BES: DIOR FLOP (EW ROVP ES: [167 
insubordination is progressive, and 
the rulers of I'rance have converted 
it into an instrament ef conquest, 
How is the storm to be laid, and 
the revolution turned even to good ? 
By convincing nations that they 
have, in reality, but one general in- 
terest, which has been sacrificed in 
the general destruction : that, in or- 
der to prevent similar explosions in 
any one of them in future, they 
ought to maintain the inviolability 
of property and public credit ;: and 
that the permanent interests of every 
state depend on the general stock, 
and not upon a momentary superi- 
ority, or the little profits of a nar- 
row rivality.” * 
Since the cera of the constitution 
of 1795, it was farther urged, and 
the efficacious» measures adopted 
for ihe suppression of anarchy, and 
the protection of personsand proper- 
ty, there cannot reasonably exist any 
difficulty relative to the form of go- 
vernmentof the two nations, the one 
and the other of which have founded 
their political safety upon the same 
basis : taxes established through 
a constitutional representation. If 
those who govern the French re- 
public be disposed to propositions 
of peace, in the spirit of philan- 
-thropy, and on the ground of mu- 
tual interest, the dispute, from that 
moment, will become a generous 
emulation in favour of the rights 
of humanity,x—Commerce and agri- 
culture will re-establish the bonds 
of reciprocal advantage: funds will 
be set apart for the relief of those 
who have served, or suffered, during 
the war: and a connection will be 
formed between the public cre- 
ditor, the landed proprietor, and 
the industrious manufacturer, which 
#* Sce Correspondence between a Traveller and a Minister of State. 
will compel them to support the: 
tranquillity of their country, both 
external and internal. By a cessa- 
tion of arms, said the patrons of 
these generous doctrines; by the 
display of a sincere and ardent de- 
sire of good neighbourhood, and 
justice and good-will to all nations, 
Jet us soothe, soften, and harmonize, 
the minds of Frenchmen into the 
same tone in which they were in 
the first stare of the revolution’: 
when they abandoned the glory of 
conquest for the sublimer praise of 
a free coustitution, to be framed, in 
all its relations, on the ground of 
morality. —‘* The friend of man- 
kind, loosening from the shore, on 
an element, free and open, by nas 
ture, to all nations, and indulging 
sentiments which such a situation 
naturally inspires, casts his éyes on 
the ove side to the cliffs of Dover, 
on the other to those of Calais; dis- 
joined, like the French and English 
nations, from one another, though, 
like them, fundamentally the same, 
yet each retaining its position in 
peace. The soils: of France and 
England are not at war with each 
other: nor the plants ; nor the aai- 
mals; nor the harmless peasants 3 
nor the labouring poor, of any class; 
nor the commercia! men, whose in- 
terests, rightly understood, are tae 
same; nor, in general, the great 
body of the French and English.— 
Whence, then, the discord and din 
of atms? From the narrow ambi- 
tion-of a few individuals, who, from 
blind passion, or sordid avarice, sa- . 
crifice, to their selfish views, the 
good of their country. Is it not 
possible to animate, by the breath 
of unbounded philanthropy, some 
patriots of expanded souls is beth 
nations 
[M 4] 
