliarititfvose,fi.. Agl Nadde•l itai6
been laid on tile change —Nth has taken plain in
the prefent French char t"ser, or-I the 14;1111ed
tindinn of Jacobinical But it out,;!:: to 'At
recolloaed that at differeir times there viiss-. has.:
been more or lets prominent. At one tunic the
appear in the form of principles. and at
they accomplifk their actign by the force o f art;:s.
At prefem principles appear to li ive lets is
and arms have rained the ali-et:•I incy. Btu I is;
no change in thiote deigns which the int.:retl