ST. A:T E: PiAiPE ® &. 
far from being exhausted by three 
years of war, we have only aug- 
mented our resources, and added 
to the experience of our generals, 
to the discipline of our soldiers, to 
that republican ardour which has 
never ceased to inflame their souls. 
But we ought, above all, to prove 
to the universe that the ambition 
of the English government, the 
interested policy of the house of 
Austria, and the pride of Russia, 
are the sole causes of the mistor- 
tunes of the world. 
Powers of Europe! open your 
eyes, contemplate your true dan- 
gers; distinguish at last your true 
enemies; consider with affright the 
abyss into which they are dragging 
you, by sometimes making France 
a bugbear to terrify, and sometimes 
Tepresenting it as a prey easy to be 
divided. Suffering people! deluded 
monarchs, envied republics, follow 
with me the courts of Vienna, of 
Petersburg, and, above all, of 
London, through the dark laby- 
rinth of their crafty policy! the 
torch of evidence will condu& you, 
and you will then see what are the 
projects you ought to fear, the ene. 
mies you ought to combat, the 
friends you ought to embrace. 
The politics of the cabinet of 
Vienna have been long unveiled. 
Constant in their ambitious pro-‘ 
jects, princes have succeeded one 
another on that throne for several 
ages, preserving always the same 
Spirit, pursuing incessantly the 
same system. ‘The object is al- 
Ways inyariable; but the means 
of accomplishing it continually 
changing. The house of “Austria, 
for its aggrandizement, has, by 
turns, employed treaties, ruptures, 
Mafriages, intrigues, and arms. 
Before Russia had civilized herself, 
ig! 
and Prussia had become a power, 
France, ‘Turkey, and Swedea, 
formed alone the rampart to pro. 
tect the empire against the em. 
perors. Since the rivals of the 
court of Vienna increased in aum. 
ber aud in force, that court has 
negotiated so dexterously, that 
it has been very near destroying, 
by artifice, the counterpoise which 
balanced its power. It weakened 
the Turks by sacrificing them to 
the Russians ;-it seduced France ta 
such a degree, that Prussia once 
saw itself on the brink of complere 
destruction, in spite of the genixs 
of Frederic and the discipline of 
his soldiers. 
Twice since that period it has 
been on the point of possessing Ba. 
varia; first by force of arms, and 
next by an exchange: finally, 
secing that, notwithstanding its 
connexions with France, the 
French did not second its views, it 
wished perfidiously to destroy its 
ally ; and profiting of the shocks 
of our revolution, it favoured our 
internal enemies, formed plots in 
the very bosom of our government 
and leagued all Europe against ws, 
under the haughty pretext of 
maintaining the cause of kings, but 
with the real design of taking from 
us Alsace, Lorrain, and a part of 
Flanders ; and of ridding itself for 
ever of the observation of a people 
whose glory always excited its 
envy, and whose force always re. 
pressed its audacity. ‘The event 
has deceived its expe€tation. It has 
already lost the Pays Bas, its for. 
tresses, its cannon, its treasures 5 
its armies have disappeared be. 
fore our’s, the reputation of its 
generals is vanished, and every 
thing announces that upon ‘the 
cabinet of Vienna the day of 
justice 
