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Fsom rae REPERToRY.
Ne. II.
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inevitable results OF superior =nuH'vets "iiu
OF the French nilitary advantages we have
mentioned. Taey woaid happen again, It
their d siectsd, beaten adgersaries could
rise again TO. resistance
From these positions this melancholy la'
fere nee isso bedlawn; the continental cue
mics of Franae are totally incapable OF re-
sfssiug her 10 the field. She has taken
5ermai1ent ascend ant over them. Austria,
humbled and besaen, is 10 no condition To
learn chs eongasrins arr of her masters
Prussia, without rIsking the combat, has
fallen PROSTATE with her useless arms 10
her hands. Russia, like the ancient Par
thia, is invincible but insignificant 70 the
5 sysseTn OF ensiaved Europe,
If the French armies could pass the
chaspsI. there seems 70 be no sort OF reason
10 hope THAI Great Britain could resist
chem. Tpe regular army is spread over
all the empire, and if 1t were all collected
it would be a handful against the French
hosts, and surely no military man would
place the SMALLEST dependence IN the voiun
tetrs-of England.
III is one of the ipveteraae, perhaps in.
curable evils of SIR. PITTS administration,
and the gsrateseblsmish inthe fame OF that
truly iilustrioas statesman, that instead OF
forming an eficient army of two hundred
thousand men, rho could be sent wher.
ever they might be wanted, he was either
the schemrr or. the dupe Of the useless,
expensive, and, if the. French should land
10 England, fatal proiec. of volunteers.
BY csuippipg volunteers he not only had no
army !but it-was outsof the power of Eng
land TO have one. The men were all en-
gagged in acting the comedy ofan army, and
She finances were exhausted In getting up
the decorations of the piece.
The sole protection of Great Britain then
is in her navy. The writer has been BROS
very late, and 10th tobelieve, that the mi.
litary resistance of the continental nations
of Europe would be Intellectual sBVen.s
have az last convinced hin that the French
actually possess a greater and more decl-
siye military superiority over those nations
than rhe old Romans did over the forces of
sAntiochus, Mithridates& Jugur,has; and
especially over the Carthageniaus, Greeks
and Maceoonians. Nothing is wanting to
the solid establishment of new universal
empire by France, that should spread as
far, las, as long, and press as heavily on
the necks of toe AFFECT nations, as that of
Rdne, but she possession Of the British
navy. france whenever she can get access
90 her enemy.is already irresistible. If
Dir. Gregg would give her that navy, he
would impair, a kind of ubiquiiy to her
power. The soft winds that wake the
spring 10 the remoess regions of the globe,
would wait there the mlnisterssof French
rapaci,y to blast it. France would enjoy
every thing that Rome wanted TO make.she
plundeFed world her province.
Are these ideas chimerical, or are the
differences drawn beyond the admitted trash
OF the PREMISES Is India more capable of
resisting France than an English merchant
company its present sovereign? Spain and
Isaly are provinces already. Greece, E.
gypt, the Turkish empires. and all the
shores of the Mediterranean were once
the pasrlmony of the Cesars, and for ma.
ny hundred years slept soundly in their
chains, till they were rudeiy walked by the
SCo.hs the Heruli,' the Huns s. the Arabs.
Africa is quarter of ale globe that could
be governed by factories, and Aaerica is
another that would yield not merely with
faneness, bur alacrity 70 imperial rscrip1s.
If by miSacle force should, be needed,
France could employ Spain or .Dessalines,
or slaves still more abjecs than they, 10 use
il with intallible success, We should be
: ready. not merely to. take, but to buy our
chains, and TO pay our las, dollar as 4 fine
7for the remeriiy of our resistance. We
shoc!d patiently SOW our selds, and see
our kindly seasons ripen the haryests for
French reapers. Our posteri.y, born in
servisude, would inherit oar baseness, and
bear the yoke from the infancy to the old
age Of their dishonored lives, without sor.