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sistance; but nothing like a ground is 
made out for beginning that resistance, 
at the time it was determined upon. It 
is of immense importance, it is the con- 
dition of alliances without, and of perse- 
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND STATISTICS. 
verance within, to secure a definite, in- 
telligible, equitable, honorable ground of 
war; without it taxation seems oppres- 
sion, and battle needless carnage. 
Art. XXXIX. 1d Reply to two Pamphlets, in Answer to the Question, Why do we go to 
War? 8vo. pp. 60. 
THIS answer, if not equal in neatness 
sto the original pamphlet, is full of con- 
vincing argument and important remark. 
It tends to predispose the public to con- 
ciliatory measures, without, however, 
advising any dereliction of real dignity, 
still less of national interest. The author 
has stated very specifically his ideas of 
an expedient peace: he takes high ground, 
higher than it will be easy to realise; but 
the first step towards insuring the con- 
stancy of the country, is to proclaim a 
disposition to equitable arrangement.— 
This writer possesses, in a high degree, 
that power of voluntary transmigration, 
which enables him to view awhile, with 
the eyes of the adversary, the claims and 
pretensions of his country. This faculty 
is the basis of equitable estimate, and is 
only mistaken by-the bigot and the bul- 
ly, for an attachment to the adverse 
cause. No man can detect the remedy 
for foreign hostility, who is incapable of 
entering into its grounds. ‘To consider 
this elevated, this cosmopolitical point of 
view, as an imperfection, is a mark of 
narrow views, and vulgar prejudice ; it 
ought to be noticed as characteristic of 
a superior mind. 
With a proper solicitude to prevent 
the northern growth of France, which 
tends to endanger our own quiet and 
independence ; with a philosophic indit- 
ference to the southern growth of France, 
which tends to provoke other rivalry and 
opposition, the author thus sketches his 
plan ot peace: 
«© On these various accounts, resigning all 
pretensions to a possession in the Mediterra- 
nean, were I to suggest the idea of a basis upon 
which to form a treaty of peace, whenever 
there is a chance of Europe being once more 
blessed with such an event, it should be upon 
the following plan, which might be extend- 
ed or contracted as circumstances should 
warrant. 
«* Malta to be surrendered, given up to “ie 
Maltese inhabitants; King OF Etruria, and 
Italian republics to be acknowledged ; the 
King of Sardinia to be provided for; Swit- 
zerland to be evacuated by the French ; Han- 
over restored, and the damages compensated ; 
Holland to be emancipated; the French 
troops to be withdrawn as soon as possible, 
and every security that can be obtained taken 
for its independence ; the Netherlands to be 
made a separate state, under the dominion of 
the King of Prussia, or the Prince of Orange, 
or to become a distinct republic under what- 
ever form of government the inhabitants may 
choose; Gibraltar to be disposed of to the 
Spaniards, in order to defray the expences of 
the war; and thus to turn the key on the 
closet of discord, shut the gates of that am- 
phitheatre, that vast naumachia, where we 
should consume our strength in vain exer- 
tious for the dmusement of surrounding spec- 
tators. 
«* But whether this tremendous war is to 
be concluded by these or any other means, [ 
ai happv to be able in something to join my 
opponent (author of ‘The Reason Why,’ 
p- 55), and that is, in wishing with equal ar- 
dency that it may be soon co1.cluded.” 
Arr. XL. Thoughts on the Invasion threatened ly Bonaparte : translated from the 
French of E. M. one of the Chiefs of the Royalist Party in the South of France. 8vo0, 
pp: 75. 
THIS pamphlet contains little that is 
applicable to the invasion of Great Bri- 
tain; byt much yirulent declamation 
against Bonaparte, his crimes, and his 
supporters. Of the anecdotes in the 
notes several are rashly adyanced; as 
that Garnerin, the balloon-man, was the 
assassin of the Princess of Lamballe. 
It is surely in this case impossible that 
he could have obtained letters of intro. 
duction so respectable as some wiich he 
presented in London, Yeta great many 
of the anecdotes are vouched on personal 
knowledge, and deserve the notice of the 
historian. The author is an emigrant 
royalist who has taught French at 
Bath. 
The note at p. 49, contains some ori- 
ginal matter congerning the accession of 
Bonaparte, 
«« Bonaparte owes his elevation to his bro- 
ther Lucien, now one of his greatest enemies x 
