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than a nundfcd years Dv tributes Witho,,
taxes. Mahomet, Genghis Khan and r.
merlane did moi stop to ask their co0.s
tors OF taxes whether they should conqu,,
Asia.
Nor will the people of France grow We.
ry or ashamed of their yoke and rise !,
throw it off. They are nothing, the A.,
my is every thing. Besides they are rea.
ly proud of the glory Of their master at
from their very souls rejoice in the ds.
t%inction Of their chains.
Tne revolution like a whirlwind, ka
swept all the ancient hierarchy, nobili,s
and land proprletorS, away-and the new
race have an interest to maintain the new
establishments of the usurpation. Dillhr
! ~populace of Rome ever shift their govern.
ment because an usurper had obtained the
people by money or by blood! No, a,
soon as men perceive that there is a fore:
superior to their own, they dcsist from
making any efforts against it. The proud
Romans were as passive in the yoke as the
Dutch are now.
Theidestinies Of the civilized world then
obviously depend on their ability to resiis |
this new Roman domination. Russia hssn
fears ofbeing %subjugated, and for that very
reason will act with less zeal and less fail.
fulness in what ought to be the common
! cause against France. She will pursue the
| projects other ambition which seek aggran.
dizement in the south of Europa, and a;
naval power. Hence it is to be feared her
coalition with Enganid will not be cordial
enough to be successful; md the cnly sort
Of success that is Of any moment in this dis.
cussion is the reduction of the power of
France. Russia aspires to an influence il
the German empire, VIII ch cannot fail toa,
larm & disgust both Prussia and AUSTRIA
hence it was that she lately inteifered in the
affair of the German indemnities. She also
seeks a feotingin the Mediterranean pre-
| parasory to her designs against the Turks.
1t was on this account that she wished TO
occupy Malta, and that she now fills Corfu
with her troops. These are selfish and
dangerous schemes which England canra
second or approve. !,
If nevertheless Russia should obtain OF
| Prussia and Austria that the one should be
! neutral, and the other an associate against
! France, a continental war is to be expected.
In case English money and an English ar.
my should tempt them to become one OF
her allies, Bonaparte would find their su-
premecy again In hazard. 4
But England, the great adversary Of
France, cannot become a military nation
in the sense the French are, not, it is toh
feared, in the degree tina. the crisis abso'
| lutelv requires she should. Her commerce
bines her In golden letters. An ar,lzan or
a farmer is worth probably 100 pounds
sterling to the nation. To make such men
soldiers great bounties must be paid and
great sacrifices must be suffered. To feed
and provide an English army is also very
expensive. Want and military fanaticlsn
crowd the ranks of Bonaparte, and thelf
enemies or their allies provide their sub.
sistence. Unfortunately tooMr Pitt yielded
to the pressure of the moment, and accept.
ed the delusiye services of his half million
volunteers. 1t is impossible he should think
these men of buckram ftto Withstand these
men of steel, ifthey should invade the ISL
and.
In times of great danger popular notions
are often worse than frivolous. The so'|
l%unteer force is factious, expensive, and
useless, as every soldier knows. But III
worse. 1t has made the nation unmanasr
able, pulled them up wishra vain depeoa'
ence on the show of force, a shew as empty
as the army of Cresus made, & made ths'
rulers afraid TO impose, and the people uns
willing TO bear the necessary burdens y
real snldiership. The strength Of a mo'
dern state at war consists in its setaisss'
not in the trappiugs of the peaceaols ap1
pren,ices, who are arrayed in scarlet =
act the comedy Of an army. England con
sumes It's men and means to act this conc