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ful, unchecked in its operations, and 
seeming, therefore, to compass its ob- 
jects more speedily and effectually, has 
gained something upon all ranks of peo- 
ple. It is for the good patriots of this 
day to struggle against it; to discourage 
all needless and useless intercourse with 
France; and to encourage an alienation 
from its councils and its example. The 
vicinity of the two countries remains, 
and must remain; and the natural meri- 
tal habits of mankind are such, that the 
present distemper of France is far more 
likely to be contagious and permanent, 
than the old one. It is not easy to spread 
a passion for liberty among the people, 
that requires principle, self-denial, exer- 
tion, disinterest, instruction, humanity, . 
patience, perseverance, justice. But in all 
evils of the opposité’ kind cur natural 
inclinations are flattered: to obey, ac- 
commodates the indolence, to corrupt 
and be corrupted the avarice and am- 
bition of men. We are now once more, 
as were our ancestors, in danger of be- 
ingentangled, by the example of France, 
in the net of an hypocritical and relent- 
less despotism. 
It is expedient then, as well for the 
preservation of our own as for the re- 
vival of contiriental liberty, that the 
eloquence of her most strenuous de- 
fenders should oncemore resound through 
Europe, from within her only remain- 
ing sanctuary, the British house of com- 
mons. How else shall the accents of 
freedom travel on every wind, and reach 
the cabinets of philosophy, and the read- 
ing rooms of patriotism? How else 
shall those tame fickle Parisians be 
aroused to a sense of their deep degra- 
dation and their mean submission? how 
else shall those sublimely proud Mar- 
seillese be provoked to revenge or follow 
the founders of popular enfranchise- 
ment? how else shall the Genevans be 
reminded, that the limits of France ex- 
tend beyond the bounds which despotism 
had fitted to receive a conqueror with 
joy? how else shall maimed, trampled, 
fettered, insulted Switzerland be taught 
that independence is not only a blessing, 
but a virtue? 
Deeply as the country has now to 
regret Mr. Burke’s having condescended 
to lend his unequalled talents for pro- 
ducing an innovation of national opi- 
nion, a base desertion of the hereditary, 
tried, and iiberal principles of our fore- 
fathers, in order to provoke us to wage, 
with peculiar animosity, an anomalous 
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND STATISTICS: 
and imprudent war ; it is clearly becomé 
expedient henceforth, in every possible 
form, to obliterate the impression of his 
numerous arguments, and of his yet 
more momentous diction. Gallos quoque 
in bello floruisse we hayvé both heard and 
felt. ‘The ancient boundaries of France 
are blotted from the map of Europe, 
and we now have almost a doubled po- 
pulation to encounter. Wez.are still not 
to despair; btit to look with some con- 
fidence to those principles which aggran- 
dized free France, as the means of di- 
iminishing despotic France. 
The country now wants the exiles of 
its own intolerarice, to shout in the slack 
eat of Fratice the daring declamations 
of their noble enthusiasm. The emulous 
eloquence of representative freedom is 
there forbidden. - The speeches of Lan- 
juinais are imprisoried within the echoes 
of the Luxembourg. Carnot is returned 
from men to -mathematics. Daunon 
and Isnard are compelled to preserve 
an indignant silence. The hireling 
flatterers of power dlorne may climb 
the pulpits of their constituted ‘lecture- 
rooms; only the panegyrists of office 
may spout diatribes on legislation. For 
the lessons of liberty to reach Paris, the 
parliament of London must discuss the 
rights of man. Newspapers will do the 
rest. It will be fancied that to give a 
loose here to such a cast of opinions, 
to corroborate them with the support of 
the executive power, and with the au- 
thority of an applauding house of com- 
mons, might weigh down the lighter, 
the popular scale, and alter the present 
balance of the constitution. Why so? 
Has it not formerly for more than half 
a century tried and sanctioned them un- 
injured? The constitution is very strong. 
If the weight of Burke did not make it 
a despotism, who shall aspire to make 
it a republic ? 
In discussing the means of internally 
annoying France, all rational inference 
must terminate in recommending to out 
statesmen, an affectedly jacobinical tone 
of declamation. The jacobins are the 
discontented at Paris; their opinions 
alone are adapted to produce mutation. 
A hacknied clamouring for religion and 
order will not abrade the popularity, or 
weaken the enérgies of a French go- 
vernment, orderly as an apprehensive 
garrison, and reéligious as converted 
courtezan, : é 
These means are also most conducive 
to the external annoyance of France. 
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