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pears destined to support. the Bavarian division.
Ille 'enemy has established a new bridge of boath
front of Nendorf ; it is by that way that the two
giinefits of Baden and Wurtemberg have come." '
PARIS, JANUARY 6.
The opinion of the wold re foie' od 4 Preys or by big.
land.—'Phis is a great truth, whickit is not. perhaps,
maklisropes to esatnine in its principle, and to follow.

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in its results,
Nature herself has made France powerful; asidihis
enemies would bait swished, by mutilating bet;
desiroy the of nature. More than once they
have attempted to weaken, to overthrew her; more
than once weakened themselves by thoal :access of
their attacks ; ,they have accused her of ambitio.‘
while her efforts had no other object than that of main.
taiping jeer independence and securing her repose.
England, which was banished beyond the. botti.•
dates of the world, bas seen (thanks to the progress
of civilization and industry!) the element which se,
parated it from other`nations, becotte the easiest par •
ditrrn of communication with them. Weak in bee-
self, littleTormidahle ertber by her populatiokor
extent, ha; laboured in. the dark to increase kir powat.,••
without exciting envy ; the Governments of other
States *did not think that their independence would
be Menaced by a nation which seemed incapable of
invading their territory.
On the contrary, they readilyinpposed, that in in-
creating their communications with her, they should
only 'have advantages to partake, and tin risk to run
It is in this double point of view that we must consi
der the political career of France and at England,
amidst
.the interests, the passions which agitate the
States of Europe, and to follow the succession of fluc-
tuations wbiCh they have caused the public opinion to
undergo.
France imprints on her designs the -character cf
frankness and of generosity, which is natural to her ;
—she seldom conceals her views ; she almost always.
goes straight forward to her object. England east,
ploys in her combinations all means that can lead to
success ; too often she employs peace as. a work for-
war ; the whole extent of her projects is not hnown
till they are executed ; she is 'rather dexterous and.
craw than strong. The one is seldom seen at the •
head of coalitions ; she has sometimes had to support
whole weight oftliose inio, which she has •
been
lest ; andfier fidelity to her engagements has often.
ii*posed .on her the sacrifice of her blood, and of her
treasure. The other has been constantly the soul of
every league, principally of those whose object was
the degradation or the ruin of France, smd yet she
his"never.hesitated to abandon them, whets her efforts
nygeared to her to be aboviithe reward which she ex,
ircted from them ; her alliances are comnaertial 4111;r,
;4-Illations, and her merchants know how to bring back'
into luir caters, the gold which she pays to frinces fqr
the blood of their subjects.
If we analyse the consequences of the principles on
whit* are founded the systems which bah habitually
guided the two Powers; if we follow with an anon,
tive eye the -Variations of'the preponderance which
they have .exercised over the States which are Within.
the spbere•of their activity, we cannot dissemble that
France, possessing in herself all the elements of public
and private prosperity, has had no difficulty in guard-
ing herself against a spirit of invasion ; that site has
been more frequently engaged in preserving than in
acquiring—in repelling, than in attempting aggro,
sion ; that even to these latter times, several ages of
wars, as one may say, hereditary, have.procnred het,
no other advantage than that of recovering two or
three provinces, from the earliest tintllS, integral parts
of the Monauchy, and which a litigated piiesession had
stparAted *QM her, without operating as a prescrip-
tion against the rights of Sovereignty.
F.ngland, on the contrary, having succeeded ia
creating for herself by hef industry and her com.
coerce a greatness wholly fictitious, was obliged u,
support -her power by the same means that she had
acquired , The more ardent her ambition was, the
more artifices and evasions she was forced to empl,,y
td conceal it's progress, to hide its activity; the more
her power pe.sied its natural limits, the more efforts
and expence were necessary to support * in her ale
vation. Her,precitrions situation led her to study
profoundly the nature of her relations with the con-
tinental powers. She soon saw she could not be
strong, except in the weakness pf others, and this
knowledge has become the basis of her policy and
the invariable rule of her conduct. The eye which
is the least practised in penetrating the mysteries of
politics, soon perceives this veil of intrigues and ma-
&nations, the threads of which England holds and
moves according to her sole interest, that of impeding
the progress of the European-Governments, of stop-
'ping, of destroying the industry of nations, of turn-
ing aside the chitnnels of commerce, of making
Europe retrograde towardibarbarism, in order to en-
joy alone all the benefits of civilization. These results
of her infli on the Continent inscribed

tuence are . on
every page of our modern annals. We see no wars
,which she has nut ineuenced, encouraged, and main•
tabled ;no weak nation which has been safe from r
'attacks; no power which she has not agitated, deceived,
betrayed, by rendering it the victin) or ti f ilustrumeut
.of her arnbitious designs. .- , s
It is particularly, since the Reve.ution, that the
whol.e secret of the pretensions, the projects, the hopv;
.of England have been uneeited. Scarcely had our
troubles broken out when she herself appeared* 4
'hose which disturbed, and 4,3 most of which she bad