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justiceds arrived. It how exhibits 
nothing but the spectacle of dis- 
appointed ambition and impotent 
wrath. It fears peace, but it cannot 
continue the war; and there is not 
a power of Europe which does not 
see that its policy is to engage other 
powers to ruin themselves to fight 
for its interests, and to recover for 
it what it has lost. ‘ 
Prussia must now know on what 
side was artifice, and on what side 
sincerity. Every thing must make 
Frederic William regret having 
listened to the councils of his na- 
tural enemy, in preference to the 
cific envoys of a free nation, 
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which shewed him the truth, and 
ofrered him a useful amity; he 
must regret having been the duve 
of some crowned intriguers, of 
some dexterous negotiators, ~vho 
led him into the only course that 
could ruin him. Spain, the Em- 
pire, Sardinia, must experience the 
same regret. hese powers must 
shudder at seeing the abyss into 
which it has been attempted to 
plunge them. ‘They have only the 
melancholy prospect of sharing the 
fate of Holland, or of being anni. 
hilated under the yoke of the two 
courts that have seduced them. 
Ah! what we ought above all to 
shew to these deluded powers, for 
the interest of Europe, is the 
danger which they are menaced 
by with two Colossusses they sup- 
port, which will conclude by sub- 
jugating them, if our sacr#fices and 
our courage do not stop them in 
theirprogress. Englandand Russia, 
these are the two enemies we ought 
to denounce to the universe; 
these are the tyrants we ought to 
denounce to the world; these are 
the wide-wasting torrents whose 
irruption wemust stop, Moredex- 
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terous, better situated, less unfors 
tunate than Austria, they alone 
have hitherto profited of the ge- 
neral calamities and errors of the 
coalition. 
Rouse fronz your sleep, states of 
the empire, king of Prussia, and 
all ye maritime powers !—your 
fleets, your forces, your cultivators, 
your finances, your blood, all you 
have been made to sacrifice, to 
give to Russia the empire of the 
land, and that of the seas to proud 
Albion. Do you forget that the 
inhabitants of. the north destroyed 
the Roman empire, more united, 
more formidable than you? Must 
you be reminded of those irruptions 
of the Goths and Vandals, inun- 
dating all Europe, to destroy all 
the empires of it? Must you be 
reminded. that for 60 years Russia, 
introducing a. gross civilization 
among her barbarous people, pre- 
serving a savage force, even while 
enriching herself with arts and 
modern tactics, has already humbled 
the Chinese, and planted colonies 
on the coast of America; that she 
has passed the Caucasus, subjected 
Georgia, imposed laws upon a part 
of Persia, sabjugated the Cossacks, 
destroyed the ‘Tartars, conquered 
the Crimea, partitioned Poland, 
dismayed the Ottoman empire, 
raised insurrection in Greece, and 
menaced Constantinople ? 
Must we open wounds not yet 
entirely healed, and mention the 
numerous battalions entering Ber. 
lin itself, which, but for the un- 
foreseen caprice of Peter III. would 
have annihilated the very name: of 
the Prussian power? Do you not 
see that the ambitious Catharine, 
by holding out vain promises to 
the emigrants, by inflaming the 
rage of the German princes against’ 
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