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sealed,”* its abuse and its violation ? 
Could he witness without emotion 
the promulgation of secret treaties, 
by which territory upon territory 
were added to the republick:—the 
annexation of Piedmont; the siez- 
ure of Parma; the possession of 
Louisiana; the hard measure which 
our faithful but unfortunate allies 
of Sardinia and Orange had expe- 
rienced from the despot, whose uni- 
versal empire that treaty had gone 
so far towards establishing; the new 
modelling the empire of Germany 
ima manner at once the most arbi- 
trary and unjust, in defiance of the 
constitution of the empire itself, 
and of the treaty of Westphalia, by 
which Great Britain guaranteed 
that constitution; the cruel and 
- unmerited encroachments on Swit- 
zerland; in short, the assumption 
of all power and authority on the 
continent: while with respect to 
the British empire, the conduct of 
France was not less conspicuously 
overbearing and hostile: the sailing 
to the West Indies of an immense 
armament, even before peace was 
concluded; the most direct attacks 
upon our pormiiencial spirit of ad- 
venture, and commercial security ; 
the contemptuous tone of the 
French official papers,which sneer- 
ingly told all Europe, that “‘ Engiand 
should have the treaty of Amiens, 
and nothing but the treaty of Ami- 
ens;’’} the prodigious increase of her 
military and marine establishments, 
from the moment she had disgraced 
us in the eyes of all Europe, by for- 
mally limiting our pelitical affairs 
to our immediate insular concerns, 
in all her public declarations, and by 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1803. 
her conduct immediately subsequent 
to the treaty; by the encourage- 
ment and protection theIrish jacobi- 
nical emigrants and proscripts expe= 
rienced at Paris; and finally by the 
establishment of an English news- 
paper in her metropolis, under the 
auspices of the government itself, 
and the direction of those traitors, 
whose avowed object was to kee 
alive the spirit of rebellion and dis- 
content, among that unhappy class 
of people, against their native (per- 
haps in many cases too lenient) 
government? It was not, we re- 
peat, possible for the great and 
comprehensive mind of Mr. Pitt to 
see unmoved, the conduct of those 
whom he had placed in power, so 
utterly disproportioned to the mag- 
nitude of the approaching evil: he 
could not approve of their weaken- 
ing the force of the country, in an 
exact ratio with the increasing 
strength of a power, whose every 
step indicated unabated fierceness 
and hostility: he could not ap- 
prove, under the formidable acqui- 
sition of strength to France, which 
had accrued to her, either by nego- 
ciation or by violence, since the 
period of the cessation ot hostilities, 
of the supineness of ministers, who 
looked on with apparent apathy at 
all that passed, without one exer- 
tion or solitary remonstrance,which 
might shew our sense of the conduct 
of our enemy, or might check his 
predatory ambition: under such 
circumstances he could not approve 
‘the surrender of those conquests, 
one by one, which had been the 
hard-earned meed of British valour 
and enterprize, and the fruit of his 
* Vide lord Grenville’s speech on the address. P: 6. 
*t Moniteur. 
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