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London, England, 1803-05-30 00:00:00

.MEMORIAL.

EXTRACT 710$ A MEMORIAL EIIESENTED TO THE CNIET/
CONSUL, IT TALLMAN% THE 13TM FLIMAML%
MR XI. DEC. 4, Iso2.

TALLETRAND begins by telling the Cam Consut.
that the prefent memorial is merely a copy of one
prefented to the Minifters of Loots XV. after the
Peace of Air-la-Chapelle. to ditruade them from that
fatal and difhonuurable War to France which ended
in 1762. He fays, "by the ignorance of the Mini.
fters, the bribes of Auftria, the intrigues of Bernis,
the influence of Pompadour, and the weaknefs of
Lotus XV. thofe ftrong reafons for Peace were not
liftened to ; the confequence is known, but it is not
known that this impolitic War alone prevented
the total ruin of England during the following or
American War, and preferred that country from
being what, if we are prudent, it foveae' or later mg
be, as invaluable Nsval and MiStary Station It France,
and which than fecure us the Empire of the World."
TALLEYRAND then enters into the particulars of
the many and irrrfiflible means, France, during the
Peace, polka.: " to foment troubles, to fpread
content, to tarniffi the honour, to undermine the re-
faurces, to weaken the ftrength, to lull afteep the
public fpirit, and to cool the patriotifm of the inha-
bitants of the Bridal Empire, and by a gradual train
of intrigues, infults, demands, infurrations, vexa-
tions, murmurs, alarms, and bankruptcy, prepare
even the warmth Englifh Patriot, to fee with indiffe•
rence, if not with approbation, as Union 4uitb France,
which will put an end to all difficulties, and procure
Engliihmen the fame tranquillity, honour, and hap-
pinefs Frenchmen enjoy under the mild but firm Go-
vernment of the CHIEF Comm.."

" But," Pays he, " powerful as France is upon
the Continent by its conqueßs, by its influence, by
the vigour of its Government, and by the viCtories
of its armies ; in regard to England it is not in a
better pofition of arength than is 5755, becaufe,
with the knowledge of our means, and with the great
abilities of our Ruler, we are unable If:rely to injure
England, our Navy being more reduced, and our
Naval Officers more ignorant than in 1755, but is-
riirea/y, and in a time of Peace to lay the infaMble
foundation for the future fobjeftion of England,
France at no former period had fo many certain
and undoubted unoer.hand methods. A War at
prefent may Wren, if not deßroy them, but every
year's continuance of Peace than preferve, augment,
and fix them. _ _ _

" Ought we not to wait, at leaft ten years, before
we renew the War with England ? till we are in a
condition effeEtnally to rupport our Claims, our views,
and our Plans? The Englilh will do our bufinefs, if
we permit them. Their religion is pleafure, and their
pleafure debauchery. They have plunged them-
felves into an excefs of luxury and intemperance.—
They have &run to eseglett their Novi, and to *wed their
adjure-4 who go to France, Spain, and Holland for
maintenance. _ _

se While their individuals fquander their riches. the
State groan frarfitnoniout, and desnrie splays in thole articles
on evbah it cannot be too profufe.
6, They are even near reducing their trivial army,
and their patriots (peak of entrufling, what they call
their liberty aad property, to the valour of a militia.
What a field is this for our policy ? Is it our bulinefs
to awaken or wattle them from their lethargy ? If
we do. the confequence is obvious—We teach them
to believe a real truth, s That they cannot flrengthen
themfelves top much by Tea or land.' Then an army
ceafes to be the object of public complaint, of public
diflike—and the people begin to think that, as they
mull have one, it is better to have an army of Eng.
lilh than of Frenchmen. Then their young Nobility
will continue to apply themfelves to the Military pro.
felfion, and think themfelves honoured by that pro-
feifion, in which alone confilt the defence and fem.
rity of their country.
This may be fatal to us, for the fooner we go
to war, the fooner their effeminacy will wear off, and
their ancient fpirit and courage revive. They will
not then become more wealthy, but they will get
more wifdom, which is better. -The military virtues
and the manly exercifes may become fafhionable, and
the nation which now Teems immerfed in debauchery
and Corruption, may yet think ferioufly, and be once
more what it has often been, the terror of Europe.—
This is not an unnatural fuppofition—they eafily
glide from one extreme to andther—it is their na-
tural temper, and their whole hiflory is one continued
proof of it.
The allies of La Vendee fmoak —it requires
only a fpark to kindle a civil *as in the bofom of
our country. The returned Emigrants are as yet
quiet, hat they have not forgot their former prinei
pies, and the wrongs they have Coffered from the re-
volution. Let not a new War give the Bourbons
an opportunity to remind them of it. The moll
dangerous of the Bourbons reticle in England; let
oot the renewal of a War permit England to ofe
them, twos name and influence, to trouble an .1 invade
I France.' • •
66 We command at prefent all the Comipastal
Bowers; but we know they carry, with difgtift and
complaint, the kiwis we bare wore& 1.4 t Cwt a

War with England give them mention to lhake them
off, and to command us in their turn.
14 The general weaknefs and fupinenefs that for
ever attend immoderate wealth and luxury, hide from
the Englifh the knowledge of their own ftrength, real
power, and true intereß. Suffer them not to relapfe
into virtue and underflanding. Plunge them not too
deep into diEculties, and they will never emerge
from folly into real wifdom.
" We have already Infulated them from the Conti-
nental Politics—have them in Peace—and the infulation
of their trade (hail loon follow. We have already
made them feared, envied, and hated every where
on the Continent—Leave thorn in Peace, and they hall
Coon be defpifed, negletted, and unpitied•
" Leave them in Peace, and they will foots return to
their amufements of ele(ions, races, party, and fac-
tion—Leave them in Peace, and their Minifters meta
be direaed by popular clamour, which we can always
excite and encourage.—Leave them in Pease, and their
Natiy. will once more be laid up to rot, and their lu-
men and artificers once mote turned over to us, to
Spain, and to Holland I—Leave them in Peace, and
greaten part of their army will loon be reduced, and
the (mall remains will loon become a mere Militia in
pay.—Leave them in Peace, and we (hall not fear the
defeition of RtilEa or Patina, or any of our prefent
Allies, which otherwife would much hurt, and, per-.
haps, ruin our prefent fynem.—Leave them in Peace.
and they will never think of fchemes for increafing
their population, or for making every part of their
dominions of real ufe to every other.—Leave them in
Peace, and moft of their Nobility and Gentry will
continue to fquandcr away amongft us their great
riches, and augment our refources, to enflave their
conatry.—Leave them in Peace, and before the year 25,
France (hall command the departments of the
Thames, and of the Tweed, as it already does the dp
partments of the Rhine and of the Po.
Purfue, Citizen CONSUL, this plan Readily, for
ten or fifteen years, connantly direiting the riches
of the country to the railing a Navy, equal or fupe.
rior to England, and then, and not till them, (hall we
be able to mike the blow we have for above one
hundred and fifty years been meditating. the Compel
of the BritO !Amis." (Signed) C. N. TALLSYI.IIID.