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London, England, 1805-07-17 00:00:00

BNB POLITICAL MAP OP Ofßens

LETTER 1.

Al. tandem Romanis In belle virtutem, quails In pace lafelvkaus
adeEc creditis Noßris 111 i diffentionibus ae difearthis clash
VIII] hoitiont in gloriant exereitos fui Tenant : quests eonttae-
tam-. el dirctuffimis ruffians, ut (atomise m tenant, ita adverts
diffott.nt. Tteit. In Vita Age. e. 32.

SIR-It would have been an unthankful add fruit-
-1:1; undertaking, during the late heats and itruggles
of party, to have expofed before the eyes of the na-
tion the prefent political map of Europe, and to have
e-atralied it with the Rate of Europe twelve years
We have been wrangling at borne as if we
had nothing to do abroad ; and thofe facred ma
ments which ought to have been appropriated exclu-
lively to the purfuit of the general interes of our
country, have been unhappily waled in mutual ac-
es: baron and recrimination. All this while the ene..
soy hat been making gigantic (rides towards us ;
be has concerted his meaftnea ih filence, executed
them with promptitude, and, exulting in the at-
chievements of his midnight burglary, be has pro-
claimed from his iron throne of Italy, that he will
give new laws to Europe, repeal the Maritime code
of Great Britain, which has become venerable
through the long confent of mankind ; and finally,
cattle his flag to wave in triumph in every part of
the ocean. There hoes are not without the- Mean-
ing : they thew a fleadfaft determination to commit
injury, and a fpitit of antipathy that no ordinary
faccelres will allay. While we have been playing a
political game of nine pins at home, he has been able,
furtively 1 admit, to give tome appearance of plank
fruity to his pretenfions.
But, though eve may bid defiance to thee menace(
of the enraged hoarier, yet the circumfiance of their
receiving currency in any partof EurOpeatturi be inju-
,trs to cur tante. I am anxious, therefore,torecaland
Ex thepublic attention upon its proprobjet, yds rowel
AND AMBITION OF FRANCS, and the confequent DAN-
GER AND WEAKNESS OF Tl4l RBST OF Emmet. It
feems repugnant to all natural fenfe, that when we
are threatened from abroad, our minds fhould rbt
be united at home. Exterraci Timor magnum Contort/is
1-inculum. Yet we have all lived to witnefs and to de-
plore repeated inflances of countries, upon whom no
foreign force could have made any impreffion, which
have been ruined by their intefline diviflims. If then
it ever imported a people to look to their own prefer-
vation, we ought to do it at this junCture ; when an
Empire is forming, which, if permitted to take root
and be efiablifhed, will four be an overmatch for all
the reD of Europe ; when Spain is wholly under the
;Arlene. of our moD Inveterate enemy, when the
ports of Italy are in hand, that would totally ez•
chide us friim all ourLevantand Mediterranean trade :
when the barrier of Flanders, that theatre upon which
our noble anceftors filed In much bloods and acquir-
ed fuch high renown, has been (wept awky, and the
United Provinces are reduced to vaffillage under a
EC-minus form of government whore expences they are
unable to bear ; when the Imperial Houle, which
was formerly a counter.poife to• France, has been op•
Felled and tricked out of its rights, by the corns's-
Con of Come of its members and the timidity of others,
and laflly, when the project of univerfal empire, if
fuccefsful, mull end in univerfal flavery, and in one
opinion concerning government, freedom, and reli-
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By the rules of good policy and rearon, there
painful thoughts should bring us to be of a bettcr

temper one towards another, and to unite for the
prefervation of our own, and the liberties of all
turope. Upon there conliderations, if I can be the
means of promoting that unanimity, which can
alone enable us to oppofe fuccefsfully the power 1
of France ; if I can, in any manner, be initrumental
in perfoading a brave and warlike people to carry
that fire abroad which confumes them here at home;
if what I fhall offer can any way contribute to make
us at lean fufpend our mutual ftrifes and refentments,
until we are free from the fear of foreign dangers ; I
fhall think my time ufefully and happily employed.
The day for the dilcharge of this office, is not un-
feaconablz. The minds of men are not fo exafperated
as they ivere a few months ago. We have now bad
a little time to cool in ; and it is not improbable but
all parties may fee they have made fume falfe Reps,
and that having been wrought up by their mutual
heats and provocations, they have done things, which
were to be jullified neither by the rules of policy, nor
of prudence. If, during the opportunity of the pre-
fent rummer, our Ilatefmen, removed from the fcene
of domeilic broils, would explore the refources of
the own country, and take an enlarged obfervation
cf the power and deligns of the enemy ; they would
return to Parliament, with minds better qualified to
fulfil their duties than what they brought with
them at the commencement of the lag Seffion. They
would find that we have a rich foil, and a fufficient
navy that learning, arts and manufaftures fiourifh
among us; that we have an innate valour which is
dreadful to our enemies; that we have wealth where-
with to defend ourfelves, with enough to fpare for
the Alliance of our friends ; that we enjoy a Conili-
tilion calculated to make a nation great and happy;
64: we are analogs for our religion, without the fpi-
perrecution ; that our davitions have not yet
N.tJe us contemptible abroad; and that it is evident,
-• alone have hitherto interrupted thole defigns