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REFLECTIONS ON THE PEACE.

NEFLEC HONS UN THE PEACE.
NUMBER II.
Wbat lspQl be the eazae Of sbe Psa.eea
tb< immediate parties 2 atttaG 30
q This is queition far more conplicased
and difficult than the drit. For France,
the terms ofthe peace are certainly very
glorious and advantageous. She retains
all thofe acquiftions On III: Continent,
which have RATED her TO ColoHai great
nels and fhe RECEIVERS all thar had beer,
conquered from hc., by the arms OF Great
BRIAN in the Eait and Welt Indies.
Candour viii nc, p-rnir US TO lay that
they are alike glorious Tor Great Britain,
or any way eela! to the nasnanimity
with which tn nas conducted the war anu
maintained a combat, agaihit n; p!osief
0: d,er@l7s7'e iy7fsm. Detdes ra,sag IN
fef pr.acipai o. cts, TIC has reco ,a..ei
NJ assrantl,zen'Snt 20 Frane, waich, II
ghe later .nali ponai an 1icient and tia
Die government, inreatsns % render h..
The pISpondefaino power. white France
fe'ains yv5ry shiog IN Europe OF when m
mas oeen known 10 aef..e he pernanen
poR Gon, and rrgains -. That fac had iosS
r!iewhe:e, Great BRA mas yi2idei W
al thar The Ia: taken from Frasce aad
the gr@a'eit part Of VIVA, ihe had take
from hsr aires, rofsrvios only The Hams
OF Ceylcn and T.inidaG. 1t is trpc, 'ha;
France has likewfe confentad to msxerei-
tuition in favor Of the allies OK Great
Britain, TO whom The preleryasion OF Por-
tagai, in It's integrity, muh be allowed TO
be point important. Il is tobe lcD,en-
beged thar this is alEo conionant with the
POLICY Of France, which always has been,
ncs to sggrsniizc Spain at the expence OF
Portugal. In truth, the conceaicns of
France are but oGenlible-thofe of Great
Britain real. /, mutt, therefore, be adj
United that the latter has treated upon IN.
equal terms.
In going this far, however, we DO not
mean 20 ARA On the wiioom OF the Englilh
government. /, would Ill become US TO
pals ientence on tire ads of foreign ad-
miniaration, ir the management .l,s own
conceIns-And were we even to feel a.
Ensi:ihmen, we Mould condemn with cav
tioo. 1t Is certain that the fituation o.
Great Britain offered only a choice of e.
rious and perplex!ug difficulties. There
appears to have been no ground to expect
from a continuance Of :hc war, the attain
menr OF what in the language OF Engiiih
policy, were called eGS1hal oljtds. The
reisortion OF the ancient monarchy, by TO-
reign means, had long been desperate
proje:. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of France
had before been acquiefced in, or ratified
by al The other Principal powers of Eu-
rope, even by thoie at whole immediate ex
pence i, had been accomplished. Great
Britain, powerful at iea, but not 70 by land
when compared with France, could no, have
repaired tie evils by her own efforts; and
even if ncw coalition could have been
formed, there !aemed little profpest of one
eqoalto the immenie talk. AT home there
were evident fympioms of deprecated and
deprecla.ing currency, which threatened to
in,o!ve the whole fabric of public credit,
and with it, perhaps, the whole fyRem
Of Bri:ih inauary, in one great ruin.
The nation had long been itruggling under
load Of taxes, he.vy beyond example-It
had recently fn,arted under the dreadful
icourgc Of a fcarc;sy of bread-Who
can fay, what, in iuch a. Gtuaticn, was
the real temper or the people, or how far
their acqsie!cence in continuance of he
war could have been relied upon? Thoie
were pesp!exing considerations, this was an
anxious queaion Tor the goyernment-Pcr-
haps prompt peace had become indiipcn-
GbIe.
On the other Gde there is great reafonto
believe that France had as cogent reaiors to
l,sGre peace as Great Britain, and would
have been ia,issed to allow to the latter
more favorable terms, rather than to have
broken of the negotiation. So far as do
msfic. considerations could have an inAu-
ence, no doubt, peace was a matter Of the
ari necef6ty to her. No doubt the ma
ton mutt have eagerly dedfed i.-And
chat h.,l;ricai Qualifications food In ,hs