The gazette., 1799-03-25
MONDAY, MARCH IS, 1893.
Il Torrent Of EIoguence,
From the pen Of the late Right Honorable
EDMUND BURKE.

EDMUND BURKE.
ibe following Is an extract from MIR. Burke's Third
Letter to Member of Parliament on the Propofals
TOT Feace with the Rcgicde Directory of France"
publIihed 6nce his death" Mr. B (fay the keview-
ers) infead Of the whining, pitiiuI condu4 Of Mr.
Fitt, on the return of Is-d Mamebury from France,
would have had the mininer adopt the language of
menAoe, and afiume the attitude Of defiance. Here
tlay they) he pours out torrent Of eloquence, 70
powerful aud 70 terrible, that cannon withhold il
from our readers"
AFTER fuch an elaborate difplay
had been made Of the inutice and in
tolence Of an enemy, who Geems to have
been irritated by every one Of the
means which had been commonly uled
with effect to foothe the rage of intem-
Perate power, the natural refult would
be, that the fcabbard, in which we in
vain attempted to plunge our fword,
ihould have been thrown away with
icorn. 1t would have been natural,
that, riling in the fulnefS of their might,
iniulted majeity, delpifed dignity, yio-
lated juttice, rejected duplication, pa
tience goaded into fury, would have
poured out all the length Of the reins
upon all the wrath which they had 70
long refrained. 1t might have been
expected, that emulous Of the glory of
the youthful he-o* in alliance with him,
touched by the example Of what one
man, we'll formed and we'll placed, may
do in the mott def perate fate of affairs,
convinced there is courage Of tle cabi-
net full as powerful and far lefs vulgar
than that Of the field, cur miniiter
would have changed the whole line of
that unproiperouS prudence, which
hitherto had produced all the effects
OF the blindef temerity. If he found
his lituation full of danger (and do
not deny that il is Perilous in the ex-
treme) he mutt feel that it is alfo full
Of glory and that he is placed en-
fage, than which no mufe of fire that
had Attended the highef heaven of in
venron, could imagine any thing more
awful and auguf. 1t was hoped, that
in this fwelhng icene, in which he NOV
ed with lome Of The frf potentates of
Europe for his fellow actors, and with
70 many Of the relt for the anxious
1Pectators of a part, which, as he plays
it, determines forever their deltiny and
his own, like UlyGe8, in the unravelling
point OF the epic tory, he would have
thrown off his patience and his rags TO-
gether and, itripped of unworthy diff
guileS, he would have food forth in the
form and in the attitude Of an HERO
On that day, it was thought he would
have adumed the port Of Mars; that
he would bid to be brought forth from
their hide0uS kennel (where his fcrup-
uIous tenderness had TOO long immured
them) tho1e impatient dogs of war,
whole fierce regards alright even the
minifer Of Vengeance that feeds them !;
that he would let them loote, in fam
inc, fever, plaques, and death, upon
guilty race, to whole frame, and to all
whole habits, order, peace, religion,
and virtue, are alien and abhorrent.-
1t was expected that he would at laf
have thought of active and efeGual
war that he would no longer amuie
the Britilh lion in the chace of mice
and rats that he would no longer en-
ploy the whole naval power of Great
Britain, once the terror Of the world,
10 prey upon the miferable remains Of
peddling commerce, which the enemy
did not regard, and from which none
could profit. 1t was expected that he
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